European beech (Fagus sylvatica) is the dominant tree species of Central Europe's natural
forests and one of the continent's most important timber species. This highly competitive …

Extreme droughts have serious impacts on the pools, fluxes and processes of terrestrial
carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycles. A deep understanding is necessary to explore the …

Soil gross nitrification (GN) is a critical process in the global nitrogen (N) cycle that results in
the formation of nitrate through microbial oxidation of ammonium or organic N, and can both …

Plant seasonal cycles alter carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) availability for soil microbes, which
may affect microbial community composition and thus feed back on microbial decomposition …

Background Rhizodeposition is the release of organic compounds from plant roots into soil.
Positive relationships between rhizodeposition and soil microbial biomass are commonly …

Although it is increasingly being recognized that roots play a key role in soil carbon (C)
dynamics, the magnitude and direction of these effects are unknown. Roots can accelerate …

It was hypothesized that seasonality and resource availability altered through tree girdling
were major determinants of the phylogenetic composition of the archaeal and bacterial …

The effects of global climate change will regionally be very different, mainly causing
considerable changes in temperature and water availability. For Central Europe, for …

Forest ecosystems with low soil nitrogen (N) availability are characterized by direct
competition for this growth‐limiting resource between several players, ie various …

Scarcity of water is a severe environmental limit to plant productivity. Drought-induced loss
in crop yield probably exceeds losses from all other causes, since both the severity and …