Ellen Kandeler

TL;DR: It is concluded that both warming and drought affected the denitrifying communities and the potential denitrification in grassland soils, however, these effects are overruled by regional and site-specific differences in soil chemical and physical properties which are also related to grassland land-use intensity.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of soil organic carbon (SOC) quantity, quality, and soil physical and biochemical properties on soil basal respiration and of the temperature sensitivities of enzymes (β-glucosidase and xylanase) at two scales: landscape (two individual areas, each approximately 27 km2) and regional (pooled data of both areas).

TL;DR: The synergistic effects of protists and mycorrhiza indicated systemic effects on nutrient- and on root-allocation within root systems as an emergent property that could not be predicted from single treatments with mycorRhiza or protists alone.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied two surface horizons in two consecutive years at nine sites in Stuttgart, Germany, differing in land use, and found that the lowest microbial biomass and activity were observed at a highly disturbed railway area where vegetation was missing and total organic C (TOC) had been altered by anthropogenic organic particles.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether land-use intensity contributes to spatial variation in microbial abundance and function in grassland ecosystems at one time point, three sites at low (unfertilized pastures), at intermediate (fERTilized mown pastures) and at high (fertile mown meadows) LUIs were selected in southern Germany within each of these nine grassland sites, 54 soil samples (0-10 cm) were taken in a 10m × 10m area in spring.