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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.
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Schärer ML, Fuchslueger L, Canarini A, Richter A, Lüscher A, Kahmen A. Post-drought organic carbon mineralization leads to high productivity and nutrient uptake efficiency of perennial grassland after rewetting. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2025 May;204:109744. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2025.109744
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
Sun L, Qiao Y, Wanek W, Moorhead DL, Cui Y, Peng Y et al. Nitrogen input decreases microbial nitrogen use efficiency in surface soils of a temperate forest in northeast China. Geoderma. 2025 Jan;453:117159. Epub 2024 Dec 25. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2024.117159
Spohn M, Wanek W. Quantifying element fluxes using radioisotopes. New Phytologist. 2025 Jan;245(2):443-445. doi: 10.1111/nph.20203
Knight CG, Nicolitch O, Griffiths RI, Goodall T, Jones B, Weser C et al. Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events. Nature. 2024 Dec 19;636(8043):690-696. Epub 2024 Nov 27. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-08185-3