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Current projects

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

Shedding light on Lower Danube Black Sea region paleoclimate since the Mid-Brunhes Event (MBE) by novel loess-paleosol records - LOEs-CLIMBE

Peatland response to climate change: The role of plant roots

Carbon in the deep soil

IQ-SASS - Improved Quantitative Source Assessment of organic matter in Soils and Sediments using molecular markers and inverse modeling

Understanding the influence of daylight on plant functioning from leaf level to forest stands - A stable isotope approach

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?

Biochar application to soils

Phosphorus availability and its interaction with plant belowground carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus input to soil

Combustion leaves its signature in aquatic sediments: unraveling origin and fate of pyrogenic carbon using molecular 14C records

Global view of pyrogenic carbon export by rivers

Effect of drought on C cycling: which roles play lignin and lipids?

Quantification of postsedimentary root-derived carbon in loess using molecular proxies to improve paleoenvironmental reconstruction

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

 

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