Wolfgang Wilcke

Basdediós, N.; Hardegger, S.; Mestrot, A.; Wang, J.; Zhou, J.; Bing, H.; Wu, Y.; Wilcke, W. (2025). Shift of the ecosystem nitrogen cycle from open to closed within a century along a glacial retreat chronosequence at Mount Gongga, southwest China. Plant and Soil. doi:10.1007/s11104-024-07128-1 

Schöndorf, D.; Basdediós, N.; Velescu, A.; Fabian, T.; Espinosa, C. I.; Wilcke, W. (2025). Kinetics of element release by weathering in soils of southern Ecuador: A comparison among different climatic and land-use regimes. Geoderma, 456, 117263. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117263 

Alvarez, P.; Velescu, A.; Pierick, K.; Homeier, J.; Wilcke, W. (2024). Sources and Sinks of N in Ecosystem Solutions Along the Water Path Through a Tropical Montane Forest in Ecuador Assessed With δ N Values of Total Dissolved Nitrogen. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 129 (10), e2024JG008043. doi:10.1029/2024JG008043 

Argens, L.; Weisser, W. W.; Ebeling, A.; Eisenhauer, N.; Lange, M.; Oelmann, Y.; Roscher, C.; Schielzeth, H.; Schmid, B.; Wilcke, W.; Meyer, S. T. (2024). Relationships between ecosystem functions vary among years and plots and are driven by plant species richness. Oikos, 2024 (1), e10096. doi:10.1111/oik.10096 

Barczyk, M. K.; Acosta-Rojas, D. C.; Iván Espinosa, C.; Homeier, J.; Tinoco, B. A.; Velescu, A.; Wilcke, W.; Schleuning, M.; Neuschulz, E. L. (2024). Environmental conditions differently shape leaf, seed and seedling trait composition between and within elevations of tropical montane forests. Oikos, 2024 (11), Art-Nr.: 10421. doi:10.1111/oik.10421 

Pierick, K.; Leuschner, C.; Link, R. M.; Báez, S.; Velescu, A.; Wilcke, W.; Homeier, J. (2024). Above‐ and belowground strategies of tropical montane tree species are coordinated and driven by small‐scale nitrogen availability. Functional Ecology, 38 (6), 1364–1377. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.14554 

Wilcke, W.; Zimmer, V.; Bauhus, J.; Schöning, I.; Schrumpf, M.; Michalzik, B.; Siemens, J. (2024). Disentangling the effects of region, forest-management intensity and plant diversity on litterfall quantity, quality and turnover in temperate forests. Plant and Soil, 497, 397–412. doi:10.1007/s11104-023-06403-x 

Zhang, J.; Han, Y.; Wei, C.; Bandowe, B. A. M.; Lei, D.; Wilcke, W. (2024). Sediment record of polycyclic aromatic compounds and black carbon over the last ~400 years in Sanjiaolongwan Maar Lake, northeast China. Science of The Total Environment, 906, 167438. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167438

Zhang, J.; Wei, C.; Han, Y.; Bandowe, B. A. M.; Lei, D.; Wilcke, W. (2024). A 150 years record of polycyclic aromatic compounds in the Sihailongwan Maar Lake, Northeast China: impacts of socio-economic developments and pollution control. Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 26 (10), 1748–1759. doi:10.1039/d4em00309h

Acosta-Rojas, D. C.; Barczyk, M. K.; Espinosa, C. I.; Farwig, N.; Homeier, J.; Tiede, Y.; Tinoco, B. A.; Velescu, A.; Wilcke, W.; Neuschulz, E. L.; Schleuning, M. (2023). Abiotic factors similarly shape the distribution of fruit, seed and leaf traits in tropical fleshy-fruited tree communities. Acta Oecologica, 121, Art.-nr.: 103953. doi:10.1016/j.actao.2023.103953

Alvarez, P.; Velescu, A.; Pierick, K.; Homeier, J.; Wilcke, W. (2023). Carbon Stable Isotope Ratio of Dissolved Organic Matter as a Tool To Identify Its Sources and Transformations in a Tropical Montane Forest in Ecuador. Environmental Science & Technology, 57 (40), 14983–14993. doi:10.1021/acs.est.3c01623

