Recent Key Publications

De Shorn Bramble, Susanne Ulrich, Ingo Schöning, Robert Mikutta, Luise Brandt, Christian Poll, Ellen Kandeler, Christian Mikutta, Alexander Konrad, Jan Siemens, Yang Yang, Andrea Polle, Peter Schall, Christian Ammer, Klaus Kaiser, and Marion Schrumpf, "Formation of mineral-associated organic matter in temperate soils is primarily controlled by mineral type and modified by land use and management intensity," Global Change Biology (2023).

Pavel Baykalov, Bart Bussmann, Richard Nair, Abraham George Smith, Gernot Bodner, Ofer Hadar, Naftali Lazarovitch, and Boris Rewald, "Semantic segmentation of plant roots from RGB (mini-) rhizotron images—generalisation potential and false positives of established methods and advanced deep-learning models," Plant Methods 19, 122 (2023).

Shane Stoner, Susan E. Trumbore, José A. González-Pérez, Marion Schrumpf, Carlos A. Sierra, Alison M. Hoyt, Oliver Chadwick, and Sebastian Doetterl, "Relating mineral–organic matter stabilization mechanisms to carbon quality and age distributions using ramped thermal analysis," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London - Series A: Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 381 (2261), 20230139 (2023).

Silvia Caldararu, Victor Rolo, Benjamin D. Stocker, Teresa E. Gimeno, and Richard Nair, "Ideas and perspectives: Beyond model evaluation – combining experiments and models to advance terrestrial ecosystem science," Biogeosciences 20 (17), 3637-3649 (2023).

Shane Stoner, Marion Schrumpf, Alison M. Hoyt, Carlos A. Sierra, Sebastian Doetterl, Valier Galy, and Susan E. Trumbore, "How well does ramped thermal oxidation quantify the age distribution of soil carbon? Assessing thermal stability of physically and chemically fractionated soil organic matter," Biogeosciences 20 (15), 3151-3163 (2023).

Ulisse Gomarasca, M. Migliavacca, Jens Kattge, Jacob A. Nelson, Ü. Niinemets, Christian Wirth, A. Cescatti, M. Bahn, Richard Nair, A. Acosta, A. Arain, M. Beloiu, T. Black, H. H. Bruun, F. Bucher, N. Buchmann, A. Carrara, C. Byun, A. Conte, A. da Silva, Gregory Duveiller, S. Fares, A. Ibrom, A. Knohl, B. Komac, J. Limousin, C. Lusk, M. Mahecha, David Martini, V. Minden, L. Montagnani, A. Mori, Y. Onoda, J. Penuelas, O. Perez-Priego, P. Poschlod, T. Powell, P. Reich, L. Šigut, P. van Bodegom, Sophia Walther, G. Wohlfahrt, I. Wright, and Markus Reichstein, "Leaf-level coordination principles propagate to the ecosystem scale," Nature Communications 14, 3948 (2023).

L. Brandt, F. Stache, C. Poll, De Shorn Bramble, Ingo Schöning, Marion Schrumpf, S. Ulrich, K. Kaiser, R. Mikutta, and C. Mikutta, "Mineral type and land-use intensity control composition and functions of microorganisms colonizing pristine minerals in grassland soils," Soil Biology and Biochemistry 182, 109037 (2023).

Antonios Apostolakis, Ingo Schöning, Beate Michalzik, Christian Ammer, Peter Schall, Falk Hänsel, Thomas Nauss, Susan E. Trumbore, and Marion Schrumpf, "Forest structure and fine root biomass influence soil CO₂ efflux in temperate forests under drought," Forests 14 (2), 411 (2023).

Gaëtane Le Provost, Noëlle V. Schenk, Caterina Penone, Jan Thiele, Catrin Westphal, Eric Allan, Manfred Ayasse, Nico Blüthgen, Runa S. Boeddinghaus, Andrea Larissa Boesing, Ralph Bolliger, Verena Busch, Markus Fischer, Martin M. Gossner, Norbert Hölzel, Kirsten Jung, Ellen Kandeler, Valentin H. Klaus, Till Kleinebecker, Sophia Leimer, Sven Marhan, Kathryn Morris, Sandra Müller, Felix Neff, Margot Neyret, Yvonne Oelmann, David J. Perović, Sophie Peter, Daniel Prati, Matthias C. Rillig, Hugo Saiz, Deborah Schäfer, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael Schloter, Ingo Schöning, Marion Schrumpf, Juliane Steckel, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Marco Tschapka, Juliane Vogt, Christiane Weiner, Wolfgang Weisser, Konstans Wells, Michael Werner, Wolfgang Wilcke, and Peter Manning, "The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales," Nature Ecology & Evolution 7, 236-249 (2023).

Lin Yu, Silvia Caldararu, Bernhard Ahrens, Thomas Wutzler, Marion Schrumpf, Julian Helfenstein, Chiara Pistocchi, and Sönke Zaehle, "Improved representation of phosphorus exchange on soil mineral surfaces reduces estimates of phosphorus limitation in temperate forest ecosystems," Biogeosciences 20 (1), 57-73 (2023).

Thomas Wutzler, Lin Yu, Marion Schrumpf, and Sönke Zaehle, "Simulating long-term responses of soil organic matter turnover to substrate stoichiometry by abstracting fast and small-scale microbial processes: the Soil Enzyme Steady Allocation Model (SESAM; v3.0)," Geoscientific Model Development 15 (22), 8377-8393 (2022).

