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Overview

Jens Leifeld is affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland and primarily works within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research focuses on several subfields, notably Ecology, Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Agronomy and Crop Science.

The main topics covered in Leifeld's work include peatlands and wetlands ecology, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, geology and paleoclimatology research, bioenergy crop production and management, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and soil and water nutrient dynamics.

Leifeld has contributed to research published in multiple prominent venues. Frequent publication sites include:

  • Global Change Biology
  • GCB Bioenergy
  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Geoderma
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Leifeld encompass the following:

  • Towards a global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Biochar in agriculture - A systematic review of 26 global meta-analyses, 2021, GCB Bioenergy
  • Peatland protection and restoration are key for climate change mitigation, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
  • Tradeoff of CO2 and CH4 emissions from global peatlands under water-table drawdown, 2021, Nature Climate Change

Leifeld frequently collaborates with a number of co-authors, including Christine Alewell, Sonja Paul, Kristy Klein, Chloé Wüst-Galley, and Sonja G. Keel, with collaborative publications ranging from six to fourteen coauthored works per collaborator.

Best Publications

  • Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates – synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward

    Richard T. Conant;Richard T. Conant;Michael G. Ryan;Göran I. Ågren;Hannah E. Birge

  • Anthropogenic perturbation of the carbon fluxes from land to ocean

    Pierre Regnier;Pierre Friedlingstein;Philippe Ciais;Fred T. Mackenzie

  • Temporal dynamics of soil organic carbon after land-use change in the temperate zone ― carbon response functions as a model approach

    Christopher Poeplau;Axel Don;Lars Vesterdal;Jens Leifeld

  • The underappreciated potential of peatlands in global climate change mitigation strategies.

    J. Leifeld;L. Menichetti

  • Towards a global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy.

    W Amelung;W Amelung;D Bossio;W de Vries;I Kögel-Knabner

  • Measured soil organic matter fractions can be related to pools in the RothC model

    M. Zimmermann;J. Leifeld;M. W. I. Schmidt;P. Smith

  • Soil organic matter fractions as early indicators for carbon stock changes under different land-use?

    Jens Leifeld;Ingrid Kögel-Knabner

  • Application of thermal analysis techniques in soil science.

    Alain F. Plante;José M. Fernández;J. Leifeld

  • European Biochar Certificate - Guidelines for a sustainable production of Biochar

    Hans Peter Schmidt;Thomas Bucheli;Claudia Kammann;Bruno Glaser

  • Carbon stocks in Swiss agricultural soils predicted by land-use, soil characteristics, and altitude

    Jens Leifeld;Seraina Bassin;Jürg Fuhrer

  • The carbon budget of newly established temperate grassland depends on management intensity

    C. Ammann;C.R. Flechard;J. Leifeld;A. Neftel

  • Biochar in agriculture – A systematic review of 26 global meta-analyses

    Hans-Peter Schmidt;Claudia Kammann;Nikolas Hagemann;Jens Leifeld

  • Effects of climate and management intensity on nitrous oxide emissions in grassland systems across Europe

    C.R. Flechard;P. Ambus;U. Skiba;R.M. Rees

  • Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink

    J. Loisel;A. V. Gallego-Sala;Matthew J. Amesbury;Matthew J. Amesbury;G. Magnan

  • Quantitative determination of PAHs in biochar: a prerequisite to ensure its quality and safe application.

    Isabel Hilber;Franziska Blum;Jens Leifeld;Hans-Peter Schmidt

  • Intact and managed peatland soils as a source and sink of GHGs from 1850 to 2100

    Jens Leifeld;Chloé Wüst-Galley;Susan Page

  • The Temperature Response of CO2 Production from Bulk Soils and Soil Fractions is Related to Soil Organic Matter Quality

    Jens Leifeld;Jürg Fuhrer

  • Biological residues define the ice nucleation properties of soil dust

    F. Conen;C. E. Morris;J. Leifeld;M. V. Yakutin

  • The effect of the tillage system on soil organic carbon content under moist, cold-temperate conditions

    Sandra Hermle;Thomas Anken;Jens Leifeld;Peter Weisskopf

  • Quantifying soil organic carbon fractions by infrared-spectroscopy

    M. Zimmermann;J. Leifeld;J. Fuhrer

  • Organic Farming and Soil Carbon Sequestration: What Do We Really Know About the Benefits?

    Jens Leifeld;Jürg Fuhrer

  • Assessment of the nitrogen and carbon budget of two managed temperate grassland fields

    Christof Ammann;Christoph Spirig;Jens Leifeld;Albrecht Neftel

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine Alewell
Christine Alewell University of Basel
Jürg Fuhrer
Jürg Fuhrer University of Bern
Franz Conen
Franz Conen University of Basel
Ingrid Kögel-Knabner
Ingrid Kögel-Knabner Technical University of Munich
Christof Ammann
Christof Ammann Federal Council
Sönke Szidat
Sönke Szidat University of Bern
Samuel Abiven
Samuel Abiven University of Zurich
Johan Six
Johan Six ETH Zurich
Cornelia Rumpel
Cornelia Rumpel Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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