Bela, M. M.; Longo, K. M.; Freitas, S. R.; Moreira, D. S.; Beck, V.; Wofsy, S. C.; Gerbig, C.; Wiedemann, K.; Andreae, M. O.; Artaxo, P.: Ozone production and transport over the Amazon Basin during the dry-to-wet and wet-to-dry transition seasons. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 15, pp. 757 - 782 (2015)
Beck, V.; Gerbig, C.; Koch, T.; Bela, M.M.; Longo, K.M.; Freitas, S.R.; Kaplan, J.O.; Prigent, C.; Bergamaschi, P.; Heimann, M.: WRF-Chem simulations in the Amazon region during wet and dry season transitions: evaluation of methane models and wetland inundation maps. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 13, pp. 7961 - 7982 (2012)
Beck, V.; Chen, H.; Gerbig, C.; Bergamaschi, P.; Bruhwiler, L.; Houweling, S.; Rockmann, T.; Kolle, O.; Steinbach, J.; Koch, T.et al.; Sapart, C. J.; van der Veen, C.; Frankenberg, C.; Andreae, M. O.; Artaxo, P.; Longo, K. M.; Wofsy, S. C.: Methane airborne measurements and comparison to global models during BARCA. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 117, D15310 (2012)
Andreae, M. O.; Artaxo, P.; Beck, V.; Bela, M.; Freitas, S.; Gerbig, C.; Longo, K.; Munger, J. W.; Wiedemann, K. T.; Wofsy, S. C.: Carbon monoxide and related trace gases and aerosols over the Amazon Basin during the wet and dry seasons. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 12 (13), pp. 6041 - 6065 (2012)
Pillai, D.; Gerbig, C.; Kretschmer, R.; Beck, V.; Karstens, U.; Neininger, B.; Heimann, M.: Comparing Lagrangian and Eulerian models for CO2 transport - a step towards Bayesian inverse modeling using WRF/STILT-VPRM. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 12, pp. 8979 - 8991 (2012)
Chen, H.; Winderlich, J.; Gerbig, C.; Höfer, A.; Rella, C. W.; Crosson, E. R.; Van Pelt, A. D.; Steinbach, J.; Kolle, O.; Beck, V.et al.; Daube, B. C.; Gottlieb, E. W.; Chow, V. Y.; Santoni, G. W.; Wofsy, S. C.: High-accuracy continuous airborne measurements of greenhouse gases (CO2 and CH4) using the cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) technique. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 3 (2), pp. 375 - 386 (2010)
Beck, V.: Determination of the methane budget of the Amazon region utilizing airborne methane observations in combination with atmospheric transport and vegetation modeling. Dissertation, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena (2012)
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.