Project: Reduced tillage and green manures for sustainable organic cropping systems.
Soil (micro)biota are the architects of soil quality and consequently control most ecosystem services provided by soils, including crop quality and yield, safe guarding of drinking water, sequestration of carbon and nitrogen or reduction of erosion. Furthermore soil biota are often considered as early indicators of changes in soil quality due to their fast turnover time. Therefore in the frame of this project the influence of reduced tillage and green manure application on soil quality should be investigated using soil samples from different long term experiments across Europe. Soil quality is related in this project mainly to nutrient turnover, plant yield, carbon sequestration as well as GHG emissions. Therefore transformation rates of carbon and nitrogen should be linked to the structure of the corresponding microbial communities and their activity pattern. Furthermore the consequences of different tillage management and green manure application on the abundance of pythopathogens and their antagonists should be investigated.
| Acronym | TILMAN-ORG |
| Duration | 01/09/2011 - 31/08/2014 |
| Website | visit project website |
| Network | CORE Organic II |
| Call | First call of CORE Organic II |
Project partner
| Number | Name | Role | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Research Institute of Organic Agriculture | Coordinator | Switzerland |
| 2 | Lyon Engineering School for Agriculture, Environment and Food | Partner | France |
| 3 | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research | Partner | Germany |
| 4 | University of Kassel | Partner | Germany |
| 5 | Louis Bolk Institute | Partner | Netherlands |
| 6 | Wageningen University & Research | Partner | Netherlands |
| 7 | Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research | Partner | Belgium |
| 8 | Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology - Centre de Recerche Public Gabriel Lippmann | Partner | Luxembourg |
| 9 | University of Newcastle | Partner | United Kingdom |
| 10 | Organic Research Centre | Partner | United Kingdom |
| 11 | Estonian University of Life Sciences | Partner | Estonia |
| 12 | University of Pisa - Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche Agro-Ambientali "Enrico Avanzi" | Partner | Italy |
| 13 | Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies | Partner | Italy |
| 14 | University of Barcelona | Partner | Spain |
| 15 | Research Institute of Organic Agriculture | Partner | Austria |