Ökopedologie der gemäßigten Zonen

Research Topics

• Soil biogeochemistry
  - Low molecular weight organics
  - Biochemical pathways
  
• C and N cycles & transformation
  - Rhizodeposition
  - Photosynthesis and C/N turnover
  - DOM fluxes
  - Agroforestry
  
• Soil - Plant - Microbial interactions:
  - Priming effects
  - Nutrient mobilization
  - Rhizodeposition, Rhizosphere
  
• CO2 fluxes: sources & partitioning
  
• C sequestration
  
• Effects of Global Change:
  - Land use
  - Elevated CO2
  - Soil degradation
  - Temperature & warming
  
• Pedogenic carbonates CaCO3
  
• BioChar
  

• Rhizosphere
  
• Detritusphere
  
• Biopores

Approaches & Methods

• Tracer & Isotope applications
  - 14C, 13C, 15N, 33P
  - Labeling / natural abundance
  
• Biomarkers
  
• Process related:
  - Transformations
  - Rates
  
• Pools & Fluxes
  
• Enzyme activities, kinetics, localization