Publications

Amelung W., Bossio D., de Vries W., Kögel-Knabner I., Lehmann J., Amundson R., Bol R., Collins C., Lal R., Leifeld J., Minasny B., Pan G., Paustian K., Rumpel C., Sanderman J., van Groenigen J., Mooney S., van Wesemael B., Wander M., Chabbi A. (2020.0). Towards a global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy. Nature Communications, 11(1), . doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18887-7

AbstractSustainable soil carbon sequestration practices need to be rapidly scaled up and implemented to contribute to climate change mitigation. We highlight that the major potential for carbon sequestration is in cropland soils, especially those with large yield gaps and/or large historic soil orga…

Yi J., Krusenbaum L., Unger P., Hüging H., Seidel S., Schaaf G., Gall J. (2020.0). Deep Learning for Non-Invasive Diagnosis of Nutrient Deficiencies in Sugar Beet Using RGB Images. Sensors, 20(20), 5893. doi:10.3390/s20205893

In order to enable timely actions to prevent major losses of crops caused by lack of nutrients and, hence, increase the potential yield throughout the growing season while at the same time prevent excess fertilization with detrimental environmental consequences, early, non-invasive, and on-site dete…

Wang Y., Wu B., Berns A., Xing Y., Kuhn A., Amelung W. (2020.0). Magnesium isotope fractionation reflects plant response to magnesium deficiency in magnesium uptake and allocation: a greenhouse study with wheat. Plant and Soil, 455(1-2), 93-105. doi:10.1007/s11104-020-04604-2

Abstract Aims Magnesium (Mg) deficiency is detrimental to plant growth. However, how plants respond to Mg deficiency via regulation of Mg uptake and allocation is yet not fully understood. In this study, we tested whether Mg isotope compositions (δ26Mg) associated with Mg mass balance of the plants …

Sun Y., Wu B., Amelung W., Christensen B., Pätzold S., Bauke S., Schweitzer K., Baumecker M., Bol R. (2020.0). Non-critical uranium accumulation in soils of German and Danish long-term fertilizer experiments. Geoderma, 370(), 114336. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114336

Phosphorus (P) fertilizers vary considerably in contents of uranium (U), thus raising concerns regarding U accumulation in agricultural soils. We examined U concentrations in soil from three long-term field experiments with different P fertilizer applications: Rengen (P fertilizer from basic slag, g…

Seidel S., Gaiser T., Kautz T., Bauke S., Amelung W., Barfus K., Ewert F., Athmann M. (2019.0). Estimation of the impact of precrops and climate variability on soil depth-differentiated spring wheat growth and water, nitrogen and phosphorus uptake. Soil and Tillage Research, 195(), 104427. doi:10.1016/j.still.2019.104427

Roy J., Mazel F., Sosa‐Hernández M., Dueñas J., Hempel S., Zinger L., Rillig M. (2019.0). The relative importance of ecological drivers of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal distribution varies with taxon phylogenetic resolution. New Phytologist, 224(2), 936-948. doi:10.1111/nph.16080

The phylogenetic depth at which arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi harbor a coherent ecological niche is unknown, which has consequences for operational taxonomic unit (OTU) delineation from sequence data and the study of their biogeography. We tested how changes in AM fungi community composition acr…

Kumar A., Shahbaz M., Koirala M., Blagodatskaya E., Seidel S., Kuzyakov Y., Pausch J. (2019.0). Root trait plasticity and plant nutrient acquisition in phosphorus limited soil. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 182(6), 945-952. doi:10.1002/jpln.201900322

To overcome soil nutrient limitation, many plants have developed complex nutrient acquisition strategies including altering root morphology, root hair formation or colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). The interactions of these strategies and their plasticity are, however, affected by …

Kaufmann M., Hebel C., Weihermüller L., Baumecker M., Döring T., Schweitzer K., Hobley E., Bauke S., Amelung W., Vereecken H., Kruk J. (2020.0). Effect of fertilizers and irrigation on multi‐configuration electromagnetic induction measurements. Soil Use and Management, 36(1), 104-116. doi:10.1111/sum.12530

Constantin J., Raynal H., Casellas E., Hoffmann H., Bindi M., Doro L., Eckersten H., Gaiser T., Grosz B., Haas E., Kersebaum K., Klatt S., Kuhnert M., Lewan E., Maharjan G., Moriondo M., Nendel C., Roggero P., Specka X., Trombi G., Villa A., Wang E., Weihermüller L., Yeluripati J., Zhao Z., Ewert F.… (2019.0). Management and spatial resolution effects on yield and water balance at regional scale in crop models. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 275(), 184-195. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.05.013

Schneider F., Don A. (2019.0). Root-restricting layers in German agricultural soils. Part I: extent and cause. Plant and Soil, 442(1-2), 433-451. doi:10.1007/s11104-019-04185-9

Aims Root-restricting layers pose a barrier to vertical root elongation. The German Agricultural Soil Inventory was used to assess the extent, cause and effect of root-restricting layers in German agricultural soils. Methods The following causes for root restriction were considered: bedrock, rock fr…