Meng, M.; Ni, J.; Zong, M. J.: Impacts of changes in climate variability on regional vegetation in China: NDVI-based analysis from 1982 to 2000. Ecological Research 26 (2), pp. 421 - 428 (2011)
Ashiq, M. W.; Zhao, C. Y.; Ni, J.; Akhtar, M.: GIS-based high-resolution spatial interpolation of precipitation in mountain-plain areas of Upper Pakistan for regional climate change impact studies. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 99 (3-4), pp. 239 - 253 (2010)
Ni, J.; Yu, G.; Harrison, S. P.; Prentice, I. C.: Palaeovegetation in China during the late Quaternary: Biome reconstructions based on a global scheme of plant functional types. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 289 (1-4), pp. 44 - 61 (2010)
Ni, J.; Wang, G. H.; Bai, Y. F.; Li, X. Z.: Scale-dependent relationships between plant diversity and above-ground biomass in temperate grasslands, south-eastern Mongolia. Journal of Arid Environments 68 (1), pp. 132 - 142 (2007)
Ni, J.; Harrison, S. P.; Prentice, I. C.; Kutzbach, J. E.; Sitch, S.: Impact of climate variability on present and Holocene vegetation: A model-based study. Ecological Modelling 191 (3-4), pp. 469 - 486 (2006)
Wang, G.-H.; Ni, J.: Responses of plant functional types to an environmental gradient on the Northeast China Transect. Ecological Research 20 (5), pp. 563 - 572 (2005)
Wang, Q.; Ni, J.; Tenhunen, J.: Application of a geographically-weighted regression analysis to estimate net primary production of Chinese forest ecosystems. Global Ecology and Biogeography 14 (4), pp. 379 - 393 (2005)
Ni, J.: Corrigendum to "Net primary productivity in forests of China: scaling-up of national inventory data and comparison with model predictions" (Forest Ecology and Management, vol 187 (2003), 485-495). Forest Ecology and Management 194 (1-3), p. 413 (2004)
Ni, J.: Estimating net primary productivity of grasslands from field biomass measurements in temperate northern China. Plant Ecology 174 (2), pp. 217 - 234 (2004)
Ni, J.: Forest productivity of the Altay and Tianshan Mountains in the dryland, northwestern China. Forest Ecology and Management 202 (1-3), pp. 13 - 22 (2004)
Ni, J.: Plant functional types and climate along a precipitation gradient in temperate grasslands, north-east China and south-east Mongolia. Journal of Arid Environments 53 (4), pp. 501 - 516 (2003)
Ni, J.: Net primary productivity in forests of China: scaling-up of national inventory data and comparison with model predictions. Forest Ecology and Management 176 (1-3), pp. 485 - 495 (2003)
Ni, J.; Ding, S.-Y.: Modeling the large-scale distribution of plant diversity: a possibility inferred from climate and productivity. Acta Phytoecologica Sinica 26 (5), pp. 568 - 574 (2002)
Clark, D. A.; Brown, S.; Kicklighter, D. W.; Chambers, J. Q.; Thomlinson, J. R.; Ni, J.: Measuring net primary production in forests: Concepts and field methods. Ecological Applications 11 (2), pp. 356 - 370 (2001)
Clark, D. A.; Brown, S.; Kicklighter, D. W.; Chambers, J. Q.; Thomlinson, J. R.; Ni, J.; Holland, E. A.: NPP in tropical forests: an evaluation and synthesis of existing field data. Ecological Applications 11: 371-384. Appendix 1. Estimates from the literature of net primary productivity in tropical forests. Ecological Archives A011-006-A1, pp. 1 - 19 (2001)
The international Cabo Verde Atmospheric Observatory (CVAO) is being further expanded: The President of the Republic of Cabo Verde José Maria Neves and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier laid the foundation stone on Thursday for a new laboratory building on São Vicente, one of the Cape Verde Islands off Africa. The Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry was involved in the construction of the station and has since been conducting long-term measurements of the greenhouse gases methane, carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide, among others, at the CVAO.
Climate warming is thawing permafrost and melting glaciers in the Arctic, causing vegetation changes, extreme drought and fires. All this depends strongly on the energy exchange between atmosphere and soil.
For the German-Brazilian joint project ATTO (Amazon Tall Tower Observatory), the Max Planck Society on the German side will continue to ensure the continued operation of the research station in the Brazilian rainforest and research. In addition, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will fund the project with ATTO+ for another three years with around 5 million euros.