Publications
2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2000 - 2008 | < 2000 | edited
Submitted/In discussion:
A Kleidon, Was leistet die Erde? Thermodynamische Grenzen des Erdsysttems und deren Bedeutung für eine nachhaltige Zukunft, Physik in unserer Zeit, submitted.
A Kleidon, E Zehe, H Lin, Thermodynamics of the Critical Zone and its relevance to hydropedology. in: H Lin (ed) Hydropedology: Integration of Soil Science and Hydrology, Elsevier, submitted.
Accepted/In press:
A. Kleidon (accepted) How does the earth system generate and maintain thermodynamic disequilibrium and what does it imply for the future of the planet?, accepted for publication in Phil Trans A. Preprint available on arXiv:1103.2014v1.
2011:
E. Simoncini, M.J. Russell, A. Kleidon , (2011) Modeling free energy availability from Hadean Hydrothermal Systems to the first metabolism Orig. Life and Evol. Biosph.
L Miller, F Gans, A Kleidon, (2011) Jet stream wind power as a renewable energy resource: little power, big impacts in Earth System Dynamics, 2, pp. 201-212.
A Kleidon, F Gans, L Miller, R Pavlick, (2011) Sonne, Wind und Wellen -- Natürliche Grenzen erneuerbarer Energien im Erdsystem, in: Beckmann, Hurtado (eds.), Kraftwerkstechnik, Band 3, TK Verlag, Neuruppin, pp. 463-470.
Porada, P., Kleidon, A., Schymanski, S. J., (2011) Entropy production of soil hydrological processes and its maximisation, Earth Syst. Dynam., 2, 179-190, doi:10.5194/esd-2-179-2011
B. Reu, S. Zaehle, R. Proulx, K. Bohn, A. Kleidon, R. Pavlick, S. Schmidtlein (2011) The role of plant functional trade-offs for biodiversity changes and biome shifts under scenarios of global climatic change, Biogeosciences., 8, 1255-1266.
Brunsell, N. A., Schymanski, S. J., Kleidon, A. (2011) Quantifying the thermodynamic entropy budget of the land surface: is this useful?, Earth Syst. Dynam., 2, 87-103, doi:10.5194/esd-2-87-2011
J.G. Dyke, F. Gans, A. Kleidon (2011) Towards understanding how surface life can affect interior geological processes: a non-equilibrium thermodynamics approach, Earth Syst. Dynam., 2, 139-160. doi:10.5194/esd-2-139-2011
K. Bohn, J. G. Dyke, R. Pavlick, B. Reineking, B. Reu, A. Kleidon (2011) The relative importance of seed competition, resource competition and perturbations on community structure, Biogeosciences, 8, 1107-1120. doi:10.5194/bg-8-1107-2011
S. Arens, A. Kleidon (2011) Eco-hydrological versus supply-limited weathering regimes and the potential for biotic enhancement of weathering at the global scale, Applied Geochemistry, 26, S274-S278. doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.03.079
L.M. Miller, F. Gans, A. Kleidon (2011) Estimating maximum global land surface wind power extractability and associated climatic consequences, Earth Syst. Dynam. 2. 1-12, doi:10.5194/esd-2-1-2011.
2010:
C Buendía, A Kleidon, and A Porporato, 2010. The role of tectonic uplift, climate, and vegetation in the long-term terrestrial phosphorous cycle, Biogeosciences, 7, 2025-2038.
DT Drewry, P Kumar, S Long, C Bernacchi, X-Z Liang, M Sivapalan, 2010. Ecohydrological responses of dense canopies to environmental variability. 1. Interplay between vertical structure and photosynthetic pathway. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 115, G04022, doi:10.1029/2010JG001340.
DT Drewry, P Kumar, S Long, C Bernacchi, X-Z Liang, M Sivapalan, 2010. Ecohydrological responses of dense canopies to environmental variability. 2. Role of acclimation under elevated CO2. Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 115, G04023, doi:10.1029/2010JG001341.
J Dyke, A Kleidon, 2010. The Maximum Entropy Production Principle: Its Theoretical Foundations and Applications to the Earth System, Entropy, 12(3), 613--630.
A Kleidon, 2010. Life as the major driver of planetary geochemical disequilibrium. Reply to comments on "Life, hierarchy, and the thermodynamic machinery of planet Earth", Physics of Life Reviews, 7, 473-476.
A Kleidon, 2010. Life, hierarchy, and the thermodynamic machinery of planet Earth, Physics of Life Reviews, 7, 424-460.
