Water and Matter Dynamics in Agro-Ecosystems — a Special Cooperative Project of the German Research Foundation at the Technical University of Braunschweig —

The main objective of this major program is the analysis and forecasting of effects which farming and natural properties of specific sites have on energy fluxes, water fluxes, matter dynamics, microclimate and soil organisms. The differentiation of water and matter dynamics in space and time is analyzed. Special emphasis lies on the investigation of the long-term changes in agro-ecosystems. The atmosphere, the soil surface, the saturated and the unsaturated zones of the soil are the main compartments to be analyzed. Therefore all investigations are focusing on the soil.