Basdediós, N.; Wu, Y.; Wilcke, W. (2023). Magnesium Isotope Ratios Reflect the Size and Source of Mg Loss along a Glacial Retreat Chronosequence. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 7 (5), 1151–1161. doi:10.1021/acsearthspacechem.3c00049

Merseburger, S.; Kessler, A.; Oelmann, Y.; Wilcke, W. (2023). Equilibrium isotope fractionation factors of H exchange between steam and soil clay fractions. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 37 (10), Art.-Nr. e9499. doi:10.1002/rcm.9499 

Merseburger, S.; Kessler, A.; Ojoatre, S.; Berthold, C.; Oelmann, Y.; Wilcke, W. (2023). Global distribution of nonexchangeable stable hydrogen isotope ratios of topsoil clay fractions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 347, 72–87. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2023.02.007

Sentek, V.; Velescu, A.; Wilcke, W.; Henke, C.; Peters, N.; Welp, G.; Amelung, W. (2023). Nitrogen release from different polymer‐coated urea fertilizers in soil is affected by soil properties. Soil Use and Management, 39 (4), 1477–1490. doi:10.1111/sum.12905 

van der Plas, F.; Schröder-Georgi, T.; Weigelt, A.; Barry, K.; Meyer, S.; Alzate, A.; Barnard, R. L.; Buchmann, N.; de Kroon, H.; Ebeling, A.; Eisenhauer, N.; Engels, C.; Fischer, M.; Gleixner, G.; Hildebrandt, A.; Koller-France, E.; Leimer, S.; Milcu, A.; Mommer, L.; Niklaus, P. A.; Oelmann, Y.; Roscher, C.; Scherber, C.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Scheu, S.; Schmid, B.; Schulze, E.-D.; Temperton, V.; Tscharntke, T.; Voigt, W.; Weisser, W.; Wilcke, W.; Wirth, C. (2023). Reply to: Plant traits alone are good predictors of ecosystem properties when used carefully. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7 (3), 335–336. doi:10.1038/s41559-022-01957-y

Basdediós, N.; Wu, Y.; Wilcke, W. (2022). Base cations release in soils along the 127‐year Hailuogou glacial retreat chronosequence. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 86 (6), 1692–1706. doi:10.1002/saj2.20473 

Basdediós, N.; Zhong, Z.; Wu, Y.; Wilcke, W. (2022). Initial carbonate weathering is linked with vegetation development along a 127-year glacial retreat chronosequence in the subtropical high mountainous Hailuogou region (SW China). Plant and Soil, 471, 609–628. doi:10.1007/s11104-021-05250-y 

Gonzalez Sarango, E. M.; Leimer, S.; Valarezo Manosalvas, C.; Wilcke, W. (2022). Does biochar improve nutrient availability in Ultisols of tree plantations in the Ecuadorian Amazonia?. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 86 (4), 1072–1085. doi:10.1002/saj2.20421 

González Sarango, E. M.; Valarezo Manosalvas, C.; Wilcke, W. (2022). Does biochar contribute to close nutrient cycles of tree plantations on degraded Ultisols in the Ecuadorian Amazonia?. Soil Use and Management, 39 (1), 429–440. doi:10.1111/sum.12845 

Kessler, A.; Merseburger, S.; Kappler, A.; Wilcke, W.; Oelmann, Y. (2022). Incorporation of Ambient Water-H into the C-Bonded H Pool of Bacteria during Substrate-Specific Metabolism. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 6 (9), 2180–2189. doi:10.1021/acsearthspacechem.2c00085

