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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 | BGC is part of new excellence cluster granted to FSU JenaSeptember 28, 2018In yesterdays decision of the international commission in Bonn, the project "Balance of the Microverse" from FSU Jena, with participation of MPI-BGC, was granted status as excellence cluster. more |
 | New plants on the block: Taller species are taking over in a warming ArcticSeptember 26, 2018In the tundra, increasingly higher-growing plant communities are spreading, a development attributed to climate change. more |
 | 558 million-year-old fat reveals earliest known animalSeptember 20, 2018Fat molecules identify Dickinsonia as the oldest known fossil belonging to the animal kingdom. more |
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Recent Publications
| Controls of terrestrial ecosystem nitrogen loss on simulated productivity responses to elevated CO2 Meyerholt, J., Zaehle, S. (2018) Biogeosciences. 15, 5677-5698. doi:10.5194/bg-15-5677-2018. |
| Following the turnover of soil bioavailable phosphate in mediterranean savanna by oxygen stable isotopes Weiner, T., Gross, A., Moreno, G., Migliavacca, M., Schrumpf, M., Reichstein, M., Hilman, B., Carrara, A., Angert, A. (2018) Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 123, 1850-1862. doi:10.1029/2017JG004086. |
| dimRed and coRanking—unifying dimensionality reduction in R Kraemer, G., Reichstein, M., Mahecha, M. D. (2018) R Journal. 10, 342-358. |
| Potential of multi-temporal ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 ScanSAR data for vegetation height estimation in tropical forests of Mexico Urbazaev, M., Cremer, F., Migliavacca, M., Reichstein, M., Schmullius, C., Thiel, C. (2018) Remote Sensing. 10, 1277. doi:10.3390/rs10081277. |
| Error budget of the MEthane Remote LIdar missioN (MERLIN) and its impact on the uncertainties of the global methane budget Bousquet, P., Pierangelo, C., Bacour, C., Marshall, J., Peylin, P., Ayar, P. V., Ehret, G., Bréon, F.-M., Chevallier, F., Crevoisier, C., Gibert, F., Rairoux, P., Kiemle, C., Armante, R., Bès, C., Cassé, V., Chinaud, J., Chomette, O., Delahaye, T., Edouart, D., Estève, F., Fix, A., Friker, A., Klonecki, A., Wirth, M., Alpers, M., Millet, B. (in press) Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. doi:10.1029/2018JD028907. |
| Ancient steroids establish the Ediacaran fossil Dickinsonia as one of the earliest animals Bobrovskiy, I., Hope, J. M., Ivantsov, A., Nettersheim, B. J., Hallmann, C., Brocks, J. J. (2018) Science. 361, 1246-1249. doi:10.1126/science.aat7228. |