Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)  

Description

The mission of the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) is to deliver solutions for an ecologically, economically and socially sustainable agriculture. Our interdisciplinary research addresses important challenges facing society and current megatrends: climate change, sustainable land use, food security, and the protection and conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services. The focus of the working group "Soil Erosion and Feedbacks (SEF)" is the assessment of soil erosion processes driven by wind, water, and anthropogenic activities.

Role :

ZALF will support the monitoring of wind and water erosion with measurement fields on different soil types. The ZALF-WERA model, developed for classifying the wind erosion risk of agricultural land within the framework of the CAP, is intended to provide the structures for process-based dust emission models and enable field block-based wind erosion and dust emission modelling. The experience gained from advising local soil protection authorities and the fact sheets developed for this purpose will be adapted and expanded for Europe-wide application.