Publications

Bartkowski B., Lienhoop N., Mahlich L., Massenberg J. (2023.0). Are preferences for soil-based ecosystem services driven by spatial phenomena?. Soil Security, (), 100120. doi:10.1016/j.soisec.2023.100120

Agricultural soils provide multiple ecosystem services that affect human well-being. Soils’ potential to provide these ecosystem services varies spatially. Socio-demographic and other drivers of environmental preferences are also spatially variable. Therefore, preferences for soil-based ecosystem se…

Blanchy G., D'Hose T., Donmez C., Hoffmann C., Makoschitz L., Murugan R., O'Sullivan L., Sandén T., Spiegel H., Svoboda N., Zechmeister‐Boltenstern S., Klumpp K. (2024). An open‐source metadataset of running European mid‐ and long‐term agricultural field experiments. Soil Use and Management, 40(1), . doi:10.1111/sum.12978

AbstractMid‐term (MTEs, 5–20 years) and long‐term (LTEs, 20+ years) field experiments are key sources of information to design future climate‐smart agriculture. Within the European Joint Program SOIL (EJP SOIL), we built the EJP SOIL‐MTE/LTE metadataset that contains metadata from 240 MTEs/LTEs acro…

Burger D., Schneider F., Bauke S., Kautz T., Don A., Amelung W. (2023.0). Fifty years after deep‐ploughing: effects on yield, roots, nutrient stocks and soil structure. European Journal of Soil Science, (), . doi:10.1111/ejss.13426

Pätzold S., Ostermann M., Heggemann T., Wehrle R. (2023.0). Impact of potassium fertilisation on mobile proximal gamma-ray spectrometry: case study on a long-term field trial. Precision Agriculture, (), . doi:10.1007/s11119-023-10071-3

AbstractMobile proximal gamma-ray spectrometry (GS) is an emerging approach to estimate soil texture directly in the field. It relies on gamma radiation emitted during the natural decay of potassium-40 (K-40) and other isotopes. The K-40 counts are correlated with total K content, mineralogical soil…

König S., Weller U., Betancur‐Corredor B., Lang B., Reitz T., Wiesmeier M., Wollschläger U., Vogel H. (2023.0). BODIUM — A systemic approach to model the dynamics of soil functions. European Journal of Soil Science, 74(5), . doi:10.1111/ejss.13411

AbstractThe increasing demand for biomass for food, animal feed, fibre and bioenergy requires optimization of soil productivity, while at the same time, protecting other soil functions such as nutrient cycling and buffering, carbon storage, habitat for biological activity and water filter and storag…

Ahmed A., Leinweber P., Kühn O. (2023.0). Advances in understanding the phosphate binding to soil constituents: A Computational Chemistry perspective. Science of The Total Environment, 887(), 163692. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163692

Phosphorus (P) is an indispensable element to all forms of life and its efficient use in fertilizers is one of the conditions for food security. The efficiency of P fertilizers is affected by P mobilization and P fixation, both depending on the P binding strength to soil constituents. This review pr…

Kurth J., Albrecht M., Glaser K., Karsten U., Vestergaard G., Armbruster M., Kublik S., Schmid C., Schloter M., Schulz S. (2023.0). Biological soil crusts on agricultural soils of mesic regions promote microbial cross-kingdom co-occurrences and nutrient retention. Frontiers in Microbiology, 14(), . doi:10.3389/fmicb.2023.1169958

IntroductionBiological soil crusts (biocrusts) are known as biological hotspots on undisturbed, nutrient-poor bare soil surfaces and until now, are mostly observed in (semi-) arid regions but are currently poorly understood in agricultural systems. This is a crucial knowledge gap because managed sit…

Koch S., Lederer H., Kahle P., Lennartz B. (2023.0). Linking transport pathways and phosphorus distribution in a loamy soil: a case study from a North-Eastern German Stagnosol. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 195(8), . doi:10.1007/s10661-023-11465-6

AbstractHeterogeneous flow pathways through the soil determine the transport of dissolved and particle-bound nutritional elements like phosphorus (P) to ground and surface waters. This study was designed to understand the spatial patterns of P in agriculturally used soils and the mechanisms causing …

Jia Y., Siebers N., Panten K., Kruse J. (2023.0). Fate and availability of phosphorus from bone char with and without sulfur modification in soil size fractions after five-year field fertilizations. Soil and Tillage Research, 231(), 105720. doi:10.1016/j.still.2023.105720

The agronomic value of fertilizer phosphorus (P) in the soil is determined by how it is incorporated and released during aggregate formation and breakdown. These processes play a vital role in P accessibility, storage, and cycling. Bone char (BC) is a promising substitute for phosphorus fertilizer. …

Ntinyari W., Reichel R., Gweyi‐Onyango J., Giweta M., Wissel H., Masso C., Bol R., Brüggemann N. (2023.0). Nitrogen fertilization and liming increased CO₂ and N₂O emissions from tropical ferralsols, but not from a vertisol. Soil Use and Management, 39(3), 1125-1139. doi:10.1111/sum.12927

The application of nitrogen (N) fertilizers and liming (CaCO3) to improve soil quality and crop productivity are regarded as effective and important agricultural practices. However, they may increase greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. There is limited information on the GHG emissions of tropical soils,…