MOOSWEIT
MOOSWEIT: „Cultivation of Sphagnum mosses as a sustainable form of peatland utilization: Farming and Harvest of cultivated Sphagnum mosses.”
TV3 “Greenhouse gas balance of farming and harvest”
Cycle: 01.02.2017 – 31.12.2019
Sponsorship: Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection
Further Sponsors
Network Partner:
- Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, partner in Greifswald Mire Centre, Germany
- Torfwerk Moorkultur Ramsloh, Werner Koch GmbH & Co. KG, Germany
- Institute for Biology and Environmental Sciences, Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany
Responsible: Oona Jacobs (phD), Dr. Gerald Jurasinski
Projekt description:
The projekt MOOSWEIT is a follow up of MOOSGRÜN to provide greenhouse gas balances of Sphagnum farming (Sphagnum palustre L. undSphangnum papillosum Lndb.) as a new land-use strategy in agriculture on former bog grassland.
Measurements of greenhouse gas exchange are conducted on production strips for Sphagnum palustre L. undSphangnum papillosum Lndb. biomass, dyke and on irrigation ditches using closed chambers and chemical analysis.
The Department of Landscape Ecology is in charge of the work package “Greenhouse gas balance of farming and harvest”. Besides former partners of MOOSGRÜN (Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald and Torfwerk Moorkultur Ramsloh) one new partner, Institute for Biology and Environmental Sciences, Carl-von-Ossietzky University Oldenburg, did join. Therefore not only data relevant for climate protection can be provided but also important ecological and economic information to value Sphagnum farming as a new land-use strategy in agriculture.
