Munassar, S.; Rödenbeck, C.; Galkowski, M.; Koch, F.-T.; Totsche, K. U.; Botia, S.; Gerbig, C.: To what extent does the CO2 diurnal cycle impact flux estimates derived from global and regional inversions? Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 25 (1), pp. 639 - 656 (2025)
Ho, D.; Galkowski, M.; Reum, F.; Botia, S.; Marshall, J.; Totsche, K. U.; Gerbig, C.: Recommended coupling to global meteorological fields for long-term tracer simulations with WRF-GHG. Geoscientific Model Development 17 (20), pp. 7401 - 7422 (2024)
de Arellano, J. V.-G.; Hartogensis, O. K.; de Boer, H.; Moonen, R.; González-Armas, R.; Janssens, M.; Adnew, G. A.; Bonell-Fontás, D. J.; Botia, S.; Jones, S. P.et al.; van Asperen, H.; Komiya, S.; de Feiter, V. S.; Rikkers, D.; de Haas, S.; Machado, L. A. T.; Dias-Junior, C. Q.; Giovanelli-Haytzmann, G.; Valenti, W. I. D.; Figueiredo, R. C.; Farias, C. S.; Hall, D. H.; Mendonça, A. C. S.; da Silva, F. A. G.; da Silva, J. L. M.; Souza, R.; Martins, G.; Miller, J. N.; Mol, W. B.; Heusinkveld, B.; van Heerwaarden, C. C.; D’Oliveira, F. A. F.; Ferreira, R. R.; Gotuzzo, R. A.; Pugliese, G.; Williams, J.; Ringsdorf, A.; Edtbauer, A.; Quesada, C. A.; Portela, B. T. T.; Alves, E. G.; Pöhlker, C.; Trumbore, S. E.; Lelieveld, J.; Röckmann, T.: CloudRoots-Amazon22: Integrating clouds with photosynthesis by crossing scales. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 105 (7), pp. E1275 - E1302 (2024)
van der Woude, A. M.; Peters, W.; Joetzjer, E.; Lafont, S.; Koren, G.; Ciais, P.; Ramonet, M.; Xu, Y.; Bastos, A.; Botia, S.et al.; Sitch, S.; de Kok, R.; Kneuer, T.; Kubistin, D.; Jacotot, A.; Loubet, B.; Herig-Coimbra, P.-H.; Luijkx, D. L. I. T.: Temperature extremes of 2022 reduced carbon uptake by forests in Europe. Nature Communications 14, 6218 (2023)
Alves, E. G.; Santana, R. A.; Dias-Júnior, C. Q.; Botia, S.; Taylor, T.; Yáñez-Serrano, A. M.; Kesselmeier, J.; Bourtsoukidis, E.; Williams, J.; de Assis, P. I. L. S.et al.; Martins, G.; de Souza, R.; Júnior, S. D.; Guenther, A.; Gu, D.; Tsokankunku, A.; Sörgel, M.; Nelson, B.; Pinto, D.; Komiya, S.; Rosa, D. M.; Weber, B.; Barbosa, C.; Robin, M.; Feeley, K. J.; Duque, A.; Lemos, V. L.; Contreras, M. P.; Idarraga, A.; López, N.; Husby, C.; Jestrow, B.; Toro, I. M. C.: Intra- and interannual changes in isoprene emission from central Amazonia. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 23 (14), pp. 8149 - 8168 (2023)
Tangarife-Escobar, A.; Koeniger, P.; Lopez-Moreno, J. I.; Botia, S.; Ceballos-Liévano, J. L.: Spatiotemporal variability of stable isotopes in precipitation and stream water in a high elevation tropical catchment in the Central Andes of Colombia. Hydrological Processes 37 (5), e14873 (2023)
de Arellano, J. V.-G.; Hartogensis, O.; Benedict, I.; de Boer, H.; Bosman, P. J. M.; Botia, S.; Cecchini, M. A.; Faassen, K. A. P.; González-Armas, R.; van Diepen, K.et al.; Heusinkveld, B. G.; Janssens, M.; Lobos-Roco, F.; Luijkx, I. T.; Machado, L. A. T.; Mangan, M. R.; Moene, A. F.; Mol, W. B.; van der Molen, M.; Moonen, R.; Ouwersloot, H. G.; Park, S.-W.; Pedruzo-Bagazgoitia, X.; Röckmann, T.; Adnew, G. A.; Ronda, R.; Sikma, M.; Schulte, R.; van Stratum, B. J. H.; Veerman, M. A.; van Zanten, M. C.; van Heerwaarden, C. C.: Advancing understanding of land–atmosphere interactions by breaking discipline and scale barriers. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1522 (1), pp. 74 - 97 (2023)
van der Woude, A. M.; de Kok, R.; Smith, N.; Luijkx, I. T.; Botia, S.; Karstens, U.; Kooijmans, L. M. J.; Koren, G.; Meijer, H.; Steeneveld, G.-J.et al.; Storm, I.; Super, I.; Scheeren, B. A.; Vermeulen, A.; Peters, W.: Near-real-time CO2 fluxes from CarbonTracker Europe for high-resolution atmospheric modeling. Earth System Science Data 15 (2), pp. 579 - 605 (2023)
