Anke Hildebrandt
Anke Hildebrandt
Image: Sebastian Wiedling (UFZ)Office
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Institute of Geoscience
Burgweg 11 / H 209
07749 Jena / Germany
anke.hildebrandt@uni-jena.de
+49 3641 9-48720
Secretary
Christina Mohr
Burgweg 11 / H 206
Office times:
Monday, Wednesday and Thursday: 09:00-12:00
christina.mohr@uni-jena.de
+49 3641 9-48661
Joint appointed professorship with the
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Dept. Computational HydrosystemsExternal link
Permoser Str. 13 (Building 7.1, top floor)
04318 Leipzig / Germany
+49 341 235-482238
Research activity
I study how the terrestrial water cycle and vegetation mutually affect each other. Currently, I work on the following topics:
- Interrelation between ecosystem structure and vertical water flow - from the top of the canopy to the bottom of the rooting zone
- Interpretation of soil moisture patterns and relation to root water uptake and soil water flow
- Redistribution and confluence of precipitation in vegetation canopies and how it affects soil processes
- Effect of vegetation structure on soil hydraulic properties and potential effects on soil water fluxes
- Understanding where roots take up water, why, and whether this affects transpiration and soil water dynamics at the regional scale
- Optimality of root water uptake
Most of my work targets the plot scale, since this is the typical scale of interaction between human and the environment. However, the scale of the models and experiments ranges from the pore and plant individual to the plot and ecosystem scale.
Biography
2000
Engineer for Water Resources Management, Technical University Dresden (Germany), with Diploma thesis on salinization due to irrigation in the Murrumbidgee / Darling Basin, prepared externally at ETH Zurich
2005
PhD in Hydrology, MIT, Cambridge (USA), thesis on the Ecohydrology of a Seasonal Cloud Forest in Oman
2005 – 2010
Scientist and Group leader at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Group Ecohydrology
2010
Junior Professor for Ecological Modelling at the Friedrich Schiller Universtiy Jena
since 2018
Joint professorship between the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ in the field of Terrestrial Ecohydrology.
Selected Publications
*Demir, G, A Guswa, *J Filipzik, *JC Metzger, C Römermann, A Hildebrandt. 2024. Root water uptake patterns are controlled by tree species interactions and soil water variabilityExternal link. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 28, 1441–1461, doi: 10.5194/hess-28-1441-2024.
*Westermann, S, A Hildebrandt, S Bousetta, S Thober. 2024. Does dynamically modelled leaf area improve predictions of land surface water and carbon fluxes? – Insights into dynamic vegetation modules.External link Biogeosciences 21, 5277-5303. doi: 10.5194/bg-21-5277-2024.
*Fischer, C, *JC Metzger, T Wutzler, *G Demir, A Hildebrandt. 2023. Throughfall spatial patterns translate into spatial patterns of soil moisture dynamics – empirical evidence.External linkHydrology and Earth System Sciences 27, 2899-2023. doi: 10.5194/hess-27-2899-2023
*Demir, G, B Michalzik, *J Filipzik, *JC Metzger and A Hildebrandt. 2022. Spatial variation of grassland canopy affects soil wetting patterns and preferential flowExternal link. Hydrological Processes. 36(12), e14760, doi: 10.1002/hyp.14760.
*Metzger, JC, J Filipzik, B Michalzik, A Hildebrandt, A. 2021. Stemflow infiltration hotspots create soil microsites near tree stems in an unmanaged mixed beech forestExternal link. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 4: 701294. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2021.701293.
*Fischer, C., S. Leimer, C. Roscher, J. Ravenek, H. de Kroon, Y. Kreutziger, J. Baade, H. Beßler, N. Eisenhauer, A. Weigelt, L. Mommer, M. Lange, G. Gleixner, W. Wilcke, B. Schröder, A. Hildebrandt: Plant species richness and functional groups have different effects on soil water content in a decade-long grassland experimentExternal link. Journal of Ecology, 2018. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13046.
*Guderle, M., D. Bachmann, A. Milcu, A. Gockele, *M. Bechmann, *C. Fischer, C. Roscher, D. Landais, O. Ravel, S. Devidal, J. Roy, A. Gessler, N. Buchmann, A. Hildebrandt: Dynamic niche partitioning in root water uptake facilitates efficient water use in more diverse plant communitiesExternal link. Functional Ecology, 2018. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12948.
*Metzger, J., N. Dalla Valle, T. Wutzler, J. Filipzik, R. Lehmann, M. Roggenbuck, D. Schelhorn, J. Weckmüller, K. Küsel, K.U. Totsche, S. Trumbore, A. Hildebrandt: Vegetation impacts soil water content patterns by shaping canopy water fluxes and soil properties.External link Hydrological Processes 31:3783-3795, 2017. doi: 10.1002/hyp.11274.
Hildebrandt, A., A. Kleidon and *M. Bechmann: A thermodynamic fomulation of root water uptakeExternal link. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 20:3441-3454, 2016. doi: 10.51947hess-20-3441-2016.
Hildebrandt, A. and E. A. B. Eltahir: Forest on the edge: Seasonal cloud forest in Oman creates its own ecological nicheExternal link. Geophysical Research Letters 33:2-5, 2006. doi: 10.1029/2006GL026022.