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Ecophysiology of Water & Matter Cycling

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The working group “Ecophysiology of water and matter cycling” investigates key processes that regulate the flow of matter and water within the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum (SPAC) in agricultural landscapes across scales. The research aims to better understand how land use and climate extremes impact ecosystem resilience. We focus on arable land, grassland, and peatlands, looking into processes.

Of particular importance for the working group is the ecophysiological link between the various matter cycles and the water balance along spatio-temporal scales their impact on GHG emissions as well as the link between system form and function, A core strength is our methodological focus on multiscale (isotope-enabled) gas exchange, other in-situ stable isotope and classical ecophysiological techniques and the development of novel, tailored and low-cost sensing systems, facilitating the spatial integration of our work into the landscape scale as well as advance the scientific representation of the global south in observation initiatives.

Our system-based, interdisciplinary approach led to the development of the "AgroFlux" sensor platform, which we plan to continuously advance in collaboration with the Innovation Center for Agricultural Systems Transformation. It allows us to study important system variables such as carbon sink functions, GHG emissions, the partitioning of net ecosystem exchange (root water uptake, ET and NEE partitioning etc.), nutrient and water use efficiency in concert and detect the “hot moments” in time and space that are effectively dominating system responses and adaptation capacity to stress or management.

We work closely with all working groups of Research Area 1 "Landscape Functioning" and partners within ZALF and beyond.

 

Core Infrastructure:

AgroFlux Sensor Plattform with FluxCrane

Stable isotope laboratory 

GC laboratory 

Incubation facilities

 

 

 Publications WG

MyTitle: How to get to the N - a call for interdisciplinary research on organic N utilization pathways by plants
MyLinkAnsehenUrl: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-024-06839-9, Take a look
MyLinkPDFUrl: https://publications.zalf.de/publications/A310F6BD-7165-421D-9A61-CA7327F9D7FE-1.pdf, PDF take a look / download
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MyAutoren: Holz, M., Lewin, S., Kolb, S., Becker, J. N., Bergmann, J. (2024)
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How to get to the N - a call for interdisciplinary research on organic N utilization pathways by plants

Holz, M., Lewin, S., Kolb, S., Becker, J. N., Bergmann, J. (2024)
MyTitle: AMPSOM: a measureable pool soil organic carbon and nitrogen model for arable cropping systems
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MyLinkPDFUrl: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2024.106291, Resolve DOI name
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MyAutoren: Tougma, I. A., Van de Broek, M., Six, J., Gaiser, T., Holz, M., Zentgraf, I., Webber, H. (2025)
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AMPSOM: a measureable pool soil organic carbon and nitrogen model for arable cropping systems

Tougma, I. A., Van de Broek, M., Six, J., Gaiser, T., Holz, M., Zentgraf, I., Webber, H. (2025)
MyTitle: Minimizing trade-offs and maximizing synergies for a just bioeconomy transition
MyLinkAnsehenUrl: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104089, Resolve DOI name
MyLinkPDFUrl: https://publications.zalf.de/publications/EE6CF1C5-41CA-4F4F-977C-1BD106C5FBBD-1.pdf, PDF take a look / download
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MyAutoren: Ruml, A., Chen, C., Kubitza, C., Kernecker, M. L., Grossart, H.-P., Hoffmann, M., Holz, M., Wessjohann, L. A., Lotze-Campen, H., Dubbert, M. (2025)
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Minimizing trade-offs and maximizing synergies for a just bioeconomy transition

Ruml, A., Chen, C., Kubitza, C., Kernecker, M. L., Grossart, H.-P., Hoffmann, M., Holz, M., Wessjohann, L. A., Lotze-Campen, H., Dubbert, M. (2025)
MyTitle: Minimizing trade-offs and maximizing synergies for a just bioeconomy transition
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MyLinkPDFUrl: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104089, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104089
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MyAutoren: Ruml, A., Chen, C., Kubitza, C., Kernecker, M. L., Grossart, H.-P., Hoffmann, M., Holz, M., Wessjohann, L. A., Lotze-Campen, H., Dubbert, M. (2025)
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Minimizing trade-offs and maximizing synergies for a just bioeconomy transition

Ruml, A., Chen, C., Kubitza, C., Kernecker, M. L., Grossart, H.-P., Hoffmann, M., Holz, M., Wessjohann, L. A., Lotze-Campen, H., Dubbert, M. (2025)
MyTitle: How scale affects N2O emissions in heterogeneous fields of a diversified agricultural landscape
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MyLinkPDFUrl: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-95630-6, Resolve DOI name
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MyAutoren: Zentgraf, I., Holz, M., Monzón Díaz, O., Lück, M., Kramp, K., Pusch, V., Grahmann, K., Hoffmann, M. (2025)
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How scale affects N2O emissions in heterogeneous fields of a diversified agricultural landscape

Zentgraf, I., Holz, M., Monzón Díaz, O., Lück, M., Kramp, K., Pusch, V., Grahmann, K., Hoffmann, M. (2025)

 Projects WG

MyTitle: NemGEm - Reduction of nitrous oxide ammonia emissions through processing of crop residues in vegetable production
MyLinkAnsehenUrl: https://www.zalf.de/en/forschung_lehre/projekte/Pages/details.aspx?iddp=2431, Take a look
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MyTextfeld: Start: 01.04.2024
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NemGEm - Reduction of nitrous oxide ammonia emissions through processing of crop residues in vegetable production

Start: 01.04.2024
MyTitle: Stable Isotope and AI supported model development for high frequency, cross scale water partitioning (ISO-SCALE)
MyLinkAnsehenUrl: https://www.zalf.de/en/forschung_lehre/projekte/Pages/details.aspx?iddp=2351, Take a look
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Stable Isotope and AI supported model development for high frequency, cross scale water partitioning (ISO-SCALE)

Start: 01.03.2023
MyTitle: COINS - Co-developing innovations for sustainable land management in West African smallholder farming systems
MyLinkAnsehenUrl: https://www.zalf.de/en/forschung_lehre/projekte/Pages/details.aspx?iddp=2323, Take a look
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MyTextfeld: Start: 01.10.2022
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COINS - Co-developing innovations for sustainable land management in West African smallholder farming systems

Start: 01.10.2022
MyTitle: ErosioN - Erosion Impact on Nitrogen Turnover and Retention in Soil
MyLinkAnsehenUrl: https://www.zalf.de/en/forschung_lehre/projekte/Pages/details.aspx?iddp=2243, Take a look
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MyTextfeld: Start: 01.07.2022
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ErosioN - Erosion Impact on Nitrogen Turnover and Retention in Soil

Start: 01.07.2022
MyTitle: Amorphous silica in soils and plants Improves Drought stress tolerance of crops (AID - CROP)
MyLinkAnsehenUrl: https://www.zalf.de/en/forschung_lehre/projekte/Pages/details.aspx?iddp=2273, Take a look
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Amorphous silica in soils and plants Improves Drought stress tolerance of crops (AID - CROP)

Start: 01.03.2022

 

  

Contact

 

Head of working group

Dr. Maren Dubbert
T +49 (0)33432 82-475

 

Address

Leibniz-Zentrum für
Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e. V.

Eberswalder Straße 84
15374 Müncheberg​

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