Overview
How do ecosystems respond to changing weather patterns, rising temperatures and increasing carbon dioxide concentrations? Is the effect of precipitation more important than that of temperature? Or are ecosystem dynamics more strongly affected by nutrient availability? What is the role of extreme events in shaping biogeochemical cycles? To find out the answers we need to understand the interactions among three complex systems: climate, vegetation, and soil. Thus, we combine experiments and in-situ long-term observation with Earth observations gathered by aircraft and satellites across a range of spatial scales, and embrace data-driven machine learning and theory-driven mechanistic modelling. With our research, we try to understand how the terrestrial biosphere reacts to and exerts feedbacks on ongoing environmental change and variation in atmospheric conditions.
Latest key papers
| El-Madany, T. S., Carrara, A., Martín, M. P., Moreno, G., Kolle, O., Pacheco-Labrador, J., Weber, U., Wutzler, T., Reichstein, M., Migliavacca, M. (2020). Drought and heatwave impacts on semi-arid ecosystems' carbon fluxes along a precipitation gradient. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 375(1810): 20190519. doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0519. (internal: final.pdf suppl1.docx ) |
| Bastos, A., Fu, Z., Ciais, P., Friedlingstein, P., Sitch, S., Pongratz, J., Weber, U., Reichstein, M., Anthoni, P., Arneth, A., Haverd, V., Jain, A., Joetzjer, E., Knauer, J., Lienert, S., Loughran, T., McGuire, P. C., Obermeier, W., Padrón, R. S., Shi, H., Tian, H., Viovy, N., Zaehle, S. (2020). Impacts of extreme summers on European ecosystems: a comparative analysis of 2003, 2010 and 2018. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences, 375(1810): 20190507. doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0507. (internal: final.pdf suppl1.pdf ) | |
Kraft, B., Jung, M., Körner, M., Reichstein, M. (2020). Hybrid modeling: Fusion of a deep approach and physics-based model for global hydrological modeling. The International Archives of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLIII-B2-2020, 1537-1544. doi:10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B2-2020-1537-2020. (internal: final.pdf ) | |
| Liu, J., Ma, X., Duan, Z., Jiang, J., Reichstein, M., Jung, M. (2020). Impact of temporal precipitation variability on ecosystem productivity. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water, e1481. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wat2.1481. (internal: final.pdf ) | |
| O, S., Hou, X., Orth, R. (2020). Observational evidence of wildfire-promoting soil moisture anomalies. Scientific Reports, 10(1): 11008. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-67530-4. (internal: final.pdf suppl1.pdf ) | |
| Tramontana, G., Migliavacca, M., Jung, M., Reichstein, M., Keenan, T. F., Camps-Valls, G., Ogee, J., Verrelst, J., Papale, D. (2020). Partitioning net carbon dioxide fluxes into photosynthesis and respiration using neural networks. Global Change Biology, 26(9), 5235-5253. doi:10.1111/gcb.15203. (internal: suppl1.docx final.pdf ) |