Rasmussen, M. R., Merl, T., Zieger, S. E., Thomsen, S., Kiese, R., Butterbach-Bahl, K., & Koren, K. (2025). A novel, standalone and low-cost system for in-situ chemical imaging with planar optodes in soils. *Sensors and Actuators: B. Chemical, 424*, 136894. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2024.13689

Wangari, E. G., Mwanake, R. M., Houska, T., Kraus, D., Kikowatz, H.-M., Wolf, B., Gettel, G. M., Breuer, L., Ambus, P., Kiese, R., & Butterbach-Bahl, K. (2024). Spatial-temporal patterns of foliar and bulk soil 15N isotopic signatures across a heterogeneous landscape: Linkages to soil N status, nitrate leaching, and N₂O fluxes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 196, 109609. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2024.109609

Sun, Y., Yang, X., Elsgaard, L., Du, T., Siddique, K. H. M., Kang, S., & Butterbach-Bahl, K. (2024). Diversified crop rotations improve soil microbial communities and functions in a six-year field experiment. Journal of Environmental Management, 370, 122604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.122604

Yang, X., Li, S., Du, T., Kang, S., Siddique, K. H. M., & Butterbach-Bahl, K. (2024). Greenhouse gas emissions and crop-specific emission factors of eight upland crops based on a six-year field experiment in the North China Plain. Sustainable Production and Consumption, 50, 416–430. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2024.08.013

Fang, X., Harris, S. J., Leitner, S. M., Butterbach-Bahl, K., Conz, R. F., Merbold, L., Dannenmann, M., Oyugi, A., Liu, S., Zou, J., Six, J., & Barthel, M. (2024). Mechanisms behind high N₂O emissions from livestock enclosures in Kenya revealed by dual-isotope and functional gene analyses. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 196, 109505. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2024.109505

Xu, W. and P. Ambus (2024). Newly plant-derived carbon in the deeper vadose zone of a sandy agricultural soil does not stimulate denitrification. Geoderma 448: 116936. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2024.116936

Filippelli, R., Termansen, M., Hasler, B., Holbach, A., Timmermann, K., Konrad, M., & Levin, G. (2024). Integrated environmental-economic modelling for cross-sectoral water policy evaluation. Water Resources and Economics, 47, 100245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wre.2024.100245

Cen, X., He, N., Li, M., Xu, L., Yu, X., Cai, W., Li, X., & Butterbach-Bahl, K. (2024). Suppression of nitrogen deposition on global forest soil CH4 uptake depends on nitrogen status. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 38, e2024GB008098. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008098

Leitner, S.M., Carbonell, V.,  Mhindu, R.L, Zhu, Y., Mutuo. P., Butterbach-Bahl, K., Merbold, L., (2024)
Greenhouse gas emissions from cattle enclosures in semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa: The case of a rangeland in South-Central Kenya, Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment,Volume 367,
2024, 108980, ISSN 0167-8809, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2024.108980. 
 

Liu, C., Yue, H., Zhang, W., Yao, Z., Pan, Y., Wang, X., Song, C., Butterbach-Bahl, K., & Dannenmann, M. (2024). Alder expansion stimulates nitrogen oxide (NO_x) emissions from southern Eurasian permafrost peatlands. Global Change Biology, 30, e17368. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17368

Lohrum, N., Normand, S., Dalgaard, T., & Graversgaard, M. (2024). Unveiling the frontiers: Historical expansion and modern implications of agricultural land use in Denmark. Journal of Environmental Management, 359, 120934. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120934 

Rahimi, J., Haas, E., Scheer, C. et al.(2024) Aggregation of activity data on crop management can induce large uncertainties in estimates of regional nitrogen budgets.npj Sustain. Agric. 2,

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Grados, D., Kraus, D., Haas, E., Butterbach-Bahl, K., Olesen, J.E., Abalos, D., (2024),
Common agronomic adaptation strategies to climate change may increase soil greenhouse gas emission in Northern Europe, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Volume 349, 2024,109966, ISSN 0168-1923, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2024.109966 

Yao, Z., Wang, Y., Wang, R., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Zheng, X., Liu, C., Zhu, B., Zhou, M., Liu, Y., & Butterbach-Bahl, K. (2024). Long-term straw return to a wheat-maize system results in topsoil organic C saturation and increased yields while no stimulating or reducing yield-scaled N₂O and NO emissions. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 349, 109937. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2024.109937

Svenning, J.-C., McGeoch, M. A., Normand, S., Ordonez, A., & Riede, F. (2024). Navigating ecological novelty towards planetary stewardship: Challenges and opportunities in biodiversity dynamics in a transforming biosphere. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379(1902), 20230008. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0008

Yankelzon, I., Willibald, G., Dannenmann, M., Malique, F., Ostler, U., Scheer, C., Buttebach-Bahl, K., (2024). A new incubation system to simultaneously measure n₂ as well as n₂o and co₂ fluxes from plant-soil mesocosms. Biol Fertil Soils (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-024-01809-w 

This study introduces a plant-soil mesocosm system capable of continuously measuring N2, N2O, and CO2 fluxes during plant cultivation. Through a 33-day experiment with germinated wheat plants, the system's effectiveness in assessing soil denitrification dynamics and CO2 respiration rates is demonstrated, showcasing its potential for advancing environmental research.

