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List of works by Gerd Gleixner

A comparison of the strength of biodiversity effects across multiple functions

scientific article

A new experimental approach to test why biodiversity effects strengthen as ecosystems age

scientific article published in 2019

A proteomic fingerprint of dissolved organic carbon and of soil particles

scientific article published on 22 September 2004

Above and below ground carbohydrate allocation differs between ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) and beech (Fagus sylvatica L.).

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

Altered carbon turnover processes and microbiomes in soils under long-term extremely high CO2 exposure

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An isotopic method for testing the influence of leaf litter quality on carbon fluxes during decomposition

scientific article published on 31 July 2007

An optimal defense strategy for phenolic glycoside production in Populus trichocarpa--isotope labeling demonstrates secondary metabolite production in growing leaves

scientific article published on 16 April 2014

Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions

article by Wolfgang W Weisser et al published September 2017 in Basic and Applied Ecology

Biodiversity increases multitrophic energy use efficiency, flow and storage in grasslands

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

Biogeochemical evidence for freshwater periods during the Last Glacial Maximum recorded in lake sediments from Nam Co, south-central Tibetan Plateau

scholarly article

Biotic and abiotic properties mediating plant diversity effects on soil microbial communities in an experimental grassland

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Biotic interactions, community assembly, and eco-evolutionary dynamics as drivers of long-term biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships

scientific article published on 4 October 2019

Bisnorgammacerane traces predatory pressure and the persistent rise of algal ecosystems after Snowball Earth

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Both priming and temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition depend on microbial biomass – An incubation study

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C-Free Carbon Is a Major Contributor to Cellular Biomass in Geochemically Distinct Groundwater of Shallow Sedimentary Bedrock Aquifers

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

Carbon Allocation in Rhodococcus jostii RHA1 in Response to Disruption and Overexpression of nlpR Regulatory Gene, Based on 13C-labeling Analysis

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Carbon isotope effects on the fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase reaction, origin for non-statistical 13C distributions in carbohydrates

scientific article published on 01 February 1997

Carbon sequestration potential of hydrothermal carbonization char (hydrochar) in two contrasting soils; results of a 1-year field study

scholarly article by saadatullah malghani et al published 6 December 2014 in Biology and Fertility of Soils

Century-long record of black carbon in an ice core from the Eastern Pamirs: Estimated contributions from biomass burning

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Chars produced by slow pyrolysis and hydrothermal carbonization vary in carbon sequestration potential and greenhouse gases emissions

scholarly article by saadatullah malghani et al published July 2013 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Chemistry of burning the forest floor during the FROSTFIRE experimental burn, interior Alaska, 1999

scholarly article by J. W. Harden et al published 28 August 2004 in Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Classification of Terpenoids according to the Methylerythritolphosphate or the Mevalonate Pathway with Natural (12)C/(13)C Isotope Ratios: Dynamic Allocation of Resources in Induced Plants We thank Dr. H. Bischoff (Bayer AG, Wuppertal) for cerivasta

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Classification of Terpenoids according to the Methylerythritolphosphate or the Mevalonate Pathway with Natural 12 C/13 C Isotope Ratios: Dynamic Allocation of Resources in Induced Plants

scientific article published on 01 June 2001

Climate variability in the past ∼19,000 yr in NE Tibetan Plateau inferred from biomarker and stable isotope records of Lake Donggi Cona

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Comparing molecular composition of dissolved organic matter in soil and stream water: Influence of land use and chemical characteristics.

scientific article published on 25 July 2016

Compound-specific stable carbon isotope ratios (delta13C values) of the halogenated natural product 2,3,3',4,4',5,5'-heptachloro-1'-methyl-1,2'-bipyrrole (Q1)

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Compound-specific δ13C and δ2H analyses of plant and soil organic matter: A preliminary assessment of the effects of vegetation change on ecosystem hydrology

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Congener-specific concentrations and carbon stable isotope ratios (delta13C) of two technical toxaphene products (Toxaphene and Melipax).

