Flessa, H.; Amelung, W.; Helfrich, M.; Wiesenberg, G. L. B.; Gleixner, G.; Brodowski, S.; Rethemeyer, J.; Kramer, C.; Grootes, P. M.: Storage and stability of organic matter and fossil carbon in a Luvisol and Phaeozem with continuous maize cropping: A synthesis. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 171 (1), pp. 36 - 51 (2008)
Marschner, B.; Brodowski, S.; Dreves, A.; Gleixner, G.; Gude, A.; Grootes, P. M.; Hamer, U.; Heim, A.; Jandl, G.; Ji, R.et al.; Kaiser, K.; Kalbitz, K.; Kramer, C.; Leinweber, P.; Rethemeyer, J.; Schaeffer, A.; Schmidt, M. W. I.; Schwark, L.; Wiesenberg, G. L. B.: How relevant is recalcitrance for the stabilization of organic matter in soils? Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 171 (1), pp. 91 - 110 (2008)
Mügler, I.; Sachse, D.; Werner, M.; Xu, B. Q.; Wu, G. J.; Yao, T. D.; Gleixner, G.: Effect of lake evaporation on δ D values of lacustrine n-alkanes: A comparison of Nam Co (Tibetan Plateau) and Holzmaar (Germany). Organic Geochemistry 39 (6), pp. 711 - 729 (2008)
Steinbeiss, S.; Temperton, V. M.; Gleixner, G.: Mechanisms of short-term soil carbon storage in experimental grasslands. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40 (10), pp. 2634 - 2642 (2008)
Tyler, J. J.; Leng, M. J.; Sloane, H. J.; Sachse, D.; Gleixner, G.: Oxygen isotope ratios of sedimentary biogenic silica reflect the European transcontinental climate gradient. Journal of Quaternary Science 23 (4), pp. 341 - 350 (2008)
Xia, Z. H.; Xu, B. Q.; Mügler, I.; Wu, G. J.; Gleixner, G.; Sachse, D.; Zhu, L. P.: Hydrogen isotope ratios of terrigenous n-alkanes in lacustrine surface sediment of the Tibetan Plateau record the precipitation signal. Geochemical Journal 42 (4), pp. 331 - 338 (2008)
Ekberg, A.; Buchmann, N.; Gleixner, G.: Rhizospheric influence on soil respiration and decomposition in a temperate Norway spruce stand. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 39 (8), pp. 2103 - 2110 (2007)
Hettmann, E.; Brand, W. A.; Gleixner, G.: Improved isotope ratio measurement performance in liquid chromatography/isotope ratio mass spectrometry by removing excess oxygen. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 21 (24), pp. 4135 - 4141 (2007)
Prokushkin, A. S.; Gleixner, G.; Mcdowell, W. H.; Rühlow, S.; Schulze, E. D.: Source- and substrate-specific export of dissolved organic matter from permafrost-dominated forested watershed in central Siberia. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 21 (4), p. GB4003 (2007)
Rubino, M.; Lubritto, C.; D'onofrio, A.; Terrasi, F.; Gleixner, G.; Cotrufo, M. F.: An isotopic method for testing the influence of leaf litter quality on carbon fluxes during decomposition. Oecologia 154 (1), pp. 155 - 166 (2007)
Kramer, C.; Gleixner, G.: Variable use of plant- and soil-derived carbon by microorganisms in agricultural soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38 (11), pp. 3267 - 3278 (2006)
Krull, E.; Sachse, D.; Mügler, I.; Thiele, A.; Gleixner, G.: Compound-specific δ13C and δ2H analyses of plant and soil organic matter: A preliminary assessment of the effects of vegetation change on ecosystem hydrology. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38 (11), pp. 3211 - 3221 (2006)
Sachse, D.; Radke, J.; Gleixner, G.: δ D values of individual n-alkanes from terrestrial plants along a climatic gradient - Implications for the sedimentary biomarker record. Organic Geochemistry 37 (4), pp. 469 - 483 (2006)
Steinbeiss, S.; Schmidt, C. M.; Heide, K.; Gleixner, G.: δ 13C values of pyrolysis products from cellulose and lignin represent the isotope content of their precursors. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis 75 (1), pp. 19 - 26 (2006)
Extreme climate events endanger groundwater quality and stability, when rain water evades natural purification processes in the soil. This was demonstrated in long-term groundwater analyses using new analytical methods.
Extreme precipitation should increase with warmer temperatures. Data from tropical regions show that this correlation is obscured by the cooling effect of clouds. When cloud effects are corrected, the increase in extreme precipitation with rising temperatures becomes apparent.
More frequent strong storms are destroying ever larger areas of the Amazon rainforest. Storm damage was mapped between 1985 and 2020. The total area of affected forests roughly quadrupled in the period studied.
In the annual ranking of the world's most cited and thus most influential scientists, five authors from our institute are once again represented in 2024.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina will hold a joint conference on the challenges of achieving carbon neutrality in Berlin on October 29-30, 2024.
A recent study by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and the University of Leipzig suggests that increasing droughts in the tropics and changing carbon cycle responses due to climate change are not primarily responsible for the strong tropical response to rising temperatures. Instead, a few particularly strong El Niño events could be the cause.
A study by Leipzig University, the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig (iDiv) and the MPI for Biogeochemistry shows that gaps in the canopy of a mixed floodplain forest have a direct influence on the temperature and moisture in the forest soil, but only a minor effect on soil activity.
The Chapter of the Order has elected the writer, philosopher and filmmaker Alexander Kluge and the mathematician Gerd Faltings as domestic members of the Order and the geologist Susan Trumbore and the literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt as foreign members.
EU funds the international research project AI4PEX to further improve Earth system models and thus scientific predictions of climate change. Participating scientists from 9 countries met at the end of May 2024 to launch the project at the MPI for Biogeochemistry in Jena, which is leading the project.