Sebastiaan Luyssaert

0169083983

0169083073

Fonction

Researcher

Sujets de recherche

The overall goal of the DOFOCO team (ERC starting grant 242564) is to quantify and understand the role of forest management in mitigating climate change.

Members of the team:

James Ryder (post-doc 1/8/2011-ongoing)
Aude Valade (post-doc 1/9/2013-ongoing)
Guillaume Marie (post-doc 1/7/2016-ongoing)
Sebastiaan Luyssaert (PI)

Former members:

Ferenc Pasztor (post-doc 1/5/2014-1/9/2015)
Yiying Chen (post-doc 1/2/2014-30/6/2015)
Kim Naudts (post-doc 1/5/2012-30/4/2015)
Matthew McGrath (post-doc 1/11/2012-31/12/2014)
Juliane Otto (post-doc 1/10/2010-30/06/2014)
Matteo Campioli (visiting post-doc 1/10/2012-31/12/2012)
Bert Gielen (visiting post-doc 1/3/2011-31/12/2011)
Marta Camino Serrano (PhD obtained October 2015)
Mathile Jammet (M2 intern 1/3/2011-30/6/2011)

CV

1996 Student Conservation Agency, National Park Service, Grand Canyon NP, revegetation crew, USA

1997-2001 Ph D studies and research, Universiteit Gent (UG), Belgium

2001-2001 Post-doctoral Research, Universiteit Gent (UG), Belgium

2002-2004 Post-doctoral Research, Marie Curie fellowship, Metsäntutkimuslaitos (Metla), Finland

2004-2005 Common Fisheries Policy, Dienst zeevisserijonderzoek (CLO-DVZ), Belgium

2005-2006 Post-doctoral Research, Universiteit Antwerpen (UA), Belgium

2006-2007 Post-doctoral Research, Oregon State University (OSU), USA

2007-2010 Post-doctoral Research, Universiteit Antwerpen (UA), Belgium

2010-... ERC starting Grant, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnemant (LSCE), France

Publications scientifiques

2016

Naudts, K. et al., Europe’s forest management did not mitigate climate warming. Science, 2016. 351, 597-600, DOI: 10.1126/science.aad7270 (full text HTML) (full text PDF)
Ryder, J. et al., A multi-layer land surface energy budget model for implicit coupling with global atmospheric simulations, Geoscientific Model Development, 2016, 9, 223-245

2015

McGrath, M. J. et al., Reconstructing European forest management from 1600 to 2010, Biogeosciences, 2015, 12, 4291-4316
Naudts, K. et al., A vertically discretised canopy description for ORCHIDEE (SVN r2290) and the modifications to the energy, water and carbon fluxes, Geoscientific Model development, 2015, 8, 2035-2065
Vanden Broucke, S et al., New insights in the capability of climate models to simulate the impact of LUC based on temperature decomposition of paired site observations, journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 2015, 120, 5417-5436
Campioli, M et al., Biomass production effciency controlled by management in temperate and boreal ecosystems. Nature Geoscience, 2015, 8, 843
Fernandez-Martinez, M et al., Reply to 'Uncertain effects of nutrient availability on global forest carbon balance' and 'Data quality and the role of nutrients in forest carbon-use efficiency', Nature Climate Change, 2015, 5, 960-961
De Groote, T. et al., ORCHIDEE-SRC v1.0: an extension of the land surface model ORCHIDEE for simulating short rotation coppice poplar plantations, Geoscientific Model development, 2015, 8, 1461-1471

2014

Bellassen, V. & Luyssaert, S., Comment: Carbon sequestration: Managing forests in uncertain times. Nature, 2014. 506, 153–155.
Luyssaert, S., et al., Land management and land-cover changehave impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature. Nature Climate Change, 2014. 4, 389-393.
Fernández-Martínez, M., et al., Nutrient availability as the key regulator of global forest carbon balance. Nature Climate Change, 2014. 4, 471-476.
Saito, M., et al., Fire regimes and variability in aboveground woody biomass in miombo woodland. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 2014. 119, 1014–1029.
Camino-Serrano, M., et al., Linking variability in soil solution dissolved organic carbon to climate, soil type, and vegetation type. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2014. 28, doi:10.1002/2013GB004726.
Otto, J. et al., Forest summer albedo is sensitive to species and thinning: how should we account for this in Earth system models?, Biogeosciences, 2014, 11, 2411-2427
Tang, J. et al., Steeper declines in forest photosynthesis than respiration explain age-driven decreases in forest growth, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2014, 111, 8856-8860
Fernandez-Martinez, M. et al., Spatial variability and controls over biomass stocks, carbon fluxes, and resource-use efficiencies across forest ecosystems, Trees structure and function, 2014, 28, 597-611
Ciais, P. et al., Current systematic carbon-cycle observations and the need for implementing a policy-relevant carbon observing system, Biogeosciences, 2014, 11, 3547-3602

