Salazar, A.; Sanchez, A.; Dukes, J. S.; Salazar, J. F.; Clerici, N.; Lasso, E.; Sanchez-Pacheco, S. J.; Rendon, A. M.; Villegas, J. C.; Sierra, C.et al.; Poveda, G.; Quesada, B.; Uribe, M. R.; Rodríguez-Buritica, S.; Ungar, P.; Pulido-Santacruz, P.; Ruiz-Morato, N.; Arias, P. A.: Peace and the environment at the crossroads: Elections in a conflict-troubled biodiversity hotspot. Environmental Science and Policy 135, pp. 77 - 85 (2022)
Sarquis, A.; Siebenhart, I. A.; Austin, A. T.; Sierra, C. A.: Aridec: an open database of litter mass loss from aridlands worldwide with recommendations on suitable model applications. Earth System Science Data 14 (7), pp. 3471 - 3488 (2022)
Vásquez, M.; Lara, W.; del Valle, J. I.; Sierra, C.: Reconstructing past fossil-fuel CO2 concentrations using tree rings and radiocarbon in the urban area of Medellín, Colombia. Environmental Research Letters 17 (5), 055008 (2022)
Chanca, I.; Trumbore, S. E.; Macario, K.; Sierra, C.: Probability distributions of radiocarbon in open linear compartmental systems at steady-state. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 127 (3), e2021JG006673 (2022)
Azizi-Rad, M.; Guggenberger, G.; Mad, Y.; Sierra, C. A.: Sensitivity of soil respiration rate with respect to temperature, moisture and oxygen under freezing and thawing. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 165, 108488 (2022)
Heckman, K.; Hicks Pries, C. E.; Lawrence, C. R.; Rasmussen, C.; Crow , S. E.; Hoyt, A. M.; von Fromm, S. F.; Shi, Z.; Stoner, S.; McGrath, C.et al.; Beem-Miller, J.; Berhe, A. A.; Blankinship, J. C.; Keiluweit, M.; Marín-Spiotta, E.; Monroe, J. G.; Plante, A. F.; Schimel, J.; Sierra, C.; Thompson, A.; Wagai, R.: Beyond bulk: Density fractions explain heterogeneity in global soil carbon abundance and persistence. Global Change Biology 28 (3), pp. 1178 - 1196 (2022)
Giraldo, J. A.; del Valle, J. I.; González-Caro, S.; Sierra, C.: Intra-annual isotope variations in tree rings reveal growth rhythms within the least rainy season of an ever-wet tropical forest. Trees 36 (3), pp. 1039 - 1052 (2022)
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, pp. 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), pp. 1038 - 1042 (2020)
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We have gained a new external member: Prof. Dr. Christian Wirth has been appointed by the Senate of the Max Planck Society as External Scientific Member. As a former group leader and later fellow at the institute, Prof. Wirth initiated and supported the development of the TRY database, the world's largest collection on plant traits.
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