Univ.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Richter
T: +43-1-4277-91260
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Tang, Y., Sahlstedt, E., Rissanen, K., Bäck, J., Schiestl-Aalto, P., Angove, C., Richter, A., Saurer, M., Aalto, J., Dukat, P., Lintunen, A., & Rinne-Garmston, K. T. (2024). Resin acid δ13C and δ18O as indicators of intra-seasonal physiological and environmental variability. Plant Cell and Environment, 47(12), 5411-5423. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.15108

Schmider, T., Hestnes, A. G., Brzykcy, J., Schmidt, H., Schintlmeister, A., Roller, B. R. K., Teran, E. J., Söllinger, A., Schmidt, O., Polz, M. F., Richter, A., Svenning, M. M., & Tveit, A. T. (2024). Physiological basis for atmospheric methane oxidation and methanotrophic growth on air. Nature Communications, 15(1), Article 4151. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48197-1



Yang, L., Canarini, A., Zhang, W., Lang, M., Chen, Y., Cui, Z., Kuzyakov, Y., Richter, A., Chen, X., Zhang, F., & Tian, J. (2024). Microbial life-history strategies mediate microbial carbon pump efficacy in response to N management depending on stoichiometry of microbial demand. Global Change Biology, 30(5), Article e17311. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17311

Söllinger, A., Ahlers, L. S., Dahl, M. B., Sigurðsson, P., Le Noir de Carlan, C., Bhattarai, B., Gall, C., Martin, V. S., Rottensteiner, C., Motleleng, L. L., Breines, E. M., Verbruggen, E., Ostonen, I., Sigurdsson, B. D., Richter, A., & Tveit, A. T. (2024). Microorganisms in subarctic soils are depleted of ribosomes under short-, medium-, and long-term warming. The ISME Journal, 18(1), Article wrae081. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismejo/wrae081


Gargallo-Garriga, A., Sardans, J., Llusià, J., Peguero, G., Ayala-Roque, M., Courtois, E. A., Stahl, C., Urban, O., Klem, K., Nolis, P., Pérez-Trujillo, M., Parella, T., Richter, A., Janssens, I. A., & Peñuelas, J. (2024). Different profiles of soil phosphorous compounds depending on tree species and availability of soil phosphorus in a tropical rainforest in French Guiana. BMC Plant Biology, 24(1), Article 278. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-024-04907-x


Metze, D., Schnecker, J., de Carlan, C. L. N., Bhattarai, B., Verbruggen, E., Ostonen, I., Janssens, I. A., Sigurdsson, B. D., Hausmann, B., Kaiser, C., & Richter, A. (2024). Soil warming increases the number of growing bacterial taxa but not their growth rates. Science Advances, 10(8), Article eadk6295. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adk6295

Ferrín, M., Peñuelas, J., Gargallo-Garriga, A., Iribar, A., Janssens, I. A., Marañón-Jiménez, S., Murienne, J., Richter, A., Sigurdsson, B. D., & Peguero, G. (2024). Responses of soil hexapod communities to increasing nitrogen in a subarctic grassland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 188, Article 109228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109228

De Jonge, C., Guo, J., Hällberg, P., Griepentrog, M., Rifai, H., Richter, A., Ramirez, E., Zhang, X., Smittenberg, R. H., Peterse, F., Boeckx, P., & Dercon, G. (2024). The impact of soil chemistry, moisture and temperature on branched and isoprenoid GDGTs in soils: A study using six globally distributed elevation transects. Organic Geochemistry, 187, Article 104706. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2023.104706

Schnecker, J., Baldaszti, L., Gündler, P., Pleitner, M., Sandén, T., Simon, E., Spiegel, F., Spiegel, H., Urbina Malo, C., Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S., & Richter, A. (2023). Seasonal dynamics of soil microbial growth, respiration, biomass, and carbon use efficiency in temperate soils. Geoderma: A Global Journal of Soil Science, 440, Article 116693. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116693


Riva, A., Rasoulimehrabani, H., Cruz-Rubio, J. M., Schnorr, S. L., von Baeckmann, C., Inan, D., Nikolov, G., Herbold, C. W., Hausmann, B., Pjevac, P., Schintlmeister, A., Spittler, A., Palatinszky, M., Kadunic, A., Hieger, N., Del Favero, G., von Bergen, M., Jehmlich, N., Watzka, M., ... Berry, D. (2023). Identification of inulin-responsive bacteria in the gut microbiota via multi-modal activity-based sorting. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 8210. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43448-z


