Climate-ecosystem-disturbance interactions group

Dr. Ana Bastos

Mission

The Climate-Ecosystem-Disturbance Interactions group focuses on the links between climate variability and change, disturbance regimes and ecosystem structure and functioning, at regional to global scales. More specifically, the group’s research aims to:

• (i) quantify ecosystem vulnerability and resilience to climate extremes and changes in disturbance patterns, including the role of management;
• (ii) understand the effects of compound disturbances (climatic and/or biotic) on ecosystem dynamics and biogeochemical cycling;
• (iii) gain insights on the drivers of inter-annual to decadal variability in the carbon cycle with a focus on ocean-atmosphere-land teleconnections.

By combining observation-based data (such as eddy-covariance, atmospheric monitoring, remote-sensing) and data-driven and process-based modeling, the group’s research aims at reducing uncertainties in key components of the earth system, particularly the feedbacks between climate and the carbon-cycle and better constrain the contribution of land ecosystems for climate change mitigation.

Team

Former members

Evgenii Churiulin Scientific Programmer. Now at KIT

José Cortes Scientific Researcher

Stella Mutai Scientific Researcher

Olivia Hau BSc intern (Uni. Hamburg)

Sarah Heinrich BSc intern (Uni. Freiburg)

Highlights

Ana Bastos is this year’s winner of the Beutenberg Campus science award in the category „outstanding junior research scientist”.

Xin Yu’s study “Contrasting drought legacy effects on gross primary productivity in a mixed versus pure beech forest” highlighted in EGU Biogeosciences.

Recent publications