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
 | BGC scientists evaluate environmental developments for Earth DayApril 18, 2019Thawing permafrost and nitrogen compounds in our environment are topics that will be discussed on Earth Day. Scientists from the MPI-BGC comment on these topics.
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 | The TRY plant trait database: continuously growing and now publicly available under a CC-BY licenseApril 10, 2019The new release features a further increase to 12 million trait records across 280,000 plant taxa and a new licensing. more |
 | Supporting the Fridays-for-Future demonstrations in JenaApril 08, 2019Invitation to the public lecture on climate change on 12 April 2019 from 2 p.m. in the lecture hall of physiology at Eichplatz, FSU Jena more |
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Recent Publications
| Microbial community responses determine how soil-atmosphere exchange of carbonyl sulfide, carbon monoxide, and nitric oxide responds to soil moisture Behrendt, T., Catao, E. C. P., Bunk, R., Yi, Z., Schweer, E., Kolb, S., Kesselmeier, J., Trumbore, S. E. (2019) Soil. 5, 121-135. doi:10.5194/soil-5-121-2019. |
| Lipid biomarkers for the reconstruction of deep-time environmental conditions Luo, G., Yang, H., Algeo, T. J., Hallmann, C., Xie, S. (2019) Earth-Science Reviews. 189, 99-124. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.03.005. |
| Five decades of northern land carbon uptake revealed by the interhemispheric CO2 gradient Ciais, P., Tan, J., Wang, X., Roedenbeck, C., Chevallier, F., Piao, S.-L., Moriarty, R., Broquet, G., Le Quéré, C., Canadell, J. G., Peng, S., Poulter, B., Liu, Z., Tans, P. (2019) Nature. 568, 221. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1078-6. |
| Effects of forest management on biomass stocks in Romanian beech forests Bouriaud, O., Don, A., Janssens, I. A., Marin, G., Schulze, E. D. (2019) Forest Ecosystems. 6, 19. doi:10.1186/s40663-019-0180-4. |
| Spatial micro-analysis of natural 13C/12C abundance in environmental samples using laser-ablation isotope-ratio-mass spectrometry Rodionov, A., Lehndorff, E., Stremtan, C. C., Brand, W. A., Königshoven, H.-P., Amelung, W. (in press) Analytical Chemistry. doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.9b00892. |
| Advances in reference materials and measurement techniques for greenhouse gas atmospheric observations Brewer, P. J., Kim, J. S., Lee, S., Tarasova, O. A., Viallon, J., Flores, E., Wielgosz, R. I., Shimosaka, T., Assonov, S., Allison, C. E., van der Veen, A. M. H., Hall, B., Crotwelli, A. M., Rhoderick, G. C., Hodges, J. T., Mohn, J., Zellweger, C., Moossen, H., Ebert, V., Griffith, D. W. T. (in press) Metrologia. doi:10.1088/1681-7575/ab1506. |