Current projects

• MRV4SOC - Monitoring, Reporting and Verification of Soil Organic Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Balance (EU, 2023-2026)
• Digital Forest - A real-time forest monitoring system for climate change impacts (Land Niedersachsen & VolkswagenStiftung, 2021-2024)

previous projects

• WETSCAPES - Stoffumsetzungsprozesse an Moor- und Küstenstandorten als Grundlage für Landnutzung, Klimawirkung und Gewässerschutz (EU Sozialfonds, 2017-2021)
• Baltic TRANSCOAST - Ausbildung von Expert:innen für den Küstenraum (DFG)

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

• Dietenberger, S., Mueller, M., …, Koebsch, F., … Thiel, C. (2023) Tree Stem Detection and Crown Delineation in a Structurally Diverse Deciduous Forest Combining Leaf-On and Leaf-Off UAV-SfM Data. Accepted by Remote Sensing. (DOI:10.3390/rs15184366)
• McNicol, G., et al. (58 co-authors inc. Koebsch, F.) (2023) Upscaling wetland methane emissions from the FLUXNET-CH4 eddy covariance network (UpCH4 v1.0): Model development, network assessment, and budget comparison. Accepted by AGU Advances.
• Stiegler, C., Koebsch, F., Ashween, A., …, & Knohl, A. (2023) Temporal variation in nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes from an oil palm plantation in Indonesia: an ecosystem-scale analysis. Global Change Biology Bioenergy, 00:1–19.
• Golub, M., Koupaei-Abyazani, N., Vesala, T., Mammarella, I., Ojala, A., Bohrer, G., ... Koebsch, F., …, & Desai, A. R. (2023). Diel, seasonal, and inter-annual variation in carbon dioxide effluxes from lakes and reservoirs. Environmental Research Letters, 18(3), 034046.
• El-Amine, M., Roy, A., Koebsch, F., Baltzer, J. L., Barr, A., Black, A., ... & Sonnentag, O. (2022). What explains the year-to-year variation in growing season timing of boreal black spruce forests?. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 324, 109113.
• Gutekunst, C. N., Liebner, S., Jenner, A. K., Knorr, K. H., Unger, V., Koebsch, F., ... & Jurasinski, G. (2022). Effects of brackish water inflow on methane-cycling microbial communities in a freshwater rewetted coastal fen. Biogeosciences, 19(15), 3625-3648.
• Huth, V., Günther, A., Bartel, A., Gutekunst, C., Heinze, S., Hofer, B., ... Koebsch, F., …, & Jurasinski, G. (2022). The climate benefits of topsoil removal and Sphagnum introduction in raised bog restoration (Vol. 30, No. 1, p. e13490). Malden, USA: Wiley Periodicals, Inc..
• Yu, X., Orth, R., Reichstein, M., Bahn, M., Klosterhalfen, A., Knohl, A., ... Koebsch, F., …, & Bastos, A. (2022). Contrasting drought legacy effects on gross primary productivity in a mixed versus pure beech forest. Biogeosciences, 19(17), 4315-4329.
• Yuan, K., Zhu, Q., Li, F., Riley, W. J., Torn, M., Chu, H., ... Koebsch, F., …, & Jackson, R. (2022). Causality guided machine learning model on wetland CH4 emissions across global wetlands. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 324, 109115.
• Irvin, J., Zhou, S., McNicol, G., Lu, F., Liu, V., Fluet-Chouinard, E., ...., Koebsch, F., …, Jackson, R.B. (2021). Gap-filling eddy covariance methane fluxes: Comparison of machine learning model predictions and uncertainties at FLUXNET-CH4 wetlands. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 308.
• Beyer, F., Jansen, F., Jurasinski, G., Koch, M., Schröder, B., Koebsch, F. (2021). Drought years in peatland rewetting: rapid vegetation succession can maintain the net CO2 sink function. Biogeosciences, 18(3), 917-935.
• Huth, U., Koebsch, F., Kahle, P. (2020). Klimaschutzpotentiale in der kommunalen Siedlungsflächenpolitik am Beispiel der Stadt Rostock. Bodenschutz 25(4),152-158.
• Koebsch, F., Gottschalk, P., Beyer, F., Wille, C., Jurasinski, G., Sachs, T. (2020). The impact of occasional drought periods on vegetation spread and greenhouse gas exchange in rewetted fens. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375(1810), 20190685.
• Graf, A., Klosterhalfen, A., Arriga, N., Bernhofer, C., Bogena, H., Bornet, F., Brüggemann, N., Brümmer, C., Buchmann, N., Chi, J., Chipeaux, C., Cremonese, E., Cuntz, M., Dušek, J., El-Madany, TS., Fares, S., … Koebsch, F., …, Vereecken, H. (2020). Altered energy partitioning across terrestrial ecosystems in the European drought year 2018. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375(1810), 20190685.
