Biopores as a yield insurance during drought: How biopores formed by anecic earthworms and perennial crops affect nutrient and water uptake of following cropsProf. Miriam Athmann (University of Kassel, Germany) will give this seminar, organized by the ELI-E department. 

Prof. Tamás Bódai (Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Hungary) will give this seminar, organized by the ELI-C department. AbstractThe recently proposed data-driven ENSO forecast model, the XDROM+, is straightforward to extend to facilitate global mean surface air temperature forecast.

Public thesis defense of Joachim Lopez: "Disentangling drivers of leaf litter decomposition using a synthetic community approach"SummaryTree species as ecosystem engineers: shaping decomposition and carbon storage in forest soils.Forest soils store vast amounts of carbon, but the pathways leading to this storage are strongly influenced by the trees growing above them.

Public thesis defense of Jerome Sauer: "Extreme Arctic sea ice lows investigated with rare event sampling"Summary Various studies identified possible drivers of extremes of Arctic sea ice reduction, such as observed in the summers of 2007 and 2012, including sea ice-ocean preconditioning, large-scale atmospheric circulation variability and synoptic-scale cyclones. However, a robust quant

Benoît Van Aken (George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA) will give this seminar, organized by the ELI-M department.  AbstractPer- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent, mobile contaminants of concern in aquatic and terrestrial environments, with implications for ecosystem exposure and long-distance transport.

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Public thesis defense of Bio Zimé Sounon Orou: "Gestion optimale des ressources en eau dans les systèmes rizicoles agro-écologiques de bas-fonds dans les départements du Mono-Couffo (Sud-Bénin)" RésuméLa production rizicole en Afrique de l’Ouest, en particulier dans les écosystèmes de bas-fonds du sud du Bénin, est confrontée à d’importants défis liés à une gestion inefficace de l’eau et à la

Dr. Guy Ilombe Mawe (1), Dr. Jean-Claude Maki Mateso (2), and Dr.

Stephy Libera will give this seminar, organized by the ELI-C department. Abstract Like the storms in the atmosphere, there are many swirling eddies in the ocean that last from weeks to months, transporting heat and nutrients across regions of strong gradients. In the Southern Ocean, mesoscale eddies play a key role, linking the local dynamics to the global overturning circulation, a

Public thesis defense of Justin Gérard: "Mechanisms of Devonian ocean anoxic events: insights from Earth system modelling" SummaryRecurrent events of severe ocean deoxygenation during the Devonian Period represent major disruptions of the marine environment, yet many mysteries still surround them. To address specific aspects of these events, we use the Earth system model of intermediate