selected publications academic article Galka, M., Loisel, J., Knorr, K., Diaconu, A., Obremska, M., Teickner, H., & Feurdean, A. (2023). How degraded are the peatland and forest ecosystems in the Bieszczady Mountains (Central Europe)? An assessment using long-term records. Land Degradation and Development. 34(4), 1246-1262. Loisel, J., & Walenta, J. (2022). Carbon parks could secure essential ecosystems for climate stabilization. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 6(5), 486-488. Loisel, J., & Gallego-Sala, A. (2022). Ecological resilience of restored peatlands to climate change. Communications Earth & Environment. 3(1), 208. Galka, M., Diaconu, A., Feurdean, A., Loisel, J., Teickner, H., Broder, T., & Knorr, K. (2022). Relations of fire, palaeohydrology, vegetation succession, and carbon accumulation, as reconstructed from a mountain bog in the Harz Mountains (Germany) during the last 6200 years. Geoderma. 424, 115991-115991. Yu, Z., Joos, F., Bauska, T. K., Stocker, B. D., Fischer, H., Loisel, J., ... Schmitt, J. (2021). No support for carbon storage of > 1,000 GtC in northern peatlands. Nature Geoscience. 14(7), 465-+. Loisel, J., Gallego-Sala, A. V., Amesbury, M. J., Magnan, G., Anshari, G., Beilman, D. W., ... Wu, J. (2021). Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink (vol 11, pg 70, 2021). Nature Climate Change. 11(4), 362-362. Loisel, J., Gallego-Sala, A. V., Amesbury, M. J., Magnan, G., Anshari, G., Beilman, D. W., ... Wu, J. (2021). Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink. Nature Climate Change. 11(1), 70-+. Bunsen, M. S., & Loisel, J. (2020). Carbon storage dynamics in peatlands: Comparing recent- and long-term accumulation histories in southern Patagonia. Global Change Biology. 26(10), 5778-5795. Hugelius, G., Loisel, J., Chadburn, S., Jackson, R. B., Jones, M., MacDonald, G., ... Yu, Z. (2020). Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 117(34), 20438-20446. Loisel, J., Casellas Connors, J. P., Hugelius, G., Harden, J. W., & Morgan, C. L. (2019). Soils can help mitigate CO2 emissions, despite the challenges. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 116(21), 10211-10212. Treat, C. C., Kleinen, T., Broothaerts, N., Dalton, A. S., Dommain, R., Douglas, T. A., ... Brovkin, V. (2019). Widespread global peatland establishment and persistence over the last 130,000 y. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA. 116(11), 4822-4827. Galka, M., Szal, M., Broder, T., Loisel, J., & Knorr, K. (2019). Peatbog resilience to pollution and climate change over the past 2700 years in the Harz Mountains, Germany. ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS. 97, 183-193. Amesbury, M. J., Gallego-Sala, A., & Loisel, J. (2019). TERRESTRIAL BIOGEOCHEMISTRY Peatlands as prolific carbon sinks. Nature Geoscience. 12(11), 880-881. Xia, Z., Yu, Z., & Loisel, J. (2018). Centennial-scale dynamics of the Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds across the Drake Passage over the past two millennia. Geology (Boulder). 46(10), 855-858. Stelling, J. M., Yu, Z., Loisel, J., & Beilman, D. W. (2018). Peatbank response to late Holocene temperature and hydroclimate change in the western Antarctic Peninsula. 188, 77-89. Harden, J. W., Hugelius, G., Ahlstrm, A., Blankinship, J. C., Bond-Lamberty, B., Lawrence, C. R., ... Nave, L. E. (2018). Networking our science to characterize the state, vulnerabilities, and management opportunities of soil organic matter. Global Change Biology. 24(2), e705-e718. Gallego-Sala, A. V., Charman, D. J., Brewer, S., Page, S. E., Prentice, I. C., Friedlingstein, P., ... Zhao, Y. (2018). Latitudinal limits to the predicted increase of the peatland carbon sink with warming. Nature Climate Change. 8(10), 907-+. Amesbury, M. J., Booth, R. K., Roland, T. P., Bunbury, J., Clifford, M. J., Charman, D. J., ... Warner, B. G. (2018). Towards a Holarctic synthesis of peatland testate amoeba ecology: Development of a new continental-scale palaeohydrological transfer function for North America and comparison to European data. Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal. 201, 483-500. Loisel, J., van Bellen, S., Pelletier, L., Talbot, J., Hugelius, G., Karran, D., ... Holmquist, J. (2017). Insights and issues with estimating northern peatland carbon stocks and fluxes since the Last Glacial Maximum. EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS. 165, 59-80. Loisel, J., MacDonald, G. M., & Thomson, M. J. (2017). Little Ice Age climatic erraticism as an analogue for future enhanced hydroclimatic variability across the American Southwest. PLoS One. 12(10), e0186282-e0186282. Loisel, J., Yu, Z., Beilman, D. W., Kaiser, K., & Parnikoza, I. (2017). Peatland Ecosystem Processes in the Maritime Antarctic During Warm Climates. Scientific Reports. 