Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Austria Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Best Publications

• Nitrous oxide emissions from soils: how well do we understand the processes and their controls?

  Klaus Butterbach-Bahl;Elizabeth M. Baggs;Michael Dannenmann;Ralf Kiese

  2916
  Citations

• The Application of ecological stoichiometry to plant-microbial-soil organic matter transformations

  Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern;Katharina Maria Keiblinger;Maria Mooshammer;Josep Peñuelas

  1134
  Citations

• Methane, nitrous oxide and ammonia emissions during storage and after application of dairy cattle slurry and influence of slurry treatment

  B. Amon;V. Kryvoruchko;T. Amon;S. Zechmeister-Boltenstern

  936
  Citations

• Adjustment of microbial nitrogen use efficiency to carbon:nitrogen imbalances regulates soil nitrogen cycling

  Maria Mooshammer;Wolfgang Wanek;Ieda Hämmerle;Lucia Fuchslueger

  913
  Citations

• Stoichiometric imbalances between terrestrial decomposer communities and their resources: mechanisms and implications of microbial adaptations to their resources

  Maria Mooshammer;Wolfgang Wanek;Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern;Andreas Anatol Richter

  862
  Citations

• Atmospheric composition change: Ecosystems–Atmosphere interactions

  D. Fowler;Kim Pilegaard;M.A. Sutton;Per Ambus

  833
  Citations

• Who is who in litter decomposition? Metaproteomics reveals major microbial players and their biogeochemical functions

  Thomas Schneider;Katharina M Keiblinger;Emanuel Schmid;Katja Sterflinger-Gleixner

  748
  Citations

• Greenhouse gas emissions from European soils under different land use: effects of soil moisture and temperature

  G. Schaufler;B. Kitzler;A. Schindlbacher;U. Skiba

  509
  Citations

• Belowground carbon allocation by trees drives seasonal patterns of extracellular enzyme activities by altering microbial community composition in a beech forest soil

  Christina Kaiser;Marianne Koranda;Barbara Kitzler;Lucia Fuchslueger

  444
  Citations

• Effects of soil moisture and temperature on NO, NO2, and N2O emissions from European forest soils

  Andreas Schindlbacher;Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl

  419
  Citations

• Experimental warming effects on the microbial community of a temperate mountain forest soil.

  A. Schindlbacher;A. Rodler;M. Kuffner;B. Kitzler

  400
  Citations

• Aerobic nitrous oxide production through N-nitrosating hybrid formation in ammonia-oxidizing archaea

  Michaela Stieglmeier;Maria Mooshammer;Barbara Kitzler;Wolfgang Wanek

  378
  Citations

• The effect of resource quantity and resource stoichiometry on microbial carbon-use-efficiency.

  Katharina M. Keiblinger;Edward K. Hall;Wolfgang Wanek;Ute Szukics

  374
  Citations

• Seasonality and resource availability control bacterial and archaeal communities in soils of a temperate beech forest

  Frank Rasche;Daniela Knapp;Christina Kaiser;Marianne Koranda

  362
  Citations

• Stoichiometric controls of nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in decomposing beech leaf litter

  Maria Mooshammer;Wolfgang Wanek;Jörg Schnecker;Birgit Wild

  331
  Citations

• Nitrifiers and denitrifiers respond rapidly to changed moisture and increasing temperature in a pristine forest soil.

  Ute Szukics;Guy C.J. Abell;Guy C.J. Abell;Verania Hödl;Birgit Mitter

  320
  Citations

• Composition of the microbial communities in the mineral soil under different types of natural forest

  Evelyn Hackl;Michael Pfeffer;Christina Donat;Gert Bachmann

  301
  Citations

• Comparison of Diversities and Compositions of Bacterial Populations Inhabiting Natural Forest Soils

  Evelyn Hackl;Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern;Levente Bodrossy;Angela Sessitsch

  297
  Citations

• Carbon losses due to soil warming: Do autotrophic and heterotrophic soil respiration respond equally?

  Andreas Schindlbacher;Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern;Robert Jandl

  295
  Citations

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

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

  248
  Citations

• Short-term competition between crop plants and soil microbes for inorganic N fertilizer.

  Erich Inselsbacher;Nina Hinko-Najera Umana;Florian C. Stange;Markus Gorfer

  241
  Citations

• Inventories of N2O and NO Emissions from European Forest Soils

  M. Kesik;P. Ambus;R. Baritz;N. Brüggemann

  238
  Citations