Dr. Katrin Di Bella Meusburger

Fonction

collaboratrice scientifique

Sols forestiers et biogéochimie

Biogéochimie

Contact

katrin.meusburger(at)wslto make life hard for spam bots.ch

+41 44 739 24 90+41 44 739 24 90

Institut fédéral de recherches sur la forêt, la neige et le paysage WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf

Site

Birmensdorf Bi MG C 50

Research Interests

Soil solution and the soil water availability for plants - Soil degradation processes – Stable isotopes and fallout radionuclides as soil, sediment and water tracers - Environmental modelling with remote sensing and GIS - Natural hazards and rainfall erosivity

Publications

ORCID: 0000-0003-4623-6249; Research ID: AHA-6763-2022
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.ch/citations?user=P-RC09MAAAAJ&hl=de

Projects

SNSF, 2023-2024, In situ tracking of water fluxes in Forest ecosystems
FOEN, 2025-2023, Drought risk maps for the Swiss Forest
SNSF, 2019-2023, How much water does soil retain for trees?
FOEN, 2018-2021, Soil erosion risk modelling in Alpine areas

Education

2009 PhD in Geoscience, University of Basel, CH.
2005 MSc in Hydrology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, D.

Professional Career

Since 11/2017 Senior researcher, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, CH.
01/2012 - 10/2017 Research Associate (Oberassistentin), University of Basel, CH.
11/2010 - 05/2011 Researcher, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, I.
07/2009 - 12/2011 Post-doctoral investigator, University of Basel, CH.

Teaching & Supervision

Supervision and Co-Supervision: 3 PhD-, 11 MSc-, 8 BSc students
since 2022 "Bodenresourcen and global change", ETHZ, CH
since 2021 Guest lecturer in "Stable Isotope Ecology of Terrestrial Ecosystems", "Environmental Measurement Lab", "Mountain Forest Hydrology", ETHZ, CH.
2012-2017 Course coordinator “Ökologische Standortansprache”, University of Basel, CH.
2012-2017 Course coordinator “Einführung in die Hydrologie”, University of Basel, CH.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Publications WSL

Scientific publication article peer reviewed

Khodadadi, M.; Alewell, C.; Mirzaei, M.; Ehssan-Malahat, E.; Asadzadeh, F.; Strauss, P.; Meusburger, K., 2023: Understanding deforestation impacts on soil erosion rates using ¹³⁷Cs, ^239+240Pu, and ²¹⁰Pb_ex and soil physicochemical properties in western Iran. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 257: 107078 (15 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2022.107078

Bose, A.K.; Rigling, A.; Gessler, A.; Hagedorn, F.; Brunner, I.; Feichtinger, L.; Bigler, C.; Egli, S.; Etzold, S.; Gossner, M.M.; Guidi, C.; Lévesque, M.; Meusburger, K.; Peter, M.; Saurer, M.; Scherrer, D.; Schleppi, P.; Schönbeck, L.; Vogel, M.E.; ... Schaub, M., 2022: Lessons learned from a long‐term irrigation experiment in a dry Scots pine forest: impacts on traits and functioning. Ecological Monographs, 92, 2: e1507 (18 pp.). doi: 10.1002/ecm.1507

Guidi, C.; Frey, B.; Brunner, I.; Meusburger, K.; Vogel, M.E.; Chen, X.; Stucky, T.; Gwiazdowicz, D.J.; Skubała, P.; Bose, A.K.; Schaub, M.; Rigling, A.; Hagedorn, F., 2022: Soil fauna drives vertical redistribution of soil organic carbon in a long‐term irrigated dry pine forest. Global Change Biology, 28, 9: 3145-3160. doi: 10.1111/gcb.16122

Frei, E.R.; Gossner, M.M.; Vitasse, Y.; Queloz, V.; Dubach, V.; Gessler, A.; Ginzler, C.; Hagedorn, F.; Meusburger, K.; Moor, M.; Samblás Vives, E.; Rigling, A.; Uitentuis, I.; Von Arx, G.; Wohlgemuth, T., 2022: European beech dieback after premature leaf senescence during the 2018 drought in northern Switzerland. Plant Biology, 24, 7: 1132-1145. doi: 10.1111/plb.13467