Le Provost, G.; Schenk, N. V.; Penone, C.; Thiele, J.; Westphal, C.; Allan, E.; Ayasse, M.; Blüthgen, N.; Boeddinghaus, R. S.; Boesing, A. L.; Bolliger, R.; Busch, V.; Fischer, M.; Gossner, M. M.; Hölzel, N.; Jung, K.; Kandeler, E.; Klaus, V. H.; Kleinebecker, T.; Leimer, S.; Marhan, S.; Marhan, S.; Morris, K.; Müller, S.; Neff, F.; Neyret, M.; Oelmann, Y.; Perović, D. J.; Peter, S.; Prati, D.; Rillig, M. C.; Saiz, H.; Schäfer, D.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Schloter, M.; Schöning, I.; Schrumpf, M.; Steckel, J.; Steffan-Dewenter, I.; Tschapka, M.; Vogt, J.; Weiner, C.; Weisser, W.; Wells, K.; Werner, M.; Wilcke, W.; Manning, P. (2022). The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 7 (2), 236–249. doi:10.1038/s41559-022-01918-5

Liptzin, D.; Boy, J.; Campbell, J. L.; Clarke, N.; Laclau, J.-P.; Godoy, R.; Johnson, S. L.; Kaiser, K.; Likens, G. E.; Karlsson, G. P.; Markewitz, D.; Rogora, M.; Sebestyen, S. D.; Shanley, J. B.; Vanguelova, E.; Verstraeten, A.; Verstraeten, A.; Wilcke, W.; Worrall, F.; McDowell, W. H. (2022). Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Atmospheric Deposition of Dissolved Organic Carbon. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36 (10), Art.: e2022GB007393. doi:10.1029/2022GB007393 

Merseburger, S.; Kessler, A.; Oelmann, Y.; Wilcke, W. (2022). Non‐exchangeable stable hydrogen isotope ratios in clay minerals and soil clay fractions: A method test. European Journal of Soil Science, 73 (4), Art.Nr. e13289. doi:10.1111/ejss.13289 

Bandowe, B. A. M.; Shukurov, N.; Leimer, S.; Kersten, M.; Steinberger, Y.; Wilcke, W. (2021). Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soils of an industrial area in semi-arid Uzbekistan: spatial distribution, relationship with trace metals and risk assessment. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, (43), 4847–4861. doi:10.1007/s10653-021-00974-3 

Bendix, J.; Aguire, N.; Beck, E.; Bräuning, A.; Brandl, R.; Breuer, L.; Böhning-Gaese, K.; Dantas de Paula, M.; Hickler, T.; Homeier, J.; Inclan, D.; Leuschner, C.; Neuschulz, E. L.; Schleuning, M.; Suarez, J. P.; Trachte, K.; Wilcke, W.; Windhorst, D.; Farwig, N. (2021). A research framework for projecting ecosystem change in highly diverse tropical mountain ecosystems. Oecologia, 549, 589–600. doi:10.1007/s00442-021-04852-8 

Dantas de Paula, M.; Forrest, M.; Langan, L.; Bendix, J.; Homeier, J.; Velescu, A.; Wilcke, W.; Hickler, T. (2021). Nutrient cycling drives plant community trait assembly and ecosystem functioning in a tropical mountain biodiversity hotspot. The new phytologist, 232 (2), 551–566. doi:10.1111/nph.17600 

Gonzalez Sarango, E. M.; Valarezo Manosalvas, C.; Mora, M.; Villamagua, M. Á.; Wilcke, W. (2021). Biochar amendment did not influence the growth of two tree plantations on nutrient-depleted Ultisols in the south Ecuadorian Amazon region. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 85 (3), 862–878. doi:10.1002/saj2.20227 

Han, Y.; Bandowe, B. A. M.; Schneider, T.; Pongpiachan, S.; Ho, S. S. H.; Wei, C.; Wang, Q.; Xing, L.; Wilcke, W. (2021). A 150-year record of black carbon (soot and char) and polycyclic aromatic compounds deposition in Lake Phayao, north Thailand. Environmental pollution, 269, Art.-Nr.: 116148. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2020.116148

Kessler, A.; Kreis, K.; Merseburger, S.; Wilcke, W.; Oelmann, Y. (2021). Incorporation of hydrogen from ambient water into the C-bonded H pool during litter decomposition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 162, Art.-Nr.: 108407. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108407

