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Alexander Feckler, Eric Bollinger, Alexandra Unik, Peter Mueller, Sabine Filker, Christian Plicht, Zacharias Steinmetz, and Mirco Bundschuh (2026) Liquid polymer enhances methanogenesis and restructures prokaryotic communities in freshwater sediments   DOI: 10.5194/bg-23-7577-2026

Xin Li, Jintai Wu, J. Adam Langley, Meng Lu , Jianjun Zhou, Liding Chen, Kai Jensen, Peter Mueller, Grace M. Cott , Xiaolin Dou   (2026) Patterns and drivers of sedimentary carbon in global aquatic ecosystems during the Anthropocene   Water research    10.1016/j.watres.2026.126927

Saadaoui Y., Beer C., Mueller P., Neiske F., Becker J., Eschenbach A., Porada, P. (accepted) Quantifying aggregation bias in marsh carbon flux estimates caused by rhizosphere oxygen heterogeneity. Biogeosciences

Krüger N., Dorodnikov M., Thomsen S., Knorr K-H, Mueller P. (in press) Root trait controls on rhizosphere priming effects during early-stage litter decomposition in anoxic peat. Biogeochemistry doi.org/ 10.1007/s10533-026-01373-5

Menzel C., Bukovska P., Kleemann L., Woodhouse J.N, Mueller P., Jensen K., Jansa J. (2026) Soil redox potential and plant species identity likely affect root-associated fungi in salt marshes. Mycorrhiza doi.org/10.1007/s00572-026-01310-2

Gore C., Nolte S., Lehtovirta-Morley L., Mittmann-Goesele J.***, Mueller P. (2026) Storage treatment and diluent cause inconsistencies in commonly used fluorometric microplate enzyme assays conducted with saltmarsh soils. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods doi.org/10.1002/lom3.70093

Krüger N., Knorr K-H, Mueller P. (2026)Exudate-induced priming effects on anoxic peat are negative regardless of compound class and temperature. Soil Biology and Biochemistry doi.org/ 10.1016/j.soilbio.2026.110227

Krüger N., Subrahmaniam H.S., Mueller P. (2026) Root exudate profiles of wetland plants-a quantitative synthesis of secretion rates. Rhizosphere doi.org/ 10.1016/j.rhisph.2026.101292

Middelanis T., Feldmann L., Mueller P., Potthoff M. (2026) Introduction of the twin ring method for collection of earthworms–Method study on seven agricultural sites across Germany. Applied Soil Ecology doi.org/ 10.1016/j.apsoil.2026.107054

Schwarzer J., Logemann E.L., Mittmann-Goesele J., Brodehl A., Bartholomäus A., Jensen K., Liebner S. Mueller P. (2026) Ecosystem state and soil depth determine the microbial community response to warming in coastal marsh soils. iScience doi.org/ 10.1016/j.isci.2026.116208

Ludewig K., Shupe H.A., Navas L., Mueller P., Nolte S., Hunt C.A. (2026) Case studies from Germany and Scotland indicate climate change mitigation potential of riverine and coastal wetlands. Nature Conservation  doi.org/ 10.3897/natureconservation.62.153910

Mueller P. and Jensen K. (2026) The neutral rhizosphere–no role for priming effects in biosphere–atmosphere feedbacks? New Phytologist doi.org/ 10.1111/nph.71076

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Mittmann-Goetsch J., Mueller P., Jensen K., Liebner S., Thomsen S., Rich R., Bartholomäus A., Jaitner J., Unger V. (2025) Hydrology masks warming effects on microbial communities in salt marsh soils. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiaf101

He Q., Li C., Su Y., Mueller P., Bertness M.D., Cui B., Cui L., Li. B. (2025) Shorebird loss increases soil CO2 emissions in coastal wetlands under restoration. Fundamental Research doi.org/10.1016/j.fmre.2025.08.015

Koplin J. […] Mueller P. […] et al. (2025) Blue carbon potential in Germany: Status and future development. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Sciences doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2025.109354

