TY  - CHAP
A1  - Popp, Alexander
A1  - Blaum, Niels
A1  - Domptail, Stephanie
A1  - Herpel, Nicole
A1  - Gröngröft, Alexander
A1  - Hoffman, T. T.
A1  - Jürgens, Norbert
A1  - Milton, Sue
A1  - Nuppenau, Ernst-August
A1  - Rossmanith, Eva
A1  - Schmidt, Michael
A1  - Vogel, Melanie
A1  - Vohland, Katrin
A1  - Jeltsch, Florian
T1  - From satellite imagery to soil-plant interactions
BT  - integrating disciplines and scales in process based simulation models
N2  - Decisions for the conservation of biodiversity and sustainable management of natural resources are typically related to large scales, i.e. the landscape level. However, understanding and predicting the effects of land use and climate change on scales relevant for decision-making requires to include both, large scale vegetation dynamics and small scale processes, such as soil-plant interactions. Integrating the results of multiple BIOTA subprojects enabled us to include necessary data of soil science, botany, socio-economics and remote sensing into a high resolution, process-based and spatially-explicit model. Using an example from a sustainably-used research farm and a communally used and degraded farming area in semiarid southern Namibia we show the power of simulation models as a tool to integrate processes across disciplines and scales.
Y1  - 2006
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-7302
N1  - Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Musterdynamik und Angewandte Fernerkundung Workshop vom 9. - 10. Februar 2006.

[Poster]
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Rossmanith, Eva
A1  - Blaum, Niels
A1  - Keil, Manfred
A1  - Langerwisch, F.
A1  - Meyer, Jork
A1  - Popp, Alexander
A1  - Schmidt, Michael
A1  - Schultz, Christoph
A1  - Schwager, Monika
A1  - Vogel, Melanie
A1  - Wasiolka, Bernd
A1  - Jeltsch, Florian
T1  - Scaling up local population dynamics to regional scales
BT  - an integrated approach
N2  - In semi-arid savannas, unsustainable land use can lead to degradation of entire landscapes, e.g. in the form of shrub encroachment. This leads to habitat loss and is assumed to reduce species diversity. In BIOTA phase 1, we investigated the effects of land use on population dynamics on farm scale. In phase 2 we scale up to consider the whole regional landscape consisting of a diverse mosaic of farms with different historic and present land use intensities. This mosaic creates a heterogeneous, dynamic pattern of structural diversity at a large spatial scale. Understanding how the region-wide dynamic land use pattern affects the abundance of animal and plant species requires the integration of processes on large as well as on small spatial scales. In our multidisciplinary approach, we integrate information from remote sensing, genetic and ecological field studies as well as small scale process models in a dynamic region-wide simulation tool.  <hr>  Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Musterdynamik und Angewandte Fernerkundung Workshop vom 9. - 10. Februar 2006.
Y1  - 2006
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-7320
N1  - [Poster]
ER  -