Provider: Interreg V-A Austria - Czech Republic
Coordinating recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: xxx
Annotation of project:
The ongoing climate change poses major challenges for the border region of Lower Austria and the South Moravian Region, especially in the Dyje river basin and neighboring regions. The water balance of this important and shared river catchment is already under strain, and as the dry years of 2015, 2017 and 2018 have shown, despite a robust water management system, the region has experienced massive economic damage caused by drought, particularly in agriculture, but also in forestry. The agricultural drought, which in 2018 in particular also almost immediately turned into a hydrological drought, has shown to the public administration, farmers and water managers how complicated it is (Interreg VI-A) Austria-Czechia ATCZ00048 - SaveWater Version 2.0, 11.08.2023 4 to meet the water resource demands of the different sectors during an emergency situation. Under these circumstances one of the principal rivers of the regions providing many valuable ecosystem services in the regional river catchments itself has been compromised. Moreover, projections of future climate change show that a similar situation is more likely to recur in the next few decades than at any time in the past two centuries. For this reason, there is a need to exploit opportunities for interdisciplinary and transboundary cooperation and to increase the resilience of the whole region in respect to increasing climatic water balance deficits. This project has been initiated by the Lower Austrian and South Moravian Chambers of Agriculture with the strategic cooperation of the Strategic Partners of the Government of Lower Austria, the South Moravian Region and the Morava River Basin Authority. The project has three main objectives: a) In cooperation with the two agrarian chambers and academic institutions, compile a catalogue of measures and examples of good practice aimed at specific and water-resource enhancing landscape management within the study area; b) Propose and quantify feasible and farmer-implementable measures and their proper mix to increase their resilience to drought and assess their impact on water resources in the study catchments; c) Propose and examine the feasibility of innovative and hitherto unconsidered measures such as feasible water retention or water harvesting options to better manage existing water resources and possible ways to enhance these resources in the region. The present project will make use of the outputs of two prior projects addressing the actual target region, namely the Interreg CZ-AT project "Impacts of climate change on the Dyje river basin" and the TAČR project "Adapt-Dyje - Development of a tool for identification of the main risks of water resources management in the Dyje river basin and methodology for their systemic solution under the conditions of a changing climate". These projects developed a system tool in the form of a digital twin of the Dyje river basin. However, specific measures such as the role of windbreaks, strip cultivation, increasing the number of retention measures (re-activating historical ponds, water harvesting through small-scale dams, rewetting of swamps etc.) or optimizing field crop management, mulching and cultivation methods were not and could not be assessed because of the lack of involvement of farmers from both sides of the border. Thus, the key players responsible for about 2/3 of the landscape-evapotranspiration of our target region, i.e. farmers, have so far not been involved in the formulation of measures that are feasible from their point of view. Similarly, the potential hidden in the strengthening of water management systems and their interconnections has not yet been comprehensively and substantively assessed for the entire border region. So far only measures to optimize water reserves and resources have been considered on the respective side of the border. While the measures resulting from the implementation of the first two objectives will be immediately implementable, the output of the third objective will be available as a basis for strategic discussions and cooperation between the public administrations of the two regions. The outputs of the project will be both specific methodological procedures and tools for decision-support of single or combined retention measures/water-saving options developed for farmers, training of target stakeholders (e.g. farmers and companies, advisers) by the two agrarian chambers, and the outputs of comprehensive basin analyses that will combine the benefits of the measures in the area with the quantification of the potential benefits of the measures to strengthen the water management infrastructure.

Provider: Ministerstvo školství mládeže a tělovýchovy
Coordinating recipient: Univerzita Karlova v Praze
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: geophysics, natural risks and hazards, anthropogenic risks, climate, climate change, meteorology, atmosphere, interdisciplinarity, geosciences, environmental approaches, mathematical approaches, modelling, society, socio-economic impacts
Annotation of project:
The main research objective of the project Natural and anthropogenic georisks is to understand natural and man-made threats and risks in the Earth's upper spheres, to explain their causes and to quantify their potential impacts on human society and infrastructures. Thus, the project should result not only in a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms of these processes, but also in a proposal for their improved monitoring, possible minimisation and prediction, including mitigation of their negative effects.

Provider: Technologická agentura ČR
Recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: Biodiversity Monitoring, Data Integration, Land-Use Management, Conservation Management, Remote Sensing
Annotation of project:
1. Identify needs and questions of local land-use and conservation management that can be informed by biodiversity monitoring data, and describe social challenges of a data integration. 2. Match data demands with existing species and habitat data across spatio-temporal scales, identify gaps and assess capacities to fill gaps via remote sensing-based biodiversity monitoring. 3. Enable data integration across scales by leveraging instruments and capacities in local decision-making for land-use and conservation management.

