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Sven Marhan is affiliated with the University of Hohenheim in Germany and specializes in research within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work primarily focuses on Soil Science, Ecology, and Plant Science, with additional contributions to Global and Planetary Change and Environmental Chemistry.

Their research covers several main topics, including:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Sven Marhan has contributed to various papers with notable recent publications such as:

  • The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales (2022) in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Microplastics Effects on Reproduction and Body Length of the Soil-Dwelling Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (2020) in Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Divergent drivers of the microbial methane sink in temperate forest and grassland soils (2020) in Global Change Biology
  • Above- and belowground biodiversity jointly tighten the P cycle in agricultural grasslands (2021) in Nature Communications
  • Biochar alleviated the toxic effects of PVC microplastic in a soil-plant system by upregulating soil enzyme activities and microbial abundance (2023) in Environmental Pollution

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Ellen Kandeler
  • Christian Poll
  • Runa S. Boeddinghaus
  • Norbert Hölzel
  • Valentin H. Klaus

The most common publication venues for Sven Marhan's work are:

  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature Communications
  • Applied Soil Ecology

Best Publications

  • Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

    Thomas W. Crowther;Katherine E.O. Todd-Brown;Clara W. Rowe;William R. Wieder

  • Temperature response of soil respiration largely unaltered with experimental warming

    Joanna C. Carey;Jianwu Tang;Pamela H. Templer;Kevin D. Kroeger

  • Stimulation of microbial extracellular enzyme activities by elevated CO2 depends on soil aggregate size

    Maxim Dorodnikov;Maxim Dorodnikov;Evgenia Blagodatskaya;Sergey A. Blagodatsky;Sven Marhan

  • Soil-carbon preservation through habitat constraints and biological limitations on decomposer activity

    Klemens Ekschmitt;Ellen Kandeler;Christian Poll;Andreas Brune

  • Dynamics of litter carbon turnover and microbial abundance in a rye detritusphere

    Christian Poll;Sven Marhan;Joachim Ingwersen;Ellen Kandeler

  • Molecular profiling of 16S rRNA genes reveals diet-related differences of microbial communities in soil, gut, and casts of Lumbricus terrestris L. (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae)

    Markus Egert;Sven Marhan;Bianca Wagner;Stefan Scheu

  • Temporal variation in surface and subsoil abundance and function of the soil microbial community in an arable soil

    Susanne Kramer;Sven Marhan;Heike Haslwimmer;Liliane Ruess

  • Resource Partitioning between Bacteria, Fungi, and Protists in the Detritusphere of an Agricultural Soil

    Susanne Kramer;Dörte Dibbern;Julia Moll;Maike Huenninghaus

  • Factors controlling decomposition rates of fine root litter in temperate forests and grasslands

    Emily F. Solly;Ingo Schöning;Steffen Boch;Ellen Kandeler

  • Soil phosphorus supply controls P nutrition strategies of beech forest ecosystems in Central Europe

    F. Lang;J. Krüger;W. Amelung;S. Willbold

  • General Relationships between Abiotic Soil Properties and Soil Biota across Spatial Scales and Different Land- Use Types

    Klaus Birkhofer;Ingo Schöning;Fabian Alt;Nadine Herold

  • The effects of biochar and compost amendments on copper immobilization and soil microorganisms in a temperate vineyard

    K.A. Mackie;S. Marhan;F. Ditterich;H.P. Schmidt

  • Direct and indirect effects of nitrogen deposition on litter decomposition

    Peter Manning;Mark Saunders;Richard D. Bardgett;Michael Bonkowski

  • Impacts of temperature increase and change in precipitation pattern on crop yield and yield quality of barley.

    Petra Högy;Christian Poll;Sven Marhan;Ellen Kandeler

  • Effects of drought and N-fertilization on N cycling in two grassland soils

    Adrian A. Hartmann;Romain L. Barnard;Sven Marhan;Pascal A. Niklaus;Pascal A. Niklaus

  • Effects of biochar, earthworms, and litter addition on soil microbial activity and abundance in a temperate agricultural soil

    Chris Bamminger;Natalie Zaiser;Prisca Zinsser;Marc Lamers

  • Field-scale manipulation of soil temperature and precipitation change soil CO2 flux in a temperate agricultural ecosystem

    Christian Poll;Sven Marhan;Florian Back;Pascal A. Niklaus

  • Carbon flow into microbial and fungal biomass as a basis for the belowground food web of agroecosystems

    Susanne Kramer;Sven Marhan;Liliane Ruess;Wolfgang Armbruster

  • Microplastics Effects on Reproduction and Body Length of the Soil-Dwelling Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

    Lion Schöpfer;Ralph Menzel;Uwe Schnepf;Liliane Ruess

  • Small but active – pool size does not matter for carbon incorporation in below-ground food webs

    Johanna Pausch;Susanne Kramer;Anika Scharroba;Nicole Scheunemann

  • Can current moisture responses predict soil CO2 efflux under altered precipitation regimes? A synthesis of manipulation experiments

    S. Vicca;M. Bahn;M. Estiarte;E. E. van Loon

  • Offsetting global warming-induced elevated greenhouse gas emissions from an arable soil by biochar application.

    Chris Bamminger;Chris Bamminger;Christian Poll;Sven Marhan

  • Decoupling the direct and indirect effects of nitrogen deposition on ecosystem function

    Pete Manning;John E. Newington;Helen R. Robson;Mark Saunders

Frequent Co-Authors

Ellen Kandeler
Ellen Kandeler University of Hohenheim
Christian Poll
Christian Poll University of Hohenheim
Stefan Scheu
Stefan Scheu University of Göttingen
Michael Schloter
Michael Schloter Technical University of Munich
Michael Bonkowski
Michael Bonkowski University of Cologne
Laurent Philippot
Laurent Philippot INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Liliane Ruess
Liliane Ruess Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
François Buscot
François Buscot Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Pascal A. Niklaus
Pascal A. Niklaus University of Zurich
Daniel Prati
Daniel Prati University of Bern

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