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
 | Widespread increasing vegetation sensitivity to soil moistureJuly 11, 2022The increasing vegetation sensitivity to soil moisture, recently published based on simulations from climate models, is now backed up with observation-based data. more |
 | Ecosystems get increasingly thirsty due to climate changeJuly 04, 2022Increasing global temperatures alleviate energy limitations for plants and ecosystems, water increasingly limits their functions. more |
 | Life in the earth’s interior as productive as in some ocean watersJune 30, 2022Researchers discover microbes in pitch-dark aquifers as important primary producers. more |
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Recent Publications
| Contrasting anatomical and biochemical controls on mesophyll conductance across plant functional types Knauer, J., Cuntz, M., Evans, J. R., Niinemets, Ü., Tosens, T., Veromann-Jürgenson, L.-L., Werner, C., Zaehle, S. (2022) New Phytologist. doi:10.1111/nph.18363 |
| Environmental factors contributing to variations in CO2 flux over a barley–rice double-cropping paddy field in the Korean Peninsula Park, C., El-Madany, T. S., Lee, S. (2022) International Journal of Biometeorology. doi:10.1007/s00484-022-02341-y |
| Mass difference matching unfolds hidden molecular structures of dissolved organic matter Simon, C., Dührkop, K., Petras, D., Roth, V.-N., Böcker, S., Dorrestein, P. C., Gleixner, G. (2022) Environmental Science & Technology. 56, 11027-11040. doi:10.1021/acs.est.2c01332 |
| Aridec: an open database of litter mass loss from aridlands worldwide with recommendations on suitable model applications Sarquis, A., Siebenhart, I. A., Austin, A. T., Sierra, C. A. (2022) Earth System Science Data. 14, 3471-3488. doi:10.5194/essd-14-3471-2022 |
| Research priorities for global food security under extreme events Mehrabi, Z., Delzeit, R., Ignaciuk, A., Levers, C., Braich, G., Bajaj, K., Amo-Aidoo, A., Anderson, W., Balgah, R. A., Benton, T. G., Chari, M. M., Ellis, E. C., Gahi, N. Z., Gaupp, F., Garibaldi, L. A., Gerber, J. S., Godde, C. M., Grass, I., Heimann, T., Hirons, M., Hoogenboom, G., Jain, M., James, D., Makowski, D., Masamha, B., Meng, S., Monprapussorn, S., Müller, D., Nelson, A., Newlands, N. K., Noack, F., Oronje, M., Raymond, C., Reichstein, M., Rieseberg, L. H., Rodriguez-Llanes, J. M., Rosenstock, T., Rowhani, P., Sarhadi, A., Seppelt, R., Sidhu, B. S., Snapp, S., Soma, T., Sparks, A. H., Teh, L., Tigchelaar, M., Vogel, M. M., West, P. C., Wittman, H., You, L. (2022) One Earth. 5, 756-766. doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2022.06.008 |