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Frank Hagedorn is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to agricultural and biological sciences.

Their work spans several subfields, including:

  • Ecology
  • Soil Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Hagedorn's research addresses key topics such as:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Climate change and permafrost

They have frequently published in the following venues:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Biogeosciences
  • Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen

Recent publications include:

  • A Critical Evaluation of the Relationship Between the Effective Cation Exchange Capacity and Soil Organic Carbon Content in Swiss Forest Soils, 2020, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Drought reduces water uptake in beech from the drying topsoil, but no compensatory uptake occurs from deeper soil layers, 2021, New Phytologist
  • Responses of soil nitrogen and phosphorus cycling to drying and rewetting cycles: A meta-analysis, 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • A global meta-analysis on freeze-thaw effects on soil carbon and phosphorus cycling, 2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Three-dimensional mapping of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in soil microbial biomass and their stoichiometry at the global scale, 2022, Global Change Biology

Frank Hagedorn has collaborated extensively with several researchers, including:

  • Decai Gao
  • Katrin Meusburger
  • Arthur Geßler
  • Andreas Rigling
  • Marcus Schaub

Best Publications

  • How strongly can forest management influence soil carbon sequestration

    Robert Jandl;Marcus Lindner;Lars Vesterdal;Bram Bauwens

  • Simple additive effects are rare: a quantitative review of plant biomass and soil process responses to combined manipulations of CO2 and temperature.

    Wouter I. J. Dieleman;Wouter I. J. Dieleman;Sara Vicca;Feike A. Dijkstra;Frank Hagedorn

  • Export of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen from Gleysol dominated catchments – the significance of water flow paths

    Frank Hagedorn;Patrick Schleppi;Peter Waldner;Hannes Flühler

  • Expanding forests and changing growth forms of Siberian larch at the Polar Urals treeline during the 20th century

    Nadezhda Devi;Frank Hagedorn;Pavel Moiseev;Harald Bugmann

  • Recovery of trees from drought depends on belowground sink control

    Frank Hagedorn;Jobin Joseph;Jobin Joseph;Martina Peter;Jörg Luster

  • Increased N deposition retards mineralization of old soil organic matter

    Frank Hagedorn;Dieter Spinnler;Rolf Siegwolf

  • Above- and belowground linkages shape responses of mountain vegetation to climate change

    Frank Hagedorn;Konstantin Gavazov;Jake M. Alexander

  • Chemical and Biological Gradients along the Damma Glacier Soil Chronosequence, Switzerland

    Stefano M. Bernasconi;Andreas Bauder;Bernard Bourdon;Ivano Brunner

  • Treeline advances along the Urals mountain range – driven by improved winter conditions?

    Frank Hagedorn;Stepan G. Shiyatov;Valeriy S. Mazepa;Nadezha M. Devi

  • A decade of irrigation transforms the soil microbiome of a semi‐arid pine forest

    Martin Hartmann;Ivano Brunner;Frank Hagedorn;Richard D. Bardgett

  • Subordinate plant species enhance community resistance against drought in semi-natural grasslands

    Pierre Mariotte;Pierre Mariotte;Charlotte Vandenberghe;Paul Kardol;Frank Hagedorn

  • A Critical Evaluation of the Relationship Between the Effective Cation Exchange Capacity and Soil Organic Carbon Content in Swiss Forest Soils

    Emily F. Solly;Emily F. Solly;Valentino Weber;Stephan Zimmermann;Lorenz Walthert

  • Central European hardwood trees in a high‐CO2 future: synthesis of an 8‐year forest canopy CO2 enrichment project

    Martin K.-F. Bader;Martin K.-F. Bader;Sebastian Leuzinger;Sebastian Leuzinger;Sonja Gisela Yin Keel;Sonja Gisela Yin Keel;Rolf T.W. Siegwolf

  • Dissolved and colloidal phosphorus fluxes in forest ecosystems-an almost blind spot in ecosystem research

    Roland Bol;Dorit Julich;Dominik Brödlin;Jan Siemens

  • A 13C tracer study to identify the origin of dissolved organic carbon in forested mineral soils

    F. Hagedorn;M. Saurer;P. Blaser

  • Drought reduces water uptake in beech from the drying topsoil, but no compensatory uptake occurs from deeper soil layers.

    Arthur Gessler;Arthur Gessler;Lukas Bächli;Elham Rouholahnejad Freund;Kerstin Treydte

  • Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands

    A.C. Risch;S. Zimmermann;R. Ochoa-Hueso;M. Schütz

  • Determination of organic and inorganic carbon, δ13C, and nitrogen in soils containing carbonates after acid fumigation with HCl.

    Lorenz Walthert;Ursula Graf;Adrian Kammer;Jörg Luster

  • The age of preferential flow paths

    Frank Hagedorn;Maya Bundt

  • Short-term responses of ecosystem carbon fluxes to experimental soil warming at the Swiss alpine treeline

    Frank Hagedorn;Melissa Martin;Christian Rixen;Silvan Rusch

  • Effects of Redox Conditions and Flow Processes on the Mobility of Dissolved Organic Carbon and Nitrogen in a Forest Soil

    Frank Hagedorn;Klaus Kaiser;H. Feyen;Patrick Schleppi

  • Increasing soil methane sink along a 120‐year afforestation chronosequence is driven by soil moisture

    David Hiltbrunner;David Hiltbrunner;Stephan Zimmermann;Saeed Karbin;Frank Hagedorn

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf T. W. Siegwolf
Rolf T. W. Siegwolf Paul Scherrer Institute
Christian Rixen
Christian Rixen Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Patrick Schleppi
Patrick Schleppi Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Pascal A. Niklaus
Pascal A. Niklaus University of Zurich
Stephan Hättenschwiler
Stephan Hättenschwiler Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Samuel Abiven
Samuel Abiven University of Zurich
Sonja Wipf
Sonja Wipf Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Mai-He Li
Mai-He Li Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

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