Exploring the Earth System
We contribute to the understanding of how living organisms – including humans - exchange fundamental resources like water, carbon, nitrogen and energy with their environment, and how this affects and responds to global climate and environmental change.
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 | Sönke Zaehle appointed lead author of the Sixth IPCC Assessment ReportApril 18, 2018The IPCC recently anounced the scientific experts for the Sixth Assessment Report, among them Sönke Zaehle of MPI-BGC. more |
 | Global Carbon Budget 2017 released, supported by MPI-BGC scientistsMarch 21, 2018The annual Global Carbon Budget for 2017 was recently published. Christian Rödenbeck and Sönke Zaehle contributed their expertise in atmospheric growth and land net uptake of CO2. more |
 | Kick-off meeting with partner group in Bhopal, IndiaMarch 15, 2018MPI-BGC scientist were visiting the Max Planck Partner Group at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Bhopal. more |
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Recent Publications
| Large sensitivity in land carbon storage due to geographical and temporal variation in the thermal response of photosynthetic capacity Mercado, L. M., Medlyn, B. E., Huntingford, C., Oliver, R. J., Clark, D. B., Sitch, S., Zelazowski, P., Kattge, J., Harper, A. B., Cox, P. M. (2018) New Phytologist. doi:10.1111/nph.15100. |
| Using radiocarbon-calibrated dendrochronology to improve tree-cutting cycle estimates for timber management in southern Amazon forests de Miranda, D. L. C., Higuchi, N., Trumbore, S. E., Latorraca, J. V. F., do Carmo, J. F., Lima, A. J. N. (2018) Trees. 32, 587-602. doi:10.1007/s00468-018-1658-3. |
| Plant diversity effects on arthropods and arthropod-dependent ecosystem functions in a biodiversity experiment Ebeling, A., Hines, J., Hertzog, L. R., Lange, M., Meyer, S. T., Simons, N. K., Weisser, W. W. (2018) Basic and Applied Ecology. 26, 50-63. doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2017.09.014. |
| Automated plant species identification—Trends and future directions Wäldchen, J., Rzanny, M., Seeland, M., Mäder, P. (2018) PLoS Computational Biology. 14, e1005993. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005993. |
| Land use change and El Nino-Southern Oscillation drive decadal carbon balance shifts in Southeast Asia Kondo, M., Ichii, K., Patra, P. K., Canadell, J. G., Poulter, B., Sitch, S., Calle, L., Liu, Y. Y., van Dijk, A. I. J. M., Saeki, T., Saigusa, N., Friedlingstein, P., Arneth, A., Harper, A., Jain, A. K., Kato, E., Koven, C., Li, F., Pugh, T. A. M., Zaehle, S., Wiltshire, A., Chevallier, F., Maki, T., Nakamura, T., Niwa, Y., Roedenbeck, C. (2018) Nature Communications. 9, 1154. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03374-x. |
| The effect of elevation bias in interpolated air temperature data sets on surface warming in China during 1951-2015 Wang, T., Sun, F., Ge, Q., Kleidon, A., Liu, W. (2018) Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 123, 2141-2151. doi:10.1002/2017JD027510. |