Tasks and fields of research

• Investigation and evaluation of the effect of agricultural management practices (e.g. soil management, crop rotation, undersown crops) as well as plant protection products, biostimulants, and contaminants (e.g. heavy metals, microplastics) on the ecological performance of soil microorganisms
• Assessing the diversity of microbial communities in different agricultural systems (e.g. agroforestry, intercropping, mixed cropping, grassland)
• Establishment and development of new methods to investigate the composition, abundance, and function of soil microbial communities (archaea, bacteria, fungi)
• Combining functional and molecular methods to investigate the effect of the soil microbiome on crops
• Linking soil microbial data to soil processes (e.g. greenhouse gas emissions)
• Development of bioinformatics tools for the analysis of microbiome data

Memberships and Boards

• Lifetime PeerJ Membership
• Reviewer for the following journals:
  • Agronomy
  • Biology
  • FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • Forests
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
  • Microorganisms
  • PeerJ
  • Plant and Soil
  • PLoS One
  • Sustainability

Publications
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lukas-Beule

Publications in the Julius Kühn-Institut