Dr. Sebastian Wolf

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Publications

Wolf S, Paul-Limoges E, Sayler D, Kirchner JW (2024, in press) Dynamics of evapotranspiration from concurrent above- and below-canopy flux measurements in a montane Sierra Nevada forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 346: 109864 (Web, PDF, SI)

Miller DL, Wolf S, Fisher JB, Zaitchik BJ, Xiao J, Keenan TF (2023) Increased photosynthesis during spring drought in energy-limited ecosystems. Nature Communications 14: 7828 (Web, PDF)

Wolf S & Paul-Limoges E (2023) Drought and heat reduce forest carbon uptake. Nature Communications 14: 6217 (Web, PDF)

Zhang W, Jung M, Migliavacca M, Poyatos R, Miralles D, El-Madany TS, Galvagno M, Carrara A, Ibrom A, Mammarella I, Papale D, Cleverly J, Liddell M, Wohlfahrt G, Markwitz C, Mauder M, Paul-Limoges E, Schmidt M, Wolf S, Brümmer C, Arain MA, Fares S, Kato T, Ardö J, Oechel W, Hanson C, Korkiakoski M, Biraud S, Steinbrecher R, Billesbach D, Montagnani L, Woodgate W, Shao C, Carvalhais N, Reichstein M, Nelson JA (2023) The effect of relative humidity on eddy covariance latent heat flux measurements and its implication for partitioning into transpiration and evaporation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 330: 109305 (Web, PDF, SI)

Migliavacca M, Musavi T, Mahecha MD, Nelson JA, Knauer J, Baldocchi DD, Perez-Priego O, Christiansen R, Peters J, Anderson K, Bahn M, Black AT, Blanken PD, Bonal D, Buchmann N, Caldararu S, Carrara A, Carvalhais N, Cescatti A, Chen J, Cleverly J, Cremonese E, Desai AR, El-Madany TS, Farella MM, Fernández-Martínez M, Filippa G, Forkel M, Galvagno M, Gomarasca U, Gough CM, Göckede M, Ibrom A, Ikawa H, Janssens IA, Jung M, Kattge J, Keenan TF, Knohl A, Kobayashi H, Kraemer G, Law BE, Lidell MJ, Ma X, Mammarella I, Martini D, MacFarlane C, Matteucci G, Montagnani L, Pabon-Moreno DE, Panigada C, Papale D, Pendall E, Penuelas J, Phillips RP, Reich PB, Rossini M, Rotenberg E, Scott RL, Stahl C, Weber U, Wohlfahrt G, Wolf S, Wright IJ, Yakir D, Zaehle S, Reichstein M (2021) The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function. Nature 598(7881): 468-472 (Web, PDF)

Johnston ASA, Meade A, Ardö J, Arriga N, Bonal D, Black A, Blanken PD, Brümmer C, Cescatti A, Dusek J, Graf A, Gioli B, Goded I, Gough CM, Ikawa H, Jassal R, Kobayashi H, Magliulo V, Manca G, Montagnani L, Moyano FE, Olesen JE, Sachs T, Shao C, Tagesson T, Wohlfahrt G, Wolf S, Woodgate W Varlagin A, Venditti C (2021) Temperature thresholds of ecosystem respiration at a global scale. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5(4): 487-494 (Web, PDF)

Ma S, Eichelmann E, Wolf S, Rey-Sanchez C, Baldocchi DD (2020) Transpiration and evaporation in a Californian oak-grass savanna: Field measurements and partitioning model results. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 295: 108204 (Web, PDF)

Cooper AE, Kirchner JW, Wolf S, Lombardozzi DL, Sullivan BW, Tyler SW, Harpold AA (2020) Snowmelt causes different limitations on transpiration in a Sierra Nevada conifer forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 291: 108089 (Web, PDF)

Nelson AJ, Perez-Priego O, Zhou S, Poyatos R, Zhang Y, Blanken PD, Gimeno TE, Wohlfahrt G, Desai AR, Gioli B, Limousin JM, Bonal D, Paul-Limoges E, Scott RS, Varlagin A, Fuchs K, Montagnani L, Wolf S, Delpierre N, Berveiller D, Gharun M, Marchesini LB, Gianelle D, Sigut L, Mammarella I, Siebicke L, Black TA, Knohl A, Hörtnagl L, Magliulo V, Carvalhais N, Migliavacca M, Reichstein M, Jung M (2020) Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites. Global Change Biology 26(12): 6916-6930 (Web, PDF, SI)

