Completed PhD projects

Title	Name	Date	Faculty member	Supervisors
Does carbon distribution and turnover in (sub)alpine grassland soils indicate these areas may be potential carbon dioxide hotspots in the event of global warming?	Karen Budge	2011	Prof. Dr. M. W. I. Schmidt	Dr. J. Leifeld Prof. Dr. J. Fuhrer
Carbon Fluxes from Decaying Beech Litter: Insights from a 13C-Tracer Experiment and a New Method to Analyse the Stable Isotopes in Soil CO2 Effluxes	Adrian Kammer	2011	Prof. Dr. M.W.I. Schmidt	Dr. F. Hagedorn Prof. Dr. A. Knohl
Assessment of a Molecular Marker Method to Determine the Pyrogenic Carbon Component in Charcoals and Soils	Maximilian Schneider	2011	Prof. Dr. M.W.I. Schmidt	Prof. Dr. T. Dittmar Dr. R.H. Smittenberg Dr. S. Abiven
Lignin dynamics in arable soils as determined by ¹³C natural abundance	Anett Hofmann	2009	Prof. Dr. M.W.I. Schmidt	Dr. A. Heim Dr. A. Miltner
Detecting prehistoric fire-based farming using biogeochemical markers	Eileen Eckmeier	2007	Prof. Dr. M.W.I. Schmidt	Prof. Dr. R. Gerlach J. O. Skjemstad
Analysis and fate of combustion residues in soil	Karen Hammes	2007	Prof. Dr. M.W.I. Schmidt	Dr. R. J. Smernik Dr. A. Heim
Effects of pedogenic processes and vegetation on soil organic matter, Fe, Al, Si and clay mineralogy in the Southern Alps	Remo Zanelli	2007	Prof. Dr. M.W.I. Schmidt	PD Dr. M. Egli Prof. Dr. P. Fitze
Spectroscopic quantification of soil organic carbon fractions that can be related to model pools	Michael Zimmermann	2007	Prof. Dr. M.W.I. Schmidt	Dr. J. Leifeld Prof. Dr. J. Fuhrer Dr. M. G. Johnson

List of completed PhD theses in Physical Geography

Department of Geography

Completed PhD projects