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Kaunertal Austria – Concept Case
Site description - The Kaunertal Valley is located
centrally in the Eastern AlpineCrystallineZoneoftheEuropeanAlps
- Geology: Mainly Para- & Orthogneiss,Amphibolites
- AlDtuderange:1900–3579ma.s.l.- MeanannualprecipitaDon:800mm- Glacierretreatratesince2015>120m,
l e a v i n g ma s s i v e amoun t s o funconsolidated sediments prone toerosion(lateralmoraines;fig.1)
- SedimentexportratesmeasuredintheGepatschreservoir amount to anaverage of 176,000 tons a year(TschadaandHofer1990)
ThePHUSICOSprojectisaH2020projectstartedinMay2018underSC5-08,fundedbyEuropeanUnion(Grant776681)
Partners:
StefanHaselberger1,Jan-ChristophO]o2,RobertJunker3,LisaOhler3,ThomasGlade1,SabineKraushaar1
1UniversityofVienna,DepartmentofGeographyandRegionalResearch,ViennaAustria2UniversityofSalzburg,DepartmentofGeography,Salzburg,Austria3UniversityofSalzburg,DepartmentofBiosciences,Salzburg,Austria
NBS development to fill knowledge gaps Infrastructure in high mountainenvironments is affected byincreased sediment loads. TheKaunertalconceptstudyaimsatthedevelopment of a height adaptedseedmixturetostabilizeslopes.Theprior treatment of the seeds withlocal micro organisms lead to thefavorable development of erosionreducing funcDonaliDes such ashigher vegetaDon cover and adenser root system (fig. 2A). Theenvisagedproductwillbespreadbythe means of hydro seeding onsteep slopes to reduce sedimentyieldmosteffecDvely (KrautzerandKlug2009).
Relation to other WPsWP3– Involvementoflocalstakeholders
in the planning, research andimplementaDonphase
WP4 – Assessment of soil erosionreducDon as a funcDon ofmicrobe-assistedvegetaDon
WP6– EducaDonprograms for schools,locals and different mulDpliers(teachers,mountainguides)
WP7 – Development of an heightad justed seed mixture tominimize soil erosion in alpineenvironments
Stakeholders According to the idea of “LivingLab” (Almirall et al. 2012) the plotexperiments (fig. 3) take place in a realwo r l d s ejng and i n c l ude theinvolvementofthefollowingusersasco-creatorsonequalgrounds:• ScheierGmbHTechnologyfor
Hydroseeding• TIWAG-TiroleanHydropower• KaunertalMunicipality• NatureParkKaunergrat• KLAR–ClimateChangeAdapDon
RegionKaunertalValley• CCCA-CenterforClimateChange
Austria• AustrianAlpineHikingAssociaDon• Geologicalandhydrographicalstate
offices
Figure1:Viewtothenorth(reservoir)andsouth(glacier)intheKaunertalValley(Mergili2014).
GepatschreservoirGepatschglacier
Lateralmoraines
B)AssessmentdesignforthequanDficaDonofsoilerosionin thefield:A combinaDonof standardizederosionplotsatdifferentstagesofplantsuccessionincombinaDonwithnon-invasivetechniques.
Figure3:ErosionplotsinfrontoftheGepatschfernerGlacier(Haselberger2018).
Here Foto von Plots!!!Map
Figure 2: A) Local micro organismspromotedesiredfuncDonaliDesoftheselectednaturalalpineplantspecies.
A B(WaiandJousset2017)