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Samuel Abiven is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant activity in subfields such as Soil Science, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Plant Science.

The main topics of Samuel Abiven's work encompass Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Climate change and permafrost, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Cryospheric studies and observations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Indigenous Studies and Ecology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Samuel Abiven include:

  • The effect of biochar, lime and ash on maize yield in a long-term field trial in a Ultisol in the humid tropics, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Soil organic carbon models need independent time-series validation for reliable prediction, 2023, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Ecotrons: Powerful and versatile ecosystem analysers for ecology, agronomy and environmental science, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Pyrogenic carbon decomposition critical to resolving fire's role in the Earth system, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Climate warming and elevated CO2 alter peatland soil carbon sources and stability, 2023, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors of Samuel Abiven are:

  • Marcus Schiedung
  • Severin-Luca Bellè
  • Bertrand Guenet
  • Philippe Ciais
  • Pierre Barré

The scientist has frequently published in a variety of venues including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Biogeosciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Nature Geoscience

Best Publications

  • Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

    Michael W. I. Schmidt;Margaret S. Torn;Margaret S. Torn;Samuel Abiven;Thorsten Dittmar;Thorsten Dittmar

  • The effects of organic inputs over time on soil aggregate stability – a literature analysis

    Samuel Abiven;Safya Menasseri;Safya Menasseri;Claire Chenu

  • European Biochar Certificate - Guidelines for a sustainable production of Biochar

    Hans Peter Schmidt;Thomas Bucheli;Claudia Kammann;Bruno Glaser

  • Heterogeneous global crop yield response to biochar: a meta-regression analysis

    Andrew Crane-Droesch;Samuel Abiven;Simon Jeffery;Margaret S Torn;Margaret S Torn

  • Biochar and biochar-compost as soil amendments to a vineyard soil: Influences on plant growth, nutrient uptake, plant health and grape quality

    Hans-Peter Schmidt;Claudia Kammann;Claudio Niggli;Michael W.H. Evangelou

  • Aromaticity and degree of aromatic condensation of char

    Daniel B. Wiedemeier;Samuel Abiven;William C. Hockaday;Marco Keiluweit

  • Mineralisation of C and N from root, stem and leaf residues in soil and role of their biochemical quality

    Samuel Abiven;Sylvie Recous;Victor Reyes;Robert Oliver

  • A meta-analysis on pyrogenic organic matter induced priming effect

    Bernardo Maestrini;Paolo Nannipieri;Samuel Abiven

  • Fire-derived organic carbon in soil turns over on a centennial scale

    N Singh;Samuel Abiven;M S Torn;Michael W I Schmidt

  • Dynamics of aggregate stability and biological binding agents during decomposition of organic materials

    S. Abiven;S. Menasseri;D. A. Angers;P. Leterme

  • Pyrogenic Carbon in Soils: A Literature-Based Inventory and a Global Estimation of Its Content in Soil Organic Carbon and Stocks

    Moritz Reisser;Ross S. Purves;Michael W. I. Schmidt;Samuel Abiven

  • Biochar amendment increases maize root surface areas and branching: a shovelomics study in Zambia

    Samuel Abiven;Andreas Hund;Vegard Martinsen;Gerard Cornelissen;Gerard Cornelissen;Gerard Cornelissen

  • Persistence of biochar in soil

    Johannes Lehmann;Samuel Abiven;Markus Kleber;Genxing Pan

  • Pyrogenic carbon soluble fraction is larger and more aromatic in aged charcoal than in fresh charcoal

    Samuel Abiven;Pascal Hengartner;Maximilian P.W. Schneider;Nimisha Singh

  • Global-scale evidence for the refractory nature of riverine black carbon

    Alysha I. Coppola;Daniel B. Wiedemeier;Valier Galy;Negar Haghipour

  • Surface Properties and Chemical Composition of Corncob and Miscanthus Biochars: Effects of Production Temperature and Method

    Alice Budai;Liang Wang;Morten Gronli;Line Tau Strand

  • Ryegrass-derived pyrogenic organic matter changes organic carbon and nitrogen mineralization in a temperate forest soil

    Bernardo Maestrini;Anke M. Herrmann;Paolo Nannipieri;Michael W.I. Schmidt

  • Below ground carbon inputs to soil via root biomass and rhizodeposition of field-grown maize and wheat at harvest are independent of net primary productivity

    Juliane Hirte;Jens Leifeld;Samuel Abiven;Hans-Rudolf Oberholzer

  • Transformation and stabilization of pyrogenic organic matter in a temperate forest field experiment

    Nimisha Singh;Samuel Abiven;Bernardo Maestrini;Jeffrey A. Bird

  • Biochar by design

    S. Abiven;M. W. I. Schmidt;J. Lehmann

  • Sodium hypochlorite separates an older soil organic matter fraction than acid hydrolysis

    Michael Zimmermann;Jens Leifeld;Samuel Abiven;Michael W.I. Schmidt

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael W. I. Schmidt
Michael W. I. Schmidt University of Zurich
Margaret S. Torn
Margaret S. Torn Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Frank Hagedorn
Frank Hagedorn Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Lukas Wacker
Lukas Wacker ETH Zurich
Pascal A. Niklaus
Pascal A. Niklaus University of Zurich
Gerard Cornelissen
Gerard Cornelissen Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Jens Leifeld
Jens Leifeld University of Basel
Rolf T. W. Siegwolf
Rolf T. W. Siegwolf Paul Scherrer Institute
Claire Chenu
Claire Chenu University of Paris-Saclay

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