Reu, B.; Zaehle, S.; Bohn, K.; Pavlick, R.; Schmidtlein, S.; Williams, J. W.; Kleidon, A.: Future no-analogue vegetation produced by no-analogue combinations of temperature and insolation. Global Ecology and Biogeography 23 (2), pp. 156 - 167 (2014)
Pavlick, R.; Drewry, D. T.; Bohn, K.; Reu, B.; Kleidon, A.: The Jena Diversity-Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (JeDi-DGVM): a diverse approach to representing terrestrial biogeography and biogeochemistry based on plant functional trade-offs. Biogeosciences 10, pp. 4137 - 4177 (2013)
Bohn, K.; Dyke, J. G.; Pavlick, R.; Reineking, B.; Reu, B.; Kleidon, A.: The relative importance of seed competition, resource competition and perturbations on community structure. Biogeosciences 8 (5), pp. 1107 - 1120 (2011)
Reu, B.; Proulx, R.; Bohn, K.; Dyke, J. G.; Kleidon, A.; Pavlick, R.; Schmidtlein, S.: The role of climate and plant functional trade-offs in shaping global biome and biodiversity patterns. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (4), pp. 570 - 581 (2011)
Reu, B.; Zaehle, S.; Proulx, R.; Bohn, K.; Kleidon, A.; Pavlick, R.; Schmidtlein, S.: The role of plant functional trade-offs for biodiversity changes and biome shifts under scenarios of global climatic change. Biogeosciences 8 (5), pp. 1255 - 1266 (2011)
Kleidon, A.; Adams, J.; Pavlick, R.; Reu, B.: Simulated geographic variations of plant species richness, evenness and abundance using climatic constraints on plant functional diversity. Environmental Research Letters 4 (1), p. 014007 (2009)
Reu, B.: Constraints and tradeoffs in plant functioning; towards a mechanistic understanding of global vegetation distribution. Dissertation, XII, 94 pp., Universität, Bonn (2011)
Extreme precipitation should increase with warmer temperatures. Data from tropical regions show that this correlation is obscured by the cooling effect of clouds. When cloud effects are corrected, the increase in extreme precipitation with rising temperatures becomes apparent.
Land surface temperatures are shaped mostly by the heating by sunlight, but also by evaporation and convective heat transfer in the vertical. A new study determined the role of these two processes by employing a physical limit.
Axel Kleidon discusses contemporary issues relating to the Earth system, thermodynamics, energy conversion, and the water cycle, and explains the current state of scientific knowledge in these areas.