TER News

Ecological memory of recurrent drought modifies soil processes via changes in soil microbial community

09.09.21

Publication

Climate change is altering the frequency and severity of drought events. Recent evidence indicates that drought may produce legacy effects on soil microbial communities. However, it is unclear whether precedent drought events lead to ecological memory formation, i.e., the capacity ...
- Paper in Nature Communications
- Blog Nature Ecology & Evolution
A critical perspective on interpreting amplicon sequencing data in soil ecological research

22.07.21

Publication

Amplicon sequencing is routinely used in soil ecological research. However, soil-specific challenges and the nature of amplicon data present obstacles for ecological interpretation. Led by Lauren and Hannes, many TER members teamed up with Roey Angel and Jan Jansa to ...
- sciencedirect.com
Congratulations - MSc Moritz Mohrlok

21.06.21

People

Congratulations to Moritz Mohrlok, who successfully defended his MSc thesis on Friday 20th June 2021.
His thesis on “Effects of climate change on chemical composition and carbon content

of physical soil fractions" was very well received.
Excellent, Moritz!
François-Xavier Joly starts as new Junior Research Group Leader @TER

31.05.21

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We are very happy that François-Xavier will join TER as a CMESS Junior Research Group Leader. He will strengthen our team with his expertise in Soil Fauna. We are looking forward to many exciting collaborations! Great to have you on ...
Lilian-Lee B. Müller-Fischer receives Lise Meitner Fellowship

13.04.21

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Lili has been awarded a 2-year Lise Meitner Postdoc Fellowship by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for research into a hitherto unexplored and potentially general ecological concept.
In this 2-year project, she will work in Wolfgang´s team to elucidate ...
Nicolas Valiente Parra receives EU Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoc Fellowship

13.04.21

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Nicolas was awarded a highly competitive, 2-year Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoc fellowship from the European Commission. He also receives funding for an extra year from the University of Vienna as one of the 10 top-ranked MSCA European Fellowships at the University of Vienna.
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- CORDIS
Empirical support for the biogeochemical niche hypothesis in forest trees

08.01.21

Publication

The possibility of using the elemental composition of species as a tool to identify species/genotype niches has been tested at the global scale by investigating the relationship between the foliar elemental compositions (the “elementome”) of trees with phylogeny, climate, N ...
- Article in Nature Ecology and Evolution
Congratulations – MSc Alexander König

10.12.20

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Congratulations to Alex, who successfully defended his MSc thesis on Thursday, December 10^th 2020. His thesis on “Soil Microscale Priming: Concept and Method of Reverse Microdialysis” was very well received. Excellent, Alex!
Andreas Richter and Wolfgang Wanek are Highly Cited Researchers 2020

18.11.20

News

Congratulations to Andreas and Wolfgang, who are listed among the top-cited scientists internationally. In total 37 scientists from Austria are on this list, including Michael Wagner and Thomas Rattei from CMESS, the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental ...
EGU Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

23.10.20

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Congratulations to Lucia Fuchslueger, who was awarded the EGU Soil Science Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award!
The EGU, the European Geosciences Union, is the leading organization for Earth science research in Europe with about 20,000 members worldwide. Division ...
- EGU 2021 Awards and Medals