Gondim Rodrigues L. M., Hardy B., Fohrafellner J., Fornara D., Barančíková G., Bárcena T. G., De Boever M., Di Bene C., Feizienė D., Kätter T., Laszlo P., O’Sullivan L., Seitz D., Leifeld J.
Achievable agricultural soil carbon sequestration across Europe from country-specific estimates.
Global Change Biology, 27, (24), 2021, 6363-6380.

Wang Y., Paul S. M., Jocher M., Espic C., Alewell C., Szidat S., Leifeld J.
Soil carbon loss from drained agricultural peatland after coverage with mineral soil.
Science of the Total Environment, 800, 2021, Article 149498.

Burgeon, V., Fouché J., Leifeld J., Chenu C., Cornélis J.T.
Organo-mineral associations largely contribute to the stabilization of century-old pyrogenic organic matter in cropland soils.
Geoderma, 388, 2021, 114841.

Loisel J., Gallego-Sala A.V., Amesbury M.J., Magnan G., Anshari G., Beilman D.W., Benavides J.C., Blewett J., Camill P., Charman D.J., Chawchai S., Hedgpeth A., Kleinen T., Korhola A., Large D. and others
Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink.
Nature Climate Change, 11, 2021, 70-77.

Huang Y., Ciais P., Luo Y., Zhu D., Wang Y., Qiu C., Goll D.S., Guenet B., Makowski D., De Graaf I., Leifeld J., Kwon M.J., Hu J., Qu L.
Tradeoff of CO2 and CH4 emissions from global peatlands under water-table drawdown.
Nature Climate Change, 11, 2021, 618-622.

Leifeld J., Alewell C., Paul S. M.
Accumulation of C4-carbon from Miscanthus in organic-matter-rich soils.
Global Change Biology Bioenergy, 13, (8), 2021, 1319-1328.

Klein J. K., Gross-Schmölders M., Alewell C., Leifeld J.
Heating up a cold case: Applications of analytical pyrolysis GC/MS to access molecular biomarkers in peat.
Advances in Agronomy, 165, 2021, 115-159.

Schmidt, H.P., Hagemann N., Abächerli, F., Leifeld J., Bucheli T.
Pflanzenkohle in der Landwirtschaft: Hintergründe zur Düngerzulassung und Potentialabklärung für die Schaffung von Kohlenstoff-Senken.
Agroscope Science, 112, 2021.

Leifeld J., Wüst-Galley C.
Kohlenstoffsenke Moorboden: Zustand und Entwicklung.
Hotspot, 43, 2021, 6.

Wüst-Galley C., Keel S., Leifeld J.
Modelling SOC in Switzerland’s mineral agricultural soils using RothC: Sensitivity analysis.
Agroscope Science, 113, 2021.

Volk M., Suter M., Wahl A.-L., Bassin S.
Subalpine grassland productivity increased with warmer and drier conditions, but not with higher N deposition, in an altitudinal transplantation experiment.
Biogeosciences, 18, 2021, 2075-2090.

Leifeld J., Egli M., Wiesenberg G., Gärtner H., Seibert J., Röösli C., Wingate V., Dollenmeier W., Griffel P., Suremann J., Weber J., Zyberaj M., Musso A.
Formation and decay of peat bogs in the vegetable belt of Switzerland.
Swiss Journal of Geosciences, 114, (online), 2021, 1-16.

Paul S. M., Ammann C., Alewell C., Leifeld J.
Carbon budget response of an agriculturally used fen to different soil moisture conditions.
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 300, 2021, 1-11.

Humpenöder F., Karstens K., Lotze-Cmpen H., Leifeld J., Menichetti L., Barthelmes A., Popp A.
Peatland protection and restoration are key for climate change mitigation.
Environmental Research Letters, 15, (10), 2020, 1-13.

Wüst-Galley C., Keel S. G., Leifeld J.
A model-based carbon inventory for Switzerland’s mineral agricultural soils using RothC.
Agroscope Science, 105, 2020.

Amelung, W., Bossio D., de Vries W., Kögel-Knabner I., Lehmann J., Amundson R., Bol R., Collins C., Lal R., Leifeld J., Minasny B., Pan G., Paustian K., Rumpel C., Sanderman J. and others
Towards a global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy.
Nature Communications, 11, (5427), 2020, 1-10.

Wüst-Galley C., Volk M., Bassin S.
Interaction of climate change and nitrogen deposition on subalpine pastures.
Journal of Vegetation Science, online, (5 September), 2020, 1-12.

Gross-Schmölders M., von Sengbusch P., Krüger J.P., Klein K., Birkholz A., Leifeld J., Alewell C.
Switch of fungal to bacterial degradation in natural, drained and rewetted oligotrophic peatlands reflected in δ15N and fatty acid composition.
Soil, 6, 2020, 299-313.

Klein J. K., Leifeld J.
Investigating the influence of instrumental parameters and chemical composition on pyrolysis efficiency of peat.
Communications in Soil Sciences and Plant Analysis, 51, (12), 2020, 1572-1581.

Leifeld J., Klein J. K., Wüst C.
Soil organic matter stoichiometry as indicator for peatland degradation.
Scientific Reports, 10, (6 May), 2020, 1-9.

Wüst-Galley C., Grünig A., Leifeld J.
Land use-driven historical soil carbon losses in Swiss peatlands.
Landscape Ecology, online, (7 December), 2019, 1-15.

