Publications

Schmittmann O. (2022.0). Kompost in den Unterboden. Agrar-heute, 11(), 90-93.

Abdalla K., Sun Y., Zarebanadkouki M., Gaiser T., Seidel S., Pausch J. (2022.0). Long-term continuous farmyard manure application increases soil carbon when combined with mineral fertilizers due to lower priming effects. Geoderma, 428(), 116216. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2022.116216

Organic and synthetic fertilizers not only increase soil fertility and crop productivity but also enhance soil organic carbon (SOC). However, the priming effect (PE) leads to increased soil carbon (C) loss through native SOC mineralization. To date, the mechanisms by which long-term (>66 years) synt…

Bauke S., Amelung W., Bol R., Brandt L., Brüggemann N., Kandeler E., Meyer N., Or D., Schnepf A., Schloter M., Schulz S., Siebers N., von Sperber C., Vereecken H. (2022.0). Soil water status shapes nutrient cycling in agroecosystems from micrometer to landscape scales. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 185(6), 773-792. doi:10.1002/jpln.202200357

Soil water status, which refers to the wetness or dryness of soils, is crucial for the productivity of agroecosystems, as it determines nutrient cycling and uptake physically via transport, biologically via the moisture-dependent activity of soil flora, fauna, and plants, and chemically via specific…

Guigue J., Just C., Luo S., Fogt M., Schloter M., Kögel‐Knabner I., Hobley E. (2022.0). Spatial molecular heterogeneity ofPOMduring decomposition at different soil depths resolved byVNIRhyperspectral imaging. European Journal of Soil Science, 73(1), . doi:10.1111/ejss.13207

Soil organic matter (SOM) is composed of fractions with different functions and reactivity. Among these, particulate organic matter (POM) is the main educt of new inputs of organic matter in soils and its chemical fate corresponds to the first stages of the SOM decomposition cascade ultimately leadi…

Ittner S., Gerdes H., Kiresiewa Z. (2022.0). The impact of subsoil management on the delivery of ecosystem services: An economic valuation for Germany. BonaRes Series, 2022/2(), . doi:Doi: 10.20387/BonaRes-WVC6-YJ14

Agricultural practices, including subsoil management, can contribute to positive or negative changes in ecosystem performance. This study assessed the societal costs and benefits of two subsoil management measures (mechanical and biological amelioration), which are determined by an increase or decre…

Schmittmann O. (2022.0). Unterbodenmelioration mit Kompostgabe: Ertragsabsicherung über den Unterboden. LOP. Emminger & Partner Verlag, Berlin, 5(), .

Srivastava A., Safaei N., Khaki S., Lopez G., Zeng W., Ewert F., Gaiser T., Rahimi J. (2022.0). Winter wheat yield prediction using convolutional neural networks from environmental and phenological data. Scientific Reports, 12(1), . doi:10.1038/s41598-022-06249-w

AbstractCrop yield forecasting depends on many interactive factors, including crop genotype, weather, soil, and management practices. This study analyzes the performance of machine learning and deep learning methods for winter wheat yield prediction using an extensive dataset of weather, soil, and c…

Bublitz T., Kemper R., Müller P., Kautz T., Döring T., Athmann M. (2021.0). Relating Profile Wall Root-Length Density Estimates to Monolith Root-Length Density Measurements of Cover Crops. Agronomy, 12(1), 48. doi:10.3390/agronomy12010048

Different methods have been proposed for in situ root-length density (RLD) measurement. One widely employed is the time-consuming sampling of soil cores or monoliths (MO). The profile wall (PW) method is a less precise, but faster and less laborious alternative. However, depth-differentiated functio…

Koch M., Boselli R., Hasler M., Zörb C., Athmann M., Kautz T. (2021.0). Root and shoot growth of spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) are differently affected by increasing subsoil biopore density when grown under different subsoil moisture. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 57(8), 1155-1169. doi:10.1007/s00374-021-01597-7

AbstractA column experiment with five different pore densities (0, 1, 2, 3, and 4 pores column−1) and two varying moisture regimes (comparatively dry and comparatively moist regime) in the subsoil part of the columns was established. In each pore, Lumbricus terrestris was introduced for 28 days befo…

Seidel S., Gaiser T., Ahrends H., Hüging H., Siebert S., Bauke S., Gocke M., Koch M., Schweitzer K., Schaaf G., Ewert F. (2021.0). Crop response to P fertilizer omission under a changing climate - Experimental and modeling results over 115 years of a long-term fertilizer experiment. Field Crops Research, 268(), 108174. doi:10.1016/j.fcr.2021.108174

Phosphorus (P) is an essential plant nutrient. However, our understanding of the complex interactions between soil P availability, environment, management and crop growth is still limited. We used unique historic and recent soil and crop data spanning more than a century combined with a process-base…