Werner Mayerhofer (TER) and Marlies Dietrich (DOME) have received the 2016 Outstanding Poster and PICO Award of the European Geophysical Union (EGU) for their presentation 'Visualizing carbon and nitrogen transfer in the tripartite symbiosis of Fagus sylvatica, ectomycorrhizal fungi and soil ...
Dr. Alexander Tveit (Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø) has been awarded a grant from the Research Council for his project ’Time & Energy: Fundamental microbial mechanisms that control CH4 dynamics in a warming Arctic’. Within this project Alexander will ...
Watch Lucia Fuchslueger, former PhD student at TER, presenting her recent paper ‘Drought history affects grassland plant and microbial carbon turnover during and after a subsequent drought event’ published in the September issue of Journal of Ecology in a YouTube video.
Students and scientists of the DMES who are working in the field of soil microbial ecology and biogeochemistry met on May 20th for the first DMES Soil Ecology Workshop. This workshop was also the kick-off meeting for the new Soil ...
Three positions are available for Masters students during the summer 2016, that will provide a unique opportunity to participate in one of the research projects and become member of the scientific team at TER. Interested students should apply for ...
Judith Braun successfully defended her Master thesis entitled „Getting to the bottom of 15N Isotope Pool Dilution technique - Gross N Mineralization revisited". Excellent, Judith!
Wolfgang Wanek, Andreas Richter and Christina Kaiser just returned from a field course in Costa Rica, where they studied soils, plants and ants together with Veronika Meyer and Werner Huber (Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research) ...
Karoline Klaus successfully defended her Master thesis entitled „A novel approach to measure microbial carbon use efficiency by estimating growth from 18O incorporation into DNA". Excellent, Karo!
Social dynamics within decomposer communities lead to nitrogen retention and organic matter build-up in soils,
C. Kaiser, O. Franklin, A. Richter & U. Dieckmann, Nature Communications 6: 8960