TRR 38:  Structures and Processes of the Initial Ecosystem Development Phase in an Artificial Water Catchment

• Subject Area: Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Medicine ; Geosciences
• Term: from 2007 to 2012
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 20005246

• Final Report Year: 2012

Final Report Abstract

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Publications

• (2009): Comparative predictions of discharge from an artificial catchment (Chicken Creek) using sparse data. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 13, 2069–2094
  Holländer, H.M., Blume, T., Bormann, H., Buytaert, W., Chirico, G.B., Exbrayat, J.-F.Gustafsson, D., Hölzel, H., Kraft, P., Stamm, C., Stoll, S., Blöschl, G. & Flühler, H.
  
• (2009): The artificial catchment “Chicken Creek” (Lusatia, Germany) - a landscape laboratory for interdisciplinary studies of initial ecosystem development. Ecological Engineering, 35, 1786-1796
  Gerwin, W., Schaaf, W., Biemelt, D., Fischer, A., & Hüttl, R.F.
  
• (2009): “Hot spots“ on a new soil surface – how do testate amoebae settle down? Acta Protozoologica 48: 281-289 (2009)
  Wanner, M. & Elmer, M.
  
• (2010): Abundance of microbes involved in nitrogen transformation in the rhizosphere of Leucanthemopsis alpina (L.)HEYWOOD grown in soils from different sites of the Damma glacier forefield; Microbial Ecology, 60:762–770
  Töwe, S., Albert, A., Kleineidam, K., Brankatsch, R., Dümig, A., Welzl, G., Munch, J.C., Zeyer, J. & Schloter, M.
  
• (2010): Abundances and potential activities of nitrogen cycling microbial communities along a chronosequence of a glacier forefield, The ISME Journal
  Brankatschk, R., Töwe, S., Kleineidam, K., Schloter, M. & Zeyer, J.
  
• (2010): Biological topsoil crusts at early successional stages on Quaternary substrates dumped by mining in Brandenburg, NE Germany. Géomorphologie: relief, processes, environnement, 4, 359-370
  Spröte, R., Fischer, T., Veste, M., Raab, T., Wiehe, W., Lange, P., Bens, O. & Hüttl, R.F.
  
• (2010): Differences in amplification efficiency of standard curves in quantitative real time PCR assays and consequences for gene quantification in environmental samples; Journal of Microbiological Methods 82, 338 - 341 (2010)
  Töwe, S., Kleineidam, K. & Schloter, M.
  
• (2010): Initial pedogenesis in a topsoil crust 3 years after construction of an artificial water catchment in Brandenburg, NE Germany. Biogeochemistry, 101, 165-176
  Fischer, T., Veste, M., Schaaf, W., Bens, O., Dümig, A., Kögel-Knabner, I., Wiehe, W. & Hüttl, R.F.
  
• (2010): Noninvasive observation of flow patterns in locally heterogeneous mine soils using neutron radiation. Vadose Zone Journal, 9, 362-372
  Badorreck, A., Gerke, H.H. & Vontobel, P.
  
• (2010): Primary colonisation of newly formed soils by Actinedid mites. Soil Organisms, 82, 237-251
  Russell, D.J., Hohberg, K. & Elmer, M.
  
• (2010): Water repellency and pore clogging at early successional stages of microbiotic crusts on inland dunes, Brandenburg, NE Germany. Catena 80(1):47-52
  Fischer, T., Veste, M., Wiehe, W. & Lange, P.
  
• (2011): 3D initial sediment distribution and quantification of mass balances of an artificially-created hydrological catchment based on DEMs from aerial photographs using GOCAD. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 36, 87-100
  Schneider, A., Gerke, H.H. & Maurer, T.
  
• (2011): A structure generator for modelling the initial sediment distribution of an artificial hydrologic catchment. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 15, 3617-3638
  Maurer, T., Schneider, A. & Gerke, H.H.
  
• (2011): Concurrent evolution of organic and mineral components during initial soil development after retreat of the Damma glacier, Switzerland. Geoderma, 163, 83-94
  Dümig, A., Smittenberg, R. & Kögel-Knabner, I.
  
• (2011): Hydrological earth observatories and artificial catchments: From observation to modelling. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 36, 1-2
  Holländer, H.M., Biemelt, D., Raab, T., & Schoenheinz, D.
  
• (2011): Hydrological observation and modelling relationship for the determination of water budget in Lusatian post mining landscape. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 36, 3-18
  Biemelt, D., Schapp, A. & Grünewald, U.
  
• (2011): Immediate shift towards source dynamics: the pioneer species Conyza canadensis in an initial ecosystem, Flora, 206, 928-934
  Zaplata, M.K., Winter, S., Biemelt, D. & Fischer, A.
  
• (2011): Improved protocol for the simulataneous extraction and column-based separation of DNA and RNA from different soils. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 84, 406-412
  Töwe, S., Wallisch, S., Bannert, A., Fischer, D., Hai, B., Haesler, F., Kleineidam, K. & Schloter, M.
  
• (2011): Incorporation of carbon from decomposing litter of two pioneer plant species into microbial communities of the detritusphere. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 320, 48-55
  Esperschütz, J., Welzl, G., Schreiner, K., Buegger, F., Munch, J.C. & Schloter, M.
  
