Self-organisation of microbial soil organic matter turnover

Project Information

SomSOM

Grant agreement ID: 819446

DOI

10.3030/819446

Project closed

EC signature date 18 December 2018

Start date 1 May 2019

End date 30 April 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 896 129,00

EU contribution

€ 1 896 129,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT WIEN
Austria

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Publications

Thesis and dissertations (4)

Community composition and spatial structure of root associated fungi in a mixed temperate forest

Author(s): Sean Darcy, Christina Kaiser
Published in: Master Thesis, 2022
Publisher: University of Vienna
DOI: 10.25365/thesis.71411

Effect of pore network geometry on the efficiency of microbial soil organic matter decomposition

Author(s): Magdalena Rath, Ksenia Guseva, Christina Kaiser
Published in: Master Thesis, 2023
Publisher: University of Vienna
DOI: 10.25365/thesis.73666

Modelling the effect of microscale spatial structure on soil extracellular enzyme kinetics

Author(s): Paul Prinz, Ksenia Guseva, Christina Kaiser
Published in: Master Thesis, 2025
Publisher: University of Vienna
DOI: 10.25365/thesis.78187

Microbial activity responses to long- and short-term warming in subarctic grassland soils

Author(s): Thayer Taft, Christina Kaiser
Published in: Master Thesis, 2025
Publisher: University of Vienna
DOI: 10.25365/thesis.78137

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Preferential use of organic acids over sugars by soil microbes in simulated root exudation

Author(s): Julia Wiesenbauer, Stefan Gorka, Kian Jenab, Raphael Schuster, Naresh Kumar, Cornelia Rottensteiner, Alexander König, Stephan Kraemer, Erich Inselsbacher, Christina Kaiser
Published in: Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Issue 203, 2025, Page(s) 109738, ISSN 0038-0717
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2025.109738

From diversity to complexity: Microbial networks in soils

Author(s): Ksenia Guseva, Sean Darcy, Eva Simon, Lauren V. Alteio, Alicia Montesinos-Navarro, Christina Kaiser
Published in: Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2022, ISSN 0038-0717
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108604

Beyond PLFA: Concurrent extraction of neutral and glycolipid fatty acids provides new insights into soil microbial communities

Author(s): Stefan Gorka; Sean Darcy; Julia Horak; Bruna Imai; Moritz Mohrlok; Erika Salas; Andreas Richter; Hannes Schmidt; Wolfgang Wanek; Christina Kaiser; Alberto Canarini
Published in: Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Issue 187 (2023) 109205, 2023, ISSN 0038-0717
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109205

Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity

Author(s): Johannes Lehmann, Colleen M. Hansel, Christina Kaiser, Markus Kleber, Kate Maher, Stefano Manzoni, Naoise Nunan, Markus Reichstein, Joshua P. Schimel, Margaret S. Torn, William R. Wieder, Ingrid Kögel-Knabner
Published in: Nature Geoscience, Issue 13/8, 2020, Page(s) 529-534, ISSN 1752-0894
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41561-020-0612-3

One-time freeze-thawing or carbon input events have long-term legacies in soil microbial communities

Author(s): Stefan Gorka; Christian Ranits; Shasha Zhang; Bruna Imai; Ksenia Guseva; Christina Kaiser
Published in: Geoderma, Issue 432 (2023) 116399, 2023, ISSN 0016-7061
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116399

A critical perspective on interpreting amplicon sequencing data in soil ecological research

Author(s): Lauren V. Alteio, Joana Seneca, Alberto Canarini, Roey Angel, Jan Jansa, Ksenia Guseva, Christina Kaiser, Andreas Richter, Hannes Schmidt
Published in: Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Issue 160, 2021, ISSN 0038-0717
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108357

A pulse of simulated root exudation alters the composition and temporal dynamics of microbial metabolites in its immediate vicinity

Author(s): Julia Wiesenbauer, Alexander König, Stefan Gorka, Lilian Marchand, Naoise Nunan, Barbara Kitzler, Erich Inselsbacher, Christina Kaiser
Published in: Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2024, ISSN 0038-0717
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109259

Soil bacterial neutral lipid fatty acids: Markers for carbon storage or necromass?

