Publications of Carlos Sierra

Chanca, I.; Levin, I.; Trumbore, S. E.; Macario, K.; Lavrič, J. V.; Quesada, C. A.; de Araújo, A. C.; Dias Júnior, C. Q.; van Asperen, H.; Hammer, S. et al.; Sierra, C.: How long does carbon stay in a near-pristine central Amazon forest? An empirical estimate with radiocarbon. Biogeosciences 22 (2), 472, p. 455 (2025)

Tangarife-Escobar, A.; Guggenberger, G.; Feng, X.; Munoz, E.; Chanca, I.; Peichl, M.; Smith, P.; Sierra, C.: Radiocarbon isotopic disequilibrium shows little incorporation of new carbon in mineral soils of a boreal forest ecosystem. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 129 (9), e2024JG008191 (2024)

Niu, S.; Chen, W.; Liáng, L. L.; Sierra, C.; Xia, J.; Wang, S.; Heskel, M.; Patel, K. F.; Bond-Lamberty, B.; Wang, J. et al.; Yvon-Durocher, G.; Kirschbaum, M. U. F.; Atkin, O. K.; Huang, Y.; Yu, G.; Luo, Y.: Temperature responses of ecosystem respiration. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 5, pp. 559 - 571 (2024)

von Fromm, S. F.; Hoyt, A. M.; Sierra, C.; Georgiou, K.; Doetterl, S.; Trumbore, S. E.: Controls and relationships of soil organic carbon abundance and persistence vary across pedo-climatic regions. Global Change Biology 30 (5), e17320 (2024)

Ramirez, J. A.; Craven, D.; Herrera-Ramirez, D.; Posada, J. M.; Reu, B.; Sierra, C. A.; Hoch, G.; Handa, I. T.; Messier, C.: Non-structural carbohydrate concentrations in tree organs vary across biomes and leaf habits, but are independent of the fast-slow plant economic spectrum. Frontiers in Plant Science 15, 1375958 (2024)

Tangarife-Escobar, A.; Guggenberger, G.; Feng, X.; Dai, G.; Urbina-Malo, C.; Azizi-Rad, M.; Sierra, C. A.: Moisture and temperature effects on the radiocarbon signature of respired carbon dioxide to assess stability of soil carbon in the Tibetan Plateau. Biogeosciences 21 (5), pp. 1277 - 1299 (2024)

Munoz, E.; Chanca, I.; Sierra, C.: Increased atmospheric CO₂ and the transit time of carbon in terrestrial ecosystems. Global Change Biology 29 (23), pp. 6441 - 6452 (2023)

Herrera-Ramirez, D.; Hartmann, H.; Römermann, C.; Trumbore, S. E.; Muhr, J.; Maracahipes-Santos, L.; Brando, P.; Silvério, D.; Huang, J.; Kuhlmann, I. et al.; Sierra, C. A.: Anatomical distribution of starch in the stemwood influences carbon dynamics and suggests storage-growth trade-offs in some tropical trees. Journal of Ecology 111 (11), pp. 2532 - 2548 (2023)

Stoner, S.; Schrumpf, M.; Hoyt, A. M.; Sierra, C. A.; Doetterl, S.; Galy, V.; Trumbore, S. E.: How well does ramped thermal oxidation quantify the age distribution of soil carbon? Assessing thermal stability of physically and chemically fractionated soil organic matter. Biogeosciences 20 (15), pp. 3151 - 3163 (2023)

Sarquis, A.; Sierra, C. A.: Information content in time series of litter decomposition studies and the transit time of litter in arid lands. Biogeosciences 20 (9), pp. 1759 - 1771 (2023)

Jia, J.; Liu, Z.; Haghipour, N.; Wacker, L.; Zhang, H.; Sierra, C. A.; Ma, T.; Wang, Y.; Chen, L.; Luo, A. et al.; Wang, Z.; He, J.-S.; Zhao, M.; Eglinton, T. I.; Feng, X.: Molecular ¹⁴C evidence for contrasting turnover and temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter components. Ecology Letters 26 (5), pp. 778 - 788 (2023)

Giraldo, J. A.; Valle, J. I. d.; González-Caro, S.; David, D. A.; Taylor, T.; Tobón, C.; Sierra, C. A.: Tree growth periodicity in the ever-wet tropical forest of the Americas. Journal of Ecology 111 (4), pp. 889 - 902 (2023)

Scheibe, A.; Sierra, C. A.; Spohn, M.: Recently fixed carbon fuels microbial activity several meters below the soil surface. Biogeosciences 20 (4), pp. 827 - 838 (2023)

Crow, S. E.; Sierra, C.: The climate benefit of sequestration in soils for warming mitigation. Biogeochemistry 161, pp. 71 - 84 (2022)

Salazar, A.; Sanchez, A.; Dukes, J. S.; Salazar, J. F.; Clerici, N.; Lasso, E.; Sanchez-Pacheco, S. J.; Rendon, A. M.; Villegas, J. C.; Sierra, C. et al.; Poveda, G.; Quesada, B.; Uribe, M. R.; Rodríguez-Buritica, S.; Ungar, P.; Pulido-Santacruz, P.; Ruiz-Morato, N.; Arias, P. A.: Peace and the environment at the crossroads: Elections in a conflict-troubled biodiversity hotspot. Environmental Science and Policy 135, pp. 77 - 85 (2022)

Xiao, L.; Wang, G.; Wang, M.; Zhang, S.; Sierra, C.; Guo, X.; Chang, J.; Shi, Z.; Luo, Z.: Younger carbon dominates global soil carbon efflux. Global Change Biology 28 (18), pp. 5587 - 5599 (2022)

Sierra, C.; Ceballos-Núñez, V.; Hartmann, H.; Herrera-Ramirez, D.; Metzler, H.: Ideas and perspectives: Allocation of carbon from net primary production in models is inconsistent with observations of the age of respired carbon. Biogeosciences 19 (16), pp. 3727 - 3738 (2022)

Sarquis, A.; Siebenhart, I. A.; Austin, A. T.; Sierra, C. A.: Aridec: an open database of litter mass loss from aridlands worldwide with recommendations on suitable model applications. Earth System Science Data 14 (7), pp. 3471 - 3488 (2022)

Heckman, K.; Hicks Pries, C. E.; Lawrence, C. R.; Rasmussen, C.; Crow , S. E.; Hoyt, A. M.; von Fromm, S. F.; Shi, Z.; Stoner, S.; McGrath, C. et al.; Beem-Miller, J.; Berhe, A. A.; Blankinship, J. C.; Keiluweit, M.; Marín-Spiotta, E.; Monroe, J. G.; Plante, A. F.; Schimel, J.; Sierra, C.; Thompson, A.; Wagai, R.: Beyond bulk: Density fractions explain heterogeneity in global soil carbon abundance and persistence. Global Change Biology 28 (3), pp. 1178 - 1196 (2022)

Giraldo, J. A.; del Valle, J. I.; González-Caro, S.; Sierra, C.: Intra-annual isotope variations in tree rings reveal growth rhythms within the least rainy season of an ever-wet tropical forest. Trees 36 (3), pp. 1039 - 1052 (2022)