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Research Area
Diana joined COMI as a Postdoctoral researcher in 2018 to investigate the effects of climate change and land use on soil microbiomes. Through her research on plant-soil microbiomes Diana aims to understand the effect of key fungal and bacterial communities on plant diversity and soil health under climate change ( https://www.susalps.de ). As microbial ecologist her vision is to disentangle environment–microbe-microbe-plant interactions in order to support strategies for diversity conservation and ecological management of fragile ecosystems. Thus, her work will contribute at longer term to human health by reducing the impact of ecosystem managements and climate change effects which are well known to reduce biodiversity and increase pathogen antibiotic resistance, which lead to emergent diseases for humans.
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Postdoctoral researcher at CoMi in the frame of the project: “Sustainable use of alpine and pre-alpine grassland soils in a changing climate (SUSALPS)”. BMBF-BoNaRes
Postdoc at Plant, fungal and soil ecology Lab, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Postdoc at the Leibniz Institute for Ornamental and Vegetable Crops (IGZ), Großbeeren, Germany. Characterization of root fungal endophytes and their influence in plant growth and health
DAAD Fellow as PhD student at IGZ and University Potsdam, Germany
Publications
Read more2024 Scientific Article in Nature Communications
Towards establishing a fungal economics spectrum in soil saprobic fungi.
2024 Scientific Article in FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Fungal traits help to understand the decomposition of simple and complex plant litter.
2024 Scientific Article in Geoderma
Rapid loss of organic carbon and soil structure in mountainous grassland topsoils induced by simulated climate change.
2023 Scientific Article in Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Climate change and management intensity alter spatial distribution and abundance of P mineralizing bacteria and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in mountainous grassland soils.
2021 Scientific Article in Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science
Effects of slurry acidification on soil N2O fluxes and denitrification.
2021 Scientific Article in Science of the Total Environment, The