• Assessing the spatial variability in peak season CO2 exchange characteristics across the Arctic tundra using a light response curve parameterization 

      Mbufong, Herbert N.; Lund, Magnus; Aurela, Mika; Christensen, Torben Röjle; Eugster, Werner; Friborg, Thomas; Hansen, Birger Ulf; Humphreys, Elyn R.; Jackowicz-Korczyński, Marcin; Kutzbach, Lars; Lafleur, Peter M.; Oechel, Walter C.; Parmentier, Frans-Jan W.; Rasse, Daniel; Rocha, A.V.; Sachs, Torsten; Van Der Molen, Michiel K.; Tamstorf, M.P. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-09-15)
      This paper aims to assess the spatial variability in the response of CO2 exchange to irradiance across the Arctic tundra during peak season using light response curve (LRC) parameters. This investigation allows us to better ...
    • Biochar affects heavy metal uptake in plants through interactions in the Rhizosphere 

      Medynska-Juraszek, Agnieszka; Rivier, Pierre-Adrien; Rasse, Daniel; Joner, Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-07-24)
      Heavy metals in soil pose a constant risk for animals and humans when entering their food chains, and limited means are available to reduce plant accumulation from more or less polluted soils. Biochar, which is made by ...
    • Biochar as a tool to reduce the agricultural greenhouse-gas burden – knowns, unknowns and future research needs 

      Kammann, Claudia; Ippolito, Jim; Hagemann, Nikolas; Borchard, Nils; Cayuela, Maria Luz; Estavillo, José M.; Fuertes-Mendizabal, Teresa; Jeffery, Simon; Kern, Jürgen; Novak, Jeff; Rasse, Daniel; Saarnio, Sanna; Schmidt, Hans-Peter; Spokas, Kurt; Wrage-Mönnig, Nicole (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Agriculture and land use change has significantly increased atmospheric emissions of the non-CO2 green-house gases (GHG) nitrous oxide (N2O) and methane (CH4). Since human nutritional and bioenergy needs continue to increase, ...
    • Biochar persistence, priming and microbial responses to pyrolysis temperature series 

      Budai, Alice; Rasse, Daniel; Lagomarsino, Alessandra; Lerch, Thomas Z.; Paruch, Lisa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Biochar and its properties can be significantly altered according to how it is produced, and this has ramifications towards how biochar behaves once added to soil. We produced biochars from corncob and miscanthus straw via ...
    • Characterization, Stability, and Plant Effects of Kiln-Produced Wheat Straw Biochar 

      O´Toole, Adam; de Zarruk, Karin Knoth; Steffens, Markus; Rasse, Daniel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-01-28)
      Biochar is a promising technology for improving soil quality and sequestering C in the long term. Although modern pyrolysis technologies are being developed, kiln technologies often remain the most accessible method for ...
    • Climate change mitigation potential of biochar from forestry residues under boreal condition 

      Hagenbo, Andreas; Antón-Fernández, Clara; Bright, Ryan M.; Rasse, Daniel; Astrup, Rasmus Andreas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-10-18)
      Forest harvest residue is a low-competitive biomass feedstock that is usually left to decay on site after forestry operations. Its removal and pyrolytic conversion to biochar is seen as an opportunity to reduce terrestrial ...
    • Controlled infrared heating of an artic meadow: challenge in the vegetation establishment stage 

      Moni, Christophe; Silvennoinen, Hanna Marika; Kimball, Bruce A.; Fjelldal, Erling; Brenden, Marius; Burud, Ingunn; Flø, Andreas Svarstad; Rasse, Daniel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-19)
      Background: Global warming is going to affect both agricultural production and carbon storage in soil worldwide. Given the complexity of the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum, in situ experiments of climate warming are ...
    • Detection of simulated leaks from geologically stored CO2 With 13C monitoring 

      Moni, Christophe; Rasse, Daniel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-05-13)
      Precise methods for the detection of geologically stored CO2within and above soil surfaces are an impor-tant component of the development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) under terrestrial environments.Although CO2leaks ...
    • Enhancing plant N uptake with biochar-based fertilizers: limitation of sorption and prospects 

