Tegen, I.; Werner, M.; Harrison, S. P.; Kohfeld, K. E.: Reply to comment by N. M. Mahowald et al. on "Relative importance of climate and land use in determining present and future global soil dust emission''. Geophysical Research Letters 31 (24), p. L24106 (2004)
Bopp, L.; Kohfeld, K. E.; Le Quéré, C.; Aumont, O.: Dust impact on marine biota and atmospheric CO2 during glacial periods. Paleoceanography 18 (2), p. 1046 (2003)
Engelstädter, S.; Kohfeld, K. E.; Tegen, I.; Harrison, S. P.: Controls of dust emissions by vegetation and topographic depressions: An evaluation using dust storm frequency data. Geophysical Research Letters 30 (6), p. 1294 (2003)
Frechen, M.; Oches, E. A.; Kohfeld, K. E.: Loess in Europe - mass accumulation rates during the Last Glacial Period. Quaternary Science Reviews 22 (18-19), pp. 1835 - 1857 (2003)
Kohfeld, K. E.; Harrison, S. P.: Glacial-interglacial changes in dust deposition on the Chinese Loess Plateau. Quaternary Science Reviews 22 (18-19), pp. 1859 - 1878 (2003)
Bopp, L.; Kohfeld, K. E.; Le Quéré, C.; Aumont, O.: Dust impact on marine biota and atmospheric CO2 in glacial periods. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66 (15A), p. A91 - A91 (2002)
Tegen, I.; Harrison, S. P.; Kohfeld, K. E.; Mctainsh, G.: Modeling the role of mineral aerosols in global climate cycles. EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 83 (36), pp. 395 - 400 (2002)
Harrison, S. P.; Kohfeld, K. E.; Roelandt, C.; Claquin, T.: The role of dust in climate changes today, at the last glacial maximum and in the future. Earth-Science Reviews 54 (1-3), pp. 43 - 80 (2001)
Kohfeld, K. E.; Anderson, R. F.; Lynch-Stieglitz, J.: Carbon isotopic disequilibrium in polar planktonic Foraminifera and its impact on modern and Last Glacial Maximum reconstructions. Paleoceanography 15 (1), pp. 53 - 64 (2000)
Kohfeld, K. E.; Harrison, S. P.: How well can we simulate past climates? Evaluating the models using global palaeoenvironmental datasets. Quaternary Science Reviews 19 (1-5), pp. 321 - 346 (2000)
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.