TER

Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research

Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science

About TER

The Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research | TER at the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science | CeMESS 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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News

New project: “Death – The elusive side of microbial turnover in soil”

Jörg Schnecker has been granted approval for a new project “Death – The elusive side of microbial turnover in soil” within the framework of the…

REWIRE Fellowship awarded to Lucia Fuchslueger

Lucia Fuchslueger is starting a new PostDoc at TER on 1 August in the REinforcing Women In REsearch (REWIRE) program of the University of Vienna.…

Hannes Schmidt welcomed as Committee Chair in the EGU Soil System Sciences Division

Hannes Schmidt, PostDoc at TER, has been officially welcomed as the Committee Chair of the “Soil Biology, Microbiology and Biodiversity” section of…

New Young Investigator Researcher Group Project

TER PostDoc Lucia Fuchlueger has been awarded a Young Investigator Researcher Group project from the FWF, entitled “PlayNICE - Interplay between…

PNAS Cozzarelli Prize for paper on air eating microbe

The Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has selected our paper with Andreas Richter and Alexander Tviet…

TER Science Day

TER - the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research, Centre for Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, met for a one-day Science Day on Friday January…

Latest Publications at TER

Allagui, W., Brahim, N., Allani, M., Zougari, B., Ibrahim, H., Bol, R., Aichi, H., & Wanek, W. (2026). Oasis management and topography interactively shape soil inorganic carbon dynamics in hyper-arid soils. Geoderma, 471, 1-12. Article 117865. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2026.117865

Dolschak, K., Winter Artusio, E., Mayer, M., Grabner, M., Tatzber, M., Ahmed, I. U., Wächter, E., Berger, I. K., Berger, P., Wanek, W., & Berger, T. W. (2026). Climate drivers of historic tree growth in the Vienna Woods and prediction of future performance of eight selected tree species. Forest Ecology and Management, 610, Article 123674. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2026.123674

Waschk, P., Spiegel, P., Gessler, A., Saurer, M., Bock, B. M., Hinterdobler, W., & Anthony, M. A. (2026). Evidence for resource transfer via common endophyte networks. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-56653-9

Lintner, M., Golen, J., Schagerl, M., Wildner, M., Wanek, W., Cyran, N., & Tyszka, J. (2026). Reversible bleaching of photobionts in marine protists to a chemical stress - A case study of Amphistegina lobifera. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, 279, 1-9. Article 113454. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2026.113454

Pan, W., Tang, S., Wanek, W., Liu, X., Zhou, J., Gregory, A. S., Marsden, K. A., Chadwick, D. R., Liang, Y., Wu, L., Jones, D. L., & Ma, Q. (2026). Organic Fertilization Promotes the Microbial Formation of Moderately Active Soil Phosphorus Pools to Sustain Phosphorus Availability: Insights from 180 years of Fertilization. Environmental Science and Technology, 60(17), 12918-12929. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5c12810

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