Journal publications1 (all open access)
1 Core team members and PhD students of the LiWeFoR project, as well as its study sites’ collaborators Profs. L. Fachín and L. Melling, are marked in bold.
2025
Kazmi, F. A., Mander, Ü., Khanongnuch, R., Öpik, M., Ranniku, R., Soosaar, K., … & Espenberg, M. (2025). Distinct microbial communities drive methane cycling in below-and above-ground compartments of tropical cloud forests growing on peat. Environmental microbiome, 20(1), 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-025-00718-1
Thayamkottu, S., Masta, M., Skeeter, J., Pärn, J., Knox, S. H., Smallman, T. L., & Mander, Ü. (2025). Dual controls of vapour pressure deficit and soil moisture on photosynthesis in a restored temperate bog. Science of the Total Environment, 963, 178366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.178366
Mander, Ü., Öpik, M., & Espenberg, M. (2025). Global peatland greenhouse gas dynamics: state of the art, processes, and perspectives. New Phytologist, 246(1), 94-102. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20436
Mander, Ü., Pärn, J., Espenberg, M., & Peñuelas, J. (2025). Human‐Impacted Natural Ecosystems Drive Climate Warming. Global Change Biology, 31(8), e70449. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70449
Wong, G. X., Hirata, R., Hirano, T., Kiew, F., Waili, J. W., Mander, Ü., … & Melling, L. (2025). Impact of land conversion on environmental conditions and methane emissions from a tropical peatland. Science of The Total Environment, 962, 178466. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.178466
Pärn, J., Espenberg, M., Soosaar, K., Kasak, K., Thayamkottu, S., Schindler, T., … & Mander, Ü. (2025). Importance of N2O in greenhouse gas budgets of tropical peatlands. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 13, 1585537. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2025.1585537
Kazmi, F. A., Espenberg, M., Pärn, J., Masta, M., Ranniku, R., Thayamkottu, S., & Mander, Ü. (2025). Meltwater of freeze-thaw cycles drives N2O-governing microbial communities in a drained peatland forest soil. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 61(3), 667-680. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-023-01790-w
Kazmi, F. A., Mander, Ü., Ranniku, R., Öpik, M., Püssa, K., Soosaar, K., … & Espenberg, M. (2025). Nitrogen cycling genes abundance in soil and aboveground compartments of tropical peatland cloud forests and a wetland on Réunion Island. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 27155. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-12367-y
Pärn, J., Thayamkottu, S., Öpik, M., Bahram, M., Tedersoo, L., Espenberg, M., … & Mander, Ü. (2025). Soil moisture and microbiome explain greenhouse gas exchange in global peatlands. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 10153. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-92891-z
Ranniku, R., Kazmi, F. A., Espenberg, M., Truupõld, J., Escuer-Gatius, J., Mander, Ü., & Soosaar, K. (2025). Springtime soil and tree stem greenhouse gas fluxes and the related soil microbiome pattern in a drained peatland forest. Biogeochemistry, 168(3), 48. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-025-01238-3
Midot, F., Goh, K. M., Liew, K. J., Lau, S. Y. L., Espenberg, M., Mander, Ü., & Melling, L. (2025). Temporal dynamics of soil microbial C and N cycles with GHG fluxes in the transition from tropical peatland forest to oil palm plantation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 91(1), e01986-24. https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.01986-24
2024
Mander, Ü., Espenberg, M., Melling, L., & Kull, A. (2024). Peatland restoration pathways to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and retain peat carbon. Biogeochemistry 167(4), 523-543. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-023-01103-1
Kuusemets, L., Mander, Ü., Escuer-Gatius, J., Astover, A., Kauer, K., Soosaar, K., Espenberg, M. (2024). Interactions of fertilisation and crop productivity on soil nitrogen cycle microbiome and gas emissions. EGUsphere 2024, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-593
Ranniku, R., Mander, Ü., Escuer-Gatius, J., Schindler, T., Kupper, P., Sellin, A., Soosaar, K. (2024). Dry and wet periods determine stem and soil greenhouse gas fluxes in a northern drained peatland forest. Science of the Total Environment 928, 172452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.172452
Gios, E., Verbruggen, E., Audet, J., Burns, R., Butterbach-Bahl, K., Espenberg, M., Fritz, C., Glatzel, S., Jurasinski, G., Larmola, T., Mander, Ü., Nielsen, C., Rodriguez, A.F. Scheer, C., Zak, D. Silvennoinen, H.M. (2024). Unraveling microbial processes involved in carbon and nitrogen cycling and greenhouse gas emissions in rewetted peatlands by molecular biology. Biogeochemistry 167, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-024-01122-6
Espenberg, M., Pille, K., Yang, B., Maddison, M., Abdalla, M., Smith, P., … , Mander, Ü. (2024). Towards an integrated view on microbial CH4, N2O and N2 cycles in brackish coastal marsh soils: A comparative analysis of two sites. Science of the Total Environment 170641. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170641
Thayamkottu, S., Smallman, T. L., Pärn, J., Mander, Ü., Euskirchen, E. S., & Kane, E. S. (2024). Greening of a boreal rich fen driven by CO2 fertilisation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 359, 110261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2024.110261
2023
Pärn, J., Soosaar, K., Schindler, T., Machacova, K., Muñoz, W. A., Fachín, L., … & Mander, Ü. (2023). Effects of water table fluctuation on greenhouse gas emissions from wetland soils in the Peruvian Amazon. Wetlands 43(6), 62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-023-01709-z
Jauhiainen, J., Heikkinen, J., Clarke, N., He, H.X., Dalsgaard, L., Minkkinen, K., Ojanen, P., Vesterdal, L., Alm, J., Butlers, A., Callesen, I., Jordan, S., Lohila, A., Mander, Ü., Óskarsson,H., Sigurdsson, B.D., Søgaard, G., Soosaar, K., Kasimir, Å., Bjarnadottir, B., Lazdins, A., Laiho, R. 2023. Greenhouse gas emissions from drained organic forest soils – synthesizing data for site-specific emission factors for boreal and cool temperate regions. Biogeosciences 20, 4819–4839. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-4819-2023