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Overview

Katrin Meusburger 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 several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Soil Science.

Their main research topics cover Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Tree-ring climate responses, Forest ecology and management, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, Soil erosion and sediment transport, and Cryospheric studies and observations.

Recent publications include the following papers:

  • Drought reduces water uptake in beech from the drying topsoil, but no compensatory uptake occurs from deeper soil layers (2021, New Phytologist)
  • European beech dieback after premature leaf senescence during the 2018 drought in northern Switzerland (2022, Plant Biology)
  • Determinants of legacy effects in pine trees - implications from an irrigation-stop experiment (2020, New Phytologist)
  • Plutonium aided reconstruction of caesium atmospheric fallout in European topsoils (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • Extreme summer heat and drought lead to early fruit abortion in European beech (2020, Scientific Reports)

Frequent co-authors of Katrin Meusburger include:

  • Arthur Geßler
  • Marcus Schaub
  • Roman Zweifel
  • Frank Hagedorn
  • Christine Alewell

Meusburger has published regularly in several scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Global Change Biology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen
  • New Phytologist
  • ARPHA Conference Abstracts

Best Publications

  • An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion.

    Pasquale Borrelli;David A. Robinson;Larissa R. Fleischer;Emanuele Lugato

  • The new assessment of soil loss by water erosion in Europe

    Panos Panagos;Pasquale Borrelli;Jean Poesen;Cristiano Ballabio

  • Estimating the soil erosion cover-management factor at the European scale

    Panos Panagos;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger;Christine Alewell

  • Using the USLE: Chances, challenges and limitations of soil erosion modelling

    Christine Alewell;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger;Panos Panagos

  • Rainfall Erosivity in Europe

    Panos Panagos;Christiano Ballabio;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger

  • Global rainfall erosivity assessment based on high-temporal resolution rainfall records

    Panos Panagos;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger;Bofu Yu

  • Soil erodibility in Europe: A high-resolution dataset based on LUCAS

    Panos Panagos;Katrin Meusburger;Cristiano Ballabio;Pasqualle Borrelli

  • A New European Slope Length and Steepness Factor (LS-Factor) for Modeling Soil Erosion by Water

    Panos Panagos;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger

  • Modelling the effect of support practices (P-factor) on the reduction of soil erosion by water at European Scale

    Panos Panagos;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger;Emma H. van der Zanden

  • Spatial and temporal variability of rainfall erosivity factor for Switzerland

    Katrin Meusburger;A. Steel;P. Panagos;L. Montanarella

  • Fallout 210Pb as a soil and sediment tracer in catchment sediment budget investigations: A review

    L. Mabit;M. Benmansour;J.M. Abril;D.E. Walling

  • Mapping monthly rainfall erosivity in Europe

    Cristiano Ballabio;Pasquale Borrelli;Jonathan Spinoni;Katrin Meusburger

  • Soil conservation in Europe: Wish or Reality?

    Panos Panagos;Anton Imeson;Katrin Meusburger;Pasquale Borrelli

  • Towards estimates of future rainfall erosivity in Europe based on REDES and WorldClim datasets.

    Panos Panagos;Cristiano Ballabio;Katrin Meusburger;Jonathan Spinoni

  • Spatio-temporal analysis of rainfall erosivity and erosivity density in Greece

    Panos Panagos;Cristiano Ballabio;Pasquale Borrelli;Katrin Meusburger

  • The usefulness of 137Cs as a tracer for soil erosion assessment: A critical reply to Parsons and Foster (2011)

    L. Mabit;K. Meusburger;E. Fulajtar;C. Alewell

  • A step towards a holistic assessment of soil degradation in Europe: Coupling on-site erosion with sediment transfer and carbon fluxes.

    P. Borrelli;K. Van Oost;K. Meusburger;C. Alewell

  • 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

  • Impacts of anthropogenic and environmental factors on the occurrence of shallow landslides in an alpine catchment (Urseren Valley, Switzerland)

    K. Meusburger;C. Alewell

  • Soil erosion modelled with USLE and PESERA using QuickBird derived vegetation parameters in an alpine catchment

    Katrin Meusburger;Nadine Konz;Monika Schaub;Christine Alewell

  • Assessing soil erosion in Europe based on data collected through a European network

    Panos Panagos;Katrin Meusburger;Marc Van Liedekerke;Christine Alewell

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine Alewell
Christine Alewell University of Basel
Panos Panagos
Panos Panagos European Commission
Lionel Mabit
Lionel Mabit International Atomic Energy Agency
Pasquale Borrelli
Pasquale Borrelli Roma Tre University
Cristiano Ballabio
Cristiano Ballabio University of Milan
Luca Montanarella
Luca Montanarella European Commission
Andreas Klik
Andreas Klik BOKU University
Jean Poesen
Jean Poesen KU Leuven
Emanuele Lugato
Emanuele Lugato University of Padua
Arthur Gessler
Arthur Gessler ETH Zurich

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