Schaphoff, S.; von Bloh, W.; Rammig, A.; Thonicke, K.; Biemans, H.; Forkel, M.; Gerten, D.; Heinke, J.; Jägermeyr, J.; Knauer, J.et al.; Langerwisch, F.; Lucht, W.; Müller, C.; Rolinski, S.; Waha, K.: LPJmL4 – a dynamic global vegetation model with managed land – Part 1: Model description. Geoscientific Model Development 11 (4), pp. 1343 - 1375 (2018)
Knauer, J.; Zaehle, S.; Reichstein, M.; Medlyn, B. E.; Forkel, M.; Hagemann, S.; Werner, C.: The response of ecosystem water-use efficiency to rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations: sensitivity and large-scale biogeochemical implications. New Phytologist 213 (4), pp. 1654 - 1666 (2017)
Filippa, G.; Cremonese, E.; Migliavacca, M.; Galvagno, M.; Forkel, M.; Wingate, L.; Tomelleri, E.; di Cella, U. M.; Richardson, A. D.: Phenopix: A R package for image-based vegetation phenology. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 220, pp. 141 - 150 (2016)
Sippel, S.; Otto, F. E. L.; Forkel, M.; Allen, M. R.; Guillod, B. P.; Heimann, M.; Reichstein, M.; Seneviratne, S. I.; Thonicke, K.; Mahecha, M. D.: A novel bias correction methodology for climate impact simulations. Earth System Dynamics 7 (1), pp. 71 - 88 (2016)
Thurner, M.; Beer, C.; Carvalhais, N.; Forkel, M.; Santoro, M.; Tum, M.; Schmullius, C.: Large-scale variation in boreal and temperate forest carbon turnover rate is related to climate. Geophysical Research Letters 43 (9), pp. 4576 - 4585 (2016)
Forkel, M.; Migliavacca, M.; Thonicke, K.; Reichstein, M.; Schaphoff, S.; Weber, U.; Carvalhais, N.: Codominant water control on global interannual variability and trends in land surface phenology and greenness. Global Change Biology 21 (9), pp. 3414 - 3435 (2015)
Forkel, M.; Carvalhais, N.; Schaphoff, S.; Bloh, W. v.; Migliavacca, M.; Thurner, M.; Thonicke, K.: Identifying environmental controls on vegetation greenness phenology through model-data integration. Biogeosciences 11 (23), pp. 7025 - 7050 (2014)
Urban, M.; Forkel, M.; Eberle, J.; Hüttich, C.; Schmullius, C.; Herold, M.: Pan-arctic climate and land cover trends derived from multi-variate and multi-scale analyses (1981–2012). Remote Sensing 6 (3), pp. 2296 - 2316 (2014)
Urban, M.; Forkel, M.; Schmullius, C.; Hese, S.; Hüttich, C.; Herold, M.: Identification of land surface temperature and albedo trends in AVHRR pathfinder data from 1982 to 2005 for northern Siberia. International Journal of Remote Sensing 34 (12), pp. 4491 - 4507 (2014)
Forkel, M.; Carvalhais, N.; Verbesselt, J.; Mahecha, M. D.; Neigh, C. S.R.; Reichstein, M.: Trend change detection in NDVI time series: Effects of inter-annual variability and methodology. Remote Sensing 5 (5), pp. 2113 - 2144 (2013)
Forkel, M.; Thonicke, K.; Beer, C.; Cramer, W.; Bartalev, S.; Schmullius, C.: Extreme fire events are related to previous-year surface moisture conditions in permafrost-underlain larch forests of Siberia. Environmental Research Letters 7 (4), 044021 (2012)
Forkel, M.: Controls on Global Greening, Phenology and the Enhanced Seasonal CO2 Amplitude: Integrating Decadal Satellite Observations and Global Ecosystem Models. Dissertation, 323 pp., Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena (2015)
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.
More frequent strong storms are destroying ever larger areas of the Amazon rainforest. Storm damage was mapped between 1985 and 2020. The total area of affected forests roughly quadrupled in the period studied.
Recently, representatives of the Brazilian Ministry of Research and foreign ambassadors visited the German-Brazilian research station ATTO. On site, Research Minister Pontes promised multi-million investments in Amazon research and also in ATTO. This is intended to further expand the infrastructure and strengthen research in Brazil.
For the German-Brazilian joint project ATTO (Amazon Tall Tower Observatory), the Max Planck Society on the German side will continue to ensure the continued operation of the research station in the Brazilian rainforest and research. In addition, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will fund the project with ATTO+ for another three years with around 5 million euros.