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Overview

Else K. Bünemann is affiliated with the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture in Belgium. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with particular attention to soil science, industrial and manufacturing engineering, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's research topics include soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, phosphorus and nutrient management, soil and water nutrient dynamics, agriculture and soil plant science, microplastics and plastic pollution, anaerobic digestion and biogas production, and recycling and waste management techniques.

Recent scientific papers authored or coauthored by Else K. Bünemann include:

  • Do contaminants compromise the use of recycled nutrients in organic agriculture? A review and synthesis of current knowledge on contaminant concentrations, fate in the environment and risk assessment, 2023, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Leached nitrate under fertilised loamy soil originates mainly from mineralisation of soil organic N, 2022, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Field-scale monitoring of nitrate leaching in agriculture: assessment of three methods, 2021, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
  • Reliance on Biological Nitrogen Fixation Depletes Soil Phosphorus and Potassium Reserves, 2020, Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems
  • Soil management intensity shifts microbial catabolic profiles across a range of European long-term field experiments, 2020, Applied Soil Ecology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Else K. Bünemann include:

  • Hans-Martin Krause
  • Hanna Frick
  • Norah Efosa
  • Giulia Bongiorno
  • Paul Mäder

The scientist often publishes in the following venues:

  • Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Environmental Technology & Innovation

Else K. Bünemann has contributed to book publications under the publisher Organic Eprints (International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems, and Research Institute of Organic Agriculture). The titles published in 2020 include Sol et climat. Impact sur le climat de l'exploitation biologique des sols and Boden und Klima. Klimawirkung der biologischen Bodenbewirtschaftung.

Best Publications

  • Soil quality – A critical review

    Else K. Bünemann;Giulia Bongiorno;Giulia Bongiorno;Zhanguo Bai;Rachel E. Creamer

  • Impact of agricultural inputs on soil organisms—a review

    E. K. Bünemann;G. D. Schwenke;L. Van Zwieten

  • Sensitivity of labile carbon fractions to tillage and organic matter management and their potential as comprehensive soil quality indicators across pedoclimatic conditions in Europe

    Giulia Bongiorno;Giulia Bongiorno;Else K. Bünemann;Chidinma U. Oguejiofor;Jennifer Meier

  • Effects of agricultural management practices on soil quality: A review of long-term experiments for Europe and China

    Zhanguo Bai;Thomas Caspari;Maria Ruiperez Gonzalez;Niels H. Batjes

  • phoD Alkaline Phosphatase Gene Diversity in Soil.

    Sabine A. Ragot;Michael A. Kertesz;Else K. Bünemann

  • Assessment of gross and net mineralization rates of soil organic phosphorus – A review

    Else Katrin Bünemann

  • Phosphorus in action : biological processes in soil phosphorus cycling

    Else K. Bünemann;Astrid Oberson;Emmanuel Frossard

  • Microbial community composition and substrate use in a highly weathered soil as affected by crop rotation and P fertilization

    E.K. Bunemann;Deborah A. Bossio;P.C. Smithson;Emmanuel Frossard

  • Carbon pulses but not phosphorus pulses are related to decreases in microbial biomass during repeated drying and rewetting of soils

    C.R. Butterly;E.K. Bünemann;A.M. McNeill;J.A. Baldock;J.A. Baldock

  • Soil phoD and phoX alkaline phosphatase gene diversity responds to multiple environmental factors.

    Sabine A. Ragot;Michael A. Kertesz;Éva Mészáros;Emmanuel Frossard

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

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

  • Rapid microbial phosphorus immobilization dominates gross phosphorus fluxes in a grassland soil with low inorganic phosphorus availability

    Else K. Bünemann;A. Oberson;Frank Liebisch;F. Keller

  • Soil phosphorus supply controls P nutrition strategies of beech forest ecosystems in Central Europe

    F. Lang;J. Krüger;W. Amelung;S. Willbold

  • Oxygen isotopes unravel the role of microorganisms in phosphate cycling in soils.

    Federica Tamburini;Verena Pfahler;Else K. Bünemann;Kathi Guelland

  • The Use of Tracers to Investigate Phosphate Cycling in Soil–Plant Systems

    Emmanuel Frossard;David L. Achat;Stefano M. Bernasconi;Else K. Bünemann

  • Phosphorus limitation in a Ferralsol: Impact on microbial activity and cell internal P pools

    Knut Ehlers;Lars R. Bakken;Åsa Frostegård;Emmanuel Frossard

  • Enzyme additions as a tool to assess the potential bioavailability of organically bound nutrients

    E.K. Bünemann

  • Phosphorus Dynamics in a Highly Weathered Soil as Revealed by Isotopic Labeling Techniques

    Else Katrin Bunemann;F. Steinebrunner;P. C. Smithson;E. Frossard

  • Increased availability of phosphorus after drying and rewetting of a grassland soil: processes and plant use

    E. K. Bünemann;B. Keller;D. Hoop;K. Jud

  • Pasture degradation impacts soil phosphorus storage via changes to aggregate-associated soil organic matter in highly weathered tropical soils

    Steven J. Fonte;Maike Nesper;Django Hegglin;Jaime E. Velásquez

  • Long-term addition of organic fertilizers has little effect on soil organic phosphorus as characterized by 31P NMR spectroscopy and enzyme additions

    Kathrin E. Annaheim;Ashlea L. Doolette;Ronald J. Smernik;Jochen Mayer

Frequent Co-Authors

Astrid Oberson
Astrid Oberson ETH Zurich
Paul Mäder
Paul Mäder Forschungsinstitut für Biologischen Landbau
Lijbert Brussaard
Lijbert Brussaard Wageningen University & Research
Jan Jansa
Jan Jansa Czech Academy of Sciences
Mike J. McLaughlin
Mike J. McLaughlin University of Adelaide
Petra Marschner
Petra Marschner University of Adelaide
Ronald J. Smernik
Ronald J. Smernik University of Adelaide
Enzo Lombi
Enzo Lombi University of South Australia

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