Key Publications

Wolfgang Knorr, Matthew Williams, Tea Thum, Thomas Kaminski, Michael Voßbeck, Marko Scholze, Tristan Quaife, Luke Smallmann, Susan Steele-Dunne, Mariette Vreugdenhil, Tim Green, Sönke Zaehle, Mika Aurela, Alexandre Bouvet, Emanuel Bueechi, Wouter Dorigo, Tarek S. El-Madany, Mirco Migliavacca, Marika Honkanen, Yann Kerr, Anna Kontu, Juha Lemmetyinen, Hannakaisa Lindqvist, Arnaud Mialon, Tuuli Miinalainen, Gaetan Pique, Amanda Ojasalo, Shaun Quegan, Peter Rayner, Pablo Reyes-Muñoz, Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández, Mike Schwank, Jochem Verrelst, Songyan Zhu, Dirk Schüttemeyer, and Matthias Drusch, "A comprehensive land-surface vegetation model for multi-stream data assimilation, D&B v1.0," Geoscientific Model Development 18 (7), 2137-2159 (2025).

Jacob A. Nelson*, Sophia Walther*, Fabian Gans, Basil Kraft, Ulrich Weber, Kimberly Novick, Nina Buchmann, Mirco Migliavacca, Georg Wohlfahrt, Ladislav Šigut, Andreas Ibrom, Dario Papale, Mathias Göckede, Gregory Duveiller, Alexander Knohl, Lukas Hörtnagl, Russell L. Scott, Weijie Zhang, Zayd Mahmoud Hamdi, Markus Reichstein, Sergio Aranda-Barranco, Jonas Ardö, Maarten Op de Beeck, Dave Billdesbach, David Bowling, Rosvel Bracho, Christian Brümmer, Gustau Camps-Valls, Shiping Chen, Jamie Rose Cleverly, Ankur Desai, Gang Dong, Tarek S. El-Madany, Eugenie Susanne Euskirchen, Iris Feigenwinter, Marta Galvagno, Giacomo Gerosa, Bert Gielen, Ignacio Goded, Sarah Goslee, Christopher Michael Gough, Bernard Heinesch, Kazuhito Ichii, Marcin Antoni Jackowicz-Korczynski, Anne Klosterhalfen, Sara Knox, Hideki Kobayashi, Kukka-Maaria Kohonen, Mika Korkiakoski, Ivan Mammarella, Gharun Mana, Riccardo Marzuoli, Roser Matamala, Stefan Metzger, Leonardo Montagnani, Giacomo Nicolini, Thomas O'Halloran, Jean-Marc Ourcival, Matthias Peichl, Elise Pendall, Borja Ruiz Reverter, Marilyn Roland, Simone Sabbatini, Torsten Sachs, Marius Schmidt, Christopher R. Schwalm, Ankit Shekhar, Richard Silberstein, Maria Lucia Silveira, Donatella Spano, Torbern Tagesson, Gianluca Tramontana, Carlo Trotta, Fabio Turco, Timo Vesala, Caroline Vincke, Domenico Vitale, Enrique R. Vivoni, Yi Wang, William Woodgate, Enrico A. Yepez, Junhui Zhang, Donatella Zona, and Martin Jung, "X-BASE: the first terrestrial carbon and water flux products from an extended data-driven scaling framework, FLUXCOM-X," Biogeosciences 21 (22), 5079-5115 (2024).

Melanie Köbel, Sergio Chozas, Gerardo Moreno, Mirco Migliavacca, Cristina Branquinho, and Alice Nunes, "Grasses don’t always win: Short-term effects of fertilization on taxonomic and functional diversity of a Mediterranean annual grassland," Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 373, 109125 (2024).

Richard Nair, Yunpeng Luo, Tarek S. El-Madany, Victor Rolo, Javier Pacheco-Labrador, Silvia Caldararu, Kendalynn A. Morris, Marion Schrumpf, Arnaud Carrara, Gerardo Moreno, Markus Reichstein, and Mirco Migliavacca, "Nitrogen availability and summer drought, but not N:P imbalance, drive carbon use efficiency of a Mediterranean tree-grass ecosystem," Global Change Biology 30 (9), e17486 (2024).

Martin Jung, Jacob A. Nelson, Mirco Migliavacca, Tarek S. El-Madany, Dario Papale, Markus Reichstein, Sophia Walther, and Thomas Wutzler, "Technical note: Flagging inconsistencies in flux tower data," Biogeosciences 21 (7), 1827-1846 (2024).

Sinikka Paulus, René Orth, Sung-Ching Lee, Anke Hildebrandt, Martin Jung, Jacob A. Nelson, Tarek S. El-Madany, Arnaud Carrara, Gerardo Moreno, Matthias Mauder, Jannis Groh, Alexander Graf, Markus Reichstein, and Mirco Migliavacca, "Interpretability of negative latent heat fluxes from eddy covariance measurements in dry conditions," Biogeosciences 21 (8), 2051-2085 (2024).

