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Lars Elsgaard

Lars Elsgaard

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
42
Citations
5390
World Ranking
7511
National Ranking
105

Overview

Lars Elsgaard is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work explores several specialized subfields including Soil Science, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Pollution, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The core topics addressed in their research encompass Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment, Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, Soil and Unsaturated Flow, and Bioenergy Crop Production and Management.

Elsgaard has contributed to various scientific venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • European Journal of Soil Science
  • Geoderma Regional
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Elsgaard include:

  • Soil carbon loss with warming: New evidence from carbon-degrading enzymes, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Long-term nitrogen loading alleviates phosphorus limitation in terrestrial ecosystems, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Decreased rhizodeposition, but increased microbial carbon stabilization with soil depth down to 3.6 m, 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Trade-offs in greenhouse gas emissions across a liming-induced gradient of soil pH: Role of microbial structure and functioning, 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Emerging multiscale insights on microbial carbon use efficiency in the land carbon cycle, 2024, Nature Communications

Frequent coauthors in Elsgaard's publications include:

  • Zhi Liang
  • Jørgen E. Olesen
  • Arnaud Jéglot
  • Jim Rasmussen
  • Diego Ábalos

Best Publications

  • Soil carbon loss with warming: New evidence from carbon-degrading enzymes.

    Ji Chen;Lars Elsgaard;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Jørgen Eivind Olesen

  • Long‐term nitrogen loading alleviates phosphorus limitation in terrestrial ecosystems

    Ji Chen;Kees Jan van Groenigen;Bruce A. Hungate;César Terrer

  • Changes in time of sowing, flowering and maturity of cereals in Europe under climate change

    J.E. Olesen;C.D. Børgesen;L. Elsgaard;Taru Palosuo

  • Microbial sulfate reduction in deep-sea sediments at the Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vent area: Influence of temperature and substrates

    Lars Elsgaard;Mai F. Isaksen;Bo Barker Jørgensen;Anne-Marie Alayse

  • Net ecosystem exchange of CO2 and carbon balance for eight temperate organic soils under agricultural management

    Lars Elsgaard;Carolyn-Monika Görres;Carl Christian Hoffmann;Gitte Blicher-Mathiesen

  • Annual emissions of CH 4 and N 2 O, and ecosystem respiration, from eight organic soils in Western Denmark managed by agriculture

    S. O. Petersen;C. C. Hoffmann;C.-M. Schäfer;G. Blicher-Mathiesen

  • Effects of reduced tillage on net greenhouse gas fluxes from loamy sand soil under winter crops in Denmark

    Dmitri Chatskikh;Jørgen E. Olesen;Elly M. Hansen;Lars Elsgaard

  • Effects and risk assessment of linear alkylbenzene sulfonates in agricultural soil. 1. Short-term effects on soil microbiology

    Lars Elsgaard;Søren O. Petersen;Kasia Debosz

  • Anoxie transformations of radiolabeled hydrogen sulfide in marine and freshwater sediments

    Lars Elsgaard;Bo Barker Jørgensen

  • Changes in carbon stocks of Danish agricultural mineral soils between 1986 and 2009

    A. Taghizadeh‐Toosi;J. E. Olesen;K. Kristensen;L. Elsgaard

  • The fate of sulfate in acidified pig slurry during storage and following application to cropped soil.

    Jørgen Eriksen;Peter Sørensen;Lars Elsgaard

  • Effect of biochar on aerobic processes, enzyme activity, and crop yields in two sandy loam soils

    Zhencai Sun;Esben Wilson Bruun;Emmanuel Arthur;Lis Wollesen de Jonge

  • Shifts in comparative advantages for maize, oat and wheat cropping under climate change in Europe.

    L. Elsgaard;C.D. Børgesen;J.E. Olesen;S. Siebert

  • Microbial biomass and numbers of denitrifiers related to macropore channels in agricultural and forest soils

    F.P Vinther;F Eiland;A.-M Lind;L Elsgaard

  • Nitrous oxide fluxes in undisturbed riparian wetlands located in agricultural catchments: Emission, uptake and controlling factors

    Joachim Audet;Carl C. Hoffmann;Peter M. Andersen;Annette Baattrup-Pedersen

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from a Danish riparian wetland before and after restoration

    Joachim Audet;Lars Elsgaard;Charlotte Kjaergaard;Søren E. Larsen

  • Measurement and modelling of CO2 flux from a drained fen peatland cultivated with reed canary grass and spring barley

    Tanka P. Kandel;Lars Elsgaard;Poul E. Lærke

  • Biochar effects on soil aggregate properties under no-till maize

    Ataallah Khademalrasoul;Muhammad Naveed;Goswin Heckrath;K.G.I.D. Kumari

  • Direct and Indirect Short-Term Effects of Biochar on Physical Characteristics of an Arable Sandy Loam

    Zhencai Sun;Per Moldrup;Lars Elsgaard;Emmanuel Arthur

  • Decreased rhizodeposition, but increased microbial carbon stabilization with soil depth down to 3.6 m

    Leanne Peixoto;Lars Elsgaard;Jim Rasmussen;Yakov Kuzyakov

  • Effects and risk assessment of linear alkylbenzene sulfonates in agricultural soil. 5. Probabilistic risk assessment of linear alkylbenzene sulfonates in sludge-amended soils.

    John Jensen;Hans Løkke;Martin Holmstrup;Paul Henning Krogh

Frequent Co-Authors

Søren O. Petersen
Søren O. Petersen Aarhus University
Jørgen E. Olesen
Jørgen E. Olesen Aarhus University
Joachim Audet
Joachim Audet Aarhus University
Lis Wollesen de Jonge
Lis Wollesen de Jonge Aarhus University
Per Moldrup
Per Moldrup Aalborg University
Ingrid K. Thomsen
Ingrid K. Thomsen Aarhus University
Tim J. Clough
Tim J. Clough Lincoln University
Diego Abalos
Diego Abalos Aarhus University
Bent T. Christensen
Bent T. Christensen Aarhus University
Søren Ejling Larsen
Søren Ejling Larsen Technical University of Denmark

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