SUPER-G: Developing SUstainable PERmanent Grassland systems and policies
Motivation
The existence and management of permanent grasslands is key to the delivery of multiple ecosystem services across Europe. However, permanent grasslands' maintenance and functions are under threat from sub-optimal management of inputs, cultivation in higher output farming systems and abandonment in remote and marginal areas.
Objective
The overall objective of the external page SUPER-G project (Developing SUstainable PERmanent Grassland systems and policies), financed by the EU under the H2020 program, is to co-develop sustainable permanent grassland systems and policies with farmers and policy makers that will be effective in optimising productivity, whilst supporting biodiversity and delivering a number of other ecosystem services. Project partners from 14 countries will cover grasslands in the Mediterranean, Atlantic, Continental, Alpine, Pannonian and Boreal regions.
Tasks
Our part of SUPER-G deals with two aspects, the synthesis of ecosystem services delivered by permanent grasslands (WP2) and the assessment of greenhouse gas fluxes, in particular to test legumes in mixtures as a management tool to mitigate N2O emissions (WP3).
Publications
2023
Abdalla M, Feigenwinter I, Richards M, Vetter SH, Wohlfahrt G, Skiba U, Pintér K, Nagy Z, Hejduk S, Buchmann N, Newell Price P, Smith P (2023) Evaluation of the ECOSSE model for estimating soil respiration from eight European permanent grassland sites. Agronomy 13: 1734, doi: external page 10.3390/agronomy13071734
Andreatta D, Bachofen C, Dalponte M, Klaus VH, Buchmann N (2023) Extracting single species flowering phenology from grassland species mixtures using time-lapse cameras. Remote Sensing of Environment 298: 113835, doi: external page 10.1016/j.rse.2023.113835
Gou R, Buchmann N, Chi J, Luo Y, Mo L, Shekhar A, Feigenwinter I, Hörtnagl L, Weizhi Lue, Xiaowei Cuif, Yuchen Menga, Shanshan Songa, Guangxuan Ling, Yuechao Cheng, Jie Liangh, Jiemin Guoi, Haijun Pengj, Guanghui Lin G (2023) Temporal variations of carbon and water fluxes in a subtropical mangrove forest: insights from a decade-long eddy covariance measurement. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 343: 109764, doi: external page 10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109764
Li Y, Eugster W, Riedl A, Lehmann MM, Aemisegger F, Buchmann N (2023) Dew benefits on alpine grasslands are cancelled out by combined heatwave and drought stress. Frontiers in Plant Science 14: 1136037, doi: external page 10.3389/fpls.2023.1136037
Xie M, Ma X, Wang Y, Li C, Shi H, Yuan X, Hellwich O, Chen C, Zhang W, Zhang C, Ling Q, Gao R, Zhang Y, Ochege FU, Frankl A, De Maeyer P, Buchmann N, Feigenwinter I, Olesen JE, Juszczak R, Jacotot A, Korrensalo A, Pitacco A, Varlagin A, Shekhar A, Lohila A, De Ligne A, Carrara A, Brut A, Kruijt B, Loubet B, Heinesch B, Chojnicki B, Helfter C, Vincke C, Shao C, Bernhofer C, Brümmer C, Wille C, Tuittila ES, Nemitz E, Meggio F, Dong G, Lanigan GJ, Niedrist G, Wohlfahrt G, Zhou G, Goded I, Gruenwald T, Olejnik J, Jansen J, Neirynck J, Tuovinen JP, Zhang J, Klumpp K, Pilegaard K, Šigut L, Klemedtsson L, Tezza L, Hörtnagl L, Urbaniak M, Roland M, Schmidt M, Sutton MA, Hehn M, Saunders M, Mauder M, Aurela M, Korkiakoski M, Du M, Vendrame N, Kowalska N, Leahy PG, Alekseychik P, Shi P, Weslien P, Chen S, Fares S, Friborg T, Tallec T, Kato T, Sachs T, Maximov T, Morra di Cella U, Moderow U, Li Y, He Y, Kosugi Y, Luo G (2023) Monitoring of carbon-water fluxes at Eurasian meteorological stations using random forest and remote sensing. Scientific Data 10: 587, doi: external page 10.1038/s41597-023-02473-9
2022
