Publications

Lachmuth S., Dönmez C., Hoffmann C., Specka X., Svoboda N., Helming K. (2025). Facilitating Effective Reuse of Soil Research Data: The BonaRes Repository. European Journal of Soil Science, 76(2), . doi:10.1111/ejss.70103

ABSTRACTSoil plays a paramount role in addressing complex challenges related to climate change, the agri‐food system, and ecosystem services. This importance makes soil research data highly relevant for meta‐analysis, research synthesis, modelling, and assessment. As data‐intensive techniques prolif…

Quiroga, S., Ratering, S., David Rosado-Porto, D., Rekowski, A., Schulz, F., Zörb, C., Schnell, S. (2025). Seed inoculation of Hartmannibacter diazotrophicus does not alter the rhizosphere bacterial microbiome of wheat and barley in a three-year field trial. Applied Soil Ecology, 206(), . doi:0.1016/j.apsoil.2024.10582

he effects of plant growth promoting bacteria used for inoculation on native microorganisms remain unexplored under field conditions and, to a lesser extent, in longitudinal studies using different crops. This study, spanning three seasons across two organic fields, examined through 16S rRNA gene se…

Salako, G., Zaitsev, A., Betancur-Corredor, B., Russell, D. J. (2024). Modelling and spatial prediction of earthworms ecological-categories distribution reveal their habitat and environmental preferences. Ecological Indicators, 169(112832), . doi:org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112832

Earthworms are one of the important soil animals and have been generally described as soil engineers. Knowledge on environmental conditions driving the distribution and population of this soil animal and the habitat which support these conditions especially at the ecological level is required to und…

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 …

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…

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…