Research

Completed Projects

2007

• Grenzüberschreitender Biotopverbund für Raufußhühner in der Euregio Egrensis
  August Spitznagel [Details]
  
  

2006

• Aphid induced process cascades in the canopy of forest trees under elevated CO2-concentrations
  Kristin Strobel, Bernhard Stadler [Details]
  
  
• QA/QC for Carbon Dioxide Flux Measurements
  Mathias Göckede, Matthias Mauder, Florian Wimmer, Thomas Foken [Details]
  
  
• Umsatz und Mobilität von Arsenverbindungen in einem bewaldeten Einzugsgebiet
  Jen-How Huang, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Stabilisierung gelöster organischer Substanz in Böden durch Ausfällung mit Aluminium
  Thorsten Scheel, Karsten Kalbitz [Details]
  
  
• Effects of high litterfall amounts on the transport of mineral elements and dissolved organic matter in the soil of a warm temperate montane forest ecosystem in Taiwan
  Shih-Chieh Chang, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  

2005

• Scaling Analysis of Hydrometeorological Time Series
  Birgit Thies, Holger Lange [Details]
  
  
• Einsatz und Optimierung des CART-Verfahrens als Planungsinstrument bei der Prognose der Stickstoffdynamik in Landschaften
  Benny Selle, Bernd Huwe [Details]
  
  
• The influence of natural organic matter and iron oxides on the redoxstate and complexation of arsenic in aquatic systems
  Christian Blodau [Details]
  
  
• Carbon-Nitrogen interactions in forest ecosystems
  Björn Berg, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  

2004

• BioDiv-Net
  Thomas Gollan, Carsten Neßhöver [Details]
  
  
• Effects of changed litter and water input, of clear cutting and a changing tree species composition on the dynamic of DOC and DON in soils
  Karsten Kalbitz, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Einflüsse kohärenter Strukturen auf den Energie- und Stoffaustausch in hohen Beständen
  Christoph Thomas, Jens-Christopher Mayer, Thomas Foken [Details]
  
  
• Identifikation von Langzeittrends in Gebietsabflüssen und anderen umweltrelevanten Kenngrößen
  Holger Lange, Michael Hauhs, Holger Lange [Details]
  
  
• Indikatoren des Stoffhaushalts von Waldökosystemen
  Werner Borken, Jens Langusch, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Klimatologie und Deposition von Luftschadstoffen im Fichtelgebirge
  Johannes Lüers, Otto Klemm, Johannes Olesch, Jörg Gerchau, Thomas Foken [Details]
  
  
• Knowledge management in silviculture based on growth simulations with interactive 3D-visualization
  Thomas Glotzmann, Falk-Juri Knauft, Michael Hauhs [Details]
  
  
• Litterfall Steinkreuz (amounts and chemistry)
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• Messung turbulenter Flüsse von Kohlendioxid und stabilem Kohlenstoffisotop 13 über Pflanzenbeständen mit Hilfe der Relaxed Eddy Accumulation-Methode
  Johannes Ruppert, Joel Schröter, Theresa Bertolini, Thomas Foken [Details]
  
  
• Struktur von Lebensgemeinschaften in Baumstümpfen und zeitliche Dynamik von Nährstoffzyklen
  Bernhard Stadler [Details]
  
  
• Umsatz organischer Zinn- und Quecksilberverbindungen in einem bewaldeten Einzugsgebiet
  Jen-How Huang, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Zeitliche Entwicklung und räumliche Dynamik des Stoffhaushaltes in zwei Einzugsgebieten
  Gunnar Lischeid, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Effects of exotic pest species on insect community structure and vital ecosystem processes
  Bernhard Stadler [Details]
  
  
• Einfluss von Biofilmen auf die Stabilisierung von gelöster organischer Substanz (DOM) im Mineralboden
  Matthias Heinz, Thorsten Scheel, Karsten Kalbitz [Details]
  
  
• Nachhaltige Landnutzung im Weißenstädter Becken - Einführung eines integrierten Einzugsgebietsmanagements zum Schutz des Grundwassers und der oberirdischen Gewässer
  Marion Mertens, Hannaleena Meier, Thomas Gollan, Bernd Huwe [Details]
  
