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
 | "Everything flows" in the ecosystemAugust 05, 2019New assessment of the molecular composition of organic compounds in soil water indicates complex ecosystem processes lined by water transport in soil. more |
 | Scientists for one day: primary school children on excursion with Flora IncognitaJuly 31, 2019Primary school children in summer camp at Jenaplan School discover plant characteristics and identify flowers and grasses with the Flora Incognita App. more |
 | Climate-Worsened Stresses Hinder Tropical Forest RecoveryJune 26, 2019How do forests recover from climate change-worsened stresses like fire and drought? 14 years of measurements at the Tanguro ranch research station in the Brazilian Amazon have been evaluated. more |
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Recent Publications
| Monthly gridded data product of northern wetland methane emissions based on upscaling eddy covariance observations Peltola, O., Vesala, T., Gao, Y., Räty, O., Alekseychik, P., Aurela, M., Chojnicki, B., Desai, A. R., Dolman, A. J., Euskirchen, E. S., Friborg, T., Göckede, M., Helbig, M., Humphreys, E., Jackson, R. B., Jocher, G., Joos, F., Klatt, J., Knox, S. H., Kutzbach, L., Lienert, S., Lohila, A., Mammarella, I., Nadeau, D. F., Nilsson, M. B., Oechel, W. C., Peichl, M., Pypker, T., Quinton, W., Rinne, J., Sachs, T., Samson, M., Schmid, H. P., Sonnentag, O., Wille, C., Zona, D., Aalto, T. (2019) Earth System Science Data. 11, 1263-1289. doi:10.5194/essd-11-1263-2019. |
| Quantifying the impact of emission outbursts and non-stationary flow on eddy covariance CH4 flux measurements using wavelet techniques Göckede, M., Kittler, F., Schaller, C. (2019) Biogeosciences. 16, 3113-3131. doi:10.5194/bg-16-3113-2019. |
| Small altitudinal change and rhizosphere affect the SOM light fractions but not the heavy fraction in European beech forest soil De Feudis, M., Cardelli, V., Massaccesi, L., Trumbore, S. E., Antisari, L. V., Cocco, S., Corti, G., Agnelli, A. (2019) Catena. 181, 104091. doi:10.1016/j.catena.2019.104091. |
| Estimating shortwave clear-sky fluxes from hourly global radiation records by Quantile Regression Renner, M., Wild, M., Schwarz, M., Kleidon, A. (2019) Earth Planets Space. doi:10.1029/2019EA000686. |
| The climate mitigation potential of managed versus unmanaged spruce and beech forests in Central Europe Schulze, E. D., Stupak, I., Hessenmöller, D. (2019) In J. C. M. Pires, A. L. D. C. Gonçalves (Eds.), Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage: Using Natural Resources for Sustainable Development. 131-149. |