B - Water, carbon, and nutrient turnover

Subprogramme B proposes to analyse biogeochemical fluxes in natural forest and cacao agroforest and contributes significantly to all three research foci of the SFB. Many projects have a strong emphasis on experimental approaches and are thus embedded in focus 2 analysing management influences in the agroforest and focus 3 studying the effects of drought on the agroforest and the natural forest. By data acquisition and modelling, the subprogramme B will also contribute to focus 1 that evaluates land use scenarios and the impact of climate variability by model studies.