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Research
Latest papers
Vegetation browning patterns under compound soil and atmospheric dryness in northern permafrost ecosystems.
Nature communications · 2026
Production of Methylmercury in Peatlands Following Permafrost Thaw Increases along a Trophic Gradient.
Environmental science & technology · 2025
Carbon uptake in Eurasian boreal forests dominates the high-latitude net ecosystem carbon budget.
Global change biology · 2023
Latest funding
- $145,495
Nature-based climate solutions: An upgrade of the Taiga Plains flux tower network
NSERC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $89,014
MONITORING WINTER GREENHOUSE GAS IN CANADIAN ARCTIC ENVIRONMENTS
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $473,000
NATural and disturbed wetland CARbon Budgets to support conservation strategies and fight climate change in Quebec and Canada
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
5 publications.
Vegetation browning patterns under compound soil and atmospheric dryness in northern permafrost ecosystems.
Wu M, Sonnentag O, Lara MJ, Ran Y, Chen HW, Zhang W, Ciais P, Elberling B, Li X, Chen A, Wang S, Yi Y, Peng C, Chen D
Production of Methylmercury in Peatlands Following Permafrost Thaw Increases along a Trophic Gradient.
Thompson LM, Shewan R, Mangal V, Harris LI, Cheng CH, Braga LPP, Kolmakova O, Tanentzap AJ, Knorr KH, Kuhn MA, Haugk C, Azaroff A, Jonsson S, St Louis VL, Lehnherr I, Quinton WL, Sonnentag O, Olefeldt D
Carbon uptake in Eurasian boreal forests dominates the high-latitude net ecosystem carbon budget.
Watts JD, Farina M, Kimball JS, Schiferl LD, Liu Z, Arndt KA, Zona D, Ballantyne A, Euskirchen ES, Parmentier FW, Helbig M, Sonnentag O, Tagesson T, Rinne J, Ikawa H, Ueyama M, Kobayashi H, Sachs T, Nadeau DF, Kochendorfer J, Jackowicz-Korczynski M, Virkkala A, Aurela M, Commane R, Byrne B, Birch L, Johnson MS, Madani N, Rogers B, Du J, Endsley A, Savage K, Poulter B, Zhang Z, Bruhwiler LM, Miller CE, Goetz S, Oechel WC
Vegetation type is an important predictor of the arctic summer land surface energy budget.
Oehri J, Schaepman-Strub G, Kim JS, Grysko R, Kropp H, Grünberg I, Zemlianskii V, Sonnentag O, Euskirchen ES, Reji Chacko M, Muscari G, Blanken PD, Dean JF, di Sarra A, Harding RJ, Sobota I, Kutzbach L, Plekhanova E, Riihelä A, Boike J, Miller NB, Beringer J, López-Blanco E, Stoy PC, Sullivan RC, Kejna M, Parmentier FW, Gamon JA, Mastepanov M, Wille C, Jackowicz-Korczynski M, Karger DN, Quinton WL, Putkonen J, van As D, Christensen TR, Hakuba MZ, Stone RS, Metzger S, Vandecrux B, Frost GV, Wild M, Hansen B, Meloni D, Domine F, Te Beest M, Sachs T, Kalhori A, Rocha AV, Williamson SN, Morris S, Atchley AL, Essery R, Runkle BRK, Holl D, Riihimaki LD, Iwata H, Schuur EAG, Cox CJ, Grachev AA, McFadden JP, Fausto RS, Göckede M, Ueyama M, Pirk N, de Boer G, Bret-Harte MS, Leppäranta M, Steffen K, Friborg T, Ohmura A, Edgar CW, Olofsson J, Chambers SD
Increased high-latitude photosynthetic carbon gain offset by respiration carbon loss during an anomalous warm winter to spring transition.
Liu Z, Kimball JS, Parazoo NC, Ballantyne AP, Wang WJ, Madani N, Pan CG, Watts JD, Reichle RH, Sonnentag O, Marsh P, Hurkuck M, Helbig M, Quinton WL, Zona D, Ueyama M, Kobayashi H, Euskirchen ES
Nature-based climate solutions: An upgrade of the Taiga Plains flux tower network
Principal investigators: Sonnentag, Oliver
Keywords: surface-atmosphere interactions; terrestrial biosphere models; eddy covariance; nature-based climate solutions; forest-tundra ecotone; carbon and water cycles; arctic-boreal region; disturbances; permafrost; peatlands
MONITORING WINTER GREENHOUSE GAS IN CANADIAN ARCTIC ENVIRONMENTS
Principal investigators: Roy, Alexandre A
Keywords: canadian arctic; classic; climate change; ecosystem model; greenhouse gas; snow; soil; thermal conductivity; winter; zero curtain
NATural and disturbed wetland CARbon Budgets to support conservation strategies and fight climate change in Quebec and Canada
Principal investigators: Garneau, Michelle M
Keywords: carbon fluxes; carbon sequestration; climate change; co2, ch4 and n2o; dissolved organic carbon; natural and disturbed ecosystems; nature-based solution; net ecosystem carbon balance; peatlands; wetlands
Backpack-based methane/ethane analyzer and sampler system for civil and environmental engineering and earth sciences
Principal investigators: Kang, Mary
Towards a constrained estimate of boreal forest productivity across northwestern North America
Principal investigators: Sonnentag, Oliver
NSERC Permafrost Partnership Network for Canada
Principal investigators: Gruber, Stephan SW
Keywords: adaptation; climate change impacts; cryoshphere; environmental modelling; monitoring; natural resources; northern development; northern engineering; permafrost; water
Atmospheric Biogeosciences in High Latitudes
Principal investigators: Sonnentag, Oliver
Towards a constrained estimate of boreal forest productivity across northwestern North America
Principal investigators: Sonnentag, Oliver O
Keywords: boreal forest productivity; carbon and water cycles; climate change; earth system modelling; eddy covariance; permafrost; plant functional traits; plant hydrodynamics; stable isotope analysis; water use efficiency
Atmospheric Biogeosciences in High Latitudes
Principal investigators: Sonnentag, Oliver
Atmospheric Biogeosciences in High Latitudes
Principal investigators: Sonnentag, Oliver
Keywords: climate change boreal forest plant functional traits tree hydrodynamics carbon cycle science eddy covariance permafrost Earth system modeling
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
- Oliver Sonnentag and Philip Marsh: 1 shared paper
- Oliver Sonnentag and Florent Domine: 1 shared paper
- Oliver Sonnentag and David Olefeldt: 1 shared paper
- Oliver Sonnentag and Manuel Helbig: 1 shared paper
- Oliver Sonnentag and Vaughn Mangal: 1 shared paper
- David Olefeldt and Vaughn Mangal: 1 shared paper
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