Prof. Anke Hildebrandt, PhD
Contact
UFZ - Department Computational Hydrosystems
Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Tel +49-341 - 6025 2238
anke.hildebrandt@ufz.de
common appointment together with
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena
Institute of Geosciences
Burgweg 11 (H209), 07749 Jena
Tel +49 3641 9-48720
anke.hildebrandt@uni-jena.de
Scientific positions
11/2018
Appointment to Professor for Terrestrial Ecohydrology, common appointment between UFZ and the Institute of Geoscience, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
05/2010
Appointment to Junior Professor for Ecological Modelling at the Institute of Geoscience, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
2005-2010
Scientist at department for Computational Hydrology at Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, leader of the group Ecohydrology
Education
2001-2005
PhD degree in Hydrology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Title of thesis: "Ecohydrology of a Seasonal Cloud Forest in Dhofar"
1993-2000
Univeristy studies towards the degree Engineer (Dipl. Ing.) in Water Resources Management, Technical University Dresden
1999-2000
External diploma thesis on groundwater hydrological modelling at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)
1998-1999
European exchange student (ERASMUS), Environmental Sciences, level Maîtrise, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
Research interests
I study how the terrestrial water cycle and vegetation mutually affect each other. I work together with modellers to check whether interactions between vegetation and matter cycles are captured by earth system models used for prediction and scenario analysis.Topics I am currently working on are:
- Interrelation between ecosystem structure and vertical water flow - from the top of the canopy to the bottom of the rooting zone
- Interpretation of soil moisture patterns and relation to root water uptake and soil water flow
- Redistribution and confluence of precipitation in vegetation canopies and how it affects soil processes
- Effect of vegetation structure on soil hydraulic properties and potential effects on soil water fluxes
- Understanding where roots take up water, why, and whether this affects transpiration and soil water dynamics at the regional scale
- Optimality of root water uptake
2024 (3)
- Khurana, S., Heße, F., Hildebrandt, A., Thullner, M. (2024):
Microbial mediated carbon and nitrogen cycling in the spatially heterogenous vadose zone: A modeling study
Vadose Zone J. 23 (2), e20315 10.1002/vzj2.20315 - Schmidt, T., Schrön, M., Li, Z., Francke, T., Zacharias, S., Hildebrandt, A., Peng, J. (2024):
Comprehensive quality assessment of satellite- and model-based soil moisture products against the COSMOS network in Germany
Remote Sens. Environ. 301 , art. 113930 10.1016/j.rse.2023.113930 - Huang, Y., Stein, G., Kolle, O., Kübler, K., Schulze, E.-D., Dong, H., Eichenberg, D., Gleixner, G., Hildebrandt, A., Lange, M., Roscher, C., Schielzeth, H., Schmid, B., Weigelt, A., Weisser, W.W., Shadaydeh, M., Denzler, J., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N. (2024):
Enhanced stability of grassland soil temperature by plant diversity
Nat. Geosci. 17 (1), 44 - 50 10.1038/s41561-023-01338-5
2023 (5)
- Fischer-Bedtke, C., Metzger, J.C., Demir, G., Wutzler, T., Hildebrandt, A. (2023):
Throughfall spatial patterns translate into spatial patterns of soil moisture dynamics – empirical evidence
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 27 (15), 2899 - 2918 10.5194/hess-27-2899-2023 - Pint, A., Hildebrandt, A., Landwehrs, J., Feulner, G., Scholze, F., Nyakatura, J., Ispas, L., Grützner, C., Frenzel, P. (2023):
Contour marks as potential indicators of evaporation rates in the early Permian continental vertebrate site Bromacker (Thuringia, Central Germany)
