DFG-FOR 1695: Agricultural Landscapes under Global Climate Change – Processes and Feedbacks on a Regional Scale

Photo: Dr. Livia Rasche

Based on the Integrated DFG Project PAK 346 (2008-2011), the DFG Research Unit 1695 with its ten subprojects is investigating the effects of global climate change on structure and functions of agricultural landscapes on a regional scale. It is the joint objective of the working groups from Hohenheim, Munich and Giessen to improve process understanding and knowledge of feedbacks between land surface and atmosphere by combining integrated modelling with hitherto unequalled spatial resolution, intensive field measurements and controlled experiments. This will enable us to elaborate projections of landscape development and potential adaptation strategies until 2030. For this purpose, high-resolution climate, land use, and crop growth models will be coupled with socio-economic models forming an advanced land system model. By means of specific sensor systems and remote sensing techniques, data on energy and matter fluxes between the soil-plant system and the atmosphere will be collected in the two study regions Kraichgau and Central Swabian Alb in Southwest Germany. Crops will be exposed to future CO2 and climate conditions in climatic chambers in order to assess the effects on crop yield and yield quality. Data obtained from field measurements and climatic chamber experiments as well as from socio-economic investigations in the study regions will serve for improving model components and for the validation of the novel land system model.After positive evaluation by DFG, the second funding period starts in February 2015. The Research Unit now consists of eight subprojects. The second phase will terminate in September 2018.

Period: 01.02.2012 - 31.12.2018

Funding: DFG (FOR 1695)

Project website: klimawandel.uni-hohenheim.de

Publikationen im Rahmen des Projekts:

TitleInYearTypeAuthors
Field significance of performance measures in the context of regional climate model evaluation. Part 1: temperature.Theoretical and Applied Climatology 2018Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Ivanov, M., Warrach-Sagi, K., Wulfmeyer, V.
Field significance of performance measures in the context of regional climate model evaluation. Part 2: precipitation.Theoretical and Applied Climatology 2018Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Ivanov, M., Warrach-Sagi, K., Wulfmeyer, V.
How well does Noah-MP simulate the regional mean and spatial variability of topsoil water content in two agricultural landscapes in southwest Germany?
Journal of Hydrometeorology
2018Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Poltoradnev, M., Ingwersen, J., Imukova, K., Högy, P., Wizemann, H.-D., Streck, T.
Controls on microbially regulated soil organic carbon decomposition at the regional scale
Soil Biology & Biochemistry
2018Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Ali, R. S., Kandeler, E., Marhan, S., Demyan, M. S., Ingwersen, J., Mirzaeitalarposhti, R., Rasche, F., Cadisch, G., Poll, C.
Uncertainty, sensitivity and improvements in soil moisture estimation with cosmic-ray neutron sensing
Journal of Hydrology
2018Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Baroni, G., Scheiffele, L. M., Schrön, M., Ingwersen, J., Oswald, S. E.
Dynamics of soil respiration and microbial communities: Interactive controls of temperature and substrate quality
Soil Biology & Biochemistry
2018Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Ali, R. S., Poll, C., Kandeler, E.
Physiological and proteomic evidence for the interactive effects of post-anthesis heat stress and elevated CO2 on wheatProteomics 2018Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Zhang, X., Högy, P., Wu, X., Schmid, I., Wang, X., Schulze, W.X., Jiang, D., Fangmeier, A.
Modeling perceptions of climatic risk in crop production
PLOS ONE
2017Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Reinmuth, E., Parker, P., Aurbacher, J., Högy, P., Dabbert, S.
Mid-infrared spectroscopy to support regional-scale digital soil mapping on selected croplands of South-West Germany
Catena
2017Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Mirzaeitalarposhti R., Demyan M.S., Rasche F., Cadisch G., Müller T.
Evaluation of simulated transpiration from maize plants on lysimeters
Vadose zone journal
2017Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Heinlein, F., Biernath, C., Klein, C., Thieme, C., Priesack, E.
Toward more efficient model development for farming systems research – an integrative review
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
2017Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Reinmuth, E., Dabbert, S.
CO2-induced changes in wheat grain composition: meta-analysis and response functions
Agronomy
2017Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Broberg, M., Högy, P., Pleijel, H.
