Ricardo Schöps
Contact / Address
Ricardo Schöps
Research Fellow
Department of Community Ecology
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 4 | D-06120 Halle/Saale
Germany
CV / Scientific Career
Research fellow, STACCATO project
Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ
Since 10/2014
PhD-Student
Title: "Belowground plant microbiome diversity and community composition in grassland ecosystems along land-use gradients in the German Biodiversity Exploratories"
Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ
10/2012 - 09/2014
Master of Science in Biology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg Halle (Saale)
10/2009 - 09/2012
Bachelor of Science in Biology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg Halle (Saale)
Publications
Schöps R, Goldmann K, Herz K, Lentendu G, Schöning I, Bruelheide H, Wubet T, and Buscot F (2018). Land-use intensity rather than plant functional identity shapes bacterial and fungal rhizosphere communities. Frontiers in Microbiology 9: 2711. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.02711
Purahong W, Pietsch K, Lentendu G, Schöps R, Bruelheide H, Wirth C, Buscot F, Wubet T. 2017. Characterization of unexplored deadwood mycobiome in highly diverse subtropical forests using culture-independent molecular technique. Frontiers in Microbiology 8: 574. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2017.00574
Purahong W, Durka W, Fischer M, Dommert S, Schöps R, Buscot F, & Wubet T. 2016. Tree species, tree genotypes and tree genotypic diversity levels affect microbe-mediated soil ecosystem functions in a subtropical forest. Scientific Reports, 6. doi:10.1038/srep36672
Talks
Schöps R., Goldmann K., Herz K., Lentendu G., Bruelheide H., Wubet T. & Buscot F. (2017) Land-use intensity shapes bacterial and fungal rhizosphere communities more than the functional identity of plants. British Ecological Society, Ecology Across Borders: Joint Annual Meeting 2017, Ghent, Belgium
Gutknecht J., Pietsch K., Erfmeier A. & Schöps R. (2015) Extracellular enzyme activities in decaying wood across a natural subtropical forest diversity gradient. 100st ESA Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland (USA)
Schöps R., Pietsch K., Erfmeier A. & Gutknecht J. (2014) Extracellular microbial enzyme activity in decaying wood along a natural forest diversity gradient in China. 44th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland in Hildesheim (Germany)
Poster
Schöps R., Wubet T., Bruelheide H. & Buscot F. (2016) Fungal and bacterial diversity and community composition in the rhizosphere mycobiome of grassland ecosystems along land use gradients. 3rd Thünen symposium on soil metagenomics, Braunschweig, Germany.
Schöps R., Wubet T., Bruelheide H. & Buscot F. (2015) Soil fungal diversity and community composition in the rhizosphere mycobiome of grassland ecosystems along land use gradients. 8th International Conference on Mycorrhiza, Flagstaff, Arizona (USA)