Logemann E.L, Goesele C.K., Jensen K., Mueller P.  (2025) Soil Organic Carbon Stocks of German Salt Marshes: A Comparative Study along Low- and High-Energy Coastlines. JGR Biogeosciences doi.org/10.1029/2025JG008797

Lønborg C. […] Logemann E.L.*** […] Muller P. […] et al. (2025) A marine and salt marsh sediment organic carbon database for European regional seas (EURO-CARBON). Data in Brief doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2025.111595

Menzel C., Ostertag E., Mueller P., Rich R., Nolte S., Jensen K. (2025) Hydrology mediates salt marsh belowground biomass response to warming. Limnology and Oceanography doi.org/10.25592/uhhfdm.15931

Tutiyasarn P., Mueller P., Romero-Mujalli G., Van Dam B., Hartmann J., Porada P. (2025) Soil carbon dioxide levels control salt marsh alkalinity generation. Limnology and Oceanography doi.org/10.1002/lno.70062

Middelanis T., Looschelders D., Mueller P., K.-H. Knorr (2025) Potential of biochar to mitigate methane production in paddy soils - application of a new incubation and modelling approach. Biogeochemistry doi.org/10.1007/s10533-024-01200-9

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Grüterich L., Woodhouse J., Mueller P., Tiemann A., Ruscheweyh H.-J., Sunagawa S., Grossar H.P., Streit W.R. (2024) Assessing environmental gradients in relation to dark CO₂ fixation in estuarine wetland microbiomes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology doi.org/10.1128/aem.02177-24

Krüger N., Knorr K-H, Mueller P. (2024) Opposite priming responses to labile carbon versus oxygen pulses in anoxic peat. Soil Biology and Biochemistry doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2024.109682

Mueller P. and Megonigal, J.P. (2024) Redox control on rhizosphere priming in wetlands. Nature Geoscience doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01584-1

Mittmann-Goetsch J., Wilson M., Jensen, K. Mueller. P (2024) Root-driven soil reduction in Wadden Sea salt marshes. Wetlands doi.org/10.1007/s13157-024-01867-8

Grüterich L., Wilson M., Jensen K., Streit R.W, Mueller P. (2024) Transcriptomic response of wetland microbes to root influence. iScience doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110890

Arias-Ortiz A., […] Mueller P. […] et al. (2024) Methane fluxes in tidal marshes of the Contiguous United States. Global Change Biology doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17462

Sarneel J.M., […] Mueller P. […] et al. (2024) Reading tea leaves worldwide: decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass-loss rate and stabilization. Ecology Letters doi.org/10.1111/ele.14415

Granse D., Wanner A., Stock M., Jensen K., Mueller P. (2024) Plant-sediment interactions decouple inorganic from organic carbon stock development in salt marsh soils. Limnology and Oceanography Letters doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10382

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Rich R., Mueller P. [….] et al.  (2023) Design and assessment of a novel approach for ecosystem warming experiments in high-energy tidal wetlands. JGR Biogeosciences doi.org/10.1029/2023JG007550

Tang H., Nolte S., Rich R., Jensen K., Mittmann-Goetsch J., Mueller P. (2023) Warming accelerates belowground litter turnover in salt marshes – insights from a Tea Bag Index assay. Biogeosciences doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-1925-2023 

Mueller P., Kutzbach L., Mozdzer T.J., Jespersen E., Barber D., Eller F. (2023) Minerogenic salt marshes can function as important inorganic carbon stores. Limnology and Oceanography doi.org/10.1002/lno.12322

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Ren L., Jensen K., Porada P., Mueller P. (2022) Biota-mediated carbon cycling – A synthesis of biotic-interaction controls on blue carbon. Ecology Letters 10.1111/ele.13940 

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Tang H, Liebner S., Reents S, Nolte S., Horn F., Jensen K., Mueller P. (2021) Plant genotype controls wetland soil microbial functioning in response to sea-level rise. Biogeosciences doi.org/10.5194/bg-2021-41 

