since 08/2014
Scientific consultant with DUENE eV in a BfN-financed project led by Europarc Germany, working on commodification of ecosystem services in nature conservation areas

2010 - 2013
Module Coordinator in the BMBF-financed project ‘Vorpommern Initiative Paludikultur’, working on feasibility and greenhouse gas aspects of paludicultures, including carbon market schemes

2001 - 2005
Research associate financed by DFG, working on self-organisation of mire ecosystems by modelling of surface patterns

since 1997
Researcher at the University of Greifswald (palaeoecology and peatland sciences) and scientific consultant with DUENE eV, working on greenhouse gas and ecological aspects of peatland ecosystems

1990 - 1997
Studies in Biology at the University of Utrecht (NL)

previous projects

• Inwertsetzung von Klima- und Naturschutzmaßnahmen in den Nationalen Naturlandschaften Deutschlands (NNL) (BfN, 2016-2019)

• Integrated Peatland Standard (TEEB Implementation) (BfN, 2011-2013)

• VIP - Vorpommern Initiative for Paludiculture (BMBF, 2010 - 2013)

• BLOSSOM - Biodiversity Levels of Simulated Self-Organisation in Mires (DFG, 2001-2005)

• additional projects on peatlands, ecosystem services and carbon markets, working (a.o.) on ecosystem services and greenhouse gas aspects of peatlands (financed by Europarc Germany, Wetlands International, BfN), peatland guidelines for the voluntary carbon market (financed by RSPB, KfW), VCS methodologies for temperate Europe and tropical SE Asia (RSPB, KfW, Permian Global)

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

• Antonijević, D., Hoffmann, M., Prochnow, A., Krabbe, K., Weituschat, M., Couwenberg, J., Ehlert S. Zak, D., Augustin,J. (2023) The unexpected long period of elevated CH₄ emissions from an inundated fen meadow ended only with the occurrence of cattail (Typha latifolia).Global Change Biology, 29, 3678–3691. doi:10.1111/gcb.16713

• Couwenberg, J., Baumann, M., Lamkowski, P. & Joosten, H. (2022) From Genes to Landscapes: Pattern Formation and Self-Regulation in Raised Bogs with an Example from Tierra Del Fuego. Ecosphere 13 (4): e4031. doi:10.1002/ecs2.4031

• Tanneberger, F., Birr, F., Couwenberg, J. et al. (2022) Saving soil carbon, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity and the economy: paludiculture as sustainable land use option in German fen peatlands. Regional Environment Change 22, 69. doi:10.1007/s10113-022-01900-8

• Theuerkauf, M., & Couwenberg, J. (2022). Pollen productivity estimates strongly depend on assumed pollen dispersal II: Extending the ERV model. The Holocene, 32(11), 1233-1250. doi:10.1177/09596836211041729 

• Kreyling, J., Tanneberger, F., Jansen, F. et al. (2021) Rewetting does not return drained fen peatlands to their old selves. Nature Communications 12, 5693. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-25619-y

• Schwieger, S., Kreyling, J., Couwenberg, J., Smiljanić, M., Weigel, R., Wilmking, M. & Blume-Werry, G. (2021) Wetter is Better: Rewetting of Minerotrophic Peatlands Increases Plant Production and Moves Them Towards Carbon Sinks in a Dry Year. Ecosystems 24, 1093–1109. doi:10.1007/s10021-020-00570-z 

• Tanneberger, F., Abel, S., Couwenberg, J., Dahms, T., Gaudig, G., Günther, A., et al. (2021). Towards net zero CO2 in 2050: an emission reduction pathway for organic soils in Germany. Mires and Peat, 27: 05. doi:10.19189/MaP.2020.SNPG.StA.1951

• Ahmad, S., Liu, H., Günther, A., Couwenberg, J. & Lennartz, B. (2020) Long-term rewetting of degraded peatlands restores hydrological buffer function. Science of The Total Environment, Volume 749, 141571, ISSN 0048-9697. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141571

• Dierk, M., Mrotzek, A.,& Couwenberg, J. (2020) Roots, Tissues, Cells and Fragments—How to Characterize Peat from Drained and Rewetted Fens. Soil Systems 4, 1:12. doi:10.3390/soilsystems4010012

• Gribbe, S., Blume-Werry, G. & Couwenberg, J. (2020) Digital, Three-Dimensional Visualization of Root Systems in Peat. Soil Systems 4, 1:13. doi:10.3390/soilsystems4010013

• Günther, A., Barthelmes, A., Huth, V., Joosten, H., Jurasinski, G., Koebsch, F. & Couwenberg, J. (2020) Prompt rewetting of drained peatlands reduces climate warming despite methane emissions. Nature Communications 11, 1644 . doi:10.1038/s41467-020-15499-z

• Jurasinski, G., Ahmad, S., Anadon-Rosell, A., Berendt, J., Beyer, F., Bill, R., Blume-Werry, G., Couwenberg, J., Günther, A., Joosten, H., et al. (2020) From Understanding to Sustainable Use of Peatlands: The WETSCAPES Approach. Soil Systems 4, 1:14. doi:10.3390/soilsystems4010014

