Current Projects

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Global change

Cluster of Excellence: Microbiomes Drive Planetary Health

If all microbial life disappeared from Earth, our world would change dramatically. Microorganisms are essential for nutrient recycling, decomposing...

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Global change

NITROKARST - Effects of permafrost on the global nitrogen cycle (The role of thermokarst systems)

The Arctic is warming more rapidly than any other region in the world. There, permafrost soils cover ~25% of terrestrial surface and hold the world's...

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Nutrient cycling

Interplay Between Biological Nitrification Inhibitors, Nitrogen Cycling, And Agronomic Nitrogen Use Efficiency

Nitrogen (N) is essential for all life on Earth and the most abundant element in the atmosphere, where it mainly occurs as dinitrogen gas (N2)....

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Nutrient cycling

SUP:RHIZE | Supply mechanisms of phosphorus in the rhizosphere in tropical soils – interactions of plants and microorganisms

The Amazon rainforest stores large amounts of carbon in plant biomass and in soils, and is an important sink for atmospheric CO2 setting off increased...

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Nutrient cycling

BryoSoil

Effects of bryophytes on soil microbial processes and nitrogen cycling.

In high latitude ecosystems bryophytes (mainly mosses) are important drivers...

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Nutrient cycling

PRIMO

Priming effects of moss leachates on soil organic matter dynamics

Drying-rewetting cycles of bryophytes cause pulses of labile substrates leached...

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