Canopy

B02

Evolution of Water and Matter Cycles within the Earth’s Critical Zone
Canopy
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Project B02 investigates how vegetation-induced spatial heterogeneity of water and matter fluxes caused by canopies, root uptake, and soil properties affect in concert the partitioning of water fluxes between evapotranspiration and deep percolation, as well as export of nitrogen from the rooting zone. We seek to reveal the causes of underlying spatial input and output patterns and thus rendering them predictable. For this, we use a nested observation network with a design targeted at concerted evaluation of above- and belowground process.

Project Leader

Anke Hildebrandt

Image: Sebastian Wiedling (UFZ)

Prof. Dr. Anke Hildebrandt

Chair of Terrestrial Ecohydrology
Institute of Geoscience
Friedrich Schiller University
Burgweg 11
07743 Jena
Phone: +49 (0)3641 948720
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Joint appointed professorship with the
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Department of Computational HydrosystemsExternal link
Permoser Str. 13
04318 Leipzig
Phone: +49 (0)3641 235-482238
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Staff

Ruth Magh

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Dr. Ruth Magh

Postdoctoral Researcher

Chair of Terrestrial Ecohydrology
Institute of Geoscience
Friedrich Schiller University
Burgweg 11
07743 Jena
Phone: +49 (0)3641 948723
e-mail

Tiana Hammer

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Tiana Hammer

Technician

Chair of Terrestrial Ecohydrology
Institute of Geoscience
Friedrich Schiller University
Wöllnitzer Str. 7
07749 Jena
Phone: +49 (0)3641 9486xx
e-mail