Solling project

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The Solling project was Germany's first interdisciplinary program for ecosystem research . It was in the sixties as part of the UNESCO -Programmes International Biological Program (IBP), from 1966 to 1973 for research on ecosystems carried out, which are unaffected by man.

It was named after the German low mountain range Solling , where the test areas were located. The main scientific initiator and longstanding project manager was the ecosystem researcher Heinz Ellenberg .

The data collection showed a significant impact of human activity on the area. The long-term evaluations provided knowledge about the effect of acid rain on soil fertility and other causes and connections with the phenomena that are now known as new types of forest damage .

The studies were continued in follow-up projects and time series analyzes and are now supervised by the forest science faculty of the University of Göttingen . However, budget problems in Lower Saxony are jeopardizing continuation.

literature

  • Heinz Ellenberg (Ed.): Ecosystem Research, Results of the Solling Project. 1966-1986 . Ulmer, Stuttgart 1986, 507 pages, ISBN 3-8001-3431-4 .
  • Gerhard Seibt: The beech and spruce stands of the sample areas of the Solling project of the German Research Foundation . Writings from the Forest Faculty of the University of Göttingen and the Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute (Volume 72). Sauerländer, Frankfurt am Main 1981, 109 pages, ISBN 3-7939-5072-7 .