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2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2009 - Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Overview

Louis A. Schipper is affiliated with the University of Waikato in New Zealand and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Soil Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Pollution.

The scientist's work often addresses critical environmental topics such as Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment.

Louis A. Schipper has published in various respected venues, with frequent contributions to Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, SSRN Electronic Journal, Global Change Biology, Biogeochemistry, and Geoderma.

Significant recent papers include:

  • How close are we to the temperature tipping point of the terrestrial biosphere? (2021, Science Advances)
  • Effectiveness of Denitrifying Bioreactors on Water Pollutant Reduction from Agricultural Areas (2021, Transactions of the ASABE)
  • Bridge to the future: Important lessons from 20 years of ecosystem observations made by the OzFlux network (2022, Global Change Biology)
  • Soil microbial sensitivity to temperature remains unchanged despite community compositional shifts along geothermal gradients (2021, Global Change Biology)
  • Quantifying thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration (2023, Nature Communications)

Among frequent co-authors are Aaron M. Wall, Jordan P. Goodrich, David I. Campbell, Vickery L. Arcus, and Lìyǐn Liáng.

In recognition of their career contributions, Louis A. Schipper was named a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Denitrifying bioreactors - an approach for reducing nitrate loads to receiving waters.

    Louis A. Schipper;Will D. Robertson;Arthur J. Gold;Dan B. Jaynes

  • How to measure, report and verify soil carbon change to realize the potential of soil carbon sequestration for atmospheric greenhouse gas removal.

    Pete Smith;Jean‐Francois Soussana;Denis Angers;Louis Schipper

  • Decreases in organic C reserves in soils can reduce the catabolic diversity of soil microbial communities

    Bradley P. Degens;Bradley P. Degens;Louis A. Schipper;Graham P. Sparling;Maja Vojvodic-Vukovic

  • Hot-water-soluble C as a simple measure of labile soil organic matter: the relationship with microbial biomass C

    G Sparling;Maja Vojvodić-Vuković;L.A Schipper

  • Is the microbial community in a soil with reduced catabolic diversity less resistant to stress or disturbance

    Bradley P. Degens;Louis A. Schipper;Graham P. Sparling;Louise C. Duncan

  • Nitrate removal and hydraulic performance of organic carbon for use in denitrification beds

    Stewart Graham Cameron;Louis A. Schipper

  • Annual denitrification rates in agricultural and forest soils: a review

    L. Barton;C. D. A. McLay;L. A. Schipper;C. T. Smith

  • Aligning agriculture and climate policy

    Abad Chabbi;J. Lehmann;Philippe Ciais;Henry William Loescher;Henry William Loescher

  • Nitrate removal, communities of denitrifiers and adverse effects in different carbon substrates for use in denitrification beds.

    Sören Warneke;Louis A. Schipper;Michael G. Matiasek;Kate M. Scow

  • On the Temperature Dependence of Enzyme-Catalyzed Rates

    Vickery L. Arcus;Erica J. Prentice;Joanne K. Hobbs;Adrian J. Mulholland

  • Denitrifying Bioreactors for Nitrate Removal: A Meta-Analysis.

    Kelly Addy;Arthur J. Gold;Laura E. Christianson;Mark B. David

  • Change in heat capacity for enzyme catalysis determines temperature dependence of enzyme catalyzed rates.

    Joanne K. Hobbs;Wanting Jiao;Ashley Davys Easter;Emily J. Parker

  • Rates, controls and potential adverse effects of nitrate removal in a denitrification bed

    Sören Warneke;Louis A. Schipper;Denise A. Bruesewitz;Ian McDonald

  • Five years of nitrate removal, denitrification and carbon dynamics in a denitrification wall.

    Louis A Schipper;Maja Vojvodić-Vuković

  • Thermodynamic theory explains the temperature optima of soil microbial processes and high Q10 values at low temperatures.

    Louis A. Schipper;Joanne K. Hobbs;Susanna Rutledge;Vickery L. Arcus

  • How close are we to the temperature tipping point of the terrestrial biosphere

    Katharyn A. Duffy;Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher R. Schwalm;Vickery L. Arcus;George W. Koch

  • Nitrate Removal from Groundwater Using a Denitrification Wall Amended with Sawdust: Field Trial

    Louis Schipper;M. Vojvodić-Vuković

  • Regulators of denitrification in an organic riparian soil

    L.A. Schipper;A.B. Cooper;C.G. Harfoot;W.J. Dyck

  • Nitrate removal from groundwater and denitrification rates in a porous treatment wall amended with sawdust.

    Louis A. Schipper;Maja Vojvodić-Vuković

  • Large losses of soil C and N from soil profiles under pasture in New Zealand during the past 20 years

    L. A. Schipper;W. T. Baisden;R. L. Parfitt;C. Ross

  • Photodegradation leads to increased carbon dioxide losses from terrestrial organic matter

    Susanna Rutledge;David I. Campbell;Dennis Baldocchi;Louis A. Schipper

  • Carbon exchange of grazed pasture on a drained peat soil

    Joost P. Nieveen;David I. Campbell;Louis A. Schipper;Ian J. Blair

Frequent Co-Authors

G. P. Sparling
G. P. Sparling University of Waikato
Roger L. Parfitt
Roger L. Parfitt Landcare Research
David J. Lowe
David J. Lowe University of Waikato
Peter Grace
Peter Grace Queensland University of Technology
Matthew J. Helmers
Matthew J. Helmers Iowa State University
Michael J. Clearwater
Michael J. Clearwater University of Waikato
Miko U. F. Kirschbaum
Miko U. F. Kirschbaum Landcare Research
Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper Charles Sturt University
David Rowlings
David Rowlings Queensland University of Technology

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