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
 | What we know about climate todayJune 10, 2021The German Climate Consortium (DKK) updated the collection of basic facts on climate change with the latest data. more |
 | How climate defines the traits of plant rootsJune 10, 2021New study on root traits challenges the nature of ecological trade-offs more |
 | Earth system models for the future: ESM2025June 08, 2021EU funds ambitious project on developing the next generation of Earth system models, carried out by 19 European institutions including MPI-BGC more |
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Recent Publications
| Vapor pressure deficit and sunlight explain seasonality of leaf phenology and photosynthesis across Amazonian evergreen broadleaved forest Chen, X., Ciais, P., Maignan, F., Zhang, Y., Bastos, A., Liu, L., Bacour, C., Fan, L., Gentine, P., Goll, D., Green, J., Kim, H., Li, L., Liu, Y., Peng, S., Tang, H., Viovy, N., Wigneron, J.-P., Wu, J., Yuan, W., Zhang, H. (2021) Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 35, 6. doi:10.1029/2020GB006893 |
| Revisiting global vegetation controls using multi-layer soil moisture Li, W., Migliavacca, M., Forkel, M., Walther, S., Reichstein, M., Orth, R. (2021) Geophysical Research Letters. 48, e2021GL092856. doi:10.1029/2021GL092856 |
| The size and the age of the metabolically active carbon in tree roots Hilman, B., Muhr, J., Helm, J., Kuhlmann, I., Schulze, E. D., Trumbore, S. E. (in press) Plant, Cell and Environment. doi:10.1111/pce.14124 |
| The fate and transit time of carbon in a tropical forest Sierra, C. A., Estupinan-Suarez, L. M., Chanca, I. (in press) Journal of Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13723 |
| A typology of compound weather and climate events Zscheischler, J., Martius, O., Westra, S., Bevacqua, E., Raymond, C., Horton, R. M., van den Hurk, B., AghaKouchak, A., Jézéquel, A., Mahecha, M. D., Maraun, D., Ramos, A. M., Ridder, N. N., Thiery, W., Vignotto, E. (2020) Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 1, 333-347. doi:10.1038/s43017-020-0060-z |