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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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 | Sustainable forest management contributes to climate protection by reducing fossil fuel consumption September 17, 2020Response to the press release of the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNE) of 10.8.2020 more |
 | Balzan Prize for Susan TrumboreSeptember 16, 2020Susan Trumbore, managing director at MPI-BGC, is awarded the highly endowed Balzan price of the International Balzan Foundation. more |
 | Facts about climate change: What science knows todaySeptember 10, 2020Six organizations involved in climate research and science-based climate communication have summarized the current state of climate change knowledge. more |
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Recent Publications
| Field-based sciences must transform in response to COVID-19 Scerri, E. M. L., Kühnert, D., Blinkhorn, J., Groucutt, H. S., Roberts, P., Nicoll, K., Zerboni, A., Orijemie, E. A., Barton, H., Candy, I., Goldstein, S. T., Hawks, J., Niang, K., N’Dah, D., Petraglia, M. D., Vella, N. C. (2020) Nature Ecology & Evolution. doi:10.1038/s41559-020-01317-8 |
| Short-term forecasting of regional biospheric CO2 fluxes in Europe using a light-use-efficiency model (VPRM, MPI-BGC version 1.2) Chen, J., Gerbig, C., Marshall, J., Totsche, K. U. (2020) Geoscientific Model Development. 13, 4091-4106. doi:10.5194/gmd-13-4091-2020 |
| A historical, geographical and ecological perspective on the 2018 European summer drought Peters, W., Bastos, A., Ciais, P., Vermeulen, A. (2020) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences. 375, 20190505. doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0505 |
| Impacts of extreme summers on European ecosystems: a comparative analysis of 2003, 2010 and 2018 Bastos, A., Fu, Z., Ciais, P., Friedlingstein, P., Sitch, S., Pongratz, J., Weber, U., Reichstein, M., Anthoni, P., Arneth, A., Haverd, V., Jain, A., Joetzjer, E., Knauer, J., Lienert, S., Loughran, T., McGuire, P. C., Obermeier, W., Padrón, R. S., Shi, H., Tian, H., Viovy, N., Zaehle, S. (2020) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences. 375, 20190507. doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0507 |
| The fingerprint of the summer 2018 drought in Europe on ground-based atmospheric CO2 measurements Ramonet, M., Ciais, P., Apadula, F., Bartyzel, J., Bastos, A., Bergamaschi, P., Blanc, P. E., Brunner, D., di Torchiarolo, L. C., Calzolari, F., Chen, H., Chmura, L., Colomb, A., Conil, S., Cristofanelli, P., Cuevas, E., Curcoll, R., Delmotte, M., Sarra, A. d., Emmenegger, L., Forster, G., Frumau, A., Gerbig, C., Gheusi, F., Hammer, S., Haszpra, L., Hatakka, J., Hazan, L., Heliasz, M., Henne, S., Hensen, A., Hermansen, O., Keronen, P., Kivi, R., Komínková, K., Kubistin, D., Laurent, O., Laurila, T., Lavric, J. V., Lehner, I., Lehtinen, K. E. J., Leskinen, A., Leuenberger, M., Levin, I., Lindauer, M., Lopez, M., Myhre, C. L., Mammarella, I., Manca, G., Manning, A., Marek, M. V., Marklund, P., Martin, D., Meinhardt, F., Mihalopoulos, N., Mölder, M., Morgui, J. A., Necki, J., O’Doherty, S., O’Dowd, C., Ottosson, M., Philippon, C., Piacentino, S., Pichon, J. M., Plass-Duelmer, C., Resovsky, A., Rivier, L., Rodó, X., Sha, M. K., Scheeren, H. A., Sferlazzo, D., Spain, T. G., Stanley, K. M., Steinbacher, M., Trisolino, P., Vermeulen, A., Vítková, G., Weyrauch, D., Xueref-Remy, I., Yala, K., Kwok, C. Y. (2020) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences. 375, 20190513. doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0513 |