Ben Hafner
@benscharmin.bsky.social
Tree ecophysiologist, soil-root interactions, a fine root researcher
TUM Soil Biophysics: https://www.lss.ls.tum.de/sbe/get-to-know-us/
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Benjamin-Hafner
TUM Soil Biophysics: https://www.lss.ls.tum.de/sbe/get-to-know-us/
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Benjamin-Hafner
Calling all #rootexudate enthusiasts!
Join our @egubg.bsky.social session (with Taryn Bauerle, @melaniebrunn.bsky.social, Maire Holz & Sami Ullah) at the @egu.eu 2026 General Assembly on exudate composition, function & persistence.
Submit by 15 Jan meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
Join our @egubg.bsky.social session (with Taryn Bauerle, @melaniebrunn.bsky.social, Maire Holz & Sami Ullah) at the @egu.eu 2026 General Assembly on exudate composition, function & persistence.
Submit by 15 Jan meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
November 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Calling all #rootexudate enthusiasts!
Join our @egubg.bsky.social session (with Taryn Bauerle, @melaniebrunn.bsky.social, Maire Holz & Sami Ullah) at the @egu.eu 2026 General Assembly on exudate composition, function & persistence.
Submit by 15 Jan meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
Join our @egubg.bsky.social session (with Taryn Bauerle, @melaniebrunn.bsky.social, Maire Holz & Sami Ullah) at the @egu.eu 2026 General Assembly on exudate composition, function & persistence.
Submit by 15 Jan meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/sessio...
🐝 PhD Opportunity @tum.de
Explore how soil health & structure shape habitats for ground-nesting pollinators in the Horizon Europe project ProPollSoil.
Join our interdisciplinary team in Soil Biophysics & Environmental Systems 🌿
🔗 Details: www.lss.ls.tum.de/sbe/offered-...
Explore how soil health & structure shape habitats for ground-nesting pollinators in the Horizon Europe project ProPollSoil.
Join our interdisciplinary team in Soil Biophysics & Environmental Systems 🌿
🔗 Details: www.lss.ls.tum.de/sbe/offered-...
Doctoral Candidate Soil–Pollinator Interactions and Soil Health
www.lss.ls.tum.de
October 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
🐝 PhD Opportunity @tum.de
Explore how soil health & structure shape habitats for ground-nesting pollinators in the Horizon Europe project ProPollSoil.
Join our interdisciplinary team in Soil Biophysics & Environmental Systems 🌿
🔗 Details: www.lss.ls.tum.de/sbe/offered-...
Explore how soil health & structure shape habitats for ground-nesting pollinators in the Horizon Europe project ProPollSoil.
Join our interdisciplinary team in Soil Biophysics & Environmental Systems 🌿
🔗 Details: www.lss.ls.tum.de/sbe/offered-...
Reposted by Ben Hafner
On the train back after a very inspiring workshop on root exudation in Berlin, funded by @newphyt.bsky.social
What is it, is it important, where should we be in 10 years time, and how do we get there? Stay tuned for the answers!
What is it, is it important, where should we be in 10 years time, and how do we get there? Stay tuned for the answers!
June 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
On the train back after a very inspiring workshop on root exudation in Berlin, funded by @newphyt.bsky.social
What is it, is it important, where should we be in 10 years time, and how do we get there? Stay tuned for the answers!
What is it, is it important, where should we be in 10 years time, and how do we get there? Stay tuned for the answers!
New paper on #drought_legacy lead by @kyo-hikino.bsky.social showing that slow recovery of leaf area in mature #spruce following a long-term #drought alleviated physiological #stress during recurrent drought: doi.org/10.1111/plb....
Drought legacy in mature spruce alleviates physiological stress during recurrent drought
The slow recovery of leaf area in mature spruce following a long-term drought alleviated physiological stress during recurrent drought.
doi.org
May 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New paper on #drought_legacy lead by @kyo-hikino.bsky.social showing that slow recovery of leaf area in mature #spruce following a long-term #drought alleviated physiological #stress during recurrent drought: doi.org/10.1111/plb....
Reposted by Ben Hafner
🌳Published🌳
#Tree #mycorrhizal associations regulate relationships between #plant & microbial communities & #soil organic C stocks at local scales in a temperate #forest
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#Tree #mycorrhizal associations regulate relationships between #plant & microbial communities & #soil organic C stocks at local scales in a temperate #forest
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Tree mycorrhizal associations regulate relationships between plant & microbial communities & soil organic C stocks at local scales in a temperate forest
Mengxu Zhang, Emma J. Sayer, Ji Ye, Zuoqiang Yuan, Fei Lin, Zhanqing Hao, Shuai Fang, Zikun Mao, Pengcheng Jiang, Meihui Zhu, Xugao Wang. This is a plain language summary of a Functional Ecology ar…
fesummaries.wordpress.com
March 30, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🌳Published🌳
#Tree #mycorrhizal associations regulate relationships between #plant & microbial communities & #soil organic C stocks at local scales in a temperate #forest
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#Tree #mycorrhizal associations regulate relationships between #plant & microbial communities & #soil organic C stocks at local scales in a temperate #forest
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Reposted by Ben Hafner
📢New Paper - Smart roots! Plants modify roots to maintain strategically use water. When soils are drying, plants can decrease water use from topsoil whilst boosting uptake at greater depths. 🌱💧
@newphyt.bsky.social @uonresearch.bsky.social
Full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/smart-r...
@newphyt.bsky.social @uonresearch.bsky.social
Full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/smart-r...
March 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
📢New Paper - Smart roots! Plants modify roots to maintain strategically use water. When soils are drying, plants can decrease water use from topsoil whilst boosting uptake at greater depths. 🌱💧
@newphyt.bsky.social @uonresearch.bsky.social
Full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/smart-r...
@newphyt.bsky.social @uonresearch.bsky.social
Full story 👇
www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/smart-r...
Mature beech trees redistribute soil water, equal to ca. 10% of stand #transpiration, from deeper moist #soils to dry surface soils, where seedlings of different #tree species take it up. New #hydraulicredistribution paper with TUM & BoKu Ecophys groups: doi.org/10.1111/plb....
Redistribution of soil water by mature trees towards dry surface soils and uptake by seedlings in a temperate forest
Mature beech trees redistributed soil water, equal to ca. 10% of stand transpiration, from deeper moist soils to dry surface soils, where it was taken up by seedlings of different tree species.
doi.org
March 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Mature beech trees redistribute soil water, equal to ca. 10% of stand #transpiration, from deeper moist #soils to dry surface soils, where seedlings of different #tree species take it up. New #hydraulicredistribution paper with TUM & BoKu Ecophys groups: doi.org/10.1111/plb....
#Exudates decrease strongly during #plantdevelopment and #metabolome shifts from diverse, sugar-dominated to secondary exudates. Fast-growth genotypes exude root establishing, slow-growth more defensive compounds. See our paper with @drmicrowill.bsky.social and the Bauerle lab.
March 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
#Exudates decrease strongly during #plantdevelopment and #metabolome shifts from diverse, sugar-dominated to secondary exudates. Fast-growth genotypes exude root establishing, slow-growth more defensive compounds. See our paper with @drmicrowill.bsky.social and the Bauerle lab.