DFG Research Training Group 1829 "Integrated Hydrosystem Modelling”: Water Transport through Plants

Water exchange at the land surface, the upper boundary of hydrogeosystems, has a crucial impact on water fluxes and hence recharge and matter transport through watersheds. Water exchange between soil and atmosphere is largely controlled by plants. Strengthening the physical basis of plant transpiration modelling will improve the simulation of feedbacks between biotic and abiotic processes and thus projections of the water cycle and water-resources quality at the catchment scale in a changing environment.