Else Bünemann-könig
Scientist
Department of Soil Sciences
Forschungsinstitut fur biologischen Landbau
Switzerland
Biography
Else Bünemann-König had done her Biology studies at the Universities of Tübingen and Göttingen, Germany; MSc thesis in the German-Brazilian Research Programm SHIFT (Studies of Human Impact on Forests and Floodplains in the Tropics), Belem, Brasilien. She was PhD student ETH Zurich (Group of Plant Nutrition, Prof. E. Frossard); Project on the Dynamics of Phosphorus in improved legume fallows in Western kenya, in collaboration with the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, Nairobi, Kenya . Since September 2015 she is at FiBL, Frick.
Research Interest
Soil quality, Soil microbiology, Soil functions, Nutrient management
Publications
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Bünemann EK (2015): Assessment of gross and net mineralization rates of soil organic phosphorus – a review. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 89, 82-98.
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Ragot SA, Kertesz MA and Bünemann EK (2015): Diversity of the phoD alkaline phosphatase gene in soil. Accepted manuscript posted online 7 August 2015, doi: 10.1128/AEM.01823-15 Applied Environmental Microbiology AEM.01823-15
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Traoré O.Y.A., Kiba D.I., Arnold M.C., Fliessbach A., Oberholzer H.R., Nacro H.B., Lompo F., Oberson A., Frossard E., Bünemann E.K. (accepted): Fertilization practices alter microbial nutrient limitations in a Ferric Acrisol. Biology & Fertility of Soils
