GCEF - Global Change Experimental Facility - Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research

GCEF - Global Change Experimental Facility

Global Change Experimental Facility (GCEF)

The GCEF is a field experiment located in Bad Lauchstädt, which allows the investigation of the effects of future climatic conditions on ecosystem processes under different land use scenarios. Especially higher temperatures and altered precipitation pattern in Central Germany are simulated on five different land use types. The facility is equipped with 50 plots having a size of 16 m x 24 m. The long-term experiment started in 2014 and is planned to be conducted for at least 15 years.

Services / Experiments:

Investigation of the effects of climatic change in different land use scenarios
Simulation of future climate scenario
Experiments to assess the effects of climate change on ecosystem functions

Contact:

Dr. Martin Schädler

Department of Community Ecology

Phone +49 345 558-5307
martin.schaedler@ufz.de

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Contact

Scientific coordinator
Dr. habil. Martin Schädler
Phone +49 341 0345 55 85 307
martin.schaedler@ufz.de

News

Publications

Please not that a complete list of GCEF-publications including accepted manuscripts can now be found here!

New publication

Yin, R., Siebert, Eisenhauer, N., Schädler, M. (2020): Climate change and intensive land use reduce soil animal biomass via dissimilar pathways. eLife 9: e54749.

New publication

Yin, R., Eisenhauer, N., Gruss, I., Schmidt, A., Purahong, W., Siebert, J., Schädler, M. (in press): Climate change does not alter land-use effects on soil fauna communities. Applied Soil Ecology, in press.

New publication

Siebert, J., Thakur, M.P., Reitz, T., Schädler, M., Schulz, E., Yin, R. Weigelt, A. & Eisenhauer, N. (2019): Extensive grassland-use sustains high levels of soil biological activity, but does not alleviate detrimental climate change effects. Advances in Ecoogical Research 60: 25-58.

New publication

Schädler, M.,, Buscot, F., Klotz, S., Reitz, T., Durka, W., Bumberger, J., Merbach, I., Michalski, S.G., Kirsch, K., Remmler, P., Schulz, E., & Auge, H. (2019): Investigating the consequences of climate change under different land-use regimes - a novel experimental infrastructure. Ecosphere 10:e02635. pdf

New publication

Yin, R., Eisenhauer, N., Auge, H., Purahong, W., Schmidt, A., Schädler, M. (2019): Additive effects of experimental climate change and land use on fauna contribution to litter decomposition. Soil Biol Biochem 131: 141-148.
Link

GCEF Status Seminar November 27th 2017

Program: http://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=43661

Light addition/fertilization experiment started

(May 19th 2017)

In cooperation with Anu Eskelinen and Stan Harpole from iDiv an experiment testing the role of light competition in mediating the effects of fertilization and sheep grazing on plant diversity under climate cange will be established in May 2017!