  
• Biodiversity and Ecosytem Functions in Grasslands
  Carsten Neßhöver, Guido Kossmann, Thomas Gollan, Egbert Matzner, Carl Beierkuhnlein [Details]
  
  
• Emission and Chemical Transformation of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds
  Jens-Christopher Mayer, Christoph Thomas, Michael Kortner [Details]
  
  
• Quantifizierung und Bewertung von Fließ- und Transportmustern in der ungesättigten Zone von Forst- und Agrarökosystemen
  Martin Schlather, Bernd Huwe [Details]
  
  
• VERTIKO: Vertical transport of energy and trace gases at anchor stations and their time and space extrapolation under complex natural conditions
  John Tenhunen [Details]
  
  

2003

• Energy Balance Experiment 2000, EBEX
  Thomas Foken, Claudia Liebethal, Matthias Mauder [Details]
  
  
• Therophytenvegetation in Jordanien
  Klaus Müller-Hohenstein [Details]
  
  
• Untersuchung des urbanen Aerosols auf abwasserbürtige Aerosole anhand der Tracer Choprostanol und Cholesterol
  Michael Radke, Reimer Herrmann [Details]
  
  
• Forest Carbon - Nitrogen Trajectories
  Anette Gräff, Kerstin Löblich-Ille, Gerhard Gebauer [Details]
  
  
• Integrated Nitrogen Model for European Catchments
  Jens Langusch, Birgit Maier, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Predicting recovery in acidified freshwaters by the year 2010, and beyond
  Christine Alewell, Elisabeth Herrmann, Annette Prechtel, Dorothea Wiesner, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  

2002

• DDA/NSC Joint Research Collaboration
  Shih-Chieh Chang [Details]
  
  
• Lufthygienisch-Bioklimatische Kennzeichnung des oberen Egertales
  Cornelia Gerwig (Klör), Claudia Liebethal, Matthias Mauder, Johannes Ruppert, Monika Soldner, Christoph Thomas, Thomas Foken [Details]
  
  
• Quantification of the atmospheric input of water and nutrients to a forest ecosystem through fog deposition
  Thomas Wrzesinsky, Otto Klemm [Details]
  
  
• Spatial variability in the flow of nutrients through the canopy of Hemlock trees infested with the Hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae)
  Bernhard Stadler [Details]
  
  
• Bedeutung verholzter Wurzelzonen für die Ionen- und Wasseraufnahme von Fichte, Buche und Eiche
  Julia Lindenmair, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Vertical fluxes over forests: Field experiments for the parameterization and validation of models
  Jörg Gerchau, Andreas Held, Cornelia Gerwig (Klör), Otto Klemm [Details]
  
  
• Ecosystem Management in Cultural Landscapes
  John Tenhunen [Details]
  
  
• Stabilization of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in mineral subsoils as indicated by spectroscopic properties and the Al saturation
  Karsten Kalbitz, Juliane Schmerwitz, David Schwesig, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Development fo several protection concepts for the ecological stabilizaion of mussel streams and their rivarine zone in Oberfranken (NE-Germany)
  Gunter Ilgen, Thomas Gollan [Details]
  
  

2001

• Waldstruktur und Bestandestranspiration von Standorten mit Ahorn, Birke und Erle im zentralen Fichtelgebirge
  Marco Pecchiari, Markus Schmidt, Paul Stoy, John Tenhunen [Details]
  
  
• Evolutionary Optimization in Biology and Numerics by Abstraction and Synthesis of Natural Organisms" Behavior
  Clemens Frey, Alois Kastner-Maresch [Details]
  
  
• Zeitreihenanalyse der Dynamik von Hochwasserereignissen
  Knut Bernhardt, Doris Haug, Daniel Kamps, Holger Lange [Details]
  
  
• Interdisziplinäres Forschungs- und Entwicklungsvorhaben Färbepflanzen
  Friedlinde Schillinger, Marco Schillinger, Bernd Huwe [Details]
  
