Research interests

• interactions in the system plant – soil – sediment (recent and paleoecosystems)
• formation processes and recrystallization rates of pedogenic carbonates
• pedogenesis under arid to semihumid climates
• rhizoliths (calcified roots) as archives of paleovegetation and input of root-derived compounds
• rhizosphere processes
• reconstruction of paleovegetation and paleoecological conditions based on stable carbon
• isotopes of organic matter and carbonates as well as lipid molecular proxies
• Central and Southeast European terrestrial sediments (loess, dune sands)
• lipid composition of higher plants and turnover of plant-derived lipids in soils
• quantification of root-derived compounds in soils and sediments
• distinction between root- and shoot-derived, as well as between grass- and tree-derived organic compounds
• terrestrial carbon cycle and organic matter stabilization in the deep subsoil
• sustainable subsoil management
   

Second affiliation
http://www.geo.uzh.ch/de/units/2b/ueber-uns/mitarbeitende/

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