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Michael Sommer is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany, contributing extensively to research in agricultural and environmental sciences. Their work predominantly spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Earth and Planetary Sciences.

The scientist's subfields of study focus on Soil Science, Plant Science, Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Global and Planetary Change. These areas frame their research interests and the scope of their scholarly output.

Key topics that characterize their research contributions include:

  • Soil erosion and sediment transport
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Silicon Effects in Agriculture
  • Aeolian processes and effects
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture

Michael Sommer's recent publications cover a variety of these topics, including:

  • "Silicon Cycling in Soils Revisited," 2021, Plants
  • "No perfect storm for crop yield failure in Germany," 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • "Machine learning in crop yield modelling: A powerful tool, but no surrogate for science," 2021, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • "Tillage erosion as an important driver of in-field biomass patterns in an intensively used hummocky landscape," 2021, Land Degradation and Development
  • "Responses of soil water storage and crop water use efficiency to changing climatic conditions: a lysimeter-based space-for-time approach," 2020, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Frequent publication venues where Michael Sommer has contributed multiple articles include:

  • Geoderma
  • Plant and Soil
  • Biogeosciences
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

The scientist collaborates regularly with several co-authors, among the most frequent are:

  • Marc Wehrhan
  • Jörg Schaller
  • Daniel Puppe
  • Danuta Kaczorek
  • Frank Ewert

Best Publications

  • Silicon pools and fluxes in soils and landscapes—a review

    Michael Sommer;Danuta Kaczorek;Yakov Kuzyakov;Jörn Breuer

  • Erosion, deposition and soil carbon: A review of process-level controls, experimental tools and models to address C cycling in dynamic landscapes

    Sebastian Doetterl;Sebastian Doetterl;Asmeret Asefaw Berhe;Elisabet Nadeu;Zhengang Wang

  • Review of methodologies for extracting plant-available and amorphous Si from soils and aquatic sediments

    Daniela Sauer;Loredana Saccone;Daniel J. Conley;Ludger Herrmann

  • High emissions of greenhouse gases from grasslands on peat and other organic soils.

    Bärbel Tiemeyer;Elisa Albiac Borraz;Jürgen Augustin;Michel Bechtold

  • Effects of grazing and topography on dust flux and deposition in the Xilingele grassland, Inner Mongolia

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  • Podzol: Soil of the Year 2007. A review on its genesis, occurrence, and functions

    Daniela Sauer;Herbert Sponagel;Michael Sommer;Luise Giani

  • Silicon Cycling in Soils Revisited.

    Jörg Schaller;Daniel Puppe;Danuta Kaczorek;Ruth Ellerbrock

  • Modelling soil landscape genesis — A “time split” approach for hummocky agricultural landscapes

    M. Sommer;H.H. Gerke;D. Deumlich

  • Variability of soil methane production on the micro-scale: spatial association with hot spots of organic material and Archaeal populations

    Gisela Wachinger;Sabine Fiedler;Kornelia Zepp;Andreas Gattinger

  • Effect of grazing on wind driven carbon and nitrogen ratios in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia

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  • No perfect storm for crop yield failure in Germany

    Heidi Webber;Gunnar Lischeid;Michael Sommer;Robert Finger

  • TERENO-SOILCan: a lysimeter-network in Germany observing soil processes and plant diversity influenced by climate change

    Th. Pütz;R. Kiese;U. Wollschläger;J. Groh

  • Water and Redox Conditions in Wetland Soils—Their Influence on Pedogenic Oxides and Morphology

    Sabine Fiedler;Michael Sommer

  • A multiscale soil–landform relationship in the glacial-drift area based on digital terrain analysis and soil attributes

    Detlef Deumlich;Rolf Schmidt;Michael Sommer

  • Temporal variations in PM10 and particle size distribution during Asian dust storms in Inner Mongolia

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  • The influence of mineral characteristics on organic matter content, composition, and stability of topsoils under long‐term arable and forest land use

    M. Kaiser;R. H. Ellerbrock;M. Wulf;S. Dultz

  • Methane emissions, groundwater levels and redox potentials of common wetland soils in a temperate‐humid climate

    Sabine Fiedler;Michael Sommer

  • Structures and hydrologic function of soil landscapes with kettle holes using an integrated hydropedological approach

    Horst H. Gerke;Sylvia Koszinski;Thomas Kalettka;Michael Sommer

  • Simulation of soil nitrogen, nitrous oxide emissions and mitigation scenarios at 3 European cropland sites using the ECOSSE model

    M. J. Bell;E. Jones;J. U. Smith;P. Smith

  • Interpretation of electrical conductivity patterns by soil properties and geological maps for precision agriculture

    Jürgen Kühn;Alexander Brenning;Marc Wehrhan;Sylvia Koszinski

  • Lateral podzolization in a sandstone catchment

    M Sommer;D Halm;C Geisinger;I Andruschkewitsch

  • The protozoic Si pool in temperate forest ecosystems — Quantification, abiotic controls and interactions with earthworms

    Daniel Puppe;Otto Ehrmann;Danuta Kaczorek;Manfred Wanner

  • Micromorphology, chemistry, and mineralogy of bog iron ores from Poland

    Danuta Kaczorek;Michael Sommer

  • On the role of hydrologic processes in soil and landscape evolution modeling: concepts, complications and partial solutions

    W.M. van der Meij;A.J.A.M. Temme;A.J.A.M. Temme;H.S. Lin;H.S. Lin;H.H. Gerke

  • Root development of winter wheat in erosion‐affected soils depending on the position in a hummocky ground moraine soil landscape

    Marcus Herbrich;Horst H. Gerke;Michael Sommer

  • A comparative micromorphological and chemical study of “Raseneisenstein” (bog iron ore) and “Ortstein”

    D Kaczorek;M Sommer;I Andruschkewitsch;L Oktaba

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürgen Augustin
Jürgen Augustin Leibniz Association
Horst H. Gerke
Horst H. Gerke Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
Peter Fiener
Peter Fiener University of Augsburg
Daniel Eduardo Buschiazzo
Daniel Eduardo Buschiazzo National University of La Pampa
Gunnar Lischeid
Gunnar Lischeid University of Potsdam
Claas Nendel
Claas Nendel University of Potsdam
Torsten Sachs
Torsten Sachs Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Markus Egli
Markus Egli University of Zurich
Friedhelm von Blanckenburg
Friedhelm von Blanckenburg Freie Universität Berlin
Sabine Fiedler
Sabine Fiedler Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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