Publications

Here you find the list of this year's papers published by members of the Grassland Sciences group as well as our Download Guidelines on Authorships (PDF, 11 KB) which we developed at our group retreat in 2006.

For papers from earlier years please check our Publication Archive. Publication lists of each group member can be accessed through the People section of our website.

We mostly publish in open access journals (around 90% of our papers in recent years). All other papers (published since 2017) are available as postprints (i.e., the accepted manuscript after the peer review process) after the respective embargo periods of the publishers (between 2 and 36 months) in the ETH Zurich Research Collection.

2026

Holloway-Phillips M, Lehmann MM, Tcherkez G, Werner RA, Nelson DB, Baan J, Cernusak LA, Cormier M-A, Diao H, Gessler A, Guidi C, Hugger S, Ladd SM, Martínez-Sancho E, Niittylä T, Saurer M, Schuler P, Vitali V, Wieloch T, Kahmen A (2026) Tansley Review: Rethinking the ²H fingerprint of carbohydrates: a novel proxy for plant metabolism and performance. New Phytologist, doi: external page 10.1111/nph.70845
Jia A, Mallick K, Lin Z, Sulis M, Szantoi Z, Zhang L, Corbari C, Torralbo Munoz P, Nieto H, Roujean J-L, Etchanchu J, Demarty J, Mwangi S, Olioso A, Merlin O, Boulet G (2026) Sensitivity of thermal evapotranspiration models to surface and atmospheric drivers across ecosystems and aridity. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 376: 110930, doi: external page 10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110930
Kesselring J, Humphrey V, Niederberger M, Feigenwinter I, Shekhar A, Buchmann N, Damm-Reiser A (2026) Divergence between in situ and satellite-based estimates of forest canopy water content. Remote Sensing Environment 332: 115097, doi: external page 10.1016/j.rse.2025.115097
Klaus VH, Richter FJ, Fox N, Andreatta D, Chai-allah A (2026) Powerful flowers: Public perception of grassland aesthetics is strongly related to management and biodiversity. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 398: 110111, doi: external page 10.1016/j.agee.2025.110111
Kohonen K-M, Kübert A, Merbold L, Räsänen M, Buchmann N, Mammarella I, Pellikka P, Vesala T (2026) Tracking canopy conductance and transpiration of CAM-plants Agave sisalana with carbonyl sulfide fluxes. Agriculture and Forest Meteorology 378: 110966, doi: external page 10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110966
Kost E, Kundel D, Barthel M, Conz RF, Werner RA, Ghiasi S, Bublitz TA, Mäder P, Krause H-M, Six J, Hartmann M, Mayer J (2026) Drought increases root and rhizodeposition carbon inputs into soils. Plant Soil, doi: external page 10.1007/s11104-025-08021-1
Le Clec'h S, Huber R, Finger R, Delore J-M, Richter FJ, Klaus VH
(2026) Spatial arrangement of action-oriented versus hybrid agri-environmental schemes: implications for the optimisation of grassland ecosystem services. Agricultural Systems 231: 104490, doi: external page 10.1016/j.agsy.2025.104490
Li Y, Riedl A, Buchmann N, Eugster W (2026) Magnitude and impacts of non-rainfall water inputs and nocturnal evapotranspiration on temperate grassland ecosystems. Journal of Hydrology 664: 134632, doi: external page 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.134632
Thomas A, Laasonen A, Kohonen K-M, Aslan T, Sun W, Dukat P, Salmon Y, Dewar R, Kolari P, Maseyk K, Vesala T, Mammarella I (2026) Examining anomalous summer carbonyl sulfide emissions in a boreal forest after thinning. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 9: 1, doi: external page 10.1038/s41612-025-01272-w
Wang X, Fu Z, Ciais P, Wan L, Buchmann N, Keenan TF, De Kauwe M, Peñuelas J, Chen G, Gong X, Xiao J, Li X, Xie Q, Stoy PC, Makowski D, Smith WK, Wang H, Wang S, Zhang F, Niu S (2026) Global distribution and changes of leaf-level intrinsic water use efficiency and their responses to water stress. Nature Communications, doi: external page 10.1038/s41467-025-68252-9