Leimer, S.; Berner, D.; Birkhofer, K.; Boeddinghaus, R. S.; Fischer, M.; Kandeler, E.; Kuka, K.; Marhan, S.; Prati, D.; Schäfer, D.; Schöning, I.; Solly, E. F.; Wolters, V.; Wilcke, W. (2021). Land‐use intensity and biodiversity effects on infiltration capacity and hydraulic conductivity of grassland soils in southern Germany. Ecohydrology, 14 (6), Art.Nr. e2301. doi:10.1002/eco.2301 

Oelmann, Y.; Lange, M.; Leimer, S.; Roscher, C.; Aburto, F.; Alt, F.; Bange, N.; Berner, D.; Boch, S.; Boeddinghaus, R. S.; Buscot, F.; Dassen, S.; De Deyn, G.; Eisenhauer, N.; Gleixner, G.; Goldmann, K.; Hölzel, N.; Jochum, M.; Kandeler, E.; Klaus, V. H.; Kleinebecker, T.; Le Provost, G.; Manning, P.; Marhan, S.; Prati, D.; Schäfer, D.; Schöning, I.; Schrumpf, M.; Schurig, E.; Wagg, C.; Wubet, T.; Wilcke, W. (2021). Above- and belowground biodiversity jointly tighten the P cycle in agricultural grasslands. Nature Communications, 12 (1), Art. Nr.: 4431. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-24714-4 

Velescu, A.; Homeier, J.; Bendix, J.; Valarezo, C.; Wilcke, W. (2021). Response of water-bound fluxes of potassium, calcium, magnesium and sodium to nutrient additions in an Ecuadorian tropical montane forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 501, Art.-Nr.: 119661. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119661

Wang, L.; Jin, Y.; Weiss, D. J.; Schleicher, N. J.; Wilcke, W.; Wu, L.; Guo, Q.; Chen, J.; O’Connor, D.; Hou, D. (2021). Possible application of stable isotope compositions for the identification of metal sources in soil. Journal of hazardous materials, 407, Art. Nr.: 124812. doi:10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.124812

Wei, C.; Bandowe, B. A. M.; Han, Y.; Cao, J.; Watson, J. G.; Chow, J. C.; Wilcke, W. (2021). Polycyclic aromatic compounds (PAHs, oxygenated PAHs, nitrated PAHs, and azaarenes) in air from four climate zones of China: Occurrence, gas/particle partitioning, and health risks. Science of the Total Environment, 786, Art.-Nr.: 147234. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147234

Wilcke, W.; Bigalke, M.; Wei, C.; Han, Y.; Musa Bandowe, B. A. (2021). Global distribution of oxygenated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in mineral topsoils. Journal of Environmental Quality, 50 (3), 717–729. doi:10.1002/jeq2.20224 

Bigalke, M.; Imseng, M.; Schneider, S.; Schwab, L.; Wiggenhauser, M.; Keller, A.; Müller, M.; Frossard, E.; Wilcke, W. (2020). Uranium Budget and Leaching in Swiss Agricultural Systems. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 8, Art. Nr.: 54. doi:10.3389/fenvs.2020.00054 

Felipe-Lucia, M. R.; Soliveres, S.; Penone, C.; Fischer, M.; Ammer, C.; Boch, S.; Boeddinghaus, R. S.; Bonkowski, M.; Buscot, F.; Fiore-Donno, A. M.; Frank, K.; Goldmann, K.; Gossner, M. M.; Hölzel, N.; Jochum, M.; Kandeler, E.; Klaus, V. H.; Kleinebecker, T.; Leimer, S.; Manning, P.; Oelmann, Y.; Saiz, H.; Schall, P.; Schloter, M.; Schöning, I.; Schrumpf, M.; Solly, E. F.; Stempfhuber, B.; Weisser, W. W.; Wilcke, W.; Wubet, T.; Allan, E. (2020). Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117 (45), 28140–28149. doi:10.1073/pnas.2016210117

