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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 | Max Planck Society meets in ThuringiaJune 19, 2017The Max Planck Society convenes on June 21 and 22 in Weimar, Jena and Erfurt for their 68th annual meeting. more |
 | Mid- and high-latitude northern hemisphere continues to absorb atmospheric carbon dioxideJune 16, 2017International carbon cycle experts met at MPI-BGC to discuss during a 3-day symposium the Northern Hemispheric Carbon Sink in honor of Prof. Martin Heimann’s retirement as Max Planck director. more |
 | Research on clean drinking waterJune 16, 2017AquaDiva funded for further four years with over 9.5 million euros from German Research Foundation. more |
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Recent Publications
| Tree mortality of a flood-adapted species in response of hydrographic changes caused by an Amazonian river dam. Assahira, C., Fernandez Piedade, M. T., Trumbore, S. E., Wittmann, F., Ladvocat Cintra, B. B., Batista, E. S., de Resende, A. F., Schongart, J. (2017) Forest Ecology and Management. 396, 113-123. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2017.04.016. |
| Cryogenic displacement and accumulation of biogenic methane in frozen soils. Kraev, G., Schulze, E. D., Yurova, A., Kholodov, A., Chuvilin, E., Rivkina, E. (2017) Atmosphere. 8, 105. doi:10.3390/atmos8060105. |
| Spatio-temporal relationships between optical information and carbon fluxes in a mediterranean tree-grass ecosystem. Pacheco-Labrador, J., El-Madany, T. S., Martín, M. P., Migliavacca, M., Rossini, M., Carrara, A., Zarco-Tejada, P. (2017) Remote Sensing. 9, 608. doi:10.3390/rs9060608. |
| Comparisons of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) XCO2 measurements with TCCON. Wunch, D., Wennberg, P. O., Osterman, G., Fisher, B., Naylor, B., Roehl, C. M., O'Dell, C., Mandrake, L., Viatte, C., Griffith, D. W., Deutscher, N. M., Velazco, V. A., Notholt, J., Warneke, T., Petri, C., Maziere, M. D., Sha, M. K., Sussmann, R., Rettinger, M., Pollard, D., Robinson, J., Morino, I., Uchino, O., Hase, F., Blumenstock, T., Kiel, M., Feist, D. G., Arnold, S. G., Strong, K., Mendonca, J., Kivi, R., Heikkinen, P., Iraci, L., Podolske, J., Hillyard, P. W., Kawakami, S., Dubey, M. K., Parker, H. A., Sepulveda, E., Rodriguez, O. E. G., Te, Y., Jeseck, P., Gunson, M. R., Crisp, D., Eldering, A. (2017) Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 10, 2209-2238. doi:10.5194/amt-10-2209-2017. |