Sebastian Doetterl

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Assistant Professor Soil Resources

ETH Zürich

Switzerland

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Dr. Sebastian Doetterl is an Assistant Professor of Soil Resources at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. His research focuses on soil organic matter dynamics, soil quality assessment, and the impact of environmental factors on soil carbon stocks. Recent publications include studies on the dynamics of soil organic carbon in diverse ecosystems and the use of UAV technology for agricultural trait estimation.

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Legacy effects of land-use on tropical soils as constraints on the restoration success of tropical forests in Uganda and the services they provide

Open Date: 2021-03-01

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Impact of Footing Grids on Soil and Horse Health

Open Date: 2021-03-01

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Patterns and timescales of arctic greening

Open Date: 2021-02-01

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TropSOC - Tropical soil organic carbon dynamics along erosional disturbance gradients in relation to variability in soil geochemistry and land use

Open Date: 2017-10-01

Close Date: 2021-04-01

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Structural funds for building the Augsburg Biogeochemistry Laboratory

Open Date: 2017-06-01

Close Date: 2019-01-01

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Lucia Fuchslueger

Universität Wien

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Laura Summerauer

ETH Zurich

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Marco Griepentrog

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich

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Boris Rewald

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Rodrigo Vargas

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University of Delaware

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Peter Fiener

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University of Augsburg

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Ivan Janssens

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University of Antwerp

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Alison Hoyt

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Stanford University

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Paddy rice traits estimation under varying management strategies using UAV technology

Gross soil phosphorus fluxes remain constant along forest recovery trajectories in Central Africa

A landscape-scale view of soil organic matter dynamics

Author Correction: A landscape-scale view of soil organic matter dynamics (Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, (2025), 6, 1, (67-81), 10.1038/s43017-024-00621-2)

Changes in soil quality on horse paddock trails and the influence of paddock grids

From smallholder to commercial farming: the impact of termite mound levelling and spatial heterogeneity in mound morphology on soil organic carbon in Miombo woodlands, Central Africa

Low but highly variable soil organic carbon stocks across deeply weathered eroding and depositional tropical landforms

Mapping global distributions, environmental controls, and uncertainties of apparent topsoil and subsoil organic carbon turnover times

Quantity Versus Quality: Links Between Soil Organic Matter and Bacterial Community Composition Along a Geoclimatic Gradient

Shrinkage analysis of repacked soil samples enables quantifying the soil's potential physical quality

Soil carbon stocks in stable tropical landforms are dominated by geochemical controls and not by land use

Relationships between geochemical properties and microbial nutrient acquisition in tropical forest and cropland soils

Soil geochemistry – and not topography – as a major driver of carbon allocation, stocks, and dynamics in forests and soils of African tropical montane ecosystems

Increasing calcium scarcity along Afrotropical forest succession

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Factors controlling SOC stability in colluvial soils under contrasting climate and soil weathering conditions

Microbial properties in tropical montane forest soils developed from contrasting parent material—An incubation experiment

Predicting Soil Organic Carbon Mineralization Rates Using δ<sup>13</sup>C, Assessed by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, in Depth Profiles Under Permanent Grassland Along a Latitudinal Transect in Chile

Soil geochemistry as a driver of soil organic matter composition: Insights from a soil chronosequence

Soil greenhouse gas fluxes following conversion of tropical forests to fertilizer-based sugarcane systems in northwestern Uganda

Collaborators (8)

Lucia Fuchslueger

Laura Summerauer

Marco Griepentrog

Boris Rewald

Rodrigo Vargas

Peter Fiener

Ivan Janssens

Alison Hoyt

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