Nair, R.; Luo, Y.; El-Madany, T. S.; Rolo, V.; Pacheco-Labrador, J.; Caldararu, S.; Morris, K. A.; Schrumpf, M.; Carrara, A.; Moreno, G.et al.; Reichstein, M.; Migliavacca, M.: Nitrogen availability and summer drought, but not N:P imbalance, drive carbon use efficiency of a Mediterranean tree-grass ecosystem. Global Change Biology 30 (9), e17486 (2024)
Caldararu, S.; Rolo, V.; Stocker, B. D.; Gimeno, T. E.; Nair, R.: Ideas and perspectives: Beyond model evaluation – combining experiments and models to advance terrestrial ecosystem science. Biogeosciences 20 (17), pp. 3637 - 3649 (2023)
Nair, R.; Strube, M.; Hertel, M.; Kolle, O.; Rolo, V.; Migliavacca, M.: High frequency root dynamics: sampling and interpretation using replicated robotic minirhizotrons. Journal of Experimental Botany 74 (3), pp. 769 - 785 (2023)
Dursow, A.; Morris, K. A.; Nair, R.: Direct observation of subterranean refugium use by Epidalea calamita (Natterjack Toad) in a dehesa ecosystem in Extremadura, Spain. Herpetology Notes 14, pp. 1203 - 1205 (2021)
Nair, R. K. F.; Morris, K. A.; Migliavacca, M.; Moreno, G.; Schrumpf, M.: Plant‐available N:P alters root litter N recycling in a Mediterranean tree–grass ecosystem. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 183 (4), pp. 517 - 529 (2020)
Luo, Y.; El-Madany, T. S.; Ma, X.; Nair, R. K. F.; Jung, M.; Weber, U.; Filippa, G.; Bucher, S. F.; Moreno, G.; Cremonese, E.et al.; Carrara, A.; Gonzalez‐Cascon, R.; Escudero, Y. C.; Galvagno, M.; Pacheco-Labrador, J.; Martín, M. P.; Perez‐Priego, O.; Reichstein, M.; Richardson, A. D.; Menzel, A.; Römermann, C.; Migliavacca, M.: Nutrients and water availability constrain the seasonality of vegetation activity in a Mediterranean ecosystem. Global Change Biology 26 (8), pp. 4379 - 4400 (2020)
Nair, R. K. F.; Perks, M. P.; Mencuccini, M.: Decomposition nitrogen is better retained than simulated deposition from mineral amendments in a temperate forest. Global Change Biology 23 (4), pp. 1711 - 1724 (2017)
On June 24, Prof. Dr. Henrik Hartmann, head of the Julius Kühn Institute for Forest Protection and former group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, received an important award for his scientific achievements in the field of forestry. Our warmest congratulations!
We have gained a new external member: Prof. Dr. Christian Wirth has been appointed by the Senate of the Max Planck Society as External Scientific Member. As a former group leader and later fellow at the institute, Prof. Wirth initiated and supported the development of the TRY database, the world's largest collection on plant traits.
Information gaps in global maps of plant characteristics can be filled with data from nature identification apps. Users of the iNaturalist app are playing a key role in helping researchers create global maps of plant traits. Among other things, the new maps provide an improved basis for understanding plant-environment interactions and for Earth system modeling.
An international research team has succeeded in identifying globally acting factors that cause the diversity of forms and functions of plants. Researchers compiled plant data from around the world and were able to show for the first time how strongly these are determined by climate and soil properties for characteristics such as the size, structure and life span of plants.