Michael Zimmermann

Michael Zimmermann
Status Currently not employed at BOKU

Career

2015 Habilitation in Soil Ecology, BOKU
2011 Senior Scientist, Institute of Soil Research, BOKU, Wien, Austria
2009 - 2011 Senior Research Associate,School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia
2007 - 2009 Research Associate, School of Geosciences, Edinburgh, UK
2004 - 2006 PhD University of Zurich, Agroscope Reckenholz, Switzerland
2002 - 2003 Research assistant at Section for Natural Resources / Environmental Protection in Agriculture; Agroscope ART Reckenholz, Zürich, Switzerland
2001 - 2002 Research assistant at Soil Science Section; University of Bern, Switzerland
1996 - 2001 MSc Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland

Awards

Year: 2015 Awards: AGRANA Forschungspreis

Projects

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Publications

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Presentations

Year: 2016 - How does soil microbial activity recover after a multiyear precipitation manipulation experiment? (Vortrag)

Autoren: Flavia Gonzalez Escolano, Nermina Saronjic, Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern, Michael Zimmermann

Event: 3. Scientific Student Conference 2016 - Bio-Based Economy for a Sustainable Future

Period: 11.11.2016 | Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Year: 2016 - Short-term diffusive soil fluxes of mineral and organic N during severe dry-wet events (Poster)

Autoren: Leitner, S; Minixhofer, P; Inselsbacher, E; Keiblinger, KM; Zimmermann, M; Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S

Event: 1. Rosalia Workshop 2016

Period: 20.10.2016 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2016 - Recovery of forest soil microbial activity after multiyear precipitation manipulation experiment (Poster)

Autoren: Flavia Gonzalez Escolano, Nermina Saronjic, Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern, Michael Zimmermann

Event: 1. Rosalia Workshop 2016

Period: 20.10.2016 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2016 - Moisture sensitivity of soil respiration in the context of extreme dry-wet events (Poster)

Autoren: Leitner, S; Kobler, J; Zimmermann, M; Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S

Event: SOMmic International Workshop on Microbial Contribution and Impact on Soil Organic Matter, Structure and Genesis

Period: 09.11.2016 - 11.11.2016 | Location: Leipzig, Germany
Year: 2015 - How do soil microbial communities react on droughts and heavy rainfall events? (Vortrag)

Autoren: Saronjic, N; Leitner, S; Keiblinger, K; Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S; Zimmermann, M

Event: EGU General Assembly 2015

Period: 12.04.2015 - 17.04.2015 | Location: Austria/Vienna | Location: Vienna, Austria | Organizer: European Geosciences Union (EGU) | Organizer: European Geosciences Union (EGU)
Year: 2015 - Impact of repeated dry-wet cycles on soil CO2 efflux in a beech forest (Poster)

Autoren: Leitner, S; Saronjic, N; Kobler, J; Holtermann, C; Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S; Zimmermann, M

Event: EGU General Assembly 2015

Period: 12.04.2015 - 17.04.2015 | Location: Austria/Vienna | Location: Vienna, Austria | Organizer: European Geosciences Union (EGU) | Organizer: European Geosciences Union (EGU)
Year: 2015 - Rosalia Lehrforst (Poster)

Autoren: Michael ,Zimmermann; Sonja, Leitner; Nermina, Saronjic; Katharina, Keiblinger; Christian, Holtermann; Sophie, Zechmeister-Boltenstern; Josef, Gasch

Event: LTER-Europe conference & workshops 2015

Period: 16.02.2015 - 20.02.2015 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2015 - Response of Soil Respiration to Repeated Extreme Events in a Temperate Beech Forest in Austria (Poster)

Autoren: Leitner, S; Kobler, J; Holtermann, C; Saronjic, N; Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S; Zimmermann, M

Event: American Geophysical Union AGU Fall Meeting 2015

Period: 14.12.2015 - 18.12.2015 | Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Year: 2015 - Impact of manipulation experiments on soil greenhouse gas fluxes at the LTER site „Rosalia Lehrforst“ (Vortrag)

