Publications

Schucknecht A., Krämer A., Asam S., Mejia-Aguilar A., Garcia-Franco N., Schuchardt M., Jentsch A., Kiese R. (2020.0). Vegetation traits of pre-Alpine grasslands in southern Germany. Scientific Data, 7(1), . doi:10.1038/s41597-020-00651-7

AbstractThe data set contains information on aboveground vegetation traits of > 100 georeferenced locations within ten temperate pre-Alpine grassland plots in southern Germany. The grasslands were sampled in April 2018 for the following traits: bulk canopy height; weight of fresh and dry biomass; dr…

Schlingmann M., Tobler U., Berauer B., Garcia-Franco N., Wilfahrt P., Wiesmeier M., Jentsch A., Wolf B., Kiese R., Dannenmann M. (2020.0). Intensive slurry management and climate change promote nitrogen mining from organic matter-rich montane grassland soils. Plant and Soil, 456(1-2), 81-98. doi:10.1007/s11104-020-04697-9

Abstract Aims Consequences of climate change and land use intensification on the nitrogen (N) cycle of organic-matter rich grassland soils in the alpine region remain poorly understood. We aimed to identify fates of fertilizer N and to determine the overall N balance of an organic-matter rich grassl…

Vidal A., Schucknecht A., Toechterle P., Linares D., Garcia-Franco N., von Heßberg A., Krämer A., Sierts A., Fischer A., Willibald G., Fuetterer S., Ewald J., Baumert V., Weiss M., Schulz S., Schloter M., Bogacki W., Wiesmeier M., Mueller C., Dannenmann M. (2020.0). High resistance of soils to short-term re-grazing in a long-term abandoned alpine pasture. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 300(), 107008. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2020.107008

Grazed alpine pastures have shaped landscapes of the European Alps for millennia, but have partially been abandoned since the 1950s. Re-grazing of abandoned pastures could preserve this cultural landscape with its high species diversity, but also alter soil carbon and nitrogen cycles, as well as mic…

Wang N., Wang C., Dannenmann M., Butterbach-Bahl K., Huang J. (2020.0). Response of microbial community and net nitrogen turnover to modify climate change in Alpine meadow. Applied Soil Ecology, 152(), 103553. doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2020.103553

In order to investigate the effect of climate change on the functional role of microbial community, we studied links between microbial community structure and the net ammonification and nitrification rates in a space for time climate change experiment. Abundance of bacteria and fungi as well as the …

Wu X., Chen Z., Kiese R., Fu J., Gschwendter S., Schloter M., Liu C., Butterbach-Bahl K., Wolf B., Dannenmann M. (2020.0). Dinitrogen (N2) pulse emissions during freeze-thaw cycles from montane grassland soil. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 56(7), 959-972. doi:10.1007/s00374-020-01476-7

AbstractShort-lived pulses of soil nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions during freeze-thaw periods can dominate annual cumulative N2O fluxes from temperate managed and natural soils. However, the effects of freeze thaw cycles (FTCs) on dinitrogen (N2) emissions, i.e., the dominant terminal product of the d…

Vetter V., Kreyling J., Dengler J., Apostolova I., Arfin‐Khan M., Berauer B., Berwaers S., De Boeck H., Nijs I., Schuchardt M., Sopotlieva D., Gillhausen P., Wilfahrt P., Zimmermann M., Jentsch A. (2020.0). Invader presence disrupts the stabilizing effect of species richness in plant community recovery after drought. Global Change Biology, 26(6), 3539-3551. doi:10.1111/gcb.15025

Higher biodiversity can stabilize the productivity and functioning of grassland communities when subjected to extreme climatic events. The positive biodiversity–stability relationship emerges via increased resistance and/or recovery to these events. However, invader presence might disrupt this diver…

Garcia-Franco N., Walter R., Wiesmeier M., Hurtarte L., Berauer B., Buness V., Zistl-Schlingmann M., Kiese R., Dannenmann M., Kögel-Knabner I. (2020.0). Biotic and abiotic controls on carbon storage in aggregates in calcareous alpine and prealpine grassland soils. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 57(2), 203-218. doi:10.1007/s00374-020-01518-0

AbstractAlpine and prealpine grasslands provide various ecosystem services and are hotspots for the storage of soil organic C (SOC) in Central Europe. Yet, information about aggregate-related SOC storage and its controlling factors in alpine and prealpine grassland soils is limited. In this study, t…

Fersch B., Senatore A., Adler B., Arnault J., Mauder M., Schneider K., Völksch I., Kunstmann H. (2020.0). High-resolution fully coupled atmospheric–hydrological modeling: a cross-compartment regional water and energy cycle evaluation. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24(5), 2457-2481. doi:10.5194/hess-24-2457-2020

Abstract. The land surface and the atmospheric boundary layer are closely intertwined with respect to the exchange of water, trace gases, and energy. Nonlinear feedback and scale-dependent mechanisms are obvious by observations and theories. Modeling instead is often narrowed to single compartments …

Zistl-Schlingmann M., Kwatcho Kengdo S., Kiese R., Dannenmann M. (2020.0). Management Intensity Controls Nitrogen-Use-Efficiency and Flows in Grasslands—A 15N Tracing Experiment. Agronomy, 10(4), 606. doi:10.3390/agronomy10040606

The consequences of land use intensification and climate warming on productivity, fates of fertilizer nitrogen (N) and the overall soil N balance of montane grasslands remain poorly understood. Here, we report findings of a 15N slurry-tracing experiment on large grassland plant–soil lysimeters expos…

Berauer B., Wilfahrt P., Reu B., Schuchardt M., Garcia-Franco N., Zistl-Schlingmann M., Dannenmann M., Kiese R., Kühnel A., Jentsch A. (2020.0). Predicting forage quality of species-rich pasture grasslands using vis-NIRS to reveal effects of management intensity and climate change. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 296(), 106929. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2020.106929

With a growing human population facing multiple global change drivers (i.e. climate change and land management change), the future of food security is of major importance. Sustainable agriculture is therefore key to ensure food supply and food security under future climatic conditions. Forage provis…