  
• Stressphysiologie, Primärproduktion und Dynamik amazonischer Waldsysteme - Holzatmung und CO₂-Bilanz
  Reiner Zimmermann, John Tenhunen [Details]
  
  

2000

• Above ground uptake of nitrogen
  Jutta Lauf, Gerhard Gebauer [Details]
  
  
• Development of a 3-D-mixed stand model for the nitrogen dependent CO2 and water exchange of mixed beech stands in Northern Bavaria
  Stefan Fleck, Jens-Arne Subke, John Tenhunen [Details]
  
  
• Dynamically induced patterns of transport processes in forest soils
  Martin Schlather, Bernd Huwe [Details]
  
  
• Dynamics of material cycles in forest ecosystems at different space and time scales
  Christine Alewell, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Ecology of aphids in relation to ecosystem processes (DOC, DON-flows) in an oak-beech forest stand
  Beate Michalzik, Bernhard Stadler [Details]
  
  
• Evaluation of forest management techniques by visualization of growth models
  Alois Kastner-Maresch, Lael Parrott, Bernd Scheerer, Birgit Thies, Michael Hauhs [Details]
  
  
• Growth deformation on douglas fir - diagnostic fertilization with boron and molybdenum
  Christel Bihl, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Hydraulic and hydrochemical interactions between scepage, surface, and ground water - episodes and long-term trends
  Anette Hauck, Morten Lehmann, Gunnar Lischeid, Michael Hauhs [Details]
  
  
• Indicators of material cycles in forest ecosystems
  Martin Armbruster, Jens Langusch, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Landscape-oriented recording registration of water use in managed forest stands
  Andrew Angeli, Marco Pecchiari, Reiner Zimmermann, John Tenhunen [Details]
  
  
• Meteorology and air pollution in the Fichtelgebirge
  Jörg Gerchau, Thomas Foken, Otto Klemm [Details]
  
  
• Modeling the effects of land use changes on nitrogen dynamics in soils of the upper Eger catchment in the Fichtelgebirge
  Wolfgang Falk, Marion Mertens, Bernd Huwe [Details]
  
  
• Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Renaturierungsmaßnahmen zur Förderung dynamischer Prozesse in Auen und mögliche Zielkonflikte mit anderen Nutzungen
  Andreas von Heßberg [Details]
  
  
• Phase distribution of nitrogen compounds in the atmospheric boundary layer
  Jörg Gerchau, Alexander Mangold, Thomas Wrzesinsky, Otto Klemm [Details]
  
  
• The analysis of hydrological and hydrochemical time series with multi-variate non-linear procedures
  Gunnar Lischeid, Tobias Rötting, Michael Hauhs [Details]
  
  
• The application of the complexity theory in ecosystem research
  Holger Lange, Michael Hauhs [Details]
  
  
• The effects of the activity of fine roots of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) on soil solution and solid phase
  Martin Braun, Antje Dieffenbach, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• The influence of leaf wetness on the depostion velocity of water soluble gases
  Thomas Foken, Otto Klemm [Details]
  
  
• The role of different root zones in ion and water uptake of mature spruce trees
  Axel Göttlein, Julia Lindenmair, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• The role of light climate and leaf area development for canopy-water and CO2 fluxes along a gradient of tree species and structure in the Steigerwald
  Stefan Fleck, Barbara Köstner, Markus Schmidt, John Tenhunen [Details]
  
  
• The stable carbon isotope 13C and its pools in and flows between soil, vegetation, and atmosphere in different plant communities of the Fichtelgebirge
  Nina Buchmann, Johannes Ruppert, Bodo Wichura, Thomas Foken [Details]
  
  
• The turnover of organic N-compounds (DON) in a deciduous forest ecosystem
  Stephan Solinger, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Turnover of mercury and methyl mercury in forested catchments
  Ortrun Krebs, David Schwesig, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Uptake of nutrient cations by forest trees
  Birgitta Brunner, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Impact of climate change on temperate forests
  Walter Dörwald, Alois Kastner-Maresch, Michael Sonntag, Michael Hauhs [Details]
  
