Uribe, M. R.; Sierra, C.; Dukes, J. S.: Seasonality of tropical photosynthesis: A pantropical map of correlations with precipitation and radiation and comparison to model outputs. Biogeosciences 126 (11), e2020JG006123 (2021)
Stoner, S.; Hoyt, A. M.; Trumbore, S. E.; Sierra, C.; Schrumpf, M.; Doetterl, S.; Baisden, W. T.; Schipper, L. A.: Soil organic matter turnover rates increase to match increased inputs in grazed grasslands. Biogeochemistry 156, S. 145 - 160 (2021)
Sierra, C.; Metzler, H.; Mueller, M.; Kaiser, E.: Closed-loop and congestion control of the global carbon climate system. Climatic Change 165, 15 (2021)
Schulze, E. D.; Sierra, C.; Egenolf, V.; Woerdehoff, R.; Irsinger, R.; Baldamus, C.; Stupak, I.; Spellmann, H.: Response to the letters by Kun et al. and Booth et al. GCB Bioenergy 12 (12), S. 1038 - 1042 (2020)
Schulze, E. D.; Sierra, C.; Egenolf, V.; Woerdehoff, R.; Irsinger, R.; Baldamus, C.; Stupak, I.; Spellmann, H.: Forest management contributes to climate mitigation by reducing fossil fuel consumption: A response to the letter by Welle et al. GCB Bioenergy 13, S. 286 - 287 (2020)
Crow, S. E.; Wells, J. M.; Sierra, C. A.; Youkhana, A. H.; Ogoshi, R. M.; Richardson, D.; Glazer, C. T.; Meki, M. N.; Kiniry, J. R.: Carbon flow through energycane agroecosystems established post-intensive agriculture. GCB Bioenergy 12 (10), S. 806 - 817 (2020)
Ceballos-Núñez, V.; Müller, M.; Sierra, C.: Towards better representations of carbon allocation in vegetation: a conceptual framework and mathematical tool. Theoretical Ecology 13 (3), S. 317 - 332 (2020)
Jimenez, E. M.; Peñuela‐Mora, M. C.; Moreno, F.; Sierra, C.: Spatial and temporal variation of forest net primary productivity components on contrasting soils in northwestern Amazon. Ecosphere 11 (8), e03233 (2020)
Herrera-Ramirez, D.; Muhr, J.; Hartmann, H.; Roemermann, C.; Trumbore, S. E.; Sierra, C.: Probability distributions of nonstructural carbon ages and transit times provide insights into carbon allocation dynamics of mature trees. New Phytologist 26 (5), S. 1299 - 1311 (2020)
Schulze, E. D.; Sierra, C.; Egenolf, V.; Woerdehoff, R.; Irslinger, R.; Baldamus, C.; Stupak, I.; Spellman, H.: The climate change mitigation effect of bioenergy from sustainably managed forests in Central Europe. GCB Bioenergy 12 (3), S. 186 - 197 (2020)
Lawrence, C. R.; Beem-Miller, J.; Hoyt, A. M.; Monroe, G.; Sierra, C. A.; Stoner, S.; Heckman, K.; Blankinship, J. C.; Crow, S. E.; McNicol, G.et al.; Trumbore, S. E.; Levine, P. A.; Vindušková, O.; Todd-Brown, K.; Rasmussen, C.; Pries, C. E. H.; Schädel, C.; McFarlane, K.; Doetterl, S.; Hatté, C.; He, Y.; Treat, C.; Harden, J. W.; Torn, M. S.; Estop-Aragonés, C.; Berhe, A. A.; Keiluweit, M.; Kuhnen, Á. D. R.; Marin-Spiotta, E.; Plante, A. F.; Thomson, A.; Shi, Z.; Schimel, J. P.; Vaughn, L. J. S.; von Fromm, S. F.; Wagai, R.: An open-source database for the synthesis of soil radiocarbon data: International Soil Radiocarbon Database (ISRaD) version 1.0. Earth System Science Data 12 (1), S. 61 - 76 (2020)
Metzler, H.; Zhu, Q.; Riley, W.; Hoyt, A. M.; Müller, M.; Sierra, C.: Mathematical reconstruction of land carbon models from their numerical output: computing soil radiocarbon from 12C dynamics. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 12 (1), e2019MS001776 (2020)
Schädel, C.; Beem-Miller, J.; Azizi-Rad, M.; Crow, S. E.; Pries, C. H.; Ernakovich, J.; Hoyt, A. M.; Plante, A.; Stoner, S.; Treat, C. C.et al.; Sierra, C.: Decomposability of soil organic matter over time: the Soil Incubation Database (SIDb, version 1.0) and guidance for incubation procedures. Earth System Science Data 12 (3), S. 1511 - 1524 (2020)
Sierra, C. A.; Hoyt, A. M.; He, Y.; Trumbore, S. E.: Soil organic matter persistence as a stochastic process: age and transit time distributions of carbon in soils. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 32 (10), S. 1574 - 1588 (2018)
Im alljährlichen Ranking der weltweit meistzitierten und damit einflussreichen Wissenschaftler*innen sind 2024 erneut fünf Autoren unseres Instituts vertreten.
