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
Analysis of fire hotspot numbers, fire radiative power and air pollutant concentrations in the legal Amazonia between 2016 and 2021. In: Amazon 2030 - Sustainability issues in the world's largest rainforest region, pp. 325 - 343 (Eds. Leal Filho, W.; Viera Trevisan, L.; Costa, G. B.; de Lima, I. B.). Springer, Cham (2025)
Leaf spectroscopy as a tool for predicting the presence of isoprene emissions and terpene storage in central Amazon forest trees. Plant Methods 21, 78 (2025)
Reviews and syntheses: Current perspectives on biosphere research 2024–2025 – eight findings from ecology, sociology, and economics. Biogeosciences 22 (10), pp. 2425 - 2460 (2025)
Navigating climate threats in forestry across five European regions: Stakeholder's adaptive management and policy strategies to resilience. Journal of Environmental Management 388, 125903 (2025)
Impacts of leaf traits on vegetation optical properties in Earth system modeling. Nature Communications 16, 4968 (2025)
H2MV (v1.0): Global physically-constrained deep learning water cycle model with vegetation. Geoscientific Model Development 18 (10), pp. 2921 - 2943 (2025)