7(1), 12344. Yu, Z., Beilman, D. W., & Loisel, J. (2016). Transformations of landscape and peat-forming ecosystems in response to late Holocene climate change in the western Antarctic Peninsula. Geophysical Research Letters. 43(13), 7186-7195. Treat, C. C., Jones, M. C., Camill, P., Gallego-Sala, A., Garneau, M., Harden, J. W., ... Valiranta, M. (2016). Effects of permafrost aggradation on peat properties as determined from a pan-Arctic synthesis of plant macrofossils. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 121(1), 78-94. Loisel, J., & Yu, Z. (2013). Surface vegetation patterning controls carbon accumulation in peatlands. Geophysical Research Letters. 40(20), 5508-5513. Loisel, J., Yu, Z., Parsekian, A., Nolan, J., & Slater, L. (2013). Quantifying landscape morphology influence on peatland lateral expansion using groundpenetrating radar (GPR) and peat core analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 118(2), 373-384. Yu, Z., Loisel, J., Turetsky, M. R., Cai, S., Zhao, Y., Frolking, S., MacDonald, G. M., & Bubier, J. L. (2013). Evidence for elevated emissions from high-latitude wetlands contributing to high atmospheric CH4 concentration in the early Holocene. Global Biogeochemical Cycles: an international journal of global change. 27(1), 131-140. Loisel, J., & Yu, Z. (2013). Recent acceleration of carbon accumulation in a boreal peatland, south central Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 118(1), 41-53. Charman, D. J., Beilman, D. W., Blaauw, M., Booth, R. K., Brewer, S., Chambers, F. M., ... Zhao, Y. (2013). Climate-related changes in peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium. Biogeosciences. 10(2), 929-944. Loisel, J., Gallego-Sala, A. V., & Yu, Z. (2012). Global-scale pattern of peatland Sphagnum growth driven by photosynthetically active radiation and growing season length. Biogeosciences. 9(7), 2737-2746. Yu, Z., Loisel, J., Brosseau, D. P., Beilman, D. W., & Hunt, S. J. (2010). Global peatland dynamics since the Last Glacial Maximum. Geophysical Research Letters. 37(13), n/a-n/a. Loisel, J., Garneau, M., & Helie, J. (2010). Sphagnum delta C-13 values as indicators of palaeohydrological changes in a peat bog. The Holocene: a major interdisciplinary journal focusing on recent environmental change. 20(2), 285-291. Loisel, J., & Garneau, M. (2010). Late Holocene paleoecohydrology and carbon accumulation estimates from two boreal peat bogs in eastern Canada: Potential and limits of multi-proxy archives. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 291(3-4), 493-533. Loisel, J., Garneau, M., & Helie, J. (2009). Modern Sphagnum delta C-13 signatures follow a surface moisture gradient in two boreal peat bogs, James Bay lowlands, Quebec. Journal of Quaternary Science. 24(3), 209-214. Ali, A. A., Ghaleb, B., Garneau, M., Asnong, H., & Loisel, J. (2008). Recent peat accumulation rates in minerotrophic peatlands of the Bay James region, Eastern Canada, inferred by 210Pb and 137Cs radiometric techniques. APPLIED RADIATION AND ISOTOPES. 66(10), 1350-1358. chapter Loisel, J. (2015). Las turberas como sumideros de carbono. Dominguez, E., & Vega-Valdes, D. (Eds.), Funciones y servicios ecosistmicos de las turberas en Magallanes. (pp. 297-315). INIA. conference paper Loisel, J., Malhotra, A., & Phillips, C. (2017). A New Platform for Managing Soil Carbon and Soil Health. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 11. webpage Loisel, J. (2021). Pemanasan global dan pembangunan bisa menghentikan peran lahan gambut menjaga karbon keluar dari atmosfer Loisel, J. Peatlands keep a lot of carbon out of Earths atmosphere, but that could end with warming and development
principal investigator on Collaborative Research: RUI: MSB-FRA: Peat Expansion in Arctic Tundra – Pattern, Process, and the Implication for the Carbon Cycle in a Changing Climate (TundraPEAT) awarded by National Science Foundation - (Arlington, Virginia, United States) 2018 - 2023
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education and training Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University - (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States) 2012 M.Sc. in Physical Geography, University of Quebec at Montreal - (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) 2008 B.Sc. in Physical Geography, University of Quebec at Montreal - (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) 2006
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