Publications

Publications in peer reviewed journals

Camenzind T, Aguilar-Trigueros C, Hempel S, Lehmann A, Bielcik M, Andrade-Linares DR, Bergmann J, dela Cruz J, Gawronski J, Golubeva P, Haslwimmer H, Lartey L, Leifheit E, Maaß S, Marhan S, Pinek L, Powell J, Roy J, Veresoglou S, Wang D, Wulf A, Zheng W, Rillig MC (2024). Towards establishing the fungal economics spectrum in soil saprobic fungi. Nature Communications, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47705-7

Camenzind T, Haslwimmer H, Rillig MC, Ruess L, Finn DR, Tebbe CC, Hempel S, Marhan S (2024). Revisiting soil fungal biomarkers and conversion factors: Interspecific variability in phospholipid fatty acids, ergosterol and rDNA copy numbers. Soil Ecology Letters, 6, 240243. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42832-024-0243-5 

Leifheit EF, Camenzind T, Lehmann A, Andrade-Linares DR, Fussan M, Westhusen S, Wineberger TM, Rillig MC (2024). Fungal traits help to understand the decomposition of simple and complex plant litter. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 100, fiae033. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiae033 

Oliva RL, Vogt C, Bublitz TA, Camenzind T, Dyckmans J, Joergensen RG (2024). Galactosamine and mannosamine are integral parts of bacterial and fungal extracellular polymeric substances. ISME Communications, 4, ycae038. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycae038 

Schulz G, Camenzind T, Sánchez-Galindo LM, Schneider D, Scheu S, Krashevska V (2023). Response of protists to nitrogen addition, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi manipulation, and mesofauna reduction in a tropical montane rainforest in southern Ecuador. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 70: e12996. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12996 

Camenzind T, Mason-Jones K, Mansour I, Rillig MC, Lehmann J (2023). Formation of necromass-derived soil organic carbon determined by microbial death pathways. Nature Geoscience. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01100-3 

dela Cruz JA, Camenzind T, Rillig MC (2022). Sub-lethal fungicide concentrations both reduce and stimulate the growth rate of non-target soil fungi from a natural grassland. Frontiers in Environmental Science 10: 1020465. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.1020465 

Camenzind T, Weimerhaus P, Lehmann A, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Rillig MC (2022). Soil fungi invest into asexual sporulation under resource scarcity, but trait spaces of individual isolates are unique. Environmental Microbiology 24: 2962-2978. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16012 

Dueñas JF, Hempel S, Homeier J, Suárez JP, Rillig MC, Camenzind T (2022). Root associated fungal lineages of a tropical montane forest show contrasting sensitivities to the long-term addition of nitrogen and phosphorus. Environmental Microbiology Reports 14: 775-784. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.13121 

Camenzind T, Grenz P, Lehmann J, Rillig MC (2021). Soil fungal mycelia have unexpectedly flexible stoichiometric C:N and C:P ratios. Ecology Letters 24: 208-218. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13632

Camenzind T, Lehmann A, Ahland J, Rumpel S and Rillig MC (2020). Trait‐based approaches reveal fungal adaptations to nutrient‐limiting conditions. Environmental Microbiology 22: 3548-3560. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15132

Dueñas JF, Camenzind T, Roy J, Hempel S, Homeier J, Suárez JP and Rillig MC (2020). Moderate phosphorus additions consistently affect community composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in tropical montane forests in southern Ecuador. New Phytologist 227: 1505-1518. DOI: 10.1111/nph.16641

Sánchez-Galindo L, Camenzind T, Maraun M, Scheu S (2019). Impacts of core rotation, defaunation and nitrogen addition on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, microorganisms and microarthropods in a tropical montane rainforest. Tropical Ecology 60, 350-361. DOI: 10.1007/s42965-019-00038-9

Rillig MC, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Camenzind T, Cavagnaro T, Degrune F, Hohmann P, Lammel D, Mansour I, Roy J, van der Heijden MGA, Yang G (2019). Why farmers should manage the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis – a response to Ryan and Graham (2018). New Phytologist 222: 1171-1175. DOI: 10.1111/nph.15602

Camenzind T, Scheu S, Rillig MC (2019). Expanding the toolbox of nutrient limitation studies: novel method of soil microbial in-growth bags to evaluate nutrient demands in tropical forests. Functional Ecology 33: 1536-1548. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13352

