Dr. agr. Anke Günther

 Researcher, PostDoc

 

Dr. Anke Günther has been a researcher at the Landscape Ecology Group since June 2023. From 2010 until 2021 she had been part of the team before, working in a number of projects concerning greenhouse gas emissions of (rewetted) peatlands as well as the influence of site-adapted vegetation (e.g. under paludiculture).

 

Contact:

  • University of Rostock
  • Landscape Ecology
  • Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
  • Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 6
  • 18059 Rostock
  • Office: LAGIII / Room 14
  • +49 381 498 3225
  • anke.guenther(at)uni-rostock.de

 

Projekte:

WETSCAPES – Element cycling processes processes at peatland and coastal sites as a basis for land use, climate impact and water protection (2017 – 2021, Excellence Initiative of the Federal State Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)

OptiMoor - Testing and development for optimization of raised bog restoration on previously agriculturally used sites to increase biodiversity and carbon storage (2016 – 2021, BfN / N-Bank)

VIP - Interdisciplinary research project on the revitalization and rewetting of pre-drained fens in Western Pomerania (2010-2013, BMBF)

 

Education

10/2010 – 07/2015       University of Rostock, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
PhD
Thesis title: “Greenhouse gas exchange and its relation to emergent vegetation in a temperate fen“

10/2004 – 07/2010       University of Rostock, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Diplom Biology
Thesis title: „Uptake and transport of prey-derived 13C in Utricularia“

 

Publications

 

