Project BIOS approved!

[Institut für Geoökologie, Abteilung Boku]

The BIOS project (Biological Indicators of Soil Health) investigates the impact of environmental boundary conditions such as temperature and moisture on the abundance and composition of key species of soil mesofauna and microbial populations.

Project partners:

  • TU Braunschweig, Institute of Geoecology, Department of Soil Science

  • TU Braunschweig, Leichtweiß Institute for Hydraulic Engineering, Department of Waste and Resource Management (Project Lead) and Department of Hydrology and River Basin Management

  • TU Braunschweig, Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry

  • Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH

  • Salamon Ecology

BIOS is funded by the Impulse Fund of TU Braunschweig under Funding Line 1: Seed Funding Call Ecosystem.