• Mrotzek, A., Michaelis, D., Günther, A., Wrage-Mönnig, N., Couwenberg, J. (2020) Mass Balances of a Drained and a Rewetted Peatland: on Former Losses and Recent Gains. Soil Systems 4. 1:16. doi:10.3390/soilsystems4010016

• Theuerkauf, M. & Couwenberg, J. (2020) Comment on Marquer et al., (2020): Pollen-based reconstruction of Holocene land-cover in mountain regions: Evaluation of the landscape reconstruction algorithm in the Vicdessos valley, northern Pyrenees, France. Quaternary Science Reviews, Volume 244, 106463, ISSN 0277-3791. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106463 

• Weil M, Wang H, Bengtsson M, Köhn D, Günther A, Jurasinski G, Couwenberg J, Negassa W, Zak D, Urich T. (2020) Long-Term Rewetting of Three Formerly Drained Peatlands Drives Congruent Compositional Changes in Pro- and Eukaryotic Soil Microbiomes through Environmental Filtering. Microorganisms 8, 4:550. doi:10.3390/microorganisms8040550

• Beyer, F., Jurasinski, G., Couwenberg, J. & Grenzdörffer, G. (2019) Multisensor data to derive peatland vegetation communities using a fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 40:24, 9103-9125. doi:10.1080/01431161.2019.1580825

• Dommain, R., Frolking, S., Jeltsch‐Thömmes, A., Joos, F., Couwenberg, J., & Glaser, P. H. (2018) A radiative forcing analysis of tropical peatlands before and after their conversion to agricultural plantations. Global Change Biology, 24(11), pp. 5518-5533.

• Günther, A., Böther, S., Couwenberg, J., Hüttel, S., & Jurasinski, G. (2018) Profitability of direct greenhouse gas measurements in carbon credit schemes of peatland rewetting. Ecological Economics, 146, pp. 766-771. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.12.025 

• Theuerkauf M & Couwenberg J (2018) ROPES Reveals Past Land Cover and PPEs From Single Pollen Records. Front. Earth Sci. 6:14. doi:10.3389/feart.2018.00014

• Mrotzek, A., Couwenberg, J., Theuerkauf, M., & Joosten, H. (2017) MARCO POLO – A new and simple tool for pollen-based stand-scale vegetation reconstruction. The Holocene, 27(3), 321-330. doi:10.1177/0959683616660171 

• Theuerkauf, M., & Couwenberg, J. (2017) The extended downscaling approach: A new R-tool for pollen-based reconstruction of vegetation patterns. The Holocene, 27(8), 1252-1258. doi:10.1177/0959683616683256 

• Wijedasa, L.S., Jauhiainen, J., Könönen, M., Lampela, M., Vasander, H., Leblanc, M.-C., Evers, S., Smith, T.E.L., Yule, C.M., Varkkey, H., Lupascu, M., Parish, F., Singleton, I., Clements, G.R., Aziz, S.A., Harrison, M.E., Cheyne, S., Anshari, G.Z., Meijaard, E., Goldstein, J.E., Waldron, S., Hergoualc'h, K., Dommain, R., Frolking, S., Evans, C.D., Posa, M.R.C., Glaser, P.H., Suryadiputra, N., Lubis, R., Santika, T., Padfield, R., Kurnianto, S., Hadisiswoyo, P., Lim, T.W., Page, S.E., Gauci, V., Van Der Meer, P.J., Buckland, H., Garnier, F., Samuel, M.K., Choo, L.N.L.K., O'Reilly, P., Warren, M., Suksuwan, S., Sumarga, E., Jain, A., Laurance, W.F., Couwenberg, J., Joosten, H., Vernimmen, R., Hooijer, A., Malins, C., Cochrane, M.A., Perumal, B., Siegert, F., Peh, K.S.-.-H., Comeau, L.-P., Verchot, L., Harvey, C.F., Cobb, A., Jaafar, Z., Wösten, H., Manuri, S., Müller, M., Giesen, W., Phelps, J., Yong, D.L., Silvius, M., Wedeux, B.M.M., Hoyt, A., Osaki, M., Hirano, T., Takahashi, H., Kohyama, T.S., Haraguchi, A., Nugroho, N.P., Coomes, D.A., Quoi, L.P., Dohong, A., Gunawan, H., Gaveau, D.L.A., Langner, A., Lim, F.K.S., Edwards, D.P., Giam, X., Van Der Werf, G., Carmenta, R., Verwer, C.C., Gibson, L., Gandois, L., Graham, L.L.B., Regalino, J., Wich, S.A., Rieley, J., Kettridge, N., Brown, C., Pirard, R., Moore, S., Capilla, B.R., Ballhorn, U., Ho, H.C., Hoscilo, A., Lohberger, S., Evans, T.A., Yulianti, N., Blackham, G., Onrizal, , Husson, S., Murdiyarso, D., Pangala, S., Cole, L.E.S., Tacconi, L., Segah, H., Tonoto, P., Lee, J.S.H., Schmilewski, G., Wulffraat, S., Putra, E.I., Cattau, M.E., Clymo, R.S., Morrison, R., Mujahid, A., Miettinen, J., Liew, S.C., Valpola, S., Wilson, D., D'Arcy, L., Gerding, M., Sundari, S., Thornton, S.A., Kalisz, B., Chapman, S.J., Su, A.S.M., Basuki, I., Itoh, M., Traeholt, C., Sloan, S., Sayok, A.K. & Andersen, R. (2017) Denial of long-term issues with agriculture on tropical peatlands will have devastating consequences. Glob Change Biol, 23: 977-982. doi:10.1111/gcb.13516

