Singh, J.; Levick, S. R.; Guderle, M.; Schmullius, C.; Trumbore, S. E.: Variability in fire-induced change to vegetation physiognomy and biomass in semi-arid savanna. Ecosphere 9 (12), e02514 (2018)
Ehrle, A.; Potthast, K.; Tischer, A.; Trumbore, S. E.; Michalzik, B.: Soil properties determine how Lasius flavus impact on topsoil organic matter and nutrient distribution in central Germany. Applied Soil Ecology 133, S. 166 - 176 (2018)
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)
Muhr, J.; Trumbore, S. E.; Higuchi, N.; Kunert, N.: Living on borrowed time – Amazonian trees use decade‐old storage carbon to survive for months after complete stem girdling. New Phytologist 220 (1), S. 111 - 120 (2018)
Solly, E. F.; Brunner, I.; Helmisaari, H.-S.; Herzog, C.; Leppälammi-Kujansuu, J.; Schöning, I.; Schrumpf, M.; Schweingruber, F. H.; Trumbore, S. E.; Hagedorn, F.: Unravelling the age of fine roots of temperate and boreal forests. Nature Communications 9 (1), 3006 (2018)
Furze, M. E.; Trumbore, S. E.; Hartmann, H.: Detours on the phloem sugar highway: stem carbon storage and remobilization. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 43, S. 89 - 95 (2018)
de Miranda, D. L. C.; Higuchi, N.; Trumbore, S. E.; Latorraca, J. V. F.; do Carmo, J. F.; Lima, A. J. N.: Using radiocarbon-calibrated dendrochronology to improve tree-cutting cycle estimates for timber management in southern Amazon forests. Trees 32 (2), S. 587 - 602 (2018)
Huang, J.; Hartmann, H.; Hellén, H.; Wisthaler, A.; Perreca, E.; Weinhold, A.; Rücker, A.; van Dam, N. M.; Gershenzon, J.; Trumbore, S. E.et al.; Behrendt, T.: New perspectives on CO2, temperature and light effects on BVOC emissions using online measurements by PTR-MS and cavity ring-down spectroscopy. Environmental Science & Technology 52 (23), S. 13811 - 13823 (2018)
Kumar, S.; Herrmann, M.; Blohm, A.; Hilke, I.; Frosch, T.; Trumbore, S. E.; Küsel, K.: Thiosulfate- and hydrogen-driven autotrophic denitrification by a microbial consortium enriched from groundwater of an oligotrophic limestone aquifer. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 94 (10), fiy141 (2018)
Nagy, R. C.; Porder, S.; Brando, P.; Davidson, E. A.; Figueira, A. M. e. S.; Neill, C.; Riskin, S.; Trumbore, S. E.: Soil carbon dynamics in soybean cropland and forests in Mato Grosso, Brazil. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 123 (1), S. 18 - 31 (2018)
Zhang, H.-Y.; Lü, X.-T.; Hartmann, H.; Keller, A.; Han, X.-G.; Trumbore, S. E.; Phillips, R. P.: Foliar nutrient resorption differs between arbuscular mycorrhizal and ectomycorrhizal trees at local and global scales. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27 (7), S. 875 - 885 (2018)
Kumar, S.; Herrmann, M.; Thamdrup, B.; Schwab, V. F.; Geesink, P.; Trumbore, S. E.; Totsche, K.-U.; Küsel, K.: Nitrogen loss from pristine carbonate-rock aquifers of the Hainich Critical Zone Exploratory (Germany) is primarily driven by chemolithoautotrophic anammox processes. Frontiers in Microbiology 8, 1951 (2017)
Sieburg, A.; Jochum, T.; Trumbore, S. E.; Poppacd, J.; Frosch, T.: Onsite cavity enhanced Raman spectrometry for the investigation of gas exchange processes in the Earth's critical zone. Analyst 142 (18), S. 3360 - 3369 (2017)
Assahira, C.; Fernandez Piedade, M. T.; Trumbore, S. E.; Wittmann, F.; Ladvocat Cintra, B. B.; Batista, E. S.; de Resende, A. F.; Schongart, J.: Tree mortality of a flood-adapted species in response of hydrographic changes caused by an Amazonian river dam. Forest Ecology and Management 396, S. 113 - 123 (2017)
Kunert, N.; Aparecido, L. M. T.; Wolff, S.; Higuchi, N.; Santos, J. d.; de Araujo, A. C.; Trumbore, S. E.: A revised hydrological model for the Central Amazon: The importance of emergent canopy trees in the forest water budget. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 239, S. 47 - 57 (2017)
Sierra, C.; Müller, M.; Metzler, H.; Manzoni, S.; Trumbore, S. E.: The muddle of ages, turnover, transit, and residence times in the carbon cycle. Global Change Biology 23 (5), S. 1763 - 1773 (2017)
Ehrle, A.; Andersen, A. N.; Levick, S. R.; Schumacher, J.; Trumbore, S. E.; Michalzik, B.: Yellow-meadow ant (Lasius flavus) mound development determines soil properties and growth responses of different plant functional types. European Journal of Soil Biology 81, S. 83 - 93 (2017)
Hilman, B.; Muhr, J.; Trumbore, S. E.; Kunert, N.; Carbone, M. S.; Yuval, P.; Wright, S. J.; Moreno, G.; Pérez‑Priego, O.; Migliavacca, M.et al.; Carrara, A.; Grünzweig, J. M.; Osem, Y.; Weiner, T.; Angert, A.: Comparison of CO2 and O2 fluxes demonstrate retention of respired CO2 in tree stems from a range of tree species. Biogeosciences 16 (1), S. 177 - 191 (2017)
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.
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.
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.
Precisely how does a forest system and the individual plants within it react to extreme drought? Understanding the processes involved is crucial to making forests more resilient in the increasingly dry climate that will result from climate change, and also important for refining climate models. A research team led by Prof. Dr. Christiane Werner from the University of Freiburg has conducted the most extensive experiment to date into this subject using stable isotopes to trace flows of water and carbon through a forest.
The increasing amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is causing our climate to warm at an alarming rate. Information is vital for societies who must decide on pathways to climate neutrality. The European ICOS research structure, including Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, provides this information, as described in a recent article.
Ecosystems provide multiple services for humans. However, these services depend on basic ecosystem functions which are shaped by natural conditions like climate and species composition, and human interventions. A large international research team, led by the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, identified three key indicators that together summarize the integrative function of terrestrial ecosystems.
The recent Greenhouse gas Bulletin, published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), highlights the importance of measuring greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to monitor emissions of such climate-threatening compounds.
A new study shows that, in addition to species richness, plant evolutionary history plays a critical role in regulating year-to-year variation of biomass production in grasslands. In the face of climate change, understanding the causes of variability in key ecosystem services such as biomass production is essential.
For a long time, the Montreal protocol has been taken as a success story on how to implement an international agreement on environmental sustainability. It was key to protect the Earth's ozone layer. Recently, however, researchers found out that chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) emissions have been increasing again.