Welcome at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Focus on the Earth
Our research is dedicated to the study of global biogeochemical cycles describing the interactions between the biosphere, the atmosphere, the geosphere and the entire climate system. We aim to better understand how living organisms - including humans - exchange basic resources such as water, carbon, nutrients, and energy with their environment and how this affects ecosystems and climate at regional to global scales.
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Recent Publications
A near-real time daily European Power Consumption and Carbon Intensity Dataset (ECON-PowerCI). Scientific Data 12, 1693 (2025)
Drought tolerance of emerging european silver fir seedlings (Abies alba Mill.) does not follow geographic gradients. New Forests 56 (6), 64 (2025)
Parameter estimation in land surface models: Challenges and opportunities with data assimilation and machine learning. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 17 (11), e2024MS004733 (2024)
Impact of atmospheric turbulence on the accuracy of point source emission estimates using satellite imagery. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 25 (20), pp. 13831 - 13848 (2025)
Increased belowground carbon allocation reduces soil carbon losses under long-term warming. Global Change Biology 31 (10), e70561 (2025)