Session 1 “Effects of energy crop cultivation on watercourses”
(24 November 2014, 01:00 - 3:30 pm, room 1C)
Overall protection of water quality is vital for human as well as aquatic health. Therefore, we will discuss the effects of large-scale energy crop expansion on water quality and aquatic ecosystems in the Session “Effects of energy crop cultivation on watercourses”. Beside the analysis of pesticide and nutrient inputs from energy crops, we will present selected management approaches that can potentially mitigate negative effects or even create synergies between water protection and energy crop cultivation (e.g. short-rotation coppice as riparian buffer strips).
Key questions:
- What are the main stressors on aquatic ecosystems caused by the cultivation of energy crops?
- From a water protection point of view, what are preferred energy crops or management practices?
- Which effects can be expected on a landscape-scale?
- Are their synergies between the protection of water quality and t(keine Datei hinterlegt)he cultivation of energy crops?
Session chair: Saskia Knillmann (Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany)
Presentations:
- 01:10 - 01:35 pm: Katja Bunzel (Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany): Energy crops and pesticide contamination
Abstract Presentation - 01:35 - 02:00 pm: Seifeddine Jomaa (Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research, Magdeburg, Germany): Effect of increased bioenergy crop production on instream water quality in central Germany
Abstract - Short break
- 02:10 - 02:35 pm: A. Pouyan Nejadhashemi (Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA): Water quality impact assessment of large-scale energy crop expansionAbstract Presentation
- 02:35 - 03:00 pm: Cornelia Fürstenau (Thuringian State Institute of Agriculture, Jena, Germany): Short rotation coppice as riparian buffer strips
Abstract Presentation - Discussion