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Latest papers
Seasonal Flooding Disrupts Expected Depth-Dependent Patterns of Mineral Associated Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Across Land Uses.
Global change biology · 2026
Soil Phosphorus Dynamics are an Overlooked but Dominant Control on Mineral-Associated Organic Matter.
Global change biology · 2025
Characterizing multifaceted environmental risks of oil and gas well leakage through soil and well methane and hydrogen sulfide emissions.
Environmental research · 2025
Latest funding
- $135,000
Methane and air pollutant emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells and surrounding soils and the associated health impacts
NSERC · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $149,979
Portable methane/ethane analyzer system for civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences
NSERC · 2020 · Co-investigator
- $12,500
Nutrient cycling and limitation in soils of higher latitude ecosystems
NSERC · 2019 · Principal investigator
10 publications.
Seasonal Flooding Disrupts Expected Depth-Dependent Patterns of Mineral Associated Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Across Land Uses.
Lieberman HP, von Sperber C, Harman-Denhoed R, Grandy AS, Kallenbach CM
Soil Phosphorus Dynamics are an Overlooked but Dominant Control on Mineral-Associated Organic Matter.
Lieberman HP, von Sperber C, Kallenbach CM
Characterizing multifaceted environmental risks of oil and gas well leakage through soil and well methane and hydrogen sulfide emissions.
El Hachem K, von Sperber C, Allard C, Heagle D, Vyriotes D, Staebler RM, Caron-Beaudoin E, Kang M
Whether interstitial space features were the main factors affecting sediment microbial community structures in Chaohu Lake.
Lu X, Zhou X, von Sperber C, Xu Y, Wei Z, Li S, Ruan A
Transferring network analysis to the study of potential biogeochemical interactions of phosphorus-relevant elements in floodplain subsoils - A new use case for the Soilscape Network Approach (SNAp).
Weihrauch C, Boie F, Neumann J, von Sperber C
Foliar ẟ15N patterns in legumes and non-N fixers across a climate gradient, Hawai'i Island, USA.
Burnett MW, Bobbett AE, Brendel CE, Marshall K, von Sperber C, Paulus EL, Vitousek PM
A Soilscape Network Approach (SNAp) to investigate subsurface phosphorus translocation along slopes.
Weihrauch C, Weber CJ, von Sperber C
Tracing uptake and translocation of phosphorus in wheat using oxygen isotopes and mathematical modelling.
Bauke SL, Schnepf A, von Sperber C, Orlowski N, Lewandowski H, Selzner T, Tamburini F, Amelung W
Soil exchange rates of COS and CO18O differ with the diversity of microbial communities and their carbonic anhydrase enzymes.
Meredith LK, Ogée J, Boye K, Singer E, Wingate L, von Sperber C, Sengupta A, Whelan M, Pang E, Keiluweit M, Brüggemann N, Berry JA, Welander PV
Combining spectroscopic and isotopic techniques gives a dynamic view of phosphorus cycling in soil.
Helfenstein J, Tamburini F, von Sperber C, Massey MS, Pistocchi C, Chadwick OA, Vitousek PM, Kretzschmar R, Frossard E
Methane and air pollutant emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells and surrounding soils and the associated health impacts
Principal investigators: Kang, Mary M
Keywords: abandoned wells; air pollutants; health impacts; Methane; oil and gas; soils
Portable methane/ethane analyzer system for civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences
Principal investigators: Kang, Mary
Nutrient cycling and limitation in soils of higher latitude ecosystems
Principal investigators: VonSperber, Christian
Nutrient cycling and limitation in soils of higher latitude ecosystems
Principal investigators: von Sperber, Christian
Keywords: phosphorus cycling; nitrogen cycling; biogeochemistry; soils; ecology
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Elyse Caron-Beaudoin and Mary Kang: 1 shared paper
- Elyse Caron-Beaudoin and Christian von Sperber: 1 shared paper
- Mary Kang and Christian von Sperber: 1 shared paper
- Geography
- Department of Health and Society
- Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics
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