A Kleidon, 2010. Non-equilibrium thermodynamics, maximum entropy production and Earth-system evolution, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 368: 181-196.
A Kleidon, Y Malhi, and PM Cox, 2010. Maximum entropy production in environmental and ecological systems, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 365, 1297-1302.
A Kleidon, 2010. A basic introduction to the thermodynamics of the Earth system far from equilibrium and maximum entropy production, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 365, 1303-1315.
P Porada, 2010. Thesis: Entropy Budget of the Soil Hydrological Cycle. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. W Lucht, Humboldt University Berlin, Dr. A Kleidon, MPI Biogeochemistry Jena.
B. Reu, R. Proulx, K. Bohn, J. Dyke, A. Kleidon, R. Pavlick, S. Schmidtlein (2010) The role of climate and plant functional trade-offs in shaping global biome and biodiversity patterns. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 20: 570–581. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00621.x
B. Schaefli, C. J. Harman, M. Sivapalan, and S. J. Schymanski, 2010. Hydrologic predictions in a changing environment: behavioral modeling, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., 7, 7779-7808, 2010. doi:10.5194/hessd-7-7779-2010
E. Simoncini, A. Kleidon, E. Gallori, 2010. The Emergence of Life: Thermodynamics of Chemical Free Energy Generation in Off - Axis Hydrothermal Vent Systems and its Consequences for Compartmentalization and Life's Origins, J. of Cosmology, 10, 3325 - 3344.
SJ Schymanski, A Kleidon, M Stieglitz, and J Narula, 2010. Maximum entropy production allows a simple representation of heterogeneity in semiarid ecosystems, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 365, 1449-1455.
X Xu, A Kleidon, L Miller, S Wang, L Wang, and G Dong, 2010. Late Quaternary glaciation in the Tianshan and implications for palaeoclimatic change: a review, Boreas, 39(2): 215-232.
2009:
F Gans, AY Schumann, JW Kantelhardt, T Penzel, and I Fietze, 2009. Cross-modulated amplitudes and frequencies characterize interacting components in complex systems, Physical Review Letters, 102(9): 098701.
A Kleidon, 2009. Climatic constraints on maximum levels of human metabolic activity and their relation to human evolution and global change, Climatic Change, 95: 405-431. doi: 10.1007/s10584-008-9537-3.
A Kleidon, 2009. Nonequilibrium thermodynamics and maximum entropy production in the Earth system: Applications and implications, Naturwissenschaften, 96: 653-677. doi: 10.1007/s00114-009-0509-x.
A Kleidon, 2009. Maximum entropy production and general trends in biospheric evolution, Paleontological Journal, 43: 130-135.
A Kleidon, J Adams, R Pavlick, B Reu, 2009. Simulated geographic variations of plant species richness, evenness and abundance using climatic constraints on plant functional diversity, Environmental Research Letters, 4: 014007.
A Kleidon, S Schymanski, M Stieglitz, 2009. Thermodynamics, irreversibility and optimality in land surface hydrology. In: K Strelcová et al. (eds.), Bioclimatology and Natural Hazards, 107-118.
A Kleidon, P Wilderer, R Weiler, 2009. Earth system engineering: The art of dealing wisely with the planet Earth, IOP Conference Series: Earth Environment, 6: doi: 10.1088/1755-1307/6/45/452004.
RM Pulselli, E Simoncini, and E Tiezzi (2009). Self-organization in dissipative structures: A thermodynamic theory for the emergence of prebiotic cells and their epigenetic evolution, BioSystems 96: 237-241.
F Rossi, E Simoncini, N Marchettini, and E Tiezzi, 2009. Deuterium isotope effect on the induction period of the cerium catalyzed Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, Chemical Physics Letters, 470: 147-150.
S Schymanski, A Kleidon, and ML Roderick, 2009. Ecohydrological optimality. In: Malcolm G Anderson (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, UK, doi: 10.1002/0470848944.hsa319.
SJ Schymanski, M Sivapalan, ML Roderick, LB Hutley, and J Beringer, 2009. An optimality-based model of the dynamic feedbacks between natural vegetation and the water balance, Water Resources Research, Vol. 45, W01412, doi:10.1029/2008WR006841.
X Xu, J Yang, G Dong, L Wang, and L Miller, 2009. OSL dating of glacier extent during the Last Glacial and the Kanas Lake basin formation in Kanas River valley, Altai Mountains, China, Geomorphology, 112: 306-317.
2001 - 2008:
HM Lei, DW Yang, SJ Schymanski, M Sivapalan, 2008. Modeling the crop transpiration using an optimality-based approach. Science in China Series E: Technological Sciences, Vol. 51, Supp. II, pp. 60-75.
