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Ralf Kiese is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields within environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a focus on various subfields such as ecology, soil science, global and planetary change, environmental chemistry, and atmospheric science.

The scientist's principal topics of work include:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Ralf Kiese has published extensively, contributing to key journals and venues such as:

  • Biogeosciences
  • Biology and Fertility of Soils
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Among the recent papers authored or coauthored by Ralf Kiese are:

  • "Integrated biochar solutions can achieve carbon-neutral staple crop production," 2023, Nature Food
  • "A dense network of cosmic-ray neutron sensors for soil moisture observation in a highly instrumented pre-Alpine headwater catchment in Germany," 2020, Earth system science data
  • "Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient," 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Elevated CO2 negates O3 impacts on terrestrial carbon and nitrogen cycles," 2021, One Earth
  • "High-resolution drought simulations and comparison to soil moisture observations in Germany," 2022, Hydrology and earth system sciences

Frequent coauthors found in their publications include:

  • Klaus Butterbach-Bahl
  • Ricky Mwangada Mwanake
  • Gretchen M. Gettel
  • Elizabeth Gachibu Wangari
  • Michael Dannenmann

Their publications demonstrate an emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches to environmental challenges, addressing nutrient cycles, ecosystem functioning, and hydrological processes.

Best Publications

  • Nitrous oxide emissions from soils: how well do we understand the processes and their controls?

    Klaus Butterbach-Bahl;Elizabeth M. Baggs;Michael Dannenmann;Ralf Kiese

  • A Network of Terrestrial Environmental Observatories in Germany

    Steffen Zacharias;Heye Bogena;Luis Samaniego;Matthias Mauder

  • Climate–land-use interactions shape tropical mountain biodiversity and ecosystem functions

    Marcell K. Peters;Andreas Hemp;Tim Appelhans;Joscha N. Becker

  • Trade-offs between soil carbon sequestration and reactive nitrogen losses under straw return in global agroecosystems

    Longlong Xia;Longlong Xia;Shu Kee Lam;Benjamin Wolf;Ralf Kiese

  • The nitrogen cycle: A review of isotope effects and isotope modeling approaches

    Tobias R.A. Denk;Joachim Mohn;Charlotte Decock;Dominika Lewicka-Szczebak

  • Nitrous oxide emissions from a cropped soil in a semi-arid climate

    Louise Barton;Ralf Kiese;David Gatter;Klaus Butterbach‐Bahl

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

  • Effects of soil temperature and moisture on methane uptake and nitrous oxide emissions across three different ecosystem types

    G.J. Luo;Ralf Kiese;B. Wolf;B. Wolf;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl

  • N2O and CO2 emissions from three different tropical forest sites in the wet tropics of Queensland, Australia

    Ralf Kiese;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl

  • Temperature and Moisture Effects on Nitrification Rates in Tropical Rain-Forest Soils

    Lutz Breuer;Ralf Kiese;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl

  • Stand age‐related effects on soil respiration in a first rotation Sitka spruce chronosequence in central Ireland

    Gustavo Saiz;Kenneth A. Byrne;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl;Ralf Kiese

  • Inventories of N2O and NO Emissions from European Forest Soils

    M. Kesik;P. Ambus;R. Baritz;N. Brüggemann

  • LandscapeDNDC: a process model for simulation of biosphere–atmosphere–hydrosphere exchange processes at site and regional scale

    Edwin Haas;Steffen Klatt;Alexander Fröhlich;Philipp Kraft

  • Nitrogen processes in terrestrial ecosystems

    Klaus Butterbach-Bahl;Per Gundersen;Per Ambus;Jürgen Augustin

  • N2O, CH4 and CO2 emissions from seasonal tropical rainforests and a rubber plantation in Southwest China

    Christian Werner;Xunhua Zheng;Janwei Tang;Baohua Xie

  • Seasonal and spatial variability of soil respiration in four Sitka spruce stands

    Gustavo Saiz;Carly Green;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl;Ralf Kiese

  • A global inventory of N2O emissions from tropical rainforest soils using a detailed biogeochemical model

    C. Werner;K. Butterbach-Bahl;E. Haas;Thomas Hickler

  • Effects of climate warming on carbon fluxes in grasslands- A global meta-analysis.

    Na Wang;Benjamin Quesada;Benjamin Quesada;Longlong Xia;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl

  • Sampling frequency affects estimates of annual nitrous oxide fluxes.

    Louise Barton;Benjamin Wolf;David Rowlings;Clemens Scheer

  • Temporal variations of fluxes of NO, NO2, N2O, CO2, and CH4 in a tropical rain forest ecosystem

    Klaus Butterbach-Bahl;Martin Kock;Georg Willibald;Bob Hewett

  • Seasonal variability of N2O emissions and CH4 uptake by tropical rainforest soils of Queensland, Australia

    Ralf Kiese;Bob Hewett;Andrew Graham;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl

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

    Marian Pavelka;Manuel Acosta;Ralf Kiese;Núria Altimir

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Butterbach-Bahl
Klaus Butterbach-Bahl Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Michael Dannenmann
Michael Dannenmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Rainer Gasche
Rainer Gasche Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Rüdiger Grote
Rüdiger Grote Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Lutz Breuer
Lutz Breuer University of Giessen
Harald Kunstmann
Harald Kunstmann Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Thomas Gaiser
Thomas Gaiser University of Bonn
Enli Wang
Enli Wang Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Kurt Christian Kersebaum
Kurt Christian Kersebaum Czech Academy of Sciences
Edmar I. Teixeira
Edmar I. Teixeira Plant & Food Research

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