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Barbara Kitzler is affiliated with the Austrian Research Centre for Forests in Austria. Their research spans multiple fields including Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Their work focuses on subfields such as Soil Science, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Chemistry. Central to their studies are topics involving Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Climate Change and Permafrost, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Soil and Unsaturated Flow, and Aeolian Processes and Effects.

Barbara Kitzler has contributed to several scientific publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • Potential of Biochar to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Increase Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Boreal Arable Soils in the Long-Term, 2022, Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Ecosystem services of tree windbreaks in rural landscapes-a systematic review, 2021, Environmental Research Letters
  • Variations in soil aggregation, microbial community structure and soil organic matter cycling associated to long-term afforestation and woody encroachment in a Mediterranean alpine ecotone, 2021, Geoderma
  • Carbon-nitrogen interactions in European forests and semi-natural vegetation - Part 1: Fluxes and budgets of carbon, nitrogen and greenhouse gases from ecosystem monitoring and modelling, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Carbon-nitrogen interactions in European forests and semi-natural vegetation - Part 2: Untangling climatic, edaphic, management and nitrogen deposition effects on carbon sequestration potentials, 2020, Biogeosciences

Frequent co-authors with whom Barbara Kitzler has collaborated include Kerstin Michel, Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern, Andreas Schindlbacher, Laura Helene Rasmussen, and Wenxin Zhang.

Their research has been published predominantly in journals such as Biogeochemistry, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Biogeosciences, Plant and Soil, and The Science of The Total Environment.

Best Publications

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from European soils under different land use: effects of soil moisture and temperature

    G. Schaufler;B. Kitzler;A. Schindlbacher;U. Skiba

  • Belowground carbon allocation by trees drives seasonal patterns of extracellular enzyme activities by altering microbial community composition in a beech forest soil

    Christina Kaiser;Marianne Koranda;Barbara Kitzler;Lucia Fuchslueger

  • Experimental warming effects on the microbial community of a temperate mountain forest soil.

    A. Schindlbacher;A. Rodler;M. Kuffner;B. Kitzler

  • Aerobic nitrous oxide production through N-nitrosating hybrid formation in ammonia-oxidizing archaea

    Michaela Stieglmeier;Maria Mooshammer;Barbara Kitzler;Wolfgang Wanek

  • Seasonality and resource availability control bacterial and archaeal communities in soils of a temperate beech forest

    Frank Rasche;Daniela Knapp;Christina Kaiser;Marianne Koranda

  • Biochar decelerates soil organic nitrogen cycling but stimulates soil nitrification in a temperate arable field trial.

    Judith Prommer;Wolfgang Wanek;Florian Hofhansl;Daniela Trojan

  • Factors controlling regional differences in forest soil emission of nitrogen oxides (NO and N 2 O)

    K. Pilegaard;U. Skiba;P. Ambus;C. Beier

  • Inventories of N2O and NO Emissions from European Forest Soils

    M. Kesik;P. Ambus;R. Baritz;N. Brüggemann

  • Soil respiration under climate change: prolonged summer drought offsets soil warming effects

    Andreas Schindlbacher;Steve Wunderlich;Werner Borken;Barbara Kitzler

  • Nitrogen processes in terrestrial ecosystems

    Klaus Butterbach-Bahl;Per Gundersen;Per Ambus;Jürgen Augustin

  • Microbial processes and community composition in the rhizosphere of European beech - The influence of plant C exudates.

    Marianne Koranda;Jörg Schnecker;Christina Kaiser;Lucia Fuchslueger

  • Seasonal variation in functional properties of microbial communities in beech forest soil.

    Marianne Koranda;Christina Kaiser;Christina Kaiser;Lucia Fuchslueger;Barbara Kitzler

  • Plants control the seasonal dynamics of microbial N cycling in a beech forest soil by belowground C allocation

    Christina Kaiser;Lucia Fuchslueger;Marianne Koranda;Markus Gorfer;Markus Gorfer

  • Fungal and bacterial utilization of organic substrates depends on substrate complexity and N availability

    Marianne Koranda;Christina Kaiser;Christina Kaiser;Lucia Fuchslueger;Barbara Kitzler

  • Soil microbial communities responded to biochar application in temperate soils and slowly metabolized 13C-labelled biochar as revealed by 13C PLFA analyses: results from a short-term incubation and pot experiment

    A. Watzinger;S. Feichtmair;S. Feichtmair;B. Kitzler;F. Zehetner

  • Biosphere-atmosphere exchange of reactive nitrogen and greenhouse gases at the NitroEurope core flux measurement sites: measurement strategy and first data sets

    U. Skiba;J. Drewer;Y.S. Tang;N. Van Dijk

  • The response of methane and nitrous oxide fluxes to forest change in Europe

    P. Gundersen;J. R. Christiansen;J. R. Christiansen;G. Alberti;N. Brüggemann;N. Brüggemann

  • Nitrogen oxides emission from two beech forests subjected to different nitrogen loads

    B. Kitzler;S. Zechmeister-Boltenstern;C. Holtermann;U. Skiba

  • Biochar affects the structure rather than the total biomass of microbial communities in temperate soils

    Elena Anders;Andrea Watzinger;Franziska Rempt;Barbara Kitzler

  • Potential of Biochar to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Increase Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Boreal Arable Soils in the Long-Term

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  • Trace element concentrations in leachates and mustard plant tissue (Sinapis alba L.) after biochar application to temperate soils

    Stefanie Kloss;Stefanie Kloss;Franz Zehetner;Eva Oburger;Jannis Buecker

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerhard Soja
Gerhard Soja Austrian Institute of Technology
Klaus Butterbach-Bahl
Klaus Butterbach-Bahl Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Per Ambus
Per Ambus University of Copenhagen
Ute Skiba
Ute Skiba Natural Environment Research Council
Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki
Franz Zehetner
Franz Zehetner BOKU University
Andreas Richter
Andreas Richter University of Bremen
Angela Sessitsch
Angela Sessitsch Austrian Institute of Technology
Nicolas Brüggemann
Nicolas Brüggemann Forschungszentrum Jülich

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