Lorenz Walthert

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Lorenz Walthert is a scholar working on Soil Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Lorenz Walthert has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Soil Science, 25 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 24 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Lorenz Walthert's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (24 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (18 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (17 papers). Lorenz Walthert is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (24 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (18 papers) and Tree-ring climate responses (17 papers). Lorenz Walthert collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Netherlands. Lorenz Walthert's co-authors include Stephan Zimmermann, Frank Hagedorn, Elisabeth Graf Pannatier, Eliane S. Meier, Pascale Weber, Patrick Schleppi, Anne Thimonier, Peter Waldner, Ivano Brunner and Andri Baltensweiler and has published in prestigious journals such as Ecology, The Science of The Total Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Lorenz Walthert

71 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Fine‐Scale Variation in Soil Properties Promotes Local Taxonomic Diversity of Hybridizing Oak Species ( Quercus spp.) 2025 ·Evolutionary Applications ·F. J. P. Zimmermann, (unknown), Andri Baltensweiler, Lorenz Walthert, Jill K. Olofsson, Christian Rellstab	1
2	Drivers of soil organic carbon from temperate to alpine forests: a model-based analysis of the Swiss forest soil inventory with Yasso20 2025 ·Biogeosciences ·Claudia Guidi, (unknown), Markus Didion, (unknown), Lorenz Walthert, Stephan Zimmermann, (unknown), Pascal A. Niklaus, Esther Thürig, Toni Viskari, Jari Liski, Frank Hagedorn	0
3	Towards near real-time drought stress assessment in Europe’s temperate forests – comparing remote sensing time series with continuous in-situ tree-level measurements 2025 ·Ecological Indicators ·Colin K. Bloom, (unknown), Katrin Meusburger, Roman Zweifel, Lorenz Walthert, Sophia Etzold, Daniel Scherrer, Micah Wilhelm, Ansgar Kahmen, Andri Baltensweiler	1
4	Relative importance of water stress and host vitality in structuring root fungal communities in beech forests 2025 ·Plant and Soil ·(unknown), Benjamin Dauphin, Lorenz Walthert, René Graf, (unknown), (unknown), Andri Baltensweiler, Annegret Kohler, Martina Peter	0
5	Sind die Waldböden in der Schweiz nach dem Winterhalbjahr vollständig befeuchtet? 2025 ·Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen ·Lorenz Walthert, Katrin Meusburger	1
6	Towards monitoring stem growth phenology from space with high resolution satellite data 2023 ·Agricultural and Forest Meteorology ·Jan U.H. Eitel, David Basler, Sabine Braun, Nina Buchmann, Petra D’Odorico, Sophia Etzold, Arthur Geßler, Kevin L. Griffin, Jan Krejza, Yunpeng Luo, Andrew J. Maguire, Mukund Palat Rao, Yann Vitasse, Lorenz Walthert, Roman Zweifel	8
7	Soil–plant interactions modulated water availability of Swiss forests during the 2015 and 2018 droughts 2022 ·Global Change Biology ·Katrin Meusburger, Volodymyr Trotsiuk, Paul Schmidt‐Walter, Andri Baltensweiler, Philipp Brun, (unknown), Mana Gharun, (unknown), Frank Hagedorn, (unknown), Achilleas Psomas, Heike Puhlmann, Anne Thimonier, Peter Waldner, Stephan Zimmermann, Lorenz Walthert	28
8	Shotgun Metagenomics of Deep Forest Soil Layers Show Evidence of Altered Microbial Genetic Potential for Biogeochemical Cycling 2022 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·Beat Frey, Gilda Varliero, Weihong Qi, Beat Stierli, Lorenz Walthert, Ivano Brunner	24
9	Elevation dependent response of soil organic carbon stocks to forest windthrow 2022 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Mathias Mayer, (unknown), Markus Didion, Andri Baltensweiler, Lorenz Walthert, (unknown), Andreas Rigling, Stephan Zimmermann, Frank Hagedorn	16
10	Machine learning based soil maps for a wide range of soil properties for the forested area of Switzerland 2021 ·Geoderma Regional ·Andri Baltensweiler, Lorenz Walthert, Marc Hanewinkel, Stephan Zimmermann, Madlene Nussbaum	46
11	Deep Soil Layers of Drought-Exposed Forests Harbor Poorly Known Bacterial and Fungal Communities 2021 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·Beat Frey, Lorenz Walthert, Carla Perez-Mon, Beat Stierli, (unknown), (unknown), Ivano Brunner	61
12	Is the content and potential preservation of soil organic carbon reflected by cation exchange capacity? A case study in Swiss forest soils 2019 ·Emily F. Solly, (unknown), Stephan Zimmermann, Lorenz Walthert, Frank Hagedorn, Michael W. Schmidt	10
13	Soil property maps for Swiss forests by machine learning based model averaging 2019 ·EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Madlene Nussbaum, Andri Baltensweiler, Lorenz Walthert	1
14	Dynamics of deep soil carbon – insights from ¹⁴ C time series across a climatic gradient 2019 ·Biogeosciences ·Tessa Sophia van der Voort, (unknown), Frank Hagedorn, Cameron McIntyre, Lorenz Walthert, Patrick Schleppi, Negar Haghipour, Timothy I. Eglinton	29
15	Distinct genecological patterns in seedlings ofNorway spruce and silver fir from a mountainous landscape 2017 ·Ecology ·(unknown), Christoph Sperisen, Glenn T. Howe, Peter Brang, Lorenz Walthert, John Bradley St. Clair, Caroline Heiri	27
16	Mapping of soil properties at high resolution in Switzerland using boosted geoadditive models 2017 ·SOIL ·Madlene Nussbaum, Lorenz Walthert, (unknown), Lucie Greiner, Andreas Papritz	20
17	Variability in ¹⁴ C contents of soil organic matter at the plot and regional scale across climatic and geologic gradients 2016 ·Biogeosciences ·Tessa Sophia van der Voort, Frank Hagedorn, Cameron McIntyre, Claudia Zell, Lorenz Walthert, Patrick Schleppi, Xiaojuan Feng, Timothy I. Eglinton	24
18	A decade of monitoring at Swiss Long-Term Forest Ecosystem Research (LWF) sites: can we observe trends in atmospheric acid deposition and in soil solution acidity? 2010 ·Environmental Monitoring and Assessment ·Elisabeth Graf Pannatier, Anne Thimonier, Maria Schmitt, Lorenz Walthert, Peter Waldner	54
19	Atmospheric Deposition and Ozone Levels in Swiss Forests: Are Critical Values Exceeded? 2007 ·Environmental Monitoring and Assessment ·Peter Waldner, Marcus Schaub, Elisabeth Graf Pannatier, Maria Schmitt, Anne Thimonier, Lorenz Walthert	20
20	Waldböden der Schweiz. Band 1. Grundlagen und Region Jura 2004 ·DORA WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research) ·Lorenz Walthert, Stephan Zimmermann, Peter Blaser, Jörg Luster, Peter Lüscher	1

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