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Sebastian Wolf

Sebastian Wolf

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
33
Citations
4398
World Ranking
7867
National Ranking
142

Overview

Sebastian Wolf is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Water Science and Technology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Computational Mechanics.

The scientist's work primarily addresses topics related to Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, climate variability and models, as well as hydrology and watershed management studies. Other notable areas of focus include tree-ring climate responses, hydrology and drought analysis, fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, and ecology and vegetation dynamics studies.

Recent publications by Sebastian Wolf include a range of studies published in prominent scientific journals:

  • "The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function" (2021, Nature)
  • "Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites" (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • "Temperature thresholds of ecosystem respiration at a global scale" (2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • "Global influence of soil texture on ecosystem water limitation" (2024, Nature)
  • "Snowmelt causes different limitations on transpiration in a Sierra Nevada conifer forest" (2020, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology)

Frequent collaborators of Sebastian Wolf include the following researchers:

  • Leonardo Montagnani
  • Georg Wohlfahrt
  • Eugénie Paul-Limoges
  • Nuno Carvalhais
  • Ivan Mammarella

Publications have appeared predominantly in the journals Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Nature, Nature Communications, Global Change Biology, and Nature Ecology & Evolution. In terms of volume, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology accounts for four publications, while Nature features three, and Nature Communications two.

Best Publications

  • The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • Predicting carbon dioxide and energy fluxes across global FLUXNET sites with regression algorithms

    Gianluca Tramontana;Martin Jung;Christopher R. Schwalm;Kazuhito Ichii

  • Warm spring reduced carbon cycle impact of the 2012 US summer drought

    Sebastian Wolf;Sebastian Wolf;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan;Joshua B. Fisher;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • Reviews and syntheses: Turning the challenges of partitioning ecosystem evaporation and transpiration into opportunities

    Paul C. Stoy;Paul C. Stoy;Tarek S. El-Madany;Joshua B. Fisher;Joshua B. Fisher;Pierre Gentine

  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

    Mirco Migliavacca;Talie Musavi;Miguel D. Mahecha;Jacob A. Nelson

  • Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites.

    Jacob A. Nelson;Oscar Pérez-Priego;Sha Zhou;Sha Zhou;Rafael Poyatos

  • Fluxes all of the time? A primer on the temporal representativeness of FLUXNET

    Housen Chu;Dennis D. Baldocchi;Ranjeet John;Sebastian Wolf

  • Contrasting response of grassland versus forest carbon and water fluxes to spring drought in Switzerland

    Sebastian Wolf;Sebastian Wolf;Werner Eugster;Christof Ammann;Matthias Häni

  • On the relationship between sub-daily instantaneous and daily total gross primary production: Implications for interpreting satellite-based SIF retrievals

    Yao-Jun Zhang;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangming Xiao;Yongguang Zhang;Sebastian Wolf

  • Global influence of soil texture on ecosystem water limitation

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  • An ecosystem approach to biodiversity effects: Carbon pools in a tropical tree plantation

    Catherine Jeanne Potvin;Catherine Jeanne Potvin;Lady Mancilla;Nina Buchmann;Jose Monteza

  • Memory effects of climate and vegetation affecting net ecosystem CO2 fluxes in global forests.

    Simon Besnard;Simon Besnard;Nuno Carvalhais;Nuno Carvalhais;M. Altaf Arain;Andrew Black

  • Temperature thresholds of ecosystem respiration at a global scale

    Alice S. A. Johnston;Alice S. A. Johnston;Andrew Meade;Jonas Ardö;Nicola Arriga

  • Partitioning evapotranspiration with concurrent eddy covariance measurements in a mixed forest

    Eugénie Paul-Limoges;Sebastian Wolf;Fabian D. Schneider;Marcos Longo

  • Carbon sequestration potential of tropical pasture compared with afforestation in Panama

    Sebastian Wolf;Werner Eugster;Catherine Jeanne Potvin;Catherine Jeanne Potvin;Benjamin L. Turner

  • Slow ecosystem responses conditionally regulate annual carbon balance over 15 years in Californian oak-grass savanna

    Siyan Ma;Dennis Baldocchi;Sebastian Wolf;Sebastian Wolf;Joseph Verfaillie

  • The surface-atmosphere exchange of carbon dioxide in tropical rainforests: Sensitivity to environmental drivers and flux measurement methodology

    Zheng Fu;Zheng Fu;Tobias Gerken;Gabriel T. Bromley;Alessandro Araújo

  • Short‐term favorable weather conditions are an important control of interannual variability in carbon and water fluxes

    Jakob Zscheischler;Simone Fatichi;Sebastian Wolf;Peter D. Blanken

  • Spatio-Temporal Convergence of Maximum Daily Light-Use Efficiency Based on Radiation Absorption by Canopy Chlorophyll

    Yao Zhang;Yao Zhang;Xiangming Xiao;Xiangming Xiao;Sebastian Wolf;Jin Wu

  • Estimation of high-resolution terrestrial evapotranspiration from Landsat data using a simple Taylor skill fusion method

    Yunjun Yao;Shunlin Liang;Xianglan Li;Yuhu Zhang

  • Strong seasonal variations in net ecosystem CO2 exchange of a tropical pasture and afforestation in Panama

    Sebastian Wolf;Werner Eugster;Catherine Potvin;Catherine Potvin;Nina Buchmann

  • Carbon uptake and water use in woodlands and forests in southern Australia during an extreme heat wave event in the "angry Summer" of 2012/2013

    Eva van Gorsel;Sebastian Wolf;James R Cleverly;Peter Isaac

  • Warm Spring Reduced Carbon Cycle Impact of the 2012 US Summer Drought

    Sebastian Wolf

Frequent Co-Authors

Nina Buchmann
Nina Buchmann ETH Zurich
Georg Wohlfahrt
Georg Wohlfahrt University of Innsbruck
Werner Eugster
Werner Eugster ETH Zurich
Peter D. Blanken
Peter D. Blanken University of Colorado Boulder
Trevor F. Keenan
Trevor F. Keenan Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Leonardo Montagnani
Leonardo Montagnani Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Ankur R. Desai
Ankur R. Desai University of Wisconsin–Madison
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Lutz Merbold
Lutz Merbold Agroscope
Russell L. Scott
Russell L. Scott Agricultural Research Service

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