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)
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!