Exploring the Earth System
We contribute to the understanding of how living organisms – including humans - exchange fundamental resources like water, carbon, nitrogen and energy with their environment, and how this affects and responds to global climate and environmental change.
News
 | It now becomes extreme - climate change, drought, COVID19October 16, 2020In the video series of the German Climate Consortium "Real Science, Real Talk: Science on Climate and Corona” Markus Reichstein talks about extreme events. more |
 | Long-term impact of global change on ecosystems difficult to predictOctober 13, 2020Biodiversity experiment provides new insights into the relationship between plant traits and ecosystem functions. more |
 | Nitrogen fertilization fuels climate changeOctober 07, 2020Worldwide rising nitrous oxide emissions from nitrogen fertilization endanger the achievement of the international climate goals. more |
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Recent Publications
| Asymmetric responses of ecosystem productivity to rainfall anomalies vary inversely with mean annual rainfall over the conterminous United States Al-Yaari, A., Ciais, J.-P.-W.-P., Reichstein, M., Ballantyne, A., Ogée, J., Ducharne, A., Swenson, J. J., Frappart, F., Fan, L., Wingate, L., Li, X., Hufkens, K., Knapp, A. K. (2020) Global Change Biology. doi:10.1111/gcb.15345 |
| A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks Tian, H., Xu, R., Canadell, J. G., Thompson, R. L., Winiwarter, W., Suntharalingam, P., Davidson, E. A., Ciais, P., Jackson, R. B., Janssens-Maenhout, G., Prather, M. J., Regnier, P., Pan, N., Pan, S., Peters, G. P., Shi, H., Tubiello, F. N., Zaehle, S., Zhou, F., Arneth, A., Battaglia, G., Berthet, S., Bopp, L., Bouwman, A. F., Buitenhuis, E. T., Chang, J., Chipperfield, M. P., Dangal, S. R. S., Dlugokencky, E., Elkins, J. W., Eyre, B. D., Fu, B., Hall, B., Ito, A., Joos, F., Krummel, P. B., Landolfi, A., Laruelle, G. G., Lauerwald, R., Li, W., Lienert, S., Maavara, T., MacLeod, M., Millet, D. B., Olin, S., Patra, P. K., Prinn, R. G., Raymond, P. A., Ruiz, D. J., van der Werf, G. R., Vuichard, N., Wang, J., Weiss, R. F., Wells, K. C., Wilson, C., Yang, J., Yao, Y. (2020) Nature. 586, 248-256. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2780-0 |
| COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data Bond-Lamberty, B., Christianson, D. S., Malhotra, A., Pennington, S. C., Sihi, D., AghaKouchak, A., Anjileli, H., Arain, M. A., Armesto, J. J., Ashraf, S., Ataka, M., Baldocchi, D., Black, T. A., Buchmann, N., Carbone, M. S., Chang, S., Crill, P., Curtis, P. S., Davidson, E. A., Desai, A. R., Drake, J. E., El-Madany, T. S., Gavazzi, M., Görres, C., Gough, C. M., Goulden, M., Gregg, J., Arroyo, O. G. d., He, J., Hirano, T., Hopple, A., Hughes, H., Järveoja, J., Jassal, R., Jian, J., Kan, H., Kaye, J., Kominami, Y., Liang, N., Lipson, D., Macdonald, C. A., Maseyk, K., Mathes, K., Mauritz, M., Mayes, M. A., McNulty, S., Miao, G., Migliavacca, M., Miller, S., Miniat, C. F., Nietz, J. G., Nilsson, M. B., Noormets, A., Norouzi, H., O’Connell, C. S., Osborne, B., Oyonarte, C., Pang, Z., Peichl, M., Pendall, E., Perez-Quezada, J. F., Phillips, C. L., Phillips, R. P., Raich, J. W., Renchon, A. A., Ruehr, N. K., Sánchez-Cañete, E. P., Saunders, M., Savage, K. E., Schrumpf, M., Scott, R. L., Seibt, U., Silver, W. L., Sun, W., Szutu, D., Takagi, K., Takagi, M., Teramoto, M., Tjoelker, M. G., Trumbore, S. E., Ueyama, M., Vargas, R., Varner, R. K., Verfaillie, J., Vogel, C., Wang, J., Winston, G., Wood, T. E., Wu, J., Wutzler, T., Zeng, J., Zha, T., Zhang, Q., Zou, J. (2020) Global Change Biology. doi:10.1111/gcb.15353 |
| Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites Nelson, J. A., Pérez-Priego, O., Zhou, S., Poyatos, R., Zhang, Y., Blanken, P. D., Gimeno, T. E., Wohlfahrt, G., Desai, A. R., Gioli, B., Limousin, J., Bonal, D., Paul-Limoges, E., Scott, R. L., Varlagin, A., Fuchs, K., Montagnani, L., Wolf, S., Delpierre, N., Berveiller, D., Gharun, M., Marchesini, L. B., Gianelle, D., Šigut, L., Mammarella, I., Siebicke, L., Black, T. A., Knohl, A., Hörtnagl, L., Magliulo, V., Besnard, S., Weber, U., Carvalhais, N., Migliavacca, M., Reichstein, M., Jung, M. (2020) Global Change Biology. doi:10.1111/gcb.15314 |