Publications of Alexander Winkler

Zhan, W.; Lian, X.; Liu, J.; Han, J.; Huang, Y.; Yang, H.; Zhan, C.; Winkler, A.; Gentine, P.: Reduced water loss rather than increased photosynthesis controls CO₂-enhanced water-use efficiency. Nature Ecology & Evolution (2025)

Wang, Y.; Braghiere, R. K.; Fischer, W. W.; Yao, Y.; Shen, Z.; Schneider, T.; Bloom, A. A.; Schimel, D.; Croft, H.; Winkler, A. J. et al.; Reichstein, M.; Frankenberg, C.: Impacts of leaf traits on vegetation optical properties in Earth system modeling. Nature Communications 16, 4968 (2025)

Winkler, A.; Sierra, C.: Towards a new generation of impulse‐response functions for integrated earth system understanding and climate change attribution. Geophysical Research Letters 52 (8), e2024GL112295 (2025)

Kou-Giesbrecht, S.; Arora, V. K.; Jones, C. D.; Brovkin, V.; Hajima, T.; Kawamiya, M.; Liddicoat, S. K.; Winkler, A.; Zaehle, S.: Rising nitrogen deposition leads to only a minor increase in CO₂ uptake in Earth system models. Communications Earth & Environment 6, 216 (2025)

Chang, Y.; Winkler, A.; Noori, A.; Knyazikhin, Y.; Myneni, R.: Precipitation leads the long-term vegetation increase in the conterminous United States drylands. Environmental Research Letters 20 (4), 044006 (2025)

Benson, V.; Bastos, A.; Reimers, C.; Winkler, A.; Yang, F.; Reichstein, M.: Atmospheric transport modeling of CO₂ with neural networks. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 17 (2), e2024MS004655 (2025)

Li, N.; Sippel, S.; Linscheid, N.; Rödenbeck, C.; Winkler, A.; Reichstein, M.; Mahecha, M. D.; Bastos, A.: Enhanced global carbon cycle sensitivity to tropical temperature linked to internal climate variability. Science Advances 10 (39), eadl6155 (2024)

Liu, G.; Migliavacca, M.; Reimers, C.; Kraft, B.; Reichstein, M.; Richardson, A. D.; Wingate, L.; Delpierre, N.; Yang, H.; Winkler, A.: DeepPhenoMem V1.0: Deep learning modelling of canopy greenness dynamics accounting for multi-variate meteorological memory effects on vegetation phenology. Geoscientific Model Development 17 (17), pp. 6683 - 6701 (2024)

Winkler, A.; Myneni, R.; Reimers, C.; Reichstein, M.; Brovkin, V.: Carbon system state determines warming potential of emissions. PLOS ONE 19 (8), e0306128 (2024)

Mahecha, M. D.; Bastos, A.; Bohn, F.; Eisenhauer, N.; Feilhauer, H.; Hickler, T.; Kalesse-Los, H.; Migliavacca, M.; Otto, F. E. L.; Peng, J. et al.; Tegen, I.; Weigelt, A.; Wendisch, M.; Wirth, C.; Al-Halbouni, D.; Deneke, H. M.; Doktor, D.; Dunker, S.; Duveiller, G.; Ehrlich, A.; Foth, A.; García-García, A.; Guerra, C. A.; Guimarães-Steinicke, C.; Hartmann, H.; Henning, S.; Herrmann, H.; Ji, C.; Kattenborn, T.; Kolleck, N.; Kretschmer, M.; Kühn, I.; Luttkus, M. L.; Maahn, M.; Mönks, M.; Mora, K.; Pöhlker, M.; Reichstein, M.; Rüger, N.; Sánchez-Parra, B.; Schäfer, M.; Sippel, S.; Tesche, M.; Wehner, B.; Wieneke, S.; Winkler, A.; Wolf, S.; Zaehle, S.; Zscheischler, J.; Quaas, J.: Biodiversity and climate extremes: known interactions and research gaps. Earth's Future 12 (6), e2023EF003963 (2024)

Zhan, C.; Orth, R.; Yang, H.; Reichstein, M.; Zaehle, S.; De Kauwe, M. G.; Rammig, A.; Winkler, A.: Estimating the CO₂ fertilization effect on extratropical forest productivity from Flux-tower observations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 129 (6), e2023JG007910 (2024)

Son, R.; Stacke, T.; Gayler, V.; Nabel, J. E. M. S.; Schnur, R.; Alonso, L.; Requena Mesa, C.; Winkler, A.; Hantson, S.; Zaehle, S. et al.; Weber, U.; Carvalhais, N.: Integration of a deep-learning-based fire model into a global land surface model. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 16 (1), e2023MS003710 (2024)

Panwar, A.; Migliavacca, M.; Nelson, J. A.; Cortés, J.; Bastos, A.; Forkel , M.; Winkler, A.: Methodological challenges and new perspectives of shifting vegetation phenology in eddy covariance data. Scientific Reports 13, 13885 (2023)

ElGhawi, R.; Kraft, B.; Reimers, C.; Reichstein, M.; Körner, M.; Gentine, P.; Winkler, A. J.: Hybrid modeling of evapotranspiration: inferring stomatal and aerodynamic resistances using combined physics-based and machine learning. Environmental Research 18, 034039 (2023)

Zhan, C.; Orth, R.; Migliavacca, M.; Zaehle, S.; Reichstein, M.; Engel, J.; Rammig, A.; Winkler, A.: Emergence of the physiological effects of elevated CO₂ on land-atmosphere exchange of carbon and water. Global Change Biology 28 (24), pp. 7313 - 7326 (2022)

Li, N.; Sippel, S.; Winkler, A.; Mahecha, M. D.; Reichstein, M.; Bastos, A.: Interannual global carbon cycle variations linked to atmospheric circulation variability. Earth System Dynamics 13 (4), pp. 1505 - 1533 (2022)

Denissen, J. M. C.; Teuling, A. J.; Pitman, A. J.; Koirala, S.; Migliavacca, M.; Li, W.; Reichstein, M.; Winkler, A.; Zhan, C.; Orth, R.: Widespread shift from ecosystem energy to water limitation with climate change. Nature Climate Change 12, pp. 677 - 684 (2022)

Winkler, A.; Myneni, R. B.; Hannart, A.; Sitch, S.; Haverd, V.; Lombardozzi, D.; Arora, V. K.; Pongratz, J.; Nabel, J. E. M. S.; Goll, D. S. et al.; Kato, E.; Tian, H.; Arneth, A.; Friedlingstein, P.; Jain, A. K.; Zaehle, S.; Brovkin, V.: Slowdown of the greening trend in natural vegetation with further rise in atmospheric CO₂. Biogeosciences 18 (17), pp. 4985 - 5010 (2021)

Winkler, A.; Myneni, R. B.; Brovkin, V.: Investigating the applicability of emergent constraints. Earth System Dynamics 10 (3), pp. 501 - 523 (2019)

Park, T.; Chen, C.; Macias-Fauria, M.; Tømmervik, H.; Choi, S.; Winkler, A.; Bhatt, U. S.; Walker, D. A.; Piao, S.; Brovkin, V. et al.; Nemani, R. R.; Myneni, R. B.: Changes in timing of seasonal peak photosynthetic activity in northern ecosystems. Global Change Biology 25 (7), pp. 2382 - 2395 (2019)