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Meyer, A.; Focks, A.; Radl, V.; Welzl, G.; Schöning, I.; Schloter, M.: Influence of land use intensity on the diversity of ammonia oxidizing bacteria and archaea in soils from grassland ecosystems. Microbial Ecology 67 (1), pp. 161 - 166 (2014)
Alt, F.; Oelmann, Y.; Schöning, I.; Wilcke, W.: Phosphate release kinetics in calcareous grassland and forest soils in response to H+ addition. Soil Science Society of America 77 (6), pp. 2060 - 2070 (2013)
Klaus, V. H.; Hölzel, N.; Prati, D.; Schmitt, B.; Schöning, I.; Schrumpf, M.; Fischer, M.; Kleinebecker, T.: Organic vs. conventional grassland management: do 15N and 13C isotopic signatures of hay and soil samples differ? PLoS One 8 (10), e78134 (2013)
Solly, E.; Schöning, I.; Boch, S.; Müller, J.; Socher, S. A.; Trumbore, S. E.; Schrumpf, M.: Mean age of carbon in fine roots from temperate forests and grasslands with different management. Biogeosciences 10 (7), pp. 4833 - 4843 (2013)
Grüneberg, E.; Schöning, I.; Hessenmöller, D.; Schulze, E.-D.; Weisser, W. W.: Organic layer and clay content control soil organic carbon stocks in density fractions of differently managed German beech forests. Forest Ecology and Management 303, pp. 1 - 10 (2013)
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Wubet, T.; Christ, S.; Schöning, I.; Boch, S.; Gawlich, M.; Schnabel, B.; Fischer, M.; Buscot, F.: Differences in soil fungal communities between european beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) dominated forests are related to soil and understory vegetation. PLoS One 7 (10), e47500 (2012)
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.