Jochum, M.; Fischer, M.; Isbell, F.; Roscher, C.; Plas, F. van der; Boch, S.; Boenisch, G.; Buchmann, N.; Catford, J. A.; Cavender-Bares, J.; Ebeling, A.; Eisenhauer, N.; Gleixner, G.; Hölzel, N.; Kattge, J.; Klaus, V. H.; Kleinebecker, T.; Lange, M.; Le Provost, G.; Meyer, S. T.; Molina-Venegas, R.; Mommer, L.; Oelmann, Y.; Penone, C.; Prati, D.; Reich, P. B.; Rindisbacher, A.; Schäfer, D.; Scheu, S.; Schmid, B.; Tilman, D.; Tscharntke, T.; Vogel, A.; Wagg, C.; Weigelt, A.; Weisser, W. W.; Wilcke, W.; Manning, P. (2020). The results of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic. Nature ecology & evolution, 4, 1485–1494. doi:10.1038/s41559-020-1280-9

Knoke, T.; Paul, C.; Rammig, A.; Gosling, E.; Hildebrandt, P.; Härtl, F.; Peters, T.; Richter, M.; Diertl, K.-H.; Castro, L. M.; Calvas, B.; Ochoa, S.; Valle-Carrión, L. A.; Hamer, U.; Tischer, A.; Potthast, K.; Windhorst, D.; Homeier, J.; Wilcke, W.; Velescu, A.; Gerique, A.; Pohle, P.; Adams, J.; Breuer, L.; Mosandl, R.; Beck, E.; Weber, M.; Stimm, B.; Silva, B.; Verburg, P. H.; Bendix, J. (2020). Accounting for multiple ecosystem services in a simulation of land‐use decisions: Does it reduce tropical deforestation?. Global change biology, 26 (4), 2403–2420. doi:10.1111/gcb.15003 

Lama, S.; Kuhn, T.; Lehmann, M. F.; Müller, C.; Gonzalez, O.; Eisenhauer, N.; Lange, M.; Scheu, S.; Oelmann, Y.; Wilcke, W. (2020). The biodiversity - N cycle relationship: a N tracer experiment with soil from plant mixtures of varying diversity to model N pool sizes and transformation rates. Biology and fertility of soils, 56, 1047–1061. doi:10.1007/s00374-020-01480-x 

Lama, S.; Velescu, A.; Leimer, S.; Weigelt, A.; Chen, H.; Eisenhauer, N.; Scheu, S.; Oelmann, Y.; Wilcke, W. (2020). Plant diversity influenced gross nitrogen mineralization, microbial ammonium consumption and gross inorganic N immobilization in a grassland experiment. Oecologia, 193 (3), 731–748. doi:10.1007/s00442-020-04717-6 

Plas, F. van der; Schröder-Georgi, T.; Weigelt, A.; Barry, K.; Meyer, S.; Alzate, A.; Barnard, R. L.; Buchmann, N.; Kroon, H. de; Ebeling, A.; Eisenhauer, N.; Engels, C.; Fischer, M.; Gleixner, G.; Hildebrandt, A.; Koller-France, E.; Leimer, S.; Milcu, A.; Mommer, L.; Niklaus, P. A.; Oelmann, Y.; Roscher, C.; Scherber, C.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Scheu, S.; Schmid, B.; Schulze, E.-D.; Temperton, V.; Tscharntke, T.; Voigt, W.; Weisser, W.; Wilcke, W.; Wirth, C. (2020). Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning. Nature ecology & evolution, 4 (12), 1602–1611. doi:10.1038/s41559-020-01316-9

Reiner, J. E.; Geiger, K.; Hackbarth, M.; Fink, M.; Lapp, C. J.; Jung, T.; Dötsch, A.; Hügler, M.; Wagner, M.; Hille-Reichel, A.; Wilcke, W.; Kerzenmacher, S.; Horn, H.; Gescher, J. (2020). From an extremophilic community to an electroautotrophic production strain: identifying a novel Knallgas bacterium as cathodic biofilm biocatalyst. The ISME journal, 14 (5), 1125–1140. doi:10.1038/s41396-020-0595-5 

Wang, J.; Wu, Y.; Zhou, J.; Bing, H.; Sun, H.; He, Q.; Li, J.; Wilcke, W. (2020). Soil microbes become a major pool of biological phosphorus during the early stage of soil development with little evidence of competition for phosphorus with plants. Plant and soil, 446, 259–274. doi:10.1007/s11104-019-04329-x

