Li, W.; Migliavacca, M.; Miralles, D. G.; Reichstein, M.; Anderegg, W. R. L.; Yang, H.; Orth, R.: Disentangling effects of vegetation structure and physiology on land-atmosphere coupling. Global Change Biology 31 (1), e70035 (2025)
Li, W.; Duveiller, G.; Wieneke, S.; Forkel, M.; Gentine, P.; Reichstein, M.; Niu, S.; Migliavacca, M.; Orth, R.: Regulation of the global carbon and water cycles through vegetation structural and physiological dynamics. Environmental Research Letters 19 (7), 073008 (2024)
Li, W.; Reichstein, M.; O, S.; May, C.; Destouni, G.; Migliavacca, M.; Kraft, B.; Weber, U.; Orth, R.: Contrasting drought propagation into the terrestrial water cycle between dry and wet regions. Earth's Future 11 (7), e2022EF003441 (2023)
Orth, R.; Denissen, J.; Kroll, J.; O, S.; Bastos, A.; Li, W.; Miralles, D.; Ruiz-Vasquez, M.; Hoek van Dijke, A. J.; Feldman, A.et al.; Migliavacca, M.; Wang-Erlandsson, L.; Stocker, B.; Teuling, A. J.; Yang, H.; Zhan, C.; Yu, X.: Changing water availability and demand shift global greening to regional browning. Research Square (2024)
Extreme climate events endanger groundwater quality and stability, when rain water evades natural purification processes in the soil. This was demonstrated in long-term groundwater analyses using new analytical methods.
More frequent strong storms are destroying ever larger areas of the Amazon rainforest. Storm damage was mapped between 1985 and 2020. The total area of affected forests roughly quadrupled in the period studied.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina will hold a joint conference on the challenges of achieving carbon neutrality in Berlin on October 29-30, 2024.
The Chapter of the Order has elected the writer, philosopher and filmmaker Alexander Kluge and the mathematician Gerd Faltings as domestic members of the Order and the geologist Susan Trumbore and the literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt as foreign members.
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!