Benk, S.; Yan, L.; Lehmann, R.; Roth, V.-N.; Schwab, V. F.; Totsche, K. U.; Küsel, K.; Gleixner, G.: Fueling diversity in the subsurface: Composition and age of dissolved organic matter in the critical zone. Frontiers in Earth Science 7, 296 (2019)
Simon, C.; Roth, V.-N.; Dittmar, T.; Gleixner, G.: Molecular signals of heterogeneous terrestrial environments identified in dissolved organic matter: a comparative analysis of orbitrap and ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometers. Frontiers in Earth Science 6, 138 (2018)
Seifert, A.-G.; Roth, V.-N.; Dittmar, T.; Gleixner, G.; Breuer, L.; Houska, T.; Marxsen, J.: Comparing molecular composition of dissolved organic matter in soil and stream water: Influence of land use and chemical characteristics. Science of the Total Environment 571, pp. 142 - 152 (2016)
Roth, V.-N.; Dittmar, T.; Gaupp, R.; Gleixner, G.: The molecular composition of dissolved organic matter in forest soils as a function of pH and temperature. PLoS One 10 (3), e0119188 (2015)
Roth, V.-N.; Dittmar, T.; Gaupp, R.; Gleixner, G.: Latitude and pH driven trends in the molecular composition of DOM across a north south transect along the Yenisei River. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 123, pp. 93 - 105 (2013)
Roth, V.-N.: Molecular characterization of dissolved organic matter by ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2013)
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.