• Theuerkauf M, Couwenberg J, Kuparinen A, Liebscher V (2016) A matter of dispersal: REVEALSinR introduces state-of-the-art dispersal models to quantitative vegetation reconstruction. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. doi: 10.1007/s00334-016-0572-0

• Wilson D, Blain D, Couwenberg J, Evans CD, Murdiyarso D, Page SE, Renou-Wilson F, Rieley JO, Sirin A, Strack M, Tuittila E-S (2016) Greenhouse gas emission factors associated with rewetting of organic soils. Mires and Peat 17 (4): 1-28.

• De Klerk P, Couwenberg J, Joosten H (2015) Pollen and macrofossils attributable to Fagopyrum in western Eurasia prior to the Late Medieval: An intercontinental mystery. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 440: 1 – 21.

• Goa Y, Couwenberg J (2015) Carbon accumulation in a permafrost polygon peatland: steady long term rates in spite of shifts between dry and wet conditions. Global Change Biology, doi:10.1111/gcb.12742

• Scharnweber T, Couwenberg J, Heinrich I, Wilmking M (2015) New insights for the interpretation of ancient bog oak chronologies? Reactions of oak (Quercus robur L.) to a sudden peatland rewetting. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 417: 534–543.

• Blain D, Murdiyarso D, Couwenberg J, Nagata O, Renou-Wilson F, Sirin A, Strack M, Tuittila E-S, Wilson D (2014) Rewetted organic soils. In: 2013 Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands, Hiraishi T, Krug T, Tanabe K, Srivastava N, Baasansuren J, Fukuda M, Troxler TG (eds). IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 3.1–3.42.

• Bonn A, Reed MS, Evans CD, Joosten H, Bain C, Farmer J, Emmer I, Couwenberg J, Moxey A, Artz R, Tanneberger F, von Unger M, Smyth M-A, Birnie D (2014) Investing in nature: Developing ecosystem service markets for peatland restoration. Ecosystem Services. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.06.011

• Dommain R, Couwenberg J, Glaser PH, Joosten H, Suryadiputra INN (2014) Carbon storage and release in Indonesian peatlands since the last deglaciation, Quaternary Science Reviews, 97, 1-32. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.05.002.

• Drösler M, Verchot LV, Freibauer A, Pan F, Evans CD, Bourbonniere RA. Alm JP, Page S, Agus F, Hergoualc’h K, Couwenberg J, Jauhiainen J, Sabiham S, Wang C (2014) Drained inland organic soils. In: 2013 Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands, Hiraishi T, Krug T, Tanabe K, Srivastava N, Baasansuren J, Fukuda M, Troxler TG (eds). IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 2.1–2.79.

• Evans CD, Bonn A, Holden J, Reed MS, Evans MG, Worrall F, Couwenberg J, Parnell M (2014). Relationships between anthropogenic pressures and ecosystem functions in UK blanket bogs: Linking process understanding to ecosystem service valuation. Ecosystem Services. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2014.06.013

• Freibauer A, Wu JG, Boehm M, Couwenberg J, Ginzo H, Joosten H, Li Y, McConkey B, Mori A, Pan X, Pipatti RK (2014) Section 2.9–2.12. In: 2013 Revised Supplementary Methods and Good Practice Guidance Arising from the Kyoto Protocol. Hiraishi T, Krug T, Tanabe K, Srivastava N, Baasansuren J, Fukuda M, Troxler TG (eds). IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland, pp. 2.135–2.172.

• Tanneberger F, Knöfler V, Linke W, Tegetmeyer C, Kloskowski J (2014): Rapid changes in vegetation structure of Aquatic Warbler habitats in Pomerania - outcomes of targeted five year habitat management. Plant Diversity and Evolution 130: 303-313

• Abel S, Couwenberg J, Dahms T, Joosten H (2013) The Database of Potential Paludiculture Plants (DPPP) and results for Western Pomerania. – Plant Div. Evol. 130: 219–228.

• Couwenberg J, Hooijer A (2013) Towards robust subsidence-based soil carbon emission factors for peat soils in south-east Asia, with special reference to oil palm plantations. Mires and Peat 12 12 (01): 1 – 13.

• Wichtmann, W., & Couwenberg, J. (2013). Reed as a renewable resource and other aspects of paludiculture. Mires Peat, 13, 1-2. 

• Couwenberg J, Fritz C (2012) Towards developing IPCC methane ‘emission factors’ for peatlands (organic soils). Mires and Peat 10 (03): 1 – 17.

