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Professor Dr. Karsten Kalbitz

Address Technische Universität Dresden
Institut für Bodenkunde und Standortslehre
Pienner Straße 19
01737 Tharandt

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Decoupling above- from belowground litter decomposition and impacts on stabilization of soil organic matter with increasing aridity (Research Grants)
  - Deciphering mineral inventories and their controls on soil organic matter cycling in tropical Vertisols: Key to sustainable soil management (Research Grants)
  - DeMoLD: Nexus of Deadwood Moisture, Lignin Degradation and Matter Transport in Changing Forest Ecosystems (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
- Completed projects
  - Stabilisierung gelöster organischer Substanz in Böden durch Ausfällung mit Aluminium (Priority Programmes)
  - Blattlausinduzierte Prozesskaskaden im Kronenraum von Laub- und Nadelbäumen unter erhöhten CO2-Konzentrationen (Research Grants)
  - Ligninabbau als Steuergröße der C-Mineralisierung und Produktion gelöster organischer Substanz in Humusauflagen (Research Grants)
  - Stabilisierung organischer Substanz durch Komplexierung bzw. Ausfällung mit Aluminium: Einfluss der Größe der gebildeten Komplexe und Flocken (Research Grants)
  - Production and stabilization of dissolved organic matter in paddy soils depending on redox conditions (Research Units)
  - Extracellular polymeric substances and aggregate stability - how microorganisms affect soil erosion by water (Research Grants)
  - Origin and fate of dissolved organic matter in the subsoil driven by dynamic exchange and remobilization processes (Research Units)
  - The role of clay minerals and metal oxides for organic matter stabilization in highly weathered tropical soils (Research Grants)
  - Resolving the conundrum of highly stable organic matter in Plaggic Anthrosols (Research Grants)
  - How silicon affects phosphate availability and carbon turnover in soils (Research Grants)
  - Linking the composition of dissolved organic matter and nutrient cycling in streams of temperate forested catchments (Research Grants)
  - Spatial patterns of organic matter formation in subsoil: Formation of mineral-associated organic matter (Research Grants)
As Leader
- Current projects
  - Core Facility Environmental Analytics (Core Facilities)
As Co-Investigator
- Completed projects
  - Production of microbial extracellular polymeric substances in soil-like systems – The role of nutrient imbalances, water availability and presence of mineral surfaces (Research Grants)

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