LiWeFor: Living labs for Wetland Forest research

Project Information

LiWeFoR

Grant agreement ID: 101079192

DOI

10.3030/101079192

EC signature date 26 July 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• Widening participation and spreading excellence

Total cost

€ 1 499 406,00

EU contribution

€ 1 499 406,00

Coordinated by

TARTU ULIKOOL
Estonia

CORDIS provides links to public deliverables and publications of HORIZON projects.

Links to deliverables and publications from FP7 projects, as well as links to some specific result types such as dataset and software, are dynamically retrieved from OpenAIRE .

Deliverables

Documents, reports (7)

First iteration of Open data repository
Management, communication, reporting guidelines
First LiWeFor’s virtual framework of LLs
First report on training activities at KIT and UH

Report on training activities at KIT and UH

Report on training and installation in Sarawak
First Data Management Plan
Report on training and installation in Iquitos

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project website and media channels

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (19)

Importance of N2O in greenhouse gas budgets of tropical peatlands

Author(s): Jaan Pärn, Mikk Espenberg, Kaido Soosaar, Kuno Kasak, Sandeep Thayamkottu, Thomas Schindler, Reti Ranniku, Kristina Sohar, Lizardo Fachín Malaverri, Lulie Melling, Ülo Mander
Published in: Frontiers in Environmental Science, Issue 13, 2025, ISSN 2296-665X
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/FENVS.2025.1585537

Unraveling microbial processes involved in carbon and nitrogen cycling and greenhouse gas emissions in rewetted peatlands by molecular biology

Author(s): Emilie Gios, Erik Verbruggen, Joachim Audet, Rachel Burns, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, Mikk Espenberg, Christian Fritz, Stephan Glatzel, Gerald Jurasinski, Tuula Larmola, Ülo Mander, Claudia Nielsen, Andres F. Rodriguez, Clemens Scheer, Dominik Zak, Hanna M. Silvennoinen
Published in: Biogeochemistry, Issue 167, 2024, ISSN 1573-515X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S10533-024-01122-6

Greening of a boreal rich fen driven by CO2 fertilisation

Author(s): Sandeep Thayamkottu, T. Luke Smallman, Jaan Pärn, Ülo Mander, Eugénie S Euskirchen, Evan S Kane
Published in: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Issue 359, 2024, ISSN 0168-1923
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.AGRFORMET.2024.110261

Effects of Water Table Fluctuation on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Wetland Soils in the Peruvian Amazon

Author(s): Jaan Pärn, Kaido Soosaar, Thomas Schindler, Katerina Machacova, Waldemar Alegría Muñoz, Lizardo Fachín, José Luis Jibaja Aspajo, Robinson I. Negron-Juarez, Martin Maddison, Jhon Rengifo, Danika Journeth Garay Dinis, Adriana Gabriela Arista Oversluijs, Manuel Calixto Ávila Fucos, Rafael Chávez Vásquez, Ronald Huaje Wampuch, Edgar Peas García, Kristina Sohar, Segundo Cordova Horna, Tedi Pacheco Gómez, Jose David Urquiza Muñoz, Rodil Tello Espinoza, Ülo Mander
Published in: Wetlands, Issue 43, 2023, ISSN 0277-5212
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S13157-023-01709-Z

Towards an integrated view on microbial CH4, N2O and N2 cycles in brackish coastal marsh soils: A comparative analysis of two sites

Author(s): Mikk Espenberg, Kristin Pille, Bin Yang, Martin Maddison, Mohamed Abdalla, Pete Smith, Xiuzhen Li, Ping-Lung Chan, Ülo Mander
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, Issue 918, 2024, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.SCITOTENV.2024.170641

Peatland restoration pathways to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and retain peat carbon

Author(s): Ülo Mander, Mikk Espenberg, Lulie Melling, Ain Kull
Published in: Biogeochemistry, Issue 167, 2024, ISSN 1573-515X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S10533-023-01103-1

Dual controls of vapour pressure deficit and soil moisture on photosynthesis in a restored temperate bog

Author(s): Sandeep Thayamkottu, Mohit Masta, June Skeeter, Jaan Pärn, Sara H. Knox, T. Luke Smallman, Ülo Mander
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, Issue 963, 2025, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.SCITOTENV.2024.178366

Soil moisture and microbiome explain greenhouse gas exchange in global peatlands

Author(s): Jaan Pärn, Sandeep Thayamkottu, Maarja Öpik, Mohammad Bahram, Leho Tedersoo, Mikk Espenberg, John Alexander Davison, Kuno Kasak, Martin Maddison, Ülo Niinemets, Ivika Ostonen, Kaido Soosaar, Kristina Sohar, Martin Zobel, Ülo Mander
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-025-92891-Z

Reviews and syntheses: Greenhouse gas emissions from drained organic forest soils – synthesizing data for site-specific emission factors for boreal and cool temperate regions