Contrasting effect of elevated atmospheric CO2 on the C/N ratio of faba bean and spring wheat residues exert only minor changes in the abundance and enzyme activities of soil proteolytic bacteriaPedobiologia 2017Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Rasche, F., Kramer, S., Enowashua, E., Mackie, M., Högy, P., Marhan, S.
Land-atmosphere coupling in EURO-CORDEX evaluation experiments
JGR / Atmospheres
2017Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Knist, S., Goergen, K., Buonomo, E., Christensen, O. B., ...Warrach-Sagi, K., Wulfmeyer, V., Simmer, C.
3D water vapor field in the atmospheric boundary layer observed with scanning differential absorption lidar
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
2016Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Späth, F., Behrendt, A., Muppa, S. K., Metzendorf, S., Riede, A., Wulfmeyer, V.
Overcoming carbonate interference on labile soil organic matter peaks for midDRIFTS analysis
Soil Biology & Biochemistry
2016Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Mirzaeitalarposhti, R., Demyan, M.S., Rasche, F., Cadisch, G., Müller, T.
Design and performance of a new FACE (free air carbon dioxide enrichment) system for crop and short vegetation exposure
Environmental and Experimental Botany
2016Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Fangmeier, A., Torres-Toledo, V., Franzaring, J., Damsohn, W.
Spatial and temporal variability of soil water content in two regions of Southwest Germany during a three-year observation period
Vadose Zone Journal
2016Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Poltoradnev, M., Ingwersen, J., Streck, T.
Simulating structural change in agriculture: Modelling farming households and farm successionProc. 8th iEMSs 2016Contribution to conference Troost, C., Berger, T.
Experimental measurement of stakeholder expectation formation and risk taking behavior for integrated regional agricultural land use modelingProc. 8th iEMSs 2016Contribution to conference Eisele, M., Troost, C., Berger, T.
German Farmers' Perception of Climate Change Effects and Determinants influencing their Climate AwarenessGEWISOLA 2015 2016Contribution to conference Jänecke, A., Eisele, M., Reinmuth, E., Steinbach, J., Aurbacher, J.
Advances in probabilistic and parallel agent‐based simulation: Modelling climate change adaptation in agricultureProc. 8th iEMSs Congress 2016Contribution to conference Troost, C., Berger, T.
Impact of spatial soil and climate input data aggregation on regional yield simulations
PLOS ONE
2016Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Hoffmann, H., Zhao, G., Asseng, S., Bindi, M., Biernath, C.,...Heinlein, F.,...Priesack, E., et al.
Spatial sampling of weather data for regional crop yield simulationsAgricultural and Forest Meteorology 2016Journal contribution (peer reviewed)van Bussel, L.G.J., Ewert, F., Zhao, G., Hoffmann, H., Enders, A., Wallach, D., Constantin, J., Raynal, H., Klein, C., Biernath, C., Heinlein, F., Priesack, F., Tao, F., et al.
Energy balance closure on a winter wheat stand: comparing the eddy covariance technique with the soil water balance methodBiogeosciences 2016Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Imukova, K., Ingwersen, J., Hevart, M., Streck, T.
Simulating regional climate-adaptive field cropping with fuzzy logic management rules and genetic advanceThe Journal of Agricultural Science 2016Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Parker, P., Ingwersen, J., Högy, P., Priesack, E., Aurbacher, J.
Partitioning of ecosystem respiration in winter wheat and silage maize - modeling seasonal temperature effectsAgriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 2016Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Demyan, M.S., Ingwersen, J., Nkwain Funkuin, Y., Ali, R.S., Mirzaeitalarposhti, R., Rasche, F., Poll, C., Müller, T., Streck, T., Kandeler, E., Cadisch, G.
Mikrosimulation landwirtschaftlicher Produktion auf der Schwäbischen Alb - Klimaanpassungsforschung mit detaillierten Daten aus der AgrarstatistikWirtschaft und Statistik 2016Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Troost, C.
Investigation of PBL schemes combining the WRF model simulations with scanning water vapor differential absorption lidar measurementsJournal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 2016Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Milovac, J., Warrach-Sagi, K., Behrendt, A., Späth, F., Ingwersen, J., Wulfmeyer, V.
Determination of convective boundary layer entrainment fluxes, dissipation rates, and the molecular destruction of variances: Theoretical description and a strategy for Its confirmation with a novel lidar system synergyJournal of the Atmospheric Sciences 2016Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Wulfmeyer, V., Muppa, S. K., Behrendt, A., Hammann, E., Späth, F., Sorbjan, Z., Turner, D. D., Hardesty, R. M.