Wagner, J., Martin, V., Speetjens, N. J., A'Campo, W., Durstewitz, L., Lodi, R., Fritz, M., Tanski, G., Vonk, J. E., Richter, A., Bartsch, A., Lantuit, H., & Hugelius, G. (2023). High resolution mapping shows differences in soil carbon and nitrogen stocks in areas of varying landscape history in Canadian lowland tundra. Geoderma, 438, Article 116652. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116652


Fang, C., Verbrigghe, N., Sigurdsson, B. D., Ostonen, I., Leblans, N. I. W., Marañón-Jiménez, S., Fuchslueger, L., Sigurðsson, P., Meeran, K., Portillo-Estrada, M., Verbruggen, E., Richter, A., Sardans, J., Peñuelas, J., Bahn, M., Vicca, S., & Janssens, I. A. (2023). Decadal soil warming decreased vascular plant above and belowground production in a subarctic grassland by inducing nitrogen limitation. New Phytologist, 240(2), 565-576. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19177

Dao, T. T., Mikutta, R., Wild, B., Sauheitl, L., Gentsch, N., Shibistova, O., Schnecker, J., Lashchinskiy, N., Richter, A., & Guggenberger, G. (2023). How temperature and aridity drive lignin decomposition along a latitudinal transect in western Siberia. European Journal of Soil Science, 74(5), Article e13408. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.13408

Invited Speaker/Keynote Lecture: Soil Systems Ecology 2024

Andreas Richter (Keynote speaker)

9 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Invited Speaker: Burg Feistritz

Andreas Richter (Speaker)

22 Apr 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Microbial growth in a warming Arctic: Exploring controls and temperature responses in permafrost soils

Cornelia Rottensteiner (Speaker), Victoria Sophie Martin (Contributor), Alberto Canarini (Contributor), Hannes Schmidt (Contributor), Leila Jensen (Contributor), Julia Horak (Contributor), Moritz Mohrlok (Contributor), Carolina Urbina Malo (Contributor), Willeke A'Campo (Contributor), Luca Durstewitz (Contributor), Julia Wagner (Contributor), Rachele Lodi (Contributor), Niek J. Speetjens (Contributor), George Tanski (Contributor), Michael Fritz (Contributor), Hugues Lantuit (Contributor), Gustaf Hugelius (Contributor) & Andreas Richter (Contributor)

19 Apr 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Invited Speaker: EGU 2024

Andreas Richter (Speaker)

15 Apr 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Invited Speaker: University of Reims, France

Andreas Richter (Speaker)

8 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Invited Speaker, University of Greifswald

Andreas Richter (Speaker)

19 Oct 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Invited Speaker BCM

Andreas Richter (Speaker)

16 May 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Invited speaker: EGU 2023

Hannes Schmidt (Speaker), Joana Séneca Cardoso Da Silva (Speaker), Alberto Canarini (Speaker), Eva Simon (Speaker), Marlies Dietrich (Speaker), Judith Prommer (Speaker), Moritz Mohrlok (Speaker), Bela Hausmann (Speaker), Wolfgang Wanek (Speaker) & Andreas Richter (Speaker)

28 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Permafrost soil organic matter (de)composition in times of global warming

Cornelia Rottensteiner (Speaker), Victoria Sophie Martin (Contributor), Hannes Schmidt (Contributor), Leila Jensen (Contributor), Julia Horak (Contributor), Moritz Mohrlok (Contributor), Carolina Urbina Malo (Contributor), Willeke A'Campo (Contributor), Luca Durstewitz (Contributor), Julia Wagner (Contributor), Rachele Lodi (Contributor), Niek J. Speetjens (Contributor), George Tanski (Contributor), Michael Fritz (Contributor), Hugues Lantuit (Contributor), Gustaf Hugelius (Contributor) & Andreas Richter (Contributor)

28 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Invited speaker: EGU 2023

Wolfgang Wanek (Speaker) & Andreas Richter (Speaker)

26 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Invited Speaker: EGU 2023

Alberto Canarini (Speaker), Wolfgang Wanek (Speaker) & Andreas Richter (Speaker)

26 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Invited Speaker: Microbial Growth and Diversity in a Changing Climate

Andreas Richter (Speaker)

