Dr. Denis Mburu Njoroge

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Position: Postdoctoral researcher

Contact:

Tel.: +49 (0) 351 - 463 31366

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Visisting adress: Cotta-Bau, 1. floor, room 1.13 map of Tharandt, Cotta-Bau
 

Postal adress: Postfach 1117, 01735 Tharandt

Parcels: TU Dresden, Professur für Forstzoologie, Pienner Straße 7, D-01737 Tharandt

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6556-2843

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xWupwNoAAAAJ&hl=en

Field of Work and Research Interests:
Nutrients and carbon cycling in forests
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

Projects: BIOCOMP - Consequences of global biodiversity loss and climate change for decomposer communities and implications for forest carbon fluxes

Selected Publications:

Njoroge, D. M., Chen, S. C., Zuo, J., Dossa, G. G. O., & Cornelissen, J. H. C. (2022). Soil fauna accelerate litter mixture decomposition globally, especially in dry environments. Journal of Ecology, 110(3), 659–672. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13829

Njoroge, D. M., Dossa, G. G. O., Schaefer, D., Zuo, J., Ulyshen, M. D., Seibold, S., Zanne, A. E., Oberle, B., Harrison, R. D., Liu, S., Li, X., Birkemoe, T., Taylor, M. K., Burton, P. J., Lindenmayer, D. B., Kouki, J., Adhikari, Y., & Cornelissen, J. H. C. (2025). The effects of invertebrates on wood decomposition across the world. Biological Reviews, 100, 158–171. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13134

Njoroge, D. M., Dossa, G. G. O., Ye, L., Lin, X., Schaefer, D., Tomlinson, K., Zuo, J., & Cornelissen, J. H. C. (2023). Fauna access outweighs litter mixture effect during leaf litter decomposition. Science of the Total Environment, 860, 160190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160190

Ochola, A. C., Njoroge, D. M., Shao, X. L., Gituru, R. W., Wang, Q. F., & Yang, C. F. (2025). Global meta-analysis shows an indispensable role of pollinator diversity in promoting fruit quality. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2025.109829

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