Publications

Ganta P., Kühn O., Ahmed A. (2021.0). Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Interaction between Organic Phosphates and Goethite. Molecules, 26(1), 160. doi:10.3390/molecules26010160

Today’s fertilizers rely heavily on mining phosphorus (P) rocks. These rocks are known to become exhausted in near future, and therefore effective P use is crucial to avoid food shortage. A substantial amount of P from fertilizers gets adsorbed onto soil minerals to become unavailable to plants. Und…

Hadir S., Gaiser T., Hüging H., Athmann M., Pfarr D., Kemper R., Ewert F., Seidel S. (2021.0). Sugar Beet Shoot and Root Phenotypic Plasticity to Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium and Lime Omission. Agriculture, 11(1), 21. doi:10.3390/agriculture11010021

In low input agriculture, a thorough understanding of the plant-nutrient interactions plays a central role. This study aims to investigate the effects of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) and liming omission on shoot growth as well as on topsoil root biomass, growth and morphology (tub…

Schmidt M., Corre M., Kim B., Morley J., Göbel L., Sharma A., Setriuc S., Veldkamp E. (2021.0). Nutrient saturation of crop monocultures and agroforestry indicated by nutrient response efficiency. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, 119(1), 69-82. doi:10.1007/s10705-020-10113-6

Efficient use of nutrients is a key requisite for a sustainable intensification of agriculture in order to meet the increasing global crop demand while minimizing deleterious environmental impacts. Agroforestry systems exhibit tree–crop interactions, which potentially contribute to nutrient-efficien…

Ahrends H., Siebert S., Rezaei E., Seidel S., Hüging H., Ewert F., Döring T., Rueda-Ayala V., Eugster W., Gaiser T. (2021.0). Nutrient supply affects the yield stability of major European crops—a 50 year study. Environmental Research Letters, 16(1), 014003. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/abc849

Yield stability is important for food security and a sustainable crop production, especially under changing climatic conditions. It is well known that the variability of yields is linked to changes in meteorological conditions. However, little is known about the long-term effects of agronomic manage…

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…

Schneider F., Amelung W., Don A. (2020.0). Origin of carbon in agricultural soil profiles deduced from depth gradients of C:N ratios, carbon fractions, δ13C and δ15N values. Plant and Soil, 460(March 2021), p.123-148. doi:10.1007/s11104-020-04769-w

Aims Agricultural soils in Germany store 2.54 Pg of organic carbon (C). However, information about how and when this C entered the soils is limited. This study illustrates how depth profiles of organic matter can shed light on different entry paths of organic C. Methods Machine learning was used to …

Cavael U., Tost P., Diehl K., Büks F., Lentzsch P. (2020.0). Correlations of Soil Fungi, Soil Structure and Tree Vigour on an Apple Orchard with Replant Soil. Soil Systems, 4(4), 70. doi:10.3390/soilsystems4040070

The soil-borne apple replant disease (ARD) is caused by biotic agents and affected by abiotic properties. There is evidence for the interrelation of the soil fungal population and soil aggregate structure. The aim of this study conducted between March and October 2020 on an orchard in north-east Ger…

Kuhwald M., Hamer W., Brunotte J., Duttmann R. (2020.0). Soil Penetration Resistance after One-Time Inversion Tillage: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis at the Field Scale. Land, 9(12), 482. doi:10.3390/land9120482

Conservation agriculture may lead to increased penetration resistance due to soil compaction. To loosen the topsoil and lower the compaction, one-time inversion tillage (OTIT) is a measure frequently used in conservation agriculture. However, the duration of the positive effects of this measure on p…

Graß R., Malec S., Wachendorf M. (2020.0). Biomass Performance and Competition Effects in an Established Temperate Agroforestry System of Willow and Grassland—Results of the 2nd Rotation. Agronomy, 10(11), 1819. doi:10.3390/agronomy10111819

Agroforestry systems (AFSs) are promoted as environmentally friendly and climate-change-resilient cultivation systems with the potential of increasing ecosystem services. Especially under temperate climatic conditions, the implementation in agricultural practice is low so far, inter alia due to the …

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…