Morris, K. A.; Richter, A.; Migliavacca, M.; Schrumpf, M.: 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)
Dursow, A.; Morris, K. A.; Nair, R.: Direct observation of subterranean refugium use by Epidalea calamita (Natterjack Toad) in a dehesa ecosystem in Extremadura, Spain. Herpetology Notes 14, pp. 1203 - 1205 (2021)
Nair, R. K. F.; Morris, K. A.; Migliavacca, M.; Moreno, G.; Schrumpf, M.: Plant‐available N:P alters root litter N recycling in a Mediterranean tree–grass ecosystem. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 183 (4), pp. 517 - 529 (2020)
Morris, K. A.: Influence of nutrient availibility on soil respiration and microbial activity in a tree-grass ecosystem. Dissertation, 96 pp., Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2020)
Extreme climate events endanger groundwater quality and stability, when rain water evades natural purification processes in the soil. This was demonstrated in long-term groundwater analyses using new analytical methods.
More frequent strong storms are destroying ever larger areas of the Amazon rainforest. Storm damage was mapped between 1985 and 2020. The total area of affected forests roughly quadrupled in the period studied.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina will hold a joint conference on the challenges of achieving carbon neutrality in Berlin on October 29-30, 2024.
The Chapter of the Order has elected the writer, philosopher and filmmaker Alexander Kluge and the mathematician Gerd Faltings as domestic members of the Order and the geologist Susan Trumbore and the literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt as foreign members.
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!