Kleidon, A.: Climatic constraints on maximum levels of human metabolic activity and their relation to human evolution and global change. Climatic Change 95 (3-4), S. 405 - 431 (2009)

Kleidon, A.; Adams, J.; Pavlick, R.; Reu, B.: Simulated geographic variations of plant species richness, evenness and abundance using climatic constraints on plant functional diversity. Environmental Research Letters 4 (1), S. 014007 (2009)

Schymanski, S. J.; Sivapalan, M.; Roderick, M. L.; Hutley, L. B.; Beringer, J.: An optimality-based model of the dynamic feedbacks between natural vegetation and the water balance. Water Resources Research 45, S. W01412 (2009)

Xu, X. K.; Yang, J. Q.; Dong, G. C.; Wang, L. Q.; Miller, L.: OSL dating of glacier extent during the Last Glacial and the Kanas Lake basin formation in Kanas River valley, Altai Mountains, China. Geomorphology 112 (3-4), S. 306 - 317 (2009)

Arens, S.; Kleidon, A.: Global sensitivity of weathering rates to atmospheric CO₂ under the assumption of saturated river discharge. Mineralogical Magazine 72 (1), S. 301 - 304 (2008)

Hibler, L. F.; Maxwell, A. R.; Miller, L. M.; Kohn, N. P.; Woodruff, D. L.; Montes, M. J.; Bowles, J. H.; Moline, M. A.: Improved fine-scale transport model performance using AUV and HSI feedback in a tidally dominated system. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 113 (C8), C08036 (2008)

Kleidon, A.: Entropy production by evapotranspiration and its geographic variation. Soil and Water Research 3 (S1), S. S89 - S94 (2008)

Kleidon, A.; Schymanski, S.: Thermodynamics and optimality of the water budget on land: A review. Geophysical Research Letters 35 (20), S. L20404 (2008)

Lei, H. M.; Yang, D. W.; Schymanski, S. J.; Sivapalan, M.: Modeling the crop transpiration using an optimality-based approach. Science in China Series E - Technological Sciences 51 (Suppl 2), S. 60 - 75 (2008)

Schymanski, S. J.: Optimality as a concept to understand and model vegetation at different scales. Geography Compass 2 (5), S. 1580 - 1598 (2008)

Schymanski, S. J.; Roderick, M. L.; Sivapalan, M.; Hutley, L. B.; Beringer, J.: A canopy-scale test of the optimal water-use hypothesis. Plant, Cell and Environment 31 (1), S. 97 - 111 (2008)

Schymanski, S. J.; Sivapalan, M.; Roderick, M. L.; Beringer, J.; Hutley, L. B.: An optimality-based model of the coupled soil moisture and root dynamics. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 12 (3), S. 913 - 932 (2008)

Kleidon, A.: Thermodynamics and environmental constraints make the biosphere predictable - a response to Volk. Climatic Change 85 (3-4), S. 259 - 266 (2007)

Kleidon, A.: Journal club. Nature 445 (7128), S. 571 (2007)

Kleidon, A.: Optimized stomatal conductance and the climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide. Geophysical Research Letters 34 (14), S. L14709 (2007)

Kleidon, A.; Fraedrich, K.; Low, C.: Multiple steady-states in the terrestrial atmosphere-biosphere system: a result of a discrete vegetation classification? Biogeosciences 4 (5), S. 707 - 714 (2007)

Schymanski, S. J.; Roderick, M. L.; Sivapalan, M.; Hutley, L. B.; Beringer, J.: A test of the optimality approach to modelling canopy properties and CO₂ uptake by natural vegetation. Plant, Cell and Environment 30 (12), S. 1586 - 1598 (2007)

Kleidon, A.: Quantifying the biologically possible range of steady-state soil and surface climates with climate model simulations. Biologia (Bratislava) 61 (19), S. S234 - S239 (2006)

Kleidon, A.: The climate sensitivity to human appropriation of vegetation productivity and its thermodynamic characterization. Global and Planetary Change 54 (1-2), S. 109 - 127 (2006)

Kleidon, A.: How meaningful is surface temperature in characterizing the climate system response to human-driven land cover change? iLeaps Newsletter 2, S. 16 - 17 (2006)