2014

New paper on "Methane and nitrous oxide exchange over a managed hay meadow" by Lukas Hörtnagl and Georg Wohlfahrt in Biogeosciences. doi: external page 10.5194/bg-11-7219-2014

New paper by Michael Schaepman with contributions from Petra D'Odorico on "Advanced radiometry measurements and Earth science applications with the Airborne Prism Experiment (APEX)". doi: external page 10.1016/j.rse.2014.11.014

New paper by Linda Feichtinger with contributions from Nina Buchmann on "Growth adjustments of conifers to drought and to century-long irrigation" in Forest Ecology and Management. doi: external page 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.08.008

Our alpine eddy covariance station near Albula Pass (GR) has recently been upgraded to grid power. We are looking forward to the first winter CO₂/H₂O flux measurements at the site.

New paper by Janos Balogh with contributions from Susanne Burri and Werner Eugster on "Soil CO₂ efflux and production rates as influenced by evapotranspiration in a dry grassland" in Plant and Soil. Janos stayed in our group for an extended time period in 2013.

Congratulations to Miriam Hurkuck for successfully defending her PhD thesis!

The paper by Matti Barthel, Patrick Sturm, Albin Hammerle, Lydia Gentsch, Rolf Siegwolf, Nina Buchmann and Alexander Knohl on "Soil H218O labeling reveals the effect of drought on C18OO fluxes to the atmosphere" is now available in the Journal of Experimental Botany. doi: external page 10.1093/jxb/eru312

New ecophysiological paper by Ulrich Prechsl, Susanne Burri, Anna K Gilgen, Ansgar Kahmen and Nina Buchmann in Oecologia: "No shift to a deeper water uptake depth in response to summer drought of two lowland and sub-alpine C3-grasslands in Switzerland". doi: external page 10.1007/s00442-014-3092-6

New review paper by Werner Eugster and Lutz Merbold in the open access journal SOIL Discussions on "Eddy covariance for quantifying trace gas fluxes from soils". doi: external page 10.5194/soild-1-541-2014

The "Bauernzeitung" highlighted this years Download research evening (PDF, 906 KB), jointly organized by Parc Ela, the Grassland Sciences and the Animal Nutrition research groups of ETH Zurich.

Congratulations to Carola Blessing and Sebastian Zielis for successfully defending their PhD thesis.

Petra D'Odorico wrote about "lessons learned from the wild" in the ETH Zukunftsblog.

An interview with Prof. Nina Buchmann on Food Security has been published in the external page Tages Anzeiger.

New Discussion paper in Biogeosciences by Lukas Hoertnagl and Georg Wohlfahrt on "Methane and nitrous oxide exchange over a managed hay meadow". doi: external page 10.5194/bgd-11-8181-2014

Congratulations to Matthias Haeni for successfully defending his PhD thesis.

New paper by Carmen Emmel and Eugenie Paul-Limoges et al. on "Vertical Distribution of Carbon Dioxide Sources and Sinks in a Recovering Mountain Pine Beetle-Attacked Lodgepole Pine Stand" has just been accepted in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. doi: external page 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.04.014

Congratulations to Doerte Bachmann for successfully defending her PhD thesis.

The newest paper by Lukas Hörtnagl et al. on "Acetaldehyde exchange above a managed temperate mountain grassland" has been accepted for publication in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

New paper by Ulrich Prechsl with contributions from Anna Gilgen, Ansgar Kahmen and Nina Buchmann on the "Reliability and quality of water isotope data collected with a lowbudget rain collector" has been accepted in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry.

New paper by Sebastian Zielis et al. entitled "NEP of a Swiss subalpine forest is significantly driven not only by current but also by previous year´s weather" has been accepted for publication in Biogeosciences. doi: external page 10.5194/bg-11-1627-2014

New paper by Rebecca Hiller et al. entitled "Anthropogenic and natural methane fluxes in Switzerland synthesized within a spatially-explicit inventory" has been accepted for publication in Biogeosciences. doi: external page 10.5194/bgd-10-15181-2013

New paper on the "full greenhouse gas balance of Africa: synthesis, uncertainties, and vulnerabilities" by Ricardo Valentini with contribution from Lutz Merbold has been published in Biogeosciences. doi: external page 10.5194/bg-11-381-2014

New open discussion paper by Matthias Barthel et al. on "Sudden cold temperature regulates the time-lag between plant CO₂ uptake and release", Biogeosciences Discussions 10, 17939-17964. doi: external page 10.5194/bgd-10-17939-2013

Susanne Burri et al.: The impact of extreme summer drought on the short-term carbon coupling of photosynthesis to soil CO₂ efflux in a temperate grassland. Biogeosciences accepted. doi: external page 10.5194/bg-11-961-2014

New paper by Lydia Gentsch et al. with contributions from Thomas Baur, Peter Plüss, Matthias Barthel and Nina Buchmann entitled "Carbon isotope discrimination during branch photosynthesis of Fagus sylvatica: Field measurements using laser spectrometry" is currently in press in Journal of Experimental Botany. doi: external page 10.1093/jxb/eru024

New paper by Olga Churakova (Sidorova) et al. with contributions from Werner Eugster, Sebastian Zielis and Nina Buchmann entitled "Increasing relevance of spring temperatures for Norway spruce trees in Davos, Switzerland, after the 1950s." has been accepted in Trees. doi: external page 10.1007/s00468-013-0941-6

Susanne Burri et al.: The effect of physical back-diffusion of ¹³CO₂ tracer on the coupling between photosynthesis and soil CO₂ efflux in grassland. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies accepted. doi: external page 10.1080/10256016.2014.908502

New paper by Petra D'Odorico et al. entitled "Intercomparison of fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation products derived from satellite data over Europe" has been published in Remote Sensing of Environment. doi: external page 10.1016/j.rse.2013.12.005

New paper by Lutz Merbold et al. entitled "Greenhouse gas budget (CO₂, CH₄ and N₂O) of intensively managed grassland following restoration" has been accepted in Global Change Biology. doi: external page 10.1111/gcb.12518