List of works - Jens Leifeld

A comparison of two methods for the isolation of free and occluded particulate organic matter

A new facet of soil organic matter

article

Age and Thermal Stability of Particulate Organic Matter Fractions Indicate the Presence of Black Carbon in Soil

article

Amount and stability of recent and aged plant residues in degrading peatland soils

scientific article published in 2017

Analyzing the degree of organic matter transformation of rewetted European peatlands in the context of their greenhouse gas emission potential

conference paper presented et EGU2023

Anthropogenic perturbation of the carbon fluxes from land to ocean

Below ground carbon inputs to soil via root biomass and rhizodeposition of field-grown maize and wheat at harvest are independent of net primary productivity

article by Juliane Hirte et al published October 2018 in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

Belowground plant allocation regulates rice methane emissions from degraded peat soils

scientific article published in 2024

Biased 14C-derived organic carbon turnover estimates following black carbon input to soil: an exploration with RothC

scientific article published in 2008

Bioavailability and isotopic composition of CO2 released from incubated soil organic matter fractions

article

Biochar affects community composition of nitrous oxide reducers in a field experiment

article published in 2018

Biochar and short-term N2O and CO2 emission from plant residue-amended soil with different fertilisation history

scholarly article

Biogeochemical indicators of peatland degradation – a case study of a temperate bog in northern Germany

article

Biological activity and organic matter mineralization of soils amended with biowaste composts

Biological residues define the ice nucleation properties of soil dust

scholarly article

Calculating carbon changes in peat soils drained for forestry with four different profile-based methods

scientific article published in 2016

Can composition and physical protection of soil organic matter explain soil respiration temperature sensitivity?

article

Carbohydrates and thermal properties indicate a decrease in stable aggregate carbon following forest colonization of mountain grassland

scholarly article by Claudia Guidi et al published July 2015 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Carbon budget response of an agriculturally used fen to different soil moisture conditions

scientific article published in 2021

Carbon farming: Climate change mitigation via non-permanent carbon sinks

Carbon storage in agricultural topsoils and subsoils is promoted by including temporary grasslands into the crop rotation

scientific article published in 2022

Characterizing ecosystem-driven chemical composition differences in natural and drained Finnish bogs using pyrolysis-GC/MS

scientific article published in 2022

Chemical and microbial activation energies of soil organic matter decomposition

article

Consequences of planned afforestation versus natural forest regrowth after disturbance for soil C stocks in Eastern European mountains

scientific article published in 2017

Control of soil pH on turnover of belowground organic matter in subalpine grassland

Current approaches neglect possible agricultural cutback under large-scale organic farming. A comment to Ponisio et al.

scientific article published in February 2016

Degradation changes stable carbon isotope depth profiles in palsa peatlands

scientific article published in 2014

Designing biochar properties through the blending of biomass feedstock with metals: Impact on oxyanions adsorption behavior

Distribution of nitrous oxide emissions from managed organic soils under different land uses estimated by the peat C/N ratio to improve national GHG inventories

article

Dynamic stability of mineral-associated organic matter: enhanced stability and turnover through organic fertilization in a temperate agricultural topsoil

scientific article published in 2023

Effect of biochar and liming on soil nitrous oxide emissions from a temperate maize cropping system

Effects of Land-Use Change on Carbon Stocks in Switzerland

article

Effects of climate and management intensity on nitrous oxide emissions in grassland systems across Europe

article by C.R. Flechard et al published June 2007 in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink

scientific article

Formation and decay of peat bogs in the vegetable belt of Switzerland

scientific article published in 2021

Free and protected soil organic carbon dynamics respond differently to abandonment of mountain grassland

article

Intact and managed peatland soils as a source and sink of GHGs from 1850 to 2100

scientific article published on 11 November 2019

Investigating the influence of instrumental parameters and chemical composition on pyrolysis efficiency of peat

scientific article published in 2020

Land use-driven historical soil carbon losses in Swiss peatlands

scientific article published in 2019

Land-Use Change Effects on Soil Carbon Stocks in Temperate Regions - Development of Carbon Response Functions

article

Land-use change in subalpine grassland soils: Effect on particulate organic carbon fractions and aggregation

article

Loss of soil organic carbon in Swiss long-term agricultural experiments over a wide range of management practices

scholarly article

Maize and wheat root biomass, vertical distribution, and size class as affected by fertilization intensity in two long-term field trials

scholarly article by Juliane Hirte et al published February 2018 in Field Crops Research

