Publications

• Mörchen, R., Rahimova, H., Fuentes, B., Arenas-Diaz, F., Bol, R., Lehndorff. E. (2024). Organic matter imports to the Atacama Desert using polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as a tracer. Global and Planetary Change 235, 104394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104394

• Jaeschke, A., May, S.M., Hakobyan, A., Mörchen, R., Bubenzer, O., Bernasconi, S., Schefuß, E., Hoffmeister, D., Latorre, C., Gwozdz, M., Rethemeyer, J., Knief, C. (2024). Microbial hotspots in a relict fog-dependent Tillandsia landbeckii dune from the coastal Atacama Desert. Global and Planetary Change 234, 104383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104383

• Sun, X., Amelung, W., Klumpp, E., Walk, J., Mörchen, R., Böhm, C., Moradi, G., May, M., Tamburini, F., Wang, Y., Bol, R. (2023). Fog controls biological cycling of soil phosphorus in the Coastal Cordillera of the Atacama Desert. Global Change Biology; 30, 17068. https://doi.org/10.1011/gcb.17068 .

• Walk, J., Schulte, P., Bartz, M., Binnie, A., Kehl, M., Mörchen, R., Sun, X., Stauch, G., Tittmann, C., Bol, R., Brückner, H., Lehmkuhl, F. (2023). Pedogenesis at the coastal arid-hyperarid transition deduced from a Late Quaternary chronosequence at Paposo, Atacama Desert, CATENA, 228, 2023, 107171, ISSN 0341-8162. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2023.107171 .

• Sandhage-Hofmann, A., Angombe, S., Kindermann, L., Linstädter, A., Mörchen, R. (2022). Conservation with elephants and agricultural intensification: effects on lignin and n-alkanes in soils of sub-Saharan Africa. Geoderma 425, 116009.

• Zhao, Y., Reichel, R., Herbst, M., Sun, Y., Brüggemann, N., Mörchen, R., Welp, G., Meng, F., Bol, R. (2022). Declining total carbon stocks in carbonate-containing agricultural soils over a 62-year recultivation chronosequence under humid conditions. Geoderma 425, 116060.

• Fuentes, B., Choque, A., Gómez, F., Alarcón, J., Castro-Nallar, E., Arenas, F., Contreras, D., Mörchen, R., Amelung, W., Knief, C., Moradi, G., Klumpp, E., Saavedra, C., Prietzel, J., Klysubun, W., Remonsellez, F., Bol, R. (2022). Influence of Physical-Chemical Soil Parameters on Microbiota Composition and Diversity in a Deep Hyperarid Core of the Atacama Desert. Frontiers in Microbiology 12, 794743.

• Orozco-Ortiz, J. M., Peña-Venegas, C.P., Bauke, S.L., Borgemeister, C., Mörchen, R., Lehndorff, E., Amelung, W. (2021). Terra Preta Properties in Northwestern Amazonia (Colombia). Sustainability 13, 7088.

• Di, W., Senbayram, M., Moradi, G., Mörchen, R., Knief, C., Klumpp, E., Jones, D.L., Well, R., Chen, R., Bol, R. (2021). Microbial potential for denitrification in the hyperarid Atacama Desert soil. Soil Biology and Biogeochemistry, 157, 108248.

• Mörchen, R., Amelung, W., Giese, C., Böhnert, T., Lehndorff, E. (2021). Fingerprints of plant life in the Atacama Desert – Insights from n-alkane analyses. Organic Geochemistry, 151, 104145.

• Moradi, G., Bol, R., Trbojevic, L., Missong, A., Mörchen R., Fuentes, B., May, S.M., Lehndorff, E., Klumpp, E. (2020). Contrasting depth distribution of colloid-associated phosphorus in the active and abandoned sections of an alluvial fan in a hyper-arid region of the Atacama Desert. Global and Planetary Change, 185, 103090.

• Knief, C., Bol, R., Amelung, W., Kusch, S., Frindte, K., Eckmeier, E., Jaeschke, A., Dunai, T., Fuentes, B., Mörchen, R., Schütte, T., Lücke, A., Klumpp, E., Kaiser, K., Rethemeyer, J. (2020). Tracing elevational changes in microbial life and organic carbon sources in soils oft he Atacama Desert. Global and Planetary Change, 184, 103078.

• Kusch, S., Jaeschke, A., Mörchen, R., Rethemeyer, J. (2020). Tracing life at the dry limit using phospholipid fatty acids – does sampling matter? Soil Biology and Biogeochemistry, 141, 107661.

• Mörchen, R., Lehndorff, E., Arenas Diaz, F., Moradi, G., Bol, R., Fuentes B., Klumpp, E., Amelung, W. (2019). Carbon accrual in the Atacama Desert. Global and Planetary Change, 181, 102993.