Welcome at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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. 

We support the initiative Weltoffenes Thüringen!

We support the initiative Weltoffenes Thüringen!

We are committed to ensuring that people from different backgrounds live and work together respectfully.

News

Mourning the loss of Tonatiuh Guillermo Nuñez Ramirez

Mourning the loss of Tonatiuh Guillermo Nuñez Ramirez

May 05, 2025
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We mourn the loss of our long-time colleague Tonatiuh Nuñez Ramirez, who passed away completely unexpectedly in March 2025.
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ESA’s BIOMASS satellite successfully launched – A new era of forest observation begins

ESA’s BIOMASS satellite successfully launched – A new era of forest observation begins

April 30, 2025
Amazon Rainforest Carbon Cycle Climate Change EEBiomass Nuno Carvalhais Remote Sensing
The BIOMASS satellite was successfully launched into orbit on 29 April 2025. The BIOMASS mission is designed to map and monitor global forests. It will map the structure of different forest types and provide data on above-ground biomass.
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Multiple small satellites orbiting Earth, captured against a backdrop of clouds and the blue atmospheric edge, viewed from space.

Earth’s breath and sweat uncovered - everywhere and continuously

March 11, 2025
Artificial Intelligence Carbon Cycle Ecosystem Function Jacob Nelson Research project FluxCom Sophia Walther
Thanks to FLUXCOM-X, the next generation of data driven, AI-based earth system models, scientists can now see the Earth’s metabolism at unprecedented detail – assessed everywhere on land and every hour of the day.
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Events

Scientific events

EEBIOMASS Summer School 2025

May 12, 2025 - May 16, 2025
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Room: Hörsaal

AquaDiva Final Symposium

May 28, 2025 09:00 AM - 11:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Altes Schloss Dornburg

FLUXCOM Workshop 2025

Jun 2, 2025 - Jun 5, 2025
Hotel am Schlossberg in Ziegenrück
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Public events

Was bewegt die Atmosphäre? Von den Grundlagen bis zur Energiewende

Jul 8, 2025 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Stiftung Alfried Krupp Kolleg Greifswald Martin-Luther-Straße 14 17489 Greifswald
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Seminars & colloquia

Seminar:Yang Xu

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Jun 5, 2025 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Hörsaal (C0.001)

Seminar:Ingo Schöning

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Jun 5, 2025 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Hörsaal (C0.001)

Kolloquium: Ana Bastos, Nora Linscheid

Women in Science Café
Jul 17, 2025 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Hörsaal (C0.001)
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Recent Publications

Kretz, L.; Schnabel, F.; Richter, R.; Raabgrund, A.; Kattge, J.; Andraczek, K.; Kahl, A.; Künne, T.; Wirth, C.: Functional traits explain growth response to successive hotter droughts across a wide set of common and future tree species in Europe. Plant Biology (2025)
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Thum, T.; Miinalainen, T.; Seppälä, O.; Croft, H.; Rogers, C.; Staebler, R.; Caldararu, S.; Zaehle, S.: Modelling decadal trends and the impact of extreme events on carbon fluxes in a temperate deciduous forest using a terrestrial biosphere model. Biogeosciences 22 (7), pp. 1781 - 1807 (2025)
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Itambu, M.; Arous, E. B.; Fernandes, R.; Gallinaro, M.; Ilgner, J.; Lucas, M.; Roberts, P.; Scott, E.; Steinhof, A.; Patalano, R.: Renewed archaeological research in Singida region, Central Tanzania. African Archaeological Review (2025)
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Camin, F.; Besic, D.; Brewer, P. J.; Allison, C. E.; Coplen, T. B.; Dunn, P. J. H.; Gehre, M.; Gröning, M.; Meijer, H. A. J.; Hélie, J.-F. et al.; Iacumin, P.; Kraft, R.; Krajnc, B.; Kümmel, S.; Lee, S.; Meija, J.; Mester, Z.; Mohn, J.; Moossen, H.; Qi, H.; Skrzypek, G.; Sperlich, P.; Viallon, J.; Wassenaar, L. I.; Wielgosz, R. I.: Stable isotope reference materials and scale definitions-outcomes of the 2024 IAEA experts meeting. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 39 (14), e10018 (2025)
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De, R.; Bao, S.; Koirala, S.; Brenning, A.; Reichstein, M.; Tagesson, T.; Liddell, M.; Ibrom, A.; Wolf, S.; Sigut, L. et al.; Hörtnagl, L.; Woodgate, W.; Korkiakoski, M.; Merbold, L.; Black, T. A.; Roland, M. E.; Klosterhalfen, A.; Blanken, P. D.; Knox, S.; Sabbatini, S.; Gielen, B.; Montagnani, L.; Fensholt, R.; Wohlfahrt, G.; Desai, A. R.; Paul-Limoges, E.; Galvagno, M.; Hammerle, A.; Jocher, G.; Reverter, B. R.; Holl, D.; Chen, J.; Vitale, L.; Arain, M. A.; Carvalhais, N.: Addressing challenges in simulating inter-annual variability of gross primary production. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 17 (5), e2024MS004697 (2025)
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