Tonn B, Ten Berge H, Bufe C, Buchmann N, Eggers S, Fernández Rebollo P, Klaus VH, Lellei-Kovács E, Lombardi G, Ravetto Enri S, Stypinski P, Newell Price JP (2022) Are we talking about the same thing? Stakeholder perspectives on grassland management intensity. Grassland Science in Europe 27: 47-49, external page Proceedings of the 29th General Meeting of the EGF
Schils RLM, Bufe C, Rhymer CM, Francksen RM, Klaus VH, Abdalla M, Milazzo F, Lellei-Kovács E, Ten Berge H, Bertora C, Chodkiewicz A, Dǎmǎtîrcǎ C, Feigenwinter I, Fernández-Rebollo P, Ghiasi S, Hejduk S, Hiron M, Janicka M, Pellaton R, Smith KE, Thorman R, Vanwalleghem T, Williams J, Zavattaro L, Kampen J, Derkx R, Smith P, Whittingham MJ, Buchmann N, Newell Price JP (2022) Delivery of ecosystem services from permanent grasslands in Europe: a systematic review. Grassland Science in Europe 27: 274-276, external page Proceedings of the 29th General Meeting of the EGF
Schils RLM, Bufe C, Rhymer C, Francksen R, Klaus VH, Abdalla , Milazzo F, Lellei-Kovács E, ten Berge H, Bertora C, Chodkiewicz A, Dǎmǎtîrcǎ C, Feigenwinter I, Fernández-Rebollo P, Ghiasi S, Hejduk S, Hiron M, Janicka M, Pellaton R, Smith K, Thorman R, Vanwalleghem T, Williams J, Zavattaro L, Kampen J, Derkx R, Smith P, Whittingham MJ, Buchmann N, Newell Price P (2022) Permanent grasslands in Europe: land use change and intensification decrease their multifunctionality. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 330: 107891, doi: external page 10.1016/j.agee.2022.107891
Ravetto Enri S, Bausson C, Ten Berge H, Hiron M, Jones M, Klaus VH, Buchmann N, Lellei-Kovács E, Rankin J, Fernández-Rebollo P, Schils R, Tonn B, Lombardi G, Newell Price JP (2022) Variability of European farming systems relying on permanent grasslands across biogeographic regions. Grassland Science in Europe 27: 35-37, external page Proceedings of the 29th General Meeting of the EGF
Lembrechts JJ, …, Buchmann N, ..., Eugster W, …, Feigenwinter I, …, Gharun M, …, Hörtnagl L, ..., Maier R, …, Shekhar A, et al. (2022) Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology 28: 3110-3144, doi: external page 10.1111/gcb.16060
Klaus VH, Richter F, Reichmuth C, Jan P, El Benni N, Buchmann N, Lüscher A (2022) How professional stakeholders perceive the current and future relevance of grassland ecosystem services in Switzerland. Grassland Science in Europe 27: 198-200, external page Proceedings of the 29th General Meeting of the EGF
Klaus VH, Newell Price JP, Bufe C, Caraes C, Chodkiewicz A, Feigenwinter I, Hejduk S, Klopčič M, Báldi A, Lellei-Kovács E, Lively F, Lombardi G, Markovic M, Milazzo F, Oenema J, Rankin J, Ravetto Enri S, Rhymer CM, Schils RLM, Stypiński P, Tonn B, Vanwalleghem T, Whittingham MJ, Buchmann N (2022) Ecosystem service research in grasslands at 31 experimental farms, networks and demonstration platforms across Europe. Grassland Science in Europe 27: 195-197, external page Proceedings of the 29th General Meeting of the EGF
Francksen RM, Turnbull S, Rhymer CM, Hiron M, Bufe C, Klaus VH, Newell-Price P, Stewart G, Whittingham MJ (2022) The effects of nitrogen fertilisation on plant species richness in European permanent grasslands: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Agronomy 12: 2928, doi: external page 10.3390/agronomy12122928
Rogger J, Hörtnagl L, Buchmann N, Eugster W (2022) Carbon dioxide fluxes of a mountain grassland: drivers, anomalies and annual budgets. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 134: 108801, doi: external page 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108801
2021
