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. 

Apply for a PhD with us!

Apply for a PhD with us!

Our graduate school IMPRS-gBGC is accepting applications for PhD positions. We offer 11 different projects for candidates with different backgrounds, skill sets and interests. The current call is open until July 28, 2024.
The IMPRS offers fully-funded PhD positions to outstanding students who wish to study the components essential to life and climate from the atomic to global scales. Applications for the program are open to highly motivated and qualified students from all countries.

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

A green tractor pulling a fertilizer tank across a field and spreading liquid manure via a device with numerous nozzles.

Net effects of man-made nitrogen attenuate global warming

July 03, 2024
Climate Change Fossil Fuels Nitrogen Sönke Zaehle
Nitrogen fertilizers and nitrogen oxides from fossil fuels pollute the air and drinking water, lead to the over-fertilization of water bodies and terrestrial ecosystems, reduce biodiversity and damage the ozone layer. On balance, however, they have a cooling effect on the climate.
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How a plant app helps to identify the consequences of climate change

How a plant app helps to identify the consequences of climate change

June 17, 2024
Biodiversity Climate Change Ecology Flora Incognita Jana Wäldchen Plant Traits
A research team led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and Leipzig University has developed an algorithm that analyses observational data from the Flora Incognita app. The novel can be used to derive ecological patterns that could provide valuable information about the effects of climate change on plants.
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Human degradation of tropical forests is greater than previously estimate

Human degradation of tropical forests is greater than previously estimate

July 04, 2024
Forest Dieback Gregory Duveiller Remote Sensing Tropical Rainforests
Tropical forests are continuously being fragmented and damaged by human influences. Using remote sensing data and cutting-edge data analysis methods, researchers can now show for the first time that the impact of this damage is greater than previously estimated.
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Events

Scientific events

IMPRS-gBGC Selection Symposium

Sep 24, 2024 - Sep 25, 2024

2nd General Assembly of the "Integrated Greenhouse Gas Monitoring System for Germany (ITMS)"

Sep 24, 2024 10:00 AM (Local Time Germany) - Sep 26, 2024 05:30 PM
FTU Aula, KIT Campus Nord, Karlsruhe

ATTO Workshop 2024

Oct 1, 2024 - Oct 4, 2024
National Institute of Amazonian Research INPA
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Public events

Hoch hinaus für die Klimaforschung im Amazonas-Regenwald

Nov 6, 2024 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Uni Jena, Carl-Zeiss-Str. 3, Room: Seminarraum 308

Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften Jena 2024

Nov 22, 2024 06:00 PM - 11:55 PM (Local Time Germany)
Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie
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Seminars & colloquia

Summer break (June 20 - July 31)

Jun 22, 2024 12:00 AM (Local Time Germany) - Aug 1, 2024 12:00 AM

Seminar: Boaz Hilmann

Beyond storage use - what can 14C tell us about C allocation in trees?
Aug 1, 2024 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Hörsaal (C0.001)

Seminar: Mark Schlutow

How the weather changes when permafrost thaws?
Aug 1, 2024 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
Hörsaal (C0.001)

Seminar: Susanne Tautenhahn

Mobile-crowd sensing of plants enables environmental mapping
Aug 8, 2024 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
Hörsaal (C0.001)
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Recent Publications

Köbel, M.; Chozas, S.; Moreno, G.; Migliavacca, M.; Branquinho, C.; Nunes, A.: Grasses don’t always win: Short-term effects of fertilization on taxonomic and functional diversity of a Mediterranean annual grassland. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 373, 109125 (2024)
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González-Sosa, M.; Sierra, C. A.; Quincke, J. A.; Baethgen, W. E.; Trumbore, S. E.; Pravia, M. V.: High capacity of integrated crop-pasture systems to preserve old soil carbon evaluated in a 60-year-old experiment. Soil (accepted)
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Komatsu, K. J.; Avolio, M. L.; Cubino, J. P.; Schrodt, F.; Auge, H.; Cavender-Bares, J.; Clark, A. T.; Flores-Moreno, H.; Grman, E.; Harpole, W. S. et al.; Kattge, J.; Kimmel, K.; Koerner, S. E.; Korell, L.; Langley, J. A.; Münkemüller, T.; Ohlert, T.; Onstein, R. E.; Roscher, C.; Soudzilovskaia, N. A.; Taylor, B. N.; Tedersoo, L.; Terry, R. S.; Wilcox, K.: CoRRE Trait Data: A dataset of 17 categorical and continuous traits for 4079 grassland species worldwide. Scientific Data 11, 795 (2024)
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Sun, Q.; Joos, F.; Lienert, S.; Berthet, S.; Carroll, D.; Gong, C.; Ito, A.; Jain, A. K.; Kou‐Giesbrecht, S.; Landolfi, A. et al.; Manizza, M.; Pan, N.; Prather, M.; Regnier, P.; Resplandy, L.; Séférian, R.; Shi, H.; Suntharalingam, P.; Thompson, R. L.; Tian, H.; Vuichard, N.; Zaehle, S.; Zhu, Q.: The modeled seasonal cycles of surface N2O fluxes and atmospheric N2O. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 38 (7), e2023GB008010 (2024)
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Jiang, S.; Sweet, L.-b.; Blougouras, G.; Brenning, A.; Li, W.; Reichstein, M.; Denzler, J.; Shangguan, W.; Yu, G.; Huang, F. et al.; Zscheischler, J.: How interpretable machine learning can benefit process understanding in the geosciences. Earth's Future 12 (7), e2024EF004540 (2024)
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Peng, Y.; Li, P.; Zhou, X.; Luo, Y.; Zhang, C.; Wang, L.; Li, T.; Peng, C.: Divergent contributions of spring and autumn photosynthetic phenology to seasonal carbon uptake of subtropical vegetation in China. Journal of Geographical Sciences 34 (7), pp. 1280 - 1296 (2024)
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Fan, L.; Cui, T.; Wigneron, J.-P.; Ciais, P.; Sitch, S.; Brandt, M.; Li, X.; Niu, S.; Xiao, X.; Chave, J. et al.; Wu, C.; Li, W.; Yuan, W.; Xing, Z.; Li, X.; Wang, M.; Liu, X.; Chen, X.; Qin, Y.; Yang, H.; Tang, Q.; Li, Y.; Ma, M.; Fensholt, R.: Dominant role of the non-forest woody vegetation in the post 2015/16 El Niño tropical carbon recovery. Global Change Biology 30 (7), e17423 (2024)
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