Publications of Carlos Sierra

Lange, M.; Eisenhauer, N.; Sierra, C.; Bessler, H.; Engels, C.; Griffiths, R. I.; Mellado-Vázquez, P. G.; Malik, A.; Roy, J.; Scheu, S. et al.; Steinbeiss, S.; Thomson, B. C.; Trumbore, S. E.; Gleixner, G.: Plant diversity increases soil microbial activity and soil carbon storage. Nature Communications 6, 6707 (2015)

Lara, W.; Bravo, F.; Sierra, C.: measuRing: An R package to measure tree-ring widths from scanned images. Dendrochronologia 34, pp. 43 - 50 (2015)

Sierra, C.; Malghani, S.; Mueller, M.: Model structure and parameter identification of soil organic matter models. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 90, pp. 197 - 203 (2015)

Trumbore, S. E.; Czimczik, C. I.; Sierra, C.; Muhr, J.; Xu, X.: Non-structural carbon dynamics and allocation relate to growth rate and leaf habit in California oaks. Tree Physiology 35 (11), pp. 1206 - 1222 (2015)

Guarín, J. R.; Valle, J. I. d.; Sierra, C.: Establishment phase, spatial pattern, age, and demography of Oenocarpus bataua var. bataua can be a legacy of past loggings in the Colombian Andes. Forest Ecology and Management 328, pp. 282 - 291 (2014)

del Valle, J. I.; Guarín, J. R.; Sierra, C.: Unambiguous and low-cost determination of growth rates and ages of tropical trees and palms. Radiocarbon 56 (1), pp. 39 - 52 (2014)

Jimenez, E. M.; Peñuela-Mora, M. C.; Sierra, C.; Lloyd, J.; Phillips, O. L.; Moreno, F. H.; Navarrete, D.; Prieto, A.; Rudas, A.; Álvarez, E. et al.; Quesada, C. A.; Grande-Ortíz, M. A.; García-Abril, A.; Patiño, S.: Edaphic controls on ecosystem-level carbon allocation in two contrasting Amazon forests. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 119 (9), pp. 1820 - 1830 (2014)

Sierra, C.; Müller, M.; Trumbore, S. E.: Modeling radiocarbon dynamics in soils: SoilR version 1.1. Geoscientific Model Development 7 (5), pp. 1919 - 1931 (2014)

Sierra, C.; Jimenez, E. M.; Reu, B.; Penuela, M. C.; Thuille, A.; Quesada, C. A.: Low vertical transfer rates of carbon inferred from radiocarbon analysis in an Amazon Podzol. Biogeosciences 10, pp. 3455 - 3464 (2013)

Wäldchen, J.; Schulze, E. D.; Schöning, I.; Schrumpf, M.; Sierra, C.: The influence of changes in forest management over the past 200 years on present soil organic carbon stocks. Forest Ecology and Management 289, pp. 243 - 254 (2013)

Schöning, I.; Grüneberg, E.; Sierra, C. A.; Hessenmöller, D.; Schrumpf, M.; Weisser, W.; Schulze, E.-D.: Causes of variation in mineral soil C content and turnover in differently managed beech dominated forests. Plant and Soil 370, pp. 625 - 639 (2013)

Krankina, O.; Harmon, M.E.; Schnekenburger, F.; Sierra, C. A.: Carbon balance on federal forest lands of western Oregon and Washington: the impact of the Northwest Forest Plan. Forest Ecology and Management 286, pp. 171 - 182 (2012)

Sierra, C. A.: Temperature sensitivity of organic matter decomposition in the Arrhenius equation: some theoretical considerations. Biogeochemistry 108 (1-3), pp. 1 - 15 (2012)

Sierra, C. A.; Del Valle, J. I.; Restrepo, H. I.: Total carbon accumulation in a tropical forest landscape. Carbon Balance and Management 7, 12 (2012)

Sierra, C. A.; Müller, M, M.; Trumbore, S. E.: Models of soil organic matter decomposition: the SOILR package, version 1.0. Geoscientific Model Development 5 (4), pp. 1045 - 1060 (2012)

Sierra, C. A.; Trumbore, S. E.; Davidson, E. A.; Frey, S. D.; Savage, K. E.; Hopkins, F. M.: Predicting decadal trends and transient responses of radiocarbon storage and fluxes in a temperate forest soil. Biogeosciences 9, pp. 3013 - 3028 (2012)

Zapata-Cuartas, M.; Sierra, C. A.; Alleman, L.: Probability distribution of allometric coefficients and Bayesian estimation of aboveground tree biomass. Forest Ecology and Management 277, pp. 173 - 179 (2012)

Cleveland, C. C.; Townsend, A. R.; Taylor, P.; Alvarez-Clare, S.; Bustamante, M. M. C.; Chuyong, G.; Dobrowski, S. Z.; Grierson, P.; Harms, K. E.; Houlton, B. Z. et al.; Marklein, A.; Parton, W.; Porder, S.; Reed, S. C.; Sierra, C. A.; Silver, W. L.; Tanner, E. V. J.; Wieder, W. R.: Relationships among net primary productivity, nutrients and climate in tropical rain forest: a pan-tropical analysis. Ecology Letters 14 (9), pp. 939 - 947 (2011)

Sierra, C. A.; Harmon, M. E.; Perakis, S. S.: Decomposition of heterogeneous organic matter and its long-term stabilization in soils. Ecological Monographs 81 (4), pp. 619 - 634 (2011)

Sierra, C. A.; Harmon, M. E.; Thomann, E.; Perakis, S. S.; Loescher, H. W.: Amplification and dampening of soil respiration by changes in temperature variability. Biogeosciences 8 (4), pp. 951 - 961 (2011)