selected publications

• academic article

  • Mechanical Soil Database – Part II: Dependence of air conductivity on soil texture, type, structure, and cohesion: Results from a database obtained over three decades.  Soil & Tillage Research.  231:105731-105731. 2023
  • Structure dependent changes in pore water pressure due to stress application and consequences on the effective stress.  Soil & Tillage Research.  231:105719-105719. 2023
  • Millimetre scale aeration of the rhizosphere and drilosphere.  European Journal of Soil Science.  73. 2022
  • Short-term effects of compaction on soil mechanical properties and pore functions of an Andisol.  Soil & Tillage Research.  221:105396-105396. 2022
  • Mechanical Soil Database—Part I: Impact of Bulk Density and Organic Matter on Precompression Stress and Consequences for Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity.  Frontiers in Environmental Science.  10. 2022
  • Effective stress and pore water dynamics in unsaturated soils: Influence of soil compaction history and soil properties.  Soil & Tillage Research.  211:104997-104997. 2021
  • Studying the soil pore physical resistance and resilience of a shallow volcanic ash soil subjected to pure cyclic loading.  Soil & Tillage Research.  204:104709-104709. 2020
  • Anisotropy of unsaturated soil hydraulic properties of eroded Luvisol after conversion to hayfield comparing alfalfa and grass plots.  Soil & Tillage Research.  198:104553-104553. 2020
  • Effect of artificial soil compaction in landfill capping systems on anisotropy of air‐permeability.  Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science.  183:144-154. 2020
  • The need for lime in dependence on clay content in arable crop production in Germany.  Soil & Tillage Research.  191:11-17. 2019
  • Evaluation of temporal changes in hydrostructural properties of regenerating permanent grassland soils based on shrinkage properties and μCT analysis.  Soil & Tillage Research.  185:102-112. 2019
  • Biological Alteration of Flow Properties of Soil Samples From Two Bt Horizons of a Haplic Luvisol Determined With Rheometry.  Frontiers in Environmental Science.  6. 2018
  • Effect of biochar addition on hydraulic functions of two textural soils.  Geoderma.  326:88-95. 2018
  • Effect of pasture improvement managements on physical properties and water content dynamics of a volcanic ash soil in southern Chile.  Soil & Tillage Research.  178:55-64. 2018
  • Microstructural strength of tidal soils – a rheometric approach to develop pedotransfer functions.  Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics.  66:87-96. 2017
  • How far are rheological parameters from amplitude sweep tests predictable using common physicochemical soil properties?.  Journal of physics.  790:012032-012032. 2017
  • Shrinkage potential and pore shrinkage capacity of differently developed volcanic ash soils under pastures in southern Chile.  Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science.  179:799-808. 2016
  • Conceptual framework for capacity and intensity physical soil properties affected by short and long-term (14 years) continuous no-tillage and controlled traffic.  Soil & Tillage Research.  158:123-136. 2016
  • Determination of soil dispersion caused by anaerobic digestates: interferences of pH and soil charge with regard to soil texture and water content.  Journal of Soils and Sediments.  15:1491-1499. 2015
  • Tensile and erosive strength of soil macro-aggregates from soils under different management system.  Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics.  62:324-333. 2014
  • Investigation of Time Dependent Development of Soil Structure and Formation of Macropore Networks as Affected by Various Precrop Species.  International Soil and Water Conservation Research.  2:51-66. 2014
  • Influence of mechanical loading on static and dynamic CO2 efflux on differently textured and managed Luvisols.  Geoderma.  219-220:1-13. 2014
  • Root and time dependent soil structure formation and its influence on gas transport in the subsoil.  Soil & Tillage Research.  132:69-76. 2013
  • Structure and hydraulic properties of the boreal clay soil under differently managed buffer zones.  Soil Use and Management.  29:410-418. 2013
  • Identifying Six Types of Soil Shrinkage Curves from a Large Set of Experimental Data.  Soil Science Society of America Journal.  77:372-381. 2013
  • Development of soil structure and functions: How can mechanical and hydraulic approaches contribute to quantify soil structure dynamics?.  Soil & Tillage Research.  125:1-2. 2012
  • Effect of hydraulic and mechanical stresses on cyclic deformation processes of a structured and homogenized silty Luvic Chernozem.  Soil & Tillage Research.  125:3-13. 2012
  • Influence of organic matter on rheological properties of soil.  Applied Clay Science.  64:25-33. 2012
  • Physical properties of a Luvisol for different long‐term fertilization treatments: II. Microscale behavior and its relation to the mesoscale.  Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science.  175:14-23. 2012
  • Aggregate stability and physical protection of soil organic carbon in semi-arid steppe soils.  European Journal of Soil Science.  63:22-31. 2012
