T. Richter-Heitmann

The paper examines protistan lineages in soil, finding differences in their responses to land management and environmental factors between grassland and forest ecosystems.

This study identifies a new Asgard archaeal phylum, Gerdarchaeota, and shows their role in organic matter degradation in coastal sediments through genomic and transcriptomic analysis.

The paper shows that obligate methylotrophic methanogens in marine sediments can use CO2 to produce methane and incorporate significant amounts of dissolved inorganic carbon into lipids.