      Rasse, Daniel; Weldon, Simon Mark; Joner, Erik; Joseph, Stephen; Kammann, Claudia I.; Liu, Xiaoyu; O'Toole, Adam; Pan, Genxing; Kocatürk Schumacher, Nazli Pelin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03-24)
      Background Biochar-based fertilizer products (BCF) have been reported to increase both crop yield and N-use efficiency. Such positive effects are often assumed to result from the slow-release of N adsorbed on BCF structures. ...
    • How to measure, report and verify soil carbon change to realize the potential of soil carbon sequestration for atmospheric greenhouse gas removal 

      Smith, Pete; Soussana, Jean-Francois; Angers, Denis; Schipper, Louis; Chenu, Claire; Rasse, Daniel; Batjes, Niels H.; van Egmond, Fenny; McNeill, Stephen; Kuhnert, Matthias; Arias‐Navarro, Cristina; Olesen, Jørgen E.; Chirinda, Ngonidzashe; Fornara, Dario; Wollenberg, Eva; Álvaro-Fuentes, Jorge; Sanz-Cobena, Alberto; Klumpp, Katja (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      There is growing international interest in better managing soils to increase soil organic carbon (SOC) content to contribute to climate change mitigation, to enhance resilience to climate change and to underpin food security, ...
    • KEYLINK: towards a more integrative soil representation for inclusion in ecosystem scale models. I. review and model concept 

      Deckmyn, Gaby; Flores, Omar; Mayer, Mathias; Domene, Xavier; Schnepf, Andrea; Kuka, Katrin; Van Looy, Kris; Rasse, Daniel; Briones, Maria J.I.; Barot, Sébastien; Berg, Matty; Vanguelova, Elena; Ostonen, Ivika; Vereecken, Harry; Suz, Laura M.; Frey, Beat; Frossard, Aline; Tiunov, Alexei; Frouz, Jan; Grebenc, Tine; Öpik, Maarja; Javaux, Mathieu; Uvarov, Alexei; Vindušková, Olga; Krogh, Paul Henning; Franklin, Oskar; Jimenez, Juan; Yuste, Jorge Curiel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-09-09)
      The relatively poor simulation of the below-ground processes is a severe drawback for many ecosystem models, especially when predicting responses to climate change and management. For a meaningful estimation of ecosystem ...
    • Life-cycle assessment to unravel co-benefits and trade-offs of large-scale biochar deployment in Norwegian agriculture 

      Tisserant, Alexandre; Morales, Marjorie; Cavalett, Otávio; O'Toole, Adam; Weldon, Simon Mark; Rasse, Daniel; Cherubini, Francesco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-01-20)
      Limiting temperature rise below 2 °C requires large deployment of Negative Emission Technologies (NET) to capture and store atmospheric CO2. Compared to other types of NETs, biochar has emerged as a mature option to store ...
    • Low impact of dry conditions on the CO2 exchange of a Northern-Norwegian blanket bog 

      Lund, Magnus; Bjerke, Jarle W.; Drake, Bert G.; Engelsen, Ola; Hansen, Georg Heinrich; Parmentier, Frans-Jan W.; Powell, Thomas; Silvennoinen, Hanna Marika; Sottocornola, Matteo; Tømmervik, Hans; Weldon, Simon Mark; Rasse, Daniel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Northern peatlands hold large amounts of organic carbon (C) in their soils and are as such important in a climate change context. Blanket bogs, i.e. nutrient-poor peatlands restricted to maritime climates, may be extra ...
    • Miscanthus Biochar had Limited Effects on Soil Physical Properties, Microbial Biomass, and Grain Yield in a Four-Year Field Experiment in Norway 

      O'toole, Adam Thomas; Moni, Christophe; Weldon, Simon Mark; Schols, Anne; Carnol, Monique; Bosman, Bernard; Rasse, Daniel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-27)
      The application of biochar to soils is a promising technique for increasing soil organic C and offsetting GHG emissions. However, large-scale adoption by farmers will likely require the proof of its utility to improve plant ...
    • ORCHIDEE-PEAT (revision 4596), a model for northern peatland CO2, water, and energy fluxes on daily to annual scales 

