Publications of R. Ji

Ngugi, D. K., Ji, R. and Brune, A.: (2011) Nitrogen mineralization, denitrification, and nitrate ammonification by soil-feeding termites: a N-15-based approach, Biogeochemistry, DORDRECHT, SPRINGER, 103 (1-3), pp. 355–369.

Shan, J., Brune, A. and Ji, R.: (2010) Selective digestion of the proteinaceous component of humic substances by the geophagous earthworms Metaphire guillelmi and Amynthas corrugatus, Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 42 (9), pp. 1455–1462.

Boga, H., Ji, R., Ludwig, W. and Brune, A.: (2007) Sporotalea propionica gen. nov. sp. nov., a hydrogen-oxidizing, oxygen-reducing, propionigenic firmicute from the intestinal tract of a soil-feeding termite, Archives of Microbiology, 187, pp. 15–27.

Ji, Rong and Brune, Andreas: (2006) Nitrogen mineralization, ammonia accumulation, and emission of gaseous NH3 by soil-feeding termites, Biogeochemistry, 78, pp. 267–283.

Li, X., Ji, R., Schäffer, A. and Brune, A.: (2006) Mobilization of soil phosphorus during passage through the gut of larvae of Pachnoda ephippiata (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), Plant Soil, 288, pp. 263–270.

Ji, R., Chen, Z., Corvini, P, Kappler, A., Brune, A., Haider, K. and Schäffer, A.: (2005) Synthesis of ¹³ C and ¹⁴ C-labeled phenolic humus and lignin monomers, Chemosphere, 60, September, pp. 1169–1181.

Ji, R. and Brune, A.: (2005) Digestion of peptidic residues in humic substances by an alkali-stable and humic-acid-tolerant proteolytic activity in the gut of soil-feeding termites, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 37, pp. 1648–1655.