Germer, S.; Kleidon, A.: Have wind turbines in Germany generated electricity as would be expected from the prevailing wind conditions in 2000-2014? PLoS One 14 (2), e0211028 (2019)
Kern, J.; Germer, S.; Ammon, C.; Balasus, A.; Bischoff, W.-A.; Schwarz, A.; Forstreuter, M.; Kaupenjohann, M.: Environmental effects over the first 2½ rotation periods of a fertilised poplar short rotation coppice. BioEnergy Research 11 (1), pp. 152 - 165 (2018)
Germer, S.; van Dongen, R.; Kern, J.: Decomposition of cherry tree prunings and their short-term impact on soil quality. Applied Soil Ecology 117-118, pp. 156 - 164 (2017)
Mertens, J.; Germer, S.; Germer, J.; Sauerborn, J.: Comparison of soil amendments for reforestation with a native multipurpose tree under semiarid climate: Root and root tuber response of Spondias tuberosa. Forest Ecology and Management 396, pp. 1 - 10 (2017)
Agora Energiewende; Agora Verkehrswende; Technical University of Denmark; Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry: Making the most of offshore wind: Re-evaluating the potential of offshore wind in the German North Sea. (2020)
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.
In the annual ranking of the world's most cited and thus most influential scientists, five authors from our institute are once again represented in 2024.
David Hafezi Rachti was awarded twice: for his EGU poster with this year’s “Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation” (OSPP) and for his Bachelor thesis, he received the 1st prize of the “Young Climate Scientist Award 2024”.
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.