Klesse, S.; Wohlgemuth, T.; Meusburger, K.; Vitasse, Y.; Von Arx, G.; Lévesque, M.; Neycken, A.; Braun, S.; Dubach, V.; Gessler, A.; Ginzler, C.; Gossner, M.M.; Hagedorn, F.; Queloz, V.; Samblás Vives, E.; Rigling, A.; Frei, E.R., 2022: Long-term soil water limitation and previous tree vigor drive local variability of drought-induced crown dieback in Fagus sylvatica. Science of the Total Environment, 851: 157926 (12 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157926

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Further scientific publications

Waldner, P.; Hobi, M.; Stillhard, J.; Brang, P.; Hug, C.; Thimonier, A.; Schmitt, M.; Walser, M.; Köchli, R.; Zürcher, A.; Christen, D.; Hajjar, N.; Schaub, M.; Sutter, F.; Häni, M.; Meusburger, K.; Gessler, A.; Nussbaumer, A.; Hirsiger, T.; Zhu, J., 2023: Forschung im Waldreservat am Bettlachstock. Mitteilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft des Kantons Solothurn, 161-179. doi: 10.5169/seals-1007786

Waldner, P.; Braun, S.; Brunner, I.; Rihm, B.; Reinhard, M.; Hajjar, N.; Meusburger, K.; Schmitt, M.; Thimonier, A., 2022: Stickstoff-Deposition in Schweizer Wälder und Nitrataustrag aus Waldböden. In: Eidg. Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL (eds), 2022: Waldböden - intakt und funktional. Forum für Wissen 2022, Birmensdorf. 47-55. doi: 10.55419/wsl:32006

Meusburger, K.; Hagedorn, F.; Walthert, L., 2022: Wasserverfügbarkeit in Schweizer Wäldern während der Trockenjahre 2015-2018. In: Eidg. Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL (eds), 2022: Waldböden - intakt und funktional. Forum für Wissen 2022, Birmensdorf. 33-37. doi: 10.55419/wsl:32004

Hagedorn, F.; Mayer, M.; Meusburger, K.; Walthert, L.; Zimmermann, S., 2022: Organische Substanz in Schweizer Waldböden - eine wichtige, aber empfindliche Ressource. In: Eidg. Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL (eds), 2022: Waldböden - intakt und funktional. Forum für Wissen 2022, Birmensdorf. 13-18. doi: 10.55419/wsl:32001

Brunner, I.; Hagedorn, F.; Luster, J.; Meusburger, K.; Waldner, P., 2021: Research Unit Forest Soil and Biogeochemistry. In: Ferretti, M.; Fischer, C.; Gessler, A. (eds), 2021: Towards an advanced inventorying and monitoring system for the Swiss forest. Towards an advanced inventorying and monitoring system for the Swiss forest, Birmensdorf. 37-38.

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Magazine article and brochures

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Projects

Spectral screening for the early detection of a highly invasive beetle in Switzerland

The emergence of visible tree-stress symptoms caused by the emerald ash borer occurs only several years after its arrival and are hard to tell apart from those caused by soil drought. Here, we investigate the potential of reflectance spectroscopy as an early-warning screening tool.

INSIghtForest: IN SItu tracking of water fluxes in Forest ecosystems

INSIghtForest will accompany the Cost Action WATSON "WATer isotopeS in the critical zONeproposes" by establishing a unique data set of high frequency in-situ measured water isotopes located in a long-term irrigation experiment Pfynwald in the naturally dry valley of Valais, Switzerland.

FORWARDS: European Observatory to assess the vulnerability of forests towards climate change

FORWARDS aims to develop, test, and implement a European Observatory that will supply timely and detailed information on European forests' vulnerability to climate change impacts, and provide knowledge to guide climate smart forestry

TreeWater - Disentangling the isotopic signal transfer from source water to tree rings

TreeWater aims to improve our understanding of whether and how information on water uptake dynamics can be retrieved from the oxygen and hydrogen (i.e. water) isotopes in tree rings.