• Zheng, F., Ciasis, P., Bastos, A., Stoy, P., Yang, H., Green, J., Wang, B., Yu, K., Huang, H., Knohl, A., Šigut, L., Gharun, M., Cuntz, M., Arriga, N., Roland, M., Peichl, M., Migliavacca, M., Cremonese, E., …., Koebsch, F., … (2020) Sensitivity of gross primary productivity to climatic drivers during the summer drought of 2018 in Europe. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375(1810), 20190685.
• 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(1), 1-5, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15499-z.
• Koebsch, F., Sonnentag, O., Järveoja, J., Peltoniemi, M., Alekseychik, P., Aurela, M., ... & Jackowicz‐Korczynski, M. (2020). Refining the role of phenology in regulating gross ecosystem productivity across European peatlands. Global Change Biology, 26(2), 876-887, DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14905.
• Jurasinski, G., Ahmad, S., Anadon-Rosell, A., Berendt, J., Beyer, F., Bill, R., ... & Koebsch, F. (2020). From understanding to sustainable use of peatlands: The WETSCAPES approach. Soil Systems, 4(1), 14, DOI: 10.3390/soilsystems4010014.
• Koebsch, F., Winkel, M., Liebner, S., Liu, B., Westphal, J., Schmiedinger, I., ... & Unger, V. (2019) Sulfate deprivation triggers high methane production in a disturbed and rewetted coastal peatland. Biogeosciences, 16(9), 1937-1953, DOI: 0.5194/bg-16-1937-2019.
• Wen, X., Unger, V., Jurasinski, G., Koebsch, F., Horn, F., Rehder, G., ... & Böttcher, M. E. (2018) Predominance of methanogens over methanotrophs in rewetted fens characterized by high methane emissions. Biogeosciences, 15(21), 6519-6536, DOI:10.5194/bg-15-6519-2018. (selected as journal highlight article)
• Heinrich, I., Balanzategui, D., Bens, O., Blasch, G., Blume, T., Böttcher, F., Borg, E., Brademann, B., Brauer, A., Conrad, C., Dietze, E., Dräger, N., Fiener, P., Gerke, H., Güntner, A., Heine, I., Helle, G.,.Herbrich, M., Harfenmeister, K., Heußner, K.-U., Hohmann, C., Itzerott, S., Jurasinski, G., Kaiser, K., Kappler, C., Koebsch, F., ... & Dietze, E. (2018) Interdisciplinary Geo-ecological Research across Time Scales in the Northeast German Lowland Observatory (TERENO-NE). Vadose Zone Journal, 17(1).
• Koch, M., Koebsch, F., Hahn, J., & Jurasinski, G. (2017) From meadow to shallow lake: Monitoring secondary succession in a coastal fen after rewetting by flooding based on aerial imagery and plot data. Mires & Peat, 19, DOI: 10.19189/MaP.2015.OMB.188.
• Franz, D., Koebsch, F., Larmanou, E., Augustin, J., Sachs. T. (2016) High net CO2 and CH4 release at a polytrophic shallow lake on a formerly drained fen, Biogeosciences 13:3051–3070.
• Koebsch, F., Jurasinski, G., Koch, S., Hofmann, J., Glatzel, S. (2015) Controls for multi-scale temporal variation in ecosystem methane exchange during the growing season of a permanently inundated fen. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology: 204, 94-105, DOI:10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.02.002.
• Sachs, T., Koebsch, F., Franz, D., Larmanou, E., Serafimovich, A., Kohnert, K. Jurasinski, G., Augustin, J. (2015)  Mehr Moor? - Zur Treibhausgasdynamik wiedervernässter Feuchtgebiete. System Erde: 5, 22-27, DOI: 10.2312/GFZ.syserde.05.01.4.
• Koch, S., Jurasinski, G., Koebsch, F., Koch, M., Glatzel, S. (2014) Spatial variability of annual estimates of methane emissions in a Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin. ex Steud. dominated restored coastal brackish fen. Wetlands: 34, 593-602, DOI: 10.1007/s13157-014-0528-z.
• Koebsch, F., Jurasinski, G., Glatzel S. (2013) Plant species-specific effect of brackish water intrusion on methane emissions of a coastal fen. Wetlands Ecology and Management: 21, 323-337, DOI: 10.1007/s11273-013-9304-8.
• Koebsch, F., Glatzel, S., Hofmann, J., Forbrich I., Jurasinski G. (2013) CO2 exchange of a temperate fen during the conversion from moderately rewetting to flooding. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences: 118, 1-10, DOI:10.1002/jgrg.20069.
• Glatzel, S., Koebsch, F., Beetz, S., Hahn J., Richter, P., Jurasinski, G. (2011) Maßnahmen zur Minderung der Treibhausgasfreisetzung aus Mooren im mittleren Mecklenburg. Telma. Beiheft zu den Berichten der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Moor- und Torfkunde 4: 85-106.