Autoren: Michael. Zimmermann; Sonja, Leitner; Nermina, Saronjic; Sophie, Zechmeister-Boltenstern

Event: LTER-Europe conference & workshops 2015

Period: 16.02.2015 - 20.02.2015 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2015 - Water repellency in an Alpine forest soil and its impact on hydraulic characteristics under simulated climate change (Vortrag)

Autoren: Schwen, A; Zimmermann, M; Lamparter, A; Woche, S

Event: MUSIS Workshop: Interfaces and their role in displacement and transport in unsaturated porous media

Period: 10.03.2015 - 12.03.2015 | Location: Potsdam, Germany
Year: 2015 - Impact of manipulation experiments on soil freenhous gas fluxes at the LTER site Rosalie Lehrforst (Vortrag)

Autoren: Zimmermann, M; Leitner, S; Saronjic, N; Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S

Event: Joint Conference of LTER Europe and EXPEER Related Sites Group

Period: 17.02.2015 - 19.02.2015 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2015 - How do soil microbial communities react on drought and heavy rainfall events? (Poster)

Autoren: Nermina, Saronjic; Sonja, Leitner; Katharina, Keiblinger; Sophie, Zechmeister-Boltenstern; Michael, Zimmermann

Event: EGU General Assembly 2015

Period: 12.04.2015 - 17.04.2015 | Location: Austria/Vienna | Location: Vienna, Austria | Organizer: European Geosciences Union (EGU) | Organizer: European Geosciences Union (EGU)
Year: 2015 - How do soil microbial communities react on droughts and heavy rainfall events? (Poster)

Autoren: Nermina, Saronjic; Sonja, Leitner; Katharina, Keiblinger; Sophie, Zechmeister-Boltenstern; Michael, Zimmermann

Event: Ecology of Soil Microorganisms 2015

Period: 29.11.2015 - 03.12.2015 | Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Year: 2015 - Extreme weather events and soil greenhouse gas fluxes: what do we see by automatic chamber systems? (Poster)

Autoren: Michael, Zimmermann; Sonja, Leitner; Nermina, Saronjic; Sophie, Zechmeister-Boltenstern

Event: Nitrous Oxide Research Alliance NORA Workshop 2015

Period: 10.05.2015 - 13.05.2015 | Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Year: 2015 - Extreme weather events and soil greenhouse gas fluxes: what do we see by automatic chambers? (Vortrag)

Autoren: Zimmermann, M; Leitner, S; Saronjic, N; Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S

Event: NORA ICOS workshop 2015

Period: 10.05.2015 - 13.05.2015 | Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Year: 2014 - Impact of repeated dry-wet cycles on soil greenhouse gas emissions, extracellular enzyme activity and nutrient cycling in a temperate forest (Poster)

Autoren: Leitner, S; Zimmermann, M; Bockholt, J; Schartner, M; Brugner, P; Holtermann, C; Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S

Event: EGU General Assembly 2014

Period: 27.04.2014 - 02.05.2014 | Location: Vienna, Austria | Organizer: European Geosciences Union (EGU) | Organizer: European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014
Year: 2014 - Soil microbial communities and their feedbacks to simulated climate change: comparisons among alpine ecosystems (Vortrag)

Autoren: Djukic, I., Zehetner, F., Gerzabek, M.H., Lair, G., Hell, V.,Niedrist, G., Tappeiner, U., Zimmermann, M., Bird, M.

Event: 5th CASEE Conference 2014 - Healthy Food Production and Environmental Preservation - The Role of Agriculture, Forestry and Applied Biology

Period: 25.05.2014 - 27.05.2014 | Location: Novi Sad, Republic of Serbia | Organizer: ICA-CASEE
Year: 2014 - Impact of repeated dry-wet cycles on soil CO2 efflux and extracellular enzyme activities in a beech forest (Vortrag)

Autoren: Leitner, S; Zimmermann, M; Holtermann, C; Keiblinger, K; Saronjic, N; Zechmeister-Boltenster, S

Event: Annual Confernce of the Austrian Soil Science Society 2014 - Burining Issues in Soil Science

Period: 22.09.2014 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2014 - Impact of dry-wet cycles on soil enzyme activities and CO2 effluxes (Poster)

