Wolfgang Wanek

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of resource stoichiometry on soil microorganisms and decomposition, specifically on the structure and function of the soil food web, have been investigated, focusing on heterotrophic microbial communities.

TL;DR: It is found that microbes retain most immobilized organic N when they are N limited, resulting in low N mineralization, however, when the metabolic control of microbial decomposers switches from N to C limitation, they release an increasing fraction of organic N as ammonium (low NUE).

TL;DR: This review synthetize recent advances in ecology and plant biology to explain and propose mechanisms by which root exudation of primary metabolites is controlled, and what role theirExudation plays in plant nutrient acquisition strategies, and proposes a novel conceptual framework forRoot exudates.

TL;DR: This review summarizes different views on how microbes cope with imbalanced supply of C, N and P, thereby providing a framework for integrating and linking microbial adaptation to resource imbalances to ecosystem scale fluxes across scales and ecosystems.

TL;DR: In this article, the Berthelot reaction was used to quantify ammonium in a micro-titer plate format and the results were compared with conventional methods such as high-performance anion-exchange chromatography for NO3 and high-temperature catalytic oxidation for TDN.