Dealing with uncertainty in agent-based simulation: Farm-level modeling of adaptation to climate change in Southwest GermanyAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics 2015Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Troost, C., Berger, T.
Modelling in situ activities of enzymes as a tool to explain seasonal variation of soil respiration from agro-ecosystemsSoil Biology and Biochemistry 2015Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Ali, R. S., Ingwersen, J., Demyan, M. S., Funkuin, Y. N., Wizemann, H.-D., Kandeler, E., Poll, C.
Simulation-based projections of crop management and gross margin variance in contrasting regions of Southwest GermanyJournal of Agricultural Studies 2015Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Parker, P., Reinmuth, E., Ingwersen, J., Högy, P., Priesack, E., Wizemann, H.-D., Aurbacher, J.
Climate, energy and environmental policies in agriculture: Simulating likely farmer responses in Southwest GermanyLand Use Policy 2015Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Troost, C., Walter, T., Berger, T.
Quantifying the economic importance of irrigation water reuse in a Chilean watershed using an integrated agent-based modelWater Resources Research2015Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Arnold, R. T., Troost, C., Berger, T.
Development of a continuous density gradient method for soil organic matter fractionation for studying decomposition and turnover under different tillage systems in arable soils2015Master's thesis Islam T.
Determining the spatial and temporal dynamics of the green vegetation fraction of croplands using high-resolution RapidEye satellite imagesAgricultural and Forest Meteorology2015Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Imukova, K., Ingwersen, J., Streck, T.
Multimodel ensembles of wheat growth: Many models are better than oneGlobal Change Biology2015Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Martre, P., Wallach, D., Asseng, S. et al.
CO2 dose-response functions for wheat grain, protein and mineral yield based on FACE and open-top chamber experimentsEnvironmental Pollution2015Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Pleijel, H., Högy, P.
Three year observations of water vapor and energy fluxes over agricultural crops in two regional climates of Southwest GermanyMeteorologische Zeitschrift2015Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Wizemann, H.-D., Ingwersen, J., Högy, P., Warrach-Sagi, K., Streck, T., Wulfmeyer, V.
On the use of the post-closure methods uncertainty band to evaluate the performance of land surface models against eddy covariance flux dataBiogeosciences2015Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Ingwersen, J., Imukova, K., Högy, P., Streck, T.
MidDRIFTS-PLSR-based quantification of physico-chemical soil properties across two agroecological zones in Southwest Germany: generic independent validation surpasses region specific cross-validation Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems2015Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Mirzaeitalarposhti, R., Demyan, M.S., Rasche, F., Poltoradnev, M., Cadisch, G., Müller, T.
Calibration and application of Aquaflex TDT soil water probes to measure the soil water dynamics of agricultural topsoil in Southwest GermanyJournal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering2015Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Poltoradnev, M., Ingwersen, J., Streck, T.
A review of the remote sensing of lower tropospheric thermodynamic profiles and its indispensable role for the understanding and the simulation of water and energy cyclesReviews of Geophysics2015Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Wulfmeyer, V., Hardesty, R. M., Turner, D. D., Behrendt, A., Cadeddu, M. P., Di Girolamo, P., Schlüssel, P., Van Baelen, J., Zus, F.
Process-based simulation of regional supply functions using farm-level and agent-based modelsProc. IAEE 20152015Contribution to conference Troost, C., Berger, T.,
Statistical analysis of large simulated yield datasets for studying climate effectsHandbook of Climate Change and Agroecosystems2015Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Makowski, D., Asseng, S., Ewert, F., Bassu, S. et al.
Experiences with WRF in EURO-CORDEXFirst CORDEX-WRF Workshop 2014other publicationWarrach-Sagi, K., Goergen, K., Vautard, R.
Soil texture forcing data for the whole world for the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model of the University of Hohenheim (UHOH) based on the Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD) at 30 arc-second horizontal resolutionWorld Data Center for Climate (WDCC) 2014other publicationMilovac, J., Ingwersen, J., Warrach-Sagi, K.
Top soil texture forcing data for the area of Germany for the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model based on the Bodenubersichtskarte (BUK) at a scale 1:1000000 (BUK1000) and provided by the University of Hohenheim (UHOH)World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) 2014other publicationMilovac, J., Ingwersen, J., Warrach-Sagi, K.
