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Sian Kou-Giesbrecht

ResearcherDepartment of Earth and Environmental SciencesDalhousie University

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Sian Kou-Giesbrecht

Researcher

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Dalhousie University

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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8 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Principal investigator on 4 research grants (4 NSERC), most recently in 2024.

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Biogeochemistry Climate change Ecosystem ecology Nitrogen cycling carbon cycling terrestrial biosphere modelling earth system modelling Soil greenhouse gas fluxes

Latest papers

Reply to: Uncertain climate effects of anthropogenic reactive nitrogen.
Nature · 2025
A global dataset of terrestrial biological nitrogen fixation.
Scientific data · 2025
Global terrestrial nitrogen fixation and its modification by agriculture.
Nature · 2025

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Latest funding

To what extent will nitrogen limit Canadian boreal forest growth and the terrestrial carbon sink under global change?
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$12,500
Soil N2O emissions from the Canadian boreal to Neotropical forests
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$150,000
To what extent will nitrogen limit Canadian boreal forest growth and the terrestrial carbon sink under global change?
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$42,000

All 4 grants and awards

8 publications.

Reply to: Uncertain climate effects of anthropogenic reactive nitrogen.

Gong C, Tian H, Liao H, Pan N, Pan S, Ito A, Jain AK, Kou-Giesbrecht S, Joos F, Sun Q, Shi H, Vuichard N, Zhu Q, Peng C, Maggi F, Tang FHM, Zaehle S

Nature2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09338-8 PMID: 41125776

A global dataset of terrestrial biological nitrogen fixation.

Reis Ely CR, Perakis SS, Cleveland CC, Menge DNL, Reed SC, Batterman SA, Crews TE, Dynarski KA, Gei M, Gundale MJ, Jovan SE, Kou-Giesbrecht S, Peoples MB, Rodríguez-Caballero E, Salmon VG, Soper FM, Staccone AP, Taylor BN, Weber B, Wurzburger N

Scientific data2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41597-025-05131-4 PMID: 40764484

Global terrestrial nitrogen fixation and its modification by agriculture.

Reis Ely CR, Perakis SS, Cleveland CC, Menge DNL, Reed SC, Taylor BN, Batterman SA, Clark CM, Crews TE, Dynarski KA, Gei M, Gundale MJ, Herridge DF, Jovan SE, Kou-Giesbrecht S, Peoples MB, Piipponen J, Rodríguez-Caballero E, Salmon VG, Soper FM, Staccone AP, Weber B, Williams CA, Wurzburger N

Nature2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09201-w PMID: 40670639

Role of Forest Carbon Change in Shaping Future Land Use and Land Cover Change.

Luo M, Zhao X, Hao D, Bond-Lamberty B, Daigneault A, Patel PL, Kou-Giesbrecht S, Reyer CPO, Dashti H, Chen M

Global change biology2025

DOI: 10.1111/gcb.70219 PMID: 40329463

Rising nitrogen deposition leads to only a minor increase in CO2 uptake in Earth system models.

Kou-Giesbrecht S, Arora VK, Jones CD, Brovkin V, Hajima T, Kawamiya M, Liddicoat SK, Winkler AJ, Zaehle S

Communications earth & environment2025First author

DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01943-1 PMID: 40125294

Enhanced nitrous oxide emission factors due to climate change increase the mitigation challenge in the agricultural sector.

Li L, Lu C, Winiwarter W, Tian H, Canadell JG, Ito A, Jain AK, Kou-Giesbrecht S, Pan S, Pan N, Shi H, Sun Q, Vuichard N, Ye S, Zaehle S, Zhu Q

Global change biology2024

DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17472 PMID: 39158113

Global net climate effects of anthropogenic reactive nitrogen.

Gong C, Tian H, Liao H, Pan N, Pan S, Ito A, Jain AK, Kou-Giesbrecht S, Joos F, Sun Q, Shi H, Vuichard N, Zhu Q, Peng C, Maggi F, Tang FHM, Zaehle S

Nature2024

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07714-4 PMID: 39048828

Allometric relationships for eight species of 4-5 year old nitrogen-fixing and non-fixing trees.

Carreras Pereira KA, Wolf AA, Kou-Giesbrecht S, Akana PR, Funk JL, Menge DNL

PloS one2023

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289679 PMID: 37603572

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Sian Kou-Giesbrecht

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Reply to: Uncertain climate effects of anthropogenic reactive nitrogen.

A global dataset of terrestrial biological nitrogen fixation.

Global terrestrial nitrogen fixation and its modification by agriculture.

Role of Forest Carbon Change in Shaping Future Land Use and Land Cover Change.

Rising nitrogen deposition leads to only a minor increase in CO2 uptake in Earth system models.

Enhanced nitrous oxide emission factors due to climate change increase the mitigation challenge in the agricultural sector.

Global net climate effects of anthropogenic reactive nitrogen.

Allometric relationships for eight species of 4-5 year old nitrogen-fixing and non-fixing trees.

To what extent will nitrogen limit Canadian boreal forest growth and the terrestrial carbon sink under global change?

Soil N2O emissions from the Canadian boreal to Neotropical forests

To what extent will nitrogen limit Canadian boreal forest growth and the terrestrial carbon sink under global change?

To what extent will nitrogen limit Canadian boreal forest growth and the terrestrial carbon sink under global change?