Publications of Carlos Sierra

Winkler, A.; Sierra, C.: Towards a new generation of impulse‐response functions for integrated earth system understanding and climate change attribution. Geophysical Research Letters 52 (8), e2024GL112295 (2025)

Ruiz-Erazo, C. E.; Riascos-Acosta, R. I.; Guerrero-Martínez, E. S.; Marín-Vélez, A. M.; Sierra, C.; Ramírez-Correa, J. A.: Carbon sequestration potential in Retrophyllum rospigliosii (Pilg.) C. N. Page plantations for restoration purposes in the Colombian Andean region. Revista Chapingo Serie Ciencias Forestales y del Ambiente 91, e24009 (2025)

Chanca, I.; Levin, I.; Trumbore, S. E.; Macario, K.; Lavrič, J. V.; Quesada, C. A.; de Araújo, A. C.; Dias Júnior, C. Q.; van Asperen, H.; Hammer, S. et al.; Sierra, C.: How long does carbon stay in a near-pristine central Amazon forest? An empirical estimate with radiocarbon. Biogeosciences 22 (2), 472, p. 455 (2025)

Tangarife-Escobar, A.; Guggenberger, G.; Feng, X.; Munoz, E.; Chanca, I.; Peichl, M.; Smith, P.; Sierra, C.: Radiocarbon isotopic disequilibrium shows little incorporation of new carbon in mineral soils of a boreal forest ecosystem. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 129 (9), e2024JG008191 (2024)

Niu, S.; Chen, W.; Liáng, L. L.; Sierra, C.; Xia, J.; Wang, S.; Heskel, M.; Patel, K. F.; Bond-Lamberty, B.; Wang, J. et al.; Yvon-Durocher, G.; Kirschbaum, M. U. F.; Atkin, O. K.; Huang, Y.; Yu, G.; Luo, Y.: Temperature responses of ecosystem respiration. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 5, pp. 559 - 571 (2024)

von Fromm, S. F.; Hoyt, A. M.; Sierra, C.; Georgiou, K.; Doetterl, S.; Trumbore, S. E.: Controls and relationships of soil organic carbon abundance and persistence vary across pedo-climatic regions. Global Change Biology 30 (5), e17320 (2024)

Ramirez, J. A.; Craven, D.; Herrera-Ramirez, D.; Posada, J. M.; Reu, B.; Sierra, C. A.; Hoch, G.; Handa, I. T.; Messier, C.: Non-structural carbohydrate concentrations in tree organs vary across biomes and leaf habits, but are independent of the fast-slow plant economic spectrum. Frontiers in Plant Science 15, 1375958 (2024)

Muñoz, E.; Chanca, I.; González-Sosa, M.; Sarquis, A.; Tangarife-Escobar, A.; Sierra, C.: On the importance of time in carbon sequestration in soils and climate change mitigation. Global Change Biology 30 (3), e17229 (2024)

Tangarife-Escobar, A.; Guggenberger, G.; Feng, X.; Dai, G.; Urbina-Malo, C.; Azizi-Rad, M.; Sierra, C. A.: Moisture and temperature effects on the radiocarbon signature of respired carbon dioxide to assess stability of soil carbon in the Tibetan Plateau. Biogeosciences 21 (5), pp. 1277 - 1299 (2024)

Wang, G.; Wang, M.; Xiao, L.; Sierra, C.; Chang, J.; Shi, Z.; Luo, Z.: Fast transit of carbon inputs in global soil profiles regardless of entering depth. Earth's Future 12 (2), e2023EF003982 (2024)

Estupinan-Suarez, L. M.; Mahecha, M. D.; Brenning, A.; Kraemer, G.; Poveda, G.; Reichstein, M.; Sierra, C.: Spatial patterns of vegetation activity related to ENSO in Northern South America. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 129 (1), e2022JG007344 (2024)

Sierra, C.; Ahrens, B.; Bolinder, M. A.; Braakhekke, M. C.; von Fromm, S. F.; Kätterer, T.; Luo, Z.; Parvin, N.; Wang, G.: Carbon sequestration in the subsoil and the time required to stabilize carbon for climate change mitigation. Global Change Biology 30 (1), e17153 (2024)

Munoz, E.; Chanca, I.; Sierra, C.: Increased atmospheric CO₂ and the transit time of carbon in terrestrial ecosystems. Global Change Biology 29 (23), pp. 6441 - 6452 (2023)

Eglinton, T. I.; Graven, H. D.; Raymond, P. A.; Trumbore, S. E.; Aluwihare, L.; Bard, E.; Basu, S.; Friedlingstein, P.; Hammer, S.; Lester, J. et al.; Sanderman, J.; Schuur, E. A. G.; Sierra, C. A.; Synal, H.-A.; Turnbull, J. C.; Wacker, L.: Making the case for an International Decade of Radiocarbon. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London - Series A: Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 381 (2261), 20230081 (2023)

Herrera-Ramirez, D.; Hartmann, H.; Römermann, C.; Trumbore, S. E.; Muhr, J.; Maracahipes-Santos, L.; Brando, P.; Silvério, D.; Huang, J.; Kuhlmann, I. et al.; Sierra, C. A.: Anatomical distribution of starch in the stemwood influences carbon dynamics and suggests storage-growth trade-offs in some tropical trees. Journal of Ecology 111 (11), pp. 2532 - 2548 (2023)

Sierra, C. A.: Recurrence in Lissajous curves and the visual representation of tuning systems. Foundations of Science (2023)

Munoz, E.; Sierra, C. A.: Deterministic and stochastic components of atmospheric CO₂ inside forest canopies and consequences for predicting carbon and water exchange. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 341, 109624 (2023)

Stoner, S.; Trumbore, S. E.; González-Pérez, J. A.; Schrumpf, M.; Sierra, C. A.; Hoyt, A. M.; Chadwick, O.; Doetterl, S.: Relating mineral–organic matter stabilization mechanisms to carbon quality and age distributions using ramped thermal analysis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London - Series A: Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 381 (2261), 20230139 (2023)

Stoner, S.; Schrumpf, M.; Hoyt, A. M.; Sierra, C. A.; Doetterl, S.; Galy, V.; Trumbore, S. E.: How well does ramped thermal oxidation quantify the age distribution of soil carbon? Assessing thermal stability of physically and chemically fractionated soil organic matter. Biogeosciences 20 (15), pp. 3151 - 3163 (2023)

Spohn, M.; Braun, S.; Sierra, C. A.: Continuous decrease in soil organic matter despite increased plant productivity in an 80-years-old phosphorus-addition experiment. Communications Earth & Environment 4, 251 (2023)