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Klaus Steenberg Larsen

Klaus Steenberg Larsen

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
32
Citations
6968
World Ranking
7992
National Ranking
104

Overview

Klaus Steenberg Larsen is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to the understanding of soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and peatlands and wetlands ecology.

The scholar's work spans several subfields, including global and planetary change, soil science, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, and atmospheric science. This multidisciplinary approach underpins the breadth of topics covered in their publications.

Among the main topics in their research are:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Collembola Taxonomy and Ecology Studies
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Klaus Steenberg Larsen include:

  • "Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally" (2024), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought" (2022), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Rainfall manipulation experiments as simulated by terrestrial biosphere models: Where do we stand?" (2020), published in Global Change Biology
  • "Effects of Climate and Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on Early to Mid-Term Stage Litter Decomposition Across Biomes" (2021), published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • "Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass-loss rate and stabilization" (2024), published in Ecology Letters

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, with the most recurrent co-authors being:

  • Inger Kappel Schmidt
  • Claus Beier
  • Michael Bahn
  • Jeffrey S. Dukes
  • Anke Jentsch

Their publications are commonly featured in journals such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Global Change Biology, The Science of The Total Environment, Nature Ecology & Evolution, and Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, indicating a focus on high-impact and interdisciplinary environmental science research venues.

Best Publications

  • Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

    Thomas W. Crowther;Katherine E.O. Todd-Brown;Clara W. Rowe;William R. Wieder

  • Dissolved carbon leaching from soil is a crucial component of the net ecosystem carbon balance

    Reimo Kindler;Reimo Kindler;Jan Siemens;Jan Siemens;Klaus Kaiser;David Christopher Walmsley

  • Temperature response of soil respiration largely unaltered with experimental warming

    Joanna C. Carey;Jianwu Tang;Pamela H. Templer;Kevin D. Kroeger

  • 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

  • Large loss of CO2 in winter observed across the northern permafrost region

    Susan M. Natali;Jennifer D. Watts;Brendan M. Rogers;Stefano Potter

  • Repeated freeze-thaw cycles and their effects on biological processes in two arctic ecosystem types

    Klaus S Larsen;Sven Jonasson;Anders Michelsen

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

  • Reduced N cycling in response to elevated CO2, warming, and drought in a Danish heathland: Synthesizing results of the CLIMAITE project after two years of treatments

    Klaus Steenberg Larsen;Louise C. Andresen;Claus Beier;Sven Jonasson

  • To replicate, or not to replicate - that is the question: how to tackle nonlinear responses in ecological experiments

    Juergen Kreyling;Andreas H. Schweiger;Michael Bahn;Phil Ineson

  • Experimental design of multifactor climate change experiments with elevated CO2, warming and drought: the CLIMAITE project

    Teis Nørgaard Mikkelsen;Claus Beier;S. Jonasson;M. Holmstrup

  • Increased sensitivity to climate change in disturbed ecosystems

    György Kröel-Dulay;Johannes Ransijn;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Claus Beier

  • Soil respiration is stimulated by elevated CO2 and reduced by summer drought: three years of measurements in a multifactor ecosystem manipulation experiment in a temperate heathland (CLIMAITE)

    Merete Bang Selsted;Leon van der Linden;Andreas Ibrom;Anders Michelsen

  • Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

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  • Respiration and microbial dynamics in two subarctic ecosystems during winter and spring thaw: effects of increased snow depth

    Klaus S. Larsen;Paul Grogan;Sven Jonasson;Anders Michelsen

  • 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

  • Few multiyear precipitation-reduction experiments find a shift in the productivity-precipitation relationship.

    Marc Estiarte;Sara Vicca;Josep Peñuelas;Michael Bahn

  • Can current moisture responses predict soil CO2 efflux under altered precipitation regimes? A synthesis of manipulation experiments

    S. Vicca;M. Bahn;M. Estiarte;E. E. van Loon

  • The handbook for standardized field and laboratory measurements in terrestrial climate change experiments and observational studies (ClimEx)

    Aud Helen Halbritter Rechsteiner;Hans J. De Boeck;Amy Elizabeth Eycott;Amy Elizabeth Eycott;Sabine Reinsch

  • Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought

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  • Significance of cold‐season respiration and photosynthesis in a subarctic heath ecosystem in Northern Sweden

    Klaus Steenberg Larsen;Andreas Ibrom;Sven Jonasson;Anders Michelsen

  • Nitrogen Uptake During Fall, Winter and Spring Differs Among Plant Functional Groups in a Subarctic Heath Ecosystem

    Klaus Steenberg Larsen;Klaus Steenberg Larsen;Anders Michelsen;Sven Jonasson;Claus Beier

  • Multi-factor climate change effects on insect herbivore performance

    Christoph Scherber;David J Gladbach;Karen Stevnbak;Rune Juelsborg Karsten

  • Rainfall manipulation experiments as simulated by terrestrial biosphere models: Where do we stand?

    Athanasios Paschalis;Simone Fatichi;Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Philippe Ciais

Frequent Co-Authors

Claus Beier
Claus Beier University of Copenhagen
Inger Kappel Schmidt
Inger Kappel Schmidt University of Copenhagen
Teis Nørgaard Mikkelsen
Teis Nørgaard Mikkelsen Technical University of Denmark
Per Ambus
Per Ambus University of Copenhagen
Andreas Ibrom
Andreas Ibrom Technical University of Denmark
Kim Pilegaard
Kim Pilegaard Technical University of Denmark
Anders Michelsen
Anders Michelsen University of Copenhagen
Marc Estiarte
Marc Estiarte Spanish National Research Council
Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Albert Tietema
Albert Tietema University of Amsterdam

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