Exploring the Earth System
We contribute to the understanding of how living organisms – including humans - exchange fundamental resources like water, carbon, nitrogen and energy with their environment, and how this affects and responds to global climate and environmental change.
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 | Geological alteration of algal steroids mimics early animal signaturesNovember 23, 2020Fossil fat molecules isolated from 635 million year old rocks that were assigned to animal life turn out to be altered algal molecules. more |
 | Highly cited influential authors: Again 5 BGC scientists in citation ranking 2020November 19, 2020In the annual ranking of the world's most cited and influential scientists, again five authors from our institute are represented. more |
 | Award ceremony: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prizes 2020, prize winner Markus ReichsteinNovember 09, 2020Virtual presentation of the awards by DFG President Katja Becker and Federal Minister of Education and Research, Anja Karliczek more |
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Recent Publications
| Demographic performance of European tree species at their hot and cold climatic edges Kunstler, G., Guyennon, A., Ratcliffe, S., Rüger, N., Ruiz-Benito, P., Childs, D. Z., Dahlgren, J., Lehtonen, A., Thuiller, W., Wirth, C., Zavala, M. A., Salguero-Gomez, R. (2020) Journal of Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13533 |
| Estimating CH4, CO2 and CO emissions from coal mining and industrial activities in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin using an aircraft-based mass balance approach Fiehn, A., Kostinek, J., Eckl, M., Klausner, T., Galkowski, M., Chen, J., Gerbig, C., Röckmann, T., Maazallahi, H., Schmidt, M., Korben´, P., Neçki, J., Jagoda, P., Wildmann, N., Mallaun, C., Bun, R., Nickl, A.-L., Jöckel, P., Fix, A., Roiger, A. (2020) Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 20, 12675-12695. doi:10.5194/acp-20-12675-2020 |
| The role of climate, foliar stoichiometry and plant diversity on ecosystem carbon balance Fernández-Martínez, M., Sardans, J., Musavi, T., Migliavacca, M., Iturrate-Garcia, M., Scholes, R. J., Peñuelas, J., Janssens, I. A. (2020) Global Change Biology. doi:10.1111/gcb.15385 |
| The regional European atmospheric transport inversion comparison, EUROCOM: first results on European-wide terrestrial carbon fluxes for the period 2006-2015 Monteil, G., Broquet, G., Scholze, M., Lang, M., Karstens, U., Gerbig, C., Koch, F.-T., Smith, N. E., Thompson, R. L., Luijkx, I. T., White, E., Meesters, A., Ciais, P., Ganesan, A. L., Manning, A., Mischurow, M., Peters, W., Peylin, P., Tarniewicz, J., Rigby, M., Rödenbeck, C., Vermeulen, A., Walton, E. M. (2020) Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 20, 12063-12091. doi:10.5194/acp-20-12063-2020 |
| Plant diversity enhances production and downward transport of biodegradable dissolved organic matter Lange, M., Roth, V.-N., Eisenhauer, N., Roscher, C., Dittmar, T., Fischer, C., Macé, O. G., Hildebrandt, A., Milcu, A., Mommer, L., Oram, N. J., Ravenek, J., Scheu, S., Schmid, B., Strecker, T., Wagg, C., Weigelt, A., Gleixner, G. (in press) Journal of Ecology. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13556 |