New paper from the #KROOF experiment in Global Change Biology about the C allocation upon drought release in mature Norway spruce onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc…

Drought is tough, but what about more than one drought? Benjamin Hesse is telling us now, at #XIM5!

Check out our newest paper about the recovery phase of the #KROOF experiment in Tree Physiology doi.org/10.1093/treeph…

New paper from the #KROOF project in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Journal. Check out how repeated summer drought influences the xylem sap flow profile in beech and spruce. doi.org/10.1016/j.agrf…

New publication in cooperation with @TUMsoil about an improved measuzrement setup for small CO2 fluxes. e.g. in biocrusts doi.org/10.1029/2023JG…

How it all started vs how it's going... In the end, the tragic looking prototype turned into a gas sampling system adapted to capture #CO2 fluxes in arid #biocrust systems. Thank you so much to everyone involved! Full paper out now: doi.org/10.1029/2023JG…

Modifications of rhizosheath properties as part of belowground plant drought adaptation Steiner et al. @TUMsoil RhizoTraits_Bonares 📖 ow.ly/7XyT50QJjxa

The abstract submission is now open for the 53rd Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland @GfoeSoc at gfoe-conference.de Come join us in Freising in September for an exciting conference!

🗣️Save the date!! 📢We are pleased to announce the next Xylem International meeting #XIM6 🌳🍃🌿🪴📈 🗓️18-20 March 2025 📍Seville, Spain -> t.ly/gX1ZJ ⚠️Number of available seats limited. 📱💻 Stay tuned for more information -> forms.gle/r5F8rve5z1C7eY…

🚀 #GreenSleeveProject Update: We've made great progress on our custom gas-exchange chamber for measuring CO2 and O2 concentrations in tree stems! Just a few tests left before we start our measurements. 🌳 #GasExchange #GreenSleeveProject

New paper about how soil fungal communities and rooting patterns shape the drought response of beech seedlings in Plant and Soil doi.org/10.1007/s11104…

And another exciting paper published by Kristina Witzgall on soil aggregation and formation driven by living and decaying roots. Great work and great collaboration! doi.org/10.1016/j.soil…

💡Today at the Vienna Children's University #KinderUni, kids got to explore the wonders of plants in our program "Root Miracles and Leaf Secrets“ at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna #BOKU. They learned about what plants eat, breathe, drink, and feel.

Glad to see our work on root legacy effects on soil aggregation and organic matter formation out now in Soil Biology & Biochemistry Journal - exploring the #rhizosphere to #detritusphere transition in dryland soils. More to come.

A long journey, but finally we could publish the results of 5 years of repeated summer drought on water use and underlying acclimation processes in mature beech and spruce in STOTEN. #KROOF Ecophysiology of Plants doi.org/10.1016/j.scit…

Final PhD paper out now in Global Change Biology, where we show the fundamental role of #biocrusts in regulating soil C cycles in #drylands, and how some of the most essential #biogeochemical #processes are diminished under #climate #change @Nardaluu @CarstenWMueller (see link below)

We recently published our experiment on #climate #change impacts on #C #N cycling in biocrust-soil systems🦠🔍Curious about the work that goes into such a study? Here are some behind-the-scenes insights! 🧵Thread below, let's go!⤵️ Article available here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

NEW Soil carbon and nitrogen cycling at the atmosphere–soil interface: Quantifying the responses of biocrust–soil interactions to global change 📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Kristina Witzgall @CarstenWMueller and @TUMsoil

Mature beech trees redistributed soil water, equal to ca. 10% of stand #transpiration, from deeper moist #soils to dry surface soils, where it was taken up by seedlings of different #tree species. New #hydraulicredistribution paper with Benjamin D. Hesse: doi.org/10.1111/plb.13…

New publication about the calibration IoT-sap flow sensors and the differences between wood types from Ecophysiology of Plants in Tree Physiology. doi.org/10.1093/treeph…