Wang, P., J. Wang, B. Elberling, P. Ambus, Y. Li, J. Pan, R. Zhang, H. Guo and S. Niu (2024). Regional emissions of soil greenhouse gases across Tibetan alpine grasslands. Geoderma 443: 116843. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2024.116843

Gios, E., Verbruggen, E., Audet, J., Burns, R., Butterbach-Bahl, K., Espenberg, M., Fritz, C., Glatzel, S., Jurasinski, G., Larmola, T., Mander, Ü., Nielsen, C., Rodriguez, A. F., Scheer, C., Zak, D., & Silvennoinen, H. M. (2024). Unraveling microbial processes involved in carbon and nitrogen cycling and greenhouse gas emissions in rewetted peatlands by molecular biology. Biogeochemistry, 167(4), 609-629. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-024-01122-6

Yao, Z.,  Guo, H.,  Wang, Y.,  Zhan, Y.,  Zhang, T.,  Wang, R.,  Zheng, X., &  Butterbach-Bahl, K. (2024).  A global meta-analysis of yield-scaled N₂O emissions and its mitigation efforts for maize, wheat, and rice. Global Change Biology,  30, e17177. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17177

Yang, X., Xiong, J., Du, T. et al. Diversifying crop rotation increases food production, reduces net greenhouse gas emissions and improves soil health. Nat Commun 15, 198 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44464-9

Hurtado, J., Velázquez, E., Lassaletta, L., Guardia, G., Aguilera, E., Sanz-Cobena, A., (2024)
Drivers of ammonia volatilization in Mediterranean climate cropping systems,
Environmental Pollution, Volume 341, 2024, 122814, ISSN 0269-7491, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122814. 
 

Olesen J.E., Rees R.M., Recous S., Bleken M.A., Abalos D., Ahuja I., Butterbach-Bahl K., Carozzi M., De Notaris C., Ernfors M., Haas E., Hansen S., Janz B., Lashermes G., Massad R.S., Petersen S.O., Rittl T.F., Scheer C., Smith K.E., Thiébeau P., Taghizadeh-Toosi A., Thorman R.E., Topp C.F.E. (2023)
Challenges of accounting nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural crop residues
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Elberling, B., G.M. Kovács, H.F.E. Hansen, R. Fensholt, P. Ambus, X. Tong, D. Gominski, C.W. Mueller, D.M.N. Poultney and S. Oehmcke (2024). High nitrous oxide emissions from temporary flooded depressions within croplands. Communications Earth & Environment. DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-01095-8

Grosz B., Matson A., Butterbach-Bahl K., Clough T., Davidson E.A., Dechow R., DelGrosso S., Diamantopoulos E., Dörsch P., Haas E., He H., Henri C.V., Hui D., Kleineidam K., Kraus D., Kuhnert M., Léonard J., Müller C., Petersen S.O., Sihi D., Vogeler I., Well R., Yeluripati J., Zhang J., Scheer C. (2023)
Modeling Denitrification: Can We Report What We Don't Know?, 4 (6), art. no. e2023AV000990 DOI: 10.1029/2023AV000990  https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85175372807&doi=10.1029%2f2023AV000990&partnerID=40&md5=5a2c4d6cae85b83bd3e561e0dd89ec74 

Zhang B., Zhou M., Zhu B., Kemmann B., Pfülb L., Burkart S., Liu H., Butterbach-Bahl K., Well R. (2023)
Threshold-like effect of soil NO3− concentrations on denitrification product N2O/(N2O+N2) ratio is mediated by soil pH , 187, art. no. 109213 DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109213 

Smerald, A., Rahimi, J. & Scheer, C. (2023)  A global dataset for the production and usage of cereal residues in the period 1997–2021. Sci Data 10, 685. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02587-0 

Rahimi Jaber, Smerald Andrew, Moutahir Hassane, Khorsandi Mostafa, Butterbach-Bahl Klaus. (2023). The potential consequences of grain-trade disruption on food security in the Middle East and North Africa region, Frontiers in Nutrition, volume 10, DOI=10.3389/fnut.2023.1239548, ISSN=2296-861X.  https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2023.1239548. 