Pastorello G, Trotta C, Canfora E, Chu H, Christianson D, ... (>200 co-authors), Wolf S, ..., and Papale D (2020) The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data. Scientific Data 7: 225 (Web, PDF, SI)

Xiao M, Yu Z, Kong D, Gioli B, Mammarella I, Montagnani L, Arain MA, Merbold L, Magliulo V, Lohila A, Buchmann N, Wolf S, Gharun M, Hörtnagl L, Beringer J (2020) Stomatal response to decreased relative humidity constrains the acceleration of terrestrial evapotranspiration. Environmental Research Letters 15(9): 094066 (Web, PDF)

Paul-Limoges E, Wolf S, Schneider FD, Longo M, Moorcroft P, Gahrun M, Damm A (2020) Partitioning evapotranspiration with concurrent eddy covariance measurements in a mixed forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 280: 107786 (Web, PDF)

Haynes KD, Baker IT, Denning AS, Wolf S, Wohlfahrt G, Kiely G, Minaya RC (2019) Representing grasslands using dynamic prognostic phenology based on biological growth stages: Part 2. Carbon cycling. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 11(12): 4440-4465 (Web, PDF, SI)

Stoy, PC, El-Madany, T, Fisher, JB, Gentine, P, Gerken, T, Good, SP, Liu, S, Miralles, DG, Perez-Priego, O, Skaggs, TH, Wohlfahrt, G, Anderson, RG, Jung, M, Maes, WH, Mammarella, I, Mauder, M, Migliavacca, M, Nelson, JA, Poyatos, R, Reichstein, M, Scott, RL Wolf S (2019) Reviews and syntheses: Turning the challenges of partitioning ecosystem evaporation and transpiration into opportunities. Biogeosciences 16(19): 3747-3775 (Web, PDF)

Besnard S, Carvalhais N, Arain MA, Black A, Brede B, Buchmann N, Chen J, Clevers JGPW, Dutrieux LP, Gans F, Herold M, Jung M, Kosugi Y, Knohl A, Law BE, Paul-Limoges E, Lohila A, Merbold L, Roupsard O, Valentini R, Wolf S, Zhang X, Reichstein M (2019) Memory effects of climate and vegetation affecting net ecosystem CO2 fluxes in global forests. PLOS ONE 14(2): e0211510 (Web, PDF, SI)

Kunert N, El-Madany TS, Aparecido LMT, Wolf S, Potvin C (2019) Understanding the controls over forest carbon use efficiency on small spatial scales: Effects of forest disturbance and tree diversity. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 269-270: 136-144 (Web, PDF)

Peaucelle M, Bacour C, Ciais P, Vuichard N, Kuppel S, Penuelas J, Belelli-Marchesini L, Blanken PD, Buchmann N, Chen J, Delpierre N, Desai AR, Dufrene E, Gianelle D, Gimeno-Colera C, Gruening C, Helfter C, Hörtnagl L, Ibrom A, Joffre R, Kato T, Kolb T, Law B, Lindroth A, Mammarella I, Merbold L, Minerbi S, Montagnani L, Sigut L, Sutton M, Varlagin A, Vesala T, Wohlfahrt G, Wolf S, Yakir D, Viovy N (2019) Covariations between plant functional traits emerge from constraining parameterization of a terrestrial biosphere model. Global Ecology and Biogeography 28(9): 1351-1365 (Web, PDF)

Fu Z, Gerken T, Bromley G, Araujo A, Bonal D, Burban B, Ficklin D, Fuentes J, Goulden M, Hirano T, Kosugi Y, Liddell M, Nicolini G, Niu S, Roupsard O, Stefani P, Mi C, Tofte Z, Xiao J, Valentini R, Wolf S, Stoy PC (2018) The surface-atmosphere exchange of carbon dioxide in tropical rainforests: Sensitivity to environmental drivers and flux measurement methodology. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 263: 292-307 (Web, PDF)

Wu X, Xiao X, Zhang Y, He W, Wolf S, Chen J, He M, Gough CM, Qin Q, Zhou Y, Doughty R, Scott R, Blanken PD (2018) Spatiotemporal consistency of four gross primary production products and solar-induced fluorescence in response to climate extremes across CONUS in 2012. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences 123(10): 3140-3161 (Web, PDF)

