Ecosystem Organization of a Complex Landscape

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Research Programme and Study Area

   1. General Concept of the Research Pogramme and Methodology of Investigations

      • Otto Fränzle, Ludger Kappen, Hans-Peter Blume, Klaus Dierssen, Ulrich Irmler, Winfrid Kluge et al.

      Pages 3-28

   2. Ecological Setting of the Study Area

      • Hans-Peter Blume, Otto Fränzle, Georg Hörmann, Ulrich Irmler, Winfrid Kluge, Uwe Schleuß et al.

      Pages 29-57

3. Structure and Function of Ecosystems in a Complex Landscape

   1. Ecophysiological Key Processes in Agricultural and Forest Ecosystems

      • Oliver Dilly, Christiane Eschenbach, Werner L. Kutsch, Ludger Kappen, Jean Charles Munch

      Pages 61-81

   2. Carbon and Energy Balances of Different Ecosystems and Ecosystem Complexes of the Bornhöved Lake District

      • Werner L. Kutsch, Georg Hörmann, Ludger Kappen

      Pages 83-99

   3. Water Relations at Different Scales

      • Georg Hörmann, Matthias Herbst, Christiane Eschenbach

      Pages 101-117

   4. Site-Related Biocoenotic Dynamics

      • Ulrich Irmler, Oliver Dilly, Joachim Schrautzer, Klaus Dierssen

      Pages 119-146

   5. Biocoenotic Interactions between Different Ecotopes

      • Ulrich Irmler, Franz Hölker, Hans-Werner Pfeiffer, Walter Nellen, Hauke Reuter

      Pages 147-167

   6. Element Fluxes in Atmosphere, Vegetation and Soil

      • Otto Fränzle, Claus-Georg Schimming

      Pages 169-205

   7. Transport Processes between Lake Belau and its Drainage Basin

      • Winfrid Kluge, Otto Fränzle

      Pages 207-240

   8. Lake Belau

      • Otto Fränzle, Gerald Schernewski

      Pages 241-276

   9. Ecological Gradients as Causes and Effects of Ecosystem Organization

      • Felix Müller, Otto Fränzle, Claus-Georg Schimming

      Pages 277-294

4. From Research to Application

   1. An Indicator-Based Characterization of the Bornhöved Key Ecosystems

      • Joachim Schrautzer, Felix Müller, Hans-Peter Blume, Uwe Heinrich, Ernst-Walter Reiche, Uwe Schleuß et al.

      Pages 297-317

   2. Ecosystem Research and Sustainable Land Use Management

      • Jan Barkmann, Hans-Peter Blume, Ulrich Irmler, Winfrid Kluge, Werner L. Kutsch, Heinrich Reck et al.

      Pages 319-344

   3. Conclusions: Perspectives for Integrative Landscape Planning, Management and Monitoring

      • Klaus Dierssen, Jan Barkmann

      Pages 345-350

5. Back Matter

   Pages 351-391

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This book presents the major findings of a 12-year ecological study of the Bornhöved Lake District, situated some 30 km south of Kiel. Historically speaking, the present research scheme, like comparable long-term ecosystem studies at Göttingen, Bayreuth, München, and Berchtesgaden, has been conceived as the core of a comprehensive ecological surveillance system for Germany (Ellenberg et al. 1978). Comprising three interrelated components, namely an ecological monitoring network, comparative ecosystem research, and an environmental specimen bank, this system is intended to promote both ecological science and planning and policy. In this connection the geo- and bioscientifically based ecosystem research aims at understanding the structure and functions of systems, the natural equilibrium and stress tolerance of singular components and the entire system against changes and disturbances from within and from outside, and the relationships between diversity, productivity, and stability. Thus, ecosystem research forms the indispensable basis for the rational analysis of the comprehensive data sets made available by ecological monitoring networks and for the adequate selection of plant, animal, and soil specimens for environmental specimen banking purposes.

• Landschaftsplanung
• Stoffflüsse
• Vegetation
• development
• ecological modelling
• ecosystem
• ecosystem functioning
• ecosystem research
• element fluxes
• energy balance
• landscape planning
• organization
• Ökosystemforschung
• Ökosystemfunktionen
• ökologische Modellbildung

Aus den Rezensionen: “Dieser Band fasst die wesentlichen Ergebnisse eines der großen Ökosystemforschungsprojekte Deutschlands zusammen, an dem 12 Jahre lang zahlreiche Wissenschaftler unterschiedlichster Disziplinen überwiegend von der Universität Kiel beteiligt waren. ... Insgesamt konnten fast 2.000 Arten aus den untersuchten Gruppen in den vier betrachteten Hauptlebensräumen ... nachgewiesen werden. Der Band wird durch ein äußerst umfangreiches Literaturverzeichnis ... und einen Index abgerundet, der das schnelle Auffinden der gesuchten Information erleichtert ...“ (Jürgen Dengler, in: Kieler Notizen zur Pflanzenkunde, 2009, Vol. 33, Issue 2, S. 134)

• Ökologie-Zentrum der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany

  Otto Fränzle, Klaus Dierssen

• Germany

  Ludger Kappen

• Institut für Pflanzenernährung und Bodenkunde der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany

  Hans-Peter Blume

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