Marleen de Blécourt, Ph.D.
Photo: UHH, RRZ/MCC, Mentz
Postdoc in the project SASSCAL
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Curriculum Vitae
| Since 2014 | Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Soil Science, Universität Hamburg, project SASSCAL |
| 2010 – 2014 | PhD student, Soil Science of Tropical and Subtropical Ecosystems, Büsgen Institut, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany |
| 2009 | Researcher, Alterra – Wageningen UR, The Netherlands |
| 2004 - 2007 | MSc Soil Science, Wageningen University, The Netherlands |
| 2000 - 2004 | BSc Forest and Nature conservation, Wageningen University, The Netherlands |
Research Focuses
- Impacts of bush encroachment and de-bushing activities on the ecosystem water balance in savannah ecosystems in southern Africa (Project SASSCAL)
- Impacts of land use and land-use changes on soil fertility and soil carbon dynamics
Publications
de Blécourt, M. (2015) Impacts of land use and biophysical properties on soil carbon stocks in southern Yunnan, China. Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 104 pp. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-1735-0000-0022-5D93-D
Roeder, M., McLeish, M., Beckschäfer, P., de Blécourt, M., Paudel, E., Harrison, R. D., Slik, F. (2015) Phylogenetic clustering increases with succession for lianas in a Chinese tropical montane rain forest. Ecography 38, 001-010. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.01051
de Blécourt, M., V. M. Hänsel, R. Brumme, M. D. Corre, E. Veldkamp (2014) Soil redistribution by terracing alleviates soil organic carbon losses caused by forest conversion to rubber plantation. Forest Ecology and Management 313: 26-33. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.10.043
Yang, C., Wang, X., Miller, J. A., de Blécourt, M., Ji, Y., Yang, C., Harrison, R. D., Yu, D. W. (2014) Using metabarcoding to ask if easily collected soil and leaf-litter samples can be used as a general biodiversity indicator. Ecological Indicators 46: 379-389. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.06.028
de Blécourt, M., R. Brumme, J. Xu, M. D. Corre, E. Veldkamp (2013) Soil carbon stocks decrease following conversion of secondary forests to rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) plantations. PLoS ONE 8(7): e69357. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0069357
de Blécourt, M., Lahr, J., van den Brink, P. J. (2010) Pesticide use in cotton in Australia, Brazil, India, Turkey and USA. Alterra Research report (SEEP document ), 144 pp.