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Tuomas Laurila is affiliated with the Integrated Carbon Observation System in Finland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial body of work addressing subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering.

Their research topics center on areas including Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Climate Change and Permafrost. Further focus areas include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosols, Fire Effects on Ecosystems, and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate.

Laurila has published frequently in several academic venues. Notable publication forums include Helda (University of Helsinki), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Biogeosciences, and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

Frequent collaboration characterizes Laurila's scientific output, with coauthors such as Annalea Lohila, Mika Aurela, Juha-Pekka Tuovinen, Juha Hatakka, and Ivan Mammarella contributing to many joint studies.

Their recent papers cover a range of topics related to carbon and gas exchange in boreal and peatland ecosystems. Selected recent works include:

  • Methods for determining emission factors for the use of peat and peatlands - flux measurements and modelling (2024, Helda (University of Helsinki))
  • Carbon dioxide exchange on a northern boreal fen (2024, Helda (University of Helsinki))
  • Variation of the VOC emission rates of birch species during the growing season (2024, Boreal Environment Research Journal Archive)
  • Effect of the 2018 European drought on methane and carbon dioxide exchange of northern mire ecosystems (2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • Emission factors and their uncertainty for the exchange of CO2, CH4 and N2O in Finnish managed peatlands (2024, Helda (University of Helsinki))

Best Publications

  • On the Separation of Net Ecosystem Exchange into Assimilation and Ecosystem Respiration: Review and Improved Algorithm

    Markus Reichstein;Eva Falge;Dennis Baldocchi;Dario Papale

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

    Gilberto Pastorello;Carlo Trotta;Eleonora Canfora;Housen Chu

  • 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

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

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

  • Partitioning European grassland net ecosystem CO2 exchange into gross primary productivity and ecosystem respiration using light response function analysis

    T. G. Gilmanov;J. F. Soussana;L. Aires;V. Allard

  • Air temperature triggers the recovery of evergreen boreal forest photosynthesis in spring

    Suni Tanja;Frank Berninger;Timo Vesala;Tiina Markkanen

  • Seasonal variation of VOC concentrations above a boreal coniferous forest

    H Hakola;V Tarvainen;T Laurila;V Hiltunen

  • Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report: Database and Metrics Data of Global Surface Ozone Observations

    Martin G. Schultz;Sabine Schröder;Olga Lyapina;Owen Cooper

  • The timing of snow melt controls the annual CO2 balance in a subarctic fen

    Mika Aurela;Tuomas Laurila;Juha-Pekka Tuovinen

  • Variability in exchange of CO2 across 12 northern peatland and tundra sites

    Magnus Lund;Peter M. Lafleur;Nigel T. Roulet;Anders Lindroth

  • Annual CO2 balance of a subarctic fen in northern Europe: Importance of the wintertime efflux

    Mika Aurela;Tuomas Laurila;Juha-Pekka Tuovinen

  • Determinants of terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance inferred from European eddy covariance flux sites

    Markus Reichstein;Dario Papale;Riccardo Valentini;Marc Aubinet

  • Soil and total ecosystem respiration in agricultural fields: effect of soil and crop type

    Annalea Lohila;Mika Aurela;Kristiina Regina;Tuomas Laurila

  • Quality analysis applied on eddy covariance measurements at complex forest sites using footprint modelling

    Corinna Rebmann;Mathias Göckede;Thomas Foken;Marc Aubinet

  • The hydrocarbon emission rates of tea-leafed willow (Salix phylicifolia), silver birch (Betula pendula) and European aspen (Populus tremula)

    Hannele Hakola;Janne Rinne;Tuomas Laurila

  • The uncertain climate footprint of wetlands under human pressure

    Ana Maria Roxana Petrescu;Annalea Lohila;Juha-Pekka Tuovinen;Dennis D. Baldocchi

  • Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents

    Chuixiang Yi;Daniel Ricciuto;Runze Li;John Wolbeck

  • CO2 exchange of a sedge fen in southern Finland—the impact of a drought period

    Mika Aurela;Terhi Riutta;Tuomas Laurila;Juha-Pekka Tuovinen

  • Variation of the VOC emission rates of birch species during the growing season

    Hannele Hakola;Tuomas Laurila;Virpi Lindfors;Heidi Hellen

  • Spatial variation in plant community functions regulates carbon gas dynamics in a boreal fen ecosystem

    T. Riutta;J. Laine;M. Aurela;J. Rinne

Frequent Co-Authors

Mika Aurela
Mika Aurela Finnish Meteorological Institute
Annalea Lohila
Annalea Lohila Finnish Meteorological Institute
Juha-Pekka Tuovinen
Juha-Pekka Tuovinen Finnish Meteorological Institute
Juha Hatakka
Juha Hatakka Finnish Meteorological Institute
Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki
Janne Rinne
Janne Rinne Lund University
Timo Penttilä
Timo Penttilä Natural Resources Institute Finland
Tuula Aalto
Tuula Aalto Finnish Meteorological Institute
Ivan Mammarella
Ivan Mammarella University of Helsinki
Hannele Hakola
Hannele Hakola Finnish Meteorological Institute

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