• (2011): Mass occurrence of algal-feeding tardigrade /Apodibius confusus/ Dastych, 1983 in the young soils of a post-mining site. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 4, (Suppl. 1), 1-4
  Hohberg, K., Russell, D.J. & Elmer, M.
  
• (2011): Microbial food web dynamics along a soil chronosequence of a glacier forefield. Biogeosciences, 8, 3283-3294
  Esperschütz, J., Perez-de-Mora, A., Schreiner, K., Welzl, G., Buegger, F., Zeyer, J., Hagedorn, F., Munch, J.C. & Schloter, M.
  
• (2011): Modelling subsurface drainage pathways in an artificial catchment. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 36, 101-11
  Hofer, M., Lehman, P., Biemelt, D., Stähli, M. & Krafczyk, M.
  
• (2011): Nitrogen turnover in soil and global change. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 78, 3–16
  Ollivier, J., Töwe, S., Bannert, A., Hai, B., Kastl, E.-M., Meyer, A., Xia Su, M., Kleineidam, K. & Schloter, M.
  
• (2011): Observation of hydrological processes and structures in the artificial Chicken Creek catchment. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 36, 74-86
  Mazur, K., Schönheinz, D., Biemelt, D., Schaaf, W. & Grünewald, U.
  
• (2011): Overview and first results of ecological monitoring at the artificial watershed Chicken Creek (Germany). Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 36, 61-73
  Gerwin, W., Schaaf, W., Biemelt, D., Winter, S., Fischer, A., Veste, M. & Hüttl, R.F.
  
• (2011): Patterns and processes of initial terrestrial ecosystem development. J Plant Nutr Soil Sci, 174, 229-239
  Schaaf, W., Bens, O., Fischer, A., Gerke, H.H., Gerwin, W., Grünewald, U., Holländer, H.M., Kögel-Knabner, I., Mutz, M., Schloter, M., Schulin, R., Veste, M., Winter, S. & Hüttl, R.F.
  
• (2011): Uncertainty of variance component estimates in nested sampling: a case study on the field-scale spatial variability of a restored soil. European Journal of Soil Science, 62,479-495
  Papritz, A., Dümig, A., Zimmermann, C., Gerke, H.H., Felderer, B., Kögel-Knabner, I., Schaaf, W. & Schulin, R.
  
• (2011): Variability of Heterotrophic Metabolism in Small Stream Corridors of an Early Successional Watershed, J. Geophys. Res., 116, G02012
  Gerull, L., Frossard, A., Gessner, M.O. & Mutz, M.
  
• (2012): Clay fractions from a soil chronosequence after glacier retreat reveal the initial evolution of organo-mineral associations. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 85, 1-18
  Dümig, A., Häusler, W., Steffens, M. & Kögel-Knabner, I.
  
• (2012): Disconnect of microbial structure and function: enzyme activities and bacterial communities in nascent stream corridors. The ISME Journal, 6, 680-691
  Frossard, A., Gerull, L., Mutz, M. & Gessner, M.O.
  
• (2012): Effects of ground-dwelling beetle burrows on infiltration patterns and pore structure of soil surface in the initial soil development stage. Vadose Zone Journal, 11
  Badorreck, A., Gerke, H.H. & Hüttl, R.F.
  
• (2012): Effects of shallow and deep sediment disturbance on whole-stream metabolism in experimental sand-bed flumes. Hydrobiologia, 683, 297-310
  Gerull, L., Frossard, A., Gessner, M.O. & Mutz, M.
  
• (2012): Efficiency of real-time qPCR depends on the template: a simple absolute quantification method correcting qPCR efficiency variations in microbial community samples. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 78, 4481-4489
  Brankatschk, R., Bodenhausen, N., Zeyer, J. & Bürgmann, H.
  
• (2012): Evaluation of remotely-sensed DEMs and modification based on plausibility rules and initial sediment budgets of an artificially-created catchment. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms
  Schneider, A., Gerke, H.H., Maurer, T., Seifert, S., Nenov, R. & Hüttl, R.F.
  
• (2012): Influence of root growth of two pioneering plant species on soil development during the initial stage of ecosystem genesis in the Lusatian post mining landscape. Can. J. Soil Sci., 92, 67-76
  Boldt, K., Schneider, B.U., Fritsch, S. & Hüttl, R.F.
  
• (2012): Initial ecosystem processes as key factors of landscape development - a review. Physical Geography, 33, 305-343
  Raab, T., Krümmelbein, J., Schneider, A., Gerwin, W., Maurer, T. & Naeth, A.
  
• (2012): Small scale spatial heterogeneity of Normalized Difference Vegetation Indices (NDVIs) and hot spots of photosynthesis in biological soil crusts. Flora, 207, 159-167
  Fischer, T., Veste, M., Eisele, A., Bens, O., Spyra, W. & Hüttl, R.
  
• (2012): Species-driven phases and increasing structure in early-successional plant communities. American Naturalist
  Zaplata, M., Winter, S., Fischer, A., Kollmann, J. & Ulrich, W.
  
• (2012): Succession of N cycling processes in biological soil crusts on a Central European inland dune. FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  Brankatschk, R., Fischer, T., Veste, M. & Zeyer, J.
  
• (2012): Two approaches to modeling the initiation and development of rills in a man-made catchment. Water Ressources Research, 48, W01531
  Hofer, M., Lehmann, P., Stähli, M., Seifert, S. & Krafczyk, M.