Forest soil inventory

The repetition of the forest soil inventory provides the basis for representative forest soil monitoring throughout Switzerland. Through the connection to the sampling network of the National Forest Inventory, a variety of possibilities for the use and evaluation of the collected soil data are possible.

ExtremeThaw

In this ambitious project, we study ecological effects of permafrost thaw in the Swiss Alps.

ProtoAIM - Enhanced Plot Design for Advanced Inventorying and Monitoring

We will enhance the design of the Swiss NFI plots to accomodate an augmented series of measurements, sampling and analysis needed to respond to pressing research question on status and change of the Swiss forest.

Pre-study soil inventory

In the years 2021 - 2025, the forest soil survey of 1993 on the 8 x 8 km will be repeated. This grid does not cover all combinations of soil formation and environmental factors that potentially occur in Switzerland. This project evaluates the most efficient way to close these gaps.

RICH-SOIL: Radiocarbon Inventory of Swiss Soils

RICH-SOIL gains insight into soil C cycling by determining radiocarbon signatures in Swiss soil C pools and fluxes. The project analyses archived samples, national soil inventory, and the LWF (Long-term-Monitoring of Forests Ecosystem) program.

Drought & beech: Effects of the 2018 summer drought on beech on the northern side of the Alps

In this project, we investigate causes for the impacts of the extreme summer drought 2018 on the vitality of beech trees in different regions of the Swiss Plateau and Jura.

Give and take: how much water does soil retain for trees?

Establishing an inventory of soil water availability to trees in Swiss forest soils. This is done by means of model-based analysis of the water balances at 16 long-term monitoring sites in Switzerland, representing various geographical locations, soil and vegetation types.

FORClimateS

The project aims to aggregate and synthesize existing information on different spatial and temporal scales to provide decision-makers with relevant and robust information on short- and long-term risks for forests and forest functions and on adaptation strategies under different climate futures

SwissSPOT- Swiss forest Soil water POTential network

SwissSPOT is a network to monitor soil water down to 2m soil depth at Swiss Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research (LWF) sites.

Soil solution in LWF plots

The chemistry of soil solution and the soil water availability for plants have been monitored since 1997 in seven forest plots in Switzerland. This project, linked to the Swiss Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research project (LWF), aims to assess the soil response to atmospheric pollution (acidifying substances and nitrogen) and to climate change.

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Other Publications

Abraham, J., Meusburger, K., Waldis, J. K., Ketterer, M. E., and Zehringer, M.: Fate of 137Cs, 90Sr and 239+240Pu in soil profiles at a water recharge site in Basel, Switzerland, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 182, 85-94, 2018.

Borrelli, P., Meusburger, K., Ballabio, C., Panagos, P., and Alewell, C.: Object‐oriented soil erosion modelling: A possible paradigm shift from potential to actual risk assessments in agricultural environments, Land Degradation & Development, 29, 1270-1281, 10.1002/ldr.2898, 2018.

Borrelli, P., Van Oost, K., Meusburger, K., Alewell, C., Lugato, E., and Panagos, P.: A step towards a holistic assessment of soil degradation in Europe: Coupling on-site erosion with sediment transfer and carbon fluxes, Environmental Research, 161, 291-298, 2018.

Meusburger, K., Porto, P., Mabit, L., La Spada, C., Arata, L., and Alewell, C.: Excess Lead-210 and Plutonium-239+240: Two suitable radiogenic soil erosion tracers for mountain grassland sites, Environmental Research, 160, 195-202, 2018.

Alewell, C., Pitois, A., Meusburger, K., Ketterer, M., and Mabit, L.: 239+240Pu from “contaminant” to soil erosion tracer: Where do we stand? Earth-Science Reviews, 172, 107-123, 2017.

Arata, L., Meusburger, K., Bürge, A., Zehringer, M., Ketterer, M. E., Mabit, L., and Alewell, C.: Decision support for the selection of reference sites using 137Cs as a soil erosion tracer, SOIL, 3, 113-122, 2017.