Camenzind T, Hammer EC, Lehmann J, Solomon D, Horn S, Rillig MC and Hempel S (2018) Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal and soil microbial communities in African Dark Earth. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiy033

Camenzind T, Hättenschwiler S, Treseder KK, Lehmann A and Rillig MC (2018) Nutrient limitation of soil microbial processes in tropical forests. Ecological Monographs 88: 4–21. DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1279

Rillig MC, Lehmann A, Lehmann J, Camenzind T and Rauh C (2018) Soil biodiversity effects from field to fork. Trends in Plant Science 23: 17-24. DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2017.10.003

Camenzind T, Lehmberg J, Weimershaus P, Alvarez-Garrido L, Andrade Linares DR, Suarez JP and Rillig MC (2018) Do fungi need salt licks? No evidence for fungal contribution to the Sodium Ecosystem Respiration Hypothesis based on lab and field experiments in Southern Ecuador. Fungal Ecology 32: 18-28. DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2017.11.004

Cárate-Tandalla D, Camenzind T, Leuschner C and Homeier J (2017) Contrasting species responses to continued nitrogen and phosphorus addition in tropical montane forest tree seedlings. Biotropica. DOI: 10.1111/btp.12518

Delavaux CS, Camenzind T, Homeier J, Jiménez-Paz R, Ashton M, Queensborough SA (2017) Nutrient Enrichment Effects on Mycorrhizal Fungi in an Andean Tropical Montane Forest. Mycorrhiza 27: 311-319. DOI: 10.1007/s00572-016-0749-5

Camenzind T, Homeier J, Dietrich K, Hempel S, Hertel D, Krohn A, Leuschner C, Oelmann Y, Olsson PA, Suarez JP and Rillig MC (2016) Opposing effects of nitrogen versus phosphorus additions on mycorrhizal fungal abundance along an elevational gradient in tropical montane forests. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 94: 37-47. DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.11.011

Camenzind T, Papathanasiou HJ, Förster A, Dietrich K, Hertel D, Homeier J, Oelmann Y, Olsson PA, Suárez JP and Rillig MC (2016) Increases in soil aggregation following phosphorus additions in a tropical premontane forest are not driven by root and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal abundances. Frontiers in Earth Sciences 3:89. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2015.00089

Schlaeppi K, Bender SF, Mascher F, Russo G, Patrignani A, Camenzind T, Hempel S, Rillig M C and van der Heijden MGA (2016) High-resolution community profiling of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. New Phytologist 212: 780–791. DOI: 10.1111/nph.14070

Tischer A, Werisch M, Döbbelin F, Camenzind T, Rillig MC and Hamer U (2015) Above- and belowground linkages of a nitrogen and phosphorus co-limited tropical mountain pasture system – responses to nutrient enrichment. Plant and Soil 391: 333–352. DOI: 10.1007/s11104-015-2431-7

Camenzind T, Hempel S, Homeier J, Horn S, Velescu A, Wilcke W and Rillig MC (2014) Nitrogen and phosphorus additions impact arbuscular mycorrhizal abundance and molecular diversity in a tropical montane forest. Global Change Biology 20: 3646–3659. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12618

Camenzind T and Rillig MC (2013) Extraradical arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal hyphae in an organic tropical montane forest soil. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 64: 96-102. DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.04.011

Homeier J, Hertel D, Camenzind T, Cumbicus NL, Maraun M, Martinson GO et al. (2012) Tropical andean forests are highly susceptible to nutrient inputs - rapid effects of experimental N and P addition to an Ecuadorian montane forest. PLoSone 7: e47128

Book chapters

Camenzind T, Suárez JP and Rillig MC (2016) Increased nutrient depositions affect arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a tropical montane forest. In: Biodiversity hotspot tropical mountain forest. Eds: Bogner FX, Bendix J, Beck E. Naturaleza y Cultura Internacional, Loja, Ecuador.

Rillig MC, Gawlik J, Haug I, Krashevska V, Maraun M, Sandmann D, Scheu S, Suárez JP (2013) Diversity in soil fungi, protists, and microarthropods. In: Ecosystem Services, Biodiversity and Environmental Change in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of South Ecuador. Eds: Bendix J, Beck E, Bräuning A, Makeschin F, Mosandl R, Scheu S, Wilcke W. Ecological Studies 221, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany