Active Projects

• ERC Starting Grant: Mycorrhizal Types and Soil Carbon Storage: A mechanistic theory of fungal mediated soil organic matter cycling in temperate forests
  Carbon is the building block of all living things. Precious carbon atoms are continuously recycled, from the atmosphere to the ground, and back again. Most ground carbon is stored in rocks and sediment and a lot of it derives from photosynthesising plants. The process may involve a mediator, mycorrhizal fungi, with which most terrestrial plants live in symbiotic relationships. Understanding the role of mycorrhizal fungi in the carbon cycle is critical to modelling and predicting climate change. The EU-funded MYCO-SoilC project will characterize mycorrhizal-mediated carbon turnover, thereby facilitating predictions of soil-climate feedback to inform climate change modelling. [Details]
  
  
• Rhizosphere functions in plant water uptake: Mechanistic link between carbon and water fluxes in the plant-soil system
  Part of “Rhizosphere Spatiotemporal Organisation – a Key to Rhizosphere Functions” (SPP 2089) [Details]
  
  
• DFG Core Facility: Bayreuth Center for Stable Isotope Research in Ecology and Biogeochemistry (BayCenSI)
  Alexander Frank, Johanna Pausch, Tillmann Lüders, Eva Lehndorff, Gerhard Gebauer, Birgit Thies [Details]
  
  
• Rhizosphere traits enhancing yield resilience to drought in modern cropping systems
  BMBF [Details]
  
  
• Demonstrationsprojekt Silphie-Anbau im Projektgebiet Nördliche Frankenalb
  Reinhard Wesinger (GeoTeam), Marianne Lauerer, Johanna Pausch [Details]
  
  
• Towards a predictive understanding of how mycorrhizal types influence the decomposition of soil organic matter
  Johanna Pausch, Matthias Gube, Richard Phillips, Saskia Klink [Details]