Biodiversity:
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen - Biodiversity and Ecosystem functions
SimonNguluu - Agrodiversity smallscale systems Kenya
Plant science, C and N fluxes:
Anna Treydte - Tree animal interaction savanna
Holger Brueck - Concepts for measuring C fluxes
Marcus Giese - N dynamics
John Blair - Understanding Grassland response to climate change comp
Soil, plant and atmosphere:
Jixun Guo - Songen Grassland C and water fluxes
Gang Dang - C balance across NE China gradient
Yingzhi Gao - Rhizosphere priming effect
Markus Steffens - SOM
Daniel Milchunas - Endogenous and Exogenous Disturbances in the Shortgrass Steppe
Land use and ecosystem:
Abdi Y Guliye - Peri urban camel production
Mumina Shibia - Camel breeding
Gilbert Obwoyere - Assessment of ecosystem health using fine litter production
Abule Ebro - Land use degradation Ethiopia
José Casco - Grassland productivity
Uwe Richter - Chewing activity
Estanislao Díaz Falú - GPS
GrassNet Summer School 2010. More than 30 participants, resource persons and local scientists from five continents contributed to the GrassNet Summer School 2010 held at Hohenheim University from 05-16 September. The Summer School was organized in cooperation with the Tropenzentrum (TROZ) and supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The GrassNet project combines research and education in a cross continental network for sustainable adaptation of grassland ecosystems vulnerable to climate change.
Natural grasslands are the world’s largest multifunctional terrestrial ecosystems covering more than 30% of the global land surface. Grasslands on the different continents show similarities and also differences responding to climate change and variability. To date, little is known about the parallelism or divergence of grasslands’ vulnerability and mechanisms behind adaptation processes. The GrassNet Summer School 2010 represents an educational approach to address concepts and
methods to analyze biophysical processes affecting matter fluxes in grassland ecosystems vulnerable to climate change.
The “Tropentag” 2010 in Zürich, Switzerland, will be part of the GrassNet Summer School 2010 offering the opportunity to participate an international conference on food security, natural resource management and rural development.
The GrassNet Summer School 2010 is supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The GrassNet project combines research and education in a cross continental network for sustainable adaptation of grassland ecosystems vulnerable to climate change.
Information: The GrassNet project: http://www.grassnet.info
Contact Germany: Dr. Marcus Giese (m.giese@uni-hohenheim.de)
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Dr. Marcus Giese – GrassNet Coordination - University of Hohenheim - Institute for Plant Production and Agroecology of the
Tropics and Subtropics - Garbenstraße 13 - D-70593 Stuttgart, Germany
E-mail: m.giese@uni-hohenheim.de - Phone: ++49 (0)711 459 24189 - Fax: ++49 (0)711 459 24207
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