Current Projects

SOM & carbon cycling
 

Microbial soil organic matter transformations are traditionally investigated from a bird’s eye view, that means at scales that are considerably larger...

SOM & carbon cycling
 

All plants release a substantial fraction of the carbon they assimilate via photosynthesis as root exudates into the soil, an input that significantly...

Nutrient cycling
 

Terrestrial microbial decomposer communities thrive on a wide range of organic matter types that rarely ever meet their elemental demands in terms of...

Nutrient cycling
 

Tropical forests are centers of global biodiversity and integral parts of the global water and biogeochemical cycles. They play a key role in global...

Methods development
 

Soil organic matter (SOM) represents a vast store of carbon, exceeding that of the atmosphere by at least 3-fold. Global change effects on the...

Nutrient cycling
 

Nitrogen (N) availability in soils exerts a strong control on the terrestrial carbon (C) cycle, through effects on plant production and on microbial...