Publications of Bernhard Ahrens

Pallandt, M.; Schrumpf, M.; Lange, H.; Reichstein, M.; Yu, L.; Ahrens, B.: Modelling the effect of climate–substrate interactions on soil organic matter decomposition with the Jena soil model. Biogeosciences 22 (7), pp. 1907 - 1928 (2025)

Tao, F.; Houlton, B. Z.; Huang, Y.; Wang, Y.-P.; Manzoni, S.; Ahrens, B.; Mishra, U.; Jiang, L.; Huang, X.; Luo, Y.: Convergence in simulating global soil organic carbon by structurally different models after data assimilation. Global Change Biology 30 (5), e17297 (2024)

Wutzler, T.; Reimers, C.; Ahrens, B.; Schrumpf, M.: Optimal enzyme allocation leads to the constrained enzyme hypothesis: the Soil Enzyme Steady Allocation Model (SESAM; v3.1)). Geoscientific Model Development 17 (7), pp. 2705 - 2725 (2024)

Tao, F.; Houlton, B. Z.; Frey, S. D.; Lehmann, J.; Manzoni, S.; Huang, Y.; Jiang, L.; Mishra, U.; Hungate, B. A.; Schmidt, M. W. I. et al.; Reichstein, M.; Carvalhais, N.; Ciais, P.; Wang, Y.-P.; Ahrens, B.; Hugelius, G.; Hocking, T. D.; Lu, X.; Shi, Z.; Viatkin, K.; Vargas, R.; Yigini, Y.; Omuto, C.; Malik, A. A.; Peralta, G.; Cuevas-Corona, R.; Paolo, L. E. D.; Luotto, I.; Liao, C.; Liang, Y.-S.; Saynes, V. S.; Huang, X.; Luo, Y.: Reply to: Model uncertainty obscures major driver of soil carbon. Nature 627, pp. E4 - E6 (2024)

Tao, Feng, F.; Huang, Y.; Hungate, B. A.; Manzoni, S.; Frey, S. D.; Schmidt, M. W. I.; Reichstein, M.; Carvalhais, N.; Ciais, P.; Jiang, L. et al.; Lehmann, J.; Wang, Y.-P.; Houlton, B. Z.; Ahrens, B.; Mishra, U.; Hugelius, G.; Hocking, T. D.; Lu, X.; Shi, Z.; Viatkin, K.; Vargas, R.; Yigini, Y.; Omuto, C.; Malik, A. A.; Peralta, G.; Cuevas-Corona, R.; Di Paolo, L. E.; Luotto, I.; Liao, C.; Liang, Y.-S.; Saynes, V. S.; Huang, X.; Luo, Y.: Microbial carbon use efficiency promotes global soil carbon storage. Nature 618, pp. 981 - 985 (2023)

Tao, F.; Lehmann, J.; Wang, Y.-P.; Jiang, L.; Ahrens, B.; Viatkin, K.; Manzoni, S.; Houlton, B. Z.; Huang, Y.; Huang, X. et al.; Luo, Y.: Reply to “Beyond microbial carbon use efficiency. National Science Review 11 (14), nwae058 (2023)

Yu, L.; Caldararu, S.; Ahrens, B.; Wutzler, T.; Schrumpf, M.; Helfenstein, J.; Pistocchi, C.; Zaehle, S.: Improved representation of phosphorus exchange on soil mineral surfaces reduces estimates of phosphorus limitation in temperate forest ecosystems. Biogeosciences 20 (1), pp. 57 - 73 (2023)

Fan, N.; Reichstein, M.; Koirala, S.; Ahrens, B.; Mahecha , M. D.; Carvalhais, N.: Global apparent temperature sensitivity of terrestrial carbon turnover modulated by hydrometeorological factors. Nature Geoscience 15, pp. 989 - 994 (2022)

Yu, L.; Ahrens, B.; Wutzler, T.; Schrumpf, M.; Zaehle, S.: Jena Soil Model (JSM v1.0; revision 1934): a microbial soil organic carbon model integrated with nitrogen and phosphorus processes. Geoscientific Model Development 13 (2), pp. 783 - 803 (2020)