Wilcke, W.; Velescu, A.; Leimer, S.; Blotevogel, S.; Alvarez, P.; Valarezo, C. (2020). Total organic carbon concentrations in ecosystem solutions of a remote tropical montane forest respond to global environmental change. Global change biology, 26 (12), 6989–7005. doi:10.1111/gcb.15351 

Bandowe, B. A. M.; Leimer, S.; Meusel, H.; Velescu, A.; Dassen, S.; Eisenhauer, N.; Hoffmann, T.; Oelmann, Y.; Wilcke, W. (2019). Plant diversity enhances the natural attenuation of polycyclic aromatic compounds (PAHs and oxygenated PAHs) in grassland soils. Soil biology & biochemistry, 129, 60–70. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2018.10.017

Fischer, C.; Leimer, S.; Roscher, C.; Ravenek, J.; Kroon, H. de; Kreutziger, Y.; Baade, J.; Beßler, H.; Eisenhauer, N.; Weigelt, A.; Mommer, L.; Lange, M.; Gleixner, G.; Wilcke, W.; Schröder, B.; Hildebrandt, A. (2019). Plant species richness and functional groups have different effects on soil water content in a decade‐long grassland experiment. Journal of ecology, 107 (1), 127–141. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13046

Gygax, S.; Gfeller, L.; Wilcke, W.; Mestrot, A. (2019). Emerging investigator series: mercury mobility and methylmercury formation in a contaminated agricultural flood plain: influence of flooding and manure addition. Environmental science, 21 (12), 2008–2019. doi:10.1039/c9em00257j

Hacker, N.; Wilcke, W.; Oelmann, Y. (2019). The oxygen isotope composition of bioavailable phosphate in soil reflects the oxygen isotope composition in soil water driven by plant diversity effects on evaporation. Geochimica et cosmochimica acta, 248, 387–399. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2018.11.023

Imseng, M.; Wiggenhauser, M.; Keller, A.; Müller, M.; Rehkämper, M.; Murphy, K.; Kreissig, K.; Frossard, E.; Wilcke, W.; Bigalke, M. (2019). Towards an understanding of the Cd isotope fractionation during transfer from the soil to the cereal grain. Environmental pollution, 244, 834–844. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2018.09.149

Imseng, M.; Wiggenhauser, M.; Müller, M.; Keller, A.; Frossard, E.; Wilcke, W.; Bigalke, M. (2019). The Fate of Zn in Agricultural Soils: A Stable Isotope Approach to Anthropogenic Impact, Soil Formation, and Soil-Plant Cycling. Environmental science & technology, 53, 4140–4149. doi:10.1021/acs.est.8b03675

Morris, E. K.; Morris, D. J. P.; Vogt, S.; Gleber, S.-C.; Bigalke, M.; Wilcke, W.; Rillig, M. C. (2019). Visualizing the dynamics of soil aggregation as affected by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. The ISME journal, 13 (7), 1639–1646. doi:10.1038/s41396-019-0369-0

Musa Bandowe, B. A.; Wei, C.; Han, Y.; Cao, J.; Zhan, C.; Wilcke, W. (2019). Polycyclic aromatic compounds (PAHs, oxygenated PAHs, nitrated PAHs and azaarenes) in soils from China and their relationship with geographic location, land use and soil carbon fractions. The science of the total environment, 690, 1268–1276. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.07.022

Plas, F.; Allan, E.; Fischer, M.; Alt, F.; Arndt, H.; Binkenstein, J.; Blaser, S.; Blüthgen, N.; Böhm, S.; Hölzel, N.; Klaus, V. H.; Kleinebecker, T.; Morris, K.; Oelmann, Y.; Prati, D.; Renner, S. C.; Rillig, M. C.; Schaefer, H. M.; Schloter, M.; Schmitt, B.; Schöning, I.; Schrumpf, M.; Solly, E. F.; Sorkau, E.; Steckel, J.; Steffan-Dewenter, I.; Stempfhuber, B.; Tschapka, M.; Weiner, C. N.; Weisser, W. W.; Werner, M.; Westphal, C.; Wilcke, W.; Manning, P. (2019). Towards the development of general rules describing landscape heterogeneity–multifunctionality relationships. Journal of applied ecology, 56 (1), 168–179. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.13260

