Arctic Soil Carbon Storage
Faculty
Research Group Richter
Research Topic
Research Interest
Soils of the Northern circumpolar permafrost zone store about 1.700 Gt of carbon, more than twice as much as the current atmosphere and about half of all terrestrial ecosystems. The Richter group’s scientific curiosity is therefore centered on understanding transformation, decomposition and release of organic carbon from tundra ecosystems, with the ultimate goal to understand the controls of carbon sequestration in permafrost soils and the vulnerability of soil organic matter in a future climate.
Dr. Andreas Richter
Head of the Division of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research, University of Vienna
Team
- Nicolas Valiente Parra (PhD) Postdoctoral Researcher
- Victoria Martin (MSC) PhD student
- Cornelia Rottensteiner (BSc) Master student
Team
Nicolas Valiente Parra, PhD
Team
Cornelia Rottensteiner
Team
Victoria Martin
Selected Publications
- Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S., Keiblinger, K.M., Mooshammer, M., Peñuelas, J., Richter, A., Sardans, J., Wanek, W. (2015) The application of ecological stoichiometry to plant-microbial-soil organic matter transformations. Ecological Monographs 85: 135-155.
- Wild, B., Schnecker, J., Knoltsch, J., Takriti, M., Mooshammer, M., Gentsch, N., Mikutta, R., Eloy Alves, R.J., Gittel, A., Lashchinskiy, N., Richter, A. (2015) Microbial nitrogen dynamics in organic and mineral soil horizons along a latitudinal transect in Western Siberia. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 29, 567–582.
- Mooshammer, M., Wanek, W., Hämmerle, I., Fuchslueger. L., Hofhansl, F., Knoltsch, A., Schnecker, J., Takriti, M., Watzka, M., Wild, B., Keiblinger, K.M., Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S., Richter, A. (2014) Adjustment of microbial nitrogen use efficiency to carbon:nitrogen imbalances regulates soil nitrogen cycling. Nature Communications 5: 3694.
- Biasi, C., Meyer, H., Rusalimova, O., Hämmerle, R., Kaiser, C., Baranyi, C., et al. (2008). Initial effects of experimental warming on carbon exchange rates, plant growth and microbial dynamics of a lichen-rich dwarf shrub tundra in Siberia. Plant Soil, 307, 191–205.
- Kaiser, C., Meyer, H., Biasi, C., Rusalimova, O., Barsukov, P. & Richter, A. (2007). Conservation of soil organic matter through cryoturbation in arctic soils in Siberia. J. Geophys. Res., 112, G02017.
- Biasi, C., Rusalimova, O., Meyer, H., Kaiser, C., Wanek, W., Barsukov, P., et al. (2005). Temperature-dependent shift from labile to recalcitrant carbon sources of arctic heterotrophs. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom., 19, 1401–1408.
Projects
- NITROKARST
Nunataryuk: Permafrost thaw and the changing Arctic coast, science for socio-economic adaptation
- COUP – Constraining uncertainties in the permafrost-climate feedback
- INT5153 – Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Land-Water-Ecosystem Quality in Polar and Mountainous Regions
- ClimGrass C – Grassland carbon dynamics in a changing climate
- Microbial Nitrogen Cycling – From Single Cells to Ecosystems: FWF Graduate Program
- EU-PolarNet – Connecting Science and Society
- MICDIF – Linking microbial diversity and functions across scales and ecosytems
- The Biogeochemistry of Tungsten (W) in the Plant-Soil Environment
- Time & Energy, Fundamental microbial mechanisms that determine methane dynamics in a warming arctic
- CryoCARB – Long-term Carbon Storage in Cryoturbated Arctic Soils (ESF – PolarCLIMATE) Coordinator of the whole CryoCARB Network; PI of Austrian Project Part: FWF I370-B17
