The Geoecology Group aims at understanding ecosystem functioning across scales and time. More specifically, our research aims at identifying physical, chemical and biological parameters that control ecosystem carbon turnover on the landscape scale. We pay particular attention to vegetation and soils, as they are proxies for present and past ecosystem conditions. To achieve this, our research employs methods from soil science, ecophysiology and micrometeorology in a geography context. At present most of our projects focus on peatland carbon cycling at various field sites in Austria, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Sweden.

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The geoecology team conducted this research at the Ramsar and UNESCO site Lake Neusiedl and published the article in Science of the Total Environment.

Pamela Baur
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Recording of an LPS (loess-paleosol sequence) near Furth bei Göttweig using special coating

Publikation
 

New paper "Comparison of the transformation of organic matter flux through a raised bog and a blanket bog" published in Biogeochemistry

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She joins the Geoecology working group for a four month internship. We are happy to work with you.

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New Peatland-paper on process understanding of litter-decomposition interactions published in Geoderma

Raphael Müller
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The european peatland conference from 19-21 September 2023 in Antwerp came out with a declaration for European policymakers. The Geecology group was...