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.
News
 __2021.jpg) | Compact information on climate research – 10 pages only (DKK) August 31, 2021It’s real. It’s us. Experts agree. It’s bad. There’s hope. (Leiserowitz, Yale University) more |
 | Tropical rainforests differ in their vulnerability to threats imposed by land use and climate changeAugust 25, 2021New vulnerability index (TFVI) uncovers different sensitivities between humid tropical rainforests across the globe and provides early warning signals for regions undergoing critical transitions. more |
 | Successful climate research in the Amazon region is continued and expanded with ATTO+August 20, 2021The next funding phase of the ATTO project will allow to answer new pressing questions in climate research in the Amazon. more |
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Recent Publications
| Analysis of microbial populations in plastic-soil systems after exposure to high poly(butylene succinate-co-adipate) load using high-resolution molecular technique Tanunchai, B., Juncheed, K., Wahdan, S. F. M., Guliyev, V., Udovenko, M., Lehnert, A.-S., Alves, E. G., Glaser, B., Noll, M., Buscot, F., Blagodatskaya, E., Purahong, W. (2021) Environmental sciences Europe. 33, 105. doi:10.1186/s12302-021-00528-5 |
| Slowdown of the greening trend in natural vegetation with further rise in atmospheric CO2 Winkler, A., Myneni, R. B., Hannart, A., Sitch, S., Haverd, V., Lombardozzi, D., Arora, V. K., Pongratz, J., Nabel, J. E. M. S., Goll, D. S., Kato, E., Tian, H., Arneth, A., Friedlingstein, P., Jain, A. K., Zaehle, S., Brovkin, V. (2021) Biogeosciences. 18, 4985-5010. doi:10.5194/bg-18-4985-2021 |
| Performance of singular spectrum analysis in separating seasonal and fast physiological dynamics of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and PRI optical signals Biriukova, K., Pacheco-Labrador, J., Migliavacca, M., Mahecha, M. D., Gonzalez-Cascon, R., Martín, M. P., Rossini, M. (2021) Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 126, e2020JG006158. doi:10.1029/2020JG006158 |
| Global sensitivities of forest carbon changes to environmental conditions Besnard, S., Santoro, M., Cartus, O., Fan, N., Linscheid, N., Nair, R., Weber, U., Koirala, S., Carvalhais, N. (in press) Global Change Biology. doi:10.1111/gcb.15877 |
| Among stand heterogeneity is key for biodiversity in managed beech forests but does not question the value of unmanaged forests: Response to Bruun and Heilmann-Clausen (2021) Schall, P., Heinrichs, S., Ammer, C., Ayasse, M., Boch, S., Buscot, F., Fischer, M., Goldmann, K., Overmann, J., Schulze, E. D., Sikorski, J., Weisser, W. W., Wubet, T., Gossner, M. M. (2021) Journal of Applied Ecology. 58, 1817-1826. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.13959 |
| Soil organic matter turnover rates increase to match increased inputs in grazed grasslands Stoner, S., Hoyt, A. M., Trumbore, S. E., Sierra, C., Schrumpf, M., Doetterl, S., Baisden, W. T., Schipper, L. A. (2021) Biogeochemistry. doi:10.1007/s10533-021-00838-z |