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Olaf Kolle is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany. Their research focuses on environmental science, with an emphasis on global and planetary change, atmospheric science, environmental chemistry, ecology, and nature and landscape conservation.

Their work encompasses several main topics including atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, climate change and permafrost, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, methane hydrates and related phenomena, soil and water nutrient dynamics, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Olaf Kolle has contributed to numerous publications across a variety of respected scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Notable recent papers by Olaf Kolle include:

  • "Drought and heatwave impacts on semi-arid ecosystems' carbon fluxes along a precipitation gradient," 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "How Nitrogen and Phosphorus Availability Change Water Use Efficiency in a Mediterranean Savanna Ecosystem," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • "Enhanced stability of grassland soil temperature by plant diversity," 2023, Nature Geoscience
  • "Effects of Reversal of Water Flow in an Arctic Floodplain River on Fluvial Emissions of CO2 and CH4," 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • "Assessing methane emissions for northern peatlands in ORCHIDEE-PEAT revision 7020," 2022, Geoscientific Model Development

Olaf Kolle collaborates frequently with a range of co-authors, including:

  • Mirco Migliavacca
  • Martin Hertel
  • Tarek S. El-Madany
  • Markus Reichstein
  • Arnaud Carrara

Best Publications

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

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Productivity of forests in the Eurosiberian boreal region and their potential to act as a carbon sink –- a synthesis

    E.-D. Schulze;J. Lloyd;F. M. Kelliher;C. Wirth

  • Large carbon uptake by an unmanaged 250-year-old deciduous forest in Central Germany

    Alexander Knohl;Ernst-Detlef Schulze;Olaf Kolle;Nina Buchmann

  • High-accuracy continuous airborne measurements of greenhouse gases (CO2 and CH4) using the cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) technique

    H. Chen;J. Winderlich;C. Gerbig;A. Hoefer

  • Thirst beats hunger – declining hydration during drought prevents carbon starvation in Norway spruce saplings

    Henrik Hartmann;Waldemar Ziegler;Olaf Kolle;Susan E. Trumbore

  • Quality control of CarboEurope flux data – Part 2: Inter-comparison of eddy-covariance software

    Matthias Mauder;Matthias Mauder;Thomas Foken;Robert Clement;Jan A. Elbers

  • Forest and agricultural land‐use‐dependent CO2 exchange in Thuringia, Germany

    P. M. Anthoni;A. Knohl;C. Rebmann;A. Freibauer

  • Winter wheat carbon exchange in Thuringia, Germany

    Peter M. Anthoni;Annette Freibauer;Olaf Kolle;Ernst-Detlef Schulze

  • Plant functional traits and canopy structure control the relationship between photosynthetic CO2 uptake and far-red sun-induced fluorescence in a Mediterranean grassland under different nutrient availability

    Mirco Migliavacca;Oscar Perez‐Priego;Micol Rossini;Tarek S. El‐Madany

  • Seasonal variation in energy fluxes and carbon dioxide exchange for a broad‐leaved semi‐arid savanna (Mopane woodland) in Southern Africa

    Elmar M. Veenendaal;Olaf Kolle;Jon Lloyd

  • Comparison of horizontal and vertical advective CO2 fluxes at three forest sites

    Christian Feigenwinter;Christian Bernhofer;Uwe Eichelmann;Bernard Heinesch

  • Carbon dioxide and methane exchange of a north‐east Siberian tussock tundra

    C. Corradi;O. Kolle;K. Walter;S. A. Zimov

  • Comparative ecosystem–atmosphere exchange of energy and mass in a European Russian and a central Siberian bog II. Interseasonal and interannual variability of CO2 fluxes

    Almut Arneth;Juliya Kurbatova;Olaf Kolle;Olga B. Shibistova

  • Calibration of TCCON column-averaged CO2: the first aircraft campaign over European TCCON sites

    Janina Messerschmidt;Janina Messerschmidt;Marc Christoph Geibel;Thomas Blumenstock;Hilin Chen;Hilin Chen

  • Continuous low-maintenance CO 2 /CH 4 /H 2 O measurements at the Zotino Tall Tower Observatory (ZOTTO) in Central Siberia

    J. Winderlich;H. Chen;C. Gerbig;T. Seifert

  • Interpreting canopy development and physiology using a European phenology camera network at flux sites

    L. Wingate;J. Ogée;E. Cremonese;G. Filippa

  • Seasonal and annual variations in the photosynthetic productivity and carbon balance of a central Siberian pine forest

    Jon Lloyd;Olga Shibistova;Daniil Zolotoukhine;Olaf Kolle

  • Ozone concentration jump in the stable nocturnal boundary layer during a LLJ-event

    U. Corsmeier;N. Kalthoff;O. Kolle;M. Kotzian

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

    Corinna Rebmann;Marc Aubinet;Hape Schmid;Nicola Arriga

  • Carbon dioxide exchange of a Russian boreal forest after disturbance by wind throw

    Alexander Knohl;Olaf Kolle;Tatiana Y. Minayeva;Irina M. Milyukova

  • Airborne measurements of trace gas and aerosol particle emissions from biomass burning in Amazonia

    Pascal Guyon;Göran Frank;Michael Welling;Duli Chand

Frequent Co-Authors

Mirco Migliavacca
Mirco Migliavacca Joint Research Centre
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Almut Arneth
Almut Arneth Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Corinna Rebmann
Corinna Rebmann Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Martin Heimann
Martin Heimann Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Jon Lloyd
Jon Lloyd Imperial College London
Gerardo Moreno
Gerardo Moreno University of Extremadura
Arnaud Carrara
Arnaud Carrara University of Antwerp
Christoph Gerbig
Christoph Gerbig Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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