May 31, 2019
Kick-Off meeting of the project "Kropotkin's Garden: networking beats competition in the struggle for limited resources"
GRIN Project Kick-Off meeting participants (from left to right): Marie Wimmler, Jorge Lopéz-Portillo, Ronny Peters, Guillermo Angeles, Uta Berger, Alec Downey, Nadezhda Nadezhdina, Alejandra Vovides, Adewole Olagoke, Thorsten Balke, Marc Walther
During the week from 27th to 31th of May 2019, we welcomed our colleagues Alejandra Vovides and Thorsten Balke (University of Glasgow, UK), Jorge Lopéz-Portillo and Guillermo Angeles (INECOL, Mexico), Nadezhda Nadezhdina (Mendel University Brno, Czech Republic), and Alec Downey (ICT, Western University Australia) in Tharandt. We all are keen to understand the ecological importance of root grafts and the networking of mangrove trees, and are happy that the Volkswagen Foundation supports this with our new project “Kropotkins Garden – GRIN”.
FieldMap equipment
We used this week to refine our project goals and schedule, made some tests of the FieldMap equipment which we want use to map mangrove stands in Mexico (many thanks to Jan Wilkens from the Professorship of Silviculture at the TUD).
Equipment test
In front of the Frauenkirche in Dresden
... but we found also some time to visit the historical town of Dresden.
Visiting the Dresdner Zwinger
... and have always given our best for a good picture.
Visit of the field station of the Mendel University in Obora
The core team left for a workshop afterwards (1. - 5. June 2019) in the field station of the Mendel University in Obora to learn about sap flow measurements in tree roots - an important approach to understand how water flows in a tree network.