• Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation 

      Joswig, Julia S.; Wirth, Christian; Schuman, Meredith C.; Kattge, Jens; Reu, Björn; Wright, Ian J.; Sippel, Sebastian; Rüger, Nadja; Richter, Ronny; Schaepman, Michael E.; van Bodegom, Peter M.; Cornelissen, J.H.C.; Díaz, Sandra; Hattingh, Wesley N.; Kramer, Koen; Lens, Frederic; Niinemets, Ülo; Reich, Peter B.; Reichstein, Markus; Römermann, Christine; Schrodt, Franziska; Anand, Madhur; Bahn, Michael; Byun, Chaeho; Campetella, Giandiego; Cerabolini, Bruno E. L.; Craine, Joseph M.; Gonzalez-Melo, Andres; Gutiérrez, Alvaro G.; He, Tianhua; Higuchi, Pedro; Jactel, Hervé; Kraft, Nathan J. B.; Minden, Vanessa; Onipchenko, Vladimir; Peñuelas, Josep; Pillar, Valério D.; Sosinski, Ênio; Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A.; Weiher, Evan; Mahecha, Miguel D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12-23)
      Plant functional traits can predict community assembly and ecosystem functioning and are thus widely used in global models of vegetation dynamics and land–climate feedbacks. Still, we lack a global understanding of how ...
    • Contrasting biosphere responses to hydrometeorological extremes: revisiting the 2010 western Russian Heatwave 

      Flach, Milan; Sippel, Sebastian; Gans, Fabian; Bastos, Ana; Brenning, Alexander; Reichstein, Markus; Mahecha, Miguel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-16)
      Combined droughts and heatwaves are among those compound extreme events that induce severe impacts on the terrestrial biosphere and human health. A record breaking hot and dry compound event hit western Russia in summer ...
    • Drought, Heat, and the Carbon Cycle: a Review 

      Sippel, Sebastian; Reichstein, Markus; Ma, Xuanlong; Mahecha, Miguel D.; Lange, Holger; Flach, Milan; Frank, Dorothea (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-14)
      Purpose of the Review Weather and climate extremes substantially affect global- and regional-scale carbon (C) cycling, and thus spatially or temporally extended climatic extreme events jeopardize terrestrial ecosystem ...
    • Have precipitation extremes and annual totals been increasing in the world’s dry regions over the last 60 years? 

      Sippel, Sebastian; Zscheischler, Jakob; Heimann, Martin; Lange, Holger; Mahecha, Miguel D.; van Oldenborgh, Geert Jan; Otto, Friederike E.L.; Reichstein, Markus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-01-25)
      Daily precipitation extremes and annual totals have increased in large parts of the global land area over the past decades. These observations are consistent with theoretical considerations of a warming climate. However, ...
    • Impacts of droughts and extreme temperature events on gross primary production and ecosystem respiration: a systematic assessment across ecosystems and climate zones 

      von Buttlar, Jannis; Zscheischler, Jakob; Rammig, Anja; Sippel, Sebastian; Reichstein, Markus; Knohl, Alexander; Jung, Martin; Menzer, Olaf; Arain, M. Altaf; Buchmann, Nina; Cescatti, Alessandro; Gianelle, Damiano; Kiely, Gerard; Law, Beverly; Magliulo, Vincenzo; Margolis, Hank; McCaughey, Harry; Merbold, Lutz; Migliavacca, Mirco; Montagnani, Leonardo; Oechel, Walter; Pavelka, Marian; Peichl, Matthias; Rambal, Serge; Raschi, Antonio; Scott, Russell L.; Vaccari, Franceso P.; van Gorsel, Eva; Varlagin, Andrej; Wohlfahrt, Georg; Mahecha, Miguel (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Extreme climatic events, such as droughts and heat stress, induce anomalies in ecosystem–atmosphere CO2 fluxes, such as gross primary production (GPP) and ecosystem respiration (Reco), and, hence, can change the net ecosystem ...
    • Vegetation modulates the impact of climate extremes on gross primary production 

      Flach, Milan; Brenning, Alexander; Gans, Fabian; Reichstein, Markus; Sippel, Sebastian; Mahecha, Miguel D. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-01-05)
      Drought and heat events affect the uptake and sequestration of carbon in terrestrial ecosystems. Factors such as the duration, timing, and intensity of extreme events influence the magnitude of impacts on ecosystem processes ...
    • Vertically divergent responses of SOC decomposition to soil moisture in a changing climate 

      Pallandt, Marleen; Ahrens, Bernhard; Koirala, Sujan; Lange, Holger; Reichstein, Markus; Schrumpf, Marion; Zaehle, Sönke (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-01-09)
      The role of soil moisture for organic matter decomposition rates remains poorly understood and underrepresented in Earth System Models (ESMs). We apply the Dual Arrhenius Michaelis-Menten (DAMM) model to a selection of ESM ...