Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ
Themenbereich Ökosysteme der Zukunft
Department Bodenökologie
Address
Theodor-Lieser-Straße 4
06120 Halle
Deutschland
GERiT
This institution in GERiT
06120 Halle
Projects
Priority Programmes
Current projects
A drought tolerant synthetic bacterial community for barley
(Applicant
Tarkka, Mika
)
Microbial life in the rhizosphere: kinetics and visualization of the functions
(Applicant
Blagodatskaya, Evgenia
)
Microheat-2: Carbon and energy turnover for complex substrates and intact soils
(Applicants
Blagodatskaya, Evgenia
;
Reitz, Thomas
;
Schlüter, Steffen
)
Spatial and temporal analysis of maize root gene expression to elucidate how the maize interacts with the rhizosphere microbiome and the environment
(Applicant
Tarkka, Mika
)
Completed projects
Influence of Laccase production by fungi and mycorrhizas on edification and stability of organic substances in agricultural and forest soil
(Applicant
Buscot, Francois
)
Regulation of Photoassimilation and C-transfer in early stage of ectomycorrhizal symbioses by oaks
(Applicant
Buscot, Francois
)
Stabilization of organic matter by layer silicates - quality and turnover of products of interaction
(Applicant
Schulz, Elke
)
Research Grants
Completed projects
Diversity of glomeromycota, basidiomycetous yeasts and genes encoding laccase like multicopper oxidases along land use gradients at the German biodiversity exploratories
(Applicants
Begerow, Dominik
;
Buscot, Francois
)
Enzymes of plant gallotannin metabolism
(Applicant
Milkowski, Carsten
)
Microbial diversity-ecosystem function relationships across environmental gradients
(Applicants
Buscot, Francois
;
Eisenhauer, Nico
;
Heintz-Buschart, Anna
;
Küsel, Kirsten
;
Wegner, Carl-Eric
)
Mobilisierung und Transfer von Schwermetallen durch Mykorrhizen unter Berücksichtigung von Radionukliden
(Applicant
Buscot, Francois
)
Multitrophic Interactions with Oaks
(Applicants
Buscot, Francois
;
Grams, Thorsten
;
Rueß, Liliane
;
Scheu, Stefan
;
Schrey, Silvia
;
Tarkka, Mika
)
Predicting European forest soil biodiversity and its functioning under ongoing climate change
(Applicants
Bauhus, Jürgen
;
Buscot, Francois
;
Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael
)
Regulation der Photoassimilation und des C-Transfers in der Frühphase von ektomykorrhizalen Symbiosen der Stieleiche
(Applicant
Buscot, Francois
)
Relating N transformation and transport to microbial activities in forest soils
(Applicants
Buscot, Francois
;
Guggenberger, Georg
;
Kandeler, Ellen
)
Soil biodiversity and suppressiveness of soil against plant diseases and insect pests
(Applicants
Buscot, Francois
;
Smalla, Kornelia
)
Species diversity in the fungal generaHebeloma and Alnicola(Basidiomycota, Cortinarales, Cortnaraceae) in Central Europe
(Applicant
Buscot, Francois
)
Research Units
Current projects
C2 – Experimental Platforms and Plant Material
(Applicants
Bouffaud, Marie Lara
;
Gossner, Martin
;
Heer, Katrin
;
Opgenoorth, Lars
;
Tarkka, Mika
)
FOR 5571: Using clonal oak phytometers to unravel acclimation and adaptation mechanisms of long-lived forest tree holobionts to ecological variations and climate change
(Spokesperson
Opgenoorth, Lars
)
SP1: Microbial root symbionts as drivers of eco-evolutionary dynamics and long- term biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships in plant communities
(Applicants
Buscot, Francois
;
Heintz-Buschart, Anna
)
SP2 – Holobiont acclimation and adaptation to global change as revealed by the transcriptome
(Applicant
Bouffaud, Marie Lara
)
SP4 - Cross talk between environmental conditions, oak tree performance, and the microbiomes of their soil, endo- and phyllosphere
(Applicants
Becker, Anke
;
Goldmann, Kezia
;
Junker, Robert R.
