The Decision Support System (DSS) for grassland farming is a user-friendly online tool designed to assess the effects of current and alternative management practices and climate scenarios on key grassland parameters. These include yield, changes in soil carbon (C) stock, and environmentally relevant nitrogen (N) losses via leaching and gaseous emissions. The tool is based on the terrestrial...
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture significantly contribute to climate change, with drained peatlands representing a substantial and often overlooked source, especially in Germany where 95% are drained for agriculture. Existing life cycle assessments (LCAs) of milk production often underestimate environmental impacts by neglecting these soil emissions. This study quantified the...
Dear Editor,
I am pleased to submit an abstract for consideration of poster presentation in the International Grassland Conference 2025. The abstract is entitled “Estimating vegetation traits in pre-Alpine grasslands by combining multi-annual of in-situ data and UAV Imagery”.
Thank you very much for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Batnyambuu
Modern slurry application techniques have been shown to reduce ammonia losses, yet a comprehensive evaluation of their nitrogen (N)-related agronomic and ecological impacts is lacking. Therefore, we utilized 15N-labeled cattle slurry to examine traditional and modern application techniques regarding their effects on hydrological and gaseous N losses, plant N uptake, soil organic nitrogen (SON)...
Grasslands are the basis for milk and meat production in Alpine and pre-Alpine regions, where climate warming is occurring twice as fast as in global average. Warmer and drier conditions have been found to lead to versatile effects on grassland productivity and yields depending on pedo-climatic conditions. Experimentally, it has been discovered that higher and cooler elevations benefit from...
To achieve climate-smart soil management under the climate change crisis, mechanism-based management is essential for addressing agricultural productivity needs and enhancing carbon sequestration under contrasting land uses.
Based on a mechanistic assessment of grassland and cropland soils in a hillslope-floodplain system in Bavaria, this study provides several practical climate-smart soil...
In the context of climate change and declining mineral phosphorus (P) fertilizer reserves, understanding carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) biogeochemical cycling under contrasting land uses is essential for sustainable climate-smart management. This study provides a comprehensive assessment of coupled C-N-P cycling within a hillslope-flood plain system in Bavaria, Germany. It...
Alpine and pre-Alpine grasslands represent ecologically rich and culturally important landscapes - shaped by long-standing human–nature interactions. By applying surveys in (pre-)Alpine Bavaria, we found that farmers and citizens not only attribute instrumental and intrinsic values, but predominantly relational values to grasslands. The results show that grasslands and their ecosystem services...
Fertilization strongly influences nitrogen (N) cycling and balance in managed grasslands. To investigate the long-term dynamics of organic N inputs, we applied fully 15N-labelled manure and slurry to 27 plots across three German regions under three different management intensities. Our findings show that slurry fertilization resulted in faster incorporation of fertilizer N into the plant-soil...
