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  • 2012Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","111"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","2"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Pedobiologia"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","119"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","55"],["dc.contributor.author","Kramer, Susanne"],["dc.contributor.author","Marhan, Sven"],["dc.contributor.author","Ruess, Liliane"],["dc.contributor.author","Armbruster, Wolfgang"],["dc.contributor.author","Butenschoen, Olaf"],["dc.contributor.author","Haslwimmer, Heike"],["dc.contributor.author","Kuzyakov, Yakov"],["dc.contributor.author","Pausch, Johanna"],["dc.contributor.author","Scheunemann, Nicole"],["dc.contributor.author","Schoene, Jochen"],["dc.contributor.author","Schmalwasser, Andreas"],["dc.contributor.author","Totsche, Kai Uwe"],["dc.contributor.author","Walker, Frank"],["dc.contributor.author","Scheu, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Kandeler, Ellen"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-11-07T09:15:26Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-11-07T09:15:26Z"],["dc.date.issued","2012"],["dc.description.abstract","The origin and quantity of plant inputs to soil are primary factors controlling the size and structure of the soil microbial community. The present study aimed to elucidate and quantify the carbon (C) flow from both root and shoot litter residues into soil organic, extractable, microbial and fungal C pools. Using the shift in C stable isotope values associated with replacing C3 by C4 plants we followed root- vs. shoot litter-derived C resources into different soil C pools. We established the following treatments: Corn Maize (CM), Fodder Maize (FM), Wheat + maize Litter (WL) and Wheat (W) as reference. The Corn Maize treatment provided root- as well as shoot litter-derived C (without corn cobs) whereas Fodder Maize (FM) provided only root-derived C (aboveground shoot material was removed). Maize shoot litter was applied on the Wheat + maize Litter (WL) plots to trace the incorporation of C4 litter C into soil microorganisms. Soil samples were taken three times per year (summer, autumn, winter) over two growing seasons. Maize-derived C signal was detectable after three to six months in the following pools: soil organic C (C-org), extractable organic C (EOC), microbial biomass (C-mic) and fungal biomass (ergosterol). In spite of the lower amounts of root- than of shoot litter-derived C inputs, similar amounts were incorporated into each of the C pools in the FM and WL treatments, indicating greater importance of the root- than shoot litter-derived resources for the soil microorganisms as a basis for the belowground food web. In the CM plots twice as much maize-derived C was incorporated into the pools. After two years, maize-derived C in the CM treatment contributed 14.1, 24.7, 46.6 and 76.2% to C-org, EOC, C-mic and ergosterol pools, respectively. Fungi incorporated maize-derived C to a greater extent than did total soil microbial biomass. (c) 2011 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved."],["dc.description.sponsorship","DFG [FOR 918]"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.pedobi.2011.12.001"],["dc.identifier.isi","000302984000006"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/27686"],["dc.notes.status","zu prüfen"],["dc.notes.submitter","Najko"],["dc.publisher","Elsevier Gmbh, Urban & Fischer Verlag"],["dc.relation.issn","0031-4056"],["dc.title","Carbon flow into microbial and fungal biomass as a basis for the belowground food web of agroecosystems"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.status","published"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2016Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","79"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Soil Biology and Biochemistry"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","89"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","93"],["dc.contributor.author","Müller, K."],["dc.contributor.author","Kramer, S."],["dc.contributor.author","Haslwimmer, H."],["dc.contributor.author","Marhan, S."],["dc.contributor.author","Scheunemann, N."],["dc.contributor.author","Butenschön, O."],["dc.contributor.author","Scheu, S."],["dc.contributor.author","Kandeler, E."],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-11-28T10:03:26Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-11-28T10:03:26Z"],["dc.date.issued","2016"],["dc.description.abstract","Plant-derived carbon (C) transfer to soil is one of the important factors controlling the size and structure of the belowground microbial community. The present study quantifies this plant-derived C incorporation into abiotic and biotic C pools in top- and subsoil in an arable field over five years. Stable isotope analysis was used to determine the incorporation of maize root and shoot litter C into soil organic C (SOC), extractable organic C (EOC), total microbial biomass (Cmic), ergosterol and phospholipid fatty acids (PLFAs). The following treatments were investigated: corn maize (CM), providing root- and shoot-derived C (without corncobs), fodder maize (FM), providing only root-derived C, and wheat plus maize shoot litter amendment (WL), providing only shoot-derived maize C. Wheat plants (W) without maize litter amendment served as control. Soil samples were taken each September directly before harvest from 2009 to 2013. During the