Description of the research projects
Current projects
Peatland response to climate change: The role of plant roots
Deepsoil 2100 - a network of soil warming experiments
Past projects
Key drivers for alkane d2H composition of boreal tree needles
Biogeochemical validation of remotely sensed plant traits
Where on Earth is fire-derived carbon stored?
Global view of pyrogenic carbon export by rivers
Effect of drought on C cycling: which roles play lignin and lipids?
Tracing organic matter in the plant soil system: an holistic approach
Pyrogenic organic matter decomposition and stabilisation in soils
How vulnerable is Swiss soil organic matter to climate and land use changes?
Agricultural management and below ground carbon inputs
Breeding and drought influence root biomass and rooting depth
- Combustion signature
- Organic matter tracing in the plant-soil system: an holistic approach
- Pyrogenic organic matter decomposition and stabilisation in soils
- How vulnerable is Swiss soil organic matter to climate and land use changes?
- Global view of pyrogenic carbon export by rivers
- Biochar application to soils
- Effect of drought on C cycling: which roles play lignin and lipids?
- Quantification of post sedimentary root-derived carbon in loess using molecular proxies to improve paleoenvironmental reconstruction
- P availability and turnover of the organic belowground inputs into a Ferralsol (Affiliated project)
- Agricultural Intensity and Below Ground Carbon Inputs (Affiliated)
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The influence of drought and breeding on root biomass and rooting depth of „Swiss Bread Wheat Genotypes“ (Affiliated)
- Aging of fire-derived carbon in the terrestrial soil environment; a holistic view of source to sink transfer in two contrasting ecosystems
- Deep-C
- Biogeochemcial validation of remotely sensed plant traits
- IQ-SASS - Improved Quantitative Source Assessment of organic matter in Soils and Sediments using molecular markers and inverse modeling
- Shedding light on Lower Danube Black Sea region paleoclimate since the Mid-Brunhes Event (MBE) by novel loess-paleosol records - LOEs-CLIMBE
- Deciphering incorporation and decomposition of plant-derived organic matter in forest soils in a warmer future
- The significance of aerosols and volatile organic substances for the incorporation of plant biomass into soil
- Peatland response to climate change: The role of plant roots