Smerald, A., Kraus, D., Rahimi, J. et al. A redistribution of nitrogen fertiliser across global croplands can help achieve food security within environmental boundaries. Commun Earth Environ 4, 315 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00970-8 

Yan Wang, Zhisheng Yao, Yanqiang Wang, Guangxuan Yan, Baldur Janz, Xiaogang Wang, Yang Zhan, Rui Wang, Xunhua Zheng, Minghua Zhou, Bo Zhu, Ralf Kiese, Benjamin Wolf, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl. (2023)
Characteristics of annual NH3 emissions from a conventional vegetable field under various nitrogen management strategies, Journal of Environmental Management, Volume 342, 2023,
118276,ISSN 0301-4797, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118276. 

Wei H., Song X., Liu Y., Wang R., Zheng X., Butterbach-Bahl K., Venterea R.T., Wu D., Ju X. (2023)
In situ 15N-N2O site preference and O2 concentration dynamics disclose the complexity of N2O production processes in agricultural soil, 29 (17), pp. 4910 - 4923
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Mwanake R.M., Gettel G.M., Wangari E.G., Glaser C., Houska T., Breuer L., Butterbach-Bahl K., Kiese R.
Anthropogenic activities significantly increase annual greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes from temperate headwater streams in Germany
(2023), 20 (16), pp. 3395 - 3422 DOI: 10.5194/bg-20-3395-2023 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85171140868&doi=10.5194%2fbg-20-3395-2023&partnerID=40&md5=1c1e0c98bea9caeff6f5c5af2d164bb0 

Li Wan, Yiming Zhao, Longlong Xia, Jing Hu, Tongxin Xue, Haofeng Lv, Zhisheng Yao, Fanqiao Meng, Guoyuan Li, Shan Lin, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl. (2023)
Assessing the environmental sustainability of different soil disinfestation methods used in solar greenhouse vegetable production systems, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 885,2023,163962,ISSN 0048-9697,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163962. 

Jing Hu, Yifei Sun, Meiju Liu, Yiming Zhao, Haofeng Lv, Yafang Wang, Guoyuan Li, Jingguo Wang, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, Shan Lin. (2023)
Drip fertigation with straw incorporation promotes soil microbial network complexity and potentially reduces pathogen abundance in greenhouse vegetable production systems,
Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Volume 351,2023, 108501, ISSN 0167-8809, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2023.108501. 

Mwanake R.M., Gettel G.M., Wangari E.G., Butterbach-Bahl K., Kiese R. (2023)
Interactive effects of catchment mean water residence time and agricultural area on water physico-chemical variables and GHG saturations in headwater streams, 5, art. no. 1220544
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Zhan Y., Yao Z., Groffman P.M., Xie J., Wang Y., Li G., Zheng X., Butterbach-Bahl K. (2023),Urbanization can accelerate climate change by increasing soil N2O emission while reducing CH4 uptake, vol 29 (12), pp. 3489 - 3502, DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16652 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85150516725&doi=10.1111%2fgcb.16652&partnerID=40&md5=34f285c9e952ed0beec473556b5af3a3 

Xu, W., L.L. Frendrup, A. Michelsen, B. Elberling and P.L. Ambus (2023). Deepened snow in combination with summer warming increases growing season nitrous oxide emissions in dry tundra, but not in wet tundra. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 180: 109013. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109013

Hu J., Wan L., Qasim W., Lv H., Zhao Y., Li G., Butterbach-Bahl K., Lin S. (2023)
Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation Promotes Soil Microbial Stability and Antagonistic Bacteria Abundance in Greenhouse Vegetable Production Systems
Agronomy, 13 (3), art. no. 939 DOI: 10.3390/agronomy13030939 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85152424403&doi=10.3390%2fagronomy13030939&partnerID=40&md5=20bd5c549478fe96249d6a57b1bd7076 

Li, X., Zhao, R., Li, D., Wang, G., Bei, S., Ju, X., An, R., Li, L., Kuyper, T. W., Christie, P., Bender, F. S., Veen, C., Van Der Heijden, M. G. A., Van Der Putten, W. H., Zhang, F., Butterbach-Bahl, K., & Zhang, J. (2023). Mycorrhiza-mediated recruitment of complete denitrifying Pseudomonas reduces N2O emissions from soil. Microbiome, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-023-01466-5

Xia L., Cao L., Yang Y., Ti C., Liu Y., Smith P., van Groenigen K.J., Lehmann J., Lal R., Butterbach-Bahl K., Kiese R., Zhuang M., Lu X., Yan X. (2023)
Integrated biochar solutions can achieve carbon-neutral staple crop production
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Merl, T., Rasmussen, M. R., Koch, L. R., Søndergaard, J. V., Bust, F. F., & Koren, K. (2022). Measuring soil ph at in situ like conditions using optical ph sensors (PH-optodes). Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 175, 108862. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108862

