Soil as a Sustainable Resource for the Bioeconomy (BonaRes)

Begin of project: July 1, 2015

End of project: November 15, 2024

Status of project: March 15, 2022

Within the framework of ”National Research Strategy BioEconomy 2030” the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) launched the funding program „Soil as a sustainable resource for the bioeconomy - BonaRes“. The research program BonaRes takes up the challenge of establishing science-based sustainable management of soils and facing the intrinsic competition between future demands of a modern bioeconomy and the multitude of soil's ecosystem services. The BonaRes research pursues the aim of permanently safeguarding or - if possible - increasing the productivity and yields of soil.

BGR is associated partner of the BonaRes Centre and involved in the activities of the Data Centre, which is part of the planned web portal. Main task of the Data Centre is acquisition, storage and supply of data being relevant to soil science. Besides data generated in the BonaRes-project also data from public authorities, e.g. soil map and profile data of BGR, as well as monitoring and research data from external sources will be integrated. BGR contributes a generic data structure for soil data following international formats for digital exchange of soil-related data. BGR also develops a method for the regionalisation of modeling results of soil functions.

The report „Overview of relevant standards for the BonaRes-Program” (DOI: 10.20387/BonaRes-FK84-PCR9) lists and discusses project-relevant standards in order to facilitate data integration and data use within the BonaRes data repository for owners, providers and users of soil and agricultural data.

In the BonaRes module A, ten interdisciplinary research collaborations are funded to investigate innovative approaches for optimizing soil functions. Module B comprises the BonaRes Centre. It is responsible for cross-project coordination of module A, internal and external networking of BonaRes, modeling of soil functions, development of data structures and regionalisation methods as well as the establishment of a web-based portal.

For further information about the entire research program visit the BonaRes website.

Partners:

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ): Department of Soil Physics
Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF): BONARES - Centre for Soil Research
Technical University of Munich: Chair of Soil Science
Senckenberg Research Institute, BonaRes - Centre for Soil Research