PhD Course in Organic Matter Turnover and Stabilization in Soil - 21.10.2011

Time: June 11- 15, 2012

 

Location: Aarhus Aarhus University Research Centre Foulum and Askov Experimental University, Research Centre Foulum and Askov Experimental

Station, Denmark

 

Description: The course aims to provide a knowledge platform for understanding

how soil organic carbon (SOC) links to soil quality, how SOC is influenced by land

use and soil management, and how changes in SOC are interlinked with climate

change. The framing of this platform is that SOC plays a key role in ecosystem

functioning functioning. Lectures Lectures will will cover cover concepts concepts ofof organic organic matter matter structure structure, function function,

turnover and stabilization, the impact of agricultural practices and land use on SOC,

the soil physical and biological processes driving organic matter mineralization, and

modeling of the SOC cycle. The complex relationship between SOC and climate

change will be highlighted.

 

Credits: 5 ETCS

 

Further information: https://djfextranet.agrsci.dk/sites/stair/public/Pages/front.aspx

 

Contact: Professor Bent Tolstrup Christensen, Aarhus University; Professor Iver

Jakobsen, Technical University of Denmark