Dr. François Buscot
professor
Department of Soil Ecology
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Germany
Biography
Professor Buscot is a native of France, a botanist and a soil biologist. He is Head of the Department of Soil Ecology at the UFZ in Halle and holds the chair in Soil Ecology at the Institute of Biology at the University of Leipzig. At the UFZ, he has established pipelines for next-generation sequencing and analyses of interactions between oak trees, animals and micro-organisms. He is one of the initiators of the Global Change Experimental Facility (GCEF), a founding member of the Biodiversity Exploratories and of the BEF-China project (DFG).
Research Interest
TrophinOak and PhytOmeter , Global Change Experimental Facility, While I was trained as a plant biologist and ecologist, already during my PhD in France, I started to work on fungi and mycorrhiza, and after my coming to Germany I became a soil ecologist. Today, my main interest in research is to relate diversity of soil microorganisms (fungi and bacteria) to soil functioning, plant diversity and land use intensity in the context of the accelerated global change. A second field relates to the mechanisms behind the interplay between tree development and their multitrophic interactions.
Publications
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Wu YT, Wubet T, Trogisch S, Both S, Scholten T, Bruelheide T, Buscot F. (2013) Forest age and plant species composition determine the soil fungal community structure in a Chinese subtropical forest. PlosOne 8(6):e66829. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066829
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Herrmann S, Recht S., Boenn M, Feldhahn L, Angay O, Fleischmann F, Tarkka MT, Grams TEE, Buscot F. (2015) Endogenous rhythmic growth in oak trees is regulated by internal clocks rather than resource availability.
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Moll J, Goldmann K, Kramer S, Hempel S, Kandeler E, Marhan S, Ruess L, Krüger D, Buscot F. (2015) Resource type and availability regulate fungal communitees along arable soil profiles. Microb Ecol 70:390–399
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Schuldt A, Wubet T, Buscot F, Staab M, Assmann T, Böhnke-Kammerlander M, Both S, Erfmeier A, Klein AM, Ma KP, Pietsch K, Schulze S, Wirth C, Zhang JY, Zumstein P, Bruelheide H. (2015) Multitrophic diversity in a biodiverse forest is highly nonlinear across spatial scales. Nature Communications. 6:10169
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Buscot F. (2015) Implication of evolution and diversity in arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal symbioses. J Plant Physiol 172:55–61. DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2014.08.013
