Dr. Boaz Hilman

2008 - 2011    B.Sc in Environmental Science, Geography, and division of Geoinformatics, with honor. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2011 - 2018    Ph.D. in Environmental Science. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, under the supervision of Prof. Alon Angert. Thesis: “Better Understanding of Tree Stem Respiration by Combining O₂, CO₂, and O₂ Isotopes Measurements”

2018 - present   Postdoctoral position, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry.

Publications

Hilman, B., Solly, E. F., Kuhlmann, I., Brunner, I., and F. Hagedorn (2024), Species-specific reliance of trees on ectomycorrhizal fungi for nitrogen supply at an alpine treeline. Fungal Ecology 71, 101361. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funeco.2024.101361

Rog, I., Hilman, B., Fox, H., Yalin, D., Qubaja, R., and T. Klein (2024), Increased belowground tree carbon allocation in a mature mixed forest in a dry versus a wet year. Global Change Biology 30 (2), e17172 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17172

Salomón, R. L., Helm, J., Gessler, A., Grams, T. E. E., Hilman, B., Muhr, J., Steppe, K., Wittmann, C., and H. Hartmann (2024), The quandary of sources and sinks of CO2 efflux in tree stems - new insights and future directions. Tree Physiology 44 (1). https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpad157

Helm, J., Muhr, J., Hilman, B., Kahmen, A., Schulze, E. D., Trumbore, S. E., Herrera-Ramirez, D., and H. Hartmann (2023), Carbon dynamics in long-term starving poplar trees—the importance of older carbohydrates and a shift to lipids during survival. Tree Physiology, tpad135. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpad135

Helm, J., Salomón, R. L., Hilman, B., Muhr, J., Knohl, A., Steppe, K., Gibon, Y., Cassan, C., and H. Hartmann (2023), Differences between tree stem CO2 efflux and O2 influx rates cannot be explained by internal CO2 transport or storage in large beech trees. Plant, Cell and Environment 46 (9), pp. 2680 - 2693. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14614

Hilman, B., Weiner, T., Haran, T., Masiello, C. A., Gao, X., and A. Angert (2022), The apparent respiratory quotient of soils and tree stems and the processes that control it. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 127 (3), e2021JG006676. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JG006676.

Hilman, B., J. Muhr, J. Helm, I. Kuhlmann, E.-D. Schulze, and S. Trumbore (2021), The size and the age of the metabolically active carbon in tree roots, Plant, Cell & Environment, 44(8), 2522-2535, https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14124.

Helm, J., H. Hartmann, M. Göbel, Hilman, B., D. A. Herrera, and J. Muhr (2021), Low-cost chamber design for simultaneous CO2 and O2 flux measurements between tree stems and the atmosphere, Tree Physiology 41 (9), 1767-1780, https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpab022.

Hilman, B., T. Weiner, T. Haran, and A. Angert (2020), Studying Soil and Tree Stem Respiration in Mediterranean oak forest using the Respiratory Quotient, edited, American Geophysical Union, Washington, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10502872.1.

Hicks Pries, C., A. Angert, C. Castanha, Hilman, B., and M. S. Torn (2020), Using respiration quotients to track changing sources of soil respiration seasonally and with experimental warming, Biogeosciences, 17(12), 3045-3055, https://10.5194/bg-17-3045-2020.

Hilman, B., et al. (2019), Comparison of CO₂ and O₂ fluxes demonstrate retention of respired CO₂ in tree stems from a range of tree species, Biogeosciences, 16(1), 177-191, https://10.5194/bg-16-177-2019.

Weiner, T., A. Gross, G. Moreno, M. Migliavacca, M. Schrumpf, M. Reichstein, Hilman, B. A. Carrara, and A. Angert (2018), Following the Turnover of Soil Bioavailable Phosphate in Mediterranean Savanna by Oxygen Stable Isotopes, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 123(6), 1850-1862, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JG004086.

Hilman, B., and A. Angert (2018), Discrimination in Tree Stems O₂ Uptake and the Dole Effect, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 32(8), 1208-1225, https://10.1029/2018gb005918.

Hilman, B., and A. Angert (2016), Measuring the ratio of CO2 efflux to O2 influx in tree stem respiration, Tree Physiol, 36(11), 1422-1431, https://10.1093/treephys/tpw057.