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Tanunchai, B.; Ji, L.; Schroeter, S. A.; Wahdan, S. F. M.; Larpkern, P.; Lehnert, A.-S.; Alves, E. G.; Gleixner, G.; Schulze, E. D.; Noll, M.et al.; Buscot, F.; Purahong, W.: A poisoned apple: First insights into community assembly and networks of the fungal pathobiome of healthy-looking senescing leaves of temperate trees in mixed forest ecosystem. Frontiers in Plant Science 13, 968218 (2022)
Tanunchai, B.; Schroeter, S. A.; Ji, L.; Wahdan, S. F. M.; Hossen, S.; Lehnert, A.-S.; Grünberg, H.; Gleixner, G.; Buscot, F.; Schulze, E. D.et al.; Noll, M.; Purahong, W.: More than you can see: Unraveling the ecology and biodiversity of lichenized fungi associated with leaves and needles of 12 temperate tree species using high-throughput sequencing. Frontiers in Microbiology 13, 907531 (2022)
Chowdhury, S.; Lange, M.; Malik, A. A.; Goodall, T.; Huang, J.; Griffiths, R. I.; Gleixner, G.: Plants with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi efficiently acquire Nitrogen from substrate additions by shaping the decomposer community composition and their net plant carbon demand. Plant and Soil 475, pp. 473 - 490 (2022)
Mielke, L.; Taubert, M.; Cesarz, S.; Ruess, L.; Kuesel, K.; Gleixner, G.; Lange, M.: Nematode grazing increases the allocation of plant-derived carbon to soil bacteria and saprophytic fungi, and activates bacterial species of the rhizosphere. Pedobiologia 90, 150787 (2022)
Gleixner, G.: Insights into the known 13C depletion of methane—contribution of the kinetic isotope effects on the serine hydroxymethyltransferase reaction. Frontiers in Chemistry 9, 698067 (2022)
Gayantha, K.; Roberts, P.; Routh, J.; Wedage, O.; Ott, F.; Frenzel, P.; Chandrajith, R.; Gleixner, G.: Mid-late Holocene sub-millennial scale inverse trends of South Asian summer and winter monsoons in Sri Lanka. Frontiers in Earth Science 9, 789291 (2021)
Simon, C.; Pimentel, T. P.; Monteiro, M. T. F.; Candido, L. A.; Gastmans, D.; Geilmann, H.; da Oliveira, R. C.; Rocha, J. B.; Pires, E.; Quesada, C. A.et al.; Forsberg, B. R.; Feirrera, S. J. F.; da Cunha, H. B.; Gleixner, G.: Molecular links between whitesand ecosystems and blackwater formation in the Rio Negro watershed. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 311, pp. 274 - 291 (2021)
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Schroeter, N.; Mingram, J.; Kalanke, J.; Lauterbach, S.; Tjallingii, R.; Schwab, V. F.; Gleixner, G.: The reservoir age effect varies with the mobilization of pre-aged organic carbon in a high-altitude Central Asian catchment. Frontiers in Earth Science 9, 681931 (2021)
On June 24, Prof. Dr. Henrik Hartmann, head of the Julius Kühn Institute for Forest Protection and former group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, received an important award for his scientific achievements in the field of forestry. Our warmest congratulations!
We have gained a new external member: Prof. Dr. Christian Wirth has been appointed by the Senate of the Max Planck Society as External Scientific Member. As a former group leader and later fellow at the institute, Prof. Wirth initiated and supported the development of the TRY database, the world's largest collection on plant traits.
Information gaps in global maps of plant characteristics can be filled with data from nature identification apps. Users of the iNaturalist app are playing a key role in helping researchers create global maps of plant traits. Among other things, the new maps provide an improved basis for understanding plant-environment interactions and for Earth system modeling.
An international research team has succeeded in identifying globally acting factors that cause the diversity of forms and functions of plants. Researchers compiled plant data from around the world and were able to show for the first time how strongly these are determined by climate and soil properties for characteristics such as the size, structure and life span of plants.