• Prager A, Theuerkauf M, Couwenberg J, Barthelmes A, Aptroot A, Joosten H (2012) Pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs as tools for identifying alder carr deposits: A surface sample study from NE-Germany. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 186: 38-57.

• Couwenberg J (2011) Greenhouse gas emissions from managed peat soils: is the IPCC reporting guidance realistic? Mires and Peat 8 (02): 1 – 10.

• Couwenberg J, Thiele A, Tanneberger F, Augustin J, Bärisch S, Dubovik D, Liashchynskaya N, Michaelis D, Minke M, Skuratovich A, Joosten H (2011) Assessing greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands using vegetation as a proxy. Hydrobiologia, 674, 67-89.

• Dommain R, Couwenberg J, Joosten H (2011) Development and carbon sequestration of tropical peat domes in south-east Asia: links to post-glacial sea-level changes and Holocene climate variability. Quaternary Science Reviews, 30, 999-1010. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.01.018

• Dommain R, Couwenberg J, Joosten H (2010) Hydrological self-regulation of domed peat swamps in south-east Asia and consequences for conservation and restoration. Mires and Peat 6 (05): 1 – 17.

• Couwenberg J, Dommain R, Joosten H (2009) Greenhouse gas fluxes from tropical peatlands in Southeast Asia. Global Change Biology, 16, 1715–1732.

• De Klerk P, Couwenberg J, Joosten H (2007) Short-lived vegetational and environmental change during the Preboreal in the Biebrza upper basin (NE Poland). Quaternary Science Reviews 26: 1975 – 1988.

• Gaudig G, Couwenberg J, Joosten H (2006) Peat accumulation in kettle holes: bottom up or top down?. Mires and Peat 1.

• Couwenberg J (2005) A simulation model of mire patterning – revisited. Ecography 28: 653 – 661.

• Couwenberg J, Joosten H (2005) Self-organization in raised bog patterning: the origin of microtope zonation and mesotope diversity. Journal of Ecology 93: 1238 – 1248.

• Kaffke A, Matchutadze I, Couwenberg J, Joosten H (2002) Early 20th century Russian peat scientists as possible vectors for the establishment of Calluna vulgaris (Linnaeus) Hull in Georgian Sphagnum bogs. Suo 53: 61 - 66.

• Couwenberg J, Joosten H (1999) Pools as missing links: the role of nothing in the being of mires. In: Standen V, Tallis J, Meade R (eds.): Patterned mires and mire pools - Origin and development; flora and fauna. British Ecological Society, Durham, pp. 87 – 102.

• Co-author of guidelines for Peatland Rewetting and Conservation under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS-PRC) with Igino Emmer, Manuel Estrada & Hans Joosten

Books

• Theuerkauf M, Couwenberg J, Joosten H, Kreyer D, Tanneberger F (eds.) (2006): New Nature in North-Eastern Germany. A field guide. Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald. 125 p.

• Couwenberg J, Joosten H. (eds.) (2002): C.A. Weber and the Raised Bog of Augstumal - with a translation of the 1902 monograph by Weber on the "Vegetation and Development of the Raised Bog of Augstumal in the Memel delta. International Mire Conservation Group / PPE "Grif & K", Tula, 278 p.

Bookchapters

• H Joosten, J Couwenberg (2019) Hoogvenen als zelfregulerende en zelforganiserende systemen. In: André Jansen: Hoogvenen - landschapsecologie, behoud, beheer, herstel. Noordboek, Gorredijk. pp. 24-35.

• Couwenberg J (2016) Box 5.3: Soil moisture classes. In: Wichtmann W, Schröder C, Joosten H (eds.): Paludiculture – productive use of wet peatlands. Schweizerbart Science Publishers, Stuttgart, p. 92.

• Couwenberg J (2016) Box 5.3: Wasserstufen. In: Wichtmann W, Schröder C, Joosten H (Hsg.): Paludikultur – Bewirtschaftung nasser Moore. Schweizerbart Science Publishers, Stuttgart, p. 92.

• Couwenberg J (2016) Box 5.4: Greenhouse gas Emissions Site Types. In: Wichtmann W, Schröder C, Joosten H (eds.) (2016). Paludiculture – productive use of wet peatlands. Schweizerbart Science Publishers, Stuttgart, p. 93.

• Couwenberg J (2016) Box 5.4: TreibhausGas-Emissions-Standort-Typen – GEST. In: Wichtmann W, Schröder C & Joosten H (Hsg.): Paludikultur – Bewirtschaftung nasser Moore. Schweizerbart Science Publishers, Stuttgart, p. 93.

• Joosten H, Couwenberg J, Moen A & Tanneberger F (2016) Mire diversity in Europe: mire and peatland types In: Joosten H, Tanneberger F, Moen A (eds.) Mires and Peatlands in Europe Status, Distribution and Conservation. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, pp. 5-64.

• Joosten H, Couwenberg J, von Unger M (2016) International carbon policies as a new driver for peatland restoration. In: Bonn A, Allott T, Evans M, Joosten H, Stoneman R (eds.): Peatland restoration and ecosystem services: Science, policy and practice. Cambridge University Press/ British Ecological Society, Cambridge, pp. 291-313.