scientific article published in January 2005

Connecting experimental biodiversity research to real-world grasslands

scientific article published in 2018

Correlation between hydrogen isotope ratios of lipid biomarkers and sediment maturity

scholarly article

Degradation of organic matter from black shales and charcoal by the wood-rotting fungus Schizophyllum commune and release of DOC and heavy metals in the aqueous phase

scientific article published on 17 February 2006

Dinosterol δD values in stratified tropical lakes (Cameroon) are affected by eutrophication

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Dissolved carbon leaching from soil is a crucial component of the net ecosystem carbon balance

Diversity promotes temporal stability across levels of ecosystem organization in experimental grasslands

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Do n-alkane biomarkers in soils/sediments reflect the δ²H isotopic composition of precipitation? A case study from Mt. Kilimanjaro and implications for paleoaltimetry and paleoclimate research

scientific article published on 8 July 2015

Drought intensity alters productivity, carbon allocation and plant nitrogen uptake in fast versus slow grassland communities

scientific article published on 6 June 2023

Drought-Induced Accumulation of Root Exudates Supports Post-drought Recovery of Microbes in Mountain Grassland

scientific article published on 07 November 2018

Dynamic pathway allocation in early terpenoid biosynthesis of stress-induced lima bean leaves.

scientific article published on 31 March 2006

Effect of aridity on δ 13 C and δD values of C 3 plant- and C 4 graminoid-derived leaf wax lipids from soils along an environmental gradient in Cameroon (Western Central Africa)

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Effect of lake evaporation on δD values of lacustrine n-alkanes: A comparison of Nam Co (Tibetan Plateau) and Holzmaar (Germany)

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Effects of biodiversity strengthen over time as ecosystem functioning declines at low and increases at high biodiversity

scientific article published in 2016

Enhanced stability of grassland soil temperature by plant diversity

scientific article published on 4 December 2023

Environmental Control on Microbial Turnover of Leaf Carbon in Streams - Ecological Function of Phototrophic-Heterotrophic Interactions.

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Experiments directed to the compound-specific determination of the stable carbon isotope ratios of the Toxaphene congener B8-1413 in two technical mixtures and Antarctic Weddell seal.

scientific article published on 3 February 2006

Eyes on the future - evidence for trade-offs between growth, storage and defense in Norway spruce

scientific article published in 2018

Fire effects on soil organic matter content, composition, and nutrients in boreal interior Alaska

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Foliar and soil δ15N values reveal increased nitrogen partitioning among species in diverse grassland communities

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Functional composition has stronger impact than species richness on carbon gain and allocation in experimental grasslands

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Functional diversity of leaf nitrogen concentrations drives grassland carbon fluxes

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Functional diversity of microbial communities in pristine aquifers inferred by PLFA- and sequencing-based approaches

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Genotypic variability enhances the reproducibility of an ecological study

scientific article published in 2018

Genotypic variability enhances the reproducibility of an ecological study

Grazing triggers soil carbon loss by altering plant roots and their control on soil microbial community

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Growth-dependent stable carbon isotope fractionation by basidiomycete fungi: delta(13)C pattern and physiological process.

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How plant diversity impacts the coupled water, nutrient and carbon cycles

scientific article published in 2019

How relevant is recalcitrance for the stabilization of organic matter in soils?

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Hydrogen isotope ratios of lacustrine sedimentary n-alkanes as proxies of tropical African hydrology: Insights from a calibration transect across Cameroon

scholarly article by Yannick Garcin et al published February 2012 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Hydrogen isotope ratios of recent lacustrine sedimentary n-alkanes record modern climate variability

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Identification of novel 7-methyl and cyclopentanyl branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in lake sediments

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Importance of microbial soil organic matter processing in dissolved organic carbon production

scientific article published on 07 August 2013

Improved isotope ratio measurement performance in liquid chromatography/isotope ratio mass spectrometry by removing excess oxygen

scientific article published in January 2007

Increased soil carbon storage through plant diversity strengthens with time and extends into the subsoil

scientific article published in March 2023

Influence of litter diversity on dissolved organic matter release and soil carbon formation in a mixed beech forest.

