Martina Gocke

• Interactions in the system plant – soil – sediment (recent and paleoecosystems)
• Formation processes and recrystallization rates of pedogenic carbonates
• Pedogenesis under arid to semihumid climates
• Rhizoliths (calcified roots) as archives of paleovegetation and input of root-derived compounds
• Rhizosphere processes
• Reconstruction of paleovegetation and paleoecological conditions based on stable carbon isotopes of organic matter and carbonates as well as lipid molecular proxies
• Middle and Southeast European loess
• Lipid composition of higher plants and turnover of plant-derived lipids in soils
• Quantification of root-derived compounds in soils and sediments
• Distinction between root- and shoot-derived, as well as between grass- and tree-derived organic compounds
• Terrestrial silicon cycle and silicon uptake by plants
• Late Silurian paleoclimate of temperate latitudes (Prague Basin) 

Zeitzeugen einer früheren Waldvegetation
- Rhizolithe verraten viel über vergangene Vegetation