Browsing by Subject "Bodenfunktion"

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    Ecosystemic Effect Indicators to assess Effects of agricultural Landuse on Ecosystems
    (2000) Merkle, Andrea Hildegard; Kaupenjohann, Martin
    Agricultural production and its material and non-material emissions may cause side-effects in ecosystems. These effects have to be assessed and evaluated. The aim of the present study is to provide a tool that relates emissions of agricultural production and affected ecosystems. This tool represents an indicator approach. The needed indicators are defined as ecosystemic effect indicators (EEI). Within the study a multistage procedure is developed which should be pursued in identifying indicators. To assess which emissions must be regarded in detail an estimation of relevance by means of an emission and input classification preceeds the indicator development. Subsequently, EEI are developed for the relevant emissions and inputs. The derivation of EEI is carried out by the following steps: 1) One starts top-down at the target 'maintaining the ecosystem functioning' in this work depicted by the utility functions. A list with characteristics that are dependent on hierarchical levels is compiled for each relevant function. 2) Starting at one specific input a list of potential receptors is compiled bottom-up. These represent potential effect indicators. 3) By overlapping the lists of the steps 1 and 2 one yields EEI specific for the utility function and the input under consideration. The step 3 is performed by means of expert knowledge. The advantage of the indicator approach is its operativeness which is site-independent. The results of the study show that EEI may be deemed to be promising tools to picture human influences in particular of agricultural production on ecosystems. The results of the case study provide the basis to assess effects on ecosystems for some major stressors. In cases where critical values are available site specific quantitative statements concerning ecological effects within the frame of sustainable agriculture are enabled by the present method for the derivation of indicators. Subsequently, necessary measures can be deduced
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    TUSEC - Bilingual-Edition : eine Methode zur Bewertung natürlicher und anthropogener Böden (Deutsche Fassung)
    (2013) Stahr, Karl; Lehmann, Andreas; David, Susanne
    The ‘TUSEC-book’ is a manual for soil evaluation in the temperate zone, comprising English and German versions in one volume. New and innovative are the explicit consideration of anthropogenic soils with the TUSEC evaluation and the differentiation of the evaluation system into two evaluation methods for different levels of detail. Both the part describing the detailed method and the part showing the overview method are again divided into chapters with step-by-step descriptions of methods concerning the evaluation of the widely known soil functions. Every one of these chapters is introduced with principal explanations on the respective soil functions and descriptions of the specificities of the method are provided. Thereby, details on the methodological extensions, which are necessary for the evaluation of anthropogenic soils, are highlighted. Whereas the chapters concerning the detailed evaluation method reflect well-tested procedures, only a beta version is available for the overview method.