A Kleidon, SJ Schymanski, 2008. Thermodynamics and optimality of the water budget on land: A review. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 35, L20404, doi:10.1029/2008GL035393.
SJ Schymanski, 2008. Optimality as a concept to understand and model vegetation at different scales. Geography Compass, Vol. 2(5), pp. 1580-1598.
S Arens, A Kleidon, 2008. Global sensitivity of weathering rates to atmospheric CO2 under the assumption of saturated river discharge. Mineralogical Magazine, Vol. 72(1), pp. 301-304.
A Kleidon, 2008. Energy Balance. Encyclopedia of Ecology (ed. S. E. Joergensen), pp. 1276-1289.
A Kleidon, 2008. Entropy production by evapotranspiration and its geographic variation. Soil and Water Research, 3(S1), S89-S94.
SJ Schymanski, ML Roderick, M Sivapalan, LB Hutley and J Beringer, 2008. A canopy scale test of the optimal water-use hypothesis. Plant, Cell & Environment, 31 (1), 97–111.
SJ Schymanski, M Sivapalan, ML Roderick, J Beringer and LB Hutley, 2008. An optimality-based model of the coupled soil moisture and root dynamics. Hydrology and Earth System Science, 12, 913-932.
A Kleidon, 2007. Thermodynamics and environmental constraints make the biosphere predictable -- a response to Volk. Climatic Change, 85(3-4): 259-266.
SJ Schymanski, ML Roderick, M Sivapalan, LB Hutley and J Beringer, 2007. A test of the optimality approach to modelling canopy properties and CO2 uptake by natural vegetation. Plant, Cell & Environment, 30(12), 1586-1598.
A Kleidon, 2007. Optimized stomatal conductance and the climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L14709, doi:10.1029/2007GL030342. see editor's highlight here.
A Kleidon, K Fraedrich, C Low, 2007. Multiple steady-states in the terrestrial atmosphere-biosphere system: a result of a discrete vegetation classification? Biogeosciences, 4, 707-714.
A Kleidon, 2007. Journal Club column: A biogeochemist finds inspiration for life on the ocean floor, Nature, 445, p. 571.
A Kleidon, 2007. Quantifizierung optimaler Funktion der Landbiosphaere und deren Auswirkung auf das Erdsystem, MPG annual report (in German).
K Bohn, 2007. Diploma thesis: On the role of diversity and variability on optimal performing ecosystems (in german). Supervisors: Prof. Dr. S Schuster, University of Jena, Dr. A Kleidon, MPI Biogeochemistry Jena.
A Kleidon, 2006. The climate sensitivity to human appropriation of vegetation productivity and its thermodynamic characterization. Global and Planetary Change, 54(1-2), 109-127.
A Kleidon, 2006. Quantifying the biologically possible range of steady-state soil and surface climates with climate model simulations. Biologia (Bratislava), 61/Suppl. 19, S234-S239.
A Kleidon, K Fraedrich, E Kirk and F Lunkeit, 2006. Maximum entropy production and the strength of boundary layer exchange in an atmospheric general circulation model. Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L06706, doi: 10.1029/2005GL025373.
A Kleidon, 2005. Reply to comment by V. Arora on "Optimized stomatal conductance of vegetated land surfaces and its effects on simulated productivity and climate". Geophysical Research Letters, 32, L08709, doi:10.1029/2005GL022355.
A Kleidon, K Fraedrich, 2005. Biotic entropy production and global atmosphere-biosphere interactions. in: Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and the Production of Entropy: Life, Earth, and Beyond, A Kleidon, R Lorenz (eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 173-189.
T Ito, A Kleidon, 2005. Entropy production of atmospheric heat transport. in: Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and the Production of Entropy: Life, Earth, and Beyond, A Kleidon, R Lorenz (eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 93-106.
A Kleidon, R Lorenz, 2005. Entropy production by Earth system processes. in: Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and the Production of Entropy: Life, Earth, and Beyond, A Kleidon, R Lorenz (eds.), Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 1-20.
A Kleidon, 2004. Optimized stomatal conductance of vegetated land surfaces and its effects on simulated productivity and climate. Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L21203, doi:10.1029/2004GL020769.
A Kleidon, 2004. Beyond Gaia: Thermodynamics of life and Earth system functioning. Climatic Change, 66(3), 271-319.
A Kleidon, 2004. Global datasets of rooting zone depth inferred from inverse methods. Journal of Climate, 17(13), 2714-2722.