High-resolution climate predictions and short-range forecastsHigh Performance Computing in Science and Engineering2014Contribution to conference
Warrach-Sagi, K., Milovac, J., Bauer, H.-S., Behrendt, A., Schwitalla, T., Späth, F., Wulfmeyer, V.
Mechanisms controlling soil organic carbon composition pertaining to microbial decomposition of biochemically contrasting organic residues: Evidence from midDRIFTS peak area analysisSoil Biology and Biochemistry2014Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Kunlanit, B., Vityakon, P., Puttaso, A., Cadisch, G., Rasche, F.
Incorporating dynamic root growth enhances the performance of Noah-MP at two contrasting winter wheat field sitesWater Resources Research2014Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Gayler, S., Wöhling,T., Grzeschik, M., Ingwersen, J., Wizemann, H.-D., Warrach-Sagi, K., Högy, P., Attinger, S., Streck, T., Wulfmeyer, V.
Regional climate modeling on European scales: a joint standard evaluation of the EURO-CORDEX RCM ensembleGeoscientific Model Development 2014Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Kotlarski, S., Keuler, K., Christensen, O. B., Colette, A., Déqué, M., Gobiet, A., Goergen, K., Jacob, D., Lüthi, D., van Meijgaard, E., Nikulin, G., Schär, C., Teichmann, C., Vautard, R., Warrach-Sagi, K., Wulfmeyer, V.
Agent-based Modelling of Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Options in AgricultureJournal of Agricultural Economics2014Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Berger, T., Troost, C.
Calibration of CO2 trapping in alkaline solutions during soil incubation at varying temperatures using a Respicond VIField Crops Research2014Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Smirnova N., Demyan S., Rasche F., Cadisch G., Müller T.
Quantifying different stabilities of soil organic matter in cropland at the regional scale: Integrating size/density separation and chemical oxidation2014other publicationFon L.
Development of MidDRIFTS methodologies to support mapping of physico-chemical soil properties at the regional scale2014other publicationMirzaeitalarposhti R.
Evaluating soil water content in a WRF-NOAH downscaling experimentJournal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 2013Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Greve, P., Warrach-Sagi, K., Wulfmeyer, V.
Evaluation of a climate simulation in Europe based on the WRF-NOAH Model System: precipitation in GermanyClimate Dynamics 2013Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Warrach-Sagi, K., Schwitalla, T., Wulfmeyer, V., Bauer, H.-S.
The simulation of European heat waves from an ensemble of regional climate models within the EURO-CORDEX projectClimate Dynamics 2013Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Vautard, R., Gobiet, A., Jacob, D., Belda, M., Colette, A., Deque, M., Fernandez, J., Garcia-Diez, M., Goergen, K., Guettler, I., Halenka, T., Keuler, K., Kotlarski, S., Nikulin, G., Patarcic, M., Suklitsch, M., Teichmann, C., Warrach-Sagi, K., Wulfmeyer, V.
Assessing the relevance of subsurface processes for the simulation of evapotranspiration and soil moisture dynamics with CLM3.5: Comparison with field data and crop model simulations Environmental Earth Sciences2013Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Gayler, S., Ingwersen, J., Priesack, E., Wöhling, T., Wulfmeyer, V., Streck, T.
Multiresponse, multiobjective calibration as a diagnostic tool to compare accuracy and structural limitations of five coupled soil-plant models and CLM3.5Water Resources Research2013Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Wöhling,T., Gayler, S., Priesack, E., Ingwersen, J., Wizemann, H.-D., Högy, P., Cuntz, M., Attinger, S., Wulfmeyer, V., Streck, T.
midDRIFTS-based partial least square regression analysis allows predicting microbial biomass, enzyme activities and 16S rRNA gene abundance in soils of temperate grasslandsSoil Biology and Biochemistry2013Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Rasche, F., Marhan, S., Berner, D., Keil, D., Kandeler, E., Cadisch, G.
Combining a coupled FTIR-EGA system and in situ DRIFTS for studying soil organic matter in arable soilsBiogeosciences2013Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Demyan, M.S., Rasche, F., Schütt, M., Smirnova, N., Schulz, E., and Cadisch, G.