;
Prada-Salcedo, Ph.D., Luis Daniel
)
SP5 - Adaptation and acclimation of the clonal oak’s ectomycorrhizal fungi to biotic and abiotic environmental factors
(Applicant
Tarkka, Mika
)
Completed projects
Decomposer - interaction webs and the effect of belowground biota for ecosystem processes
(Applicants
Buscot, Francois
;
Scheu, Stefan
)
Diversity and functions of arbuscular mycorrhizal and soil fungi with oxidative potential in grasslands with different levels of plant diversity
(Applicant
Buscot, Francois
)
Effects of forest biodiversity on microbial growth and activity in specific microsites and across the landscape
(Applicant
Buscot, Francois
)
Interplay between the soil microbiome and tree species richness as well as tree species identity in subtropical forests of China
(Applicants
Buscot, Francois
;
Wubet, Tesfaye
)
Soil fungi as link between plant derived carbon and soil food webs (FunLink)
(Applicant
Wubet, Tesfaye
)
Infrastructure Priority Programmes
Current projects
BELongDead - Multitrophic functional diversity in deadwood (BLD-MultiFuncDiv)
(Applicant
Moll, Julia
)
Core Project 8: Soil microbial diversity and community composition of grassland and forest ecosystems along land use gradients in three German Biodiversity Exploratories
(Applicants
Goldmann, Kezia
;
Overmann, Jörg
;
Schloter, Michael
)
Land use and biodiversity determine the contribution of microbial necromass to soil carbon storage (BioNeCS)
(Applicants
Bi, Qing-Fang
;
Glaser, Bruno
;
Goldmann, Kezia
;
Kaiser, Klaus
;
Prada-Salcedo, Ph.D., Luis Daniel
;
Schrumpf, Marion
)
Completed projects
Exploratories for large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research: the core project
(Applicants
Buscot, Francois
;
Fischer, Markus
;
Kalko, Elisabeth
;
Linsenmair, Karl Eduard
;
Schulze, Ernst-Detlef
;
Weisser, Wolfgang W.
)
Microbial Data Synthesis and Meta-analysis for the Biodiversity Exploratories
(Applicants
Bonkowski, Michael
;
Buscot, Francois
;
Daniel, Rolf
;
Kandeler, Ellen
;
Overmann, Jörg
)
DFG Research Centres
Current projects
Central Management
(Project Heads
Bruelheide, Helge
;
Buscot, Francois
;
van Dam, Nicole M.
;
Knight, Tiffany Marie
;
Küsel, Kirsten
;
Pereira, Henrique Miguel
;
Quaas, Martin F.
;
Wirth, Christian
)
Completed projects
Biodiversity Processes
(Project Heads
Buscot, Francois
;
van Dam, Nicole M.
;
Harpole, William Stanley
;
Schlegel, Martin
)
Experimental Interaction Ecology
(Project Heads
Buscot, Francois
;
Harms, Hauke
)
Molecular Interaction Ecology
(Project Heads
Buscot, Francois
;
Küsel, Kirsten
)
Collaborative Research Centres
Current projects
Microbial Responses to Pulsed Infiltration Inputs into Groundwater of the Hainich CZE
(Project Heads
Buscot, Francois
;
Küsel, Kirsten
;
Popp, Jürgen
;
Rösch, Petra
;
Taubert, Martin
;
Wubet, Tesfaye
)
Research Training Groups
Completed projects
GRK 266: Analysis of the Functioning and Regeneration of Degraded Ecosystems
(Spokesperson
Halle, Ph.D., Stefan
)
Research data and software
Completed projects
German Federation for the Curation of Biological Data (GFBio)
(Applicants
Buscot, Francois
;
Eder, Johanna
;
Frickenhaus, Stephan
;
Glöckner, Frank Oliver
;
Grobe, Peter
;
Güntsch, Anton
;
Hickler, Thomas
;
Hoffmann, Jana
;
Horstmann, Wolfram
;
Huber, Robert
;
Kattge, Jens
;
König-Ries, Birgitta
;
Nieschulze, Jens
;
Overmann, Jörg
;
Paschke, Adrian
;
Seeger, Bernhard
;
Triebel, Dagmar
;
Wirth, Christian
;
Yahyapour, Ramin
)
