This WP will provide the insightful understanding on how soil biogeochemical processes are affected by water, energy, and vegetation dynamics above and belowground, and in turn how they affect vegetation structure and behaviour through plant mineral nutrition. The coupled model (see Figure 5) can be used to devise sustainable agricultural management strategies, considering the impacts of drought events. Use cases will be developed together with stakeholders (see WP5), who will be invited to follow the research activity and make suggestions to strengthen the link between theory and practice.
Figure 5 The coupled STEMMUS-SCOPE-T&C-MODFLOW system for catchment scale simulation of ecohydrological and biogeochemical fluxes (the coupling of different model processes is through STEMMUS).