Measured soil organic matter fractions can be related to pools in the RothC model

Scholarly article, 2007

Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from rice grown on organic soils in the temperate zone

scientific article published in 2023

Methodological considerations for using thermal analysis in the characterization of soil organic matter

article

Mountain Soils in a Changing Climate - Vulnerability of Carbon Stocks and Ecosystem Feedbacks

article

On the heterogeneity of biochar and consequences for its representative sampling

Organic carbon and nitrogen in fine soil fractions after treatment with hydrogen peroxide

Organic farming and soil carbon sequestration: what do we really know about the benefits?

scientific article (publication date: December 2010)

Organic farming gives no climate change benefit through soil carbon sequestration.

scientific article published on 21 February 2013

Organic matter losses from temperate ombrotrophic peatlands: an evaluation of the ash residue method

scientific article published in 2010

Organo-Chemical Characterisation of Peat Decomposition Reveals Preferential Degradation of Hemicelluloses as Main Cause for Organic Matter Loss in the Acrotelm

scientific article published in 2022

Organochemical Characterization of Peat Reveals Decomposition of Specific Hemicellulose Structures as the Main Cause of Organic Matter Loss in the Acrotelm

scientific article published in 2022

Overestimation of Crop Root Biomass in Field Experiments Due to Extraneous Organic Matter

scientific article

Palsa Uplift Identified by Stable Isotope Depth Profiles and Relation of δ15 N to C/N Ratio

Parametrization consequences of constraining soil organic matter models by total carbon and radiocarbon using long-term field data

scientific article published in 2016

Peat decomposability in managed organic soils in relation to land use, organic matter composition and temperature

scientific article published in 2018

Peatland protection and restoration are key for climate change mitigation

scientific article published on 11 August 2020

Prologue paper: soil carbon losses from land-use change and the global agricultural greenhouse gas budget

article

Proper estimate of residue input as condition for understanding drivers of soil carbon dynamics.

scientific article

Publisher Correction: Soil organic matter stoichiometry as indicator for peatland degradation

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

Pyrogenic Carbon Contributes Substantially to Carbon Storage in Intact and Degraded Northern Peatlands

scientific article published in 2017

Quantitative Determination of PAHs in Biochar: A Prerequisite To Ensure Its Quality and Safe Application

scientific article published on 20 March 2012

Reduced Nitrous Oxide Emissions From Drained Temperate Agricultural Peatland After Coverage With Mineral Soil

scientific article published in 2022

Reduced nitrogen losses from drained temperate agricultural peatland after mineral soil coverage

scientific article published in 2022

Relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and changes in soil gas diffusivity in a field experiment with biochar and lime

scholarly article

Response of peat decomposition to corn straw addition in managed organic soils

scientific article published in 2018

Response to Interpreting the ash trend within ombrotrophic bog profiles: atmospheric dust depositions vs. mineralization processes. The Etang de la Gruère case study

scientific article published in 2012

Restricting the nonlinearity parameter in soil greenhouse gas flux calculation for more reliable flux estimates

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Rewetting and Drainage of Nutrient-Poor Peatlands Indicated by Specific Bacterial Membrane Fatty Acids and a Repeated Sampling of Stable Isotopes (δ15N, δ13C)

scientific article published in 2021

Sensitivity of peatland carbon loss to organic matter quality

article

Sodium hypochlorite separates an older soil organic matter fraction than acid hydrolysis

Scholarly article, 2007

Soil Carbon in Sensitive European Ecosystems: From Science to Land Management - A Summary

article

Soil carbon loss from drained agricultural peatland after coverage with mineral soil

scientific article published in 2021

Soil organic matter fractions as early indicators for carbon stock changes under different land-use?

article

Soil organic matter stoichiometry as indicator for peatland degradation

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

Sources of nitrous oxide emissions from agriculturally managed peatlands

scholarly article published in January 2024

Stable carbon isotopes as indicators for environmental change in palsa peats

article by Christine Alewell et al published 8 July 2011 in Biogeosciences

Storage and turnover of carbon in grassland soils along an elevation gradient in the Swiss Alps