Author(s): Stefan Gorka, Alberto Canarini, Hannes Schmidt, Christina Kaiser
Published in: Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2025, ISSN 0038-0717
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1101/2024.12.02.626346

Distinct microbial communities are linked to organic matter properties in millimetre-sized soil aggregates

Author(s): Eva Simon, Ksenia Guseva, Sean Darcy, Lauren Alteio, Petra Pjevac, Hannes Schmidt, Kian Jenab, Christian Ranits, Christina Kaiser
Published in: The ISME Journal, Issue 18, 2024, ISSN 1751-7362
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1093/ismejo/wrae156

Both abundant and rare fungi colonizing Fagus sylvatica ectomycorrhizal root-tips shape associated bacterial communities

Author(s): Marlies Dietrich; Alicia Montesinos-Navarro; Raphael Gabriel; Florian Strasser; Dimitri V. Meier; Werner Mayerhofer; Stefan Gorka; Julia Wiesenbauer; Victoria Martin; Marieluise Weidinger; Andreas Richter; Christina Kaiser; Dagmar Woebken
Published in: Communications Biology, Issue 5 (1), 2022, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-04178-y

Bacteria face trade-offs in the decomposition of complex biopolymers

Author(s): Ksenia Guseva, Moritz Mohrlok, Lauren Alteio, Hannes Schmidt, Shaul Pollak, Christina Kaiser
Published in: PLOS Computational Biology, 2025, ISSN 1553-734X
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.03.560709

What determines transfer of carbon from plants to mycorrhizal fungi?

Author(s): Rebecca A. Bunn, Ana Corrêa, Jaya Joshi, Christina Kaiser, Ylva Lekberg, Cindy E. Prescott, Anna Sala, Justine Karst
Published in: New Phytologist, Issue 244, 2025, Page(s) 1199-1215, ISSN 0028-646X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/nph.20145

Non-peer reviewed articles (5)

Environmental context shapes microbial co-occurrence

Author(s): Sean Darcy, Christina Kaiser, Ksenia Guseva
Published in: BioRxiv, 2025, ISSN 2692-8205
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2025.08.05.668733

Strong family- and guild-specific responses of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to long-term deficiencies and imbalances of N, P and K

Author(s): Kian Jenab, Lauren Alteio, Ksenia Guseva, Stefan Gorka, Sean Darcy, Lucia Fuchslueger, Alberto Canarini, Victoria Sophie Martin, Julia Wiesenbauer, Felix Spiegel, Bruna Imai, Hannes Schmidt, Karin Hage-Ahmed, Erich Poetsch, Andreas Richter, Jan Jansa, Christina Kaiser
Published in: BioRxiv, 2024, ISSN 2692-8205
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.06.622229

Microbial community regulation of extracellular enzyme production can mediate patterns of particulate and mineral-associated organic matter accumulation in undersaturated soils

Author(s): Paige M. Hansen, Yao Zhang, Ksenia Guseva, Christina Kaiser, M. Francesca Cotrufo
Published in: BioRxiv, 2025, ISSN 2692-8205
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2025.07.25.666799

Model substrate particles uncover dynamics of microbial communities associated with particulate organic matter decomposition in soil

Author(s): Eva Simon, Lauren V. Alteio, Alexander König, Bruna Imai, Julia Horak, Julia Wiesenbauer, Joana Séneca, Bela Hausmann, Marc Mußmann, Barbara Kitzler, Christina Kaiser
Published in: BioRxiv, 2025, ISSN 2692-8205
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2025.06.27.661937

Strengths of relationships among soil microbial and organic matter properties are scale-dependent

Author(s): Eva Simon, Ksenia Guseva, Lauren Alteio, Christina Kaiser
Published in: BioRxiv, 2025, ISSN 2692-8205
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2025.07.08.663705