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Gerhard Gebauer is affiliated with the University of Bayreuth in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research interests cover a range of subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Molecular Biology, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's published work emphasizes topics such as Plant and Animal Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions, Plant Diversity and Evolution, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Gerhard Gebauer has a body of publications in several frequent venues, notably:

  • Annals of Botany
  • Functional Ecology
  • New Phytologist
  • The Lancet Oncology
  • Nature Plants

Among the notable recent papers authored by or related to Gebauer are:

  • "Bevacizumab and platinum-based combinations for recurrent ovarian cancer: a randomised, open-label, phase 3 trial," 2020, The Lancet Oncology
  • "Stable isotopes: past and future in exposing secrets of ant nutrition (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)," 2024, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Entomofaunistik (OEGEF)
  • "Novel insights into orchid mycorrhiza functioning from stable isotope signatures of fungal pelotons," 2023, New Phytologist
  • "Partial mycoheterotrophy is common among chlorophyllous plants with Paris-type arbuscular mycorrhiza," 2021, Annals of Botany
  • "Mycoheterotrophic plants living on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are generally enriched in 13C, 15N and 2H isotopes," 2020, Journal of Ecology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Gerhard Gebauer include:

  • Franziska E. Zahn
  • Sofia I. F. Gomes
  • Vincent S. F. T. Merckx
  • Philipp Giesemann
  • Deyi Wang

Best Publications

  • Effects of forest decline on uptake and leaching of deposited nitrate determined from 15 N and 18 O measurements

    Walter Durka;Ernst-Detlef Schulze;Gerhard Gebauer;Susanne Voerkeliust

  • Changing partners in the dark: isotopic and molecular evidence of ectomycorrhizal liaisons between forest orchids and trees.

    Martin I. Bidartondo;Bastian Burghardt;Gerhard Gebauer;Thomas D. Bruns

  • Carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios in different compartments of a healthy and a declining Picea abies forest in the Fichtelgebirge, NE Bavaria.

    Gerhard Gebauer;Ernst-Detlef Schulze

  • Disentangling a rainforest food web using stable isotopes: dietary diversity in a species-rich ant community

    Nico Blüthgen;Nico Blüthgen;Gerhard Gebauer;Konrad Fiedler

  • 15N and 13C natural abundance of autotrophic and myco‐heterotrophic orchids provides insight into nitrogen and carbon gain from fungal association

    Gerhard Gebauer;M. Meyer

  • Mixotrophy in orchids: insights from a comparative study of green individuals and nonphotosynthetic individuals of Cephalanthera damasonium

    Thomas Julou;Bastian Burghardt;Gerhard Gebauer;Daniel Berveiller

  • Nitrogen nutrition and isotope differences among life forms at the northern treeline of Alaska.

    Ernst-Detlef Schulze;F. S. Chapin Iii;Gerhard Gebauer

  • Loss of functional diversity of ant assemblages in secondary tropical forests

    Jochen H. Bihn;Gerhard Gebauer;Roland Brandl

  • The Effects of Above- and Belowground Mutualisms on Orchid Speciation and Coexistence

    Richard J. Waterman;Martin I. Bidartondo;Jaco Stofberg;Julie K. Combs

  • Estimates of nitrogen fixation by trees on an aridity gradient in Namibia.

    Ernst-Detlef Schulze;Gerhard Gebauer;H. Ziegler;Otto L. Lange

  • Cephalanthera longifolia (Neottieae, Orchidaceae) is mixotrophic: a comparative study between green and nonphotosynthetic individuals

    Jean-Claude AbadieJ.-C. Abadie;Ülle PüttseppÜ. Püttsepp;Gerhard GebauerG. Gebauer;Antonella FaccioA. Faccio

  • Below-ground interactions in dryland agroforestry

    Johannes Lehmann;Inka Peter;Claudia Steglich;Gerhard Gebauer

  • Evidence for novel and specialized mycorrhizal parasitism: the orchid Gastrodia confusa gains carbon from saprotrophic Mycena

    Yuki Ogura-Tsujita;Gerhard Gebauer;Toshimasa Hashimoto;Hidetaka Umata

  • Wide geographical and ecological distribution of nitrogen and carbon gains from fungi in pyroloids and monotropoids (Ericaceae) and in orchids

    Katja Zimmer;Nicole A. Hynson;Gerhard Gebauer;Edith B. Allen

  • Drought turns a Central European Norway spruce forest soil from an N2O source to a transient N2O sink

    Stefanie Daniela Goldberg;Gerhard Gebauer

  • Partial mycoheterotrophy is more widespread among orchids than previously assumed.

    Gerhard Gebauer;Katja Preiss;Andreas C. Gebauer

  • Photosynthetic Mediterranean meadow orchids feature partial mycoheterotrophy and specific mycorrhizal associations.

    Mariangela Girlanda;Rossana Segreto;Donata Cafasso;Heiko Tobias Liebel

  • Isotope ratios and concentrations of sulfur and nitrogen in needles and soils of Picea abies stands as influenced by atmospheric deposition of sulfur and nitrogen compounds

    Gerhard Gebauer;Anette Giesemann;Ernst-Detlef Schulze;Hans-Jürgen Jäger

  • 15N natural abundance in fruit bodies of different functional groups of fungi in relation to substrate utilization

    Gerhard Gebauer;A. F. S. Taylor

  • The Physiological Ecology of Mycoheterotrophy

    Nicole A. Hynson;Thomas P. Madsen;Marc-André Selosse;Iris K. U. Adam

  • Nitrogen Isotope Ratios in Different Compartments of a Mixed Stand of Spruce, Larch and Beech Trees and of Understorey Vegetation Including Fungi

    Gerhard Gebauer;Petra Dietrich

  • Partitioning of 15N-labeled ammonium and nitrate among soil, litter, below- and above-ground biomass of trees and understory in a 15-year-old Picea abies plantation

    Nina Buchmann;Nina Buchmann;Gerhard Gebauer;Ernst-Detlef Schulze

  • Nitrate, nitrate reduction and organic nitrogen in plants from different ecological and taxonomic groups of Central Europe

    Gerhard Gebauer;H. Rehder;B. Wollenweber

  • Plastic mulching in agriculture—Friend or foe of N2O emissions?

    Sina Berger;Youngsun Kim;Youngsun Kim;Janine Kettering;Gerhard Gebauer

  • Changing partners in the dark: isotopic and molecular evidence of ectomycorrhizal liaisons between forest

    Martin I. Bidartondol;Bastian Burghardt;Gerhard Gebauer;Thomas D. Bruns

Frequent Co-Authors

Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Martin I. Bidartondo
Martin I. Bidartondo Imperial College London
Johannes Lehmann
Johannes Lehmann Cornell University
Nina Buchmann
Nina Buchmann ETH Zurich
Oene Oenema
Oene Oenema Wageningen University & Research
Thomas D. Bruns
Thomas D. Bruns University of California, Berkeley
Wolfgang Zech
Wolfgang Zech University of Bayreuth
David Read
David Read University of Sheffield
Nico Blüthgen
Nico Blüthgen Technical University of Darmstadt
S. C. Jarvis
S. C. Jarvis Rothamsted Research

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