Publications

Engel T., Bruelheide H., Hoss D., Sabatini F., Altman J., Arfin‐Khan M., Bergmeier E., Černý T., Chytrý M., Dainese M., Dengler J., Dolezal J., Field R., Fischer F., Huygens D., Jandt U., Jansen F., Jentsch A., Karger D., Kattge J., Lenoir J., Lens F., Loos J., Niinemets Ü., Overbeck G., Ozinga W., … (2023.0). Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32(5), 695-706. doi:10.1111/geb.13644

AbstractAimTheoretical, experimental and observational studies have shown that biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationships are influenced by functional community structure through two mutually non‐exclusive mechanisms: (1) the dominance effect (which relates to the traits of the dominant …

Skadell L., Schneider F., Gocke M., Guigue J., Amelung W., Bauke S., Hobley E., Barkusky D., Honermeier B., Kögel-Knabner I., Schmidhalter U., Schweitzer K., Seidel S., Siebert S., Sommer M., Vaziritabar Y., Don A. (2023.0). Twenty percent of agricultural management effects on organic carbon stocks occur in subsoils – Results of ten long-term experiments. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 356(), 108619. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2023.108619

Agricultural management can influence soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks and thus may contribute to carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation. The soil depth to which agricultural management practices affect SOC is uncertain. Soil depth may have an important bearing on soil carbon dynamics, s…

Kümmerer R., Noack P., Bauer B. (2023.0). Using High-Resolution UAV Imaging to Measure Canopy Height of Diverse Cover Crops and Predict Biomass. Remote Sensing, 15(6), 1520. doi:10.3390/rs15061520

Remote-sensing data has become essential for site-specific farming methods. It is also a powerful tool for monitoring the agroecosystem services offered by integrating cover crops (CC) into crop rotations. This study presents a method to determine the canopy height (CH), defined as the average heigh…

Niu Y., Schuchardt M., von Heßberg A., Jentsch A. (2023). Stable plant community biomass production despite species richness collapse under simulated extreme climate in the European Alps. Science of The Total Environment, 864(), 161166. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.161166

Direct observation of biodiversity loss in response to abrupt climate change can resolve fundamental questions about temporal community dynamics and clarify the controversial debate of biodiversity loss impacts on ecosystem functioning. We tracked local plant species loss and the corresponding chang…

Bartkowski B., Schepanski K., Bredenbeck S., Müller B. (2023.0). Wind erosion in European agricultural landscapes: More than physics. People and Nature, 5(1), 34-44. doi:10.1002/pan3.10418

Wind erosion from agricultural land is an underrated and understudied environmental challenge in Europe. Its societal and policy relevance will likely increase in the near future due to climate change and associated increases in the frequency, severity and patterns of atmospheric events such as drou…

Luster J., Crockford L., Keller T., Muñoz-Rojas M., Wollschläger U. (2023.0). Editorial: Eurosoil 2021: Sustainable management of soil functions as a basis to avoid, halt, and reverse land degradation. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10(), . doi:10.3389/fenvs.2022.1093226

This Research Topic (RT) is related to the Eurosoil 2021 conference, focusing on the contributions of soil science to reach the targets of the UN Sustainable Development Goals SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation) and SDG 15 (Life on Land). The overall aim of SDG 15 is to sustainably use and manage ter…

Betancur-Corredor B., Lang B., Russell D. (2022.0). Organic nitrogen fertilization benefits selected soil fauna in global agroecosystems. Biology and Fertility of Soils, (), . doi:10.1007/s00374-022-01677-2

AbstractSoil fauna plays an essential role in agricultural productivity as it mediates nutrient cycling and soil organic matter dynamics, alters soil physicochemical properties and supports plant growth. Nitrogen fertilization may have a positive or negative influence on soil fauna in a manner that …

Cao X., Reichel R., Wissel H., Brüggemann N. (2023.0). Improving nitrogen retention of cattle slurry with oxidized biochar: An incubation study with three different soils. Journal of Environmental Quality, 52(1), 1-12. doi:10.1002/jeq2.20424

The application of livestock slurry in soils can lead to nitrogen (N) losses through ammonia (NH3) emission or nitrate (NO3−) leaching. Oxidized biochar has great potential to mitigate N losses due to its strong adsorption capacity; however, the effects of oxidized biochar in different soils treated…

Shao G., Martinson G., Corre M., Luo J., Niu D., Bischel X., Veldkamp E. (2023.0). Impacts of monoculture cropland to alley cropping agroforestry conversion on soil N2O emissions. GCB Bioenergy, 15(1), 58-71. doi:10.1111/gcbb.13007

Monoculture croplands are a major source of global anthropogenic emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to ozone depletion. Agroforestry has the potential to reduce N2O emissions. Presently, there is no systematic comparison of soil N2O emissions between cropland …

Zhao Y., Reichel R., Herbst M., Sun Y., Brüggemann N., Mörchen R., Welp G., Meng F., Bol R. (2022.0). Declining total carbon stocks in carbonate-containing agricultural soils over a 62-year recultivation chronosequence under humid conditions. Geoderma, 425(), 116060. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.116060

Replanting of mining soils is necessary for utilizing soil resources and increasing cultivated land areas. However, limited information exists on the long-term temporal trends of carbon accrual in agricultural systems containing carbonate-rich soil material. We examined changes in soil organic carbo…