Ecosystem Organization of a Complex Landscape
Long-Term Research in the Bornhöved Lake District, Germany
This volume provides a synthesis of long-term ecological analyses in the Bornhöved Lake District as a representative landscape of northern Germany.
The emphasis is on the comprehensive assessment of matter and energy fluxes. These operate in and between the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and their biocoenotic structures and dynamics on the one hand, and on transdisciplinary landscape planning approaches on the other.
In each respect the development of novel hierarchical modeling approaches at various spatial and temporal scales is fundamental to the understanding of the structure and function of systems. It is also crucial to integrative resource management strategies.
The book’s comprehensive approach renders it highly useful in a wide variety of contexts, from the ecological to the climatological.
Contents
Part I Research Programme and Study Area
1 General Concept of the Research Programme and Methodology of Investigations
Otto Fränzle, Ludger Kappen, Hans-Peter Blume, Klaus Dierssen, Ulrich Irmler, Winfrid Kluge, Uwe Schleuß and Joachim Schrautzer
2 Ecological Setting of the Study Area
Hans-Peter Blume, Otto Fränzle, Georg Hörmann, Ulrich Irmler, Winfried Kluge, Uwe Schleuß and Joachim Schrautzer
Part II Structure and Function of Ecosystems in a Complex Landscape
3 Ecophysiological Key Processes in Agricultural and Forest Ecosystems
Oliver Dilly, Christiane Eschenbach, Werner Leo Kutsch, Ludger Kappen and Jean Charles Munch
4 Carbon and Energy Balances of Different Ecosystems and Ecosystem Complexes of the Bornhöved Lake District
Werner L. Kutsch, Georg Hörmann and Ludger Kappen
5 Water Relations at Different Scales
Georg Hörmann, Matthias Herbst and Christiane Eschenbach
6 Site-Related Biocoenotic Dynamics
Ulrich Irmler, Oliver Dilly, Joachim Schrautzer and Klaus Dierssen
7 Biocoenotic Interactions between Different Ecotopes
Ulrich Irmler, Franz Hölker, Hans-Werner Pfeiffer, Walter Nellen and Hauke Reuter
8 Element Fluxes in Atmosphere, Vegetation and Soil
Otto Fränzle and Claus-Georg Schimming
9 Transport Processes between Lake Belau and its Drainage Basin
Winfrid Kluge and Otto Fränzle
10 Lake Belau
Otto Fränzle and Gerald Schernewski
11 Ecological Gradients as Causes and Effects of Ecosystem Organization
Felix Müller, Otto Fränzle, Claus-G Schimming
Part III From Research to Application
12 An Indicator-Based Characterization of the Bornhöved Key Ecosystems
Joachim Schrautzer, Felix Müller, Hans-Peter Blume, Uwe Heinrich, Ernst-Walter Reiche†, Uwe Schleuß and Klaus Dierssen
13 Ecosystem Research and Sustainable Land Use Management
Jan Barkmann, Hans-Peter Blume, Ullrich Irmler, Winfried Kluge, Werner Kutsch, Heinrich Reck, Ernst-Walter Reiche †, Michael Trepel, Wilhelm Windhorst and Klaus Dierssen
14 Conclusions: Perspectives for an Integrative Landscape Planning, Management and Monitoring
Klaus Dierssen and Jan Barkmann
