Publications of Bernhard Ahrens

Reinsch, S.; Lebron, I.; de Jonge, L. W.; Weber, P. L.; Norgaard, T.; Arthur, E.; Gomes, L.; Pesch, C.; Konstantinos, K.; Zalidis, G. et al.; Epelde, L.; Romic, M.; Romic, D.; Zovko, M.; Reljic, M.; Heikkinen, J.; Feeney, C.; Bentley, L.; Levy, P.; Vanguelova, E.; Panagos, P.; Schneider, F.; Ahrens, B.; Leifeld, J.; Hugelius, G.; Emmett, B. A.; Cosby, B. J.; Brentegani, M.; Tandy, S.; Thomas, A.; van Soest, M. A. J.; Robinson, D. A.: The fraction of carbon in soil organic matter as a national-scale soil process indicator. Global Change Biology 31 (11), e70572 (2025)

Pallandt, M.; Schrumpf, M.; Lange, H.; Reichstein, M.; Yu, L.; Ahrens, B.: Modelling the effect of climate–substrate interactions on soil organic matter decomposition with the Jena soil model. Biogeosciences 22 (7), pp. 1907 - 1928 (2025)

Tao, F.; Houlton, B. Z.; Huang, Y.; Wang, Y.-P.; Manzoni, S.; Ahrens, B.; Mishra, U.; Jiang, L.; Huang, X.; Luo, Y.: Convergence in simulating global soil organic carbon by structurally different models after data assimilation. Global Change Biology 30 (5), e17297 (2024)

Wutzler, T.; Reimers, C.; Ahrens, B.; Schrumpf, M.: Optimal enzyme allocation leads to the constrained enzyme hypothesis: the Soil Enzyme Steady Allocation Model (SESAM; v3.1)). Geoscientific Model Development 17 (7), pp. 2705 - 2725 (2024)

Tao, F.; Houlton, B. Z.; Frey, S. D.; Lehmann, J.; Manzoni, S.; Huang, Y.; Jiang, L.; Mishra, U.; Hungate, B. A.; Schmidt, M. W. I. et al.; Reichstein, M.; Carvalhais, N.; Ciais, P.; Wang, Y.-P.; Ahrens, B.; Hugelius, G.; Hocking, T. D.; Lu, X.; Shi, Z.; Viatkin, K.; Vargas, R.; Yigini, Y.; Omuto, C.; Malik, A. A.; Peralta, G.; Cuevas-Corona, R.; Paolo, L. E. D.; Luotto, I.; Liao, C.; Liang, Y.-S.; Saynes, V. S.; Huang, X.; Luo, Y.: Reply to: Model uncertainty obscures major driver of soil carbon. Nature 627, pp. E4 - E6 (2024)

Sierra, C.; Ahrens, B.; Bolinder, M. A.; Braakhekke, M. C.; von Fromm, S. F.; Kätterer, T.; Luo, Z.; Parvin, N.; Wang, G.: Carbon sequestration in the subsoil and the time required to stabilize carbon for climate change mitigation. Global Change Biology 30 (1), e17153 (2024)

Tao, Feng, F.; Huang, Y.; Hungate, B. A.; Manzoni, S.; Frey, S. D.; Schmidt, M. W. I.; Reichstein, M.; Carvalhais, N.; Ciais, P.; Jiang, L. et al.; Lehmann, J.; Wang, Y.-P.; Houlton, B. Z.; Ahrens, B.; Mishra, U.; Hugelius, G.; Hocking, T. D.; Lu, X.; Shi, Z.; Viatkin, K.; Vargas, R.; Yigini, Y.; Omuto, C.; Malik, A. A.; Peralta, G.; Cuevas-Corona, R.; Di Paolo, L. E.; Luotto, I.; Liao, C.; Liang, Y.-S.; Saynes, V. S.; Huang, X.; Luo, Y.: Microbial carbon use efficiency promotes global soil carbon storage. Nature 618, pp. 981 - 985 (2023)

Tao, F.; Lehmann, J.; Wang, Y.-P.; Jiang, L.; Ahrens, B.; Viatkin, K.; Manzoni, S.; Houlton, B. Z.; Huang, Y.; Huang, X. et al.; Luo, Y.: Reply to “Beyond microbial carbon use efficiency. National Science Review 11 (14), nwae058 (2023)

