Publications of A. Kleidon

Kleidon, A.: Nonequilibrium thermodynamics and maximum entropy production in the Earth system. Naturwissenschaften 96 (6), pp. 653 - 677 (2009)

Kleidon, A.: Climatic constraints on maximum levels of human metabolic activity and their relation to human evolution and global change. Climatic Change 95 (3-4), pp. 405 - 431 (2009)

Kleidon, A.; Adams, J.; Pavlick, R.; Reu, B.: Simulated geographic variations of plant species richness, evenness and abundance using climatic constraints on plant functional diversity. Environmental Research Letters 4 (1), p. 014007 (2009)

Arens, S.; Kleidon, A.: Global sensitivity of weathering rates to atmospheric CO₂ under the assumption of saturated river discharge. Mineralogical Magazine 72 (1), pp. 301 - 304 (2008)

Kleidon, A.: Entropy production by evapotranspiration and its geographic variation. Soil and Water Research 3 (S1), pp. S89 - S94 (2008)

Kleidon, A.; Schymanski, S.: Thermodynamics and optimality of the water budget on land: A review. Geophysical Research Letters 35 (20), p. L20404 (2008)

Kleidon, A.: Thermodynamics and environmental constraints make the biosphere predictable - a response to Volk. Climatic Change 85 (3-4), pp. 259 - 266 (2007)

Kleidon, A.: Journal club. Nature 445 (7128), p. 571 (2007)

Kleidon, A.: Optimized stomatal conductance and the climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide. Geophysical Research Letters 34 (14), p. L14709 (2007)

Kleidon, A.; Fraedrich, K.; Low, C.: Multiple steady-states in the terrestrial atmosphere-biosphere system: a result of a discrete vegetation classification? Biogeosciences 4 (5), pp. 707 - 714 (2007)

Kleidon, A.: Quantifying the biologically possible range of steady-state soil and surface climates with climate model simulations. Biologia (Bratislava) 61 (19), pp. S234 - S239 (2006)

Kleidon, A.: The climate sensitivity to human appropriation of vegetation productivity and its thermodynamic characterization. Global and Planetary Change 54 (1-2), pp. 109 - 127 (2006)

Kleidon, A.: How meaningful is surface temperature in characterizing the climate system response to human-driven land cover change? iLeaps Newsletter 2, pp. 16 - 17 (2006)

Jackson, R. B.; Schenk, H. J.; Jobbágy, E. G.; Canadell, J.; Colello, G. D.; Dickinson, R. E.; Field, C. B.; Friedlingstein, P.; Heimann, M.; Hibbard, K. et al.; Kicklighter, D. W.; Kleidon, A.; Neilson, R. P.; Parton, W. J.; Sala, O. E.; Sykes, M. T.: Belowground consequences of vegetation change and their treatment in models. Ecological Applications 10 (2), pp. 470 - 483 (2000)

Kleidon, A.; Fraedrich, K.; Heimann, M.: A green planet versus a desert world: Estimating the maximum effect of vegetation on the land surface climate. Climatic Change 44 (4), pp. 471 - 493 (2000)

Kleidon, A.; Heimann, M.: Assessing the role of deep rooted vegetation in the climate system with model simulations: mechanism, comparison to observations and implications for Amazonian deforestation. Climate Dynamics 16 (2-3), pp. 183 - 199 (2000)

Kleidon, A.; Heimann, M.: Deep-rooted vegetation, Amazonian deforestation, and climate: results from a modelling study. Global Ecology and Biogeography 8 (5), pp. 397 - 405 (1999)

Kleidon, A.; Heimann, M.: A method of determining rooting depth from a terrestrial biosphere model and its impacts on the global water and carbon cycle. Global Change Biology 4 (3), pp. 275 - 286 (1998)

Kleidon, A.; Heimann, M.: Optimized rooting depth and its impacts on the simulated climate of an Atmospheric General Circulation Model. Geophysical Research Letters 25 (3), pp. 345 - 348 (1998)

Kleidon, A.; Heimann, M.: Simulating root carbon storage with a coupled carbon-water cycle root model. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 21 (5-6), pp. 499 - 502 (1996)