Fan, N.; Koirala, S.; Reichstein, M.; Thurner, M.; Avitabile, V.; Santoro, M.; Ahrens, B.; Weber, U.; Carvalhais, N.: Apparent ecosystem carbon turnover time: uncertainties and robust features. Earth System Science Data 12 (4), pp. 2517 - 2536 (2020)

Jenny, J.-P.; Koirala, S.; Gregory-Eaves, I.; Francus, P.; Niemann, C.; Ahrens, B.; Brovkin, V.; Baud, A.; Ojala, A. E. K.; Normandeau, A. et al.; Zolitschka, B.; Carvalhais, N.: Human and climate global-scale imprint on sediment transfer during the Holocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 116 (46), pp. 22972 - 22976 (2019)

Perez‑Priego, O.; Katul, G.; Reichstein, M.; El-Madany, T. S.; Ahrens, B.; Carrara, A.; Scanlon, T. M.; Migliavacca, M.: Partitioning eddy covariance water flux components using physiological and micrometeorological approaches. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 123 (10), pp. 3353 - 3370 (2018)

Wutzler, T.; Zaehle, S.; Schrumpf, M.; Ahrens, B.; Reichstein, M.: Adaptation of microbial resource allocation affects modelled long term soil organic matter and nutrient cycling. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 115, pp. 322 - 336 (2017)

Ahrens, B.; Braakhekke, M. C.; Guggenberger, G.; Schrumpf, M.; Reichstein, M.: Contribution of sorption, DOC transport and microbial interactions to the ¹⁴C age of a soil organic carbon profile: Insights from a calibrated process model. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 88, pp. 390 - 402 (2015)

Ahrens, B.; Hansson, K.; Solly, E.; Schrumpf, M.: Reconcilable differences: a joint calibration of fine-root turnover times with radiocarbon and minirhizotrons. New Phytologist 204 (4), pp. 932 - 942 (2014)

Carvalhais, N.; Forkel, M.; Khomik, M.; Bellarby, J.; Jung, M.; Migliavacca, M.; Mu, M.; Saatchi, S.; Santoro, M.; Thurner, M. et al.; Weber, U.; Ahrens, B.; Beer, C.; Cescatti, A.; Randerson, J. T.; Reichstein, M.: Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems. Nature 514, pp. 213 - 217 (2014)

Thurner, M.; Beer, C.; Santoro, M.; Carvalhais, N.; Wutzler, T.; Schepaschenko, D.; Shvidenko, A.; Kompter, E.; Ahrens, B.; Levick, S. et al.; Schmullius, C.: Carbon stock and density of northern boreal and temperate forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography 23 (3), pp. 297 - 310 (2014)

Ahrens, B.; Reichstein, M.: Reconciling ¹⁴C and minirhizotron-based estimates of fine-root turnover with survival functions. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 177 (2), pp. 287 - 296 (2014)

Ahrens, B.; Reichstein, M.; Borken, W.; Muhr, J.; Trumbore, S. E.; Wutzler, T.: Bayesian calibration of a soil organic carbon model using delta¹⁴C measurements of soil organic carbon and heterotrophic respiration as joint constraints. Biogeosciences 11 (8), pp. 2147 - 2168 (2014)

Camino-Serrano, M.; Gielen, B.; Luyssaert, S.; Guenet, B.; Vicca, S.; De Vos, B.; Cools, N.; Borken, W.; Ahrens, B.; Clarke, N. et al.; Pannatier, E. G.; Nieminen, T. M.; Schwendenmann, L.; Moore, T.; Clarkson, B.; Nilsson, M. B.; Laudon, H.; Don, A.; Siemens, J.; Peichl, M.; Arain, A.; Cummins, T.; Ciais, P.; Janssens, I.: Linking variability in soil solution dissolved organic carbon to climate, soil type, and vegetation type. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 28 (5), pp. 497 - 509 (2014)