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With Dieter Eckstein, the Thünen Institute for Wood Research has lost a highly appreciated, com-mitted and popular person who will be sorely missed as a colleague, mentor and friend. Dieter Eckstein s
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Tim Lewandrowski works as a project staff member in the “Wertholz-Projekt” (valuable-timber project – strategies for generating valuable-timber). His main tasks are the evaluation, identification and
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We compared the N 2 , N 2 O and CO 2 data of two mesocosm-experiments with three biogeochemical models to find the missing or inappropriately described processes. We used these results to suggest pote
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The study by Wagner et al. 2021 investigates the effect of field acidification with sulphuric acid on ammonia emissions and yield effects of 5 different slurry types in winter wheat. Secondly, the yie
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The study by Cheng et al. 2022 investigates ammonia and N2O emissions as well as yield effect and N efficiency after fertilisation with treated urea fertilisers. Treatments included application of a u
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Everyone knows the typical smell of wood - but what is it that smells (so good)? The scent is mainly caused by a group of wood components, the terpenes. They are highly volatile, formed in resin canal
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For greenhouse gas emission reporting , nitrous oxide from soils are calculated with emission factors. These emission factors express how much nitrous oxide is emitted as a result of one kilogram of n
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Background and objective To ensure the safety of building constructions, e.g., in the context of federal waterways, wooden parts in the underwater area must also be regularly inspected for damage. Wit
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We developed a classification scheme for all peat and other organic soils of the German Agricultural Soil Inventory that focuses more on the profile characteristics and differences between mineral and