  
• Stickstoff als Faktor der Humusstabilität in Waldböden
  Kerstin Michel, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Verbreitung und Bildung von Organometallspezies in Altdeponien
  Dietmar Glindemann, Reimer Herrmann, Frank Hertel, Petra Peintinger, Gunter Ilgen [Details]
  
  

1999

• Carbon and water fluxes of Mediterranean forests and impacts of land use/cover changes
  Markus Reichstein, John Tenhunen [Details]
  
  
• Long-Term-Effect on European Forests
  Alois Kastner-Maresch, Michael Hauhs [Details]
  
  
• Meteorological influences on the wind enery use in hilly regions
  Matthias Hierteis, Thomas Foken [Details]
  
  
• The relevance of stand structure for the growth of mixed forest stands: empirical analysis, model oriented reproduction and the link to growth models
  Katharina Kolata, Michael Hauhs [Details]
  
  
• Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound Emission Modelling for European Forest Canopies
  Wolfgang Faltin, Ülo Niinemets, John Tenhunen [Details]
  
  
• Scale dependent nitrogen dynamics in forests
  Hans Piehler, Bernd Huwe [Details]
  
  

1998

• Anpassung von Waldbäumen an Lichtgradienten im Kronenraum
  Barbara Köstner, John Tenhunen [Details]
  
  
• Carbon and nitrogen cycling in forest ecosystems
  Ernst-Detlef Schulze [Details]
  
  
• Ecological effects of land use changes on European terrestrial mountain ecosystems
  Hans-Joachim Scharfenberg, John Tenhunen [Details]
  
  
• Experimental investigations of the energy balance at the earth surface
  Thomas Foken [Details]
  
  
• Long term carbon dioxide and water vapour fluxes of European forests and interactions with the climate system
  Wolfgang Faltin, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Michael Wedler, John Tenhunen [Details]
  
  
• Potential Effects of Climatic Changes on Soil water Status and Drought Stress Susceptability of Norway Spruce Stands in the German Alps
  Bernhard Manderscheid, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Effects of climate change on carbon gain, transpiration and water budget of forests and meadows along altitudinal gradients in southern Bavaria
  Eva-Maria Falge, Ralf Geyer, John Tenhunen [Details]
  
  
• Spatial variability of microbiological parameters of nitrogen transformations in forest soils
  Oleg Menjailo, Bernd Huwe [Details]
  
  

1997

• Above ground uptake of nitrogen
  Gerhard Gebauer, Jutta Lauf, Ernst-Detlef Schulze [Details]
  
  
• Aphids on Norway spruce and their potential role for C and N-fluxes in forest ecosystems
  Beate Michalzik, Bernhard Stadler [Details]
  
  
• Biotic Growth Strategies and Abiotic Boundary Conditions
  Alois Kastner-Maresch, Michael Hauhs [Details]
  
  
• Concentrations and deposition of particulate and gaseous sulfur and nitrogen in the Fichtelgebirge
  Jörg Gerchau, Otto Klemm, Klaus Peters, Reiner Eiden (1932-2018) [Details]
  
  
• Development of physically-based models of forest gas exchange at the catchment scale
  Wolfgang Faltin, Stefan Fleck, Ulrich Joss, Bertram Ostendorf, John Tenhunen [Details]
  
  
• Ecosystem analysis by means of complexity theory
  Holger Lange, Frank Wolf, Michael Hauhs [Details]
  
  
• Effect of stem runoff and stem-runoff-affected soil on the turnover of nitrogen in beech stands - soil chemistry
  Shih-Chieh Chang, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Effects of decreasing SO42-, Ca2+, and Mg2+ deposition on the cation exchange capacity and the base saturation of acid forest soils
  Gunda Matschonat, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Evapotranspiration and CO2 gas exchange of the understory in forest ecosystems
  Hans-Joachim Scharfenberg, Michael Wedler, Reiner Zimmermann, John Tenhunen [Details]
  
  
• Exchange processes at the vegetation-atmosphere-interface: canopy transpiration and conductance as key variables in forests of different structure
  Barbara Köstner, John Tenhunen [Details]
  
  
• Investigations concerning mechanisms and kinetics of the inorganic sulfur-bonding in acidified forest soils and identification of the solid-phases of sulfur
  Stefan Peiffer [Details]
  
