Publications
accepted | < 2000 | 2000 - 2005 | 2005 - present | edited
accepted and in press:
printed:
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. Non-equilibrium 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, S Schymanski, M Stieglitz, 2009. Thermodynamics, irreversibility and optimality in land surface hydrology. in: K Strelcova, et al. Bioclimatology and Natural Hazards, 107-118.
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.
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.
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, 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.
2000 - 2005:
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. 173-190.
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 data sets 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:
A Kleidon, Y Malhi, P Cox (eds.) Maximum Entropy Production in environmental and ecological systems, special issue, Philosophical Transactions B, in progress.
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