Scholarly article, 2019

Sustainable management of cultivated peatlands in Switzerland: Insights, challenges, and opportunities

scientific article published in 2019

Switch of fungal to bacterial degradation in natural, drained and rewetted oligotrophic peatlands reflected in &lt;i&gt;δ&lt;/i&gt;&lt;sup&gt;15&lt;/sup&gt;N and fatty acid composition

scientific article published in 2020

Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates - synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward

article

Temperature sensitivity of young and old soil carbon – Same soil, slight differences in 13C natural abundance method, inconsistent results

article

Temporal dynamics of soil organic carbon after land-use change in the temperate zone - carbon response functions as a model approach

article

The Temperature Response of CO2 Production from Bulk Soils and Soil Fractions is Related to Soil Organic Matter Quality

scientific article published in 2005

The carbon budget of newly established temperate grassland depends on management intensity

article by Christof Ammann et al published June 2007 in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

The underappreciated potential of peatlands in global climate change mitigation strategies.

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Thermal alteration of organic matter during a shrubland fire: A field study

article

Toward the Standardization of Biochar Analysis: The COST Action TD1107 Interlaboratory Comparison.

scientific article published on 22 December 2015

Towards a global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy

scientific article published on 27 October 2020

Tradeoff of CO2 and CH4 emissions from global peatlands under water-table drawdown

article by Yuanyuan Huang et al published 7 June 2021 in Nature Climate Change

Turnover of grassland roots in mountain ecosystems revealed by their radiocarbon signature: role of temperature and management.

scientific article published on 3 March 2015

δ15N natural abundance in permafrost soil indicates impact of fire on nitrogen cycle

scientific article

List of works by Jens Leifeld

A comparison of two methods for the isolation of free and occluded particulate organic matter

A new facet of soil organic matter

Age and Thermal Stability of Particulate Organic Matter Fractions Indicate the Presence of Black Carbon in Soil

Amount and stability of recent and aged plant residues in degrading peatland soils

Analyzing the degree of organic matter transformation of rewetted European peatlands in the context of their greenhouse gas emission potential

Anthropogenic perturbation of the carbon fluxes from land to ocean

Below ground carbon inputs to soil via root biomass and rhizodeposition of field-grown maize and wheat at harvest are independent of net primary productivity

Belowground plant allocation regulates rice methane emissions from degraded peat soils

Biased 14C-derived organic carbon turnover estimates following black carbon input to soil: an exploration with RothC

Bioavailability and isotopic composition of CO2 released from incubated soil organic matter fractions

Biochar affects community composition of nitrous oxide reducers in a field experiment

Biochar and short-term N2O and CO2 emission from plant residue-amended soil with different fertilisation history

Biogeochemical indicators of peatland degradation – a case study of a temperate bog in northern Germany

Biological activity and organic matter mineralization of soils amended with biowaste composts

Biological residues define the ice nucleation properties of soil dust

Calculating carbon changes in peat soils drained for forestry with four different profile-based methods

Can composition and physical protection of soil organic matter explain soil respiration temperature sensitivity?

Carbohydrates and thermal properties indicate a decrease in stable aggregate carbon following forest colonization of mountain grassland

Carbon budget response of an agriculturally used fen to different soil moisture conditions

Carbon farming: Climate change mitigation via non-permanent carbon sinks

Carbon storage in agricultural topsoils and subsoils is promoted by including temporary grasslands into the crop rotation

Characterizing ecosystem-driven chemical composition differences in natural and drained Finnish bogs using pyrolysis-GC/MS

Chemical and microbial activation energies of soil organic matter decomposition

Consequences of planned afforestation versus natural forest regrowth after disturbance for soil C stocks in Eastern European mountains

Control of soil pH on turnover of belowground organic matter in subalpine grassland

Current approaches neglect possible agricultural cutback under large-scale organic farming. A comment to Ponisio et al.

