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

Barthel M, Drake TW, de Clippele A, de Groot LW, Engelhardt M, Haghipour N, Hou Y, Kueter N, Lewicka‐Szczebak D, Ludjwera Bahati A, Tschumbu CL, Van Oost K, Wabakanghanzi JN, Werner RA, Zambo Mandea J, Six J, Hemingway JD (2026) Constraining greenhouse gas cycling and emissions in Africa's largest humic lake. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 131: e2025JG009218, doi: external page 10.1029/2025JG009218
Buchmann N, Wang Y, Kohonen KM, Hörtnagl L, Feigenwinter I (2026) Permanent grasslands in Switzerland: CO₂ fluxes and C budgets in response to climate change. Grassland Science in Europe 31: 312-314 [Proceedings of the 31st General Meeting of the EGF on "Challenges and innovations for grasslands resilience"], external page pdf of proceedings
Cazorla BP, Meijide A, Cabello J, Peñas J, Martínez-López J, Vargas R, Montagnani L, Knohl A, Siebicke L, Gioli B, Dušek J, Šigut L, Ibrom A, Wohlfahrt G, Paul-Limoges E, Fuchs K, Manco A, Pavelka M, Merbold L, Hörtnagl L, Duce P, Goded I, Pilegaard K, Alcaraz-Segura D (2026) Satellite-derived ecosystem functional types capture ecosystem functional heterogeneity at regional scale. Biogeosciences 23: 1223-1243, doi: external page 10.5194/bg-23-1223-2026
Chandel AK, Cattry M, Zhou Y, Duong H, Litvak ME, Pockman WT, Luo Y (2026) Hydraulic redistribution decreases with precipitation magnitude and frequency in a dryland ecosystem: A data-model fusion Approach. Biogeosciences 23: 2045-2058, doi: external page 10.5194/bg-23-2045-2026
Danioth S, Pauler CM, Lüscher A, Buchmann N, Schneider MK (2026) Selecting study areas representative for the highly diverse growth conditions in the Swiss summering zone. Grassland Science in Europe 31: 883-885 [Proceedings of the 31st General Meeting of the EGF on "Challenges and innovations for grasslands resilience"], external page pdf of proceedings
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 249: 1623-1643, 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
Keller B, Kirchgessner N, Oppliger C, Kronenberg L, Roth L, Zumsteg O, Corrado S, Liebisch F, Aasen H, Storni N, Tschurr F, Zellweger H, Betrix C-A, Barendregt C, Hund A, Walter A (2026) FIP 1.0 soybean data: Insights on soybean growth from eight years of high-throughput image field phenotyping. Scientific Data 13:476, doi: external page 10.1038/s41597-026-06663-z
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 C, Roberts SJ, Grosjean M, Mestrot A, Wille M, Phillips RA, Enrico M, Bishop K, Skyllberg U, Mauquoy D, von Scheffer C, Theurer T, Muirhead D, Whittle A, Gallego-Sala A, Sonke JE, de Vleeschouwer F, Van der Putten N, Braconnot P, Marti O, Osterwalder S, Buchmann N, Fröhlicher T, Anthamatten E, Chiaia-Hernández AC, Zahajská P, Jeandel C, Saunders KM, Kwon SY, Wang D, Bindler R, Sime L, Hodgson DA (2026) Southern Ocean seabird population shifts over the Holocene revealed by peat sequestration of mercury from guano. PNAS 123: e2533681123, doi: external page 10.1073/pnas.2533681123
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
Nicolini G, Durden D, Fiore LD, Florian C, Sabbatini S, Gielen B, Iserbyt A, Loubet B, Mammarella I, Mariotti A, de Beeck MO, Slemmons C, Trotta C, Young A, Chabbi A, Feigenwinter I, Heinesch B, Kowalska N, Mauder M, Šigut L, van der Molen M, Campos FB, Berveiller D, Brümmer C, Cuntz M, Domec J-C, Dumont B, Fares S, Gianelle D, Jensen R, Kalalian C, Kljun N, Lange H, Limousin J-M, Lundin E, Manco A, Montagnani L, Nemitz E, Peichl M, Rinne E, Roland M, Schmidt M, Simioni G, Thomas A, Vincke C, Papale D (2026) Bridging the energy balance gap in eddy-covariance measurements: Insights from standardized network data. Global Change Biology 32: e70892, doi: external page 10.1111/gcb.70892
ProClim [Battiston S, Berger S, Bresch DN, Bretscher D, Brönnimann S, Brunner M, Brunner C, Buchmann N, Bugmann H, Calanca P, de Haan P, Fesenfeld L, Fischer E, Gutsche R, Gruber N, Huggel C, Huss M, Ingold K, Janz J, Kempel A, Kislig S, Knutti R, Kotlarski S, Lechthaler F, Mani P, Romppainen- Martius O, Marty C, Messerli P, Muccione V, Mülchi R, Neu U, Nötzli J, Nöthiger J, Patt A, Piguet E, Pütz M, Ragettli M, Rebetez M, Rigling A, Rixen C, Roser D, Schäfer M, Scherrer SC, Seneviratne SI, Senn N, Spehn E, Strauss N, Stucki T, Thalmann P, Wallimann-Helmer I, Winkler R] (2026) Brennpunkt Klima Schweiz. Swiss Academies Reports 21 (2), 67 pp, doi: external page 10.5281/zenodo.18782059
Revenga JC, Oehmcke S, Gharun M, Sutter F, Gieseke F, Trepekli K, Buchmann N, Damm A (2026) Context-aware UAV LiDAR reveals forest structure and improves tree diameter estimates in subalpine forest. Ecological Solutions and Evidence 7: e70218, doi: external page 10.1002/2688-8319.70218
Shurpali N, Wang Y, Thentu T, Li Y, Bhattarai HR, Buchmann N (2026) Novel machine learning tools to identify factors regulating CO₂ fluxes in a boreal legume grassland. Grassland Science in Europe 31: 192-195 [Proceedings of the 31st General Meeting of the EGF on "Challenges and innovations for grasslands resilience"], external page pdf of proceedings
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
Tschurr F, Kotlarski S, Martre P, Walter A, Roth L (2026) A conceptual framework for simultaneous optimization of integrated climate scenario data and phenology models. Agronomy for Sustainable Development 46: 22, doi: external page 10.1007/s13593-026-01091-0
Turco F, Feigenwinter I, Allemann L, Hörtnagl L, Liebisch F, Buchmann N (2026) What matters when? Temporal development of drivers and sources of nitrous oxide emissions in winter wheat. EGUsphere [preprint], doi: external page 10.5194/egusphere-2026-27
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
Wang Y, Feigenwinter I, Hörtnagl L, Gilgen AK, Buchmann N (2026) Drivers of long-term grassland CO₂ fluxes: effects of management and meteorological conditions during regrowth periods. Biogeosciences 23:1625-1652. doi: external page 10.5194/bg-23-1625-2026