experiment, the maize-derived C signal increased in SOC, EOC, Cmic, ergosterol, bacterial and fungal PLFAs in the topsoil (0–10 cm). Although total maize shoot C input was threefold lower than maize root C input, similar relative amounts of maize C derived from shoots and roots were incorporated into the different C pools in the WL and the FM treatments, indicating the importance of shoot-derived C sources for microorganisms in the topsoil. An additive effect of both C sources was found in the CM treatment with almost twice as much maize-derived C in the respective pools. Furthermore, the proportion of maize-derived C varied between the different pools with lower incorporation into the total SOC (17%) and total EOC (24%) pools and higher incorporation ratios of maize C into PLFAs of different microbial groups (29% in Gram-positive (Gr+) bacterial PLFA-C, 44% in Gram-negative (Gr−) bacterial PLFA-C, 69% in fungal PLFA-C and 78% in ergosterol) in the CM treatment in topsoil after five years. After the third and fifth vegetation periods, we also detected maize-derived C in the rooted zone (40–50 cm depth) and the root-free zone (60–70 cm depth). The maize-derived C incorporation was lower in subsoil C pools in comparison to topsoil C pools. In the root-free zone, the maize-derived C was found to be 2% in total SOC, 28% in total EOC, 9% in Gr+ bacterial PLFA-C, 20% in Gr− bacterial PLFA-C and 53% in fungal PLFA-C. Saprotrophic fungi incorporated maize-derived C in all soil depths to a greater degree than Gr+ and Gr− bacteria, indicating the importance of saprotrophic fungi in this agro-ecosystem."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.10.015"],["dc.identifier.fs","619810"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/10589"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","public"],["dc.relation.issn","0038-0717"],["dc.subject","Carbon cycle; Stable isotopes; Soil microorganisms; Soil profile; Aboveground C input; Belowground C input"],["dc.title","Carbon transfer from maize roots and litter into bacteria and fungi depends on soil depth and time"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","unknown"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2018Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","29"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Pedobiologia"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","33"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","69"],["dc.contributor.author","Pausch, Johanna"],["dc.contributor.author","Hünninghaus, Maike"],["dc.contributor.author","Kramer, Susanne"],["dc.contributor.author","Scharroba, Anika"],["dc.contributor.author","Scheunemann, Nicole"],["dc.contributor.author","Butenschoen, Olaf"],["dc.contributor.author","Marhan, Sven"],["dc.contributor.author","Bonkowski, Michael"],["dc.contributor.author","Kandeler, Ellen"],["dc.contributor.author","Scheu, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Kuzyakov, Yakov"],["dc.contributor.author","Ruess, Liliane"],["dc.date.accessioned","2020-12-10T15:20:43Z"],["dc.date.available","2020-12-10T15:20:43Z"],["dc.date.issued","2018"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.pedobi.2018.06.002"],["dc.identifier.issn","0031-4056"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/72777"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI Import GROB-354"],["dc.title","Carbon budgets of top- and subsoil food webs in an arable system"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2015Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","1135"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","4"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Oecologia"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","1145"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","179"],["dc.contributor.author","Scheunemann, Nicole"],["dc.contributor.author","Digel, Christoph"],["dc.contributor.author","Scheu, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Butenschoen, Olaf"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-11-07T09:48:42Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-11-07T09:48:42Z"],["dc.date.issued","2015"],["dc.description.abstract","Soil food webs are driven by plant-derived carbon (C) entering the soil belowground as rhizodeposits or aboveground via leaf litter, with recent research pointing to a higher importance of the former for driving forest soil food webs. Using natural abundance stable isotopes of wheat (C3 plant) and maize (C4 plant), we followed and quantified the incorporation of shoot residue- and root-derived maize C into the soil animal food web of an arable field for 1 year, thereby disentangling the importance of shoot residue- versus root-derived resources for arable soil food webs. On average, shoot residue-derived resources only contributed less than 12 % to soil arthropod body C, while incorporation of root-derived resources averaged 26 % after 2 months of maize crop and increased to 32 % after 1 year. However, incorporation of root-derived maize C did not consistently increase with time: rather, it increased, decreased or remained constant depending on species. Further, preference of shoot residue- or root-derived resources was also species-specific with about half the species incorporating mainly root-derived C, while only a few species preferentially incorporated shoot residue-derived C, and about 40 % incorporated both shoot residue- as well as root-derived C. The results highlight the predominant importance of root-derived resources for arable soil food webs and suggest that shoot residues only form an additional resource of minor importance. Variation in the use of plant-derived C between soil arthropod species suggests that the flux of C through soil food webs of arable systems can only be disentangled by adopting a species-specific approach."