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Guido L. B. Wiesenberg

Guido L. B. Wiesenberg

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
39
Citations
5764
World Ranking
8376
National Ranking
190

Overview

Guido L. B. Wiesenberg is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple domains within environmental and earth sciences, focusing largely on soil carbon dynamics, peatland ecology, and atmospheric impacts on terrestrial ecosystems. The scientist has contributed to 46 publications in Environmental Science, 32 in Earth and Planetary Sciences, and 27 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their work delves into subfields such as Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Soil Science, Plant Science, and Global and Planetary Change. These sub-disciplines reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their investigations into ecosystem processes and biogeochemical cycles.

Key topics addressed in their research include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Wiesenberg's publication record shows frequent appearances in journals and venues such as:

  • SOIL
  • OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • 30th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG 2021)
  • Biogeosciences
  • Frontiers in Plant Science

Notable recent papers include:

  • Warming promotes loss of subsoil carbon through accelerated degradation of plant-derived organic matter, 2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Rapid loss of complex polymers and pyrogenic carbon in subsoils under whole-soil warming, 2023, Nature Geoscience
  • Climate warming and elevated CO2 alter peatland soil carbon sources and stability, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Transformation of n-alkanes from plant to soil: a review, 2021, SOIL
  • Understanding the effects of early degradation on isotopic tracers: implications for sediment source attribution using compound-specific isotope analysis (CSIA), 2020, Biogeosciences

Co-authorship is an important aspect of Wiesenberg's scholarly network. Frequent collaborators include:

  • Nicholas O. E. Ofiti
  • Michael W. Schmidt
  • Cyrill Zosso
  • Margaret Torn
  • Arnaud Huguet

Best Publications

  • How relevant is recalcitrance for the stabilization of organic matter in soils

    Bernd Marschner;Sonja Brodowski;Alexander Dreves;Gerd Gleixner

  • Nutrient acquisition from arable subsoils in temperate climates: A review

    Timo Kautz;Wulf Amelung;Frank Ewert;Thomas Gaiser

  • Aromaticity and degree of aromatic condensation of char

    Daniel B. Wiedemeier;Samuel Abiven;William C. Hockaday;Marco Keiluweit

  • Source and turnover of organic matter in agricultural soils derived from n-alkane/n-carboxylic acid compositions and C-isotope signatures

    Guido L.B. Wiesenberg;Jan Schwarzbauer;Michael W.I. Schmidt;Lorenz Schwark

  • Carbon isotopic composition of branched tetraether membrane lipids in soils suggest a rapid turnover and a heterotrophic life style of their source organism(s)

    J. W. H. Weijers;J. W. H. Weijers;Guido L. B. Wiesenberg;Roland Bol;E. Hopmans

  • Reconstructing Quaternary vegetation history in the Carpathian Basin, SE-Europe, using n-alkane biomarkers as molecular fossils: Problems and possible solutions, potential and limitations

    Michael Zech;Björn Buggle;Katharina Leiber;Slobodan B. Marković

  • Storage and stability of organic matter and fossil carbon in a Luvisol and Phaeozem with continuous maize cropping: A synthesis §

    Heiner Flessa;Wulf Amelung;Mirjam Helfrich;Mirjam Helfrich;Guido L. B. Wiesenberg

  • Short-chain n-alkanes (C16-20) in ancient soil are useful molecular markers for prehistoric biomass burning

    Eileen Eckmeier;Guido L.B. Wiesenberg

  • Source determination of lipids in bulk soil and soil density fractions after four years of wheat cropping

    Guido L. B. Wiesenberg;Maxim Dorodnikov;Yakov Kuzyakov

  • Towards reconstruction of past fire regimes from geochemical analysis of charcoal

    Mareike Wolf;Eva Lehndorff;Guido L.B. Wiesenberg;Guido L.B. Wiesenberg;Martin Stockhausen

  • Thermal degradation of rye and maize straw : Lipid pattern changes as a function of temperature

    Guido L. B. Wiesenberg;Eva Lehndorff;Lorenz Schwark

  • Carbonate rhizoliths in loess and their implications for paleoenvironmental reconstruction revealed by isotopic composition: δ13C, 14C

    Martina Gocke;Konstantin Pustovoytov;Peter Kühn;Guido L. B. Wiesenberg

  • Cold hardiness of Pinus nigra Arnold as influenced by geographic origin, warming, and extreme summer drought

    Juergen Kreyling;Guido L.B. Wiesenberg;Daniel Thiel;Christian Wohlfart

  • Is there a possibility to correct fossil n-alkane data for postsedimentary alteration effects?

    Björn Buggle;Guido L.B. Wiesenberg;Bruno Glaser

  • Combined quantification of faecal sterols, stanols, stanones and bile acids in soils and terrestrial sediments by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.

    Jago Jonathan Birk;Michaela Dippold;Guido L.B. Wiesenberg;Bruno Glaser

  • Warming promotes loss of subsoil carbon through accelerated degradation of plant-derived organic matter

    Nicholas O.E. Ofiti;Cyrill U. Zosso;Jennifer L. Soong;Emily F. Solly;Emily F. Solly

  • Improved automated extraction and separation procedure for soil lipid analyses

    Guido L. B. Wiesenberg;Lorenz Schwark;Michael W. I. Schmidt

  • C and N in soil organic matter density fractions under elevated atmospheric CO2: Turnover vs. stabilization

    Maxim Dorodnikov;Yakov Kuzyakov;Andreas Fangmeier;Guido L.B. Wiesenberg

  • Opportunities and limitations related to the application of plant-derived lipid molecular proxies in soil science

    Boris Jansen;Guido L. B. Wiesenberg

  • Complexity of Soil Organic Matter: AMS 14C Analysis of Soil Lipid Fractions and Individual Compounds

    Janet Rethemeyer;Christiane Kramer;Gerd Gleixner;Guido L. B. Wiesenberg

  • Introducing an improved multi-proxy approach for paleoenvironmental reconstruction of loess–paleosol archives applied on the Late Pleistocene Nussloch sequence (SW Germany)

    Martina Gocke;Martina Gocke;Ulrich Hambach;Eileen Eckmeier;Lorenz Schwark

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael W. I. Schmidt
Michael W. I. Schmidt University of Zurich
Yakov Kuzyakov
Yakov Kuzyakov University of Göttingen
Lorenz Schwark
Lorenz Schwark Curtin University
Sylvie Derenne
Sylvie Derenne Université Paris Cité
Bruno Glaser
Bruno Glaser Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Margaret S. Torn
Margaret S. Torn Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Pieter Meiert Grootes
Pieter Meiert Grootes Kiel University
Gerd Gleixner
Gerd Gleixner Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Janet Rethemeyer
Janet Rethemeyer University of Cologne
Markus Egli
Markus Egli University of Zurich

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