Leifeld J., Wüst C., Page S.
Intact and managed peatland soils as a source and sink of GHGs from 1850 to 2100.
Nature Climate Change, 9, 2019, 945-949.

Keel S., Anken T., Büchi L., Chervet A., Fliessbach A., Flisch R., Huguenin-Elie O., Mäder P., Mayer J., Sinaj S., Sturny W., Wüst C., Zihlmann U., Leifeld J.
Loss of soil organic carbon in Swiss long-­term agricultural experiments over a wide range of management practices.
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 286, 2019, Article 106654.

Leifeld J., Müller A., Steffens M.
Kriterien für die Zertifizierung von Kohlenstoffsenken in Landwirtschaftsböden.
Agrarforschung Schweiz, 10, (9), 2019, 346-349.
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Beuttler C., Keel S., Leifeld J., Schmid M., Berta N., Gutknecht V., Wohlgemuth N., Brodmann U., Stadler Z., Ttinibaev D., Wlodarczak D., Honegger M., Stettler C., Classen M., Fumeaux G.
The Role of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Removal in Swiss Climate Policy.
Bundesamt für Umwelt, Bern. August, 2019.

Buchkina N.P., Hüppi R., Leifeld J.
Biochar and short-term N2O and CO2 emission from plant residue-amended soil with different fertilisation history.
Zemdirbyste-Agriculture, 106, (2), 2019, 99-106.

Wüst C., Leifeld J.
Entwicklung der Kohlenstoffvorräte und Treibhausgasemissionen der Moorböden seit 1850.
In: Vom «eroberten Land» zum Renaturierungsprojekt – Geschichte der Feuchtgebiete in der Schweiz seit 1700. Publ. Stuber, M., Bürgi, M; Bristol-Schriftenreihe 59, Paul Haupt Verlag Bern. 2019, 231-242.

Leifeld J., Bretscher D., Vogel D.
Treibhausgasemissionen entwässerter Böden.
Agroscope Science, 74, 2019.

Wüst C., Keel S., Leifeld J.
A model-based carbon inventory for national greenhouse gas reporting of mineral agricultural soils.
Agroscope, Zurich Affoltern. 9. September, 2018, 142 pp.

De Boeck, H. , Hiltbrunner, E. , Verlinden, M., Bassin S., Zeiter M.
Legacy Effects of Climate Extremes in Alpine Grassland.
Frontiers in Plant Science, 9, 2018, Article 1586.

Emmel C., Winkler A., Hörtnagl L., Revill A., Ammann C., D'Odorico P., Buchmann N., Eugster W.
Integrated management of a Swiss cropland is not sufficient to preserve its soil carbon pool in the long term.
Biogeosciences, 15, 2018, 5377-5393.

Hüppi R., Felber R., Krauss M., Six J., Leifeld J., Fuss R.
Restricting the nonlinearity parameter in soil greenhouse gas flux calculation for more reliable flux estimates.
PLOS ONE, 13, (7), 2018, 1-17.

Volk M., Bassin S., Lehmann F., Johnson M.G., Andersen C.P.
13C isotopic signature and C concentration of soil density fractions illustrate reduced C allocation to subalpine grassland soil under high atmospheric N deposition.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 125, 2018, 178-184.

Leifeld J., Alewell C., Bader C., Krüger J.P., Müller C.W., Sommer M., Steffens M., Szidat S.
Pyrogenic carbon contributes substantially to carbon storage in intact and degraded Northern Peatlands.
Land Degradation & Development, 29, 2018, 2082-2091.

Ruppert Schmitt V., Leifeld J.
Ohne Torf gärtnern schützt Klima und Moore.
Zürcher Umweltpraxis, 91, (Juli), 2018, 13-14.

Leifeld J., Mayer J.
Streu landwirtschaftlicher Nutzflächen.
In: Handbuch der Bodenkunde, 42. Ergänzungslieferung. Januar, Publ. Wiley-VCH. 2018, 1-14.

Leifeld J., Menichetti L.
The underappreciated potential of peatlands in global climate change mitigation strategies.
Nature Communications, 9, (1071), 2018, 1-7.

Leifeld J.
Distribution of nitrous oxide emissions from managed organic soils under different land uses estimated by the peat C/N ratio to improve national GHG inventories.
Science of the Total Environment, 631-632, (August), 2018, 23-26.

Krause, H.M., Hüppi, R., Leifeld J., El-Hadidi, M., Harter, J., Kappler, A., Hartman, M., Behrens, S., Mäder, P., Gattinger, A.
Biochar affects community composition of nitrous oxide reducers in a field experiment.
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 119, (April), 2018, 143-151.

Bader C., Müller M., Szidat S., Schulin R., Leifeld J.
Response of peat decomposition to corn straw addition in managed organic soils.
Geoderma, 309, 2018, 75-83.

Bader C., Müller M., Schulin R., Leifeld J.
Peat decomposability in managed organic soils in relation to land use, organic matter composition and temperature.
Biogeosciences, 15, 2018, 703-719.

Tanneberger F., Tegetmeyer C., Busse S., Barthelmes A., Shumka S., Moles Mariné A., Jenderedjian K., Steiner G.M., Essl F., Etzold J., Mendes C., Kozulin A., Frankard P., Milanović D., Ganeva A. and others
The peatland map of Europe.
Mires and Peat, 19, (22), 2017, 1-17.