2013

Hudiburg, T.W., et al., Interactive Effects of Environmental Change and Management Strategies on Regional Forest Carbon Emissions. Environmental Science and Technology, 2013. 47, 13132-13140.
Yue, C et al., Simulating boreal forest carbon dynamics after stand-replacing fire disturbance: insights from a global process-based vegetation model. Biogeosciences, 2013. 10, 8233–8252.
Heinz, K.E., et al., Bias in the attribution of forest carbon sinks. Nature Climate Change, 2013. 3, 854-856.
Regnier, P., et al., Anthropogenic perturbation of the carbon fluxes from land to ocean. Nature Geoscience, 2013. 6(8): p. 597-607.
Law, B.E., et al., Thinning effects on forest productivity: consequences of preserving old forests and mitigating impacts of fire and drought. Plant Ecology & Diversity, 2013. 6(1): p. 73-85. 61.
Haberl, H., et al., Response: complexities of sustainable forest use. Global Change Biology Bioenergy, 2013. 5(1): p. 1-2. 62.
Luyssaert, S., et al. Can land use intensity be reliably quantified by using a single self-thinning relationship? Reply to Schall and Ammer. Ecological Applications, 2013. 23(3): p. 677-678.

2012

Schulze, E.-D., et al. Large-scale bioenergy from additional harvest of forest biomass is neither sustainable nor greenhouse gas neutral. Global Change Biology Bionenergy, available on-line. doi:10.1111/j.1757-1707.2012.01169.x
Luyssaert, S., et al., The European land and inland water CO2, CO, CH4 and N2O balance between 2001 and 2005. Biogeosciences, 2012. 9(8), p. 3357–3380. doi:10.5194/bg-9-3357-2012
Vicca, S., et al, Fertile forests produce biomass more efficiently. Ecology letters, 2012. p. 520–526. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01775.x
Luyssaert, S., et al., Quantifying land use and disturbance intensity in forestry, based on the self-thinning relationship. Ecological Applications, 2012. 21(8): p. 3272-3284.

2011

Sulkava, M., et al. (2011). Assessing and improving the representativeness of monitoring networks: The European flux tower network example. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences 2011. 116
Schulze, E. D., et al. Response to 'The European nitrogen cycle: response to Schulze et al, Global Change Biology (2010) 16, pp. 1451-1469'. Global Change Biology, 2011. 17: p. 2758-2761.
Hudiburg, T. W., et al. Regional carbon dioxide implications of forest bioenergy production. Nature Climate Change, 2011. 1: p. 419-423.
Gielen, B., et al. The importance of dissolved organic carbon fluxes for the carbon balance of a temperate Scots pine forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2011. 151: p. 270-278.
Bellassen, V., et al. Reconstruction and attribution of the carbon sink of European forests between 1950 and 2000. Global Change Biology, 2011. 17: p. 3274-3292.
Bellassen, V., et al. Potential knowledge gain in large-scale simulations of forest carbon fluxes from remotely sensed biomass and height. Forest Ecology and Management, 2011. 261: p. 515-530.
Anderson, et al. Biophysical considerations in forestry for climate protection. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2011. 9: p. 174-182.