Ballabio, C., Borrelli, P., Spinoni, J., Meusburger, K., Michaelides, S., Begueria, S., Klik, A., Petan, S., Janecek, M., Olsen, P., Aalto, J., Lakatos, M., Rymszewicz, A., Dumitrescu, A., Tadic, M. P., Diodato, N., Kostalova, J., Rousseva, S., Banasik, K., Alewell, C., and Panagos, P.: Mapping monthly rainfall erosivity in Europe, Science of the Total Environment, 579, 1298-1315, 2017.

Borrelli, P., Robinson, D. A., Fleischer, L. R., Lugato, E., Ballabio, C., Alewell, C., Meusburger, K., Modugno, S., Schütt, B., Ferro, V., Bagarello, V., Oost, K. V., Montanarella, L., and Panagos, P.: An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion, Nature Communications, 8, 2013, 10.1038/s41467-017-02142-7, 2017.

Glendell, M., Jones, R., Dungait, J. A. J., Meusburger, K., Schwendel, A. C., Barclay, R., Barker, S., Haley, S., Quine, T. A., and Meersmans, J.: Tracing of particulate organic C sources across the terrestrial-aquatic continuum, a case study at the catchment scale (Carminowe Creek, southwest England), Science of The Total Environment, doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.10.211, 2017.

Panagos, P., Ballabio, C., Meusburger, K., Spinoni, J., Alewell, C., and Borrelli, P.: Towards estimates of future rainfall erosivity in Europe based on REDES and WorldClim datasets, Journal of Hydrology, doi: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.03.006, 2017. 2017.

Panagos, P., Borrelli, P., Meusburger, K., Yu, B., Klik, A., Jae Lim, K., Yang, J. E., Ni, J., Miao, C., Chattopadhyay, N., Sadeghi, S. H., Hazbavi, Z., Zabihi, M., Larionov, G. A., Krasnov, S. F., Gorobets, A. V., Levi, Y., Erpul, G., Birkel, C., Hoyos, N., Naipal, V., Oliveira, P. T. S., Bonilla, C. A., Meddi, M., Nel, W., Al Dashti, H., Boni, M., Diodato, N., Van Oost, K., Nearing, M., and Ballabio, C.: Global rainfall erosivity assessment based on high-temporal resolution rainfall records, Sci Rep, 7, 4175, 2017.

Alewell, C.*, Birkholz, A.*, Meusburger, K.*, Schindler Wildhaber, Y., and Mabit, L.: Quantitative sediment source attribution with isotope analysis in a C3 plant dominated catchment (Central Switzerland), Biogeosciences, 13, (5), 1587-1596, 2016.

Arata, L., Alewell, C., Frenkel, E., A’Campo-Neuen, A., Iurian, A.-R., Ketterer, M. E., Mabit, L., and Meusburger, K.: Modelling Deposition and Erosion rates with RadioNuclides (MODERN) – Part 2: A comparison of different models to convert 239+240Pu inventories into soil redistribution rates at unploughed sites, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 162–163, 97-106, 2016.

Arata, L.*, Meusburger, K.*, Frenkel, E., A’Campo-Neuen, A., Iurian, A.-R., Ketterer, M. E., Mabit, L., and Alewell, C.: Modelling Deposition and Erosion rates with RadioNuclides (MODERN) – Part 1: A new conversion model to derive soil redistribution rates from inventories of fallout radionuclides, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 162–163, 45-55, 2016.

Ballabio, C., Borrelli, P., Spinoni, J., Meusburger, K., Michaelides, S., Beguería, S., Klik, A., Petan, S., Janeček, M., Olsen, P., Aalto, J., Lakatos, M., Rymszewicz, A., Dumitrescu, A., Tadić, M. P., Diodato, N., Kostalova, J., Rousseva, S., Banasik, K., Alewell, C., and Panagos, P.: Mapping monthly rainfall erosivity in Europe, Science of The Total Environment, doi: dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.11.123.

Meusburger, K., Mabit, L., Ketterer, M., Park, J. H., Sandor, T., Porto, P., and Alewell, C.: A multi-radionuclide approach to evaluate the suitability of Pu239+240 as soil erosion tracer, Science of the Total Environment, 566, 1489-1499, 2016.

