Publications

Koch S., Liu H., Lenz C., Eichler-Löbermann B., Vogel H., Lennartz B. (2024.0). Soil structure and solute transport pathways in biogas digestate-amended soils. Soil and Tillage Research, 240(), 106074. doi:10.1016/j.still.2024.106074

Here, we investigated the effects of biogas digestate application on flow pathways and soil properties in a sandy soil aiming at unraveling phosphorus accumulation and depletion processes in fertilized soils. Dye tracer experiments were conducted to visualize and distinguish between various flow pat…

Ahmed A., Morshedizad M., Kühn O., Leinweber P. (2024.0). Deciphering competitive interactions: Phosphate and organic matter binding on goethite through experimental and theoretical insights. Science of The Total Environment, 940(), 173510. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173510

The adsorption of phosphorus (P) onto active soil surfaces plays a pivotal role in immobilizing P, thereby influencing soil fertility and the filter function of soil to protect freshwater systems from eutrophication. Competitive anions, such as organic matter (OM), significantly affect the strength …

Schön J., Gentsch N., Breunig P. (2024.0). Cover crops support the climate change mitigation potential of agroecosystems. PLOS ONE, 19(5), e0302139. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0302139

Cover crops have the potential to mitigate climate change by reducing negative impacts of agriculture on ecosystems. This study is first to quantify the net climate change mitigation impact of cover crops including land-use effects. A systematic literature and data review was conducted to identify m…

Donmez C., Sahingoz M., Paul C., Cilek A., Hoffmann C., Berberoglu S., Webber H., Helming K. (2024). Climate change causes spatial shifts in the productivity of agricultural long-term field experiments. European Journal of Agronomy, 155(), 127121. doi:10.1016/j.eja.2024.127121

Highlights   The effects of climate change on the Net Primary Productivity (NPP) of Long-Term Field Experiments were simulated. Metadata of multiple LTEs were incorporated with NPP modelling using Germany as a test case. A remarkable NPP decrease was found in the LTEs in central Germ…

Vogel H., Amelung W., Baum C., Bonkowski M., Blagodatsky S., Grosch R., Herbst M., Kiese R., Koch S., Kuhwald M., König S., Leinweber P., Lennartz B., Müller C., Pagel H., Rillig M., Rüschhoff J., Russell D., Schnepf A., Schulz S., Siebers N., Vetterlein D., Wachendorf C., Weller U., Wollschläger U.… (2024.0). How to adequately represent biological processes in modeling multifunctionality of arable soils. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 60(3), 263-306. doi:10.1007/s00374-024-01802-3

AbstractEssential soil functions such as plant productivity, C storage, nutrient cycling and the storage and purification of water all depend on soil biological processes. Given this insight, it is remarkable that in modeling of these soil functions, the various biological actors usually do not play…

Clayton J., Lemanski K., Solbach M., Temperton V., Bonkowski M. (2024.0). Two-way NxP fertilisation experiment on barley (Hordeum vulgare) reveals shift from additive to synergistic N-P interactions at critical phosphorus fertilisation level. Frontiers in Plant Science, 15(), . doi:10.3389/fpls.2024.1346729

In a pot experiment, we investigated synergistic interaction of N and P fertilisation on barley biomass (Hordeum vulgare) on both shoot and root level with the aim to determine whether N-P interaction would be the same for all levels of N and P fertilisation. We further aimed to determine whether th…

Bukowiecki J., Rose T., Holzhauser K., Rothardt S., Rose M., Komainda M., Herrmann A., Kage H. (2024.0). UAV-based canopy monitoring: calibration of a multispectral sensor for green area index and nitrogen uptake across several crops. Precision Agriculture, 25(3), 1556-1580. doi:10.1007/s11119-024-10123-2

AbstractThe fast and accurate provision of within-season data of green area index (GAI) and total N uptake (total N) is the basis for crop modeling and precision agriculture. However, due to rapid advancements in multispectral sensors and the high sampling effort, there is currently no existing refe…

Gentsch N., Riechers F., Boy J., Schweneker D., Feuerstein U., Heuermann D., Guggenberger G. (2024.0). Cover crops improve soil structure and change organic carbon distribution in macroaggregate fractions. SOIL, 10(1), 139-150. doi:10.5194/soil-10-139-2024

Abstract. Soil structure is sensitive to intensive soil management. It can be ameliorated by a reduction in soil cultivation and stimulation of plant and microbial mediators for aggregate formation, with the latter being a prerequisite and measure for soil quality. Cover crops (CCs) are part of an i…

Quiroga S., Rosado-Porto D., Ratering S., Rekowski A., Schulz F., Krutych M., Zörb C., Schnell S. (2024.0). Long-term detection of Hartmannibacter diazotrophicus on winter wheat and spring barley roots under field conditions revealed positive correlations on yield parameters with the bacterium abundance. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 100(3), . doi:10.1093/femsec/fiae023

Monitoring of bioinoculants once released into the field remains largely unexplored; thus, more information is required about their survival and interactions after root colonization. Therefore, specific primers were used to perform a long-term tracking to elucidate the effect of Hartmannibacter diaz…

Garcia-Franco N., Wiesmeier M., Buness V., Berauer B., Schuchardt M., Jentsch A., Schlingmann M., Andrade-Linares D., Wolf B., Kiese R., Dannenmann M., Kögel-Knabner I. (2024.0). Rapid loss of organic carbon and soil structure in mountainous grassland topsoils induced by simulated climate change. Geoderma, 442(), 116807. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2024.116807

Mountainous grassland soils are considered one of the most unique biological hotspots, rich in organic carbon (OC). At the same time, they are exposed to great threats, as climate warming is more pronounced in mountainous regions than in lowland areas. In this study, we assessed the effect of simula…