Objective
To assess the effects of climate change (elevated CO2 and
temperature shifts) on the physiology, development, carbon
economy, growth and production of legumes, winter cereals and
pasture plants including soil organic matter dynamics.
The project comprises both experimental and model-theoretical
research.
The experimental facilities cover the range of
completely controlled environmental conditions (controlled
environment chambers with outside light conditions and tracking
outside temperatures or +4º K) to a set of facilities for open
air fumigation (MINIFACE) with CO2 from a natural gas vent
area,
where CO2 levels are ambient and 600 µl/l (which is the
projected
concentration in 2050) at two very close (< 100m) locations
(Italy). Intermediate are greenhouses, tracking field
temperatures and +4º C, Open Top Chambers and a very versatile
rhizotron facility with elevated CO2 and field tracking
temperature (or +4º C) and highly ventilated tunnels for
combined
CO2 and temperature experiments. Also, expertise and special
facilities (13C-steady state labelling) will be used for the
detailed study of the carbohydrate economy of plant species
during regrowth of grasses and during grain filling of cereals.
Facilities allowing 14C-steady state labelling will provide
information on carbon allocation to roots and rhizosphere soil.
The approach taken will yield data on changes induced by an
altered climate and elevated CO2 with respect to: (1) plant
development coupled with early season growth, vernalization,
frost hardiness, overwintering and regrowth, (2) the use of
carbohydrates for growth and grain filling, (3) the use of (C-
and N-) reserves for regrowth after defoliation of grasses or
overwintering in perennials (4) carbon fluxes in the plant/soil
system below grass swards and winter wheat (5) related soil
organic matter dynamics (6) interactions with nitrogen
availability.
The experimental data collected at the level of
physiological processes and organic matter turnover at the plant,
crop and plot level will be used as input for generic computer
simulation models for studying soil organic matter dynamics and
crop physiology, growth and yield. Experimental information
collected in the facilities will be used to test and improve
these models which will then be used to estimate the importance
of bioclimatic shifts for crop productivity and food and fodder
production. Also, the detailed investigations of the carbon
economy of soils grown to grasses and cereals will be used to
improve our quantitative insight in short and long-term carbon
storage.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules carbohydrates
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture industrial crops fodder
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences climatology climatic changes
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture grains and oilseeds cereals
- natural sciences mathematics applied mathematics mathematical model
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Netherlands
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