20 Mar 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Don’t look down: permafrost microbes and soil organic matter in times of global warming

Cornelia Rottensteiner (Speaker), Victoria Sophie Martin (Contributor), Hannes Schmidt (Contributor), Leila Jensen (Contributor), Julia Horak (Contributor), Moritz Mohrlok (Contributor), Carolina Urbina Malo (Contributor), Julia Wagner (Contributor), Willeke A'Campo (Contributor), Luca Durstewitz (Contributor), Rachele Lodi (Contributor), Niek J. Speetjens (Contributor), George Tanski (Contributor), Michael Fritz (Contributor), Hugues Lantuit (Contributor), Gustaf Hugelius (Contributor) & Andreas Richter (Contributor)

21 Feb 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Boden. Leben.

Andreas Richter (Speaker)

24 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Nitrogen fixation by diverse diazotrophic communities can support population growth of arboreal ants

Maximilian Nepel (Speaker), Josephine Ulrike Pfeifer (Contributor), Felix Benjamin Oberhauser (Contributor), Andreas Richter (Contributor), Dagmar Wöbken (Contributor) & Veronika Mayer (Contributor)

7 Jun 20229 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Spatial variability shapes microbial communities of permafrost soils and their reaction to warming

Cornelia Rottensteiner (Speaker), Victoria Sophie Martin (Contributor), Hannes Schmidt (Contributor), Leila Jensen (Contributor), Julia Horak (Contributor), Moritz Mohrlok (Contributor), Carolina Urbina Malo (Contributor), Julia Wagner (Contributor), Willeke A'Campo (Contributor), Luca Durstewitz (Contributor), Rachele Lodi (Contributor), Niek J. Speetjens (Contributor), George Tanski (Contributor), Michael Fritz (Contributor), Hugues Lantuit (Contributor), Gustaf Hugelius (Contributor) & Andreas Richter (Contributor)

24 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Subjecting permafrost microorganisms to short-term warming

Victoria Sophie Martin (Speaker), Gustaf Hugelius (Contributor), Julia Wagner (Contributor), Niek Speetjens (Contributor), Rachele Lodi (Contributor), Julia Horak (Contributor), Carolina Urbina Malo (Contributor), Moritz Mohrlok (Contributor), Cornelia Rottensteiner (Contributor), Willeke a' Campo (Contributor), Luca Durstewitz (Contributor), George Tanski (Contributor), Michael Fritz (Contributor), Hugues Lantuit (Contributor), Gustav Hugelius (Contributor) & Andreas Richter (Contributor)

8 Dec 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How do microorganisms from permafrost soils respond to short-term warming?

Victoria Sophie Martin (Speaker), Julia Horak (Contributor), Carolina Urbina Malo (Contributor), Moritz Mohrlok (Contributor), Cornelia Rottensteiner (Contributor), Julia Wagner (Contributor), Willeke a' Campo (Contributor), Luca Durstewitz (Contributor), Niek Speetjens (Contributor), Rachele Lodi (Contributor), George Tanski (Contributor), Hugues Lantuit (Contributor), Michael Fritz (Contributor), Gustaf Hugelius (Contributor) & Andreas Richter (Contributor)

5 May 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Controls over phosphorus mineralization and immobilization rates in different tropical soils

Lucia Fuchslueger (Speaker), David Zezula (Contributor), Johann Ferenc Püspök (Contributor), Leandro Van Langenhove (Contributor), O. Margalef (Contributor), Alberto Canarini (Contributor), Christian Ranits (Contributor), Carlos A. Quesada (Contributor), Eric Cosio (Contributor), Josep Peñuelas (Contributor), Wolfgang Wanek (Contributor), Andreas Richter (Contributor) & Ivan A. Janssens (Contributor)

4 May 20208 May 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Microbial and abiotic interactions driven higher microbial anabolism on organic carbon accumulation during 2000 years of paddy soil development in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Qingfang Bi (Speaker), Xian-Yong Lin (Contributor), Wolfgang Wanek (Contributor), Shasha Zhang (Contributor), Alberto Canarini (Contributor), Andreas Richter (Contributor) & Yong-Guan Zhu (Contributor)

4 May 20208 May 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Soil warming leads to an up regulation of genes involved in the decomposition of organic N in a subarctic grassland

