Plant - soil interactions, ecosystem functioning under disturbance and management scenarios, ecosystem research and stable isotopes, nutrient budgets and the paired-watershed approach, ecosystem monitoring, aboveground and belowground functioning of mixed-species and structurally complex forests, forest conversion/species encroachment and soil organic matter quantity and quality, forest management and sustainable soil productivity, carbon sequestration and nutrient cycling, carbon - nitrogen cycles interactions, litter and dead woody debris decomposition along ecological gradients, rhizodeposition and root traits, assessment of particulate matter in terrestrial ecosystems, biogeochemical applications of infrared spectroscopy techniques.
Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany
University of Maine, Orono, USA