      Qiu, Chunjing; Zhu, Dan; Ciais, Philippe; Guenet, Bertrand; Krinner, Gerhard; Peng, Shushi; Aurela, Mika; Bernhofer, Christian; Brümmer, Christian; Bret-Harte, Syndonia; Chu, Housen; Chen, Jiquan; Desai, Ankur R.; Dušek, Jiří; Euskirchen, Eugénie S.; Fortuniak, Krzysztof; Flanagan, Lawrence B.; Friborg, Thomas; Grygoruk, Mateusz; Gogo, Sébastien; Grünwald, Thomas; Hansen, Birger U.; Holl, David; Humphreys, Elyn; Hurkuck, Miriam; Kiely, Gerard; Klatt, Janina; Kutzbach, Lars; Largeron, Chloé; Laggoun-Défarge, Fatima; Lund, Magnus; Lafleur, Peter M.; Li, Xuefei; Mammarella, Ivan; Merbold, Lutz; Nilsson, Mats B.; Olejnik, Janusz; Ottosson-Löfvenius, Mikaell; Oechel, Walter C.; Parmentier, Frans-Jan W.; Peichl, Matthias; Pirk, Norbert; Peltola, Olli; Pawlak, Włodzimierz; Rasse, Daniel; Rinne, Janne; Shaver, Gaius R.; Schmid, Hans Peter; Sottocornola, Matteo; Steinbrecher, Rainer; Sachs, Torsten; Urbaniak, Marek; Zona, Donatella; Ziemblinska, Klaudia (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-02-05)
      Peatlands store substantial amounts of carbon and are vulnerable to climate change. We present a modified version of the Organising Carbon and Hydrology In Dynamic Ecosystems (ORCHIDEE) land surface model for simulating ...
    • A re-analysis of NH4+ sorption on biochar: Have expectations been too high? 

      Weldon, Simon Mark; van der Veen, Bert; Farkas, Eva; Kocatürk Schumacher, Nazli Pelin; Dieguez-Alonso, Alba; Budai, Alice Erzebet; Rasse, Daniel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-04-22)
      Sorption of nutrients such as NH4+ is often quoted as a critical property of biochar, explaining its value as a soil amendment and a filter material. However, published values for NH4+ sorption to biochar vary by more than ...
    • Simulated CO2 leakage experiment in terrestrial environment: Monitoring and detecting the effect on a cover crop using g p 13C analysis 

      Moni, Christophe; Rasse, Daniel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-08-05)
      Geological CO2 storage will be designed to prevent any CO2 leakage. However, according to precaution principles the impact of any risks, independently from its probability of occurrence, must be studied. Following this ...
    • Soil organic carbon models need independent time-series validation for reliable prediction 

      Le Noë, Julia; Manzoni, Stefano; Abramoff, Rose; Bölscher, Tobias; Bruni, Elisa; Cardinael, Rémi; Ciais, Philippe; Chenu, Claire; Clivot, Hugues; Derrien, Delphine; Ferchaud, Fabien; Garnier, Patricia; Goll, Daniel; Lashermes, Gwenaëlle; Martin, Manuel; Rasse, Daniel; Rees, Frédéric; Sainte-Marie, Julien; Salmon, Elodie; Schiedung, Marcus; Schimel, Josh; Wieder, William; Abiven, Samuel; Barré, Pierre; Cécillon, Lauric; Guenet, Bertrand (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-05-08)
      Numerical models are crucial to understand and/or predict past and future soil organic carbon dynamics. For those models aiming at prediction, validation is a critical step to gain confidence in projections. With a ...
    • Soil organic matter molecular composition and state of decomposition in three locations of the European Arctic 

      Pengerud, Annelene; Dignac, Marie-France; Certini, Giacomo; Strand, Line Tau; Forte, Claudia; Rasse, Daniel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-09-01)
      Increased mineralization of the organic matter (OM) stored in permafrost is expected to constitute the largest additional global warming potential from terrestrial ecosystems exposed to a warmer climate. Chemical composition ...
    • Systems analysis of field and laboratory experiments considering impacts of CO2 leakage in terrestrial systems 

      Bond, A. E.; Metcalfe, R.; Maul, P. R.; Suckling, P.; Thatcher, K.; Walke, R.; Smith, K.; Rasse, Daniel; Steven, M.; Jones, D. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-08-05)
      Geological CO2 storage will be designed to prevent any CO2 leakage. However, as recognized by the European Commission's (EC) CO2 Storage Directive, a capability is needed to assess leakage impacts, even though leaks are ...