A Kleidon, 2004. Amazonian biogeography as a test for Gaia. in: Scientists Debate Gaia: The Next Century, S H Schneider, J R Miller, E Crist, P J Boston (eds.), MIT Press, Cambridge, pp. 291-296.
A Kleidon, K Fraedrich, T Kunz, F Lunkeit, 2003. The atmospheric circulation and states of maximum entropy production. Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (23), 2223, doi:10.1029/2003GL018363.
A Kleidon, 2002. Testing the effect of life on Earth's functioning: How Gaian is the Earth system? Climatic Change, 52, 383-389.
E F Lambin, P S Chasek, T E Downing, C Kerven, A Kleidon, R Leemans, M Luedeke, S D Prince, Y Xue, 2002. The interplay between international and local processes affecting desertification. In: Global Desertification: Do Humans Cause Deserts? J F Reynolds, D M Stafford Smith (eds.), Dahlem Workshop Report 88, Dahlem University Press, Berlin, pp. 387-401.
R Leemans, A Kleidon, 2002. Regional and global assessment of the dimensions of desertification. In: Global Desertification: Do Humans Cause Deserts? J F Reynolds, D M Stafford Smith (eds.), Dahlem Workshop Report, Dahlem University Press, Berlin, pp. 215-231.
R A Feddes, H Hoff, M Bruen, T Dawson, P de Rosnay, P Dirmeyer, R B Jackson, P Kabat, A Kleidon, A Lilly, A J Pitman, 2001. Modelling root water uptake in hydrological and climate models. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 82(12), 2797-2809.
A Kleidon and S Lorenz, 2001. Deep roots sustain Amazonian rainforest in climate model simulations of the last ice age. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(12), 2425-2428.
2000 and before:
A Kleidon and H A Mooney, 2000. A global distribution of biodiversity inferred from climatic constraints: results from a process-based modelling study. Global Change Biology, 6(5), 507-523.
R B Jackson, H J Schenk, E G Jobbagy, J Canadell, G D Colello, R E Dickinson, C B Field, P Friedlingstein, M Heimann, K Hibbard, D W Kicklighter, A Kleidon, R P Neilson, W J Parton, O E Sala and M T Sykes, 2000. Belowground consequences of vegetation change and their treatment in models. Ecological Applications, 10(2), 470-483.
A Kleidon and M Heimann, 2000. Assessing the role of deep rooted vegetation in the climate system with model simulations: mechanism, comparison to observations and implications for Amazonian deforestation. Climate Dynamics, 16(2/3), 183-199.
A Kleidon, K Fraedrich, and M Heimann, 2000. A green planet versus a desert world: Estimating the maximum effect of vegetation on the land surface climate. Climatic Change, 44(4), 471-493.
A Kleidon and M Heimann, 1999. Deep rooted vegetation, Amazonian deforestation, and climate: Results from a modelling study. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 8(5), 397-405.
K Fraedrich, A Kleidon, and F Lunkeit, 1999. A green planet versus a desert world: Estimating the effects of vegetation extremes on the atmosphere. Journal of Climate 12(10), 3156-3163.
S Hagemann and A Kleidon, 1999. The influence of rooting depth on the simulated hydrological cycle of a GCM. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth B, 24 (7), 775-779.
A Kleidon and M Heimann, 1998. Optimised rooting depth and its impacts on the simulated climate of an Atmospheric General Circulation Model. Geophysical Research Letters, 25(3), 345-348.
A Kleidon and M Heimann, 1998. A method of determining rooting depth from a terrestrial biosphere model and its impacts on the global water and carbon cycle. Global Change Biology, 4(3), 275-286.
A Kleidon and M Heimann, 1996. Simulating root carbon storage with a coupled carbon-water cycle root model. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 21(5-6), 499-502.
edited:
J Dyke, A Kleidon (eds). What is Maximum Entropy Production and how should we apply it?, special issue, Entropy, 2010. www
A Kleidon, Y Malhi, P Cox (eds.) Maximum Entropy Production in environmental and ecological systems, special issue, Philosophical Transactions B, 2010.
K Strelcova, C Matyas, A Kleidon, M Lapin, F Matejka, M Blazenec, J Skvarenina, J Holecy (eds.), 2009. Bioclimatology and Natural Hazards, Springer Publishers. www
L Lichner, A Kleidon (eds.), 2007, special section on biohydrology, published in Biologia 62: 533 - 572.
A Kleidon, R Lorenz, (eds.) 2005. Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and the Production of Entropy: Life, Earth, and Beyond, Springer Verlag, Berlin. www