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How does microbial activity (or inactivity) control nutrient availability for plants?
How do microbes thrive in the rhizosphere?
How do soil microbes respond to climate change?
In the following projects we want to answer some of these questions using different methodological approaches, doing lab and field experiments in different ecosystems.
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Ongoing projects
Decay to Delay - Organic matter formation vs. decay from land to water.
SUP:RHIZE - Supply of Phosphorus in the Rhizosphere of tropical forests - interactions of plants and microorganisms.
playNICE - Interplay between Biological Nitrification Inhibitors, Nitrogen Cycling, and Agronomic Nitrogen Use Efficiency
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AmazonFACE program
How do Amazonian forests respond to climate change?
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Is their resilience depending on nutrient availability?
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Amazon Fertilization project
Do nutrients constrain tropical plant productivity in the Central Amazon?
ForHot TNT
How does nitrogen availability influence the response of nordic grasslands to warming?
Imbalance P project
What is the role of phosphorus in tropical forest soil?
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Is phosphorus limiting microbial activity?
Amazon-FLUX investigates plant and soil interactions in the Amazon Rainforest to determine how nutrients and water fluxes may affect the forest under global change.
Socrates - arctic warming
Sequential destabilization of C and N in biogeochemical cycles to increasing temperatures in the subartic region