Division of Agronomy

postdoctoral research fellow

Research Interests


  • Functional diversity of mycorrhizal fungi, including nutrient transfer and trophic interactions with soil food web
  • Intra- and interspecific competition
  • Root research methods
  • Biodiversity
  • Phylogenetic and functional diversity



Publications

Verena Eissfeller, Friderike Beyer, Kerttu Valtanen, Dietrich Hertel, Mark Maraun, Andrea Polle, Stefan Scheu (2013) Incorporation of plant carbon and microbial nitrogen into the rhizosphere food web of beech and ash. Soil Biology and Biochemistry (62) 76–81.

Simone Cesarz, Ann-Cathrin Fender, Friderike Beyer, Kerttu Valtanen, Birgit Pfeiffer, Dirk Gansert, Dietrich Hertel, Andrea Polle, Rolf Daniel and Stefan Scheu (2013) Beech promotes carbon loss when subjected to high quality litter. Soil Biology and Biochemistry (61) 23–32.

Ann-Catrin Fender, Dirk Gansert, Hermann F Jungkunst, Sabine Fiedler, Friderike Beyer, Klaus Schützenmeister, Björn Thiele, Kerttu Valtanen, Andrea Polle, Christoph Leuschner (2013) Tree species effects on the source/sink strength for greenhouse gases (CH4, N2O and CO2) of a temperate deciduous forest soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry (57) 587–597.

Christine Druebert, Christa Lang, Kerttu Valtanen, Andrea Polle (2009). Beech carbon productivity as driver of ectomycorrhizal abundance and diversity. Plant, Cell and Environment (32) 992–1003.



Presentations

Kerttu Valtanen, Verena Eissfeller, Friderike Beyer, Dietrich Hertel, Stefan Scheu, Andrea Polle (2011) Ectomycorrhiza – a link between the above and belowground food web. Poster 42. International Scientific Conference “Functions and Services of Biodiversity”, Göttingen, Germany (20–22.06).

Kerttu Valtanen, Verena Eissfeller, Friderike Beyer, Dietrich Hertel, Stefan Scheu, Andrea Polle (2011) Ectomycorrhiza as link between trees (Fagus sylvatica) and the belowground food web. Poster 19. 12th EEF Congress Ávila, Spanien (25–29.09).

Kerttu Valtanen, Andrea Polle (2010) Funktionelle Diversität von Mykorrhizagesellschaften: Der Einfluss von Stickstoff auf die Bildung von Mykorrhiza. Poster s. 177. Forstwissenschaftliche Tagung, Göttingen, Germany (22.–24.09).

Kerttu Valtanen, Marjaana Hakkinen, Rauni Kivistö, Marja-Liisa Hänninen (2007). Analysis of Multi Locus Sequence Types (MLST) among Finnish bovine Campylobacter jejuni isolates. Poster, CHRO2007 International Workshop on Campylobacter, Helicobacter and Related Organisms, Rotterdam, Netherlands (02.–05.09).

Rauni Kivistö, Marjaana Hakkinen, Kerttu Valtanen, Marja-Liisa Hänninen (2007). Effect of Efflux Pump Activators and Inhibitors on Antimicrobial Resistance of Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli Poster, CHRO2007, International Workshop on Campylobacter, Helicobacter and Related Organisms, Rotterdam, Netherlands (02.–05.09).


Curriculum vitae

2013 - Research associate at the Department of Crop Sciences, Agronomy, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany

2008 - 2012 PhD Study at the Department of Forest botany and plant physiology within the Cluster of Excellence “Functional Biodiversity Research”, University of Göttingen, Germany

2006 – 2008 Research associate at the Institute for Food and Environmental hygiene within the “Campylobacter-Multilocus sequence typing“ project , University of Helsinki, Finland

1999 – 2006 Diploma studies in biology at the University of Kassel, Germany