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Rainer Gasche is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, and earth and planetary sciences. Gasche's work spans several subfields including soil science, geochemistry and petrology, ecology, global and planetary change, and atmospheric science.

Their research covers a range of topics, with significant contributions to soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, phosphorus and nutrient management, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and soil and water nutrient dynamics.

Gasche has published multiple papers in peer-reviewed journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Surface flux estimates derived from UAS-based mole fraction measurements by means of a nocturnal boundary layer budget approach, 2020, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Denitrification Is the Main Nitrous Oxide Source Process in Grassland Soils According to Quasi-Continuous Isotopocule Analysis and Biogeochemical Modeling, 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Impacts of slurry acidification and injection on fertilizer nitrogen fates in grassland, 2022, Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems
  • Climate change and management intensity alter spatial distribution and abundance of P mineralizing bacteria and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in mountainous grassland soils, 2023, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Lysimeter-based full fertilizer 15N balances corroborate direct dinitrogen emission measurements using the 15N gas flow method, 2024, Biology and Fertility of Soils

Their frequent coauthors include Benjamin Wolf, Michael Dannenmann, Ralf Kiese, Fawad Khan, and Samuel Franco-Luesma, reflecting collaborative work across multiple research projects.

Gasche's research has been published repeatedly in specific scientific venues, with multiple contributions to Biology and Fertility of Soils, as well as individual publications in Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, and Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

Best Publications

  • A 3‐year continuous record of nitrogen trace gas fluxes from untreated and limed soil of a N‐saturated spruce and beech forest ecosystem in Germany: 1. N2O emissions

    Rainer Gasche;Hans Papen

  • Fluxes of NO and N2O from temperate forest soils: impact of forest type, N deposition and of liming on the NO and N2O emissions

    K. Butterbach-Bahl;R. Gasche;L. Breuer;H. Papen

  • Factors controlling regional differences in forest soil emission of nitrogen oxides (NO and N 2 O)

    K. Pilegaard;U. Skiba;P. Ambus;C. Beier

  • Tree girdling provides insight on the role of labile carbon in nitrogen partitioning between soil microorganisms and adult European beech

    Michael Dannenmann;Judy Simon;Rainer Gasche;Jutta Holst

  • Impact of N-input by wet deposition on N-trace gas fluxes and CH4-oxidation in spruce forest ecosystems of the temperate zone in Europe

    K Butterbach-Bahl;R Gasche;Ch Huber;K Kreutzer

  • Exchange of trace gases between soils and the atmosphere in Scots pine forest ecosystems of the northeastern German lowlands 1. Fluxes of N2O, NO/NO2 and CH4 at forest sites with different N-deposition

    K Butterbach-Bahl;L Breuer;R Gasche;G Willibald

  • Dinitrogen emissions and the N2:N2O emission ratio of a Rendzic Leptosol as influenced by pH and forest thinning

    Michael Dannenmann;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl;Rainer Gasche;Georg Willibald

  • Effects of forest management on soil N cycling in beech forests stocking on calcareous soils

    Michael Dannenmann;Rainer Gasche;Astrid Ledebuhr;Hans Papen

  • Barometric Process Separation: New Method for Quantifying Nitrification, Denitrification, and Nitrous Oxide Sources in Soils

    Joachim Ingwersen;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl;Rainer Gasche;Hans Papen

  • Biosphere-atmosphere exchange of reactive nitrogen and greenhouse gases at the NitroEurope core flux measurement sites: measurement strategy and first data sets

    U. Skiba;J. Drewer;Y.S. Tang;N. Van Dijk

  • Exchange of N-gases at the Höglwald Forest – A summary

    K. Butterbach-Bahl;R. Gasche;G. Willibald;H. Papen

  • Climate and forest management influence nitrogen balance of European beech forests: microbial N transformations and inorganic N net uptake capacity of mycorrhizal roots

    Arthur Geßler;Klaus Jung;Rainer Gasche;Hans Papen

  • Short-term effects of single or combined application of mineral N fertilizer and cattle slurry on the fluxes of radiatively active trace gases from grassland soil

    K. Dittert;C. Lampe;R. Gasche;K. Butterbach-Bahl

  • 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

  • Environmental controls over soil-atmosphere exchange of N2O, NO, and CO2 in a temperate Norway spruce forest

    Xing Wu;Xing Wu;Nicolas Brüggemann;Rainer Gasche;Zhenyao Shen

  • Decadal variability of soil CO 2 , NO, N 2 O, and CH 4 fluxes at the Höglwald Forest, Germany

    G. J. Luo;N. Brüggemann;B. Wolf;R. Gasche

  • The response of methane and nitrous oxide fluxes to forest change in Europe

    P. Gundersen;J. R. Christiansen;J. R. Christiansen;G. Alberti;N. Brüggemann;N. Brüggemann

  • Climate change amplifies gross nitrogen turnover in montane grasslands of Central Europe in both summer and winter seasons

    Changhui Wang;Changhui Wang;Zhe Chen;Sebastian Unteregelsbacher;Haiyan Lu

  • The TERENO pre-alpine observatory: Integrating meteorological, hydrological, and biogeochemical measurements and modeling

    R. Kiese;B. Fersch;C. Baessler;C. Brosy

  • Competition for nitrogen between adult European beech and its offspring is reduced by avoidance strategy

    Judy Simon;Michael Dannenmann;Rainer Gasche;Jutta Holst

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Butterbach-Bahl
Klaus Butterbach-Bahl Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Hans Papen
Hans Papen Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Michael Dannenmann
Michael Dannenmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Ralf Kiese
Ralf Kiese Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Heinz Rennenberg
Heinz Rennenberg University of Freiburg
Nicolas Brüggemann
Nicolas Brüggemann Forschungszentrum Jülich
Andrea Polle
Andrea Polle University of Göttingen
Ute Skiba
Ute Skiba Natural Environment Research Council
Ingrid Kögel-Knabner
Ingrid Kögel-Knabner Technical University of Munich

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