Dias-Júnior, C. Q.; Carneiro, R. G.; Fisch, G.; D’Oliveira, F. A. F.; Sörgel, M.; Botia, S.; Machado, L. A. T.; Wolff, S.; dos Santos, R. M. N.; Pöhlker, C.: Intercomparison of planetary boundary layer heights using remote sensing retrievals and ERA5 reanalysis over Central Amazonia. Remote Sensing 14 (18), 4561 (2022)
Melack, J. M.; Basso, L. S.; Fleischmann, A. S.; Botia, S.; Guo, M.; Zhou, W.; Barbosa, P. M.; Amaral, J. H.F.; MacIntyre, S.: Challenges regionalizing methane emissions using aquatic environments in the Amazon Basin as examples. Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 10, 866082 (2022)
Botia, S.; Komiya, S.; Marshall, J.; Koch, T.; Galkowski, M.; Lavrič, J. V.; Gomes-Alves, E.; Walter, D.; Fisch, G.; Pinho, D. M.et al.; Nelson, B.; Martins, G.; Luijkx, I. T.; Koren, G.; Florentie, L.; de Araujo, A. C.; Sa, M.; Andreae, M. O.; Heimann, M.; Peters, W.; Gerbig, C.: The CO2 record at the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory: a new opportunity to study processes on seasonal and inter-annual scales. Global Change Biology 28 (2), pp. 588 - 611 (2022)
Correa, P. B.; Dias-Júnior, C. Q.; Cava, D.; Sörgel, M.; Botia, S.; Acevedo, O.; Oliveira, P. E. S.; Manzi, A. O.; Machado, L. A. T.; Martins, H. d. S.et al.; Tsokankunku, A.; de Araújo, A. C.; Lavrič, J. V.; Walter, D.; Mortarini, L.: A case study of a gravity wave induced by Amazon forest orography and low level jet generation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 307, 108457 (2021)
Bezerra, V. L.; Dias-Júnior, C. Q.; Vale, R. S.; Santana, R. A.; Botia, S.; Manzi, A. O.; Cohen, J. C. P.; Martins, H. S.; Chamecki, M.; Fuentes, J. D.: Near-surface atmospheric turbulence in the presence of a squall line above a forested and deforested region in the Central Amazon. Atmosphere 12 (4), 461 (2021)
Botía, S. B.; Gerbig, C.; Marshall, J.; Lavrič, J. V.; Walter, D.; Pölhker, C.; Holanda, B.; Fisch, G.; de Araújo, A. C.; Sá, M. O.et al.; Teixeira, P. R.; Resende, A. F.; Dias-Junior, C. Q.; van Asperen, H.; Oliveira, P. S.; Stefanello, M.; Acevedo, O. C.: Understanding nighttime methane signals at the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO). Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 20 (11), pp. 6583 - 6606 (2020)
Botia, S.: Greenhouse gas exchange in the Amazon: Carbon dioxide and methane insights from the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory. Dissertation, 180 pp., Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen (2022)
Botia, S.; Dias-Junior, C. Q.; Komiya, S.; van der Woude, A.; Terristi, M.; de Kok, R.; Koren, G.; van Asperen, H.; Jones, S. P.; D'Oliveira, F. A. F.et al.; Weber, U.; Marques-Filho, E.; Toro, I. M. C.; Araújo, A.; Lavric, J.; Walter, D.; Li, X.; Wigneron, J.-P.; Stocker, B.; de Souza, J. G.; O'Sullivan, M.; Sitch, S.; Ciais, P.; Chevallier, F.; Li, W.; Luijkx, I. T.; Peters, W.; Quesada, C. A.; Zaehle, S.; Trumbore, S. E.; Bastos, A.: Reduced vegetation uptake during the extreme 2023 drought turns the Amazon into a weak carbon source. ESS Open Archive (2025)
Glauch, T.; Marshall, J.; Gerbig, C.; Botia, S.; Galkowski, M.; Vardag, S. N.; Butz, A.: pyVPRM: A next-generation Vegetation Photosynthesis and Respiration Model for the post-MODIS era. EGUsphere (2025)
Meunier, F.; Boeckx, P.; Botia, S.; Bauters, M.; Cherlet, W.; Ciais, P.; Hertog, S. D.; Dietze, M.; Peaucelle, M.; Sibret, T.et al.; Sitch, S.; Li, W.; Verbeeck, H.: The impact of the 2023-2024 drought on intact Amazon forests’ productivity. Research Square (2024)
Meunier, F.; Boeckx, P.; Botia, S.; Bauters, M.; Cherlet, W.; Ciais, P.; Hertog, S. D.; Dietze, M.; Peaucelle, M.; Sibret, T.et al.; Sitch, S.; Li, W.; Verbeeck, H.: Intact Amazon forests hit a record low gross primary productivity level in 2023-2024. Research Square (2024)
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.