Publications

Ahmed, A. A., Gypser, S.,Freese, D., Leinweber, P., Kühn, O. (2020). Molecular level picture of the interplay between pH and phosphate binding at the goethite–water interface. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, (45), . doi:10.1039/D0CP04698A

The soil pH plays a substantial role in controlling phosphorus (P) adsorption and mobilization. These processes are strongly affected by the phosphate interaction strength with P-fixing soil minerals such as goethite. The target of the current contribution is to draw a molecular level picture of the…

Amelung W., Bossio D., de Vries W., Kögel-Knabner I., Lehmann J., Amundson R., Bol R., Collins C., Lal R., Leifeld J., Minasny B., Pan G., Paustian K., Rumpel C., Sanderman J., van Groenigen J., Mooney S., van Wesemael B., Wander M., Chabbi A. (2020). Towards a global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy. Nature Communications, 11(1), . doi:10.1038/s41467-020-18887-7

AbstractSustainable soil carbon sequestration practices need to be rapidly scaled up and implemented to contribute to climate change mitigation. We highlight that the major potential for carbon sequestration is in cropland soils, especially those with large yield gaps and/or large historic soil orga…

Augustin K., Kuhwald M., Brunotte J., Duttmann R. (2020). Wheel Load and Wheel Pass Frequency as Indicators for Soil Compaction Risk: A Four-Year Analysis of Traffic Intensity at Field Scale. Geosciences, 10(8), 292. doi:10.3390/geosciences10080292

Avoiding soil compaction is one of the objectives to ensure sustainable agriculture. Subsoil compaction in particular can be irreversible. Frequent passages by (increasingly heavy) agricultural machinery are one trigger for compaction. The aim of this work is to map and analyze the extent of traffic…

Balbín-Suárez A., Lucas M., Vetterlein D., Sørensen S., Winkelmann T., Smalla K., Jacquiod S. (2020). Exploring microbial determinants of apple replant disease (ARD): a microhabitat approach under split-root design. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 96(12), . doi:10.1093/femsec/fiaa211

ABSTRACT Apple replant disease (ARD) occurs worldwide in apple orchards and nurseries and leads to a severe growth and productivity decline. Despite research on the topic, its causality remains unclear. In a split-root experiment, we grew ARD-susceptible ‘M26’ apple rootstocks in different substrat…

Bartkowski B., Bartke S., Helming K., Paul C., Techen A., Hansjürgens B. (2020). Potential of the economic valuation of soil-based ecosystem services to inform sustainable soil management and policy. PeerJ, 8(), e8749. doi:10.7717/peerj.8749

The concept of ecosystem services, especially in combination with economic valuation, can illuminate trade-offs involved in soil management, policy and governance, and thus support decision making. In this paper, we investigate and highlight the potential and limitations of the economic valuation of…

Baumann K., Nastah S., Shaheen S., Rinklebe J., Leinweber P. (2020). Phosphorus cycling and spring barley crop response to varying redox potential. Vadose Zone Journal, 19(1), . doi:10.1002/vzj2.20088

For arable soils, it is not clear whether closing a controlled drainage system leads to P mobilization due to water table rise and associated changes in redox-induced biogeochemical processes. Therefore, we investigated P mobilization at different redox conditions using three spring barley (Hordeum …

Baumann K., Shaheen S., Hu Y., Gros P., Heilmann E., Morshedizad M., Wang J., Wang S., Rinklebe J., Leinweber P. (2020). Speciation and sorption of phosphorus in agricultural soil profiles of redoximorphic character. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 42(10), 3231-3246. doi:10.1007/s10653-020-00561-y

AbstractControlled drainage is considered as a soil management tool to improve water supply to crops and reduce nutrient losses from fields; however, its closure may affect phosphorus (P) mobilization in soil. To assess the P mobilization potential, three soil profiles with redoximorphic features we…

Berauer B., Wilfahrt P., Reu B., Schuchardt M., Garcia-Franco N., Zistl-Schlingmann M., Dannenmann M., Kiese R., Kühnel A., Jentsch A. (2020). Predicting forage quality of species-rich pasture grasslands using vis-NIRS to reveal effects of management intensity and climate change. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 296(), 106929. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2020.106929

With a growing human population facing multiple global change drivers (i.e. climate change and land management change), the future of food security is of major importance. Sustainable agriculture is therefore key to ensure food supply and food security under future climatic conditions. Forage provis…

Beule L., Karlovsky P. (2020). Improved normalization of species count data in ecology by scaling with ranked subsampling (SRS): application to microbial communities. PeerJ, 8(), e9593. doi:10.7717/peerj.9593

Background Analysis of species count data in ecology often requires normalization to an identical sample size. Rarefying (random subsampling without replacement), which is the current standard method for normalization, has been widely criticized for its poor reproducibility and potential distortion …

Beule L., Lehtsaar E., Corre M., Schmidt M., Veldkamp E., Karlovsky P. (2020). Poplar Rows in Temperate Agroforestry Croplands Promote Bacteria, Fungi, and Denitrification Genes in Soils. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10(), . doi:10.3389/fmicb.2019.03108

Agroforestry, which is the integration of trees into monoculture cropland, can alter soil properties and nutrient cycling. Temperate agroforestry practices have been shown to affect soil microbial communities as indicated by changes in enzyme activities, substrate-induced respiration, and microbial …