Panagos, P., Ballabio, C., Borrelli, P., and Meusburger, K.: Spatio-temporal analysis of rainfall erosivity and erosivity density in Greece, CATENA, 137, 161-172, 2016.

Panagos, P., Borrelli, P., Poesen, J., Meusburger, K., Ballabio, C., Lugato, E., Montanarella, L., and Alewell, C.: Reply to “The new assessment of soil loss by water erosion in Europe. Panagos P. et al., 2015 Environ. Sci. Policy 54, 438–447—A response” by Evans and Boardman [Environ. Sci. Policy 58, 11–15], Environmental Science & Policy, 59, 53-57, 2016.

Panagos, P., Borrelli, P., Poesen, J., Meusburger, K., Ballabio, C., Lugato, E., Montanarella, L., and Alewell, C.: Reply to the comment on "The new assessment of soil loss by water erosion in Europe" by Fiener & Auerswald, Environmental Science & Policy, 57, 143-150, 2016.

Panagos, P., Imeson, A., Meusburger, K., Borrelli, P., Poesen, J., and Alewell, C.: Soil Conservation in Europe: Wish or Reality? Land Degradation & Development, 27, 1547-1551, 2016.

Panagos, P., Borrelli, P., Spinoni, J., Ballabio, C., Meusburger, K., Begueria, S., Klik, A., Michaelides, S., Petan, S., Hrabalikova, M., Olsen, P., Aalto, J., Lakatos, M., Rymszewicz, A., Dumitrescu, A., Tadic, M. P., Diodato, N., Kostalova, J., Rousseva, S., Banasik, K., and Alewell, C.: Monthly Rainfall Erosivity: Conversion Factors for Different Time Resolutions and Regional Assessments, Water, 8, 18, 2016.

Schmidt, S., Alewell, C., Panagos, P., and Meusburger, K.: Regionalization of Monthly Rainfall Erosivity Patterns in Switzerland, Hydrological Earth System Sciences, 20, 1-15, 2016.

Schmidt, S., Meusburger, K., de Figueiredo, T., and Alewell, C.: Modelling Hot Spots of Soil Loss by Wind Erosion (SoLoWind) in Western Saxony, Germany, Land Degradation & Development, doi: 10.1002/ldr.2652, 2016.

Panagos, P., Ballabio, C., Borrelli, P., Meusburger, K., Klik, A., Rousseva, S., Tadić, M. P., Michaelides, S., Hrabalíková, M., Olsen, P., Aalto, J., Lakatos, M., Rymszewicz, A., Dumitrescu, A., Beguería, S., and Alewell, C.: Rainfall erosivity in Europe, Science of the Total Environment, 511, 801-814, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.01.008, 2015.

Panagos, P., Borrelli, P., Poesen, J., Ballabio, C., Lugato, E., Meusburger, K., Montanarella, L., and Alewell, C.: The new assessment of soil loss by water erosion in Europe, Environmental Science & Policy, 54, 853-857, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2015.08.012, 2015.

Panagos, P., Borrelli, P., and Meusburger, K.: A New European Slope Length and Steepness Factor (LS-Factor) for Modeling Soil Erosion by Water, Geosciences, 5, 117-126, doi:10.3390/geosciences5020117, 2015.

Panagos, P., Borrelli, P., Meusburger, K., van der Zanden, E. H., Poesen, J., and Alewell, C.: Modelling the effect of support practices (P-factor) on the reduction of soil erosion by water at European scale, Environmental Science & Policy, 51, 23-34, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2015.03.012, 2015.

Panagos, P., Borrelli, P., Meusburger, K., Lugato, E., Alewell, C., and Montanarella, L.: Estimating the soil erosion cover-management factor at European scale, Land Use Policy, 48, 38–50, 2015.

Panagos, P., Meusburger, K., Ballabio, C., Borrelli, P., Begueria, S., Klik, A., Rymszewicz, A., Michaelides, S., Olsen, P., Tadic, M. P., Aalto, J., Lakatos, M., Dumitrescu, A., Rousseva, S., Montanarella, L., and Alewell, C.: Reply to the comment on “Rainfall erosivity in Europe” by Auerswald et al., Science of the Total Environment, 2015.

