• 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 ...
    • Diagnosing the dynamics of observed and simulated ecosystem Gross Primary Productivity with time causal Information Theory quantifiers 

      Sippel, Sebastian; Lange, Holger; Mahecha, Miguel D.; Hauhs, Michael; Bodesheim, Paul; Kaminski, Thomas W.; Gans, Fabian; Rosso, Osvaldo A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      Data analysis and model-data comparisons in the environmental sciences require diagnostic measures that quantify time series dynamics and structure, and are robust to noise in observational data. This paper investigates ...
    • 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, ...
    • 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 ...