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1007/s00442-015-3415-2"],["dc.identifier.isi","000364226900019"],["dc.identifier.pmid","26267404"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/35359"],["dc.notes.status","zu prüfen"],["dc.notes.submitter","Najko"],["dc.publisher","Springer"],["dc.relation.issn","1432-1939"],["dc.relation.issn","0029-8549"],["dc.title","Roots rather than shoot residues drive soil arthropod communities of arable fields"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.status","published"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2010Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","59"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","1"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Applied Soil Ecology"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","63"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","46"],["dc.contributor.author","Scheunemann, Nicole"],["dc.contributor.author","Scheu, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Butenschoen, Olaf"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-11-07T08:39:27Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-11-07T08:39:27Z"],["dc.date.issued","2010"],["dc.description.abstract","Soil organic matter (SOM) is the main energy resource of the great diversity of soil invertebrates but knowledge on the contribution of SOM pools of different ages to soil animal nutrition is sparse. In the present study natural stable isotope ratios were used to investigate the incorporation of decade old wheat-borne carbon into soil invertebrates of different trophic levels of a maize field 27 years after the replacement of wheat. For comparison a nearby continuous wheat field was investigated. Although the soil food web of the wheat and the maize field consisted of similar invertebrate taxa, most taxa were significantly more abundant in the wheat than in the maize field confirming that C4 plants are generally of poor food quality to soil animals due to low nutrient and high fibre contents. However, different cultivation strategies may also have contributed to differences in the abundance of invertebrates between both study sites. The mean incorporation of C3 carbon in soil animals in the maize field was 60.6 +/- 27.8%, but significantly differed between invertebrate species. Unfortunately, the field size did not entirely exclude incorporation of C3 carbon into the tissue of large and mobile invertebrates by feeding on C3 resources outside of the maize field. However, less mobile species such as endogeic earthworms incorporated high amounts of C3 carbon presumably due to the mobilisation of old carbon pools enclosed in soil aggregates and inaccessible to other soil invertebrates during gut passage. Furthermore, small and less mobile invertebrate species, such as most hemi- and epiedaphic Collembolans, also incorporated high amounts of C3 carbon likely by feeding on saprophytic fungi and microorganisms. In contrast, euedaphic Collembola incorporated only small amounts of C3 carbon suggesting preferentially feeding on maize resources. Overall, our data suggest that decade old carbon resources form an important component of the soil animal food web, but that the exploitation of old carbon resources by animal species varies with their distribution within the soil matrix, trophic position and exploitation of algae, and as an artefact to the small size of the study site, animal mobility. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.apsoil.2010.06.014"],["dc.identifier.isi","000282922000008"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/19003"],["dc.notes.status","zu prüfen"],["dc.notes.submitter","Najko"],["dc.publisher","Elsevier Science Bv"],["dc.relation.issn","1873-0272"],["dc.relation.issn","0929-1393"],["dc.title","Incorporation of decade old soil carbon into the soil animal food web of an arable system"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.status","published"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2015Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","81"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Soil Biology and Biochemistry"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","88"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","81"],["dc.contributor.author","Scheunemann, Nicole"],["dc.contributor.author","Maraun, Mark"],["dc.contributor.author","Scheu, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Butenschoen, Olaf"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-11-07T10:01:18Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-11-07T10:01:18Z"],["dc.date.issued","2015"],["dc.description.abstract","Removal of crop residues has become common practice in arable systems, however, little is known about how soil arthropod communities change in response to reduced resource availability and habitat complexity associated with residue removal. We added maize residues to wheat and maize fields and investigated soil arthropod diversity and abundance over the period of one year. Residue addition did not affect the diversity and little affected the abundance of soil arthropods in wheat and maize fields with