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Overview

Beat Frey is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with notable expertise in ecology, plant science, soil science, atmospheric science, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work extensively covers several main topics, including microbial community ecology and physiology, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, polar research and ecology, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, climate change and permafrost, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, and peatlands and wetlands ecology.

Beat Frey has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications across a range of scientific journals. Key recent papers include:

  • Forest tree growth is linked to mycorrhizal fungal composition and function across Europe, 2022, The ISME Journal
  • The "Plastisphere" of Biodegradable Plastics Is Characterized by Specific Microbial Taxa of Alpine and Arctic Soils, 2020, Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • High temperatures enhance the microbial genetic potential to recycle C and N from necromass in high-mountain soils, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Temperatures beyond the community optimum promote the dominance of heat-adapted, fast growing and stress resistant bacteria in alpine soils, 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Deep Soil Layers of Drought-Exposed Forests Harbor Poorly Known Bacterial and Fungal Communities, 2021, Frontiers in Microbiology

Frequent coauthors in their collaborations include Beat Stierli, Ivano Brunner, Mai-He Li, Weihong Qi, and Xin Sui.

Publications by Beat Frey are reported in journals such as Frontiers in Microbiology, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Science of The Total Environment, and Applied Soil Ecology.

Best Publications

  • Distinct soil microbial diversity under long-term organic and conventional farming

    Martin Hartmann;Beat Frey;Jochen Mayer;Paul Mäder

  • Resistance and resilience of the forest soil microbiome to logging-associated compaction.

    Martin Hartmann;Pascal A Niklaus;Stephan Zimmermann;Stefan Schmutz

  • Microbial diversity in European alpine permafrost and active layers

    Beat Frey;Thomas Rime;Marcia Phillips;Beat Stierli

  • Bacterial, archaeal and fungal succession in the forefield of a receding glacier.

    Anita Zumsteg;Joerg Luster;Hans Göransson;Hans Göransson;Rienk H. Smittenberg;Rienk H. Smittenberg

  • Distribution of Zn in functionally different leaf epidermal cells of the hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens

    B. Frey;C. Keller;K. Zierold;R. Schulin

  • Acquisition of nitrogen by external hyphae of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi associated with Zea mays L.

    Beat Frey;Hannes Schüepp

  • Soil respiration and microbial properties in an acid forest soil: effects of wood ash

    S Zimmermann;B Frey

  • Distribution of cadmium in leaves of Thlaspi caerulescens

    Claudia Cosio;Laura DeSantis;Beat Frey;Saliou Diallo

  • Heavy metal accumulation and phytostabilisation potential of tree fine roots in a contaminated soil

    Ivano Brunner;Jörg Luster;Madeleine S. Günthardt-Goerg;Beat Frey

  • Forest tree growth is linked to mycorrhizal fungal composition and function across Europe

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  • Release of phenols from Lupinus albus L. roots exposed to Cu and their possible role in Cu detoxification

    Christoph Jung;Valérie Maeder;Felix Funk;Beat Frey

  • Weathering-Associated Bacteria from the Damma Glacier Forefield: Physiological Capabilities and Impact on Granite Dissolution

    Beat Frey;Stefan R. Rieder;Ivano Brunner;Michael Plötze

  • Chemical and Biological Gradients along the Damma Glacier Soil Chronosequence, Switzerland

    Stefano M. Bernasconi;Andreas Bauder;Bernard Bourdon;Ivano Brunner

  • Drought tolerance of two black poplar (Populus nigra L.) clones: contribution of carbohydrates and oxidative stress defence

    Nicole Regier;Sebastian Streb;Claudia Cocozza;Marcus Schaub

  • A decade of irrigation transforms the soil microbiome of a semi‐arid pine forest

    Martin Hartmann;Ivano Brunner;Frank Hagedorn;Richard D. Bardgett

  • Transport of 15N from a soil compartment separated by a polytetrafluoroethylene membrane to plant roots via the hyphae of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

    P. Mäder;H. Vierheilig;R. Streitwolf-Engel;T. Boller

  • Vertical distribution of the soil microbiota along a successional gradient in a glacier forefield.

    Thomas Rime;Martin Hartmann;Ivano Brunner;Franco Widmer

  • Pore Structure of Coffee Beans Affected by Roasting Conditions

    S. Schenker;S. Handschin;B. Frey;R. Perren

  • ACTIN2 is essential for bulge site selection and tip growth during root hair development of Arabidopsis.

    Christoph Ringli;Nicolas Baumberger;Anouck Diet;Beat Frey

  • Alpine soil microbial ecology in a changing world

    Johanna Donhauser;Beat Frey

  • Compaction of forest soils with heavy logging machinery affects soil bacterial community structure

    Beat Frey;Johann Kremer;Andreas Rüdt;Stephane Sciacca

  • Semi-automated genetic analyses of soil microbial communities: comparison of T-RFLP and RISA based on descriptive and discriminative statistical approaches.

    Martin Hartmann;Beat Frey;Roland Kölliker;Franco Widmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivano Brunner
Ivano Brunner Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Franco Widmer
Franco Widmer Environmental Protection Agency
Frank Hagedorn
Frank Hagedorn Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Gerhard Furrer
Gerhard Furrer ETH Zurich
Christoph Scheidegger
Christoph Scheidegger Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Martin I. Bidartondo
Martin I. Bidartondo Imperial College London
Mai-He Li
Mai-He Li Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

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