Marquard, E.; Weigelt, A.; Temperton, V. M.; Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Buchmann, N.; Fischer, M.; Weisser, W. W.; Schmid, B.: Plant species richness and functional composition drive overyielding in a six-year grassland experiment. Ecology 90 (12), pp. 3290 - 3302 (2009)
Roscher, C.; Temperton, V. M.; Buchmann, N.; Schulze, E. D.: Community assembly and biomass production in regularly and never weeded experimental grasslands. Acta oecologica: international journal of ecology 35 (2), pp. 206 - 217 (2009)
Vaganov, E. A.; Schulze, E. D.; Skomarkova, M. V.; Knohl, A.; Brand, W. A.; Roscher, C.: Intra-annual variability of anatomical structure and δ 13C values within tree rings of spruce and pine in alpine, temperate and boreal Europe. Oecologia 161 (4), pp. 729 - 745 (2009)
Fischer, M.; Rottstock, T.; Marquard, M.; Middelhoff, C.; Roscher, C.; Temperton, V. M.; Oelmann, Y.; Weigelt, A.: L'expérience de léna démontre les avantages de la diversité végétale pour les prairies. Fourrages 195, pp. 275 - 286 (2008)
Lorentzen, S.; Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Schulze, E. D.; Schmid, B.: Species richness and identity affect the use of aboveground space in experimental grasslands. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 10 (2), pp. 73 - 87 (2008)
Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Weisser, W. W.; Schulze, E. D.: Genetic identity affects performance of species in grasslands of different plant diversity: An experiment with Lolium perenne cultivars. Annals of Botany 102 (1), pp. 113 - 125 (2008)
Roscher, C.; Thein, S.; Schmid, B.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.: Complementary nitrogen use among potentially dominant species in a biodiversity experiment varies between two years. Journal of Ecology 96 (3), pp. 477 - 488 (2008)
Thein, S.; Roscher, C.; Schulze, E.-D.: Effects of trait plasticity on aboveground biomass production depend on species identity in experimental grasslands. Basic and Applied Ecology 9 (5), pp. 475 - 484 (2008)
Oelmann, Y.; Kreutziger, Y.; Temperton, V. M.; Buchmann, N.; Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Schulze, E. D.; Weisser, W. W.; Wilcke, W.: Nitrogen and phosphorus budgets in experimental grasslands of variable diversity. Journal of Environmental Quality 36 (2), pp. 396 - 407 (2007)
Oelmann, Y.; Wilcke, W.; Temperton, V. M.; Buchmann, N.; Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Schulze, E.-D.; Weisser, W. W.: Soil and plant nitrogen pools as related to plant diversity in an experimental grassland. Soil Science Society of America 71 (3), pp. 720 - 729 (2007)
Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Foitzik, O.; Schulze, E. D.: Resistance to rust fungi in Lolium perenne depends on within-species variation and performance of the host species in grasslands of different plant diversity. Oecologia 153 (1), pp. 173 - 183 (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.
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.