High-resolution climate predictions and short-range forecasts to improve the process understanding and the representation of land-surface interactions in the WRF model in Southwest Germany (WRFCLIM)High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering2013Contribution to conference Warrach-Sagi, K., Bauer, H.-S., Branch, O., Milovac, J., Schwitalla, T., Wulfmeyer, V.
Towards optimizing experiments for maximum-confidence model selection between different soil-plant modelsProcedia Environmental Sciences2013Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Wöhling, T., Geiges, A., Nowak, W., Gayler, S., Högy, P., Wizemann, H.-D.
The Influence of Climate Change on Short-term Farm Management – an Interdisciplinary Modelling ApproachProc. 52nd GEWISOLA2013Contribution to conference Aurbacher, J., Reinmuth, E., Parker, P., Calberto, G., Steinbach, J., Ingwersen, J., Dabbert, S.
A regional climate model simulation for EURO-CORDEX with the WRF model Sustained Simulation Performance 2013 2013Contribution to conference Warrach-Sagi, K., Schwitalla, T., Bauer, H.-S., Wulfmeyer, V.
Yield and yield quality of major cereals under climate change. In: Wake up before it is too late - Make agriculture truly sustainable now for food security in a changing climate. Chapter 1. Key development challenges of a fundamental transformation<dd>
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
</dd>		2013Contribution to conference Högy, P., Fangmeier, A.
Effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations on phloem sap composition of spring crops and aphid performance
Journal of Plant Interactions
 		2013Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Oehme, V., Högy, P., Zebitz, C.P.W., Fangmeier, A.
Influence of climate change on short term management of field crops – A modelling approach
Agricultural Systems
 		2013Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Aurbacher, J., Parker, P. S., Calberto Sánchez, G. A., Steinbach, J., Reinmuth, E., Ingwersen, J., Dabbert, S.
Uncertainty in simulating wheat yields under climate changeNature Climate Change2013Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Asseng, S., Ewert, F., Rosenzweig, C., et al.
Modeling acclimation of leaf photosynthesis to atmospheric CO2 enrichmentEuropean Journal of Agronomy2013Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Biernath, C.J., Bittner, S., Klein, C., Gayler, S., Hentschel, R., Hoffmann, P., Högy, P., Fangmeier, A., Priesack, E.
Chemical and microbiological soil quality indicators and their potential to differentiate fertilization regimes in temperate agroecosystemsApplied Soil Ecology2013Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Giacometti, C., Demyan, M.S., Cavani, L., Marzadori, C., Ciavatta, C., Kandeler, E.
Grain quality characteristics of spring wheat (Triticum aestivum) as affected by free-air CO2 enrichmentEnvironmental and Experimental Botany2013Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Högy, P., Brunnbauer, M., Koehler, P., Schwadorf, K., Breuer, J., Franzaring, J., Zhunusbayeva, D., Fangmeier, A.
Pest and disease abundance and dynamics in wheat and oilseed rape as affected by elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrationsFunctional Plant Biology2013Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Oehme, V., Högy, P., Franzaring, J., Zebitz, C.P.W., Fangmeier, A.
Agent-based modeling of agricultural adaptation to climate change in a mountainous area of Southwest GermanyProc. 6th iEMSs 2012Contribution to conference Troost, C., Calberto, G., Berger, T., Ingwersen, J., Priesack, E., Warrach-Sagi, K., Walter, T.
Multiobjective calibration of coupled soil-vegetation-atmosphere modelsProc. 8th ModelCARE 2012Contribution to conference Wöhling, T., Gayler, S., Ingwersen, J., Streck, T., Vrugt, J., Priesack, E.
Agent-based Modelling in the Agricultural Economics Tradition of Recursive Farm Modelling and Adaptive Micro-SystemsProc. 6th iEMSs2012Contribution to conference Berger, T., Troost, C.
Use of specific peaks obtained by diffuse reflectance Fourier transform mid-infrared spectroscopy to study the composition of organic matter in a Haplic ChernozemEuropean Journal of Soil Science2012Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Demyan, M.S., Rasche, F., Schulz, E., Breulmann, M., Müller, T., Cadisch, G.
Combining peak- and chromatogram-based retention time alignment algorithms for multiple chromatography-mass spectrometry datasetsBMC Bioinformatics2012Journal contribution (peer reviewed)Hoffmann, N., Keck, M., Neuweger, H., Wilhelm, M., Högy, P., Niehaus, K., Stoye, J.