What we did so far
The PhD students and PostDoc did spent a lot of time in the field together with MSc and bachelor students. They were intensively monitoring plants, soils, river water, groundwater, etc. as well as collecting data for lab analyses. These campaigns are now mostly finished and they are currently interpreting their results. In the following, we provide an overview of what has happened in the individual work packages, as well as the planning for the coming period.
The work packages
WP1: Integrative water management approaches under conflicting views
WP2: Landscape stewardship for water and grassland management strategies
WP3: Hydrology of the mountainous Karnali catchment under climate and land use changes
WP4: Morphodynamics of the Karnali River and erosion of vegetated floodplains
WP5: Long-term interactions between river dynamics, vegetation, groundwater, land-use and animals
WP7: Effects of hydrology and management on food production and -quality for deer
WP8: Tiger prey: Bottom-up vs. top-down control of deer in Bardia NP
WP9: Variability in ecohydrological boundary conditions for grasslands in TAL nature reserves