• Higher subsoil carbon storage in species-rich than species-poor temperate forests 

      Schleuß, Per-Marten; Heitkamp, Felix; Leuschner, Christoph; Fender, Ann-Catrin; Jungkunst, Hermann F. (Environmental Research Letters, 2014)
      Forest soils contribute ca. 70% to the global soil organic carbon (SOC) pool and thus are an important element of the global carbon cycle. Forests also harbour a large part of the global terrestrial biodiversity. It is ...
    • Relict high-Andean ecosystems challenge our concepts of naturalness and human impact 

      Sylvester, Steven P.; Heitkamp, Felix; Sylvester, Mitsy D. P. V.; Jungkunst, Hermann F.; Sipman, Harrie J. M.; Toivonen, Johanna M.; Gonzales Inca, Carlos A.; Ospina, Juan C.; Kessler, Michael (Scientific Reports, 2017)
      What would current ecosystems be like without the impact of mankind? This question, which is critical for ecosystem management, has long remained unanswered due to a lack of present-day data from truly undisturbed ecosystems. ...
    • Russian boreal peatlands dominate the natural European methane budget 

      Schneider, Julia; Jungkunst, Hermann F.; Wolf, Ulrike; Schreiber, Peter; Gažovič, Michal; Miglovets, Mikhail; Mikhaylov, Oleg; Grunwald, Dennis; Erasmi, Stefan; Wilmking, Martin; Kutzbach, LarsORCIDiD (Environmental Research Letters, 2016)
      About 60% of the European wetlands are located in the European part of Russia. Nevertheless, data on methane emissions from wetlands of that area are absent. Here we present results of methane emission measurements for ...