Buendía, C.; Kleidon, A.; Porporato, A.: The role of tectonic uplift, climate and vegetation in the long-term terrestrial phosphorous cycle. Biogeosciences 7 (6), pp. 2025 - 2038 (2010)
Dyke, J.; Kleidon, A.: The Maximum Entropy Production Principle: Its Theoretical Foundations and Applications to the Earth System. Entropy 12 (3), pp. 613 - 630 (2010)
Kleidon, A.: Non-equilibrium thermodynamics, maximum entropy production and Earth-system evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London - Series A: Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 368 (1910), pp. 181 - 196 (2010)
Kleidon, A.: A basic introduction to the thermodynamics of the Earth system far from equilibrium and maximum entropy production. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 365 (1545), pp. 1303 - 1315 (2010)
Kleidon, A.: Life as the major driver of planetary geochemical disequilibrium: Reply to comments on "Life, hierarchy, and the thermodynamic machinery of planet Earth". Physics of Life Reviews 7 (4), pp. 473 - 476 (2010)
Kleidon, A.; Malhi, Y.; Cox, P. M.: Maximum entropy production in environmental and ecological systems Introduction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 365 (1545), pp. 1297 - 1302 (2010)
Schymanski, S. J.; Kleidon, A.; Stieglitz, M.; Narula, J.: Maximum entropy production allows a simple representation of heterogeneity in semiarid ecosystems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 365 (1545), pp. 1449 - 1455 (2010)
Simoncini, E.; Kleidon, A.; Gallori, E.: The emergence of life: Thermodynamics of chemical free energy generation in off-axis hydrothermal vent systems and its consequences for compartmentalization and life's origins. Journal of Cosmology 10, pp. 3325 - 3344 (2010)
Xu, X. K.; Kleidon, A.; Miller, L.; Wang, S. Q.; Wang, L. Q.; Dong, G. C.: Late Quaternary glaciation in the Tianshan and implications for palaeoclimatic change: a review. Boreas 39 (2), pp. 215 - 232 (2010)
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.; 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)
The BIOMASS satellite was successfully launched into orbit on 29 April 2025. The BIOMASS mission is designed to map and monitor global forests. It will map the structure of different forest types and provide data on above-ground biomass.
Thanks to FLUXCOM-X, the next generation of data driven, AI-based earth system models, scientists can now see the Earth’s metabolism at unprecedented detail – assessed everywhere on land and every hour of the day.
David Hafezi Rachti was awarded twice: for his EGU poster with this year’s “Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation” (OSPP) and for his Bachelor thesis, he received the 1st prize of the “Young Climate Scientist Award 2024”.
The Global Carbon Project shows that fossil CO2 emissions will continue to rise in 2024. There is no sign of the rapid and substantial decline in emissions that would be needed to limit the impact of climate change
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.
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.
From the Greek philosopher Aristotle to Charles Darwin to the present day, scientists have dealt with this fundamental question of biology. Contrary to public perception, however, it is still largely unresolved. Scientists have now presented a new approach for the identification and delimitation of species using artificial intelligence (AI).
When it comes to studying climate change, we generally assume that the total amount of carbon emissions determines how much the planet will warm. A new study suggests that not only the amount, but also the timing of those emissions controls the amount of surface warming that occurs on human time-scale.