Degradation changes stable carbon isotope depth profiles in palsa peatlands

Designing biochar properties through the blending of biomass feedstock with metals: Impact on oxyanions adsorption behavior

Designing biochar properties through the blending of biomass feedstock with metals: Impact on oxyanions adsorption behavior

Distribution of nitrous oxide emissions from managed organic soils under different land uses estimated by the peat C/N ratio to improve national GHG inventories

Dynamic stability of mineral-associated organic matter: enhanced stability and turnover through organic fertilization in a temperate agricultural topsoil

Effect of biochar and liming on soil nitrous oxide emissions from a temperate maize cropping system

Effects of Land-Use Change on Carbon Stocks in Switzerland

Effects of climate and management intensity on nitrous oxide emissions in grassland systems across Europe

Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink

Formation and decay of peat bogs in the vegetable belt of Switzerland

Free and protected soil organic carbon dynamics respond differently to abandonment of mountain grassland

Intact and managed peatland soils as a source and sink of GHGs from 1850 to 2100

Investigating the influence of instrumental parameters and chemical composition on pyrolysis efficiency of peat

Land use-driven historical soil carbon losses in Swiss peatlands

Land-Use Change Effects on Soil Carbon Stocks in Temperate Regions - Development of Carbon Response Functions

Land-use change in subalpine grassland soils: Effect on particulate organic carbon fractions and aggregation

Loss of soil organic carbon in Swiss long-term agricultural experiments over a wide range of management practices

Maize and wheat root biomass, vertical distribution, and size class as affected by fertilization intensity in two long-term field trials

Measured soil organic matter fractions can be related to pools in the RothC model

Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from rice grown on organic soils in the temperate zone

Methodological considerations for using thermal analysis in the characterization of soil organic matter

Mountain Soils in a Changing Climate - Vulnerability of Carbon Stocks and Ecosystem Feedbacks

On the heterogeneity of biochar and consequences for its representative sampling

Organic carbon and nitrogen in fine soil fractions after treatment with hydrogen peroxide

Organic farming and soil carbon sequestration: what do we really know about the benefits?

Organic farming gives no climate change benefit through soil carbon sequestration.

Organic matter losses from temperate ombrotrophic peatlands: an evaluation of the ash residue method

Organo-Chemical Characterisation of Peat Decomposition Reveals Preferential Degradation of Hemicelluloses as Main Cause for Organic Matter Loss in the Acrotelm

Organochemical Characterization of Peat Reveals Decomposition of Specific Hemicellulose Structures as the Main Cause of Organic Matter Loss in the Acrotelm

Overestimation of Crop Root Biomass in Field Experiments Due to Extraneous Organic Matter

Palsa Uplift Identified by Stable Isotope Depth Profiles and Relation of δ15 N to C/N Ratio

Parametrization consequences of constraining soil organic matter models by total carbon and radiocarbon using long-term field data

Peat decomposability in managed organic soils in relation to land use, organic matter composition and temperature

Peatland protection and restoration are key for climate change mitigation

Prologue paper: soil carbon losses from land-use change and the global agricultural greenhouse gas budget

Proper estimate of residue input as condition for understanding drivers of soil carbon dynamics.

Publisher Correction: Soil organic matter stoichiometry as indicator for peatland degradation

Pyrogenic Carbon Contributes Substantially to Carbon Storage in Intact and Degraded Northern Peatlands

Quantitative Determination of PAHs in Biochar: A Prerequisite To Ensure Its Quality and Safe Application

Reduced Nitrous Oxide Emissions From Drained Temperate Agricultural Peatland After Coverage With Mineral Soil

Reduced nitrogen losses from drained temperate agricultural peatland after mineral soil coverage

Relationship between greenhouse gas emissions and changes in soil gas diffusivity in a field experiment with biochar and lime

Response of peat decomposition to corn straw addition in managed organic soils

Response to Interpreting the ash trend within ombrotrophic bog profiles: atmospheric dust depositions vs. mineralization processes. The Etang de la Gruère case study

Restricting the nonlinearity parameter in soil greenhouse gas flux calculation for more reliable flux estimates

Rewetting and Drainage of Nutrient-Poor Peatlands Indicated by Specific Bacterial Membrane Fatty Acids and a Repeated Sampling of Stable Isotopes (δ15N, δ13C)

Sensitivity of peatland carbon loss to organic matter quality

Sodium hypochlorite separates an older soil organic matter fraction than acid hydrolysis

Soil Carbon in Sensitive European Ecosystems: From Science to Land Management - A Summary

Soil carbon loss from drained agricultural peatland after coverage with mineral soil

Soil organic matter fractions as early indicators for carbon stock changes under different land-use?

Soil organic matter stoichiometry as indicator for peatland degradation

Sources of nitrous oxide emissions from agriculturally managed peatlands

Switch of fungal to bacterial degradation in natural, drained and rewetted oligotrophic peatlands reflected in <i>δ</i><sup>15</sup>N and fatty acid composition