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Matthias Peichl is affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular emphasis on global and planetary change, ecology, and atmospheric science.

Their work covers a broad range of subfields including plant science and soil science. Key topics within their research portfolio are:

  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Matthias has contributed to several scientific publications spanning various respected journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • FLUXNET-CH4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands, 2021, Earth system science data
  • Sensitivity of gross primary productivity to climatic drivers during the summer drought of 2018 in Europe, 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales, 2021, Global Change Biology

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Mats B. Nilsson
  • Ivan Mammarella
  • Hjalmar Laudon
  • Oliver Sonnentag
  • E. S. Euskirchen

Best Publications

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Energy exchange and water budget partitioning in a boreal minerogenic mire

    Matthias Peichl;Jörgen Sagerfors;Anders Lindroth;Ishi Buffam;Ishi Buffam

  • Allometry and partitioning of above- and belowground tree biomass in an age-sequence of white pine forests

    Matthias Peichl;M. Altaf Arain

  • Above- and belowground ecosystem biomass and carbon pools in an age-sequence of temperate pine plantation forests

    Matthias Peichl;M. Altaf Arain

  • Carbon Sequestration Potentials in Temperate Tree-Based Intercropping Systems, Southern Ontario, Canada

    Matthias Peichl;Naresh V. Thevathasan;Andrew M. Gordon;Jürgen Huss

  • Impacts of droughts and extreme-temperature events on gross primary production and ecosystem respiration: a systematic assessment across ecosystems and climate zones

    Jannis von Buttlar;Jannis von Buttlar;Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Anja Rammig;Sebastian Sippel

  • Land surface phenology derived from normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) at global FLUXNET sites

    Chaoyang Wu;Dailiang Peng;Kamel Soudani;Lukas Siebicke

  • FLUXNET-CH4 Synthesis Activity : Objectives, Observations, and Future Directions

    Sara H. Knox;Robert B. Jackson;Benjamin Poulter;Gavin McNicol

  • Increasing contribution of peatlands to boreal evapotranspiration in a warming climate

    Manuel Helbig;Manuel Helbig;James Michael Waddington;Pavel Alekseychik;Brian D. Amiro

  • Statistical upscaling of ecosystem CO2 fluxes across the terrestrial tundra and boreal domain: Regional patterns and uncertainties

    Anna Maria Virkkala;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Brendan M. Rogers;Torbern Tagesson;Torbern Tagesson

  • FLUXNET-CH4: a global, multi-ecosystem dataset and analysis of methane seasonality from freshwater wetlands

    Kyle B. Delwiche;Sara Helen Knox;Avni Malhotra;Etienne Fluet-Chouinard

  • Linking variability in soil solution dissolved organic carbon to climate, soil type, and vegetation type

    Marta Camino-Serrano;Bert Gielen;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Philippe Ciais

  • Standardisation of chamber technique for CO2, N2O and CH4 fluxes measurements from terrestrial ecosystems

    Marian Pavelka;Manuel Acosta;Ralf Kiese;Núria Altimir

  • Tropical and Boreal Forest – Atmosphere Interactions: A Review

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  • Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide exchanges in an age-sequence of temperate pine forests.

    Matthias Peichl;M. Altaf Arain;Sami Ullah;Tim R. Moore

  • Identifying dominant environmental predictors of freshwater wetland methane fluxes across diurnal to seasonal time scales.

    Sara Helen Knox;Sheel Bansal;Gavin McNicol;Karina Schafer

  • Sensitivity of gross primary productivity to climatic drivers during the summer drought of 2018 in Europe

    Zheng Fu;Philippe Ciais;Ana Bastos;Paul C. Stoy;Paul C. Stoy

  • A 12-year record reveals pre-growing season temperature and water table level threshold effects on the net carbon dioxide exchange in a boreal fen

    Matthias Peichl;Mats Öquist;Mikaell Ottosson Löfvenius;Ulrik Ilstedt

  • ICOS eddy covariance flux-station site setup: a review

    Corinna Rebmann;Marc Aubinet;Hape Schmid;Nicola Arriga

  • Monthly gridded data product of northern wetland methane emissions based on upscaling eddy covariance observations

    Olli Peltola;Timo Vesala;Yao Gao;Olle Räty

  • Diverse Responses of Vegetation Phenology to Climate Change in Different Grasslands in Inner Mongolia during 2000–2016

    Shilong Ren;Shuhua Yi;Matthias Peichl;Xiaoyun Wang

  • Biometric and eddy-covariance based estimates of carbon fluxes in an age-sequence of temperate pine forests.

    Matthias Peichl;Jason J. Brodeur;Myroslava Khomik;M. Altaf Arain

  • Above- and belowground ecosystem biomass, carbon and nitrogen allocation in recently afforested grassland and adjacent intensively managed grassland

    Matthias Peichl;Matthias Peichl;Natalie Anne Leava;Gerard Kiely

Frequent Co-Authors

Mats Nilsson
Mats Nilsson Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Annalea Lohila
Annalea Lohila Finnish Meteorological Institute
Ivan Mammarella
Ivan Mammarella University of Helsinki
Mika Aurela
Mika Aurela Finnish Meteorological Institute
Oliver Sonnentag
Oliver Sonnentag University of Montreal
M. Altaf Arain
M. Altaf Arain McMaster University
Anders Lindroth
Anders Lindroth Lund University
Eeva-Stiina Tuittila
Eeva-Stiina Tuittila University of Eastern Finland
Hjalmar Laudon
Hjalmar Laudon Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Lutz Merbold
Lutz Merbold Agroscope

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