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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

Jena Triangle of DLR, Max Planck Institute and University in Champions League of AI
November 12, 2021
European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems" (ELLIS) expands to include three Jena research institutions. more

Ana Bastos receives Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award
November 11, 2021
European Geosciences Union honors Ana Bastos, group leader in the BGI department, with the Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award. more

COP26 DKN-Side-Event with Markus Reichstein
November 05, 2021
Sustainability and climate services for transformation: Preparing for climate extremes more

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Recent Publications

Quantifying available energy and anthropogenic energy use in the Mississippi river basin
Turnbull, T., Renner, M., Panwar, A., Katsikis, N., Kleidon, A., Schindler, A. (2021) The Anthropocene Review. doi:10.1177/20530196211029678

Was begrenzt das Leben? Thermodynamik und Photosynthese im Erdsystem
Kleidon, A. (2021) Physik in unserer Zeit. 52, 230-235. doi:10.1002/piuz.202101614

Siberian 2020 heatwave increased spring CO2 uptake but not annual CO2 uptake
Kwon, M. J., Ballantyne, A. P., Ciais, P., Bastos, A., Chevallier, F., Liu, Z., Green, J. K., Qiu, C., Kimball, J. S. (in press) Environmental Research Letters. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ac358b

Land use types with different fertilization management affected isotope ratios of bulk and water-extractable C and N of soils in an intensive agricultural area
Jeong, Y., Park, H., Jeon, B., Seo, B., Baek, N., Yang, H. I., Kwak, J., Lee, S., Choi, W. (2021) Journal of Soils and Sediments. doi:10.1007/s11368-021-03097-5

Empowering the Earth system by technology: Using thermodynamics of the Earth system to illustrate a possible sustainable future of the planet
Kleidon, A. (2022) In P. A. Wilderer, M. Grambow, M. Molls, K. Oexle (Eds.), Strategies for Sustainability of the Earth System.

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Departments (quick links)

Biogeochemical Processes (Trumbore)
Biogeochemical Integration (Reichstein)
Biogeochemical Signals (Zaehle)

Research Groups (quick links)

Molecular Biogeochemistry (Gleixner)
Biogeochemical Systems (Heimann)
Biospheric Theory & Modeling (Kleidon)
Hydrology-Biosphere-Climate (Orth)
Carbon Balance & Ecosystems (Schulze)
Theoretical Ecosystem Ecology (Sierra)
Functional Biogeography (Wirth & Kattge)
Extreme Events (Groucutt)

Video and Audio

The Flora Incognita Project (youtube video)
The Jena Experiment (video)
Klima - der Kohlenstoffkreislauf (video)

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Future Events

Workshop BIOMASS Secondary Mission Products
November 25, 2021

Urania Berlin: Our forests and the climate change
December 07, 2021


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Seminars and Colloquia

November 18, 2021
2:00 pm internal seminar
Nuno Carvalhais
(department Reichstein)
t.b.a.


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