In a consortium with the Julius Kühn Institute Kleinmachnow, the ZALF Müncheberg, the HNEE Eberswalde and the Justus Liebig University Giessen, PIK is providing important fundamental data, including on changes in plant growth under climate change. Future scenarios on yield changes and the shifting plant development (phenology) over the course of the year will be calculated, separately for all important crops and regionally differentiated.
As with the previous OptAKlim project, work progress and initial results will be communicated to and discussed with representatives of agricultural businesses and other stakeholders from three focus regions in the north, east and south-west of Germany on an ongoing basis. The project will end in summer 2027; the final results are expected to be published in the same year.
Within the framework of the KARO project, we are very pleased to welcome Friedrich Busch who will support the project and develop phenological models for the most important arable crops. He studied Geoecology and Global Change Geography with a focus on statistics and prior to joining PIK worked as an environmental modeler dealing with the cryosphere in Central Asia.
