© Ute Hamer

Completed research projects

Soil Organic Matter in Mollisols of China

Project of the Sino-German Center for Research Promotion: GZ 1124: Biophysical Controls on Priming Effect of Soil Organic Matter in Mollisols

  • Principal Investigators: Dr. habil. Ute Hamer, Prof. Dr. Bin Zhang
  • Term: 01/2016 - 12/2018
  • Cooperations:
    • Prof. Dr. Bin Zhang, Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Peking
    • Prof. Xiaozeng Han, Northeastern Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Harbin
    • Prof. Dr. Jingdong Mao, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Old Dominion University
    • Prof. Dr. Yakov Kuzyakov, University of Göttingen

Biodiversity Exploratories

Project ESCAPE I - Effects of disturbance and seed addition on plant community assembly and ecosystem functions

 

Knowledge Transfer in South Ecuador

Facilitation of biodiversity by shelter effects of Pinus patula and Alnus acuminata in montane ecosystems of South Ecuador

  • Part: Adapted site classification and nutrient cycling
  • Term: 04/2012 - 12/2016
  • DFG-Project: HA 4597/4-1
  • Cooperations:
    • Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador
  • Information: www.tropicalmountainforest.org

Einsatz mikrobieller Indikatoren zur Beurteilung der Qualität von Stadtböden

  • Term: 2015
  • WWU-Project: Drittmittelanschubfinanzierung des FB 14 Geowissenschaften der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität
  • Cooperations:
    • Landesamt für Natur, Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz NRW
    • Stadt Bottrop

Interactions of organic matter and microbial dynamics in pasture soils along management chronosequences

  • Term: 03/2010 bis 05/2013
  • DFG-Project: HA 4597/1-2
    • Projekt B3 in der zweiten Phase der DFG-Forschergruppe 816 “Biodiversity and sustainable Management of a megadiverse Mountain Ecosystem in southern Ecuador“
  • Cooperation:
    • Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador
  • Information:  www.tropicalmountainforest.org

Organic matter and microbial community structure in soils of the mountain rainforest region in Ecuador

  • Term: 03/2007 - 02/2010
  • DFG-Project: HA 4597/1-1
    • Projekt B2.1 innerhalb der ersten Phase der DFG-Forschergruppe 816: „Biodiversity and sustainable Management of a megadiverse Mountain Ecosystem in southern Ecuador“
  • Cooperation:
    • Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Ecuador
  • Information: www.tropicalmountainforest.org

Soil N dynamics as affected by different land use in Western and Southern China

  • Term: 09/2004 - 03/2007
  • DFG-Project
  • Cooperation:
    • Chinese Academy of Sciences: Institute for Soil and Water Conservation in Yangling, P.R. China

N-Dynamik und Struktur mikrobieller Populationen in Abhängigkeit von Vegetationsmustern in landwirtschaftlichen Böden

  • Term: 07/2004 - 12/2007
  • UFZ-Project
  • Cooperation:
    • Department Biozönoseforschung, UFZ-Halle