Infrastructures for agroecological field research – Current situation and future prospectsPosition paper of the DFG Senate Commission on Agroecosystem Research

Authors

  • Hartmut Stützel Institut für Biologische Produktionssysteme, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
  • Nicolas Brüggemann Institut für Bio- und Geowissenschaften, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
  • Andreas Fangmeier Institut für Landschafts- und Pflanzenökologie, Universität Hohenheim
  • Frank Ordon Institut für Resistenzforschung und Stresstoleranz, Julius Kühn-Institut – Bundesforschungsinstitut für Kulturpflanzen Quedlinburg
  • Eva Schlecht Section Animal Husbandry in the Tropics and Subtropics, Universität Kassel und Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • Ralf Seppelt Department Landschaftsökologie, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH
  • Volkmar Wolters Institut für Tierökologie und Spezielle Zoologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen

Keywords:

Site-specific agricultural science, field trial network, data repository

Abstract

Large-scale, long-term field experiments are a core element of site-specific agricultural science. To create basic knowledge of site-adapted and regional agricultural production potentials as well as to develop ecologically sound and innovative plant production systems with high productivity and resilience requires high-capacity research infrastructures that cover relevant climatic gradients and soils and that promote an interdisciplinary dialog. The position paper of the Senate Commission on Agroecosystem Research of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft shows the current status and future requirements on infrastructures for agroecological field research. To optimize the infrastructure for agricultural field trials, a network of experimental sites that cover prototype landscape functions is suggested, enabling interdisciplinary investigations of productivity, resilience and resource efficiency in the landscape context. Further it is necessary to provide standardized data in open access data repositories to the scientific community.

DOI: 10.5073/JfK.2014.07.02, https://doi.org/10.5073/JfK.2014.07.02

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Published

2014-07-01

Issue

Vol. 66 No. 7 (2014)

Section

Short Communication

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