Zhang Y, Xiao X, Wolf S, Wu J, Wu X, Gioli B, Wohlfahrt G, Cescatti A, van der Tol C, Zhou S, Gough CM, Gentine P, Zhang Y, Steinbrecher R, Ardö J (2018) Spatio-temporal Convergence of Maximum Daily Light-Use Efficiency Based on Radiation Absorption by Canopy Chlorophyll. Geophysical Research Letters 45: 3508-3519 (Web, PDF, SI)

Zhang Y, Xiao X, Zhang Y, Wolf S, Zhou S, Joiner J, Guanter L, Verma M, Sun Y, Yang X, Paul-Limoges E, Gough CM, Wohlfahrt G, Gioli B, van der Tol C, Yann N, Lund M, de Grandcourt A (2018) On the relationship between sub-daily instantaneous and daily total gross primary production: Implications for interpreting satellite-based SIF retrievals. Remote Sensing of Environment 205: 276-289 (Web, PDF, SI)

Eugster W, Emmel C, Wolf S, Buchmann N, McFadden JP, Whiteman CD (2017) Effects of vernal equinox solar eclipse on temperature and wind direction in Switzerland. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 17(24): 14887-14904 (Web, PDF)

Wolf S, Yin D, Roderick ML (2017) Using radiative signatures to diagnose the cause of warming during the 2013-2014 Californian Drought. Journal of Hydrology 553: 408-418 (Web, PDF, SI)

Paul-Limoges E, Wolf S, Eugster W, Hörtnagl L, Buchmann N (2017) Below-canopy contributions to ecosystem CO2 fluxes in a temperate mixed forest in Switzerland. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 247: 582-596 (Web, PDF)

Yao Y, Liang S, Li X, Liu S, Chen J, Jia K, Zhang X, Fisher JB, Wang X, Zhang L, Xu J, Shao C, Posse G, Li Y, Magliulo V, Varlagin A, Moors EJ, Boike J, Macfarlane C, Kato T, Buchmann N, Billesbach DP, Beringer J, Wolf S, Papuga SA, Wohlfahrt G, Montagnani L, Ardö J, Paul-Limoges E, Emmel C, Hörtnagl LJ, Sachs T, Gruening C, Gioli B, López-Ballesteros A, Steinbrecher R, Gielen B (2017) Estimation of high-resolution terrestrial evapotranspiration from Landsat data using a simple Taylor skill fusion method. Journal of Hydrology 553: 508-526 (Web, PDF)

Chu H, Baldocchi DD, John R, Wolf S, Reichstein M (2017) Fluxes All of the Time? A Primer on the Temporal Representativeness of FLUXNET. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences 122(2): 289-307 (Web, PDF)

van Gorsel E, Wolf S, Cleverly J, Isaac P, Haverd V, Ewenz C, Arndt S, Beringer J, Resco de Dios V, Evans BJ, Griebel A, Hutley L, Keenan T, Kljun N, Macfarlane C, Meyer WS, McHugh I, Pendall E, Prober SM, Silberstein R (2016) 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. Biogeosciences 13(21): 5947-5964 (Web, PDF)

Wolf S, Keenan TF, Fisher JB, Baldocchi DD, Desai AR, Richardson AD, Scott RL, Law BE, Litvak ME, Brunsell NA, Peters W, van der Laan-Luijkx IT (2016) Warm spring reduced carbon cycle impact of the 2012 US summer drought. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113(21): 5880-5885 (Web, PDF, SI Appendix, PNAS Commentary, Nature News & Views) => Highly Cited & Hot Paper (Web of Science)

Zscheischler J, Fatichi S, Wolf S, Blanken P, Bohrer G, Clark K, Desai A, Hollinger D, Keenan T, Novick KA, Seneviratne SI (2016) Short-term favorable weather conditions are an important control of interannual variability in carbon and water fluxes. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences 121(8): 2186-2198 (Web, PDF)

Verma M, Fisher JB, Mallick K, Ryu Y, Kobayashi H, Guillaume A, Moore G, Ramakrishnan L, Hendrix V, Wolf S, Sikka M, Kiely G, Wohlfahrt G, Gielen B, Roupsard O, Toscano P, Arain MA, Cescatti A (2016) Global Surface Net-Radiation at 5 km from MODIS Terra. Remote Sensing 8(9): 739 (Web, PDF)

Tramontana G, Jung M, Camps-Valls G, Ichii K, Raduly B, Reichstein M, Schwalm CR, Arain MA, Cescatti A, Kiely G, Merbold L, Serrano-Ortiz P, Sickert S, Wolf S, Papale D (2016) Predicting carbon and energy fluxes across global FLUXNET sites with regression algorithms. Biogeosciences 13(14): 4291-4313 (Web, PDF)

