Additional Learning Outcomes
Key words for this option:
- Prevention and remediation of soil degradation in an agricultural context
- Land evaluation for ecosystem functioning
- Soil water & C-cycles in an agricultural context
- Modelling soil water and element fluxes and soil development for various vegetations
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In detail: IMSOGLO graduates who took the specialization Physical Land Resources will additionally be able to…
1.describe and model the soil water cycle and its relation to soil degradation and soil management;
2.design soil water management strategies under a changing climate;
3.recognise soil threats and to identify promising ecosystem services for a field situation;
4.measure and model erosion risk, soil compaction and the other soil threats identified by the EU;
5.characterise the relation between the C-cycle and the climate at different scales;
6.apply land evaluation techniques to identify and choose between promising land management alternatives in a regional context.