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Sara Vicca is affiliated with the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Their research spans key areas in environmental and agricultural sciences, with a focus on interactions between soil, plants, and atmospheric processes.

The main fields of study for their work include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, their publications cover several subfields such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Soil Science
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science

The primary topics addressed in Sara Vicca's research involve:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Clay minerals and soil interactions
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Frontiers in Climate
  • Biogeosciences

They have collaborated extensively with several researchers, notably:

  • Ivan A. Janssens
  • Erik Verbruggen
  • Michael Bahn
  • Jens Hartmann
  • Josep Peñuelas

Recent publications highlight their engagement with topics related to climate change mitigation and ecosystem responses. Selected papers include:

  • A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2, 2021, Nature
  • Potential CO2 removal from enhanced weathering by ecosystem responses to powdered rock, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Is the climate change mitigation effect of enhanced silicate weathering governed by biological processes?, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Enhanced Weathering Using Basalt Rock Powder: Carbon Sequestration, Co-benefits and Risks in a Mesocosm Study With Solanum tuberosum, 2022, Frontiers in Climate
  • Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Best Publications

  • Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

    Markus Reichstein;Michael Bahn;Philippe Ciais;Dorothea Frank

  • Human-induced nitrogen–phosphorus imbalances alter natural and managed ecosystems across the globe

    Josep Peñuelas;Benjamin Poulter;Jordi Sardans;Philippe Ciais

  • Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts

    Dorothe A. Frank;Markus Reichstein;Michael Bahn;Kirsten Thonicke

  • Asymmetric effects of daytime and night-time warming on Northern Hemisphere vegetation

    Shushi Peng;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Ranga B. Myneni

  • Mycorrhizal association as a primary control of the CO2 fertilization effect

    César Terrer;Sara Vicca;Bruce A. Hungate;Richard P. Phillips

  • A trade-off between plant and soil carbon storage under elevated CO2.

    C. Terrer;C. Terrer;R. P. Phillips;B. A. Hungate;J. Rosende

  • Leaf onset in the northern hemisphere triggered by daytime temperature

    Shilong Piao;Jianguang Tan;Anping Chen;Yongshuo H. Fu

  • Nutrient availability as the key regulator of global forest carbon balance

    M. Fernandez-Martinez;S. Vicca;I. A. Janssens;J. Sardans

  • A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change

    Jian Song;Jian Song;Shiqiang Wan;Shiqiang Wan;Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Alan K. Knapp

  • Nitrogen and phosphorus constrain the CO2 fertilization of global plant biomass

    César Terrer;César Terrer;César Terrer;Robert B. Jackson;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan

  • Simple additive effects are rare: a quantitative review of plant biomass and soil process responses to combined manipulations of CO2 and temperature.

    Wouter I. J. Dieleman;Wouter I. J. Dieleman;Sara Vicca;Feike A. Dijkstra;Frank Hagedorn

  • Do global change experiments overestimate impacts on terrestrial ecosystems

    Sebastian Leuzinger;Yiqi Luo;Claus Beier;Wouter Dieleman

  • Sensitivity of decomposition rates of soil organic matter with respect to simultaneous changes in temperature and moisture

    Carlos A. Sierra;Susan E. Trumbore;Eric A. Davidson;Sara Vicca

  • Fertile forests produce biomass more efficiently

    Sara Vicca;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Josep Penuelas;Matteo Campioli

  • Global trends in carbon sinks and their relationships with CO2 and temperature

    M. Fernandez-Martinez;J. Sardans;F. Chevallier;P. Ciais

  • Global patterns and substrate-based mechanisms of the terrestrial nitrogen cycle

    Shuli Niu;Aimée T. Classen;Jeffrey S. Dukes;Paul Kardol

  • Comparison of static chambers to measure CH4 emissions from soils

    Mari K. Pihlatie;Jesper Riis Christiansen;Jesper Riis Christiansen;Hermanni Aaltonen;Hermanni Aaltonen;Janne F.J. Korhonen

  • The bioelements, the elementome, and the biogeochemical niche.

    Josep Peñuelas;Marcos Fernández-Martínez;Philippe Ciais;David Jou

  • Ecosystem responses to elevated CO2 governed by plant–soil interactions and the cost of nitrogen acquisition

    César Terrer;Sara Vicca;Benjamin D. Stocker;Bruce A. Hungate

  • Potential CO2 removal from enhanced weathering by ecosystem responses to powdered rock

    Daniel S. Goll;Daniel S. Goll;Philippe Ciais;Thorben Amann;Wolfgang Buermann

  • Concerns of young protesters are justified

    Gregor Hagedorn;Peter Kalmus;Michael Mann;Sara Vicca

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivan A. Janssens
Ivan A. Janssens University of Antwerp
Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Michael Bahn
Michael Bahn University of Innsbruck
Jordi Sardans
Jordi Sardans Spanish National Research Council
Sebastiaan Luyssaert
Sebastiaan Luyssaert Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ivan Nijs
Ivan Nijs University of Antwerp
Claus Beier
Claus Beier University of Copenhagen
Jakob Zscheischler
Jakob Zscheischler Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Michael Obersteiner
Michael Obersteiner University of Oxford

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