Publications
My research articles are published in high ranking international journals. Below you can find them listed in categories regarding the extreme habitats. Clicking on the links will redirect you to the websites of the articles where you can download them. Most of my articles have open access.
The forgotten World of Stones and Camanchaca:
the Atacama Desert
Jung, P., Baumann, K., Lehnert, L. W., … Büdel, B. (2019). Desert breath—How fog promotes a novel type of soil biocenosis, forming the coastal Atacama Desert’s living skin. Geobiology; cover image Issue Jan 2020
Jung, P., Emrich, D., Briegel‐Williams, L., Schermer, M., Weber, L., Baumann, K., ... & Bendix, J. (2019). Ecophysiology and phylogeny of new terricolous and epiphytic chlorolichens in a fog oasis of the Atacama Desert. MicrobiologyOpen, e894.
Jung, P., Schermer, M., Baumann, K., … Büdel, B. (2019). Water availability shapes edaphic and lithic cyanobacterial communities in the Atacama Desert. Journal of Phycology.
Bernhard, N., Moskwa, L. M., Schmidt, K., Oeser, R. A., Aburto, F., Bader, M. Y., Jung, P. ... & Brucker, E. (2018). Pedogenic and microbial interrelations to regional climate and local topography: New insights from a climate gradient (arid to humid) along the Coastal Cordillera of Chile. Catena, 170, 335-355.
Lehnert, L. W., Thies, B., Trachte, K., Achilles, S., Osses, P., Baumann, K., Jung, P. ... & Karsten, U. (2018). A Case Study on Fog/Low Stratus Occurrence at Las Lomitas, Atacama Desert (Chile) as a Water Source for Biological Soil Crusts. Aerosol Air Qual. Res, 18, 254-269.
Lehnert, L. W., Jung, P., Obermeier, W. A., Büdel, B., & Bendix, J. (2018). Estimating Net Photosynthesis of Biological Soil Crusts in the Atacama Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing. Remote Sensing, 10(6).
Baumann, K., Jung, P., Samolov, E., Lehnert, L. W., Büdel, B., Karsten, U., ... & Oses, R. (2018). Biological soil crusts along a climatic gradient in Chile: richness and imprints of phototrophic microorganisms in phosphorus biogeochemical cycling. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 127, 286-300.
Where Ice rules: Arctic, Antarctica and European Alps
Jung, P., Briegel-Williams, L., Simon, A., Thyssen, A., & Büdel, B. (2018) Uncovering biological soil crusts: carbon content and structure of intact Arctic Antarctic and alpine biological soil crusts. Biogeosciences, 15(4):1149–1160, feb 2018. doi: 10.5194/bg-15-1149-2018.
Jung, P., Briegel‐Williams, L., Schermer, M., & Büdel, B. (2019). Strong in combination: Polyphasic approach enhances arguments for cold‐assigned cyanobacterial endemism. MicrobiologyOpen, 8(5), e00729.
Rippin, M., Borchhardt, N., Williams, L., Colesie, C., Jung, P., Büdel, B., ... & Becker, B. (2018). Genus richness of microalgae and Cyanobacteria in biological soil crusts from Svalbard and Livingston Island: morphological versus molecular approaches. Polar Biology, 41(5), 909-923.
Williams, L., Jung, P., Zheng, L. J., Maier, S., Peer, T., Grube, M., ... & Büdel, B. (2018). Assessing recovery of biological soil crusts across a latitudinal gradient in Western Europe. Restoration Ecology, 26(3), 543-554.
Keeping connected: Comics, Poster, Talks and Public Relations
Press: Scinexx featured my research article Verborgenes Leben im Wüstenkies
Press: Science Newsfeed featured my research article: A newly found Atacama Desert soil community survives on sips of fog
Press: University of Applied Sciences Kaiserslautern about my start at the institution
Press: TU Kaiserslautern (German/English) about the grit crust in the Atacama Desert Mikrooorganismen bedecken ganze Landschaften
Video: Chilean TV news featured my research in the Atacama Desert: Descubren microorganismos en Pan de Azúcar que podrían sobrevivir en otros planetas
Press: Chilean article about our research in the Atacama Desert: Organismos descubiertos en el desierto de Atacama podrían servir para colonizar otros planetas
Press: Chilean newspaper for the Atacama region: Section I, Section II
Press: local Newspaper (Nahezeitung Birkenfeld), Article about my discovery of new lichens in the Atacama Desert, (contact me for full access)
Press: Unispectrum, online magazine of TU Kaiserslautern, Article about my trips to the Atacama Desert
Press: News Feed TU Kaiserslautern, Article about a research paper on lichens from the Atacama Desert
Press: Der Standard, Newspaper; Article about a research paper on lichens from the Atacama Desert
Comic: Uncovering the Earth’s skin. Journal of Sketching Science. 2018
Talk: Catching Fog: how undiscovered cryptic life thrives on fog in the Atacama Desert. Young Research Symposium (2018), Fraunhofer Institute Kaiserslautern
Poster: Lichen Diversity of the National Park Pan de Azucar, Chile (2019)
Poster: Ecophysiology & Structure: Epiphytic versus Crustose Lichens of the Atacama Fog Desert. EarthShape - Internal meeting at Tübingen, Germany 2017.
Visions
Currently I am working on several projects that will lead to publications.
-Description of three new cyanobacterial species of the genera Aliterella, Cyanocohniella and Oculatella.
-Detecting carbonatization induced by cyanobacteria from algal beach mats of Schierrmonnikoog Island.
-Description of a bio-weathering scenario mediated by lichens, fungi, cyanobacteria and green algae in the Atacama Desert.
-Meta-barcoding of a cryptogamic ground cover in the Atacama Desert made of lichens, algae and cyanobacteria.