2010

Teuling, A. J., et al., Contrasting response of European forest and grassland energy exchange to heatwaves, Nature Geoscience, 2010. 3(10), p. 722-727.
Schwalm, C.R., et al., Assimilation exceeds respiration sensitivity to drought: A FLUXNET synthesis. Global Change Biology, 2010. 16(2): p. 657-670.
Schulze, E.D., et al., Importance of methane and nitrous oxide for Europe's terrestrial greenhouse-gas balance (vol 2, pg 842, 2009). Nature Geoscience, 2010. 3(1): p. 65-65.
Schulze, E.D., et al., The European carbon balance. Part 4: integration of carbon and other trace-gas fluxes. Global Change Biology, 2010. 16(5): p. 1451-1469.
Schulze, E.D., et al., The European carbon balance. Part 4: integration of carbon and other trace-gas fluxes (vol 16, pg 1451, 2010). Global Change Biology, 2010. 16(8): p. 2399-2399.
Richardson, A.D., et al., Influence of spring and autumn phenological transitions on forest ecosystem productivity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 2010. 365(1555): p. 3227-3246.
Piao, S.L., et al., Forest annual carbon cost: a global-scale analysis of autotrophic respiration. Ecology, 2010. 91(3): p. 652-661.
Luyssaert, S., et al., The European carbon balance. Part 3: forests. Global Change Biology, 2010. 16(5): p. 1429-1450.
Liberloo, M., et al., Bio-Energy Retains Its Mitigation Potential Under Elevated CO2. Plos One, 2010. 5(7).
Janssens, I.A., et al., Reduction of forest soil respiration in response to nitrogen deposition. Nature Geoscience, 2010. 3(5): p. 315-322.
Dieleman W.I.J., et al., Soil [N] modulates soil C cycling in CO2-fumigated tree stands: a meta-analysis. Plant Cell and Environment, 2010. 33: p. 2001-2011.
Ciais, P., et al., The European carbon balance. Part 2: croplands. Global Change Biology, 2010. 16(5): p. 1409-1428.
Ciais, P., et al. Can we reconcile atmospheric estimates of the Northern terrestrial carbon sink with land-based accounting?, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2010, 2(4), 225-230.
Beer, C., et al., Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate. Science, 2010. 329(5993): p. 834-838.

2009

Yuan, W.P., et al., Latitudinal patterns of magnitude and interannual variability in net ecosystem exchange regulated by biological and environmental variables. Global Change Biology, 2009. 15(12): p. 2905-2920.
Schulze, E.D., et al., Importance of methane and nitrous oxide for Europe's terrestrial greenhouse-gas balance. Nature Geoscience, 2009. 2(12): p. 842-850.
Luyssaert, S., et al., Toward a consistency cross-check of eddy covariance flux-based and biometric estimates of ecosystem carbon balance. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2009. 23.
Janssens, I.A. and S. Luyssaert, Nitrogen's carbon bonus. Nature Geoscience, 2009. 2(5): p. 318-319.
Battin, T.J., et al., The boundless carbon cycle. Nature Geoscience, 2009. 2(9): p. 598-600.

2008

Piao, S.L., et al., Net carbon dioxide losses of northern ecosystems in response to autumn warming. Nature, 2008. 451(7174): p. 49-U3.
Luyssaert, S., et al., Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks. Nature, 2008. 455(7210): p. 213-215.
Ciais, P., et al., Carbon accumulation in European forests. Nature Geoscience, 2008. 1(7): p. 425-429.

2007

Sulkava, M., et al., Modeling the effects of varying data quality on trend detection in environmental monitoring. Ecological Informatics, 2007. 2(2): p. 167-176.
Luyssaert, S., et al., Photosynthesis drives anomalies in net carbon-exchange of pine forests at different latitudes. Global Change Biology, 2007. 13(10): p. 2110-2127.
Luyssaert, S., et al., CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database. Global Change Biology, 2007. 13(12): p. 2509-2537.
Jung, M., et al., Assessing the ability of three land ecosystem models to simulate gross carbon uptake of forests from boreal to Mediterranean climate in Europe. Biogeosciences, 2007. 4(4): p. 647-656.

2006

Serbruyns, I. and S. Luyssaert, Acceptance of sticks, carrots and sermons as policy instruments for directing private forest management. Forest Policy and Economics, 2006. 9(3): p. 285-296.
Mertens, J., S. Luyssaert, and K. Verheyen, Comment on "In defense of plants as biomonitors of soil quality". Environmental Pollution, 2006. 144(3): p. 715-715.
De Schrijver, A., et al., Acidification of forested podzols in North Belgium during the period 1950-2000. Science of the Total Environment, 2006. 361(1-3): p. 189-195.