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Isolation of Individual Saturated Fatty Acid Methyl Esters Derived From Groundwater Phospholipids by Preparative High‐Pressure Liquid Chromatography for Compound‐Specific Radiocarbon Analyses

scientific article published in 2019

Isotopic evidences for microbiologically mediated and direct C input to soil compounds from three different leaf litters during their decomposition

scientific article published on 15 February 2008

Land Use Alters the Drought Responses of Productivity and CO2 Fluxes in Mountain Grassland.

scientific article published on 15 September 2017

Land use driven change in soil pH affects microbial carbon cycling processes

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Land use in mountain grasslands alters drought response and recovery of carbon allocation and plant-microbial interactions.

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Late Quaternary hydrological changes inferred from lake level fluctuations of Nam Co (Tibetan Plateau, China)

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Late quaternary hydrological changes at Tangra Yumco, Tibetan Plateau: a compound-specific isotope-based quantification of lake level changes

scholarly article

Leaf wax n-alkane δD values of field-grown barley reflect leaf water δD values at the time of leaf formation

scholarly article

Mangrove‐Derived Organic and Inorganic Carbon Exchanges Between the Sinnamary Estuarine System (French Guiana, South America) and Atlantic Ocean

scientific article published in 2020

Mass Difference Matching Unfolds Hidden Molecular Structures of Dissolved Organic Matter

scientific article published in 2022

Mechanisms linking plant community properties to soil aggregate stability in an experimental grassland plant diversity gradient

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Microbial characteristics of soils on a latitudinal transect in Siberia

Molecular insight into soil carbon turnover

scientific article published on 01 July 1999

Molecular turnover time of soil organic matter in particle-size fractions of an arable soil.

scientific article published in August 2009

Nematode grazing increases the allocation of plant-derived carbon to soil bacteria and saprophytic fungi, and activates bacterial species of the rhizosphere

scientific article published on 30 December 2021

ORCHIDEE-SOM: modeling soil organic carbon (SOC) and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) dynamics along vertical soil profiles in Europe

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Old-Growth Forests: Function, Fate and Value – an Overview

Online stable isotope analysis of dissolved organic carbon size classes using size exclusion chromatography coupled to an isotope ratio mass spectrometer.

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Organic carbon sequestration in earthworm burrows

scientific article published in July 2008

Organic matter quality structures benthic fatty acid patterns and the abundance of fungi and bacteria in temperate lakes

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Oxygen isotope ratios of sedimentary biogenic silica reflect the European transcontinental climate gradient

Persistence of dissolved organic matter explained by molecular changes during its passage through soil

scientific article published on 5 August 2019

Phosphorus Release from Mineral Soil by Acid Hydrolysis: Method Development, Kinetics, and Plant Community Composition Effects

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Pinus sylvestris switches respiration substrates under shading but not during drought

scientific article published on 5 May 2015

Plant diversity and community age stabilize ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published in March 2024

Plant diversity effects on aboveground and belowground N pools in temperate grassland ecosystems: Development in the first 5 years after establishment

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Plant diversity effects on soil microorganisms support the singular hypothesis.

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Plant diversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality via multitrophic diversity

scientific article published on 29 August 2024

Plant diversity enhances production and downward transport of biodegradable dissolved organic matter

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Plant diversity generates enhanced soil microbial access to recently photosynthesized carbon in the rhizosphere

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Plant diversity increases soil microbial activity and soil carbon storage

scientific article published on 7 April 2015

Plant diversity positively affects short-term soil carbon storage in experimental grasslands

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Plant diversity shapes microbe-rhizosphere effects on P mobilisation from organic matter in soil

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Plant species diversity affects infiltration capacity in an experimental grassland through changes in soil properties

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Plant species richness and functional groups have different effects on soil water content in a decade-long grassland experiment

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Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning

scientific article published on 05 October 2020

Plants with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi efficiently acquire Nitrogen from substrate additions by shaping the decomposer community composition and their net plant carbon demand

scientific article published on 29 March 2022

Possible mechanisms underlying abundance and diversity responses of nematode communities to plant diversity

