Working Groups

The structuring of the entire project into eight subprojects (SP 1-8) follows straightforward reasoning keeping modeling and measurement components as key categories. The systematic sampling grid will be employed to collect the data that are used to feed the scenario model.

Modelling:
SP1- Climate Local Model will be used to downscale climate scenarios
(A1B, B1) provided by (GCM).
SP2- Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere-Transfer(SVAT)-models
(WaNuLCAS) to quantify climate-vegetation interaction.
SP3- Energy balance model for ruminants in their outdoor
environment will be developed.

Observations and Measurement:
SP4- Large-scale present and past distribution of vegetation structure will be determined by means of remote-sensing and ground based measurements.
SP5- Small-scale structures of vegetation at site level will be
estimated by means of ground based measurements.
SP6- The capacity of the plant to cope with different environments will be estimated by measured and modeled physiological parameters of woody and crop plants.
SP7- 3-D-radiative transfer model will be used to quantify radiation field in different land use systems.
SP8- Characterization of the present livestock husbandry systems in the study areas, use of fodder plants and nutrient budgets