  • Daun C, Huth V, Gaudig G, Günther A, Krebs M, Jurasinski G (2023) Full-cycle greenhouse gas balance of a Sphagnum paludiculture site on former bog grassland in Germany. Science of The Total Environment, 877, 162943. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162943
  • Wang H, Jurasinski G, Täumer J, Kuß A W, Groß V, Köhn D, Günther A, Urich T (2023) Linking Transcriptional Dynamics of Peat Microbiomes to Methane Fluxes during a Summer Drought in Two Rewetted Fens. Environmental Science & Technology, 57(12), 5089–5101. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c07461
  • Ahmad S, Liu H, Alam S, Günther A, Jurasinski G, Lennartz B (2021) Meteorological Controls on Water Table Dynamics in Fen Peatlands Depend on Management Regimes. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, 630469. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.630469
  • Huth V, Günther A, Bartel A, Gutekunst C, Heinze S, Hofer B, Jacobs O, Koebsch F, Rosinski E, Tonn C, Ullrich K, Jurasinski G (2021) The climate benefits of topsoil removal and Sphagnum introduction in raised bog restoration. Restoration Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13490
  • Köhn D, Günther A, Schwabe I, Jurasinski G (2021) Short–lived peaks of stem methane emissions from mature black alder ( Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn.) – Irrelevant for ecosystem methane budgets? Plant-Environment Interactions. https://doi.org/10.1002/pei3.10037
  • Köhn D, Welpelo C, Günther A, Jurasinski G (2021) Drainage Ditches Contribute Considerably to the CH4 Budget of a Drained and a Rewetted Temperate Fen. Wetlands, 41, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-021-01465-y
  • Rosinski E, Bartel A, Günther A, Heinze S, Hofer B, Jurasinski G, Söchting H-P, Ullrich K, Huth V (2021) Wiederherstellung von Hochmoorbiotopen nach intensiver Grünlandnutzung - drei Jahre Vegetationsentwicklung im Feldversuch OptiMoor. Natur Und Landschaft, 2021(4), 192–201. https://doi.org/10.17433/4.2021.50153901.192-201
  • Tanneberger F, Abel S, Couwenberg J, Dahms T, Gaudig G, Günther A, Kreyling J, Peters J, Pongratz J, Joosten H (2021) Towards net zero CO2 in 2050: An emission reduction pathway for organic soils in Germany. Mires and Peat, 27, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.19189/MaP.2020.SNPG.StA.1951
  • Wang H, Weil M, Dumack K, Zak D, Münch D, Günther A, Jurasinski G, Blume-Werry G, Kreyling J, Urich T (2021) Eukaryotic rather than prokaryotic microbiomes change over seasons in rewetted fen peatlands. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, fiab121. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiab121
  • Ahmad S, Liu H, Günther A, Couwenberg J, Lennartz B (2020) Long-term rewetting of degraded peatlands restores hydrological buffer function. Science of The Total Environment, 141571. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141571
  • Günther A, Barthelmes A, Huth V, Joosten H, Jurasinski G, Koebsch F, Couwenberg J (2020) Prompt rewetting of drained peatlands reduces climate warming despite methane emissions. Nature Communications, 11(1), 1644. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15499-z
  • Huth V, Günther A, Bartel A, Hofer B, Jacobs O, Jantz N, Meister M, Rosinski E, Urich T, Weil M, Zak D, Jurasinski G (2020) Topsoil removal reduced in-situ methane emissions in a temperate rewetted bog grassland by a hundredfold. Science of the Total Environment, 721, 137763. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137763
  • Jurasinski G, Ahmad S, Anadon-Rosell A, Berendt J, Beyer F, Bill R, Blume-Werry G, Couwenberg J, Günther A, Joosten H, Koebsch F, Köhn D, Koldrack N, Kreyling J, Leinweber P, Lennartz B, Liu H, Michaelis D, Mrotzek A, … Wrage-Mönnig N (2020) From understanding to sustainable use of peatlands: The WETSCAPES approach. Soil Systems, 4(14). https://doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems4010014
  • Mrotzek A, Michaelis D, Günther A, Wrage-Mönnig N, Couwenberg J (2020) Mass Balances of a Drained and a Rewetted Peatland: on Former Losses and Recent Gains. Soil Systems, 4(1), 16. https://doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems4010016
  • Weil M, Wang H, Bengtsson M, Köhn D, Günther A, Jurasinski G, Couwenberg J, Negassa W, Zak D, Urich T (2020) Long-Term Rewetting of Three Formerly Drained Peatlands Drives Congruent Compositional Changes in Pro- and Eukaryotic Soil Microbiomes through Environmental Filtering. Microorganisms, 8(4). https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8040550
  • Huth V, Bartel A, Günther A, Heinze S, Hofer B, Jantz N, Rosinski E, Rudolph J, Schikora H-B, Söchting H-P, Ullrich K, Jurasinski G (2019) Feldversuch “Optimoor” - Erprobung und Entwicklung der Optimierung von Hochmoor-Sanierung auf landwirtschaftlich genutzten Standorten. Telma, 49, 71–88. https://doi.org/10.23689/fidgeo-3667
  • Günther A, Böther S, Couwenberg J, Hüttel S, Jurasinski G (2018) Profitability of direct greenhouse gas measurements in carbon credit schemes of peatland rewetting. Ecological Economics, 146, 766–771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.12.025
  • Jungkunst H F, Meurer K H E, Jurasinski G, Niehaus E, Günther A (2018) How to best address spatial and temporal variability of soil-derived nitrous oxide and methane emissions. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 343(3), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.201700607
  • Günther A, Jurasinski G, Albrecht K, Gaudig G, Krebs M, Glatzel S (2017) Greenhouse gas balance of an establishing Sphagnum culture on a former bog grassland in Germany. Mires and Peat, 20(2), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.19189/MaP.2015.OMB.210
  • Huth V, Vaidya S, Hoffmann M, Jurisch N, Günther A, Gundlach L, Hagemann U, Elsgaard L, Augustin J (2017) Divergent NEE balances from manual-chamber CO2 fluxes linked to different measurement and gap-filling strategies: A source for uncertainty of estimated terrestrial C sources and sinks? Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 180(3), 302–315. https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.201600493
  • Koch M, Schröder B, Günther A, Albrecht K, Pivarci R, Jurasinski G (2017) Taxonomic and functional vegetation changes after shifting management from traditional herding to fenced grazing in temperate grassland communities. Applied Vegetation Science, 20(2), 259–270. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12287
  • Jurasinski G, Günther A, Huth V, Couwenberg J, Glatzel S (2016) Greenhouse gas emissionsIn W. Wichtmann, C. Schröder, & H. Joosten (Eds.), Paludiculture – productive use of wet peatlands (pp. 79–93). Schweizerbart Science Publishers.
  • Günther A, Huth V, Jurasinski G, Glatzel S (2015) The effect of biomass harvesting on greenhouse gas emissions from a rewetted temperate fen. Global Change Biology Bioenergy, 7(5), 1092–1106. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12214
  • Günther A, Huth V, Jurasinski G, Glatzel S (2014) Scale-dependent temporal variation in determining the methane balance of a temperate fen. Greenhouse Gas Measurement and Management, 4(1), 41–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/20430779.2013.850395
  • Günther A, Jurasinski G, Huth V, Glatzel S (2014) Opaque closed chambers underestimate methane fluxes of Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 186(4), 2151–2158. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-013-3524-5
  • Huth V, Günther A, Jurasinski G, Glatzel S (2013) The effect of an exceptionally wet summer on methane effluxes from a 15-year re-wetted fen in north-east Germany. Mires and Peat, 13, 1–7.