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Overview

Sebastiaan Luyssaert is affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Environmental Engineering.

Themes addressed in their work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Climate Variability and Models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Ecology and Management, and Remote Sensing in Agriculture.

Frequent collaborators in Sebastiaan Luyssaert's research include Daniel S. Goll, Kim Naudts, Stephen Sitch, Philippe Ciais, and Nicolas Vuichard.

Publication venues where Luyssaert has contributed multiple papers include:

  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Biogeosciences
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Forest Ecology and Management

Their recent published works include:

  • Presentation and Evaluation of the IPSL-CM6A-LR Climate Model, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Empirical estimates of regional carbon budgets imply reduced global soil heterotrophic respiration, 2020, National Science Review
  • How does management affect soil C sequestration and greenhouse gas fluxes in boreal and temperate forests? - A review, 2022, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Are Terrestrial Biosphere Models Fit for Simulating the Global Land Carbon Sink?, 2022, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • A spatially explicit database of wind disturbances in European forests over the period 2000-2018, 2020, Earth system science data

Best Publications

  • Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate

    Christian Beer;Markus Reichstein;Enrico Tomelleri;Philippe Ciais

  • Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks.

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Ernst Detlef Schulze;Annett Börner;Alexander Knohl

  • The boundless carbon cycle

    Tom J. Battin;Tom J. Battin;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Louis A. Kaplan;Anthony K. Aufdenkampe

  • Reduction of forest soil respiration in response to nitrogen deposition

    I.A. Janssens;W. Dieleman;S. Luyssaert;J.-A. Subke

  • Presentation and evaluation of the IPSL‐CM6A‐LR climate model

    Olivier Boucher;Jérôme Servonnat;Anna Lea Albright;Olivier Aumont

  • Anthropogenic perturbation of the carbon fluxes from land to ocean

    Pierre Regnier;Pierre Friedlingstein;Philippe Ciais;Fred T. Mackenzie

  • Net carbon dioxide losses of northern ecosystems in response to autumn warming

    Shilong Piao;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein;Philippe Peylin

  • CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;I. Inglima;M. Jung;A. D. Richardson

  • Influence of spring and autumn phenological transitions on forest ecosystem productivity

    Andrew D. Richardson;T. Andy Black;Philippe Ciais;Nicolas Delbart

  • Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass

    Karl Heinz Erb;Thomas Kastner;Christoph Plutzar;Christoph Plutzar;Anna Liza S. Bais

  • Contrasting response of European forest and grassland energy exchange to heatwaves

    Adriaan J. Teuling;Adriaan J. Teuling;Sonia I. Seneviratne;Reto Stöckli;Markus Reichstein

  • Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Mathilde Jammet;Paul C. Stoy;Stephen Estel

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

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

  • Europe’s forest management did not mitigate climate warming

    Kim Naudts;Yiying Chen;Matthew J. McGrath;James Ryder

  • Importance of methane and nitrous oxide for Europe's terrestrial greenhouse-gas balance

    E. D. Schulze;S. Luyssaert;S. Luyssaert;P. Ciais;A. Freibauer

  • Carbon accumulation in European forests

    P. Ciais;M. J. Schelhaas;S. Zaehle;S. L. Piao;S. L. Piao

  • Carbon sequestration: managing forests in uncertain times.

    Valentin Bellassen;Sebastiaan Luyssaert

  • Fertile forests produce biomass more efficiently

    Sara Vicca;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Josep Penuelas;Matteo Campioli

  • Biophysical considerations in forestry for climate protection

    Ray G Anderson;Josep G Canadell;James T Randerson;Robert B Jackson

  • Large-scale bioenergy from additional harvest of forest biomass is neither sustainable nor greenhouse gas neutral

    Ernst Detlef Schulze;Christian Körner;Beverly E. Law;Helmut Haberl

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivan A. Janssens
Ivan A. Janssens University of Antwerp
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Shilong Piao
Shilong Piao Peking University
Beverly E. Law
Beverly E. Law Oregon State University
Philippe Peylin
Philippe Peylin Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
P. Ciais
P. Ciais French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Dario Papale
Dario Papale Tuscia University
Eddy Moors
Eddy Moors Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Julia Pongratz
Julia Pongratz Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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