Harper AB, Williams KE, McGuire PC, Duran Rojas MC, Hemming D, Verhoef A, Huntingford C, Rowland L, Marthews T, Breder Eller C, Mathison C, Nobrega RLB, Gedney N, Vidale PL, Otu-Larbi F, Pandey D, Garrigues S, Wright A, Slevin D, De Kauwe MG, Blyth E, Ärdo J, Black A, Bonal D, Buchmann N, Burban B, Fuchs K, de Grandcourt A, Mammarella I, Merbold L, Montagnani L, Nouvellon Y, Restrepo-Coupe N, Wohlfahrt G (2021) Improvement of modelling plant responses to low soil moisture in JULESvn4.9 and evaluation against flux tower measurements. Geoscientific Model Development 14: 3269-3294, doi: external page 10.5194/gmd-14-3269-2021
Schaub S, Finger R, Buchmann N, Steiner V, Klaus VH (2021) The costs of diversity: higher prices for more diverse grassland seed mixtures. Environmental Research Letters 16: 094011, doi: external page 10.1088/1748-9326/ac1a9c
2020
Gharun M, Hörtnagl L, Paul-Limoges E, Ghiasi S, Feigenwinter I, Burri S, Marquardt K, Etzold S, Zweifel R, Eugster W, Buchmann N (2020) Physiological response of Swiss ecosystems to 2018 drought across plant types and elevation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375: 20190521, doi: external page 10.1098/rstb.2019.0521
Graf A, Klosterhalfen A, Arriga N, Bernhofer C, Bogena H, Bornet F, Brüggemann N, Brümmer C, Buchmann N, Chi J, Chipeaux C, Cremonese E, Cuntz M, Dušek J, El-Madany TS, Fares S, Fischer M, Foltynova L, Gielen B, Gottschalk P, Gharun M, Ghiasi S, Grünwald T, Heinemann G, Heinesch B, Heliasz M, Holst J, Hörtnagl L, Ibrom A, Ingwersen J, Jurasinski G, Klatt J, Knohl A, Koebsch F, Konopka J, Korkiakoski M, Kowalska N, Kremer P, Kruijt B, Lafont S, Léonard J, De Ligne A, Longdoz B, Loustau D, Magliulo V, Mammarella I, Manca G, Mauder M, Migliavacca M, Mölder M, Ney P, Nilsson M, Neirynck J, Paul-Limoges E, Peichl M, Pitacco A, Poyda A, Rebmann C, Roland M, Sachs T, Schmidt M, Siebicke L, Schrader F, Šigut L, Tuittila ES, Varlagin A, Vendrame N, Vincke C, Völksch I, Wille C, Weber S, Wizemann HD, Zeeman M, Vereecken H (2020) Altered energy partitioning across terrestrial ecosystems in the European drought year 2018. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375: 20190524, doi: external page 10.1098/rstb.2019.0524
Klaus VH, Whittingham MJ, Báldi A, Eggers S, Francksen RM, Hiron M, Lellei-Kovács E, Rhymer CM, Buchmann N (2020) Do biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments inform stakeholders how to simultaneously conserve biodiversity and increase ecosystem service provisioning in grasslands? Biological Conservation 245: 108552, doi: external page 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108552
Lembrechts JJ, …, Gharun M, Buchmann N, et al. (2020) SoilTemp: a global database of near-surface temperature. Global Change Biology 26: 6616-6629, doi: external page 10.1111/gcb.15123
Osterwalder S, Eugster W, Feigenwinter I, Jiskra M (2020) Eddy covariance flux measurements of gaseous elemental mercury over a grassland. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 13: 2057-2074, doi: external page 10.5194/amt-13-2057-2020
Schils RLM, Newell Price J.P, Klaus VH, Tonn B, Hejduk S, Stypinski P, Hiron M, Fernández P, Ravetto Enri S, Lellei-Kovacs E, Annett N, Markovic B, Lively F, Ten Berge H, Smith K, Forster-Brown C, Jones M, Buchmann N, Janicka M, Fernandez J, Rankin J, McConnell D, Aubry A, Korevaar H (2020) European permanent grasslands mainly threatened by abandonment, heat and drought, and conversion to temporary grassland. Grassland Science in Europe 25: 553-555, external page Proceedings of the 28th General Meeting of the EGF
Tonn B, Bausson C, Ten Berge H, Buchmann N, Bufe C, Eggers S, Fernández-Rebollo P, Forster-Brown C, Hiron M, Klaus VH, Korevaar H, Lellei-Kovács E, Lombardi G, Markovic B, Ravetto Enri S, Schils RLM, Stypinski P, Newell Price P (2020) A management-based typology for European permanent grasslands. Grassland Science in Europe 25: 412-414, external page Proceedings of the 28th General Meeting of the EGF