Dr. Matthias Saurer

Function

Scientific staff member, Senior Scientist

Forest Dynamics

Ecosystem Ecology

Contact

matthias.saurer(at)wslto make life hard for spam bots.ch

+41 44 739 21 98+41 44 739 21 98

Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf

Site

Birmensdorf Bi HL D 35

My main research interest is the application of stable isotopes in ecological and climatic studies. This technique is very versatile and helps to improve our understanding of plant-climate interaction and physiological responses to environmental factors.

Here more on info on our Stable isotope lab

Positions

1994 - 2016
Paul Scherrer Institute, Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry
2017 -
WSL Birmensdorf

Projects

SNSF, 2022-2025, High-resolution stable isotope analysis of tree rings
Velux Foundation, 2022-2025, Understanding the influence of daylight on plant functioning
SNSF, 2019-2022, Development of a diagnostic stable isotope tool to study drought responses
SNSF, 2016-2018, Compound-specific dual isotope analysis
WSL, 2018-2019, Establishing hydrogen isotope analysis of organic material
Federal Office of Education-COST, 2013-2017, The relationship between stable isotopes, water-use efficiency and tree mortality under drought

Full publication list

FURTHER INFORMATION

Publications WSL

Scientific publication article peer reviewed

Vitali, V.; Peters, R.L.; Lehmann, M.M.; Leuenberger, M.; Treydte, K.; Büntgen, U.; Schuler, P.; Saurer, M., 2023: Tree-ring isotopes from the Swiss Alps reveal non-climatic fingerprints of cyclic insect population outbreaks over the past 700 years. Tree Physiology, doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpad014

Zhang, Y.; Yang, Y.; Saurer, M.; Schaub, M.; Gessler, A.; Lehmann, M.M.; Rigling, A.; Walser, M.; Stierli, B.; Hajjar, N.; Christen, D.; Li, M., 2023: Sugar infusion into trees: a novel method to study tree carbon relations and its regulations. Frontiers in Plant Science, 14: 1142595 (11 pp.). doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1142595

Churakova (Sidorova), O.V.; Porter, T.J.; Zharkov, M.S.; Fonti, M.V.; Barinov, V.V.; Taynik, A.V.; Kirdyanov, A.V.; Knorre, A.A.; Wegmann, M.; Trushkina, T.V.; Koshurnikova, N.N.; Vaganov, E.A.; Myglan, V.S.; Siegwolf, R.T.W.; Saurer, M., 2023: Climate impacts on tree-ring stable isotopes across the Northern Hemispheric boreal zone. Science of the Total Environment, 870: 161644 (15 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161644

Tang, Y.; Sahlstedt, E.; Young, G.; Schiestl-Aalto, P.; Saurer, M.; Kolari, P.; Jyske, T.; Bäck, J.; Rinne-Garmston, K.T., 2023: Estimating intraseasonal intrinsic water-use efficiency from high-resolution tree-ring δ¹³C data in boreal Scots pine forests. New Phytologist, 237, 5: 1606-1619. doi: 10.1111/nph.18649

Saurer, M.; Sahlstedt, E.; Rinne-Garmston, K.T.; Lehmann, M.M.; Oettli, M.; Gessler, A.; Treydte, K., 2023: Progress in high-resolution isotope-ratio analysis of tree rings using laser ablation. Tree Physiology, doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpac141

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Further scientific publications

Churakova, O.V.; Porter, T.J.; Kirdyanov, A.V.; Myglan, V.S.; Fonti, M.V.; Vaganov, E.A., 2022: Stable isotopes in tree rings of boreal forests. In: Siegwolf, R.T.W.; Brooks, R.J.; Roden, J.; Saurer, M. (eds), 2022: Stable isotopes in tree rings. Inferring physiological, climatic and environmental responses. Cham, Springer. 581-603. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-92698-4_20

Saurer, M.; Voelker, S., 2022: Intrinsic water-use efficiency derived from stable carbon isotopes of tree-rings. In: Siegwolf, R.T.W.; Brooks, R.J.; Roden, J.; Saurer, M. (eds), 2022: Stable isotopes in tree rings. Inferring physiological, climatic and environmental responses. Cham, Springer. 481-498. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-92698-4_17

Roden, J.; Saurer, M.; Siegwolf, R.T.W., 2022: Probing tree physiology using the dual-isotope approach. In: Siegwolf, R.T.W.; Brooks, R.J.; Saurer, M.; Roden, J. (eds), 2022: Stable isotopes in tree rings. Inferring physiological, climatic and environmental responses. Cham, Springer. 463-479. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-92698-4_16

Andreu-Hayles, L.; Lévesque, M.; Guerrieri, R.; Siegwolf, R.T.W.; Körner, C., 2022: Limits and strengths of tree-ring stable isotopes. In: Siegwolf, R.T.W.; Brooks, R.J.; Roden, J.; Saurer, M. (eds), 2022: Stable isotopes in tree rings. Inferring physiological, climatic and environmental responses. Cham, Springer. 399-428. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-92698-4_14

Gessler, A.; Ferrio, J.P., 2022: Postphotosynthetic fractionation in leaves, phloem and stem. In: Siegwolf, R.T.W.; Brooks, R.J.; Roden, J.; Saurer, M. (eds), 2022: Stable isotopes in tree rings. Inferring physiological, climatic and environmental responses. Cham, Springer. 381-396. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-92698-4_13

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