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.
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 | Markus Reichstein receives Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz PrizeDecember 05, 2019Among the 10 laureates, Prof. Markus Reichstein is the only natural scientist to be awarded this year's Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. more |
 | Anthropogenic activities lead to record breaking greenhouse gas concentration, as evidenced by isotope measurementsNovember 28, 2019Isotope measurements, performed substantially in our institute, confirm the dominant role of fossil fuel combustion in increasing levels of atmospheric CO2 more |
 | Highly cited influential authors: 5 BGC scientists in citation ranking 2019November 22, 2019In the annual ranking of the world's most cited and influential authors in 2018, again five scientists from our institute are represented. more |
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Recent Publications
| Inferring plant functional diversity from space: the potential of Sentinel-2 Ma, X., Mahecha, M. D., Migliavacca, M., van der Plas, F., Benavides, R., Ratcliffe, S., Kattge, J., Richter, R., Musavi, T., Baeten, L., Barnoaiea, I., Bohn, F. J., Bouriaud, O., Bussotti, F., Coppi, A., Domisch, T., Huth, A., Jaroszewicz, B., Joswig, J., Pabon-Moreno, D. E., Papale, D., Selvi, F., Laurin, G. V., Valladares, F., Reichstein, M., Wirth, C. (2019) Remote Sensing of Environment. 233, 111368. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2019.111368. |
| Global Carbon Budget 2019 Friedlingstein, P., Jones, M. W., O’Sullivan, M., Andrew, R. M., Hauck, J., Peters, G. P., Peters, W., Pongratz, J., Sitch, S., Le Quéré, C., Bakker, D. C. E., Canadell, J. G., Ciais, P., Jackson, R., Anthoni, P., Barbero, L., Bastos, A., Bastrikov, V., Becker, M., Bopp, L., Buitenhuis, E., Chandra, N., Chevallier, F., Chini, L. P., Currie, K. I., Feely, R. A., Gehlen, M., Gilfillan, D., Gkritzalis, T., Goll, D. S., Gruber, N., Gutekunst, S., Harris, I., Haverd, V., Houghton, R. A., Hurtt, G., Ilyina, T., Jain, A. K., Joetzjer, E., Kaplan, J. O., Kato, E., Goldewijk, K. K., Korsbakken, J. I., Landschützer, P., Lauvset, S. K., Lefèvre, N., Lenton, A., Lienert, S., Lombardozzi, D., Marland, G., McGuire, P. C., Melton, J. R., Metzl, N., Munro, D. R., Nabel, J. E. M. S., Nakaoka, S.-I., Neill, C., Omar, A. M., Ono, T., Peregon, A., Pierrot, D., Poulter, B., Rehder, G., Resplandy, L., Robertson, E., Rödenbeck, C., Séférian, R., Schwinger, J., Smith, N., Tans, P. P., Tian, H., Tilbrook, B., Tubiello, F. N., van der Werf, G. R., Wiltshire, A. J., Zaehle, S. (2019) Earth System Science Data. 11, 1783-1838. doi:10.5194/essd-2019-183. |
| Three wood isotopic reference materials for d2H and d13C measurements of plant methoxy groups Greule, M., Moossen, H., Lloyd, M. K., Geilmann, H., Brand, W. A., Eiler, J. M., Qi, H., Keppler, F. (2019) Chemical Geology. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.119428. |
| Spring-time bark splitting of Acer pseudoplatanus Schulze, E. D., Schweingruber, F., Gossner, M., Guenther, A., Weber, U., Stumpf, B., Komor, E. (2019) Forests. 10, 1106. doi:10.3390/f10121106. |
| Reply to: Sources of C30 steroid biomarkers in Neoproterozoic–Cambrian rocks and oils Hallmann, C., Nettersheim, B. J., Brocks, J. J., Schwelm, A., Hope, J. M., Not, F., Lomas, M., Schmidt, C., Schiebel, R., Nowack, E. C. M., De Deckker, P., Pawlowski, J., Bowser, S. S., Bobrovskiy, I., Zonneveld, K., Kucera, M., Stuhr, M. (2019) Nature Ecology & Evolution. doi:10.1038/s41559-019-1049-1. |