2005

Van Gossum, P., et al., Forest groups as support to private forest owners in developing close-to-nature management. Forest Policy and Economics, 2005. 7(4): p. 589-601.
Mertens, J., S. Luyssaert, and K. Verheyen, Use and abuse of trace metal concentrations in plant tissue for biomonitoring and phytoextraction. Environmental Pollution, 2005. 138(1): p. 1-4.
Luyssaert, S., et al., Are N and S deposition altering the mineral composition of Norway spruce and Scots pine needles in Finland? Environmental Pollution, 2005. 138(1): p. 5-17.
Luyssaert, S., J. Staelens, and A. De Schrijver, Does the commonly used estimator of nutrient resorption in tree foliage actually measure what it claims to? Oecologia, 2005. 144(2): p. 177-186.

2004

Staelens, J., L. Nachtergale, and S. Luyssaert, Predicting the spatial distribution of leaf litterfall in a mixed deciduous forest. Forest Science, 2004. 50(6): p. 836-847.
Mertens, J., et al., Metal uptake by young trees from dredged brackish sediment: limitations and possibilities for phytoextraction and phytostabilisation. Science of the Total Environment, 2004. 326(1-3): p. 209-215.
Luyssaert, S., et al., Evaluation of forest nutrition based on large-scale foliar surveys: are nutrition profiles the way of the future? Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 2004. 6(2): p. 160-167.
De Schrijver, A., et al., Comparison of throughfall and soil solution chemistry between a high-density Corsican pine stand and a naturally regenerated silver birch stand. Environmental Pollution, 2004. 131(1): p. 93-105.

2003

Vervaeke, P., et al., Phytoremediation prospects of willow stands on contaminated sediment: a field trial. Environmental Pollution, 2003. 126(2): p. 275-282.
Staelens, J., et al., A model of wind-influenced leaf litterfall in a mixed hardwood forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research-Revue Canadienne De Recherche Forestiere, 2003. 33(2): p. 201-209.
Luyssaert, S., J. Mertens, and H. Raitio, Support, shape and number of replicate samples for tree foliage analysis. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 2003. 5(3): p. 500-504.

2002

Nachtergale, L., et al., Earthworm biomass and species diversity in windthrow sites of a temperate lowland forest. Pedobiologia, 2002. 46(5): p. 440-451.
Luyssaert, S., et al., Sampling procedure for the foliar analysis of deciduous trees. Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 2002. 4(6): p. 858-864.
Luyssaert, S., et al., Should foliar cadmium concentrations be expressed on a dry weight or dry ash weight basis? Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 2002. 4(3): p. 408-412.

2001

Vervaeke, P., et al., Dredged sediment as a substrate for biomass production of willow trees established using the SALIMAT technique. Biomass & Bioenergy, 2001. 21(2): p. 81-90.
Mertens, J., et al., Cd and Zn concentrations in small mammals and willow leaves on disposal facilities for dredged material. Environmental Pollution, 2001. 115(1): p. 17-22.
Luyssaert, S., M. Van Meirvenne, and N. Lust, Cadmium variability in leaves of a Salix fragilis: simulation and implications for leaf sampling. Canadian Journal of Forest Research-Revue Canadienne De Recherche Forestiere, 2001. 31(2): p. 313-321.
Luyssaert, S., et al., Preliminary results of afforestation of brackish sludge mounds. Ecological Engineering, 2001. 16(4): p. 567-572.

Divers

Forest Management cartoons.

Cite or acknowledge every use as: (Based on) Börner, A., Bellassen, V. & Luyssaert, S. 2010. Forest Management Cartoons. MPI-BGC, Germany and LSCE, France. http://www.lsce.ipsl.fr/Pisp/124/sebastiaan.luyssaert.html

Preview_1.pdf (2MB) Forest_Cartoons_1.eps (8 MB, updated December 2010)

Preview_2.pdf (3 MB) Forest_Cartoons_2.eps (14 MB, updated December 2010)

Global database.

Usage is conditional on accepting the fair use policy which is contained in the download.

Cite or acknowledge every use as: Luyssaert, S., et al., CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database. Global Change Biology, 2007. 13(12): p. 2509-2537.

Database_v3.3.1.7z (2.1 MB, Use 7zip to unzip, updated database April 2011, update documentation April 2015)

Database_v3.3.1.zip (5.0 MB, Use WinZip or similar to unzip, updated database April 2011, update documentation April 2015)