• Joosten H, Moen A, Couwenberg J & Tanneberger F (2016) Mire and peatland terms and definitions in Europe In: Joosten H, Tanneberger F, Moen A (eds.) Mires and Peatlands in Europe Status, Distribution and Conservation. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, pp. 65-96.

• Joosten H, Sirin A, Couwenberg J, Laine J, Smith P (2016) The role of peatlands in climate regulation. In: Bonn A, Allott T, Evans M, Joosten H, Stoneman R (eds.): Peatland restoration and ecosystem services: Science, policy and practice. Cambridge University Press/ British Ecological Society, Cambridge, pp. 66-79. .

• Jurasinski G, Günther A, Huth V, Couwenberg J, Glatzel S (2016) Greenhouse gas emissions. In: Wichtmann W, Schröder C, Joosten H (eds.) (2016). Paludiculture – productive use of wet peatlands. Schweizerbart Science Publishers, Stuttgart, p. 79-93.

• Jurasinski G, Günther A, Huth V, Couwenberg J, Glatzel S (2016) Treibhausgasemissionen. In: Wichtmann W, Schröder C, Joosten H (Hsg.): Paludikultur – Bewirtschaftung nasser Moore. Schweizerbart Science Publishers, Stuttgart, pp. 79-94.

• Bonn A, Berghöfer A, Couwenberg J, Drösler M, Jensen R, Kantelhardt J, Luthart V, Permien T, Röder N, Schaller L, Schweppe-Kraft B, Tanneberger F, Trepel M, Wichmann S (2015) Klimaschutz durch Wiedervernässung von Kohlenstoffreichen Böden. In: Hartje V, Wüstemann H, Bonn A. (eds.) Naturkapital und Klimapolitik – Synergien und Konflikte. TU Berlin & UFZ Leipzig, pp. 124-147.

• Augustin J, Couwenberg J, Minke M (2012) Peatlands and greenhouse gases. In: Tanneberger F, Wichtmann W. (eds.) Carbon credits from peatlands rewetting. Climate – biodiversity – land use. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, pp. 13-19.

• Couwenberg J (2012) Vegetation as a proxy for greenhouse gas fluxes – the GEST approach. In: Tanneberger F, Wichtmann W. (eds.) Carbon credits from peatlands rewetting. Climate – biodiversity – land use. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart, pp. 37-42.

• Joosten H, Couwenberg J (2008) Peatlands and carbon. In: Parish F, Sirin A, Charman D, Joosten H, Minaeva T, Silvius M. (eds) 2008. Assessment on peatlands, biodiversity and climate change. Global Environment Centre, Kuala Lumpur and Wetlands International Wageningen, pp. 99-117.

• Minayeva T, Bragg O, Cherednichenko O, Couwenberg J, van Duinen G-J, Giesen W, Grootjans A, Grundling PL, Nikolaev V, van der Schaaf S (2008) Peatlands and biodiversity. In: Parish F, Sirin A, Charman D, Joosten H, Minaeva T, Silvius M. (eds) 2008. Assessment on peatlands, biodiversity and climate change. Global Environment Centre, Kuala Lumpur and Wetlands International Wageningen, pp. 60-98.

• Couwenberg J, Joosten H (2001) Bilanzen zum Moorverlust – Das Beispiel Deutschland. In: Succow M, Joosten H. (eds.): Landschaftsökologische Moorkunde. 2nd edition. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart.

• Couwenberg J, de Klerk P, Endtmann E, Joosten H, Michaelis D (2001) Hydrologisch-genetische Moortypen in der Zeit - eine Zusammenschau. In: Succow M, Joosten H. (eds.): Landschaftsökologische Moor¬kunde. 2nd edition. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart.

Conference Proceedings

• J Couwenberg, W Wichtmann (Eds.) (2019) Renewable resources from wet and rewetted peatlands. Second International Paludiculture Conference, University of Greifswald, Germany, September 2017. Mires and Peat, Vol.25

• A Sirin, G Suvorov, M Medvedeva, T Minayeva, H Joosten, I Kamennova, A Maslov, A Vozbrannaya, M Chistotin, A Markina, D Makarov, T Glukhova, J Couwenberg, M Silvius, J Bednar, J Peters, I Kamennova (2017) Peatland restoration in Russia for reduction of carbon losses and greenhouse gases emissions: the experience of large scale rewetting project. In: Unlocking the potential of migrationg and adapting to a changing climate. Proceedings of the Global Symposium on Soil Organic Carbon 2017. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, pp. 432-435.

• J. O. Rieley, D. Wilson, D. Blain, J. Couwenberg, C. D. Evans, D. Murdiyarso, S. E. Page, F. Renou-Wilson, A. Sirin, M. Strack & E.-S. Tuittila (2016) Greenheouse Gas Emsiions Factors for drained and rewetted boreal, temperate and tropical peatlands. In: Peatlands in Harmony. Proceedings of the 15th International Peat Congress, Kuching. Int. Peat Society, Jyväskylä, pp. 301-306.