  • Effect of land use change on Andosol's pore functions and their functional resilience after mechanical and hydraulic stresses.  Soil & Tillage Research.  115-116:71-79. 2011
  • Total and fresh organic carbon distribution in aggregate size classes and single aggregate regions using natural 13C/12C tracer.  Geoderma.  164:164-171. 2011
  • Physical response of rigid and non-rigid soils to analogues of biological exudates.  European Journal of Soil Science.  62:676-684. 2011
  • Influence of grazing on soil water and gas fluxes of two Inner Mongolian steppe ecosystems.  Soil & Tillage Research.  111:180-189. 2011
  • Effect of land use change on the dynamic behaviour of structural properties of an Andisol in southern Chile under saturated and unsaturated hydraulic conditions.  Geoderma.  159:189-197. 2010
  • Soil testing of dynamic deformation processes of arable soils.  Soil & Tillage Research.  106:317-328. 2010
  • Change of shrinkage behavior of an Andisol in southern Chile: Effects of land use and wetting/drying cycles.  Soil & Tillage Research.  106:45-53. 2009
  • Shrinkage properties of differently managed clay soils in Finland.  Soil Use and Management.  25:175-182. 2009
  • Soil structure formation and management effects on gas emission.  Biologia.  64:449-453. 2009
  • Hydraulic properties of soil aggregates as influenced by compaction.  Soil & Tillage Research.  103:170-177. 2009
  • Direction-dependent behaviour of hydraulic and mechanical properties in structured soils under conventional and conservation tillage.  Soil & Tillage Research.  102:225-232. 2009
  • Ecological safe management of terraced rice paddy landscapes.  Soil & Tillage Research.  102:179-192. 2009
  • Time‐dependent, anisotropic pore structure and soil strength in a 10‐year period after intensive tractor wheeling under conservation and conventional tillage.  Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science.  171:936-944. 2008
  • Determination of pre-compression stress of a variously grazed steppe soil under static and cyclic loading.  Soil & Tillage Research.  99:139-148. 2008
  • EFFECT OF BULK DENSITY ON HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES OF HOMOGENIZED AND STRUCTURED SOILS.  Revista De La Ciencia Del Suelo Y Nutricion Vegetal.  8:1-13. 2008
  • Soil compressibility and penetrability of an Oxisol from southern Brazil, as affected by long-term tillage systems☆.  Soil & Tillage Research.  92:104-113. 2007
  • Heavy soil loading its consequence for soil structure, strength, deformation of arable soils.  Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science.  169:775-783. 2006
  • Tillage effects on soil strength and solute transport.  Soil & Tillage Research.  88:193-204. 2006
  • The mechanical behavior of structured and homogenized soil under repeated loading.  Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science.  169:401-410. 2006
  • Anisotropy of pore functions in structured Stagnic Luvisols in the Weichselian moraine region in N Germany.  Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science.  169:213-220. 2006
  • Changes in soil organic matter, bulk density and tensile strength of aggregates after percolation in soils after conservation and conventional tillage.  International Agrophysics.  20:245-254. 2006
  • Modeling the Soil Water Retention Curve for Conditions of Variable Porosity.  Vadose Zone Journal.  4:602-613. 2005
  • SIDASS project.  Soil & Tillage Research.  82:47-56. 2005
  • Structure formation and its consequences for gas and water transport in unsaturated arable and forest soils.  Soil & Tillage Research.  82:5-14. 2005
  • Influence of soil structure on the shrinkage behaviour of a soil irrigated with saline - sodic water.  Soil Research.  43:555-555. 2005
  • Time Dependence of Soil Mechanical Properties and Pore Functions for Arable Soils.  Soil Science Society of America Journal.  68:1131-1137. 2004
  • Effect of repeated tractor wheeling on stress/strain properties and consequences on physical properties in structured arable soils.  Soil & Tillage Research.  73:101-106. 2003
  • Stress–strain effects in structured unsaturated soils on coupled mechanical and hydraulic processes.  Geoderma.  116:77-88. 2003
  • Influence of types of restorative vegetation on the wetting properties of aggregates in a severely degraded clayey Ultisol in subtropical China.  Geoderma.  115:313-324. 2003
  • Soil compaction processes and their effects on the structure of arable soils and the environment.  Soil & Tillage Research.  35:23-36. 1995
  • Soil physical properties related to soil structure.  Soil & Tillage Research.  30:187-216. 1994
  • Alteration of soil thermal properties by structure formation.  The journal of soil science.  44:231-248. 1993
  • Effect of aggregate stability on soil compaction.  Soil & Tillage Research.  19:203-213. 1991

• chapter

  • Dynamics of Soil Macropore Networks in Response to Hydraulic and Mechanical Stresses Investigated by X-ray Microtomography.  Advances in agricultural systems modeling. 121-153. 2015
  • Effects of Root-Induced Biopores on Pore Space Architecture Investigated with Industrial X-Ray Computed Tomography.  SSSA special publication series. 69-96. 2015