  
• Investigations of Sulfur Dynamics in the Aquifer
  Michael Hauhs, Andreas Kolb, Gunnar Lischeid [Details]
  
  
• Micro lysimetry as a tool for studying soil solution chemistry in the vicinity of growing roots
  Antje Dieffenbach, Axel Göttlein, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Modelling the Water Budget in a Beech Forest (Water Budget Model)
  Ralf Callenberg, Michael Hauhs [Details]
  
  
• Onestep-, multistep- and continuous transient flow experiments for the determination of the soil hydraulic properties
  Wolfgang Durner, Bernd Schultze, Reimer Herrmann [Details]
  
  
• Physics of transport processes in undisturbed ecosystems
  Holger Lange, Michael Hauhs [Details]
  
  
• Production and Transport of organic solutes: Effects of natural climatic variation (PROTOS)
  Birgitta Brunner, Beate Michalzik, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Role of Dissolved Organic Nitrogen Compounds (DON) in the Nitrogen Cycle of Forest Ecosystems
  Beate Michalzik, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Scale dependent nitrogen dynamics in forests
  Andreas Gaßner, Hans Piehler, Kai Uwe Totsche, Bernd Huwe [Details]
  
  
• The BITÖK analytical laboratory
  Petra Dietrich, Andrea Glaßer, Gunter Ilgen, Jan Irmler, Kerstin Lateier, Bettina Popp, Christine Stöcker, Thomas Gollan [Details]
  
  
• The BITÖK computer network
  Thomas Gollan, Nikolaus Klever [Details]
  
  
• The BITÖK research sites in NE Bavaria - Routinely measurements and maintenance
  Andrea Glaßer, Uwe Hell, Andreas Kolb, Bettina Popp, Georg Walther, Thomas Gollan [Details]
  
  
• The role of SO4-Reduction and spatial Heterogeneity of Soil SO4 Pools for the Reversibility of Soil and Water Acidification
  Christine Alewell, Claudia Jungnickel, Bernhard Manderscheid, Thomas Schweisser, Egbert Matzner [Details]
  
  
• Uptake of Ammonium and Nitrate in Forest Trees
  Gerhard Gebauer, Christoph May, Gisela Schmidt, Ernst-Detlef Schulze [Details]
  
  

1996

• A Data Base for the Documentation of Water and Ion Budgets of Forest Ecosystems
  Michael Hauhs [Details]
  
  
• Dendrochronological investigations on inorganic compunds in wood
  Thomas Gollan, Gunter Ilgen [Details]
  
  
• Characterization of Spatial Heterogeneity in Transpiration from Different Spruce Stands
  Martina Alsheimer, John Tenhunen [Details]
  
  
• Contribution of Redoxchemical Processes to the Neutralization of Atmospheric Acidification in Small Watersheds, Frankenwald (Northeast-Bavaria)
  Jörg Lindemann, Stefan Peiffer, Reimer Herrmann [Details]
  
  
• SIMFONI - A Numerical Model for the Simultaneous Simulation of Water, Heat and Nitrogen Dynamics in Forest Ecosystems
  Kai Uwe Totsche, Bernd Huwe [Details]
  
  
• Soil water availability effects on transpiration and canopy conductance of Pinus sylvestris
  Barbara Köstner, Nils Sturm, John Tenhunen [Details]
  
  
• Dynamic gas transport inside of forest soil and its couplings with the fluxes of water and heat
  Matthias Haubold, Bernd Huwe [Details]
  
  

1995

• Competition and spreading characteristics of Calamagrostis villosa (CHAIX) J.F. GMEL. in the Western Fichtelgebirge
  Heike Betz, Doris Koppisch, Ernst-Detlef Schulze [Details]
  
  

1993

• Vergleichende Untersuchungen über den Einfluß einer Kompostdüngung auf die Wasser- und Nährstoffbilanz eines gebspitzigen Kiefernbestandes auf sauren Sanden 6hrstoffbilanz eines gebspitzigen Kiefernbestandes auf sauren Sanden
  [Details]