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
ICON: Toward vertically integrated model configurations for numerical weather prediction, climate predictions, and projections. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 106 (6), pp. E1017 - E1031 (2025)
Subtropical vegetation damage and recovery dynamics after the great 2008 Chinese ice storm. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 372, 110683 (2025)
Combined CO2 measurement record indicates Amazon forest carbon uptake is offset by savanna carbon release. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 25 (12), pp. 6219 - 6255 (2025)
Altered seasonal sensitivity of net ecosystem exchange to controls driven by nutrient balances in a semi-arid savanna. Biogeosciences 22 (12), pp. 2935 - 2958 (2025)
Restoration of declining soil carbon stocks and lost surface elevations in degraded mangroves on the northern coast of Java, Indonesia. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 13 (2025)