Shady Transitions - the impact of a shading gradient in an agroforestry field (winter wheat)
- Beschreibung
At the Heidfeldhof field, students get to participate in the exciting research of temperate agroforestry systems! We will get to access the impact of the treeline's shading on the growing wheat plants. Plants react differently, depending on the shading gradient. We need to figure out exactly how/where! Basics like BBCH and height are one piece, but more interestingly: what are those little stomata doing - who is opening and closing, and when? Can we find differences in the chlorophyll? Students will get to use some basic machines to take these measures, transfer the data to Excel and see what we find out!
- Projektzeitraum
- Sommersemester 2025
- Bewerbungszeitraum
- 01. bis 13.04.2025
- Durchführung
- semesterbegleitend
- Details zu Projektzeitraum und Durchführung
Anticipated timeline would be:
End April - afternoon of training on the measurements and field visit
Two field visits/month May and June
One last visit in July for harvest!
The field can be accessed from campus by bus, walking, or bicycle.
Depending on time and interest, we could also visit the agroforestry site Ihingerhof.
- Studienfach
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Agrarbiologie
Agrarwissenschaften
Nachwachsende Rohstoffe und Bioenergie - Betreuende
- Jennifer Moore
- Institut
- Institut für Landschafts- und Pflanzenökologie (320) (Fg. Pflanzenökologie)
- Sprache
- englisch
- Teilnehmendenanzahl
- min. 2, max. 4
- Arbeitsaufwand
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ca. 180 Stunden pro Teilnehmende:r
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ECTS-Punkte
Arbeitsaufwand (Stunden und ggf. ECTS) sind ungefähre Angaben. Die tatsächlich vergebenen ECTS-Punkte ergeben sich aus der tatsächlich geleisteten Arbeit.
- Für dieses Projekt ist kein Motivationsschreiben des Studierenden erforderlich
- Projektart
- experimentell
- Lernziele
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Die Teilnehmende lernen in diesem Projekt:
- field study set-up
- scientific work
- field measurements
- organizing collected data
- presentation of results
- Anmerkungen für Studierende
Students will be trained on how to take the measures at the end of April. Measurements with the machines should be taken four times. One day should be sufficient for each measuring campaign. Data can be organized then into spreadsheets to make simple visualizations of collected data.
- Schlagworte
- Agroforestry, plant ecology, plants, field