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
 | ATTO at Berlin Science WeekOctober 22, 2021The ATTO project will be highlighted for the public at the Berlin Science Week, with several of our scientists presenting ATTO research in various formats at the Brazilian embassy. more |
 | Susan Trumbore elected member of Academia EuropaeaOctober 21, 2021Susan Trumbore was inaugurated as new member of the academy on the recent annual conference, where she presented a Balzan Prize keynote lecture “The Amazon and Global Change”. more |
 | ICOS: High quality data on climate change brings faster and more reliable resultsOctober 18, 2021The european ICOS network supports science and policy making - a first comprehensive article describing ICOS was recently published. more |
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Recent Publications
| Vulnerability of European ecosystems to two compound dry and hot summers in 2018 and 2019 Bastos, A., Orth, R., Reichstein, M., Ciais, P., Viovy, N., Zaehle, S., Anthoni, P., Arneth, A., Gentine, P., Joetzjer, E., Lienert, S., Loughran, T., McGuire, P. C., O, S., Pongratz, J., Sitch, S. (2021) Earth System Dynamics. 12, 1015-1035. doi:10.5194/esd-12-1015-2021 |
| Long-term leaf C:N ratio change under elevated CO2 and nitrogen deposition in China: Evidence from observations and process-based modeling Sheng, M., Tang, J., Yang, D., Fisher, J. B., Wang, H., Kattge, J. (2021) Science of the Total Environment. 800, 149591. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149591 |
| Long-term ecosystem nitrogen limitation from foliar delta15N data and a land surface model Caldararu, S., Thum, T., Yu, L., Kern, M., Nair, R., Zaehle, S. (in press) Global Change Biology. doi:10.1111/gcb.15933 |
| Seasonal variation of leaf wax n-alkane delta2H values: Differences between Quercus aquifolioides (an evergreen tree) and Stipa bungeana (a perennial grass) from the southeastern Tibetan Plateau Zhang, X., Xu, B., Günther, F., Gleixner, G. (2021) Global and Planetary Change. 207, 103674. doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103674 |
| Impacts of drying and rewetting on the radiocarbon signature of respired CO2 and implications for incubating archived soils Beem-Miller, J., Schrumpf, M., Hoyt, A. M., Guggenberger, G., Trumbore, S. E. (2021) Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 126, e2020JG006119. doi:10.1029/2020JG006119 |
| Machine-learning-based evidence and attribution mapping of 100,000 climate impact studies Callaghan, M., Schleussner, C.-F., Nath, S., Lejeune, Q., Knutson, T. R., Reichstein, M., Hansen, G., Theokritoff, E., Andrijevic, M., Brecha, R. J., Hegarty, M., Jones, C., Lee, K., Lucas, A., van Maanen, N., Menke, I., Pfleiderer, P., Yesil, B., Minx, J. C. (2021) Nature Climate Change. doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01168-6 |