TER News

Hannes Schmidt appointed Senior Scientist

17.08.20

People

We are very happy that Hannes will join the staff of TER as a Senior Scientist on a permanent contract. He will strengthen our expertise in isotope application in microbial ecology. Congratulations, Hannes!
Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity: New Nature Geoscience ‘Perspectives’ Paper

29.07.20

Publication

A new concept, put forward by an interdisciplinary group of soil scientists and mathematical modellers looks at soil carbon persistence through the lens of functional complexity of the soil microbial ecosystem – the interplay between time and space in ...
Carbon loss from northern circumpolar permafrost soils amplified by rhizosphere priming. New paper in Nature Geoscience published

21.07.20

Publication

As global temperatures continue to rise, a key uncertainty of climate projection is the microbial decomposition of vast organic carbon stocks in thawing permafrost soils. Decomposition rates can accelerate up to fourfold in the presence of plant roots, and this ...
New project: “Death – The elusive side of microbial turnover in soil”

07.07.20

People

Jörg Schnecker has been granted approval for a new project “Death – The elusive side of microbial turnover in soil” within the framework of the Austrian Science Fund 1000 Ideas Programme.

Congratulations Jörg!
- 1000 Ideas Programme
REWIRE Fellowship awarded to Lucia Fuchslueger

01.07.20

People

Lucia Fuchslueger is starting a new PostDoc at TER on 1 August in the REinforcing Women In REsearch (REWIRE) program of the University of Vienna.

Congratulations Lucia!
- About REWIRE
Hannes Schmidt welcomed as Committee Chair in the EGU Soil System Sciences Division

28.05.20

People

Hannes Schmidt, PostDoc at TER, has been officially welcomed as the Committee Chair of the “Soil Biology, Microbiology and Biodiversity” section of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). Together with Committee Members Prof. Ellen Kandeler (Universität Hohenheim, Germany) and Dr. Edith ...
- EGU Division of Soil Systems Science
New Young Investigator Researcher Group Project

20.04.20

People

TER PostDoc Lucia Fuchlueger has been awarded a Young Investigator Researcher Group project from the FWF, entitled “PlayNICE - Interplay between biological nitrification inhibitors, nitrogen cycling, and agronomic nitrogen use efficiency”.

This four-year long, interdisciplinary project aims to identify and ...
- Link FWF
- University of Vienna (German)
PNAS Cozzarelli Prize for paper on air eating microbe

11.03.20

News

The Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has selected our paper with Andreas Richter and Alexander Tviet (former TER member) and Michael Wagner, Arno Schintlmeister and Craig Herbold from our sister division DOME as co-authors published ...
- PNAS Press Release
- Link to Paper
TER Science Day

17.01.20

Event

TER - the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research, Centre for Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, met for a one-day Science Day on Friday January 17, 2020. Scientific presentations and in-depth discussion gave an overview over ongoing and future research at TER. ...
New Paper in Nature Ecology and Evolution: A systemic overreaction to years versus decades of warming in a subarctic grassland ecosystem

10.12.19

News

Temperature governs most biotic processes, yet we know little about how warming affects whole ecosystems. This paper examines the responses of 128 components of a subarctic grassland to either 5–8 or >50 years of soil warming. Warming of >50 years ...