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
 | Corona pandemic leads to record decline in global CO2 emissions December 11, 2020Worldwide, CO2 emissions have fallen sharply as a result of the Corona crisis. MPI-BGC scientists are involved in balancing the global carbon budget. more |
 | Drought damages trees and forest soilsDecember 10, 2020Persistent drought not only damages forest trees but also changes substantially the biological activity in the forest soil. more |
 | Geological alteration of algal steroids mimics early animal signaturesNovember 23, 2020Fossil fat molecules isolated from 635 million year old rocks that were assigned to animal life turn out to be altered algal molecules. more |
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Recent Publications
| Flora Capture: a citizen science application for collecting structured plant observations Boho, D., Rzanny, M., Wäldchen, J., Mäder, P. (2020) BMC Bioinformatics. 21, 576. doi:10.1186/s12859-020-03920-9 |
| LCVP, the Leipzig catalogue of vascular plants, a new taxonomic reference list for all known vascular plants Freiberg, M., Winter, M., Gentile, A., Zizka, A., Muellner-Riehl, A. N., Weigelt, A., Wirth, C. (2020) Scientific Data. 7, 416. doi:10.1038/s41597-020-00702-z |
| Sensitivity of surface fluxes in the ECMWF land surface model to the remotely sensed leaf area index and root distribution: Evaluation with tower flux data Stevens, D., Miranda, P. M. A., Orth, R., Boussetta, S., Balsamo, G., Dutra, E. (2020) Atmosphere. 11, 1362. doi:10.3390/atmos11121362 |
| Concentrations and biosphere–atmosphere fluxes of inorganic trace gases and associated ionic aerosol counterparts over the Amazon rainforest Ramsay, R., Di Marco, C. F., Sörgel, M., Heal, M. R., Carbone, S., Artaxo, P., de Araùjo, A. C., Sá, M., Pöhlker, C., Lavric, J. V., Andreae, M. O., Nemitz, E. (2020) Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. 20, 15551-15584. doi:10.5194/acp-20-15551-2020 |
| A decade of GOSAT Proxy satellite CH4 observations Parker, R. J., Webb, A., Boesch, H., Somkuti, P., Guillo, R. B., Noia, A. D., Kalaitzi, N., Anand, J. S., Bergamaschi, P., Chevallier, F., Palmer, P. I., Feng, L., Deutscher, N. M., Feist, D. G., Griffith, D. W. T., Hase, F., Kivi, R., Morino, I., Notholt, J., Oh, Y.-S., Ohyama, H., Petri, C., Pollard, D. F., Roehl, C., Sha, M. K., Shiomi, K., Strong, K., Sussmann, R., Té, Y., Velazco, V. A., Warneke, T., Wennberg, P. O., Wunch, D. (2020) Earth System Science Data. 12, 3383-3412. doi:10.5194/essd-12-3383-2020 |