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.
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 für weitere drei Jahre gefördert__2021.jpg) | DFG Research Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) funded for another three yearsJuly 21, 2021Joint research on global biodiversity change, also involving MPI-BGC scientists, will continue to be funded after successful evaluation. more |
 | High species diversity in grassland ensures efficient phosphorus utilizationJuly 21, 2021Plant and soil microorganism biodiversity contributes to the efficient use of phosphorus both in experiments and in agricultural grasslands. more |
 | Above- and belowground biodiversity in farmlands play by different rules June 24, 2021Current conservation practices targeting above-ground biodiversity have little or no effect on the biodiversity of below-ground soils. more |
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Recent Publications
| Comprehensive leaf size traits dataset for seven plant species from digitised herbarium specimen images covering more than two centuries Vamsi, K. K., Tautenhahn, S., Baddam, P., Gaikwad, J., Wieczorek, B., Triki, A., Kattge, J. (2021) Biodiversity Data Journal. 9, e69806. doi:10.3897/BDJ.9.e69806 |
| Continuous CO2 and CH4 observations in the coastal arctic atmosphere of the Western Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia: The first results from a new measurement station in Dikson Panov, A., Prokushkin, A., Kübler, K., Korets, M., Urban, A., Bondar, M., Heimann, M. (2021) Atmosphere. 12, 876. doi:10.3390/atmos12070876 |
| Bookkeeping estimates of the net land-use change flux – a sensitivity study with the CMIP6 land-use dataset Hartung, K., Bastos, A., Chini, L., Ganzenmüller, R., Havermann, F., Hurtt, G. C., Loughran, T., Nabel, J. E. M. S., Nützel, T., Obermeier, W., Pongratz, J. (2021) Earth System Dynamics. 12, 763-782. doi:10.5194/esd-12-763-2021 |
| The Adaptable 4A Inversion (5AI): description and first XCO2 retrievals from Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) observations Dogniaux, M., Crevoisier, C., Armante, R., Capelle, V., Delahaye, T., Cassé, V., Mazière, M. D., Deutscher, N. M., Feist, D. G., Garcia, O. E., Griffith, D. W. T., Hase, F., Iraci, L. T., Kivi, R., Morino, I., Notholt, J., Pollard, D. F., Roehl, C. M., Shiomi, K., Strong, K., Té, Y., Velazco, V. A., Warneke, T. (2021) Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 14, 4689-4706. doi:10.5194/amt-14-4689-2021 |