Facilities

Soil penetrometer

Our Eijkelkamp penetrometer allows monitoring soil hardness down to 100 cm depth.

Soil root corer

Our Eijkelkamp root corer set allows sampling root biomass down the soil profile

Delta-T W.E.T. Sensor Kit

This is the most accurate hand-held monitoring device for soil moisture, temperature and electric conductivity

Plant-o-Meter

This device from the Biosense Institute "acquires in real-time more than 30 vegetation indices that indicate the occurrence of drought, heat, malnutrition or pest-related stress at different growth stages of crops"

Stainless steel soil sample rings

This full set (Eijkelkamp) of bulk density rings allow measuring soil bulk density and soil moisture content (gravimetric and volumetric) in the field

Field site

Our field site is integrated in the research farm of Terraprima in Covilha, Portugal (Quinta da França). It comprises 40 plots, 10 of which with rainout shelters that remove 50% of the rainfall, thereby simulating drier future conditions. It is instrumented with 20 soil climate probes, 40 microclimate probes, 20 collars for GHG monitoring, and 20 cameras for insect monitoring.