• Abel, S, Couwenberg, J, Joosten, H (2012) Towards more diversity in paludiculture. A literature study of useful wetland plants - opportunities, limits & risks of their cultivation. In: Peatlands in Balance. Proceedings of the 14th International Peat Congress, Stockholm. Int. Peat Society, Jyväskylä, pp. 299-323.

• Dommain R, Couwenberg J, Cobb A, Gandois L, Kai FM, Harvey C, Joosten H (2012) Climate, sea-leyel and autogenic drivers for peat swamp development in Southeast Asia. Japanese Journal of Palynology, 58, 48-49.

• Dommain R, Couwenberg J, Cobb A, Gandois L, Kai F, Su'ut N, Abu Salim K, Harvey CF, Glaser PH, Joosten H (2012) Carbon sequestration in Southeast Asian tropical peatlands over the Holocene period: large-scale hydrological controls. AGU Fall Meeting abstract #B21G-01.

• Tanneberger F, Kloskowski J (2012) Where does the globally threatened Aquatic Warbler breed in the changing landscape of Pomerania? 2nd International Symposium ‘Flora, Vegetation and Landscape of Pomerania’, Wartin 6-9 September 2012. p. 34-35.

• Thiele A, Couwenberg J, Tanneberger F, Augustin J, Bärisch S, Liashchynskaya N, Michaelis D, Minke M, Joosten H (2011) Assessing greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands using vegetation as a proxy – first trial and insights on Belarusian peatlands. Geophysical Research Abstracts 13, EGU2011-13088.

• Dommain R, Couwenberg J, Joosten H (2009) Holocene peat and carbon sequestration rates and palaeo- and modern CO2 emissions from SEAsian peatswamps. Conference abstract number 21, The Role and Importance of Peatlands in the Global Carbon Cycle: Past, Present, and Future, Conference held in Prague, Czech Republic, September 25–29, 2009.

• Barthelmes A, Couwenberg J (2008) Carbon accumulation in alder carrs (case studies from north-east Germany). In: Farrell C, Feehan J. (eds.): After Wise Use - the Future of Peatlands. Proceedings of the 13th International Peat Congress, Tullamore. Int. Peat Society, Jyväskylä, pp. 564-568.

• Couwenberg J, Bauman M, Holz I, Iturraspe R, Joosten H, Köpke K (2005) The patterned bog of the Valle de Andorra (Tierra del Fuego): measurements and modelling. In: IMCG Mires and Peatlands Field Symposium Tierra del Fuego 2005. Libro de Resúmenes/Abstracts book, Ushuaia, pp. 39-40.

• Cartellieri M, de Klerk P, Wassen M, Couwenberg J, Joosten H (2000) Comparison of surface pollen assemblages and vegetation in the upper Biebrza Valley, Poland. Arbeitskreis Vegetations-geschichte der Reinhold-Tüxen-Gesellschaft, Basel, 27-30 Oktober 2000. Abstracts P1.

• Couwenberg J, Joosten H (2000) Hydrogenetic mire classification. In: Québec 2000 Millenium Wetland Event, Program with Abstracts, p. 137.

• Heinicke T, Joosten H, Couwenberg J, Bonfield C (2000) Identification of mires of international importance. In: Québec 2000 Millenium Wetland Event, Program with Abstracts, p. 487.

• Jeschke L, Joosten H, Couwenberg J, Heinicke T (2000) The IMCG European Mires Book. In: Québec 2000 Millenium Wetland Event, Program with Abstracts, p. 137.

• Kaffke, A., J. Couwenberg, H. Joosten, I. Matchutadze & J. Schulz (2000) Ispani II: the world's first percolation bog. In: Québec 2000 Millenium Wetland Event, Program with Abstracts, p. 487.

Research reports, discussion papers, other journal papers

• Martin, N. & Couwenberg, J. (2021) Organic soils in national inventory submissions of EU countries. Proceedings of the Greifswald Mire Centre 05/2021 (self-published, ISSN 2627‐910X), 86 p.

• Couwenberg J (2020) Self regulation and self organisation of raised bogs. Dissertation, Universität Greifswald.

• M Weil, H Wang, M Bengtsson, D Köhn, A Günther, G Jurasinski, J Couwenberg, W Negassa, D Zak, T Urich (2020) Rewetting of Three Drained Peatlands Drives Congruent Compositional Changes in Pro- and Eukaryotic Soil Microbiomes Through Environmental Filtering. bioRxiv 848192. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/848192 

• Hirschelmann, S., Tanneberger, F., Wichmann, S., Reichelt, F., Hohlbein, M., Couwenberg, J., Busse, S., Schröder, C. & Nordt, A. (2020) Moore in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern im Kontext nationaler und internationaler Klimaschutzziele - Zustand und Entwicklungspotenzial, Faktensammlung. Greifswald Moor Centrum-Schriftenreihe 03/2020 (Selbstverlag, ISSN 2627‐910X), 35 S.