Metz, E.-M.; Vardag, S. N.; Basu, S.; Jung, M.; Ahrens, B.; El-Madany, T. S.; Sitch, S.; Arora, V. K.; Briggs, P. R.; Friedlingstein, P. et al.; Goll, D. S.; Jain, A. K.; Kato, E.; Lombardozzi, D.; Nabel, J. E. M. S.; Poulter, B.; Séférian, R.; Tian, H.; Wiltshire, A.; Yuan, W.; Yue, X.; Zaehle, S.; Deutscher, N. M.; Griffith, D. W. T.; Butz, A.: Soil respiration–driven CO₂ pulses dominate Australia’s flux variability. Science 379, 6639, pp. 1332 - 1335 (2023)

Yu, L.; Caldararu, S.; Ahrens, B.; Wutzler, T.; Schrumpf, M.; Helfenstein, J.; Pistocchi, C.; Zaehle, S.: Improved representation of phosphorus exchange on soil mineral surfaces reduces estimates of phosphorus limitation in temperate forest ecosystems. Biogeosciences 20 (1), pp. 57 - 73 (2023)

Kengdo, S. K.; Ahrens, B.; Tian, Y.; Heinzle, J.; Wanek, W.; Schindlbacher, A.; Borken, W.: Increase in carbon input by enhanced fine root turnover in a long-term warmed forest soil. Science of the Total Environment 855, 158800 (2023)

Fan, N.; Reichstein, M.; Koirala, S.; Ahrens, B.; Mahecha , M. D.; Carvalhais, N.: Global apparent temperature sensitivity of terrestrial carbon turnover modulated by hydrometeorological factors. Nature Geoscience 15, pp. 989 - 994 (2022)

Pallandt, M.; Ahrens, B.; Koirala, S.; Lange, H.; Reichstein, M.; Schrumpf, M.; Zaehle, S.: Vertically divergent responses of SOC decomposition to soil moisture in a changing climate. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 127 (2), e2021JG006684 (2022)

Yu, L.; Ahrens, B.; Wutzler, T.; Zaehle, S.; Schrumpf, M.: Modeling soil responses to nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization along a soil phosphorus stock gradient. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 3, 543112 (2020)

Ahrens, B.; Guggenberger, G.; Rethemeyer, J.; John, S.; Marschner, B.; Heinze, S.; Angst, G.; Mueller, C. W.; Kogel-Knabner, I.; Leuschner, C. et al.; Hertel, D.; Bachmann, J.; Reichstein, M.; Schrumpf, M.: Combination of energy limitation and sorption capacity explains ¹⁴C depth gradients. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 148, 107912 (2020)

Jenny, J.-P.; Koirala, S.; Gregory-Eaves, I.; Francus, P.; Ahrens, B.; Brovkinf, V.; Ojala, A. E. K.; Zolitschka, B.; Bader, J.; Carvalhais, N.: Reply to Li et al.: Human societies began to play a significant role in global sediment transfer 4,000 years ago. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (11), pp. 5571 - 5572 (2020)

Yu, L.; Ahrens, B.; Wutzler, T.; Schrumpf, M.; Zaehle, S.: Jena Soil Model (JSM v1.0; revision 1934): a microbial soil organic carbon model integrated with nitrogen and phosphorus processes. Geoscientific Model Development 13 (2), pp. 783 - 803 (2020)

Fan, N.; Koirala, S.; Reichstein, M.; Thurner, M.; Avitabile, V.; Santoro, M.; Ahrens, B.; Weber, U.; Carvalhais, N.: Apparent ecosystem carbon turnover time: uncertainties and robust features. Earth System Science Data 12 (4), pp. 2517 - 2536 (2020)

Jenny, J.-P.; Koirala, S.; Gregory-Eaves, I.; Francus, P.; Niemann, C.; Ahrens, B.; Brovkin, V.; Baud, A.; Ojala, A. E. K.; Normandeau, A. et al.; Zolitschka, B.; Carvalhais, N.: Human and climate global-scale imprint on sediment transfer during the Holocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116 (46), pp. 22972 - 22976 (2019)

Perez‑Priego, O.; Katul, G.; Reichstein, M.; El-Madany, T. S.; Ahrens, B.; Carrara, A.; Scanlon, T. M.; Migliavacca, M.: Partitioning eddy covariance water flux components using physiological and micrometeorological approaches. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 123 (10), pp. 3353 - 3370 (2018)