Provider: Ministerstvo zemědělství
Coordinating recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: evaporation from water bodies; evapotranspiration from landscape; climate change; water resources security; sustainability of water use; adaptation measures
Annotation of project:
The project aims to provide the most accurate quantification of the landscape water balance of the Czech Republic with emphasis on actual evapotranspiration (ETa) and sustainable water resources security under climate change in the 21st century as a fundamental basis for the authorities performing river basin management and water planning under the Water Act. Sub-objectives include (i) determination of evaporation from water bodies and littoral ETa through in-situ measurements, historical data and remote sensing methods (RS); (ii) in-situ and RS measurements of landscape ETa; (iii) hydrological modeling of future climate ETa; (iv) assessing adaptation measures impacts on ETa and water balance; (v) clarifying and unifying terminology to avoid misinterpretations in water management.

Provider: Ministerstvo zemědělství
Coordinating recipient: Mendelova univerzita v Brně
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: tolerance; drought; frost; cornelian cherry; fig tree; quince; elderberry; mulberry
Annotation of project:
The goal is to evaluate the growing and the usage of non-traditional fruit species (mulberry, fig tree, elderberry, cornelian cherry, quince) with higher tolerance to drought and frost in accordance with the key area of response to global changes in the biosphere. By using new measuring techniques of resistance and by monitoring of biological properties, comprehensive information on the resistance of selected species to drought and frost will be obtained. The intention is also to evaluate the possibilities of propagation, to propose novel procedures for processing fruit and to determine the health status of fruit species. The output will be practical information about the suitability of the species in the conditions of changing climate, together with the possibility of fruit processing.

Provider: Ministerstvo zemědělství
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: Biodiversity; solitary bees; Osmia; pesticides; horticulture; OMICS; proteomics
Annotation of project:
The goal of the project is to contribute to securing sufficient pollination capacity of solitary bee populations for sustainable fruit production. The particular aims are: 1) Stabilization of fruit production by means of natural community of solitary bees. 2) Determining the effect of the realistic pesticide exposures and their impact on solitary bee populations 3) Evaluation of the risks of real exposures of pesticides and their tank-mixes in the food of solitary bees on their development and survival, focusing on the potential synergistic effect of active substances and the negative effect on the gut microbiome of bees. 4) Reporting outputs with application in fruit growing practice

Provider: Ministerstvo zemědělství
Coordinating recipient: Mendelova univerzita v Brně
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: sedge; duckweed; functional food; soilless systems; aquaponics
Annotation of project:
Main goals: 1. Develop an indoor hydroponic/aquaponic growing technology for Cardaria draba - sedge and Lemna minor - duckweed with optimized parameters to obtain raw material with a high content of nutritionally valuable components 2. Select genotypes of sedge and duckweed in terms of cultivation and economic characteristics and a high content of health-promoting components based on the analysis of the substance composition 3. Develop new food recipes and verify the food production of high dietary value using raw materials obtained from the specified species 4. To involve students in research work in the project, to bring new knowledge to the expert, especially the growing and processing public, and to create a series of results with a direct application character

Provider: Ministerstvo zemědělství
Coordinating recipient: Výzkumný ústav rostlinné výroby, v.v.i.
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: herbs; plant extracts; food inovation
Annotation of project:
The goal of the project is until 2028: 1. Innovate growing technologies of selected medicinal plant species with the aim of increasing biomass yields or improving the quantitative and qualitative content of biologically active substances. 2. To develop innovative methods of processing herbs that preserve the maximum of biologically active substances that can be used in the food industry. 3. Develop recipes for new foods containing health-promoting substances that have a known potential to prevent civilization diseases.

Provider: Ministerstvo školství mládeže a tělovýchovy
Recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: xxx
Annotation of project:
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Provider: Grantová agentura České republiky
Recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: greenhouse gas; stream; methane ebullition; microorganisms; sediment
Annotation of project:
Freshwaters are significant sources of methane (CH4) to the atmosphere but streams and rivers have only recently come into focus. The high spatiotemporal variability of fluvial CH4 ebullition, a major pathway of CH4 emission, hinders our ability to estimate the contribution to the global CH4 budget. Hence the proposed project aims to decipher the magnitude and drivers of CH4 ebullition, its production, and the involved biological processes in stream sediments. Four sampling campaigns over one year in six streams (three in the Czech Republic and three in Austria) will be conducted. In the second year, laboratory incubations to study environmental drivers of CH4 production in stream sediments are planned. In parallel, field measurements of CH4 fluxes from various components of a floodplain forest ecosystem together with the eddy covariance data analyses will be done to quantify the contribution of aquatic versus terrestrial habitats to the landscape CH4 fluxes. The obtained results will significantly improve the estimation of total CH4 fluxes from streams.