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Patrick Schleppi is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on topics related to environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with notable subfields including soil science, environmental chemistry, and ecology.

Their main research topics encompass soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, soil and water nutrient dynamics, peatlands and wetlands ecology, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, tree-ring climate responses, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, and mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions.

Patrick Schleppi has contributed to various scientific papers published in respected journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Lessons learned from a long-term irrigation experiment in a dry Scots pine forest: Impacts on traits and functioning (2022, Ecological Monographs)
  • Only Minor Changes in the Soil Microbiome of a Sub-alpine Forest After 20 Years of Moderately Increased Nitrogen Loads (2020, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change)
  • Atmospheric deposition and precipitation are important predictors of inorganic nitrogen export to streams from forest and grassland watersheds: a large-scale data synthesis (2022, Biogeochemistry)
  • Leaf Morphological Traits and Leaf Nutrient Concentrations of European Beech Across a Water Availability Gradient in Switzerland (2020, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change)
  • Variation in Leaf Morphological Traits of European Beech and Norway Spruce Over Two Decades in Switzerland (2022, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change)

Frequent publication venues for Schleppi include:

  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Biogeosciences
  • Ecological Monographs
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science

Collaborations have been established with several coauthors, notably Ivano Brunner (3 publications), Frank Hagedorn (2 publications), Sophia Etzold (2 publications), Katrin Meusburger (2 publications), and Marcus Schaub (2 publications).

Best Publications

  • Nitrogen deposition makes a minor contribution to carbon sequestration in temperate forests

    Knute J. Nadelhoffer;Bridget A. Emmett;Per Gundersen;O. Janne Kjønaas

  • Export of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen from Gleysol dominated catchments – the significance of water flow paths

    Frank Hagedorn;Patrick Schleppi;Peter Waldner;Hannes Flühler

  • Sinks for nitrogen inputs in terrestrial ecosystems: a meta‐analysis of 15N tracer field studies

    P. H. Templer;M. C. Mack;F. S. Chapin;L. M. Christenson

  • Predicting the Effects of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition in Conifer Stands: Evidence from the NITREX Ecosystem-Scale Experiments

    B. A. Emmett;D. Boxman;M. Bredemeier;P. Gundersen

  • Rare earth elements in soil and in soil-grown plants

    A. Wyttenbach;V. Furrer;P. Schleppi;L. Tobler

  • Correcting non-linearity and slope effects in the estimation of the leaf area index of forests from hemispherical photographs

    Patrick Schleppi;Marco Conedera;Isabella Sedivy;Anne Thimonier

  • Estimating leaf area index in different types of mature forest stands in Switzerland: a comparison of methods

    Anne Thimonier;Isabella Sedivy;Patrick Schleppi

  • Regional assessment of N saturation using foliar and root δ15N

    L. H. Pardo;P. H. Templer;C. L. Goodale;S. Duke

  • Central European hardwood trees in a high‐CO2 future: synthesis of an 8‐year forest canopy CO2 enrichment project

    Martin K.-F. Bader;Martin K.-F. Bader;Sebastian Leuzinger;Sebastian Leuzinger;Sonja Gisela Yin Keel;Sonja Gisela Yin Keel;Rolf T.W. Siegwolf

  • Effect of irrigation on needle morphology, shoot and stem growth in a drought-exposed Pinus sylvestris forest.

    Matthias Dobbertin;Britta Eilmann;Peter Bleuler;Arnaud Giuggiola

  • Soil warming opens the nitrogen cycle at the alpine treeline.

    Melissa A. Dawes;Patrick Schleppi;Stephan Hättenschwiler;Christian Rixen

  • Input-output budgets at the NITREX sites.

    M Bredemeier;K Blanck;YJ Xu;A Tietema

  • Effects of Redox Conditions and Flow Processes on the Mobility of Dissolved Organic Carbon and Nitrogen in a Forest Soil

    Frank Hagedorn;Klaus Kaiser;H. Feyen;Patrick Schleppi

  • Canopy closure, LAI and radiation transfer from airborne LiDAR synthetic images

    David Moeser;Jiri Roubinek;Patrick Schleppi;Felix Morsdorf

  • Nitrogen saturation experiments (NITREX) in coniferous forest ecosystems in Europe: a summary of results

    A. Tietema;A.W. Boxman;M. Bredemeier;B.A. Emmett

  • Nitrogen budgets of two small experimental forested catchments at Alptal, Switzerland

    Patrick Schleppi;Nathalie Muller;Hans Feyen;Andreas Papritz

  • The response of methane and nitrous oxide fluxes to forest change in Europe

    P. Gundersen;J. R. Christiansen;J. R. Christiansen;G. Alberti;N. Brüggemann;N. Brüggemann

  • Runoff-driven export of particulate organic carbon from soil in temperate forested uplands

    Joanne C. Smith;Albert Galy;Niels Hovius;Andrew M. Tye

  • Contrasting dynamics of dissolved inorganic and organic nitrogen in soil and surface waters of forested catchments with Gleysols

    Frank Hagedorn;Jürg B Bucher;Patrick Schleppi

  • Simulation of Increased Nitrogen Deposition to a Montane Forest Ecosystem: Partitioning of the Added 15N

    P. Schleppi;I. Bucher-Wallin;R. Siegwolf;M. Saurer

  • Regional Assessment of N Saturation using Foliar and Root <img src="/fulltext-image.asp?format=htmln

    Linda H. Pardo;Pamela H. Templer;Christine L. Goodale;Sara E. Duke;Sara E. Duke

Frequent Co-Authors

Per Gundersen
Per Gundersen University of Copenhagen
Frank Hagedorn
Frank Hagedorn Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Filip Moldan
Filip Moldan Czech Academy of Sciences
Bridget A. Emmett
Bridget A. Emmett Natural Environment Research Council
Albert Tietema
Albert Tietema University of Amsterdam
Rolf T. W. Siegwolf
Rolf T. W. Siegwolf Paul Scherrer Institute
Knute J. Nadelhoffer
Knute J. Nadelhoffer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard F. Wright
Richard F. Wright Norwegian Institute for Water Research
Harald Bugmann
Harald Bugmann ETH Zurich

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