Publications

Babin D., Sommermann L., Chowdhury S., Behr J., Sandmann M., Neumann G., Nesme J., Sørensen S., Schellenberg I., Rothballer M., Geistlinger J., Smalla K., Grosch R. (2021.0). Distinct rhizomicrobiota assemblages and plant performance in lettuce grown in soils with different agricultural management histories. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, (), . doi:10.1093/femsec/fiab027

A better understanding of factors shaping the rhizosphere microbiota is important for sustainable crop production. We hypothesized that the effect of agricultural management on the soil microbiota is reflected in the assemblage of the rhizosphere microbiota with implications for plant performance. W…

Chiba A., Uchida Y., Kublik S., Vestergaard G., Buegger F., Schloter M., Schulz S. (2021.0). Soil Bacterial Diversity Is Positively Correlated with Decomposition Rates during Early Phases of Maize Litter Decomposition. Microorganisms, 9(2), 357. doi:10.3390/microorganisms9020357

This study aimed to investigate the effects of different levels of soil- and plant-associated bacterial diversity on the rates of litter decomposition, and bacterial community dynamics during its early phases. We performed an incubation experiment where soil bacterial diversity (but not abundance) w…

Beule L., Karlovsky P. (2021.0). Tree rows in temperate agroforestry croplands alter the composition of soil bacterial communities. PLOS ONE, 16(2), e0246919. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0246919

Background Tree-based intercropping (agroforestry) has been advocated to reduce adverse environmental impacts of conventional arable cropping. Modern agroforestry systems in the temperate zone are alley-cropping systems that combine rows of fast-growing trees with rows of arable crops. Soil microbia…

Wang Y., Bauke S., von Sperber C., Tamburini F., Guigue J., Winkler P., Kaiser K., Honermeier B., Amelung W. (2021.0). Soil phosphorus cycling is modified by carbon and nitrogen fertilization in a long‐term field experiment. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 184(2), 282-293. doi:10.1002/jpln.202000261

Background and aims: Phosphorus (P) is an essential element for crop growth. However, while links of P turnover in soils to carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) availability have been described, it remains to be clarified how combinations of fertilizer C and N additions affect stocks and cycling of distinct …

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…

Wang Y., Wu B., Berns A., Bol R., Wombacher F., Ellmer F., Amelung W. (2021.0). A century of liming affects the Mg isotopic composition of the soil and crops in a long‐term agricultural field at Berlin‐Dahlem, Germany. European Journal of Soil Science, 72(1), 300-312. doi:10.1111/ejss.12951

Liming is widely used to alleviate soil acidity in western and central Europe, but its role in the cycling of magnesium (Mg) in arable soil–plant systems is still ambiguous. Here, we systematically analysed Mg concentrations and the natural Mg stable isotope compositions (δ26Mg) of two Mg pools in s…

von Heßberg A., Jentsch A., Dannenmann M. (2021.0). Almen in Zeiten des Klimawandels - Schutz der Artenvielfalt durch (Wieder-) Beweidung? Die Fallstudie Brunnenkopfalm im Ammergebirge. Naturschutz und Landschaftsplanung (NuL), 53(3), 28-36. doi:10.1399/nul.2021.03.02

Die Aufgabe der Almbewirtschaftung in den letzten Jahrzehnten ist ein massiver Landnutzungswandel im Alpenraum und führt zu einem Verlust von Jahrhunderte bis Jahrtausende alter Kulturlandschaft mit ihren Bodenfunktionen sowie ihrer Artenvielfalt und touristischer Attraktivität. Die 1955 aufgelassen…

Aumüller-Gruber, C. (2021.0). Bodenfruchtbarkeit digital erfassen. Landwirtschaftliche Zeitschrift Rheinland, 37(), p.41.

Flachowsky, H., Winkelmann, T. (2021.0). Bodenmüdigkeit im Fokus: Die Reaktionen von Apfelpflanzen verstehen, um tolerante Unterlagen zu identifizieren. Obstbau, 46(5), S. 267-272.