The heat wave of summer 2003 was the largest and the most persistent ever experienced in
Central Europe and has fuelled concern about the effects of climate change on European …

The effects of global climate change will regionally be very different, mainly causing
considerable changes in temperature and water availability. For Central Europe, for …

Many forest ecosystems have evolved at sites with growth‐limiting nitrogen (N) availability,
low N input from external sources and high ecosystem internal cycling of N. By contrast …

Sulphate assimilation is an essential pathway being a source of reduced sulphur for various
cellular processes and for the synthesis of glutathione, a major factor in plant stress defence …

The complex interactions between trees and soil microbes in forests as well as their inherent
seasonal and spatial variations are poorly understood. In this study, we analyzed the effects …

Nitrogen (N) is an essential nutrient that is highly abundant as N2 in the atmosphere and
also as various mineral and organic forms in soils. However, soil N bioavailability often limits …

Beech seedlings from 11 German climatic provenances were exposed to a realistically timed
drought treatment in a greenhouse experiment. The stable isotope composition of carbon …

Whilst forest policy promotes cultivation and regeneration of beech dominated forest
ecosystems, beech itself is a highly drought sensitive tree species likely to suffer from the …

External salinization can affect different steps of nitrogen (N) metabolism (ion uptake, N
assimilation, and amino acid and protein synthesis) depending on the inorganic N source.• …

Wet and dry deposition of atmospheric nitrogen (N) compounds into forest ecosystems and
their effect on physical, chemical and microbial processes in the soil has attracted …