Ingo Schöning
A5000439427- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Forest Management and Policy
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Plant and animal studies
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Gut microbiota and health
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Forest ecology and management
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
- Soil and Unsaturated Flow
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Pasture and Agricultural Systems
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
2016-2025
BOKU University
2024
Leibniz Institute DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures
2022
Max Planck Society
2006-2019
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
2010-2016
University of Göttingen
2016
Technical University of Munich
2006
Abstract Global change, especially land‐use intensification, affects human well‐being by impacting the delivery of multiple ecosystem services (multifunctionality). However, whether biodiversity loss is a major component global change effects on multifunctionality in real‐world ecosystems, as experimental ones, remains unclear. Therefore, we assessed biodiversity, functional composition and 14 150 agricultural grasslands differing intensity. We also introduce five measures which were...
Background Soil bacteria are important drivers for nearly all biogeochemical cycles in terrestrial ecosystems and participate most nutrient transformations soil. In contrast to the importance of soil ecosystem functioning, we understand little how different management types affect bacterial community composition. Methodology/Principal Findings We used pyrosequencing-based analysis V2-V3 16S rRNA gene region identify changes diversity structure nine forest grassland soils from Schwäbische Alb...
Abstract Soil bacteria provide a large range of ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling. Despite their important role in soil systems, compositional and functional responses bacterial communities to different land use management regimes are not fully understood. Here, we assessed 150 forest grassland soils derived from three German regions by pyrotag sequencing 16S rRNA genes. Land type (forest grassland) edaphic properties strongly affected community structure function, whereas regime...
ABSTRACT In soil, Acidobacteria constitute on average 20% of all bacteria, are highly diverse, and physiologically active in situ . However, their individual functions interactions with higher taxa soil still unknown. Here, potential effects land use, properties, plant diversity, nanofauna acidobacterial community composition were studied by cultivation-independent methods grassland forest soils from three different regions Germany. The analysis 16S rRNA gene clone libraries representing...
Significance Land-use intensification is a major threat to biodiversity. So far, however, studies on biodiversity impacts of land-use intensity (LUI) have been limited single or few groups organisms and not considered temporal variation in LUI. Therefore, we examined total ecosystem grasslands varying LUI with newly developed index called multidiversity, which integrates the species richness 49 different organism ranging from bacteria birds. Multidiversity declined strongly increasing LUI,...
Summary 1. Structural diversity and niche differences within habitats are important for stabilizing species coexistence. However, land‐use change leading to environmental homogenization is a major cause the dramatic decline of biodiversity under global change. The difficulty in assessing large‐scale losses urgently requires new technological advances evaluate impact on timely efficiently across space. 2. While cost‐effective aerial images have been suggested potential assessments forests,...
Significance Ecosystem services derive from ecosystem functions and rely on complex interactions among a diversity of organisms. By understanding the relationships between biodiversity, functions, humans receive nature, we can anticipate how changes in land use will affect ecosystems human wellbeing. We show that increasing land-use intensity homogenizes synergies three organizational levels ecosystem, namely, services. Increasing keystone components, which are important for functioning...
Trade-offs and synergies in the supply of forest ecosystem services are common but drivers these relationships poorly understood. To guide management that seeks to promote multiple services, we investigated between 12 stand-level attributes, including structure, composition, heterogeneity plant diversity, plus 4 environmental factors, proxies for 14 150 temperate plots. Our results show attributes best predictors most also good several trade-offs services. Environmental factors play an...
Abstract Intransitive competition networks, those in which there is no single best competitor, may ensure species coexistence. However, their frequency and importance maintaining diversity real‐world ecosystems remain unclear. We used two large data sets from drylands agricultural grasslands to assess: (1) the generality of intransitive competition, (2) intransitivity–richness relationships (3) effects major drivers biodiversity loss (aridity land‐use intensification) on intransitivity...
Abstract Land-use intensification is a major driver of biodiversity loss. However, understanding how different components land use drive loss requires the investigation multiple trophic levels across spatial scales. Using data from 150 agricultural grasslands in central Europe, we assess influence local- and landscape-level on more than 4,000 above- belowground taxa, spanning 20 groups. Plot-level land-use intensity strongly negatively associated with aboveground groups, but positively or...
Abstract Organismal functional strategies form a continuum from slow- to fast-growing organisms, in response common drivers such as resource availability and disturbance. However, whether there is synchronisation of these at the entire community level unclear. Here, we combine trait data for >2800 above- belowground taxa 14 trophic guilds spanning disturbance gradient German grasslands. The results indicate that most consistently respond through both direct trophically mediated effects,...
Fine root decomposition contributes significantly to element cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. However, studies on rates and the factors that potentially influence them are fewer than those leaf litter decomposition. To study effects of region land use intensity fine decomposition, we established a large scale three German regions with different climate regimes soil properties. Methods In 150 forest grassland sites deployed litterbags (100 μm mesh size) standardized consisting roots from...
Very few principles have been unraveled that explain the relationship between soil properties and biota across large spatial scales different land-use types. Here, we seek these general relationships using data from 52 differently managed grassland forest soils in three study regions spanning a latitudinal gradient Germany. We hypothesize that, after extraction of variation is explained by location type, still significant proportions abundance diversity biota. If predictors organisms were...
Fungal communities have been shown to be highly sensitive towards shifts in plant diversity and species composition forest ecosystems. However, little is known about the impact of management on fungal community geographically separated sites. This study examined effects four different types soil communities. These include age class forests young managed beech (Fagus sylvatica L.), with stands approximately 30 years, an 70 unmanaged stands, coniferous dominated by either pine (Pinus...
Species diversity promotes the delivery of multiple ecosystem functions (multifunctionality). However, relative functional importance rare and common species in driving biodiversity–multifunctionality relationship remains unknown. We studied between (according to their local abundances across nine different trophic groups), multifunctionality indices derived from 14 on 150 grasslands a land-use intensity (LUI) gradient. The above- below-ground had opposite effects, with above-ground being...
The complex interactions between trees and soil microbes in forests as well their inherent seasonal spatial variations are poorly understood. In this study, we analyzed the effects of major European tree species (Fagus sylvatica L. Picea abies (L.) Karst) on bacterial fungal communities. Mineral samples were collected from different depths (0-10 cm, 10-20 cm) at horizontal distances beech or spruce trunks (0.5, 1.5, 2.5, 3.5 m) early summer autumn. We assessed composition communities based...
Distance decay, the general reduction in similarity of community composition with increasing geographical distance, is known as predictor spatial variation and distribution patterns organisms. However, changes fungal communities along environmental gradients are little known. Here we show that distance decays soil-inhabiting root-associated assemblages differ, identify explanatory variables. High-throughput sequencing analysis beech-dominated forests at three study sites across Germany shows...
Abstract Experiments showed that biodiversity increases grassland productivity and nutrient exploitation, potentially reducing fertiliser needs. Enhancing could improve P-use efficiency of grasslands, which is beneficial given rock-derived P fertilisers are expected to become scarce in the future. Here, we show a experiment more diverse plant communities were able exploit resources completely than less ones. In agricultural grasslands studied, management effects either overruled or modified...