About Us

The Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research aims to advance the fundamental understanding of how soil microorganisms and plants respond to and in turn shape their abiotic and biotic environment, and what consequences these interactions have for the functioning of the Earth’s ecosystems.

Researchers at TER address pressing environmental issues, such as the impact of climate change on ecosystem functioning and the role of soils in the global carbon cycle and in food security.

 News

10.04.2025
 

Congratulations to Paul Prinz, who successfully defended his MSc thesis on Wednesday April 9th, 2025.

His thesis on “Modelling the effect of...

03.04.2025
 

Congratulations to Thayer Taft, who successfully defended his MSc thesis on Wednesday April 2nd, 2025.

His thesis on “Microbial activity responses...

28.03.2025
 

Congratulations to Dr. Eva Simon, who successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled

"The fine-scale spatial organisation of the soil microbiome" on...

 Events

11.07.2024 15:00
 

Josh Schimel

Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

UBB HS 2

27.06.2019
 

Yong-Guan Zhu

Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences & Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Lecture Hall HS5, UZA2...

15.11.2018
 

Ivan Janssens

Centre of Excellence of Global Change Ecology, University of Antwerp, Belgium

Lecture Hall HS2, UZA 1

 Latest Publications


Valverde-Barrantes OJ, Figueiredo Lugli L, Fuchslueger L, Hofhansl F, Martins NP, Cordeiro AL et al. Rainfall seasonality shapes belowground root trait dynamics in an Amazonian tropical rainforest: A test of the stress-dominance hypothesis. Functional Ecology. 2025 Mar 1;39(3):799-812. Epub 2025 Jan 26. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.14744

Lintner M, Balzano S, Keul N, Heinz P, Manecki M, Klimek A et al. Biosorption of heavy metals by microalgae: Hazardous side effects for marine organisms. Chemosphere. 2025 Mar;372:144080. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2025.144080