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Preparation of starch and soluble sugars of plant material for the analysis of carbon isotope composition: a comparison of methods

scientific article published in August 2009

Production of constitutive and induced secondary metabolites is coordinated with growth and storage in Norway spruce saplings

scientific article published on 09 April 2020

Rapid northward shift of the Indian Monsoon on the Tibetan Plateau at the end of the Little Ice Age

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Reconstructing C 3 and C 4 vegetation cover using n -alkane carbon isotope ratios in recent lake sediments from Cameroon, Western Central Africa

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Reconstruction of palaeohydrological conditions in a lagoon during the 2nd Zechstein cycle through simultaneous use of ?D values of individual n-alkanes and ?18O and ?13C values of carbonates

scientific article published in 2004

Reconstruction of the Late Holocene climate and environmental history from North Bolgoda Lake, Sri Lanka, using lipid biomarkers and pollen records

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Relative contribution of foliar and fine root pine litter to the molecular composition of soil organic matter after in situ degradation

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Reply to: Plant traits alone are good predictors of ecosystem properties when used carefully

scientific article published in 2023

Rhizosphere activity in an old-growth forest reacts rapidly to changes in soil moisture and shapes whole-tree carbon allocation

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Rhizosphere bacterial carbon turnover is higher in nucleic acids than membrane lipids: implications for understanding soil carbon cycling

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Rhizospheric influence on soil respiration and decomposition in a temperate Norway spruce stand

Root chemistry and soil fauna, but not soil abiotic conditions explain the effects of plant diversity on root decomposition

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Seasonal Patterns of Dominant Microbes Involved in Central Nutrient Cycles in the Subsurface

scientific article published on 30 October 2020

Seasonal changes in the soil microbial community in a grassland plant diversity gradient four years after establishment

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Seasonal drought reduces microbial diversity and functional richness in the Amazon

Significant seasonal variation in the hydrogen isotopic composition of leaf-wax lipids for two deciduous tree ecosystems (Fagus sylvativa and Acerpseudoplatanus)

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Simultaneous determination of the quantity and isotopic signature of dissolved organic matter from soil water using high-performance liquid chromatography/isotope ratio mass spectrometry

scientific article published on 01 January 2012

Soil Fungal:Bacterial Ratios Are Linked to Altered Carbon Cycling

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Soil microbial carbon turnover decreases with increasing molecular size

Soil organic matter dynamics: a biological perspective derived from the use of compound-specific isotopes studies

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Soil-carbon preservation through habitat constraints and biological limitations on decomposer activity

scholarly article by Klemens Ekschmitt et al published February 2008 in Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science

Source- and substrate-specific export of dissolved organic matter from permafrost-dominated forested watershed in central Siberia

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Special Issue dedicated to Professor Hanns-Ludwig Schmidt on the occasion of his 85th birthday

scientific article published in January 2015

Standardized protocols and procedures can precisely and accurately quantify non-structural carbohydrates

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Storage and stability of organic matter and fossil carbon in a Luvisol and Phaeozem with continuous maize cropping: A synthesis

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Storage of carbon reserves in spruce trees is prioritized over growth in the face of carbon limitation

scientific article published in 2021

The New 14C Analysis Laboratory in Jena, Germany

scholarly article

The molecular composition of dissolved organic matter in forest soils as a function of pH and temperature

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The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic

scientific article published on 5 August 2019

The role of biodiversity for element cycling and trophic interactions: an experimental approach in a grassland community

scientific article published in January 2004

Trace element variability in single ostracod valves as a proxy for hydrochemical change in Nam Co, central Tibet, during the Holocene

scholarly article by Qichao Yang published in April 2014

Tracking the autochthonous carbon transfer in stream biofilm food webs

scientific article published in January 2012

Variable effects of nitrogen additions on the stability and turnover of soil carbon

scientific article published in October 2002

Winter ecology of a subalpine grassland: Effects of snow removal on soil respiration, microbial structure and function

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δD values of individual n-alkanes from terrestrial plants along a climatic gradient – Implications for the sedimentary biomarker record

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