Paul Naethe, Andrea De Sanctis, Andreas Burkart, Petya K.E. Campbell, Roberto Colombo, Biagio Di Mauro, Alexander Damm, Tarek S. El-Madany, Francesco Fava, John A. Gamon, Karl F. Huemmrich, Mirco Migliavacca, Eugenie Paul-Limoges, Uwe Rascher, Micol Rossini, Dirk Schüttemeyer, Giulia Tagliabue, Yongguang Zhang, and Tommaso Julitta, "Towards a standardized, ground-based network of hyperspectral measurements: Combining time series from autonomous field spectrometers with Sentinel-2," Remote Sensing of Environment 303, 114013 (2024).

Victoria Shveytser, Paul C. Stoy, Brian Butterworth, Susanne Wiesner, Todd H. Skaggs, Bailey Murphy, Thomas Wutzler, Tarek S. El-Madany, and Ankur R. Desai, "Evaporation and transpiration from multiple proximal forests and wetlands," Water Resources Research 60 (1), e2022WR033757 (2024).

Paul C. Stoy, Nina Buchmann, Matthias Cuntz, John Douros, Silvano Fares, Alexander Knohl, Ladislav Sigut, Guillaume Simioni, Renske Timmermans, Thomas Grünwald, Andreas Ibrom, Benjamin Loubet, Ivan Mammarella, Luca Belelli Marchesini, Mats Nilsson, Matthias Peichl, Corinna Rebmann, Marius Schmidt, Christian Bernhofer, Daniel Berveiller, Edoardo Cremonese, Tarek S. El-Madany, Mana Gharun, Damiano Gianelle, Lukas Hortnagl, Marilyn Roland, Andrej Varlagin, Zheng Fu, Bernard Heinesch, Ivan Janssens, Natalia Kowalska, Jirí Dusek, Giacomo Gerosa, Meelis Molder, Eeva-Stiina Tuittila, and Denis Loustau, "Detection and attribution of an anomaly in terrestrial photosynthesis in Europe during the COVID-19 lockdown," Science of the Total Environment 903, 166149 (2023).

Samuel Scherrer, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, Zdenko Heyvaert, Michel Bechtold, Clement Albergel, Tarek S. El-Madany, and Wouter Dorigo, "Bias-blind and bias-aware assimilation of leaf area index into the Noah-MP land surface model over Europe," Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 27 (22), 4087-4114 (2023).

Wantong Li, Javier Pacheco-Labrador, Mirco Migliavacca, Diego Miralles, Anne J. Hoek van Dijke, Markus Reichstein, Matthias Forkel, Weijie Zhang, Christian Frankenberg, Annu Panwar, Qian Zhang, Ulrich Weber, Pierre Gentine, and René Orth, "Widespread and complex drought effects on vegetation physiology inferred from space," Nature Communications 14, 4640 (2023).

Pu Yan, Marcos Fernández-Martínez, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Guirui Yu, Mirco Migliavacca, and Nianpeng He, "The essential role of biodiversity in the key axes of ecosystem function," Global Change Biology 29 (16), 4569-4585 (2023).

Chao Fang, Qing-Fang Bi, Jiansheng` Ye, Sílvia Poblador, and Ivan Janssens, "Editorial: Forest soil carbon in a changing world," Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 6, 1244445 (2023).

Ulisse Gomarasca, M. Migliavacca, Jens Kattge, Jacob A. Nelson, Ü. Niinemets, Christian Wirth, A. Cescatti, M. Bahn, Richard Nair, A. Acosta, A. Arain, M. Beloiu, T. Black, H. H. Bruun, F. Bucher, N. Buchmann, A. Carrara, C. Byun, A. Conte, A. da Silva, Gregory Duveiller, S. Fares, A. Ibrom, A. Knohl, B. Komac, J. Limousin, C. Lusk, M. Mahecha, David Martini, V. Minden, L. Montagnani, A. Mori, Y. Onoda, J. Penuelas, O. Perez-Priego, P. Poschlod, T. Powell, P. Reich, L. Šigut, P. van Bodegom, Sophia Walther, G. Wohlfahrt, I. Wright, and Markus Reichstein, "Leaf-level coordination principles propagate to the ecosystem scale," Nature Communications 14, 3948 (2023).

Javier Pacheco-Labrador, Francesco de Bello, Mirco Migliavacca, Xuanlong Ma, Nuno Carvalhais, and Christian Wirth, "A generalizable normalization for assessing plant functional diversity metrics across scales from remote sensing," Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14 (8), 2123-2136 (2023).