Paleogeogr. Paleoclimatol. Paleoecol. 628 , art. 111749 10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111749 - Pohl, F., Werban, U., Kumar, R., Hildebrandt, A., Rebmann, C. (2023):
Observational evidence of legacy effects of the 2018 drought on a mixed deciduous forest in Germany
Sci. Rep. 13 , art. 10863 10.1038/s41598-023-38087-9 - Pohl, F., Rakovec, O., Rebmann, C., Hildebrandt, A., Boeing, F., Hermanns, F., Attinger, S., Samaniego, L., Kumar, R. (2023):
Long-term daily hydrometeorological drought indices, soil moisture, and evapotranspiration for ICOS sites
Sci. Data 10 , art. 281 10.1038/s41597-023-02192-1 - van der Plas, F., Schröder-Georgi, T., Weigelt, A., Barry, K., Meyer, S., Alzate, A., Barnard, R.L., Buchmann, N., de Kroon, H., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Engels, C., Fischer, M., Gleixner, G., Hildebrandt, A., Koller-France, E., Leimer, S., Milcu, A., Mommer, L., Niklaus, P.A., Oelmann, Y., Roscher, C., Scherber, C., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Scheu, S., Schmid, B., Schulze, E.-D., Temperton, V., Tscharntke, T., Voigt, W., Weisser, W., Wilcke, W., Wirth, C. (2023):
Reply to: Plant traits alone are good predictors of ecosystem properties when used carefully
Nat. Ecol. Evol. 7 (3), 335 - 336 10.1038/s41559-022-01957-y
2022 (11)
- Bahrami, B., Kumar, R., Thober, S., Hildebrandt, A., Fischer, R., Samaniego, L., Rebmann, C. (2022):
Predicting forest gross primary productivity and leaf area index by coupling light use efficiency and leaf phenology in a parsimonious canopy model
EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022
EGUsphere
Copernicus Publications, EGU22-8844 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-8844 - Paulus, S.J., El-Madany, T.S., Orth, R., Hildebrandt, A., Wutzler, T., Carrara, A., Moreno, G., Perez-Priego, O., Kolle, O., Reichstein, M., Migliavacca, M. (2022):
Resolving seasonal and diel dynamics of non-rainfall water inputs in a Mediterranean ecosystem using lysimeters
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 26 (23), 6263 - 6287 10.5194/hess-26-6263-2022 - Demir, G., Michalzik, B., Filipzik, J., Metzger, J.C., Hildebrandt, A. (2022):
Spatial variation of grassland canopy affects soil wetting patterns and preferential flow
Hydrol. Process. 36 (12), e14760 10.1002/hyp.14760 - Boeing, F., Rakovec, O., Kumar, R., Samaniego, L., Schrön, M., Hildebrandt, A., Rebmann, C., Thober, S., Müller, S., Zacharias, S., Bogena, H., Schneider, K., Kiese, R., Attinger, S., Marx, A. (2022):
High-resolution drought simulations and comparison to soil moisture observations in Germany
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 26 (19), 5137 - 5161 10.5194/hess-26-5137-2022 - Loritz, R., Bassiouni, M., Hildebrandt, A., Hassler, S.K., Zehe, E. (2022):
Leveraging sap flow data in a catchment-scale hybrid model to improve soil moisture and transpiration estimates
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 26 (18), 4757 - 4771 10.5194/hess-26-4757-2022 - Bahrami, B., Hildebrandt, A., Thober, S., Rebmann, C., Fischer, R., Samaniego, L., Rakovec, O., Kumar, R. (2022):
Developing a parsimonious canopy model (PCM v1.0) to predict forest gross primary productivity and leaf area index of deciduous broad-leaved forest
Geosci. Model Dev. 15 (18), 6957 - 6984 10.5194/gmd-15-6957-2022 - Demir, G., Friesen, J., Filipzik, J., Michalzik, B., Hildebrandt, A. (2022):
A method proposal for throughfall measurement in grassland at plot scale in temperate climate: ‘Interception tubes’
Front. Earth Sci. 10 , art. 799419 10.3389/feart.2022.799419 - Khurana, S., Heße, F., Hildebrandt, A., Thullner, M. (2022):
Should we worry about surficial dynamics when assessing nutrient cycling in the groundwater?
