Kariyathan, T.; Bastos, A.; Marshall, J.; Peters, W.; Tans, P.; Reichstein, M.: Reducing errors on estimates of the carbon uptake period based on time series of atmospheric CO2. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 16 (12), pp. 3299 - 3312 (2023)
Mahecha, M. D.; Bastos, A.; Bohn, F. J.; Eisenhauer, N.; Feilhauer, H.; Hartmann, H.; Hickler, T.; Kalesse-Los, H.; Migliavacca, M.; Otto, F. E. L.et al.; Peng, J.; Quaas, J.; Tegen, I.; Weigelt, A.; Wendisch, M.; Wirth, C.: Biodiversity loss and climate extremes — study the feedbacks. Nature 612, pp. 30 - 32 (2022)
Ruiz-Vásquez, M.; O, S.; Brenning, A.; Koster, R. D.; Balsamo, G.; Weber, U.; Arduini, G.; Bastos, A.; Reichstein, M.; Orth, R.: Exploring the relationship between temperature forecast errors and Earth system variables. Earth System Dynamics 13 (4), pp. 1451 - 1471 (2022)
Bastos, A.; Ciais, P.; Sitch, S.; Aragão, L. E. O. C.; Chevallier, F.; Fawcett, D.; Rosan, T. M.; Saunois, M.; Günther, D.; Perugini, L.et al.; Robert, C.; Deng, Z.; Pongratz, J.; Ganzenmüller, R.; Fuchs, R.; Winkler, K.; Zaehle, S.; Albergel, C.: On the use of Earth Observation to support estimates of national greenhouse gas emissions and sinks for the Global stocktake process: lessons learned from ESA-CCI RECCAP2. Carbon Balance and Management 17, 15 (2022)
Liu, Z.; Kimball, J. S.; Ballantyne, A. P.; Parazoo, N. C.; Wang, W. J.; Bastos, A.; Madani, N.; Natali, S. M.; Watts, J. D.; Rogers, B. M.et al.; Ciais, P.; Yu, K.; Virkkala, A.-M.; Chevallier, F.; Peters, W.; Chandra, P. K. P. .: Respiratory loss during late-growing season determines the net carbon dioxide sink in northern permafrost regions. Nature Communications 13, 5626 (2022)
Ermitao, T.; Gouveia, C. M.; Bastos, A.; Russo, A. C.: Interactions between hot and dry fuel conditions and vegetation dynamics in the 2017 fire season in Portugal. Environmental Research Letters 17 (9), 095009 (2022)
Wu, M.; Manzoni, S.; Vico, G.; Bastos, A.; de Vries, F.; Messori, G.: Drought legacy in sub-seasonal vegetation state and sensitivity to climate over the Northern Hemisphere. Geophysical Research Letters 49 (15), e2022GL098700 (2022)
Wang, K.; Bastos, A.; Ciais, P.; Wang, X.; Rödenbeck, C.; Gentine, P.; Chevallier, F.; Humphrey, V. W.; Huntingford, C.; O'Sullivan, M.et al.; Seneviratne, S. I.; Sitch, S.; Piao, S.: Regional and seasonal partitioning of water and temperature controls on global land carbon uptake variability. Nature Communications 13, 3469 (2022)
Crisp, D.; Dolman, H.; Tanhua, T.; McKinley, G. A.; Hauck, J.; Bastos, A.; Sitch, S.; Eggleston, S.; Aich, V.: How well do we understand the land-ocean-atmosphere carbon cycle? Reviews of Geophysics 60 (2), e2021RG000736 (2022)
Fu, Z.; Ciais, P.; Prentice, I. C.; Gentine, P.; Makowski, D.; Bastos, A.; Luo, X.; Green, J. K.; Stoy, P. C.; Yang, H.et al.; Hajima, T.: Atmospheric dryness reduces photosynthesis along a large range of soil water deficits. Nature Communications 13, 989 (2022)
We have gained a new external member: Prof. Dr. Christian Wirth has been appointed by the Senate of the Max Planck Society as External Scientific Member. As a former group leader and later fellow at the institute, Prof. Wirth initiated and supported the development of the TRY database, the world's largest collection on plant traits.
Information gaps in global maps of plant characteristics can be filled with data from nature identification apps. Users of the iNaturalist app are playing a key role in helping researchers create global maps of plant traits. Among other things, the new maps provide an improved basis for understanding plant-environment interactions and for Earth system modeling.
An international research team has succeeded in identifying globally acting factors that cause the diversity of forms and functions of plants. Researchers compiled plant data from around the world and were able to show for the first time how strongly these are determined by climate and soil properties for characteristics such as the size, structure and life span of plants.