Publications

Cao X., Reichel R., Wissel H., Kummer S., Brüggemann N. (2022.0). High Carbon Amendments Increase Nitrogen Retention in Soil After Slurry Application—an Incubation Study with Silty Loam Soil. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 22(2), 1277-1289. doi:10.1007/s42729-021-00730-7

AbstractExcess nitrogen (N) after animal slurry application is a persistent problem of intensive agriculture, with consequences such as environmental pollution by ammonia (NH3) and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions and nitrate (NO3−) leaching. High-carbon organic soil amendments (HCAs) with a large C:N …

Li Z., Reichel R., Xu Z., Vereecken H., Brüggemann N. (2021.0). Return of crop residues to arable land stimulates N2O emission but mitigates NO3− leaching: a meta-analysis. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 41(5), . doi:10.1007/s13593-021-00715-x

AbstractIncorporation of crop residues into the soil has been widely recommended as an effective method to sustain soil fertility and improve soil carbon sequestration in arable lands. However, it may lead to an increase in the emission of nitrous oxide (N2O) and leaching of nitrate (NO3−) to ground…

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…