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Overview

Sebastian Leuzinger is affiliated with the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand with a research focus primarily in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their publications span a range of interdisciplinary topics, emphasizing Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Plant responses to elevated CO2, Climate variability and models, Plant responses to water stress, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Sebastian Leuzinger include:

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Towards a unified study of multiple stressors: divisions and common goals across research disciplines, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Plant growth: the What, the How, and the Why, 2021, New Phytologist
  • Untargeted metabolomics in halophytes: The role of different metabolites in New Zealand mangroves under multi-factorial abiotic stress conditions, 2020, Environmental and Experimental Botany
  • Optimal stomatal theory predicts CO2 responses of stomatal conductance in both gymnosperm and angiosperm trees, 2022, New Phytologist

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Martin Karl-Friedrich Bader
  • Martin G. De Kauwe
  • César Terrer
  • Kevin Van Sundert
  • Scott X. Chang

Publication venues where Sebastian Leuzinger has multiple publications encompass:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • New Phytologist
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Global Sustainability
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their research covers a diverse set of subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Ecology, Soil Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation, with the highest concentration of publications in Global and Planetary Change and Plant Science.

Best Publications

  • Precipitation manipulation experiments - challenges and recommendations for the future

    Claus Beier;Carl Beierkuhnlein;Thomas Wohlgemuth;Josep Penuelas

  • Moving beyond photosynthesis: from carbon source to sink-driven vegetation modeling.

    Simone Fatichi;Sebastian Leuzinger;Christian Körner

  • Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO2

    Anthony P. Walker;Martin G. De Kauwe;Ana Bastos;Soumaya Belmecheri

  • A plant's perspective of extremes: terrestrial plant responses to changing climatic variability.

    Christopher P O Reyer;Sebastian Leuzinger;Sebastian Leuzinger;Sebastian Leuzinger;Anja Rammig;Annett Wolf

  • Drought survival of tropical tree seedlings enhanced by non-structural carbohydrate levels

    Michael J. O’Brien;Sebastian Leuzinger;Christopher D. Philipson;John Tay

  • 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

  • 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

  • Towards a unified study of multiple stressors: divisions and common goals across research disciplines.

    James A Orr;Rolf D Vinebrooke;Michelle C Jackson;Kristy J Kroeker

  • Tree surface temperature in an urban environment

    Sebastian Leuzinger;Sebastian Leuzinger;Roland Vogt;Christian Körner

  • Responses of deciduous forest trees to severe drought in Central Europe.

    Sebastian Leuzinger;Gerhard Zotz;Roman Asshoff;Christian Körner

  • Forest resilience and tipping points at different spatio-temporal scales: approaches and challenges

    Christopher P. O. Reyer;Niels Brouwers;Anja Rammig;Barry W. Brook

  • Modelling carbon sources and sinks in terrestrial vegetation

    Simone Fatichi;Christoforos Pappas;Jakob Zscheischler;Sebastian Leuzinger

  • Tree species diversity affects canopy leaf temperatures in a mature temperate forest

    Sebastian Leuzinger;Christian Körner

  • Water savings in mature deciduous forest trees under elevated CO2

    Sebastian Leuzinger;Christian Körner

  • 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

  • Plant growth: the What, the How, and the Why

    Jonas Hilty;Bertrand Muller;Florent Pantin;Sebastian Leuzinger

  • A 2 °C warmer world is not safe for ecosystem services in the European Alps

    Ché Elkin;Alvaro G. Gutiérrez;Sebastian Leuzinger;Sebastian Leuzinger;Corina Manusch

  • Reproductive energy investment in corals: scaling with module size.

    Sebastian Leuzinger;Kenneth R. N. Anthony;Bette L. Willis

  • Partitioning direct and indirect effects reveals the response of water-limited ecosystems to elevated CO2

    Simone Fatichi;Sebastian Leuzinger;Athanasios Paschalis;Athanasios Paschalis;J Adam Langley

  • Sensitivity analysis of a process-based ecosystem model: Pinpointing parameterization and structural issues

    Christoforos Pappas;Simone Fatichi;Sebastian Leuzinger;Sebastian Leuzinger;Annett Wolf

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Körner
Christian Körner University of Basel
Simone Fatichi
Simone Fatichi National University of Singapore
Claus Beier
Claus Beier University of Copenhagen
Rolf T. W. Siegwolf
Rolf T. W. Siegwolf Paul Scherrer Institute
Trevor F. Keenan
Trevor F. Keenan Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Mark J. Hovenden
Mark J. Hovenden University of Tasmania
Kirsten S. Hofmockel
Kirsten S. Hofmockel Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jian Song
Jian Song Tsinghua University
Frank Hagedorn
Frank Hagedorn Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Roman Zweifel
Roman Zweifel Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

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