Sippel, S.; Zscheischler, J.; Mahecha, M. D.; Orth, R.; Reichstein, M.; Vogel, M.; Seneviratne, S. I.: Refining multi-model projections of temperature extremes by evaluation against land–atmosphere coupling diagnostics. Earth System Dynamics 8 (2), pp. 387 - 403 (2017)
Chu, H.; Baldocchi, D. D.; John, R.; Wolf, S.; Reichstein, M.: Fluxes all of the time? A primer on the temporal representativeness of FLUXNET. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 122 (2), pp. 289 - 307 (2017)
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)
Reuter, M.; Buchwitz, M.; Hilker, M.; Heymann, J.; Bovensmann, H.; Burrows, J. P.; Houweling, S.; Liu, Y. Y.; Nassar, R.; Chevallier, F.et al.; Ciais, P.; Marshall, J.; Reichstein, M.: How much CO2 is taken up by the European terrestrial biosphere? Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 98 (4), pp. 665 - 671 (2017)
Sippel, S.; Zscheischler, J.; Heimann, M.; Lange, H.; Mahecha, M. D.; van Oldenborgh, G. J.; Otto, F. E. L.; Reichstein, M.: Have precipitation extremes and annual totals been increasing in the world’s dry regions over the last 60 years? Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 21 (1), pp. 441 - 458 (2017)
Sippel, S.; Zscheischler, J.; Reichstein, M.: Ecosystem impacts of climate extremes crucially depend on the timing (commentary). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113 (21), pp. 5768 - 5770 (2016)
Campioli, M.; Malhi, Y.; Vicca, S.; Luyssaert, S.; Papale, D.; Peñuelas, J.; Reichstein, M.; Migliavacca, M.; Arain, M. A.; Janssens, I. A.: Evaluating the convergence between eddy covariance and biometric methods for assessing carbon budgets of forests. Nature Communications 7, 13717 (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)
Gross, A.; Turner, B. L.; Wright, S. J.; Tanner, E. V. J.; Reichstein, M.; Weiner, T.; Angert, A.: Oxygen isotope ratios of plant available phosphate in lowland tropical forest soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 88, pp. 354 - 361 (2015)
Ahrens, B.; Braakhekke, M. C.; Guggenberger, G.; Schrumpf, M.; Reichstein, M.: Contribution of sorption, DOC transport and microbial interactions to the 14C age of a soil organic carbon profile: Insights from a calibrated process model. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 88, pp. 390 - 402 (2015)
Frank, D.; Reichstein, M.; Bahn, M.; Frank, D.; Mahecha, M. D.; Smith, P.; Thonicke, K.; van der Velde, M.; Vicca, S.; Babst, F.et al.; Beer, C.; Buchmann, N.; Canadell, J. G.; Ciais, P.; Cramer, W.; Ibrom, A.; Miglietta, F.; Poulter, B.; Rammig, A.; Seneviratne, S. I.; Walz, A.; Wattenbach, M.; Zavala, M. A.; Zscheischler, J.: Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts. Global Change Biology 21, pp. 2861 - 2880 (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.