Koop-Jakobsen K., Meier R.J., Mueller P. (2021) Plant-mediated rhizosphere oxygenation in the native invasive salt marsh grass Elymus athericus. Frontiers in Plant Science 12:669751

Reents S., Mueller P., Tang H., Jensen K., Nolte S. (2021) Plant genotype determines biomass response to flooding frequency in tidal wetlands. Biogeosciences 18:403–411

Mueller P., Do H.T., Smit C., Reisdorff C., Jensen K., Nolte S. (2021) With a little help from my friends – Physiological integration facilitates invasion of wetland grass E. athericus into flooded soils. Oikos 130:431–439

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Mueller P., Mozdzer T.J., Langley J.A., Aoki L., Noyce G., Megonigal J.P. (2020) Plant species determine tidal wetland methane response to sea level rise. Nature Communications 11:5154

Keshta A., Koop-Jakobsen K., Titschak J., Mueller P., Jensen K., Baldwin A., Nolte S. (2020) Ungrazed salt marsh has well connected soil pores and less dense sediment compared with grazed salt marsh: CT scanning study. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 245:106987

Mueller P., Granse D., Nolte S., Weingartner M., Hoth S., Jensen K. (2020) Unrecognized controls on microbial functioning in blue carbon ecosystems: The role of mineral enzyme stabilization and allochthonous substrate supply. Ecology and Evolution10:998-1011

Tang H., Nolte S., Jensen, K., Yang, Z., Wu, J., Mueller P. (2020) Grazing mediates soil microbial activity and litter decomposition in salt marshes. Science of the Total Environment 720:137559

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Mueller, P. Do H.T., Jensen K., Nolte S. (2019) Origin of organic carbon in the topsoil of Wadden Sea salt marshes. Marine Ecology Progress Series 624:39-50

Mueller P., Ladiges N., Jack A., Schmiedl G., Kutzbach L., Jensen K., Nolte S. (2019), Assessing the long-term carbon-sequestration potential of the semi-natural salt marshes in the European Wadden Sea. Ecosphere 10:e02556

Mueller P., Schile-Beers L., Mozdzer T.J., Chmura G.L., Dinter T., Kuzyakov Y., de Groot A.V., Esselink P., Smit C., D’Alpaos A., Ibáñez C., Lazarus M., Neumeier U., Johnson B.J., Baldwin A.J., Yarwood S.A., Montemayor D.I., Yang Z., Wu J., Jensen K., Nolte S (2018) Global-change effects on early-stage decompositon processes in tidal wetlands – implications from a global survey using standardized litter. Biogeosciences 15:3189-3202

Lenzewski N., Mueller P., Meier R.J., Liebsch G., Jensen K., Koop-Jakobsen K. (2018) Belowground gas exchange between aquatic plants and sediment – A planar optode study of oxygen and carbon dioxide dynamics in rhizospheres of Lobelia dortmanna. New Phytologist 218:131-141 

Koop-Jakobsen K., Mueller P., Meier R.J., Liebsch G., Jensen K. (2018) Plant-sediment interactions in salt marshes – O₂, pH, and CO₂ gradients in the rhizosphere. Frontiers in Plant Science 9:541

Mueller P., Granse D., Nolte S., Do H.T., Weingartner M., Hoth S., Jensen K. (2017) Top-down control of carbon sequestration: grazing affects microbial structure and function in salt marsh soils. Ecological Applications 27:1435-1450

Mueller P., Jensen K., Megonigal J.P. (2016) Plants mediate soil organic matter decomposition in response to sea level rise. Global Change Biology 22:404-414 

Mueller P., Hager R.N., Meschter J.E., Mozdzer T.J., Langley J.A., Jensen K., Megonigal J.P. (2016) Complex invader-ecosystem interactions and seasonality mediate the impact of non-native Phragmites on CH₄ emissions. Biological Invasions 18:2635-2647

Mozdzer T.J., Langley J.A., Mueller P., Megonigal J.P. (2016) Deep rooting and global change facilitate spread of invasive grass. Biological Invasions 18:2619–2631