Laura Summerauer

Research area

I am a researcher in soil and agricultural sciences, with a particular interest in tropical (agro-) ecosystems and carbon and nutrient cycling. Currently, I am studying controls on soil ecosystem services, such as regulating (carbon dynamics and climate change mitigation), supporting (soil fertility, plant nutrients) and provisioning (food production) ecosystem services in a highly eroding and degrading landscape of the Eastern Congo Basin under the influence of topography, land use, land use change and biogeochemistry. Furthermore, I am working on soil infrared spectroscopy and statistical modeling approaches.

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