Publications

My research interests include: carbon cycling, greenhouse gas dynamics, microbial ecology, biogeochemisty, peat, permafrost and all things that live in and around our world's wetlands

Insights Into the Persistence and Vulnerability of Tropical Peat Carbon Stocks From a Long-Term Field Decomposition Experiment

C. R. Perryman, M. R. Baysinger, A. R. Cobb, L. Gandois, J. P. Chanton, T. Evans, A. Chua, J. Eri, H. Bohari bin Haji Idi, J. M. Incham, J. P. Pu, A. Teo, R. A. Zulkiflee, C. F. Harvey, A. M. Hoyt

Saline Permafrost and Cryopegs as Potentially Important Sources of CO2—Assessing Organic Carbon Mineralization Potentials on the Alaskan Coastal Plain

F. Seemann, M. R. Baysinger, S. Liebner, C. Treat, M. Zech, M. Jenrich, G. Grosse, B. M. Jones, J. Strauss

Global Change Biology, vol. 32(7), 2026, pp. e70997

Metagenomic Analysis of Thawing Permafrost Highlights Links Between Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling Processes in Abrupt Thaw Simulation

M. Laurent, M. R. Baysinger, A. Bartholomäus, T. Windirsch, J. Strauss, T. Sanders, S. Liebner, C. Treat

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeoscience, vol. 131(3), 2026, pp. e2025JG009630

Enhanced CO₂ emissions driven by flooding in a simulation of palsa degradation

M. Laurent, M. R. Baysinger, J. Schaller, M. Lück, M. Hoffmann, T. Windirsch, R. H. Ellerbrock, J. Strauss, C. C. Treat

Biogeosciences, vol. 22, 2025, pp. 7881--7899

Abrupt Thaw in a Finnish palsa: Potential CH4 production driven by vegetation adaptation in the transition from permafrost to post-thaw soils

M. R. Baysinger, M Laurent, M Verdonen, J Reif, T Kumpula, Susanne Liebner, CC Treat

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, vol. 130, Wiley Online Library, 2025, pp. e2025JG008847

Warmer Sphagnum moss, less soil carbon loss: Anaerobic respiration and temperature response along a boreal forest-peatland ecotone

M. R. Baysinger, Susanne Liebner, Jens Strauss, Sizhong Yang, Katharina Jentzsch, Alexander Bartholomäus, Claire C Treat

Boreal Environment Research, 2025, pp. 1--20

Compositional stability of peat in ecosystem-scale warming mesocosms

M. R. Baysinger, Rachel M Wilson, Paul J Hanson, Joel E Kostka, Jeffrey P Chanton

Plos one, vol. 17, Public Library of Science San Francisco, CA USA, 2022, pp. e0263994