Publications

Kumar A., Rosinger C., Chen H., Protic S., Bonkowski M., Temperton V. (2021.0). Gone and forgotten: facilitative effects of intercropping combinations did not carry over to affect barley performance in a follow-up crop rotation. Plant and Soil, 467(1-2), 405-419. doi:10.1007/s11104-021-05104-7

Abstract Aim Intercropping often leads to improved productivity of individual species compared to monocultures. We have practically little knowledge of facilitation effects in different intercropping systems and their importance in creating soil legacies that can indirectly affect the succeeding cro…

Kumar A., Blagodaskaya E., Dippold M., Temperton V. (2022.0). Positive intercropping effects on biomass production are species-specific and involve rhizosphere enzyme activities: Evidence from a field study. Soil Ecology Letters, 4(4), 444-453. doi:10.1007/s42832-021-0108-0

AbstractLess attention has been given to soil enzymes that contribute to beneficial rhizosphere interactions in intercropping systems. Therefore, we performed a field experiment by growing faba bean, lupine, and maize in mono and mixed cultures in a moderately fertile soil. We measured shoot biomass…

Li Z., Reichel R., Brüggemann N. (2021.0). Effect of C:N:P stoichiometry on soil nitrous oxide emission and nitrogen retention. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 184(5), 520-529. doi:10.1002/jpln.202000416

Background Incorporating high organic carbon amendments (HCA) in the soil can promote microbial nitrogen (N) immobilization. HCA incorporation is thought to reduce N loss via nitrate (NO3−); however, it often increases nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions in upland soils. Aims We aimed to investigate N2O e…

Roy J., Duijnen R., Leifheit E., Mbedi S., Temperton V., Rillig M. (2021.0). Legacy effects of pre‐crop plant functional group on fungal root symbionts of barley. Ecological Applications, 31(6), . doi:10.1002/eap.2378

Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, a group of widespread fungal symbionts of crops, could be important in driving crop yield across crop rotations through plant–soil feedbacks (PSF). However, whether preceding crops have a legacy effect on the AM fungi of the subsequent crop is poorly known. We set …

Rosinger C., Bonkowski M. (2021.0). Soil age and soil organic carbon content shape biochemical responses to multiple freeze–thaw events in soils along a postmining agricultural chronosequence. Biogeochemistry, 155(1), 113-125. doi:10.1007/s10533-021-00816-5

AbstractFreeze–thaw (FT) events exert a great physiological stress on the soil microbial community and thus significantly impact soil biogeochemical processes. Studies often show ambiguous and contradicting results, because a multitude of environmental factors affect biogeochemical responses to FT. …

Clayton J., Lemanski K., Bonkowski M. (2021.0). Shifts in soil microbial stoichiometry and metabolic quotient provide evidence for a critical tipping point at 1% soil organic carbon in an agricultural post-mining chronosequence. Biology and Fertility of Soils, (), . doi:10.1007/s00374-020-01532-2

Soil microbial C:N:P stoichiometry and microbial maintenance respiration (i.e. metabolic quotient, qCO2) were monitored along a nutrient gradient in soils from a 52-year space-for-time chronosequence of reclaimed agricultural land after brown-coal mining. Land reclamation produced loess soils of ini…

Kamau C., van Duijnen R., Schmid C., Balàzs H., Roy J., Rillig M., Schröder P., Radl V., Temperton V., Schloter M. (2021.0). Impact of high carbon amendments and pre-crops on soil bacterial communities. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 57(2), 305-317. doi:10.1007/s00374-020-01526-0

A 2-year outdoor mesocosm experiment was carried out to determine the effects of high C amendments (HCAs; wheat straw and sawdust) compared to a control with no addition of HCAs (no-HCA) and 2 different crop rotation systems (spring barley/winter barley and faba bean/winter barley) on soil bacterial…

Schmid C., Reichel R., Schröder P., Brüggemann N., Schloter M. (2020.0). 52 years of ecological restoration following a major disturbance by opencast lignite mining does not reassemble microbiome structures of the original arable soils. Science of The Total Environment, 745(), 140955. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140955

Opencast mining for lignite continuously creates areas of land that require restoration. Here we applied a chronosequence approach to investigate the development of soil bacterial communities during 52 years as influenced by the restoration process and subsequent changes in soil physico-chemical con…

Yang L., Schröder P., Vestergaard G., Schloter M., Radl V. (2020.0). Response of Barley Plants to Drought Might Be Associated with the Recruiting of Soil-Borne Endophytes. Microorganisms, 8(9), 1414. doi:10.3390/microorganisms8091414

Mechanisms used by plants to respond to water limitation have been extensively studied. However, even though the inoculation of beneficial microbes has been shown to improve plant performance under drought stress, the inherent role of soil microbes on plant response has been less considered. In the …

Kumar A., van Duijnen R., Delory B., Reichel R., Brüggemann N., Temperton V. (2020.0). Barley shoot biomass responds strongly to N:P stoichiometry and intraspecific competition, whereas roots only alter their foraging. Plant and Soil, 453(1-2), 515-528. doi:10.1007/s11104-020-04626-w

Abstract Aims Root system responses to the limitation of either nitrogen (N) or phosphorus (P) are well documented, but how the early root system responds to (co-) limitation of one (N or P) or both in a stoichiometric framework is not well-known. In addition, how intraspecific competition alters pl…