PhD theses and habilitation

Dissertations / PhD

2023

  • Gall, Corinna: On the influence of biological soil crusts and bryophytes on soil erosion and the soil water balance in temperate forests
  • Kessler, Arnim: Stable Hydrogen Isotope Ratios: New Insights into the Formation of soil Organic Matter

2022

  • Gries, Philipp: Multi-scale analysis of the spatial distribution of soil organic carbon stocks in permafrost-affected soils in West Greenland (U Tübingen)

2021

  • Patzner, Monique Sézanne: Microbial iron cycling in permafrost peatlands affected by global warming (Co-Supervisor, U Tübingen)
  • Rentschler, Tobias: Explainable machine learning in soil mapping (U Tübingen)
  • Scherer, Sascha: Multi-proxy analysis of colluvial deposits: Archaeopedological reconstruction of land use practices in southwestern German (Co-Supervisor, U Tübingen)

2020

  • Höpfer, Benjamin: Bronzezeitliche Landnutzungsdynamiken und das Siedlungsgefüge der mittleren Bronzezeit im nordwestlichen Alpenvorland. Regionale Entwicklungslinien im Hegau (Lkr. Konstanz) und Westallgäu (Lkr. Ravensburg) mit Fallbeispielen aus Engen-Anselfingen und Leutkirch im Allgäu

  • Morsy, Mona: The Potential of Remote Sensing Data for Water Budget Evaluation in Arid Areas of Sinai, Egypt (Co-Supervisor, U Tübingen)

2019

  • Banfield, Callum Colin: Carbon Turnover in Subsoil Hotspots: Are Biopores more than Voids? (U Göttingen, ext. GA)
  • Song, Zhengshan: On the Influence of Afforestation on Soil Erosion and Soil Carbon in a Subtropical Chinese Forest Ecosystem

2018

  • Sorkau, Elisabeth: Land use and biodiversity effects on P-transformation in soils (Co-Supervisor, U Tübingen)

2017

  • Ahlrichs, Jan Johannes: Ur- und frühgeschichtliche Siedlungsdynamiken zwischen Gunst- und Ungunsträumen in Südwestdeuschland (Tübingen)
  • Bosch, Anna: Quantification of Soil CO2 Emissions under the Influence of Climate Change on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Based on Freely Accessible Data (Tübingen)
  • Henkner, Jessica: Interpreting colluvial deposits: Archaeopedological reconstruction of land use dynamics ins southwestern Germany (Co-Supervisor, U Tübingen)
  • Spinola, Diogo Noses: Early Eocene paleosols on King George Island, Maritime Antarctica as a paleoenvironmental proxy (Co-Supervisor, U Tübingen)
  • Teuber, Sandra: Past and present soil use in Germany – an analysis of the social-ecological systems “agriculture” and “allotment gardening” (Tübingen)

2016

  • Müller, Michael: Interactions among soil properties and variations in stand structures in the Rolwaling alpine treeline ecotone, Nepal (Tübingen)
  • Schleuss, Per-Martin: Development and degradation of Kobresia root mats and their effects on C and N turnover and C sequestration (Göttingen, ext. GA)
  • Stumpf, Felix: Spatial estimations of soil properties for physically-based soil erosion modelling in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, Central China (Tübingen)

2015

  • Goebes, Philipp: Mechanisms of Soil Erosion in Subtropical Forests of China - Effects of Biodiversity, Species identity, Tree architecture and Spatial variability on Erosivity (Tübingen)
  • Seitz, Steffen: Mechanisms of Soil Erosion in Subtropical Chinese forests - Effests of Species Diversity, Species Identity, Functional Traits and Soil Fauna on Sediment Discharge (Tübingen)
  • Toland, Alexandra Regan: Soil Art - Transdisciplinary Approaches to Soil Protection (Co-Supervisor, TU Berlin)

2002 – 2014

2014

  • Baumann, Frank: Pedogenesis, permafrost, and ecosystem functioning : feedbacks and interactions along climate gradients across the Tibetan Plateau (Tübingen)
  • Peter, Klaus Daniel: Aktuelle Geomorphodynamik in Gullyeinzugsgebieten in der Souss-Ebene/Südmarokko (Co-Supervisor, U Trier)
  • Schatz, Ann-Kathrin: Towards a Quantification of Environmental and Climatic Factors between 60 and 20 ka in SE Europe Using Geochemistry and Luminscene Dating (Tübingen)
  • Schönbrodt-Stitt, Sarah: Soil erosion in a highly dynamic, terraced environment: the effect of the Three Gorges Dam in China (Tübingen)

2013

  • Fischer, Thomas: Spatio-temporal changes of meteorological dryness/wetness pattern and their hydrological responses on discharge in the Zhujiang River Basin, South China (Tübingen)
  • Ramirez-Lopez, Leonardo: Sampling Design and Machine Learning Optimization for the Application of Soil Sensing Data in Digital Soil Mapping (Tübingen)
  • Wiegand, Christoph: Bodenverluste auf Grünlandflächen in den Alpen – Untersuchungen zur Steuerung und räumlich-zeitlichen Dynamik mit einem Konzept für die Langzeitbeobachtung (Co-Supervisor, U Innsbruck)

2012

  • Mejia Barazarte, Joel Francisco: Evaluating the effect of LULC changes and climate variability in the hydraulic response and water yield of a tropical Andean river basin – the case of Boconó river basin, Venezuela (Co-Supervisor, U Tübingen)

2011

  • Bakimchandra, Oinam: Integrated Fuzzy-GIS approach for assessing regional soil erosion risks (Co-Supervisor, Uni Stuttgart)
  • Geißler, Christian: Mechanisms of soil erosion under forest vegetation – Throughfall kinetic energy as a function of forest succession and biodiversity in sutropical forests in China (Tübingen, Promotionspreis 2012 der Universität Tübingen)

2009

  • Gründling, Ralf: Wechselwirkung zwischen Pedodiversität und Biodiversität am Beispiel extensiv genutzter Grünland-Bestände (Tübingen)
  • Schmidt, Karsten: Repräsentanz und Data Mining – Konzepte und Methoden der digitalen bodenkundlichen Kartierung (Tübingen)

2008

  • Moyano, Fernando (Tübingen)
  • Hakkenberg, Robbert (Tübingen)
  • Möller, Markus (Co-Supervisor, U Tübingen)
  • Gerber, Rolf (Co-Supervisor, Giessen)

2007

  • Don, Axel (Tübingen)

2004

  • Hahn, Volker (Jena)

2002

  • Behrens, Thorsten: Digitale Reliefanalyse als Basis von Boden-Landschafts-Modelen am Beispiel der Modellierung periglazärer Lagen im Osharz (Co-Supervisor, JLU Giessen)