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Georg Guggenberger

Georg Guggenberger

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Environmental Sciences
Germany
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
96
Citations
46179
World Ranking
449
National Ranking
28

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Georg Guggenberger is affiliated with the University of Hannover in Germany and focuses their research on several aspects of agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to environmental science. Their work spans various subfields including soil science, atmospheric science, plant science, ecology, and environmental chemistry.

Their research primarily centers on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, climate change and permafrost, peatlands and wetlands ecology, geology and paleoclimatology research, soil and water nutrient dynamics, soil and unsaturated flow, and microbial community ecology and physiology.

Guggenberger has authored multiple papers that have appeared in notable journals. Recent publications include:

  • "Contrasting pathways of carbon sequestration in paddy and upland soils," 2021, Global Change Biology
  • "The status and stability of permafrost carbon on the Tibetan Plateau," 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Rice paddy soils are a quantitatively important carbon store according to a global synthesis," 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • "C:N:P stoichiometry regulates soil organic carbon mineralization and concomitant shifts in microbial community composition in paddy soil," 2020, Biology and Fertility of Soils
  • "Carbon loss from northern circumpolar permafrost soils amplified by rhizosphere priming," 2020, Nature Geoscience

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Guggenberger include:

  • Jens Boy
  • Yakov Kuzyakov
  • Leopold Sauheitl
  • Tida Ge
  • Yu Luo

Their work is frequently published in the following venues:

  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geoderma
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Biology and Fertility of Soils

The breadth of Georg Guggenberger's research reflects an interdisciplinary approach that integrates soil science and environmental studies with a focus on carbon dynamics and ecosystem interactions related to climate factors. This position in prominent scientific outlets and collaborations with multiple researchers highlights their active engagement in advancing knowledge related to soil and ecosystem sciences.

Best Publications

  • Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

    Michael W. I. Schmidt;Margaret S. Torn;Margaret S. Torn;Samuel Abiven;Thorsten Dittmar;Thorsten Dittmar

  • Stabilization of organic matter in temperate soils: mechanisms and their relevance under different soil conditions – a review

    Margit von Lützow;Ingrid Kögel-Knabner;Klemens Ekschmitt;Egbert Matzner

  • SOM fractionation methods: Relevance to functional pools and to stabilization mechanisms

    Margit von Lützow;Ingrid Kögel-Knabner;Klemens Ekschmitt;Heinz Flessa

  • The 'Terra Preta' phenomenon: a model for sustainable agriculture in the humid tropics.

    Bruno Glaser;Ludwig Haumaier;Georg Guggenberger;Wolfgang Zech

  • Organo-mineral associations in temperate soils: Integrating biology, mineralogy, and organic matter chemistry

    Ingrid Kögel-Knabner;Georg Guggenberger;Markus Kleber;Ellen Kandeler

  • The role of DOM sorption to mineral surfaces in the preservation of organic matter in soils.

    Klaus Kaiser;Georg Guggenberger

  • Microaggregates in soils

    Kai Uwe Totsche;Wulf Amelung;Martin H. Gerzabek;Georg Guggenberger

  • Mineral surfaces and soil organic matter

    K. Kaiser;G. Guggenberger

  • Factors controlling humification and mineralization of soil organic matter in the tropics

    Wolfgang Zech;Nicola Senesi;Georg Guggenberger;Klaus Kaiser

  • Comparison of quantification methods to measure fire-derived (black/elemental) carbon in soils and sediments using reference materials from soil, water, sediment and the atmosphere

    Karen Hammes;Michael W.I. Schmidt;Ronald J. Smernik;Lloyd A. Currie

  • Black carbon in density fractions of anthropogenic soils of the Brazilian Amazon region

    Bruno Glaser;Eugene Balashov;Ludwig Haumaier;Georg Guggenberger

  • Black carbon in soils: the use of benzenecarboxylic acids as specific markers

    Bruno Glaser;Ludwig Haumaier;Georg Guggenberger;Wolfgang Zech

  • Land-use effects on the composition of organic matter in particle-size separates of soil: I. Lignin and carbohydrate signature

    G. Guggenberger;B.T. Christensen;W. Zech

  • Stabilization mechanisms of organic matter in four temperate soils: Development and application of a conceptual model

    Margit von Lützow;Ingrid Kögel‐Knabner;Bernard Ludwig;Egbert Matzner

  • Dissolved organic matter in soil: challenging the paradigm of sorptive preservation

    Georg Guggenberger;Klaus Kaiser

  • Bacterial and Fungal Cell-Wall Residues in Conventional and No-Tillage Agroecosystems

    Georg Guggenberger;Serita D. Frey;Johan Six;Keith H. Paustian

  • Sorption of DOM and DOM fractions to forest soils

    Klaus Kaiser;Georg Guggenberger;Wolfgang Zech

  • Sources and composition of soil organic matter fractions between and within soil aggregates

    Johan Six;Georg Guggenberger;Keith H. Paustian;Ludwig Haumaier

  • Storage and stability of organic carbon in soils as related to depth, occlusion within aggregates, and attachment to minerals

    Marion Schrumpf;K. Kaiser;G. Guggenberger;T. Persson

  • Formation and mobilization pathways of dissolved organic matter: evidence from chemical structural studies of organic matter fractions in acid forest floor solutions

    Georg Guggenberger;Wolfgang Zech;Hans-Rolf Schulten

  • Dissolved organic matter sorption on sub soils and minerals studied by 13C‐NMR and DRIFT spectroscopy

    Klaus Kaiser;Georg Guggenberger;Ludwig Haumaier;Wolfgang Zech

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Mikutta
Robert Mikutta Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Wolfgang Zech
Wolfgang Zech University of Bayreuth
Olga Shibistova
Olga Shibistova University of Hannover
Klaus Kaiser
Klaus Kaiser Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Yakov Kuzyakov
Yakov Kuzyakov University of Göttingen
Birgit Wild
Birgit Wild Stockholm University
Ludwig Haumaier
Ludwig Haumaier University of Bayreuth
Tim Urich
Tim Urich University of Greifswald
Xingliang Xu
Xingliang Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences

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