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
 | Joining forces for science: JenaVersum network foundedNovember 25, 2021The MPI-BGC is a partner in the newly founded local network JenaVersum. more |
 | From ambition to biodiversity action: Time to hold actors accountableNovember 25, 2021Scientists propose framework for effective national-level implementation of global biodiversity goals more |
 | Highly cited influential authors: BGC scientists again in citation ranking 2021November 16, 2021In the annual ranking of the world's most cited and influential scientists, again four authors from our institute are represented. more |
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Recent Publications
| A remote sensing-based three-source energy balance model to improve global estimations of evapotranspiration in semi-arid tree-grass ecosystems Burchard-Levine, V., Nieto, H., Riaño, D., Kustas, W. P., Migliavacca, M., El-Madany, T. S., Nelson, J. A., Andreu, A., Carrara, A., Beringer, J., Baldocchi, D., Martín, M. P. (2021) Global Change Biology. doi:10.1111/gcb.16002 |
| 5S-IGS rDNA in wind-pollinated trees (Fagus L.) encapsulates 55 million years of reticulate evolution and hybrid origins of modern species Cardoni, S., Piredda, R., Denk, T., Grimm, G. W., Papageorgiou, A. C., Schulze, E. D., Scoppola, A., Shanjani, P. S., Suyama, Y., Tomaru, N., Worth, J. R. P., Simeone, M. C. (in press) The Plant Journal. doi:10.1111/tpj.15601 |
| Environment-sensitivity functions for gross primary productivity in light use efficiency models Bao, S., Wutzler, T., Koirala, S., Cuntz, M., Ibrom, A., Besnard, S., Walther, S., Sigut, la, L., Moreno, A., Weber, U., Wohlfahrt, G., Cleverly, J., Migliavacca, M., Woodgate, W., Merbold, L., Veenendaal, E., Carvalhais, N. (2022) Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 312, 108708. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108708 |
| Time–scale dependent relations between Earth Observation based proxies of vegetation productivity Linscheid, N., Mahecha, M. D., Rammig, A., Carvalhais, N., Gans, F., Nelson, J. A., Walther, S., Weber, U., Reichstein, M. (in press) Geophysical Research Letters. doi:10.1029/2021GL093285 |