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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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 | Artificial Intelligence for Understanding and Modelling the Earth System October 14, 2019International Research Team wins ERC Synergy Grant.
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 | ATTO workshop in Manaus sparked new research in the AmazonOctober 09, 2019Scientists of MPI-BGC und MPI-C and their Brazilian partners met in Manaus, Brazil, to discuss new goals in their joint Amazon research. more |
 | Prof. Susan Trumbore receives 2019 BES Marsh Award for Climate Change ResearchAugust 30, 2019Susan Trumbore is awarded the 2019 Marsh Award for Climate Change Research of the British Ecological Society for her achievements in deciphering the carbon cycle. more |
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Recent Publications
| The cold and the drought: effects of extreme weather events on stem carbon dynamic in a Mediterranean beech forest D'Andrea, E., Rezaie, N., Prislan, P., Muhr, J., Collalti, A., Matteucci, G., Gricar, J. (2019) bioRxiv. |
| Improving the TROPOMI CO data product: update of the spectroscopic database and destriping of single orbits Borsdorff, T., aan de Brugh, J., Schneider, A., Lorente, A., Birk, M., Wagner, G., Kivi, R., Hase, F., Feist, D. G., Sussmann, R., Rettinger, M., Wunch, D., Landgraf, J. (2019) Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. 12, 5443-5455. doi:10.5194/amt-12-5443-2019. |
| Biotic interactions, community assembly, and ecoevolutionary dynamics as drivers of long-term biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships Eisenhauer, N., Bonkowski, M., Brose, U., Buscot, F., Durka, W., Ebeling, A., Fischer, M., Gleixner, G., Heintz-Buschart, A., Hines, J., Jesch, A., Lange, M., Meyer, S., Roscher, C., Scheu, S., Schielzeth, H., Schloter, M., Schulz, S., Unsicker, S., van Dam, N. M., Weigelt, A., Weisser, W. W., Wirth, C., Wolf, J., Schmid, B. (2019) Research Ideas and Outcomes. 5, e47042. doi:10.3897/rio.5.e47042. |
| Parameter calibration and stomatal conductance formulation comparison for boreal forests with adaptive population importance sampler in the land surface model JSBACH Mäkelä, J., Knauer, J., Aurela, M., Black, A., Heimann, M., Kobayashi, H., Lohila, A., Mammarella, I., Margolis, H., Markkanen, T., Susiluoto, J., Thum, T., Viskari, T., Zaehle, S., Aalto, T. (2019) Geoscientific Model Development. 12, 4075-4098. doi:10.5194/gmd-12-4075-2019. |
| Spatio-temporal variations in sulfur-oxidizing and sulfate-reducing bacterial activities during upwelling, off south-west coast of India Kamaleson, A. S., Gonsalves, M.-J., Kumar, S., Jineesh, V. K., LokaBharathi, P. A. (2019) Oceanologia. 61, 427-444. doi:10.1016/j.oceano.2019.03.002. |