Dr. Marife D. Corre Soil Science of Tropical & Subtropical Ecosystems Büsgen Institute Faculty of Forest Sceinces and Forest Ecology Georg-August University of Goettingen Buesgenweg 2 D-37077 Goettingen Germany Phone:+49-(0)551 39 5765 Fax:+49-(0)551 39 3310 email:mcorre@gwdg.de Room:4.135
Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology Büsgen Institute - Soil Science of Tropical and Subtropical Ecosystems

Research interests

• Impact of global change processes (e.g. increased nitrogen deposition, land-use change in the tropics, changes in rainfall levels) on soil carbon and nitrogen cycling, net primary production, leaching losses, and biogenic trace gas fluxes
• Landscape-scale assessment of crop yield and of trade-offs between crop production and associated environmental effects
• Landscape-scale quantification of soil carbon changes and greenhouse gas fluxes from conversion of tropical natural ecosystems (e.g. rainforest) to agricultural production systems
• Soil productivity recovery of degraded lands in the tropics
• Applications of stable isotopes, e.g. 13C and 15N, for quantifying carbon and nitrogen fluxes among soil, plant, water and air

Field measurement of trace gas fluxes in tropical soils

Field measurement of leaching losses from tropical soils

Chronosequence of land-use change: tropical rainforest - corn - cacao agroforest

Recovery of degraded soils in the tropics: grazing lands converted to exclosures