Ma S, Baldocchi DD, Wolf S, Verfaillie J (2016) Slow ecosystem responses conditionally regulate annual carbon balance over 15 years in Californian oak-grass savanna. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 228-229: 252-264 (Web, PDF)

Yao Y. Liang S, Li X, Liu S, Chen J, Zhang X, Jia K, Xie X, Munier S, Liu M, Yu J, Lindroth A, Varlagin A, Raschi A, Noormets A, Pio C, Wohlfahrt G, Sun G, Domec JC, Montagnani L, Lund M, Eddy M, Blanken PD, Grünwald T, Wolf S, Magliulo V (2016) Assessment and simulation of global terrestrial latent heat flux by synthesis of CMIP5 climate models and surface eddy covariance observations. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 223: 151-167 (Web, PDF)

Parazoo NC, Barnes E, Worden J, Harper AB, Bowman KW, Frankenberg C, Wolf S, Litvak ME, Keenan TF (2015) Influence of ENSO and the NAO on terrestrial carbon uptake in the Texas-northern Mexico region. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 29(8): 1247-1265 (Web, PDF)

Wolf S, Eugster W, Ammann C, Häni M, Zielis M, Hiller R, Stieger J, Imer D, Merbold L, Buchmann N (2013) Contrasting response of grassland forest carbon and water fluxes to spring drought in Switzerland. Environmental Research Letters 8(3): 035007 (Web, PDF)

Sprenger M, Oelmann Y, Weihermüller L, Wolf S, Wilcke W, Potvin C (2013) Tree species and diversity effects on soil water seepage in a tropical plantation. Forest Ecology and Management 309(0): 76-86 (Web, PDF)

Wolf S, Eugster W, Majorek S, Buchmann N (2011) Afforestation of tropical pasture only marginally affects ecosystem-scale evapotranspiration. Ecosystems 14(8): 1264-1275 (Web, PDF)

Wolf S, Eugster W, Potvin C, Turner BL, Buchmann N (2011) Carbon sequestration potential of tropical pasture compared with afforestation in Panama. Global Change Biology 17(9): 2763-2780 (Web, PDF)

Schneebeli M, Wolf S, Kunert N, Eugster W, Mätzler C (2011) Relating the X-Band opacity of a tropical tree canopy to sapflow, rain interception and dew formation. Remote Sensing of Environment 115(8): 2116-2125 (Web, PDF)

Wolf S, Eugster W, Potvin C, Buchmann N (2011) Strong seasonal variations in net ecosystem CO2 exchange of a tropical pasture and afforestation in Panama. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 151(8): 1139-1151 (Web, PDF)

Potvin C, Manzilla L, Buchmann N, Monteza J, Moore T, Murphy M, Oelmann Y, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Turner, B.L., Wilcke W, Zeugin F, Wolf S (2011) An ecosystem approach to biodiversity effects: carbon pools in a tropical tree plantation. Forest Ecology and Management 261(10): 1614-1624 (Web, PDF)

Wolf S, Koteen L, Zeeman MJ (2011) Growing the FLUXNET Community: The Young Scientists Network. FluxLetter 4(1): 4-5 (PDF)

Wolf S (2010) Carbon dioxide and water vapour fluxes of tropical pasture and afforestation: seasonal variations of net ecosystem exchange and carbon sequestration potentials. DISS. ETH NO. 19415, ETH Zurich, 163 p (PDF)

Wolf S, Walz U, Kleber A (2009) Effects of land-cover change on soil erosion in the Saxon Switzerland National Park Region. Die ERDE 140(2): 155-174 (PDF)

Walz U, Wolf S, Neubert M (2008) Impact of Landscape Change on Landscape Functions in the Saxon Switzerland. In: Csaplovics E, Wagenknecht S, Seiler U (eds.): Spatial Information Systems for Transnational Environmental Management of Protected Areas and Regions in the Central European Space. Rhombus, Berlin. pp 105-117 (PDF)

Roberts A, Dragicevic S, Northrup J, Wolf S, Li Y, Coburn C (2003) Mountain Pine Beetle Detection and Monitoring - Remote Sensing Evaluations. Forestry Innovation Investment Operational Report, 45 p (PDF)

Wolf S (2003) Tien Shan Mountains, mapping expedition. American Alpine Journal 77: 346-347 (PDF)