Joana Seneca Cardoso Da Silva (Speaker), Andrea Söllinger (Contributor), Alexander Tveit (Contributor), Petra Pjevac (Contributor), Craig Herbold (Contributor), Tim Urich (Contributor), Josep Peñuelas (Contributor), Comammox Wagner (Contributor), Bjarni D. Sigurdsson (Contributor) & Andreas Richter (Contributor)

4 May 20208 May 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The influence of short-term and long-term warming on physical soil carbon pools

Moritz Mohrlok (Speaker), Victoria Sophie Martin (Contributor), Niel Verbrigghe (Contributor), Lucia Fuchslueger (Contributor), Christopher Poeplau (Contributor), Bjarni D. Sigurdsson (Contributor), I. A. Janssens (Contributor) & Andreas Richter (Contributor)

4 May 20208 May 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Towards standardized experimentation in soil research – a synthetic ecology approach

Hannes Schmidt (Speaker), Julia Horak (Contributor), Kerim Kits (Contributor), Alberto Canarini (Contributor), Leila Hadziabdic (Contributor) & Andreas Richter (Contributor)

4 May 20208 May 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


What controls microbial growth in tropical soils? The role of carbon and phosphorus.

Christian Ranits (Speaker), Lucia Fuchslueger (Contributor), Leandro Van Langenhove (Contributor), Ivan A. Janssens (Contributor), Josep Peñuelas (Contributor) & Andreas Richter (Contributor)

4 May 20208 May 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Intrinsic microbial temperature sensitivity and changing biomass explain soil carbon loss under warming

Andreas Richter (Speaker)

14 Dec 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Microbial growth and biomass drives carbon and nutrient cycling in soil

Andreas Richter (Invited speaker)

26 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The microbial perspective of soil carbon and nutrient cycling

Andreas Richter (Invited speaker)

22 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Microbial carbon and nutrient use efficiency

Andreas Richter (Invited speaker)

20 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling: the Microbial Perspective

Andreas Richter (Invited speaker)

19 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Soil Organic Matter Cycling and Microbial Activity

Andreas Richter (Invited speaker)

1 Nov 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Microorganisms putatively involved in nutrient recycling of ant-plant associations by degrading chitin and cellulose

Maximilian Nepel (Speaker), Andreas Richter (Contributor), Christina Kaiser (Contributor), Dagmar Wöbken (Contributor) & Veronika Mayer (Contributor)

12 Aug 201817 Aug 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Fungal patches in ant-plant associations: initiation and metabolic activity

Veronika Mayer (Speaker), Maximilian Nepel (Contributor), Andreas Richter (Contributor), Christina Kaiser (Speaker) & Hermann Voglmayr (Contributor)

4 Jul 20185 Jul 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Microbial carbon use efficiency – are current concepts and techniques adequate?

Andreas Richter (Invited speaker), Christina Kaiser (Contributor), Maria Mooshammer (Contributor), Jörg Schnecker (Contributor), Tom Walker (Contributor) & Wolfgang Wanek (Contributor)

8 Apr 201813 Apr 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How much microbiology do we need to understand landscape-level processes?

Andreas Richter (Invited speaker)

15 Mar 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Microorganisms affecting Soil Organic Carbon Stabilisation in Cryoturbated soils of the Siberian Arctic

Andreas Richter (Contributor)

6 Sept 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Tracing effects of drought on the plant-soil C transfer in a mountain meadow

Andreas Richter (Contributor)

6 Sept 2011

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther



Impact of climate change on the performance of tropical lowland forests in SW Costa Rica

Andreas Richter (Contributor)

27 Jul 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


The effect of tree girdling on belowground processes

Andreas Richter (Invited speaker)

21 Apr 2009

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Flux of Carbon into microbial phosphor lipid-acids in a grassland labeling experiment

Andreas Richter (Invited speaker)

12 Sept 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Resource limitation of microbial decomposition: the effect of tree girdling and fertilization on belowground C and N fluxes

Andreas Richter (Contributor)

25 Aug 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Effects of plant carbon input on soil microbial communities and ecosystem processes

Andreas Richter (Invited speaker)

18 Jul 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Effects of plant carbon input on soil microbial communities and ecosystem processes

Andreas Richter (Invited speaker)

14 Jul 2008

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Stable isotopes of nitrogen

Andreas Richter (Invited speaker)

25 Apr 2008

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Department of Analytical Chemistry

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T: +43-1-4277-91260
M: +43-664-8175472

andreas.richter@univie.ac.at