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Jörg Luster
teamleader
Organisational unit: Forest Soils and Biogeochemistry
Soil Functions and Soil Protection
Phone: +41 44 7392 295
Fax: +41 44 7392 215
Room: Bi HL B 23
E-Mail:
Address: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf
Research Interests

I am interested in how the living system "soil" in near-natural ecosystems deals with strains imposed by acidity, nitrogen or heavy metals. Furthermore, I want to know more about how plant-soil-microbe interactions in the root zone influence biogeochemical cycles on a macro scale.

An improved understanding of these processes may allow a better evaluation of the the function of soils to act as filter for water resources and how this filter function may develop in future under the prospects of predicted climatic changes.

For details on processes at the root-soil interface see research focus "Rhizosphere".

Current projects in research focus "Rhizosphere"
Completed projects in research focus "Rhizosphere"
Current project in research focus "Soil Protection"
Other project contributions

see "Projects" link in navigation bar

Physical properties and structure of soil minerals

In a collaboration with the group "Earth and Planetary Magnetism" of the ETH Zürich (A.U. Gehring) I am interested in structure, weathering and thermal behaviour of soil minerals. We investigate untreated and chemically and / or thermally treated samples with rock magnetic, spectroscopic and microscopic methods as well as with X-ray diffractometry.

  
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