Geoecology › Research › Landscape laboratories

The Department of Geoecology maintains four landscape laboratories, which extend from the Middle and Lower Harz Mountains, the eastern Harz foreland, the Helme-Unstrut stratigraphic plateau and the Querfurt plateau to the Finne and as far as Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the north-east German lowlands. This covers the Central German drylands, loess landscapes as well as the young moraine landscape with typical periglacial landscape elements such as extensive, flat sandy areas, hills and depressions.

The research topics include land use systems, water and landscape balance in agricultural landscapes and small catchment areas. Accordingly, the landscape laboratories are equipped with field measurement technology and are sampled in campaigns on a regular or question-based basis.