The BayCEER Colloquium is an interdisciplinary platform for students, scientists and interested citizens: Usually lectures are held weekly (during the lecture period) in the field of ecology and environmental sciences, which can then be discussed in plenary and in a relaxed atmosphere during the post-colloquium. You are welcome to bring your own lunch (brown bag lunch).

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Lecture series in Ecology and Environmental Research WS 2016/17

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Prof. Dr. Christoph Hinz
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (Homepage)
Thursday, 24.11.2016 12:00-13:30 H6, GEO

Pattern formation in semiarid landscapes

Self-organised vegetation patterns are a characteristics of semi-arid and arid ecosystems.  Their landscape ecological function has been studied for decades and a soil-vegetation feedback has been identified to cause the formation of banded patterns. Vegetation and its associated soil biological activity causes soil properties to increase its storage capacity for water and nutrients leading to water harvesting by runoff and run-on in response to rainfall events. This has led ecologist to formulate the trigger-transfer-pulse framework, which describes resources redistribution and utilisation as discrete events, which depend on the frequency and magnitude of rainfall as the trigger. While water is a limited resource in this context, it is also a geomorphic agent which causes erosion and sediment redistribution. Stability of such landscapes and ecosystems depends therefore on both vegetation distribution and soil surface properties that contribute to the redistribution of water in the landscape preventing frequent and excessive erosion events.

Within this context I will present our findings on modelling and observing vegetation patterns and the development of rock amour on soil surfaces within the context of Australian arid regions in which mining has led to severely disturbed landscapes. One key question concerning the modelling of vegetation pattern is how much process realism is necessary to adequately reproduce the pattern as well as the water balance dynamics, as water redistribution and plant growth occur at different temporal scales.

 

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invited by Stefan Peiffer, Hydrology



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