Sternagel, A.; Loritz, R.; Wilcke, W.; Zehe, E. (2019). Simulating preferential soil water flow and tracer transport using the Lagrangian Soil Water and Solute Transport Model. Hydrology and earth system sciences, 23 (10), 4249–4267. doi:10.5194/hess-23-4249-2019 

Thieme, L.; Graeber, D.; Hofmann, D.; Bischoff, S.; Schwarz, M. T.; Steffen, B.; Meyer, U.-N.; Kaupenjohann, M.; Wilcke, W.; Michalzik, B.; Siemens, J. (2019). Dissolved organic matter characteristics of deciduous and coniferous forests with variable management: different at the source, aligned in the soil. Biogeosciences, 16 (7), 1411–1432. doi:10.5194/bg-16-1411-2019 

Wang, J.; Huang, S.; He, Q.; Bing, H.; Chen, X.; Zhang, X.; Tian, X.; Zhou, J.; Wilcke, W.; Wu, Y. (2019). Microplate fluorimetric assay of soil leucine aminopeptidase activity: alkalization is not needed before fluorescence reading. Biology and fertility of soils, 56, 281–285. doi:10.1007/s00374-019-01419-x

Wiggenhauser, M.; Bigalke, M.; Imseng, M.; Keller, A.; Rehkämper, M.; Wilcke, W.; Frossard, E. (2019). Using isotopes to trace freshly applied cadmium through mineral phosphorus fertilization in soil-fertilizer-plant systems. The science of the total environment, 648, 779–786. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.127

Wilcke, W.; Velescu, A.; Leimer, S.; Bigalke, M.; Boy, J.; Valarezo, C. (2019). Temporal Trends of Phosphorus Cycling in a Tropical Montane Forest in Ecuador During 14 Years. Journal of geophysical research / Biogeosciences, 124 (5), 1370–1386. doi:10.1029/2018JG004942

Bandowe, B. A. M.; Bigalke, M.; Kobza, J.; Wilcke, W. (2018). Sources and fate of polycyclic aromatic compounds (PAHs, oxygenated PAHs and azaarenes) in forest soil profiles opposite of an aluminium plant. The science of the total environment, 630, 83–95. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.02.109

Buchmann, T.; Schumacher, J.; Ebeling, A.; Eisenhauer, N.; Fischer, M.; Gleixner, G.; Hacker, N.; Lange, M.; Oelmann, Y.; Schulze, E.-D.; Weigelt, A.; Weisser, W. W.; Wilcke, W.; Roscher, C. (2018). Connecting experimental biodiversity research to real-world grasslands. Perspectives in plant ecology, evolution and systematics, 33, 78–88. doi:10.1016/j.ppees.2018.06.002

Imseng, M.; Wiggenhauser, M.; Keller, A.; Müller, M.; Rehkämper, M.; Murphy, K.; Kreissig, K.; Frossard, E.; Wilcke, W.; Bigalke, M. (2018). Fate of Cd in Agricultural Soils : A Stable Isotope Approach to Anthropogenic Impact, Soil Formation, and Soil-Plant Cycling. Environmental science & technology, 52 (4), 1919–1928. doi:10.1021/acs.est.7b05439

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Meyer, S. T.; Ptacnik, R.; Hillebrand, H.; Bessler, H.; Buchmann, N.; Ebeling, A.; Eisenhauer, N.; Engels, C.; Fischer, M.; Halle, S.; Klein, A.-M.; Oelmann, Y.; Roscher, C.; Rottstock, T.; Scherber, C.; Scheu, S.; Schmid, B.; Schulze, E.-D.; Temperton, V. M.; Tscharntke, T.; Voigt, W.; Weigelt, A.; Wilcke, W.; Weisser, W. W. (2018). Biodiversity–multifunctionality relationships depend on identity and number of measured functions. Nature ecology & evolution, 2 (1), 44–49. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0391-4

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