Marie Spohn

8.1k citations

89 papers · 5.5k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 40

Impact in

Soil Science top 0.1%
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Environmental Chemistry top 0.2%
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Papers in

Soil Science 66
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics 64
- Soil erosion and sediment transport 6
Environmental Chemistry 36
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics 32

Co-authors: Yakov Kuzyakov Christine Heuck Luise Giani Wolfgang Wanek Andreas Richter Alfons R. Weig Meike Widdig Per‐Marten Schleuss
Journals: Soil Biology and Biochemistry (29 papers)Geoderma (8 papers)Biogeochemistry (8 papers)Plant and Soil (7 papers)Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science (4 papers)
Partner nations: Germany Sweden Switzerland

In The Last Decade

Marie Spohn

86 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Microbial carbon use efficiency and biomass turnover times depending on soil depth – Implications for carbon cycling 2016 · 380 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 Soil Biology and Biochemistry
2015 Soil Biology and Biochemistry

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1	Ectomycorrhizal decomposers and their niche(s) in boreal forests Functional Ecology ·Bertil Schütt, Leticia Pérez‐Izquierdo, Karina E. Clemmensen, Anders Dahlberg, Marie Spohn, Johan Stendahl, Björn D. Lindahl	2025	0
2	Organic Matter, and Particularly Phosphorylated Organic Matter, Coprecipitates Very Strongly With Aluminium European Journal of Soil Science ·Ágnes Tamás, Marie Spohn	2025	0
3	A method to isolate soil organic phosphorus from other soil organic matter to determine its carbon isotope ratio Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Ye Tian, Marie Spohn	2025	1
4	Interactions of nitrogen and phosphorus in plant nutrition - Analysis of a 60-years old field experiment Plant and Soil ·Marie Spohn	2024	4
5	Preferential adsorption of nitrogen- and phosphorus-containing organic compounds to minerals in soils: A review Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Marie Spohn	2024	29
6	Continuous decrease in soil organic matter despite increased plant productivity in an 80-years-old phosphorus-addition experiment Communications Earth & Environment ·Marie Spohn, Rebecca Pons, Carlos A. Sierra	2023	17
7	The synergistic response of primary production in grasslands to combined nitrogen and phosphorus addition is caused by increased nutrient uptake and retention Plant and Soil ·Eduardo Vázquez, Elizabeth T. Borer, Miguel N. Bugalho, Maria C. Caldeira, Rebecca L. McCulley, Anita C. Risch, Eric W. Seabloom, 刘诗达, Marie Spohn	2023	9
8	Recently fixed carbon fuels microbial activity several meters below the soil surface Biogeosciences ·Тетяна Канєва, Carlos A. Sierra, Marie Spohn	2023	8
9	Carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus stoichiometry of organic matter in Swedish forest soils and its relationship with climate, tree species, and soil texture Biogeosciences ·Marie Spohn, Johan Stendahl	2022	23
10	Terrestrial ecosystems buffer inputs through storage and recycling of elements Biogeochemistry ·Marie Spohn, Felipe Aburto, Todd A. Ehlers, Nina Farwig, Patrick Frings, Henrik Hartmann, Thomas Hoffmann, Annegret Larsen, Yvonne Oelmann	2021	3
11	Sorption and desorption of organic matter in soils as affected by phosphate Geoderma ·Marie Spohn, Kateřina Diáková, Felipe Aburto, Sebastian Döetterl, Jakub Borovec	2021	51
12	Phosphorus and carbon in soil particle size fractions – A global synthesis Biogeosciences (European Geosciences Union) ·Marie Spohn	2018	2
13	Microbial biomass phosphorus and C/N/P stoichiometry in forest floor and A horizons as affected by tree species Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Tristan Martine, 颜恒, Marie Spohn, Rainer Georg Joergensen	2017	66
14	Environmental drivers of spatial patterns of topsoil nitrogen and phosphorus under monsoon conditions in a complex terrain of South Korea PLoS ONE ·Diana Alkema, K. I. Bryukhanova, Marie Spohn, Soo Jin Park, Bernd Huwe, Mareike Ließ	2017	11
15	Effects of phosphorus-mobilizing bacteria on tomato growth and soil microbial activity Plant and Soil ·Jun Chen, Marie Spohn, S. Lorenz, Samuel Jacquiod, Kornelia Smalla, Sven Marhan, Ellen Kandeler	2017	56
16	An inter-laboratory comparison of gaseous and liquid fumigation based methods for measuring microbial phosphorus (Pmic) in forest soils with differing P stocks Journal of Microbiological Methods ·Fabian Bergkemper, Else K. Bünemann, Παναγιώτης Ζουμπουλάκης, Christine Heuck, Ellen Kandeler, Jaane Krüger, Sven Marhan, Éva Mészáros, Jun Chen, Santo Marcos Eremita, Yvonne Oelmann, Chiara Pistocchi, Michael Schloter, Marie Spohn, 颜恒, Tristan Martine, Stefanie Schulz	2016	14
17	Redistribution of soil water by a saprotrophic fungus enhances carbon mineralization Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Alexander Guhr, Werner Borken, Marie Spohn, Egbert Matzner	2015	115
18	Innovative methods in soil phosphorus research: A review Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science ·Jens Kruse, Marion Abraham, Wulf Amelung, Christel Baum, Roland Bol, Oliver Kühn, H. Lewandowski, Jörg Niederberger, Yvonne Oelmann, Christopher P. Rüger, Jakob Santner, Meike Siebers, Nina Siebers, Marie Spohn, Johan Vestergren, Angela Vogts, Peter Leinweber	2015	269
19	Microbial respiration per unit microbial biomass depends on litter layer carbon-to-nitrogen ratio Biogeosciences ·Marie Spohn	2015	149
20	Soil zymography - A novel technique for mapping enzyme activity in the rhizosphere EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Marie Spohn	2014	1

About Marie Spohn

Marie Spohn is a scholar working on Soil Science, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Plant Science, having authored 89 papers that have together received 5.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (64 papers), Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics (32 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (29 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (15 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers), Phosphorus and nutrient management (12 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (10 papers) and Soil erosion and sediment transport (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (3.9k citations), Environmental Chemistry (1.7k citations), Ecology (1.9k citations), Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering (546 citations) and Plant Science (1.9k citations). Marie Spohn has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include Yakov Kuzyakov, Christine Heuck, Luise Giani, Wolfgang Wanek, Andreas Richter, Alfons R. Weig, Meike Widdig, Per‐Marten Schleuss, Alexander Guhr and Marcin Chodak. Their work appears in journals such as Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Geoderma, Biogeochemistry, Plant and Soil and Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science.

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