Autoren: Leitner, S; Kobler, J; Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S; Zimmermann, M

Event: EGU General Assembly 2014

Period: 27.04.2014 - 02.05.2014 | Location: Vienna, Austria | Organizer: European Geosciences Union (EGU) | Organizer: European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014
Year: 2014 - Impact of droughts and heavy rain on greenhouse gas emissions and soil microbial activities in a beech forest (Poster)

Autoren: Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S; Leitner, S; Zimmermann, M

Event: BIOGEOMON, 8th International Symposium on Ecosystem Behaviour

Period: 13.07.2014 - 17.07.2014 | Location: Bayreuth, Germany
Year: 2014 - Effects of temperature and moisture variability on soil CO2 emissions in European land ecosystems (Vortrag)

Autoren: Gritsch, C; Zimmermann, M; Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S

Event: Annual Confernce of the Austrian Soil Science Society 2014 - Burining Issues in Soil Science

Period: 22.09.2014 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2014 - Impact of droughts and heavy rain on greenhouse gas emissions and soil microbial activities (Poster)

Autoren: Leitner, S; Kobler, J; Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S; Zimmermann, M

Event: 8th International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior 2014

Period: 13.07.2014 - 17.07.2014 | Location: Bayreuth, Germany
Year: 2014 - Effects of temperature and moisture on leaf litter emissions in European forest ecosystems (Vortrag)

Autoren: Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern, Christine Gritsch, Michael Zimmermann

Event: ÉCLAIRE 4TH General Assembly AND OPEN SCIENCE CONFERENCE

Period: 29.09.2014 - 02.10.2014 | Location: Budapest, Hungary
Year: 2014 - Impact of droughts and heavy rainfall on soil microbial communities in a beech forest (Vortrag)

Autoren: Saronjic N., Leitner S., Keiblinger K., Zechmeister-Boltenstern S., Zimmermann M.

Event: Annual Confernce of the Austrian Soil Science Society 2014 - Burining Issues in Soil Science

Period: 22.09.2014 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2014 - Water repellency in an Alpine forest soil and its impact on hydraulic characteristics under simulated climate change (Vortrag)

Autoren: Schwen, A; Zimmermann, M; Lamparter, A; Woche, S

Event: EGU General Assembly 2014

Period: 27.04.2014 - 02.05.2014 | Location: Vienna, Austria | Organizer: European Geosciences Union (EGU) | Organizer: European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014
Year: 2014 - IMPACT OF EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS ON PLANT AVAILABLE NITROGEN AND AMINO ACIDS USING MICRODIALYSIS (Poster)

Autoren: Minixhofer, P; Leitner; S; Zimmermann, M

Event: Annual Confernce of the Austrian Soil Science Society 2014 - Burining Issues in Soil Science

Period: 22.09.2014 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2014 - Impact of litter removal on greenhouse gas fluxes, soil nutrients and microbial communities (Poster)

Autoren: Zimmermann, M; Orracha, ST; Kranzinger, L; Leitner, S; Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S

Event: 8th International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior 2014

Period: 13.07.2014 - 17.07.2014 | Location: Bayreuth, Germany
Year: 2014 - IMPACT OF REPEATED DRY-WET CYCLES ON SOIL CO2 EFFLUX AND EXTRACELLULAR ENZYME ACTIVITIES IN A TEMPERATE BEECH FOREST (Poster)

Autoren: Leitner, S; Zimmermann, M; Kobler, J; Holtermann, C; Keiblinger, K; Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S

Event: 1st ClimMani COST action workshop 2014

Period: 12.11.2014 - 14.11.2014 | Location: Aveiro, Portugal
Year: 2014 - Impact of repeated dry-wet cycles on soil CO2 efflux and extracellular enzyme activities in a beech forest (Vortrag)

Autoren: Leitner, S; Zimmermann, M; Holtermann, C; Keiblinger, K; Saronjic, N; Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S

Event: Annual Confernce of the Austrian Soil Science Society 2014 - Burining Issues in Soil Science