Front. Water 4 , art. 780297 10.3389/frwa.2022.780297 - Khurana, S., Heße, F., Hildebrandt, A., Thullner, M. (2022):
Predicting the impact of spatial heterogeneity on microbially mediated nutrient cycling in the subsurface
Biogeosciences 19 (3), 665 - 688 10.5194/bg-19-665-2022 - Kroll, J., Denissen, J.M.C., Migliavacca, M., Li, W., Hildebrandt, A., Orth, R. (2022):
Spatially varying relevance of hydrometeorological hazards for vegetation productivity extremes
Biogeosciences 19 (2), 477 - 489 10.5194/bg-19-477-2022 - You, X., Kallies, R., Hild, K., Hildebrandt, A., Harms, H., Chatzinotas, A., Wick, L.Y. (2022):
Transport of marine tracer phage particles in soil
Sci. Total Environ. 814 , art. 152704 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152704
2021 (2)
- Paulus, S., El-Madany, T.S., Orth, R., Hildebrandt, A., Migliavacca, M. (2021):
Multi-source characterisation of non-rainfall water inputs to a semi-arid ecosystem
Lysimeter und Bodenwasserhaushalt: Trockenheit - Bewässerung - Ertragssicherheit. Bericht 19. Lysimetertagung, HBLFA Raumberg-Gumpenstein, 13. und 14. April 2021
p. 37 - 42 - Metzger, J.C., Filipzik, J., Michalzik, B., Hildebrandt, A. (2021):
Stemflow infiltration hotspots create soil microsites near tree stems in an unmanaged mixed beech forest
Front. For. Glob. Change 4 , art. 701293 10.3389/ffgc.2021.701293
2020 (3)
- Van Stan II, J.T., Hildebrandt, A., Friesen, J., Metzger, J.C., Yankine, S.A. (2020):
Spatial variability and temporal stability of local net precipitation patterns
In: Van Stan II, J.T., Gutmann, E., Friesen, J. (eds.)
Precipitation partitioning by vegetation - A global synthesis
Springer International Publishing, Cham, p. 89 - 103 10.1007/978-3-030-29702-2_6 - van der Plas, F., Schröder-Georgi, T., Weigelt, A., Barry, K., Meyer, S., Alzate, A., Barnard, R.L., Buchmann, N., de Kroon, H., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Engels, C., Fischer, M., Gleixner, G., Hildebrandt, A., Koller-France, E., Leimer, S., Milcu, A., Mommer, L., Niklaus, P.A., Oelmann, Y., Roscher, C., Scherber, C., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Scheu, S., Schmid, B., Schulze, E.-D., Temperton, V., Tscharntke, T., Voigt, W., Weisser, W., Wilcke, W., Wirth, C. (2020):
Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning
Nat. Ecol. Evol. 4 (12), 1602 - 1611 10.1038/s41559-020-01316-9 - Hildebrandt, A. (2020):
Root water relations and interactions in mixed forest settings
In: Levia, D.F., Carlyle-Moses, D.E., Iida, S., Michalzik, B., Nanko, K., Tischer, A. (eds.)
Forest-Water Interactions
Ecological Studies 240
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, p. 319 - 348 10.1007/978-3-030-26086-6_14
2019 (2)
- Metzger, J.C., Schumacher, J., Lange, M., Hildebrandt, A. (2019):
Neighbourhood and stand structure affect stemflow generation in a heterogeneous deciduous temperate forest
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 23 (11), 4433 - 4452 10.5194/hess-23-4433-2019 - Lange, M., Koller-France, E., Hildebrandt, A., Oelmann, Y., Wilcke, W., Gleixner, G. (2019):
How plant diversity impacts the coupled water, nutrient and carbon cycles
In: Eisenhauer, N., Bohan, D.A., Dumbrell, A.J. (eds.)
Mechanisms underlying the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function
Advances in Ecological Research 61
Academic Press / Elsevier, London, p. 185 - 219 10.1016/bs.aecr.2019.06.005
- Barry, K.E., J van Ruijven, L. Mommer, Y. Bai, C. Beierkuhnlein, N. Buchmann, H. de Kroon, A. Ebeling, N. Eisenhauer, C. Guimaraes-Steinicke, Anke Hildebrandt, F. Isbell, A. Milcu, C. Neßhöver, P. B. Reich, C. Roscher, L. Sauheitl, M. Scherer-Lorenzen, B. Schmid, D. Tilman, S. von Felten & A. Weigelt. (2019):
Limited evidence for spatial resource partitioning across temperate grassland biodiversity experiments.
Ecology 101(1): e02905. 10.1002/ecy.2905 Fischer, C., Leimer, S., Roscher. C., Ravenek, J., de Kroon, H., Kreutziger, Y., Baade, J., Beßler, H., Eisenhauer, N., Weigelt, A., Mommer, L., Lange, M., Gleixner, G., Wilcke, W., Schröder, B., A. Hildebrandt (2019):
Plant species richness and functional groups have different effects on soil water content in a decade-long grassland experiment.
Journal of Ecology 107: 127-141, 10.1111/1365-2745.13046.