• Hirschelmann, S., Tanneberger, F., Wichmann, S., Reichelt, F., Hohlbein, M., Couwenberg, J., Busse, S., Schröder, C., Nordt, A. (2020) Moore in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern im Kontext nationaler und internationaler Klimaschutzziele - Zustand und Entwicklungspotenzial. Faktensammlung Proceedings of the Greifswald Mire Centre 03/2020 (self-published, ISSN 2627‐910X), 33 pp. (link)

• Hohlbein, M. & Couwenberg, J.(2019) Freiwillige Finanzierungsinstrumente für Klimaschutzmaßnahmen am Beispiel Moorschutz: Aktueller Stand und neue Ideen. Greifswald Moor Centrum-Schriftenreihe 02/2019 (Selbstverlag, ISSN 2627‐910X), 35 S.

• von Unger M, Emmer I, Joosten H, Couwenberg J (2019) Designing an International Peatland Carbon Standard: Criteria, Best Practices and Opportunities - Final report. Umweltbundesamt, Dessau.

• Couwenberg J (2018) Some facts on submerged drains in Dutch peat pastures. IMCG Bulletin June–July 2018:9–21

• Joosten H, Barthelmes A, Couwenberg J, Hassel K, Moen A, Tegetmeyer C, Lyngstad A(2016) Metoder for å beregne endring i klimagassutslipp ved restaurering av myr. – NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet naturhistorisk notat, 58 p.

• Artz R, Saunders M, Yeluripati J, Chapman S, Moxley J, Malcolm H, Couwenberg J (2015) Implications for longer-term policy and implementation into the AFOLU Inventory of the IPCC 2013 Supplement to the 2006 Guidelines: Wetlands. ClimateXChange, Edinburgh, 53 p.

• Barthelmes A, Ballhorn U, Couwenberg J(2015) Consulting Study 5: Practical guidance on locating and delineating peatlands and other organic soils in the tropics. The High Carbon Stock Science Study 2015, 120 p.

• Barthelmes A, Couwenberg J, Risager M, Tegetmeyer C, Joosten H (2015) Peatlands and climate in a Ramsar context: A Nordic-Baltic perspective. Nordic Council of Ministers.

• Joosten H, Berghöfer A, Couwenberg J, Dietrich K, Holsten B, Permien T, Schäfer A, Tanneberger F, Trepel M, Wahren A (2015) Die neuen MoorFutures® - Kohlenstoffzertifikate mit ökologischen Zusatzleistungen. Natur und Landschaft 4: 170-175.

• Joosten H, Brust K, Couwenberg J, Gerner A, Holsten B, Permien T, Schäfer A, Tanneberger F, Trepel M, Wahren A (2015) MoorFutures. Integration of additional ecosystem services (including biodiversity) into carbon credits – standard, methodology and transferability to other regions. BfN-Skripten 407.

• Van Duinen G-J, Fritz C, Couwenberg J (2015) Effecten van herstelmaatregelen op vastlegging en emissie van broeikasgassen in de Deurnsche Peel en Mariapeel. Stichting Bargerveen & Provincie Noord-Brabant, 35 p.

• Von Unger M, Emmer I, Couwenberg J, Joosten H (2015) Peatlands, Forests and the Climate Architecture: Setting Incentives through Markets and Enhanced Accounting. German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt) at the Federal Environment Agency, Berlin.

• Teltewskoi, A., Joosten, H., Lorenz, S., Couwenberg, J., Michaelis, D., Theuerkauf, M., & Beermann, F. (2011-2014) POLYGON: Polygons in tundra wetlands: State and dynamics under climate variability in Polar Regions (Joint German-Russian Research Project, 2011-2014).

• Von Unger M, Emmer I, Couwenberg J, Joosten H (2014) Carbon market approaches for peatlands and forests. Status Report I. German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt) at the Federal Environment Agency, Berlin.

• Joosten H, Brust K, Couwenberg J, Gerner A, Holsten B, Permien T, Schäfer A, Tanneberger F, Trepel M, Wahren A (2013) MoorFutures. Integration von weiteren Ökosystemdienstleistungen einschlieslich Biodiversitat in Kohlenstoffzertifikate - Standard, Methodologie und Ubertragbarkeit in andere Regionen. BfN-Skripten 350.

• Reed MS, Bonn A, Evans C, Joosten H, Bain B, Farmer J, Emmer I, Couwenberg J, Moxey A, Artz R, Tanneberger F, von Unger M, Smyth M, Birnie R, Inman I, Smith S, Quick T, Cowap C, Prior S, Linday, R (2013) Towards the development of a UK Peatland Code: Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES). Peatland Code Research Project Final Report, Defra, London, 117 p.

• Joosten H, Couwenberg J, Schäfer A, Wichmann S, Wichtmann W(2012) Perspektive der Regeneration und Nutzbarmachung von Mooren. Mitt. Ges. Pflanzenbauwiss. 24: 13–16.

• Schäfer A, Couwenberg J, Joosten H (2012) MoorFutures®: CO2-Zertifikate aus Moorwiedervernässung. BfN Skripten 319: 72-82.

• Schäfer A, Scharnweber T, Couwenberg J, Joosten H(2012) Klimarelevante Maßnahmen für Grünland, Moor und Wald und ihre Bewertung. DUENE, Greifswald, 76 p.

