Recent Key Publications

Kendalynn Morris and Richard Nair, "Below the leaves: Integrating above- and below-ground phenology for earth-system predictability," Functional Ecology (2025).

Marleen Pallandt, Marion Schrumpf, Holger Lange, Markus Reichstein, Lin Yu, and Bernhard Ahrens, "Modelling the effect of climate–substrate interactions on soil organic matter decomposition with the Jena soil model," Biogeosciences 22 (7), 1907-1928 (2025).

Richard Nair, Yunpeng Luo, Tarek S. El-Madany, Victor Rolo, Javier Pacheco-Labrador, Silvia Caldararu, Kendalynn A. Morris, Marion Schrumpf, Arnaud Carrara, Gerardo Moreno, Markus Reichstein, and Mirco Migliavacca, "Nitrogen availability and summer drought, but not N:P imbalance, drive carbon use efficiency of a Mediterranean tree-grass ecosystem," Global Change Biology 30 (9), e17486 (2024).

Thomas Wutzler, Christian Reimers, Bernhard Ahrens, and Marion Schrumpf, "Optimal enzyme allocation leads to the constrained enzyme hypothesis: the Soil Enzyme Steady Allocation Model (SESAM; v3.1))," Geoscientific Model Development 17 (7), 2705-2725 (2024).

Wolfgang Wilcke, Vera Zimmer, Jürgen Bauhus, Ingo Schöning, Marion Schrumpf, Beate Michalzik, and Jan Siemen, "Disentangling the effects of region, forest‑management intensity and plant diversity on litterfall quantity, quality and turnover in temperate forests," Plant and Soil 497, 397-412 (2024).

Luise Brandt, Christian Poll, Johannes Ballauff, Marion Schrumpf, De Shorn Bramble, Ingo Schöning, Susanne Ulrich, Klaus Kaiser, Robert Mikutta, Christian Mikutta, Andrea Polle, and Ellen Kandeler, "Mineral type versus environmental filters: What shapes the composition and functions of fungal communities in the mineralosphere of forest soils?," Soil Biology and Biochemistry 190, 109288 (2024).

Margot Neyret, Gaëtane Le Provost, Andrea Larissa Boesing, Florian D. Schneider, Dennis Baulechner, Joana Bergmann, Franciska de Vries, Anna Maria Fiore-Donno, Stefan Geisen, Kezia Goldmann, Anna Merges, Ruslan A. Saifutdinov, Nadja K. Simons, Joseph A. Tobias, Andrey S. Zaitsev, Martin M. Gossner, Kirsten Jung, Ellen Kandeler, Jochen Krauss, Caterina Penone, Michael Schloter, Stefanie Schulz, Michael Staab, Volkmar Wolters, Antonios Apostolakis, Klaus Birkhofer, Steffen Boch, Runa S. Boeddinghaus, Ralph Bolliger, Michael Bonkowski, Francois Buscot, Kenneth Dumack, Markus Fischer, Huei Ying Gan, Johannes Heinze, Norbert Hölzel, Katharina John, Valentin H. Klaus, Till Kleinebecker, Sven Marhan, Jörg Müller, Swen C. Renner, Matthias Rillig, Noëlle V. Schenk, Ingo Schöning, Marion Schrumpf, Sebastian Seibold, Stephanie Socher, Emily F. Solly, Miriam Teuscher, Mark van Kleunen, Tesfaye Wubet, and Pete Manning, "A slow-fast trait continuum at the whole community level in relation to land-use intensification," Nature Communications 15, 1251 (2024).

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 30 (1), e17024 (2024).

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).