Takahara, H.; Sugita, S.; Harrison, S. P.; Miyoshi, N.; Morita, Y.; Uchiyama, T.: Pollen-based reconstructions of Japanese biomes at 0,6000 and 18,000 14C yr BP. Journal of Biogeography 27 (3), pp. 665 - 683 (2000)
Farrera, I.; Harrison, S. P.; Prentice, I. C.; Ramstein, G.; Guiot, J.; Bartlein, P. J.; Bonnefille, R.; Bush, M.; Cramer, W.; Von Grafenstein, U.et al.; Holmgren, K.; Hooghiemstra, H.; Hope, G.; Jolly, D.; Lauritzen, S.-E.; Ono, Y.; Pinot, S.; Stute, M.; Yu, G.: Tropical climates at the Last Glacial Maximum: a new synthesis of terrestrial palaeoclimate data. I. Vegetation, lake-levels and geochemistry. Climate Dynamics 15 (11), pp. 823 - 856 (1999)
Joussaume, S.; Taylor, K. E.; Braconnot, P.; Mitchell, J. F. B.; Kutzbach, J. E.; Harrison, S. P.; Prentice, I. C.; Broccoli, A. J.; Abe-Ouchi, A.; Bartlein, P. J.et al.; Bonfils, C.; Dong, B.; Guiot, J.; Herterich, K.; Hewitt, C. D.; Jolly, D.; Kim, J. W.; Kislov, A.; Kitoh, A.; Loutre, M. F.; Masson, V.; Mcavaney, B.; Mcfarlane, N.; De Noblet, N.; Peltier, W. R.; Peterschmitt, J. Y.; Pollard, D.; Rind, D.; Royer, J. F.; Schlesinger, M. E.; Syktus, J.; Thompson, S.; Valdes, P.; Vettoretti, G.; Webb, R. S.; Wyputta, U.: Monsoon changes for 6000 years ago: Results of 18 simulations from the Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP). Geophysical Research Letters 26 (7), pp. 859 - 862 (1999)
Kohfeld, K. E.; Derbyshire, E.; Harrison, S. P.; Muhs, D.; Wintle, A.; Zhou, L.: Dust indicators and records of terrestrial and marine paleoenvironments. Pages Newsletter 7 (2), p. 6 (1999)
Liu, Z.; Jacob, R.; Kutzbach, J.; Harrison, S. P.; Anderson, J.: Monsoon impact on El Nino in the early Holocene. Pages Newsletter 7 (2), pp. 16 - 17 (1999)
Mahowald, N.; Kohfeld, K. E.; Hansson, M.; Balkanski, Y.; Harrison, S. P.; Prentice, I. C.; Schulz, M.; Rodhe, H.: Dust sources and deposition during the last glacial maximum and current climate: A comparison of model results with paleodata from ice cores and marine sediments. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 104 (13), pp. 15895 - 15916 (1999)
Pinot, S.; Ramstein, G.; Harrison, S. P.; Prentice, I. C.; Guiot, J.; Stute, M.; Joussaume, S.: Tropical paleoclimates at the Last Glacial Maximum: comparison of Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP) simulations and paleodata. Climate Dynamics 15 (11), pp. 857 - 874 (1999)
Yu, G.; Xue, B.; Harrison, S. P.: Paleohydrology and paleoclimate as reflected in lake-level changes in China. Pages Newsletter 7 (2), pp. 11 - 12 (1999)
Bartlein, P. J.; Bengtsson, L.; Harrison, S. P.; Hostetler, S.; Hsü, K.; Qin, B.; Vassiljev, J.: Modelling lake behaviour: how can we use mechanistic models to further our understanding of the response of lakes to climate change? Paläoklimaforschung 25, pp. 169 - 177 (1998)
Battarbee, R. W.; Davydova, N.; Digerfeldt, G.; Eronen, M.; Gaillard, M.-J.; Gliemeroth, A.-K.; Hannon, G.; Harrison, S. P.; Hofmann, W.; Liew, P. M.et al.; Lotter, A. F.; Löffler, H.; Marciniak, B.; Smol, J. P.; Tarasov, P. E.: Biological records of climate change in lake sediments. Paläoklimaforschung 25, pp. 161 - 167 (1998)
Broström, A.; Coe, M.; Harrison, S. P.; Gallimore, R.; Kutzbach, J. E.; Foley, J.; Prentice, I. C.; Behling, P.: Land surface feedbacks and palaeomonsoons in northern Africa. Geophysical Research Letters 25 (19), pp. 3615 - 3618 (1998)
Harrison, S. P.; Jolly, D.; Laarif, F.; Abe-Ouchi, A.; Dong, B.; Herterich, K.; Hewitt, C.; Joussaume, S.; Kutzbach, J. E.; Mitchell, J.et al.; De Noblet, N.; Valdes, P.: Intercomparison of simulated global vegetation distributions in response to 6 kyr BP orbital forcing. Journal of Climate 11 (11), pp. 2721 - 2742 (1998)
Hoelzmann, P.; Jolly, D.; Harrison, S. P.; Laarif, F.; Bonnefille, R.; Pachur, H.-J.: Mid-Holocene land-surface conditions in northern Africa and the Arabian peninsula: A data set for the analysis of biogeophysical feedbacks in the climate system. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 12 (1), pp. 35 - 51 (1998)
Jolly, D.; Harrison, S. P.; Damnati, B.; Bonnefille, R.: Simulated climate and biomes of Africa during the late quaternary: comparison with pollen and lake status data. Quaternary Science Reviews 17 (6-7), pp. 629 - 657 (1998)
Kutzbach, J.; Gallimore, R.; Harrison, S. P.; Behling, P.; Selin, R.; Laarif, F.: Climate and biome simulations for the past 21,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 17 (6-7), pp. 473 - 506 (1998)
Prentice, I. C.; Harrison, S. P.; Jolly, D.; Guiot, J.: The climate and biomes of Europe at 6000 yr BP: Comparison of model simulations and pollen-based reconstructions. Quaternary Science Reviews 17 (6-7), pp. 659 - 668 (1998)
Qin, B. Q.; Harrison, S. P.; Kutzbach, J. E.: Evaluation of modelled regional water balance using lake status data: A comparison of 6 ka simulations with the NCAR CCM. Quaternary Science Reviews 17 (6-7), pp. 535 - 548 (1998)
Tarasov, P. E.; Webb Iii, T.; Andreev, A. A.; Afanas'eva, N. B.; Berezina, N. A.; Bezusko, L. G.; Blyakharchuk, T. A.; Bolikhovskaya, N. S.; Cheddadi, R.; Chernavskaya, M. M.et al.; Chernova, G. M.; Dorofeyuk, N. I.; Dirksen, V. G.; Elina, G. A.; Filimonova, L. V.; Glebov, F. Z.; Guiot, J.; Gunova, V. S.; Harrison, S. P.; Jolly, D.; Khomutova, V. I.; Kvavadze, E. V.; Osipova, I. M.; Panova, N. K.; Prentice, I. C.; Saarse, L.; Sevastyanov, D. V.; Volkova, V. S.; Zernitskaya, V. P.: Present-day and mid-Holocene biomes reconstructed from pollen and plant macrofossil data from the former Soviet Union and Mongolia. Journal of Biogeography 25 (6), pp. 1029 - 1053 (1998)
Vassiljev, J.; Harrison, S. P.; Guiot, J.: Simulating the Holocene lake-level record of Lake Bysjön, southern Sweden. Quaternary Research 49 (1), pp. 62 - 71 (1998)
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.