Yao, Z., Yan, G., Ma, L., Wang, Y., Zhang, H., Zheng, X., Wang, R., Liu, C., Wang, Y., Zhu, B., Zhou, M., Rahimi, J., & Butterbach-Bahl, K. (2022). Soil C/N ratio is the dominant control of annual N₂O fluxes from organic soils of natural and semi-natural ecosystems. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 327, 109198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.109198

Butterbach‐Bahl, K., Kraus, D., Kiese, R., Mai, V. T., Nguyen, T., Sander, B. O., Wassmann, R., & Werner, C. (2022). Activity data on crop management define uncertainty of CH 4 and N 2 O emission estimates from Rice: A case study of vietnam. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science. http://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.202200382

Tariq, A., Larsen, K. S., Hansen, L. S., Jensen, L. J., & Kuyper, T. W. (2022). Effect of nitrification inhibitor (DMPP) on nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural fields: Automated and manual measurements. Science of the Total Environment, 847, 157650. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157650

Rocchini, D., Santos, M. J., Ustin, S. L., Féret, J., Asner, G. P., Beierkuhnlein, C., Dalponte, M., Feilhauer, H., Foody, G. M., Geller, G. N., Gillespie, T. R., He, K. S., Kleijn, D., Leitão, P. J., Carranza, M. L., Moudrý, V., Müllerová, J., Nagendra, H., Normand, S., . . . Lenoir, J. (2022). The Spectral Species Concept in Living Color. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127(9). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jg007026

Rashid, M.A., Bruun, S., Styczen, M.E., Borgen, S.K., Hvid, S.K., Jensen, L.S. (2022). Adequacy of nitrogen-based indicators for assessment of cropping system performance: A modelling study of Danish scenarios. (n.d.). Science of the Total Environment, 842, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156927

Wangari, E. G., Mwanake, R. M., Kraus, D., Werner, C., Gettel, G. M., Kiese, R., Breuer, L., Butterbach‐Bahl, K., & Houska, T. (2022). Number of chamber measurement locations for accurate quantification of landscape‐scale greenhouse gas fluxes: Importance of land use, seasonality, and greenhouse gas type. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127(9). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022jg006901

Graham, M. W., Butterbach-Bahl, K., du Doit, C. J., Korir, D., Leitner, S., Merbold, L., Mwape, A., Ndung’u, P. W., Pelster, D. E., Rufino, M. C., van der Weerden, T., Wilkes, A., & Arndt, C. (2022). Research progress on greenhouse gas emissions from livestock in Sub-Saharan Africa falls short of National Inventory ambitions. Frontiers in Soil Science, 2. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoil.2022.927452

Rahimi, J., Fillol, E., Mutua, J. Y., Cinardi, G., Robinson, T. P., Notenbaert, A. M., Ericksen, P. J., Graham, M. W., & Butterbach-Bahl, K. (2022). A shift from cattle to camel and goat farming can sustain milk production with lower inputs and emissions in north sub-Saharan Africa’s drylands. Nature Food, 3(7), 523–531. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00543-6

Biasi, C., Jokinen, S., Prommer, J., Ambus, P., Dörsch, P., Yu, L., Granger, S. W., Boeckx, P., Van Nieuland, K., Brüggemann, N., Wissel, H., Voropaev, A., Zilberman, T., Jäntti, H., Trubnikova, T., Welti, N., Voigt, C., Gebus-Czupyt, B., Czupyt, Z., & Wanek, W. (2022). Challenges in measuring nitrogen isotope signatures in inorganic nitrogen forms: An interlaboratory comparison of three common measurement approaches. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 36(22). https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.9370

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Assmann, J. J., Moeslund, J. E., Treier, U. A., Treier, U. A., Normand, S., & Normand, S. (2022). EcoDes-DK15: high-resolution ecological descriptors of vegetation and terrain derived from Denmark’s national airborne laser scanning data set. Earth System Science Data, 14(2), 823–844. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-823-2022

Ramm, E., Liu, C., Ambus, P., Butterbach-Bahl, K., Hu, B., Martikainen, P. J., Marushchak, M. E., Mueller, C. W., Rennenberg, H., Schloter, M., Siljanen, H. M., Voigt, C., Werner, C., Biasi, C., & Dannenmann, M. (2022). A review of the importance of mineral nitrogen cycling in the plant-soil-microbe system of permafrost-affected soils—changing the paradigm. Environmental Research Letters, 17(1), 013004. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac417e

Hasler, B., Termansen, M., Nielsen, H. L., Daugbjerg, C., Wunder, S., & Latacz-Lohmann, U. (2022). European Agri-environmental Policy: Evolution, Effectiveness, and Challenges. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 16(1), 105–125. https://doi.org/10.1086/718212