Alewell, C., Egli, M., and Meusburger, K.: An attempt to estimate tolerable soil erosion rates by matching soil formation with denudation in Alpine grasslands, J. Soils Sediments, 1-17, 10.1007/s11368-014-0920-6, 2014.

Alewell, C., Meusburger, K., Juretzko, G., Mabit, L., and Ketterer, M.: Suitability of ^239+240Pu as a tracer for soil erosion in alpine grasslands, Chemosphere, 103, 274-280, doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.12.016., 2014.

Diodato, N., Bellocchi, G., Meusburger, K., and Buttafuoco, G.: Modelling Long-Term Storm Erosivity Time-Series: A Case Study in the Western Swiss Plateau, in: Storminess and Environmental Change, edited by: Diodato, N., and Bellocchi, G., Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, Springer Netherlands, 149-165, 2014.

Mabit, L., Benmansour, M., Abril , J. M., Walling, D. E., Meusburger, K., Iurian, A. R., Bernard, C., Tarján, S., Owens, P. N., Blake, W. H., and Alewell, C.: Fallout 210Pbex as a soil and sediment tracer in catchment sediment budget investigations: A review, Earth-Science Reviews, 138, 335-351, 2014.

Mabit, L., Meusburger, K., Iurian, A.-R., Owens, P., Toloza, A., and Alewell, C.: Sampling soil and sediment depth profiles at a fine resolution with a new device for determining physical, chemical and biological properties: the Fine Increment Soil Collector (FISC), J. Soils Sediments, 14, 630-636, 10.1007/s11368-013-0834-8, 2014.

Meusburger, K., Leitinger, G., Mabit, L., Mueller, M. H., Walter, A., and Alewell, C.: Soil erosion by snow gliding – a first quantification attempt in a subalpine area in Switzerland, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 3763-3775, 10.5194/hess-18-3763-2014, 2014.

Mueller, M. H., Alaoui, A., Kuells, C., Leistert, H., Meusburger, K., Stumpp, C., Weiler, M., and Alewell, C.: Tracking water pathways in steep hillslopes by δ18O soil depth profiles, Journal of Hydrology, 519, 340-352, 2014.

Panagos, P., Meusburger, K., Ballabio, C., Borrelli, P., and Alewell, C.: Soil Erodibility in Europe: a high-resolution dataset based on LUCAS, Science of the Total Environment, 479–480, 189–200, 2014.

Panagos, P., Karydas, C., Borrelli, P., Ballabio, C., and Meusburger, K.: Advances in soil erosion modelling through remote sensing data availability at European scale, Proceedings of SPIE 9229, Second International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2014), 92290I , DOI: 10.1117/12.2066383, 2014.

Panagos, P., Meusburger, K., Van Liedekerke, M., Alewell, C., Hiederer, R., and Montanarella, L.: Assessing soil erosion in Europe based on data collected through a European Network, Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 1-15, dx.doi.org/10.1080/00380768.2013.835701, 2014.

Park, J.-H., Meusburger, K., Jang, I., Kang, H., and Alewell, C.: Erosion-induced changes in soil biogeochemical and microbiological properties in Swiss Alpine grasslands, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 69, 382-392, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.11.021, 2014.

Porto, P., Walling, D. E., Alewell, C., Callegari, G., Mabit, L., Mallimo, N., Meusburger, K., and Zehringer, M.: Use of a 137Cs re-sampling technique to investigate temporal changes in soil erosion and sediment mobilisation for a small forested catchment in southern Italy, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 138, 137-148, 2014.

Stanchi, S., Freppaz, M., Ceaglio, E., Maggioni, M., Meusburger, K., Alewell, C., and Zanini, E.: Soil erosion in an avalanche release site (Valle d'Aosta: Italy): towards a winter factor for RUSLE in the Alps, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 14, 1761-1771, 10.5194/nhess-14-1761-2014, 2014.

Zollinger, B., Alewell, C., Kneisel, C., Meusburger, K., Brandová, D., Kubik, P., Schaller, M., Ketterer, M., and Egli, M.: The effect of permafrost on time-split soil erosion using radionuclides (137Cs, 239+240Pu, meteoric 10Be) and stable isotopes (13C) in the Eastern Swiss Alps, J. Soils Sediments, DOI 10.1007/s11368-014-0881-9, 2014.