Rachael Akinyede, Martin Taubert, Marion Schrumpf, Susan E. Trumbore, and Kirsten Küsel, "Temperature sensitivity of dark CO₂ fixation in temperate forest soils," Biogeosciences 19 (17), 4011-4028 (2022).

Antonios Apostolakis, Ingo Schöning, Beate Michalzik, Valentin H. Klaus, Runa S. Boeddinghaus, Ellen Kandeler, Sven Marhan, Ralph Bolliger, Markus Fischer, Daniel Prati, Falk Hänsel, Thomas Nauss, Norbert Hölzel, Till Kleinebecker, and Marion Schrumpf, "Drivers of soil respiration across a management intensity gradient in temperate grasslands under drought," Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 124, 101-116 (2022).

Kendalynn A. Morris, Andreas Richter, Mirco Migliavacca, and Marion Schrumpf, "Growth of soil microbes is not limited by the availability of nitrogen and phosphorus in a Mediterranean oak-savanna," Soil Biology and Biochemistry 169, 108680 (2022).

Antonios Apostolakis, Ingo Schöning, Valentin H. Klaus, Beate Michalzik, Wolf‑Anno Bischoff, Runa S. Boeddinghaus, Ralph Bolliger, Markus Fischer, Norbert Hölzel, Ellen Kandeler, Till Kleinebecker, Peter Manning, Sven Marhan, Margot Neyret, Yvonne Oelmann, Daniel Prati, Mark van Kleunen, Andreas Schwarz, Elisabeth Schurig, and Marion Schrumpf, "Direct and plant community mediated effects of management intensity on annual nutrient leaching risk in temperate grasslands," Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems 123, 83-104 (2022).

D. Ferraretto, Richard Nair, N. W. Shah, D. Reay, M. Mencuccini, M. Spencer, and K. V. Heal, "Forest canopy nitrogen uptake can supply entire foliar demand," Functional Ecology 36 (4), 933-949 (2022).

Abad Chabbi, Cornelia Rumpel, Frank Hagedorn, Marion Schrumpf, and Philippe C. Baveye, "Editorial: Carbon storage in agricultural and forest soils," Frontiers of Environmental Science 10, 848572 (2022).

Johannes Sikorski, Vanessa Baumgartner, Klaus Birkhofer, Runa S. Boeddinghaus, Boyke Bunk, Markus Fischer, Bärbel U. Fösel, Michael W. Friedrich, Markus Göker, Norbert Hölzel, Sixing Huang, Katharina J. Huber, Ellen Kandeler, Valentin H. Klaus, Till Kleinebecker, Sven Marhan, Christian von Mering, Yvonne Oelmann, Daniel Prati, Kathleen M. Regan, Tim Richter-Heitmann, João F. Matias Rodrigues, Barbara Schmitt, Ingo Schöning, Marion Schrumpf, Elisabeth Schurig, Emily Solly, Volkmar Wolters, and Jörg Overmann, "The evolution of ecological diversity in Acidobacteria," Frontiers in Microbiology 13, 715637 (2022).

Rachael Akinyede, Martin Taubert, Marion Schrumpf, Susan E. Trumbore, and Kirsten Küsel, "Dark CO₂ fixation in temperate beech and pine forest soils," Soil Biology and Biochemistry 165, 108526 (2022).

Silvia Caldararu, Tea Thum, Lin Yu, Melanie Kern, Richard Nair, and Sönke Zaehle, "Long-term ecosystem nitrogen limitation from foliar delta¹⁵N data and a land surface model," Global Change Biology 28 (2), 493-508 (2022).

Simon Besnard, Maurizio Santoro, Oliver Cartus, Naixin Fan, Nora Linscheid, Richard Nair, Ulrich Weber, Sujan Koirala, and Nuno Carvalhais, "Global sensitivities of forest carbon changes to environmental conditions," Global Change Biology 27 (4), 6467-6483 (2021).

M. Neyret, M. Fischer, E. Allan, N. Hölzel, V. H. Klaus, T. Kleinebecker, J. Krauss, G. Le Provost, S. Petera N. Schenk, N. K. Simons, F. van der Plas, J. Binkenstein, C. Börschig, K. Jung, D. Prati, D. Schäfer, M. Schäfer, Ingo Schöning, Marion Schrumpf, M. Tschapka, C. Westphal, and P. Manning, "Assessing the impact of grassland management on landscape multifunctionality," Ecosystem Services 52, 101366 (2021).

Inka M. Willms, Simon H. Bolz, Jingyue Yuan, Lisa Krafft, Dominik Schneider, Ingo Schöning, Marion Schrumpf, and Heiko Nacke, "The ubiquitous soil verrucomicrobial clade ‘Candidatus Udaeobacter’ shows preferences for acidic pH," Environmental Microbiology Reports 13 (6), 878-883 (2021).

Andrew Dursow, Kendalynn A. Morris, and Richard Nair, "Direct observation of subterranean refugium use by Epidalea calamita (Natterjack Toad) in a dehesa ecosystem in Extremadura, Spain," Herpetology Notes 14, 1203-1205 (2021).

Shane Stoner, Alison M. Hoyt, Susan E. Trumbore, Carlos Sierra, Marion Schrumpf, Sebastian Doetterl, W. Troy Baisden, and Louis A. Schipper, "Soil organic matter turnover rates increase to match increased inputs in grazed grasslands," Biogeochemistry 156, 145-160 (2021).