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Peter Kühn is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany and specializes primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Soil Science, Paleontology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scholar's main topics of work encompass Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Ocular Oncology and Treatments, Climate change and permafrost, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, and Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology.

Among recent research outputs are the following papers:

  • Influence of prokaryotic microorganisms on initial soil formation along a glacier forefield on King George Island, maritime Antarctica, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Middle Bronze Age land use practices in the northwestern Alpine foreland - a multi-proxy study of colluvial deposits, archaeological features and peat bogs, 2021, SOIL
  • Impact of Climate and Slope Aspects on the Composition of Soil Bacterial Communities Involved in Pedogenetic Processes along the Chilean Coastal Cordillera, 2022, Microorganisms
  • Deciphering timing and rates of Central German Chernozem/Phaeozem formation through high resolution single-grain luminescence dating, 2023, Scientific Reports
  • Biocrust-linked changes in soil aggregate stability along a climatic gradient in the Chilean Coastal Range, 2022, SOIL

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Thomas Scholten (16 joint publications)
  • Dirk Wagner (6 joint publications)
  • Thomas Knopf (6 joint publications)
  • Ellen Kandeler (5 joint publications)
  • Rómulo Oses (5 joint publications)

Peter Kühn's work has been published mainly in venues such as Scientific Reports, CATENA, Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, SSRN Electronic Journal, and SOIL.

Best Publications

  • Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment.

    Yuanyuan Huang;Yuxin Chen;Nadia Castro-Izaguirre;Martin Baruffol;Martin Baruffol

  • Designing forest biodiversity experiments : general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China

    Helge Bruelheide;Karin Nadrowski;Thorsten Assmann;Jürgen Bauhus

  • Tree species richness increases ecosystem carbon storage in subtropical forests

    Xiaojuan Liu;Stefan Trogisch;Jin-Sheng He;Pascal A. Niklaus

  • Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests

    Andreas Schuldt;Thorsten Assmann;Matteo Brezzi;Matteo Brezzi;François Buscot

  • Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

    Helge Bruelheide;Martin Böhnke;Sabine Both;Teng Fang

  • Pedogenesis, permafrost, and soil moisture as controlling factors for soil nitrogen and carbon contents across the Tibetan Plateau

    Frank Baumann;Jin-Sheng He;Karsten Schmidt;Peter Kühn

  • On the combined effect of soil fertility and topography on tree growth in subtropical forest ecosystems - a study from SE China

    Thomas Scholten;Philipp Goebes;Peter Kühn;Steffen Seitz

  • Organic and inorganic carbon in the topsoil of the Mongolian and Tibetan grasslands: pattern, control and implications

    Y. Shi;Frank Baumann;Y. Ma;C. Song;C. Song

  • Splash erosion potential under tree canopies in subtropical SE China

    C. Geißler;P. Kühn;M. Böhnke;H. Bruelheide

  • Community assembly of ectomycorrhizal fungi along a subtropical secondary forest succession

    Cheng Gao;Yu Zhang;Yu Zhang;Nan-Nan Shi;Yong Zheng

  • Palaeopedological marker horizons in northern central Europe: characteristics of Lateglacial Usselo and Finow soils

    Knut Kaiser;Alexandra Hilgers;Norbert Schlaak;Michał Jankowski

  • Pedogenic and microbial interrelations to regional climate and local topography: New insights from a climate gradient (arid to humid) along the Coastal Cordillera of Chile

    Nadine Bernhard;Lisa-Marie Moskwa;Karsten Schmidt;Ralf A. Oeser

  • Textural Pedofeatures and Related Horizons

    Peter Kühn;José Aguilar;Rienk Miedema

  • Chemistry and microbiology of the Critical Zone along a steep climate and vegetation gradient in the Chilean Coastal Cordillera.

    Ralf A. Oeser;Nicole Stroncik;Lisa-Marie Moskwa;Nadine Bernhard

  • Carbonate rhizoliths in loess and their implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction revealed by isotopic composition: δ13C, 14C

    Martina Gocke;Konstantin Pustovoytov;Peter Kühn;Guido L. B. Wiesenberg

  • Soil and tree species traits both shape soil microbial communities during early growth of Chinese subtropical forests

    Zhiqin Pei;David Eichenberg;Helge Bruelheide;Wenzel Kröber

  • Soil organic carbon pools and stocks in permafrost-affected soils on the tibetan plateau.

    Corina Dörfer;Peter Kühn;Frank Baumann;Jin-Sheng He

  • Micromorphology and Late Glacial/Holocene genesis of Luvisols in Mecklenburg¿Vorpommern (NE-Germany)

    Peter Kühn

  • Changes of carbon stocks in alpine grassland soils from 2002 to 2011 on the Tibetan Plateau and their climatic causes

    Litong Chen;Xin Jing;Dan F.B. Flynn;Yue Shi;Yue Shi

  • Increasing temperature reduces the coupling between available nitrogen and phosphorus in soils of Chinese grasslands

    Yan Geng;Frank Baumann;Chao Song;Mi Zhang

  • Holocene relief and soil changes in loess-covered areas of south-western Germany: The pedosedimentary archives of Bretten-Bauerbach (Kraichgau)

    Annette Kadereit;Peter Kühn;Günther A. Wagner

  • Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

    Helge Bruelheide;Martin Bohnke;Sabine Both;Fang Teng

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Scholten
Thomas Scholten University of Tübingen
Jin-Sheng He
Jin-Sheng He Peking University
Helge Bruelheide
Helge Bruelheide Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Karsten Schmidt
Karsten Schmidt University of Tübingen
François Buscot
François Buscot Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth Leipzig University
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen University of Freiburg
Werner Härdtle
Werner Härdtle Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich

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