• Stachow U, Werner A, Rehbinder E, Schäfer A, Couwenberg J, Wichtmann W(2011) Möglichkeiten und zukünftige Erfordernisse einer Einbeziehung von Landnutzung in den Emissionshandel unter Berücksichtigung der Beziehung zur Biodiversität. BfN Skripten 291, 57 p.

• Couwenberg J (2010) IPCC Expert Meeting on HWP, Wetlands and Soil N2O. IMCG Newsletter 2010/3, 19 – 20.

• Barthelmes, A., Couwenberg, J., & Joosten, H. (2010) Carbon sequestration in alder wood peat-a palaeoecological approach. Vegetation dynamics and carbon sequestration of Holocene alder (Alnus glutinosa) carrs in NE Germany, 159.

• Jensen R, Couwenberg J, Trepel M (2010) Bilanzierung der Klimawirkung von Moorböden in Schleswig-Holstein. Telma 40: 215-228.

• Barthelmes A, Couwenberg J, Joosten H (2009) Peatlands in National Inventory Submissions 2009 - An analysis of 10 European countries. Greifswald University, Wetlands International, Ede.

• Couwenberg J (2009) Emission factors for managed peat soils. An analysis of IPCC default values, Greifswald University, Wetlands International, Ede.

• Couwenberg J (2009) Methane emissions from peat soils (organic soils, histosols) - Facts, MRV-ability, emission factors. Wetlands International, Ede.

• Couwenberg J, Joosten H (2009) New CDM biodiesel methodology may threaten peatlands. IMCG Newsletter 2009/3-4: 31-32.

• Joosten H, Couwenberg J (2009) Are emission reductions from peatlands MRV-able? Greifswald University. Wetlands International, Ede.

• Minke M, Thiele A, Liashchynskaya N, Yarmashuk T, Ryzhikov V, Augustin J, Couwenberg J, Tanneberger F, Joosten H (2009) Greenhouse gas emission reduction from peatland restoration in Belarus: testing and adapting a rapid assessment tool. In: water, climate change and human health, international youth forum, Minsk, Belarus, 25-26 November 2009, pp. 45-46.

• Thiele A, Tanneberger F, Minke M, Couwenberg J, Wichtmann W, Karpowicz Z, Fenchuk V, Kozulin A, Joosten H (2009) Belarus boosts peatland restoration in Central Europe. Peatlands International 2009/01: 32-34.

• Wichtmann W, Couwenberg J, Kowatsch A (2009) Standortgerechte Landnutzung auf wiedervernässten Niedermooren - Klimaschutz durch Schilfanbau. Ökologisches Wirtschaften 1. 2009, S.25 -27.

• Couwenberg, J. & Joosten, H. (2008) Moor: Synergien zwischen den Rio-Konventionen und der Ramsar-Konvention. BfN-Skripten 241 (Bonn-Bad Godesberg), S. 64-67.

• Couwenberg J, Augustin J, Michaelis D, Joosten H (2008) Emission reductions from rewetting of peatlands. Towards a field guide for the assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from Central European peatlands. DUENE Greifswald / RSPB Sandy. 28 p.

• Couwenberg J, Augustin J, Michaelis D, Wichtmann W, Joosten H (2008) Entwicklung von Grundsätzen für eine Bewertung von Niedermooren hinsichtlich ihrer Klimarelevanz. DUENE, Greifswald, 33 p.

• Couwenberg J (2007) Biomass energy crops on peatlands: On emissions and perversions. [IMCG Newsletter 2007/3: 12-14]

• Couwenberg J (2007) Peatlands, Peat, UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol. [IMCG Newsletter 2007/2: 20-23]

• Couwenberg J (2007) The CO2 emission factor of peat fuel. [IMCG Newsletter 2007/2: 24]

• Couwenberg J, Joosten H (2007) The carbon balance of windfarms on peatlands. IMCG Newsletter 2007/4: 15-16

• Couwenberg J, Joosten H (2006) Peatlands. Climate, Biodiversity. BfN Skripten 180: 35 – 37.

• Couwenberg J, Joosten H (2003) Mires and Climate Change: Salinity, Siberia, and the Gulf Stream. IMCG Newsletter 2003/4: 21 – 22.

• Wichtmann W, Schäfer A, Couwenberg J (2002) Economically feasible targets in fen peatland restoration. IMCG Newsletter 2002/2: 10.

• Julve P, Couwenberg J (2001) EU ecolabel revisions - no to the inclusion of peat. IMCG Newsletter 2001/1: 13 - 14.

• Couwenberg J, Müller A (1998) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern und seine Moorpflanzen: Verantwortung, Gefährdung, Prioritäten, Flächenbedarf. Landesamt für Umwelt und Naturschutz, 45 p.

• Couwenberg J (1998) The multilevel approach: Self-organisation of higher order biodiversity. Contribution to the IMCG Workshop on Global Mire Classification, Greifswald.

• Couwenberg, J., & Hogeweg, P. (1997) The fate of cheaters on ecological and evolutionary timescales (Doctoral dissertation, Master’s thesis, Dep. Theor. Biol./Bioinformatics, Utrecht).