Mabit, L., Meusburger, K., Fulajtar, E., and Alewell, C.: The usefulness of 137Cs as a tracer for soil erosion assessment: A critical reply to Parsons and Foster (2011), Earth-Science Reviews, 137, 300-307, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.05.008, 2013.

Meusburger, K., Mabit, L., Park, J. H., Sandor, T., and Alewell, C.: Combined use of stable isotopes and fallout radionuclides as soil erosion indicators in a forested mountain site, South Korea, Biogeosciences, 10, 5627–5638, 10.5194/bg-10-5627-2013, 2013.

Zollinger, B., Alewell, C., Kneisel, C., Meusburger, K., Gärtner, H., Brandová, D., Ivy-Ochs, S., Schmidt, M. W. I., and Egli, M.: Effect of permafrost on the formation of soil organic carbon pools and their physical–chemical properties in the Eastern Swiss Alps, CATENA, 110, 70-85, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2013.06.010, 2013.

Carpentier, S., Konz, M., Fischer, R., Anagnostopoulos, G., Meusburger, K., and Schoeck, K.: Geophysical imaging of shallow subsurface topography and its implication for shallow landslide susceptibility in the Urseren Valley, Switzerland, Journal of Applied Geophysics, 83, 46-56, 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2012.05.001, 2012.

Ceaglio, E., Meusburger, K., Freppaz, M., Zanini, E., and Alewell, C.: Estimation of soil redistribution rates due to snow cover related processes in a mountainous area (Valle d’Aosta, NW Italy), Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 16, 517–528, 2012.

Jung, B.-J., Lee, H.-J., Jeong, J.-J., Owen, J., Kim, B., Meusburger, K., Alewell, C., Gebauer, G., Shope, C., and Park, J.-H.: Storm pulses and varying sources of hydrologic carbon export from a mountainous watershed, Journal of Hydrology, 440–441, 90-101, 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.03.030, 2012.

Meusburger, K., Steel, A., Panagos, P., Montanarella, L., and Alewell, C.: Spatial and temporal variability of rainfall erosivity factor for Switzerland, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 16, 10.5194/hess-16-1-2012, 2012.

Panagos, P., Meusburger, K., Alewell, C., and Montanarella, L.: Soil erodibility estimation using LUCAS point survey data of Europe, Environmental Modelling & Software, 30, 143-145, 10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.11.002, 2012.

Caviezel, C., Kuhn, N. J., and Meusburger, K.: Applicability of Alp Inspection Reports for the Reconstruction of Land-Use and Mass Wasting History in the Ursern Valley, Switzerland, Die Erde, 141, 301-319, 2010.

Meusburger, K., Banninger, D., and Alewell, C.: Estimating vegetation parameter for soil erosion assessment in an alpine catchment by means of QuickBird imagery, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 12, 201-207, 10.1016/j.jag.2010.02.009, 2010.

Meusburger, K., Konz, N., Schaub, M., and Alewell, C.: Soil erosion modelled with USLE and PESERA using QuickBird derived vegetation parameters in an alpine catchment, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 12, 208-215, 10.1016/j.jag.2010.02.004, 2010.

Schaub, M., Konz, N., Meusburger, K., and Alewell, C.: Application of in-situ measurement to determine 137Cs in the Swiss Alps, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 101, 369-376, 2010.

Meusburger, K., and Alewell, C.: On the influence of temporal change on the validity of landslide susceptibility maps, Nat Hazard Earth Sys, 9, 1495-1507, 2009.

Meusburger, K., and Alewell, C.: Impacts of anthropogenic and environmental factors on the occurrence of shallow landslides in an alpine catchment (Urseren Valley, Switzerland). Nat Hazard Earth Sys, 8, 509-520, 2008.

Alewell, C., Meusburger, K., Brodbeck, M., and Bänninger, D.: Methods to describe and predict soil erosion in mountain regions, Landscape and Urban Planning, 88, 46-53, 2008.