Publications

Bauke S., Schnepf A., Sperber C., Orlowski N., Lewandowski H., Selzner T., Tamburini F., Amelung W. (2021). Tracing uptake and translocation of phosphorus in wheat using oxygen isotopes and mathematical modelling. New Phytologist, 230(5), 1883-1895. doi:10.1111/nph.17307

Understanding P uptake in soil–plant systems requires suitable P tracers. The stable oxygen isotope ratio in phosphate (expressed as δ18OP) is an alternative to radioactive labelling, but the degree to which plants preserve the δ18OP value of the P source is unclear. We hypothesised that the source …

Beule L., Karlovsky P. (2021). Tree rows in temperate agroforestry croplands alter the composition of soil bacterial communities. PLOS ONE, 16(2), e0246919. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0246919

Background Tree-based intercropping (agroforestry) has been advocated to reduce adverse environmental impacts of conventional arable cropping. Modern agroforestry systems in the temperate zone are alley-cropping systems that combine rows of fast-growing trees with rows of arable crops. Soil microbia…

Garske B., Ekardt F. (2021). Ökonomische Instrumente der Phosphor-Governance. Natur und Recht, 43(4), 245-256. doi:10.1007/s10357-021-3827-1

Phosphor (P) ist eine lebensnotwendige und nicht-substituierbare Ressource für die landwirtschaftliche Erzeugung. Um die Nahrungsmittelversorgung sicherzustellen und gleichzeitig düngungsbezogene Umweltschäden zu vermeiden, bedarf es eines nachhaltigen P-Managements. Zwar werden P-bezogene Problemla…

Heidrich V., Karlovsky P., Beule L. (2021). ‘SRS’ R Package and ‘q2-srs’ QIIME 2 Plugin: Normalization of Microbiome Data Using Scaling with Ranked Subsampling (SRS). Applied Sciences, 11(23), 11473. doi:10.3390/app112311473

Several ecological data types, especially microbiome count data, are commonly sample-wise normalized before analysis to correct for sampling bias and other technical artifacts. Recently, we developed an algorithm for the normalization of ecological count data called ‘scaling with ranked subsampling …