the latter being restricted to few taxonomic groups, suggesting that at least in the short-term soil arthropods benefit little from crop residue-mediated increase in food supply and habitat structure. Contrasting the minor effects of residue addition, densities of soil arthropods were much higher in wheat than in maize fields, presumably due to more dense and more continuous coverage by plants, and higher input of root residues. Furthermore, in wheat fields density of arthropods more strongly varied with season, presumably due to more pronounced pulses of root exudates and root residues entering the soil in wheat as compared to maize fields in summer and winter, respectively. Low density and little variation in densities of soil arthropods in maize fields reflect that environmental conditions and resource supply varied little with crop coverage and season. Overall, the results point to low importance of aboveground crop residues for soil arthropod communities and highlight that belowground plant resources, i.e. root exudates and root residues are the major driver of soil arthropod communities of arable systems. Thus, at least in short term removal of crop residues for e.g., biofuel production is likely to be of minor importance for soil arthropod communities. In contrast, changing crop species from wheat to maize markedly reduces the density of soil animals threatening the ecosystem functions they provide. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved."],["dc.description.sponsorship","German Research Foundation (DFG) [FOR 918]"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.11.006"],["dc.identifier.isi","000350524700010"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/37987"],["dc.notes.status","zu prüfen"],["dc.notes.submitter","Najko"],["dc.publisher","Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd"],["dc.relation.issn","0038-0717"],["dc.title","The role of shoot residues vs. crop species for soil arthropod diversity and abundance of arable systems"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.status","published"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2016Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","479"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","3"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Functional Ecology"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","489"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","30"],["dc.contributor.author","Pausch, J."],["dc.contributor.author","Kramer, S."],["dc.contributor.author","Scharroba, A."],["dc.contributor.author","Scheunemann, N."],["dc.contributor.author","Butenschoen, O."],["dc.contributor.author","Kandeler, E."],["dc.contributor.author","Marhan, S."],["dc.contributor.author","Riederer, M."],["dc.contributor.author","Scheu, S."],["dc.contributor.author","Kuzyakov, Y."],["dc.contributor.author","Ruess, L."],["dc.contributor.editor","Treseder, K."],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-11-28T10:03:29Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-11-28T10:03:29Z"],["dc.date.issued","2016"],["dc.description.abstract","The complexity of soil food webs and the cryptic habitat hamper the analyses of pools, fluxes and turnover rates of carbon (C) in organisms and the insight into their interactions. Stable isotope analysis has been increasingly used to disentangle soil food web structure, yet it has not been applied to quantitatively characterize C dynamics at the level of the entire soil food web. The present study employed 13CO2 pulse labelling to investigate the incorporation of maize root-derived C into major soil compartments and food web players in an arable field for 25 days. Bulk tissue and compound-specific (lipids) C isotope ratios were used to quantify pool sizes and 13C incorporation in bacteria and fungi as primary decomposers, nematodes as key drivers of the microfood web and decomposers and predators among the meso- and macrofauna. About 20% of the C assimilated by maize was transferred to below-ground pools. 13C was predominantly incorporated into rhizosphere micro-organisms rather than in those of the bulk soil. 13C in phospholipid fatty acid biomarkers revealed that root-derived C was incorporated into the soil food web mainly via saprotrophic fungi rather than via bacteria. Only small amounts of 13C were transferred to higher trophic levels, predominantly into fungal-feeding nematodes and macrofauna decomposers. Most importantly, C pool size and 13C incorporation did not match closely. Although the fungal C stock was less than half that of bacteria, C transfers from fungi into higher trophic levels of the fungal energy pathway, that is fungal-feeding nematodes and meso- and macrofauna decomposers, by far exceed that of bacterial C. This challenges previous views on the dominance of bacteria in root C dynamics and suggests saprotrophic fungi to function as major agents channelling recent photoassimilates into the soil food web."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1111/1365-2435.12512"],["dc.identifier.fs","619811"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/10600"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","public"],["dc.relation.issn","0269-8463"],["dc.title","Small but active - pool size does not matter for carbon incorporation in below-ground food webs"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","unknown"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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