Period: 22.09.2014 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2014 - Impact of droughts and heavy rainfall events on soil microbial communities in a beech forest (Poster)

Autoren: Saronjic. N; Leitner, S; Keiblinger, K; Zechmesiter-Boltenstern, S; Zimmermann, M

Event: Annual Confernce of the Austrian Soil Science Society 2014 - Burining Issues in Soil Science

Period: 22.09.2014 | Location: Vienna, Austria
Year: 2013 - Soil microbial communities and their feedbacks to simulated climate change: comparisons among montane ecosystems (Poster)

Autoren: Djukic, I; Zehetner, F; Gerzabek, MH; Lair, GJ; Hell, V; Niedrist, G; Tappeiner, U; Zimmernann, M; Bird, M

Event: EGU General Assembly 2013

Period: 07.04.2013 - 12.04.2013 | Location: Vienna, Austria | Organizer: European Geosciences Union (EGU)
Year: 2013 - Soil warming experiments: bringing the climate to the soil or the soil to the climate? (Vortrag)

Autoren: Zimmermann, M

Event: ClimMani & Interface workshop “Scaling climate change experiments across space and time”

Period: 04.06.2013 - 07.06.2013 | Location: Mikulov, Czech Republic
Year: 2013 - Soil microbial communities and their feedbacks to simulated climate change: comparisons among terrestrial montane ecosystems (Poster)

Autoren: Djukic, I., F. Zehetner, M.H. Gerzabek, G.J. Lair, V. Hell, U. Tappeiner, G. Niedrist, M. Zimmermann, and M.I. Bird

Event: EGU General Assembly 2013

Period: 07.04.2013 - 12.04.2013 | Location: Vienna, Austria | Organizer: European Geosciences Union (EGU)
Year: 2013 - Untersuchung der vertikalen Variabilität hydraulischer Bodeneigenschaften in zwei Bodenprofilen und ihre Relevanz für Simulationen (Vortrag)

Autoren: Schwen, A; Madry, K; Bodner, G; Zimmermann, M

Event: Jahrestagung der Deutschen Bodenkundlichen Gesellschaft 2013

Period: 07.09.2013 - 12.09.2013 | Location: Rostock, Germany
Year: 2012 - Impact of extreme weather events on soil microbial community composition and emissions of climate-relevant gases (Poster)

Autoren: Leitner S., Keiblinger K.M., Zimmermann M. and Zechmeister-Boltenstern S.

Event: CLIMMANI 2012 - Extreme weather conditions and consequences for terrestrial ecosystems

Period: 05.06.2012 - 08.06.2012 | Location: Dubrovnik, Croatia
Year: 2012 - Q10 values of tropical forest soil respiration increases with ongoing decomposition (Poster)

Autoren: Zimmermann, M; Bird, M I; Zechmeister-Boltenstern, S

Event: EGU General Assembly 2012

Period: 22.04.2012 - 27.04.2012 | Location: Vienna, Austria | Organizer: European Geosciences Union (EGU) | Organizer: EGU
Year: 2012 - Comparing greenhouse gas fluxes CO2, CH4 and N2O on a pure beech transect on the basis of two different treatments. (Poster)

Autoren: Kranzinger L., Leitner S., Zimmermann M., Keiblinger K., Zechmeister-Boltenstern S.

Event: ÖBG Soil Science for the future

Period: 19.10.2012 | Location: Tulln an der Donau, Austria

Michael Zimmermann

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Awards

Projects

Publications

Knowledge Transfer to Society

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Presentations

Year: 2016 - How does soil microbial activity recover after a multiyear precipitation manipulation experiment? (Vortrag)

Year: 2016 - Short-term diffusive soil fluxes of mineral and organic N during severe dry-wet events (Poster)

Year: 2016 - Recovery of forest soil microbial activity after multiyear precipitation manipulation experiment (Poster)

Year: 2016 - Moisture sensitivity of soil respiration in the context of extreme dry-wet events (Poster)

Year: 2015 - How do soil microbial communities react on droughts and heavy rainfall events? (Vortrag)

Year: 2015 - Impact of repeated dry-wet cycles on soil CO2 efflux in a beech forest (Poster)

