Schulze, E.-D.; Turner, N. C.; Nicolle, D.; Schumacher, J.: Leaf and wood carbon isotope ratios, specific leaf areas and wood growth of Eucalyptus species across a rainfall gradient in Australia. Tree Physiology 26 (4), pp. 479 - 492 (2006)
Schulze, E.-D.; Turner, N. C.; Nicolle, D.; Schumacher, J.: Species differences in carbon isotope ratios, specific leaf area and nitrogen concentrations in leaves of Eucalyptus growing in a common garden compared with along an aridity gradient. Physiologia Plantarum 127 (3), pp. 434 - 444 (2006)
Joosten, R.; Schumacher, J.; Wirth, C.; Schulte, A.: Evaluating tree carbon predictions for beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in western Germany. Forest Ecology and Management 189 (1-3), pp. 87 - 96 (2004)
Schurr, F. M.; Bossdorf, O.; Milton, S. J.; Schumacher, J.: Spatial pattern formation in semi-arid shrubland: a priori predicted versus observed pattern characteristics. Plant Ecology 173 (2), pp. 271 - 282 (2004)
Wirth, C.; Schumacher, J.; Schulze, E.-D.: Generic biomass functions for Norway spruce in Central Europe - a meta-analysis approach toward prediction and uncertainty estimation. Tree Physiology 24 (2), pp. 121 - 139 (2004)
Schrumpf, M.; Schumacher, J.; Schöning, I.; Schulze, E.-D.: Monitoring carbon stock changes in European soils: process understanding and sampling strategies. In: The continental-scale greenhouse gas balance of Europe, Vol. 203, pp. 153 - 189 (Eds. Dolman, A. J.; Freibauer, A.; Valentini, R.). Springer, New York [u.a.] (2008)
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.