Andreas Richter
Guest Senior Research Scholar
Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
Biography
Andreas Richter joined IIASA in September 2016, as a senior guest researcher with the Ecosystems Services and Management Program (ESM).Dr. Richter received his PhD degree in Plant Biology from the University of Vienna, Austria in 1989. He currently is full professor for terrestrial ecosystem research and vice head of the Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science at the University of Vienna and director of the Austrian Polar Research Institute.
He is interested in all aspects of terrestrial ecosystem ecology and biogeochemistry. His research aims at a mechanistic understanding of the role of soil microbes and their interaction with plants in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. His research specifically focuses on (a) ecological stoichiometry (carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus use efficiency of microbial communities) (b) the cycling and decomposition of soil organic matter, and (c) the link between microbial community structure and ecosystem processes.
Dr. Richter is involved in IIASA’s theoretical modeling effort in the IMBALANCE-P project, which aims at identifying the dominant processes of the interactive dynamics of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in ecosystems.
Last update: 17 DEC 2018
Publications
Keuper, F., Wild, B., Kummu, M., Beer, C., Blume-Werry, G., Fontaine, S., Gavazov, K., Gentsch, N., Guggenberger, G., Hugelius, G., Jalava, M., Koven, C., Krab, E.J., Kuhry, P., Monteux, S., Richter, A., Shahzad, T., Weedon, J.T., & Dorrepaal, E. (2020). Carbon loss from northern circumpolar permafrost soils amplified by rhizosphere priming. Nature Geoscience 13 560-565. 10.1038/s41561-020-0607-0.
Soong, J.L., Fuchslueger, L., Marañon‐Jimenez, S., Torn, M.S., Janssens, I.A., Penuelas, J., & Richter, A. (2020). Microbial carbon limitation ‐ the need for integrating microorganisms into our understanding of ecosystem carbon cycling. Global Change Biology 26 (4) 1953-1961. 10.1111/gcb.14962.
Prommer, J., Walker, T., Wanek, W., Braun, J., Zezula, D., Hu, Y., Hofhansl, F. , & Richter, A. (2020). Increased microbial growth, biomass and turnover drive soil
organic carbon accumulation at higher plant diversity. Global Change Biology 26 (2) 669-681. 10.1111/gcb.14777.
Walker, T.W.N., Janssens, I.A., Weedon, J.T., Sigurdsson, B.D., Richter, A., Peñuelas, J., Leblans, N.I.W., Bahn, M., Bartrons, M., De Jonge, C., Fuchslueger, L., Gargallo-Garriga, A., Gunnarsdóttir, G.E., Marañón-Jiménez, S., Oddsdóttir, E.S., Ostonen, I., Poeplau, C., Prommer, J., Radujković, D., Sardans, J., Sigurðsson, P., Soong, J.L., Vicca, S., Wallander, H., Ilieva-Makulec, K., & Verbruggen, E. (2020). A systemic overreaction to years versus decades of warming in a subarctic grassland ecosystem. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4 101-108. 10.1038/s41559-019-1055-3.
Fuchslueger, L., Wild, B., Mooshammer, M., Takriti, M., Kienzl, S., Knoltsch, A., Hofhansl, F. , Bahn, M., & Richter, A. (2019). Microbial carbon and nitrogen cycling responses to drought and temperature in differently managed mountain grasslands. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 135 144-153. 10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.05.002.