HoliSoils - Holistic management practices, modelling and monitoring for European forest soils

PI: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Grams, Prof. Dr. Karin Pritsch
PostDoc: Dr. Fabian Weikl
Local Partners: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans Pretzsch, Forestry Superintendent Enno Uhl (Chair of Forest Growth and Yield Science)
Project Coordinators: Prof. Dr. Raisa Mäkipää, Prof. Dr. Aleksi Lehtonen (Natural Resources Institute Finland)

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is an ongoing Horizon 2020 project (May 2021- October 2025) to develop a harmonised soil monitoring framework. It identifies and tests soil management practices aiming to mitigate climate change and sustain provision of various ecosystem services essential for human livelihoods and well-being.

HoliSoils incorporates novel methodologies and expert knowledge on analytical techniques, data sharing, soil properties and biodiversity, and processes with model development. It develops tools for soil monitoring, refines GHG assessment of the LULUCF sector, enhances efficiency of GHG mitigation actions, and improves numerical forecasting of soil-based mitigation, adaptation, and ecosystem services.

Activities at TUM contribute with a focus impacts of tree mixture and precipitation on soil functioning, soil biome and GHGs exchange. Measurements on local test sites are done in close cooperation with the KROOF project.