Im alljährlichen Ranking der weltweit meistzitierten und damit einflussreichen Wissenschaftler*innen sind 2023 erneut fünf Autoren unseres Instituts vertreten.
Im alljährlichen Ranking der weltweit meistzitierten und damit einflussreichen Wissenschaftler*innen sind 2023 erneut fünf Autoren unseres Instituts vertreten.
Infomationslücken in globalen Karten zu Pflanzenmerkmalen können mit Daten aus Naturbestimmungsapps geschlossen werden. Nutzer der App iNaturalist helfen der Forschung maßgeblich, globale Karten von Pflanzenmerkmalen zu erstellen. Die neuen Karten bilden unter anderem eine verbesserte Grundlage für das Verständnis von Pflanzen-Umwelt -Interaktionen und zur Erdsystemmodellierung.
A new study shows that future ecosystem functioning will increasingly depend on water availability. Using recent simulations from climate models, an international team of scientists found several “hot spot regions” where increasing water limitation strongly affects ecosystems. These include Central Europe, the Amazon, and western Russia.
Microorganisms in aquifers deep below the earth’s surface produce similar amounts of biomass as those in some marine waters. This is the finding of researchers led by the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv). The study has been published in Nature Geoscience.
You can't see them with the naked eye, but our forest ground is littered with microorganisms. They decompose falling leaves, thereby improving soil quality and counteracting climate change. But how do these single-celled organisms coordinate their tasks? An international research team has been looking into this little-understood process. The results of the study were recently published in Scientific Reports.
Scientists have succeeded in detecting changes in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels much faster than before. Using a new method, they combined atmospheric measurements of carbon dioxide (CO2) and oxygen (O2) from the north coast of the United Kingdom. The study, with the participation of the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, was published Apr. 22 in Science Advances.
International researchers found a pattern of extreme climate conditions leading to forest dieback. To do this, the team had collected worldwide records of climate-related tree and forest dieback events over the past nearly five decades. The results, recently published in Nature Communications, reveal an ominous scenario for forests in the context of ongoing global warming.
International forest experts analyzed major tree and forest dieback events that occurred globally in the last decades in response to climate extremes. To their surprise many forests were strongly affected that were not considered threatened based on current scientific understanding. The study, led by the MPI-BGC and published in Annual Reviews in Plant Biology, underscores also that further tree and forest dieback is likely to occur.
Einem internationalen Forschungsteam gelang es, global wirkende Faktoren zu erkennen, die die Vielfalt der Formen und Funktionen von Pflanzen hervorrufen. Forschenden trugen weltweit Pflanzendaten zusammen und konnten erstmalig für Merkmale wie Größe, Aufbau und Lebensspanne der Pflanzen zeigen, wie stark diese durch Klima- und Bodeneigenschaften bestimmt werden.
An international research team succeeded in identifying global factors that explain the diversity of form and function in plants. Led by the University of Zurich, the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena and the University of Leipzig, the researchers collected and analyzed plant data from around the world.