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
 | Natural ecosystems need balanced nitrogen and phosphorus levels for most efficient use of water May 14, 2021Excess of anthropogenic nitrogen may boost plant productivity of an ecosystem, but the imbalance with other nutrients reduces water use efficiency. more |
 | How smartphones can help detect ecological changeMay 12, 2021Plant occurrence data collected with an app uncover macroecological patterns in Germany. more |
 | Susan Trumbore honored with Vernadsky Medal 2021April 23, 2021For her outstanding contributions to biogeosciences Prof. Susan E. Trumbore was awarded the 2021 Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). more |
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Recent Publications
| Late-Holocene fluctuations of monsoonal Qiangyong Glacier, southern Tibetan Plateau Zhang, X., Xu, B., Li, J., Xie, Y., Gleixner, G. (2021) The Holocene. doi:10.1177/09596836211003209 |
| Grasshopper herbivory immediately affects element cycling but not export rates in an N-limited grassland system Potthast, K., Meyer, S., Tischer, A., Gleixner, G., Sieburg, A., Frosch, T., Michalzik, B. (2021) Ecosphere. 12, e03449. doi:10.1002/ecs2.3449 |
| Decadal variability in land carbon sink efficiency Zhu, L., Ciais, P., Bastos, A., Ballantyne, A. P., Chevallier, F., Gasser, T., Kondo, M., Pongratz, J., Rödenbeck, C., Li, W. (2021) Carbon Balance and Management. 16, 15. doi:10.1186/s13021-021-00178-3 |
| Linking global terrestrial CO2 fluxes and environmental drivers: inferences from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 satellite and terrestrial biospheric models Chen, Z., Liu, J., Henze, D. K., Huntzinger, D. N., Wells, K. C., Sitch, S., Friedlingstein, P., Joetzjer, E., Bastrikov, V., Goll, D. S., Haverd, V., Jain, A. K., Kato, E., Lienert, S., Lombardozzi, D. L., McGuire, P. C., Melton, J. R., Nabel, J. E. M. S., Poulter, B., Tian, H., Wiltshire, A. J., Zaehle, S., Miller, S. M. (2021) Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 21, 6663-6680. doi:10.5194/acp-21-6663-2021 |