Year: 2015 - Rosalia Lehrforst (Poster)

Year: 2015 - Response of Soil Respiration to Repeated Extreme Events in a Temperate Beech Forest in Austria (Poster)

Year: 2015 - Impact of manipulation experiments on soil greenhouse gas fluxes at the LTER site „Rosalia Lehrforst“ (Vortrag)

Year: 2015 - Water repellency in an Alpine forest soil and its impact on hydraulic characteristics under simulated climate change (Vortrag)

Year: 2015 - Impact of manipulation experiments on soil freenhous gas fluxes at the LTER site Rosalie Lehrforst (Vortrag)

Year: 2015 - How do soil microbial communities react on drought and heavy rainfall events? (Poster)

Year: 2015 - How do soil microbial communities react on droughts and heavy rainfall events? (Poster)

Year: 2015 - Extreme weather events and soil greenhouse gas fluxes: what do we see by automatic chamber systems? (Poster)

Year: 2015 - Extreme weather events and soil greenhouse gas fluxes: what do we see by automatic chambers? (Vortrag)

Year: 2014 - Impact of repeated dry-wet cycles on soil greenhouse gas emissions, extracellular enzyme activity and nutrient cycling in a temperate forest (Poster)

Year: 2014 - Soil microbial communities and their feedbacks to simulated climate change: comparisons among alpine ecosystems (Vortrag)

Year: 2014 - Impact of repeated dry-wet cycles on soil CO2 efflux and extracellular enzyme activities in a beech forest (Vortrag)

Year: 2014 - Impact of dry-wet cycles on soil enzyme activities and CO2 effluxes (Poster)

Year: 2014 - Impact of droughts and heavy rain on greenhouse gas emissions and soil microbial activities in a beech forest (Poster)

Year: 2014 - Effects of temperature and moisture variability on soil CO2 emissions in European land ecosystems (Vortrag)

Year: 2014 - Impact of droughts and heavy rain on greenhouse gas emissions and soil microbial activities (Poster)

Year: 2014 - Effects of temperature and moisture on leaf litter emissions in European forest ecosystems (Vortrag)

Year: 2014 - Impact of droughts and heavy rainfall on soil microbial communities in a beech forest (Vortrag)

Year: 2014 - Water repellency in an Alpine forest soil and its impact on hydraulic characteristics under simulated climate change (Vortrag)

Year: 2014 - IMPACT OF EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS ON PLANT AVAILABLE NITROGEN AND AMINO ACIDS USING MICRODIALYSIS (Poster)

Year: 2014 - Impact of litter removal on greenhouse gas fluxes, soil nutrients and microbial communities (Poster)

Year: 2014 - IMPACT OF REPEATED DRY-WET CYCLES ON SOIL CO2 EFFLUX AND EXTRACELLULAR ENZYME ACTIVITIES IN A TEMPERATE BEECH FOREST (Poster)

Year: 2014 - Impact of repeated dry-wet cycles on soil CO2 efflux and extracellular enzyme activities in a beech forest (Vortrag)

Year: 2014 - Impact of droughts and heavy rainfall events on soil microbial communities in a beech forest (Poster)

Year: 2013 - Soil microbial communities and their feedbacks to simulated climate change: comparisons among montane ecosystems (Poster)

Year: 2013 - Soil warming experiments: bringing the climate to the soil or the soil to the climate? (Vortrag)

Year: 2013 - Soil microbial communities and their feedbacks to simulated climate change: comparisons among terrestrial montane ecosystems (Poster)

Year: 2013 - Untersuchung der vertikalen Variabilität hydraulischer Bodeneigenschaften in zwei Bodenprofilen und ihre Relevanz für Simulationen (Vortrag)

Year: 2012 - Impact of extreme weather events on soil microbial community composition and emissions of climate-relevant gases (Poster)

Year: 2012 - Q10 values of tropical forest soil respiration increases with ongoing decomposition (Poster)

Year: 2012 - Comparing greenhouse gas fluxes CO2, CH4 and N2O on a pure beech transect on the basis of two different treatments. (Poster)

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