Author(s): Jyrki Jauhiainen, Juha Heikkinen, Nicholas Clarke, Hongxing He, Lise Dalsgaard, Kari Minkkinen, Paavo Ojanen, Lars Vesterdal, Jukka Alm, Aldis Butlers, Ingeborg Callesen, Sabine Jordan, Annalea Lohila, Ülo Mander, Hlynur Óskarsson, Bjarni D. Sigurdsson, Gunnhild Søgaard, Kaido Soosaar, Åsa Kasimir, Brynhildur Bjarnadottir, Andis Lazdins, Raija Laiho
Published in: Biogeosciences, Issue 20, 2023, ISSN 1726-4189
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/BG-20-4819-2023

Nitrogen cycling genes abundance in soil and aboveground compartments of tropical peatland cloud forests and a wetland on Réunion Island

Author(s): Fahad Ali Kazmi, Ülo Mander, Reti Ranniku, Maarja Öpik, Kersti Püssa, Kaido Soosaar, Kuno Kasak, Mohit Masta, Claudine Ah-Peng, Mikk Espenberg
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-025-12367-Y

Human‐Impacted Natural Ecosystems Drive Climate Warming

Author(s): Ülo Mander, Jaan Pärn, Mikk Espenberg, Josep Peñuelas
Published in: Global Change Biology, Issue 31, 2025, ISSN 1354-1013
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/GCB.70449

Interactions of fertilisation and crop productivity in soil nitrogen cycle microbiome and gas emissions

Author(s): Laura Kuusemets, Ülo Mander, Jordi Escuer-Gatius, Alar Astover, Karin Kauer, Kaido Soosaar, Mikk Espenberg
Published in: SOIL, Issue 11, 2025, ISSN 2199-398X
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/SOIL-11-1-2025

Global peatland greenhouse gas dynamics: state of the art, processes, and perspectives

Author(s): Ülo Mander, Maarja Öpik, Mikk Espenberg
Published in: New Phytologist, Issue 246, 2025, ISSN 0028-646X
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/NPH.20436

Dry and wet periods determine stem and soil greenhouse gas fluxes in a northern drained peatland forest

Author(s): Reti Ranniku, Ülo Mander, Jordi Escuer-Gatius, Thomas Schindler, Priit Kupper, Arne Sellin, Kaido Soosaar
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, Issue 928, 2024, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.SCITOTENV.2024.172452

Impact of land conversion on environmental conditions and methane emissions from a tropical peatland

Author(s): Guan Xhuan Wong, Ryuichi Hirata, Takashi Hirano, Frankie Kiew, Joseph Wenceslaus Waili, Ülo Mander, Kaido Soosaar, Lulie Melling
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, Issue 962, 2025, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.SCITOTENV.2025.178466

Springtime soil and tree stem greenhouse gas fluxes and the related soil microbiome pattern in a drained peatland forest

Author(s): Reti Ranniku, Fahad Ali Kazmi, Mikk Espenberg, Joosep Truupõld, Jordi Escuer-Gatius, Ülo Mander, Kaido Soosaar
Published in: Biogeochemistry, Issue 168, 2025, ISSN 1573-515X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S10533-025-01238-3

Temporal dynamics of soil microbial C and N cycles with GHG fluxes in the transition from tropical peatland forest to oil palm plantation

Author(s): Frazer Midot, Kian Mau Goh, Kok Jun Liew, Sharon Yu Ling Lau, Mikk Espenberg, Ülo Mander, Lulie Melling
Published in: Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Issue 91, 2025, ISSN 0099-2240
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01986-24

Distinct microbial communities drive methane cycling in below- and above-ground compartments of tropical cloud forests growing on peat

Author(s): Fahad Ali Kazmi, Ülo Mander, Ramita Khanongnuch, Maarja Öpik, Reti Ranniku, Kaido Soosaar, Mohit Masta, Salla A. M. Tenhovirta, Kuno Kasak, Claudine Ah-Peng, Mikk Espenberg
Published in: Environmental Microbiome, Issue 20, 2025, ISSN 2524-6372
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/S40793-025-00718-1

Meltwater of freeze-thaw cycles drives N2O-governing microbial communities in a drained peatland forest soil

Author(s): Fahad Ali Kazmi, Mikk Espenberg, Jaan Pärn, Mohit Masta, Reti Ranniku, Sandeep Thayamkottu, Ülo Mander
Published in: Biology and Fertility of Soils, Issue 61, 2025, ISSN 0178-2762
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S00374-023-01790-W

Other (3)

Interactions of fertilisation and crop productivity on soil nitrogen cycle microbiome and gas emissions

Author(s): Laura Kuusemets; Ülo Mander; Jordi Escuer-Gatius; Alar Astover; Karin Kauer; Kaido Soosaar; Mikk Espenberg
Published in: eISSN:, 2024
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2024-593

Peatland restoration pathways to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and retain peat carbon

Author(s): Ülo Mander; Mikk Espenberg; Lulie Melling; Ain Kull
Published in: Crossref, 2023
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-023-01103-1

Nitrous oxide as second most important greenhouse gas in tropical peatlands

Author(s): Jaan Pärn; Mikk Espenberg; Kaido Soosaar; Kuno Kasak; Sandeep Thayamkottu; Thomas Schindler; Reti Ranniku; Kristina Sohar; Lizardo Fachín Malaverri; Lulie Melling; Ülo Mander
Published in: eISSN:, 2024
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2024-24