Bioclimatology

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Publications 2026


  • Dey B, Sjøgren TD, Khare P, Gkatzelis GI, Wu Y, Vasireddy S, Schultz M, Knohl A, Rinnan R, Hohaus T, Pfannerstill EY (2026). Multi-stress interaction effects on BVOC emission fingerprints from Oak and Beech: A cross-investigation using Machine Learning and Positive Matrix Factorization. Biogeosciences 23, 1423-1457. doi: 10.5194/bg-23-1423-2026.
  • Cazorla BP, Meijide A, Cabello J, Peñas J, Martínez-López J, Vargas R, Montagnani L, Knohl A, Siebicke L, Gioli B, Dušek J, Šigut L, Ibrom A, Wohlfahrt G, Paul-Limoges E, Fuchs K, Manco A, Pavelka M, Merbold L, Hörtnagl L, Duce P, Goded I, Pilegaard K, Alcaraz-Segura D (2026). Satellite-derived Ecosystem Functional Types capture ecosystem functional heterogeneity at regional scale. Biogeosciences 23, 1223-1243. doi: 10.5194/bg-23-1223-2026.
  • Callejas-Rodelas JÁ, van Ramshorst JGA, Knohl A, Siebicke L, Fellert D, Peksa M, Böttger D, Markwitz C (2026). A multiyear eddy covariance and meteorological dataset from five pairs of agroforestry systems with open cropland or grassland in Northern Germany. Earth System Science Data 18, 845-874. doi: 10.5194/essd-18-845-2026.


    • Publications 2025


  • Peichl M, Martínez-García E, Chi J, Kljun N, Klosterhalfen A, Larson J, Laudon H, Lundmark T, Monteil G, Nilsson MB, Sathyanadh A, Scholze M, Wallerman J, Zhao P (2025). Cross-scale convergence in the carbon balance of managed boreal forests in Northern Sweden. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 377, 110926. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110926.
  • Paramanik S, Morris H, Grousset R, Bai G, Lerebourg C, Lopez-Baeza E, Pérez-Hoyos A, Garcia-Rodriguez D, Culvenor D, Knohl A, Klosterhalfen A, Tiedemann F, Lanconelli C, Clerici M, Gobron N, Brown LA, James F, Maier S, Niro F, Dash J (2025). Automated and continuous estimation of FAPAR from distributed wireless PAR sensor networks. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 376, 110904. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110904 .
  • Callejas Rodelas JÁ, Knohl A, Mammarella I, Vesala T, Peltola O, Markwitz C (2025). Does increased spatial replication above heterogeneous agroforestry improve the representativeness of eddy covariance measurements? Biogeosciences 22(17), 4507-4529. doi: 10.5194/bg-22-4507-2025.
  • Ali AA (2025). Modeling competitive interactions between floating and submerged macrophytes in shallow lakes using field data. Theoretical Ecology 18, 28. doi: 10.1007/s12080-025-00622-x.
  • Chi J, Klosterhalfen A, Nilsson MB, Laudon H, Wallerman J, Larson J, Lindroth A, Kljun N, Fransson JES, Lundmark T, Peichl M (2025). A managed boreal forest landscape in northern Sweden is a persistent net carbon sink despite large inter-annual weather anomalies. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 373, 110758. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110758.
  • Drollinger S, Dietze M, Seidel D, Schwindt D, Birk JJ, Sauer D (2025). Recent changes in rainfall patterns alter precipitation partitioning in European beech forest. Environmental Research Communications 7(3), 031004. doi: 10.1088/2515-7620/adbba4.
  • van Ramshorst JGV, Callejas Rodelas JÁ, Knohl A, Markwitz C (2025). Comparison of ecosystem-scale carbon fluxes at agroforestry and adjacent monocropping sites in Germany. Agroforestry Systems 99(6), 147. doi: 10.1007/s10457-025-01244-2.
  • De R, Bao S, Koirala S, Brenning A, Reichstein M, Tagesson T, Liddell M, Ibrom A, Wolf S, Šigut L, Hörtnagl L, Woodgate W, Korkiakoski M, Merbold L, Black TA, Roland M, Klosterhalfen A, Blanken PD, Knox S, Sabbatini S, Gielen B, Montagnani L, Fensholt R, Wohlfahrt G, Desai AR, Paul‐Limoges E, Galvagno M, Hammerle A, Jocher G, Ruiz Reverter B, Holl D, Chen J, Vitale L, Arain MA, Carvalhais N (2025). Addressing challenges in simulating inter-annual variability of gross primary production. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 17(5). doi: 10.1029/2024MS004697.
  • Schönauer M, Asabere SB, Sauer D, Drollinger S (2025). Topographic indices and ERA5-Land data to describe soil moisture variability in a Central European beech forest. Journal of Hydrology. Regional Studies 59, 102456. doi: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2025.102456.


    • Publications 2024


  • Nelson JA, Walther S, Gans F, Kraft B, Weber U, Novick K, et al. (2024). X-BASE: the first terrestrial carbon and water flux products from an extended data-driven scaling framework, FLUXCOM-X. Biogeosciences 21, 5079-5115. doi: 10.5194/bg-21-5079-2024.
  • van Ramshorst JGV, Knohl A, Callejas Rodelas JÁ, Clement R, Hill TC, Siebicke L, Markwitz C (2024). Lower-cost eddy covariance for CO2 and H2O fluxes over grassland and agroforestry. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 17, 6047-6071. doi: 10.5194/amt-17-6047-2024.
  • Delpierre N, Garnier S, Treuil‐Dussouet H, Hufkens K, Lin J, Beier C, Bell M, Berveiller D, Cuntz M, Curioni G, Dahlin K, Denham S, Desai A, Domec J-C, Hart K, Ibrom A, Joetzjer E, King J, Klosterhalfen A, Koebsch F, Hale P, Morfin A, Munger JW, Noormets A, Pilegaard K, Pohl F, Rebmann C, Richardson A, Rothstein D, Schwartz M, Wilkinson M, Soudani K (2024). Phenology across scales: an intercontinental analysis of leaf‐out dates in temperate deciduous tree communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography, e13910. doi: 10.1111/geb.13910.
  • Emad A (2024). Over 100-fold improvement in the accuracy of relaxed eddy accumulation flux estimates through error diffusion. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 357, 110207. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2024.110207.
  • Callejas Rodelas JÁ, Knohl A, van Ramshorst JGV, Mammarella I, Markwitz C (2024). Comparison between lower-cost and conventional eddy covariance setups for CO2 and evapotranspiration measurements above monocropping and agroforestry systems. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 354, 110086. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2024.110086.
  • Gisolo D, Bevilacqua I, Gentile A, van Ramshorst J, Patono DL, Lovisolo C, Previati M, Canone D, Ferraris S (2024). Evapotranspiration of an abandoned grassland in the Italian Alps: Modeling the impact of shrub encroachment. Journal of Hydrology 635, 131223. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131223.
  • Wenzel A, Westphal C, Ballauff J, Brambach F, Buchori D, Camaretta N, Corre MD, Daniel R, Darras K, Erasmi S, Formaglio G, Hölscher D, Al-Amin Iddris N, Irawan B, Knohl A, Kotowska M, Krashevska V, Kreft H, Mulyani Y, Mußhoff O, Paterno G, Polle A, Potapov A, Röll A, Scheu S, Schlund M, Schneider D, Sibhatu K, Stiegler C, Sundawati L, Tjoa A, Tscharntke T, Veldkamp E, Waite P-A, Wollni M, Zemp DC, Grass I (2024). Balancing economic and ecological functions in smallholder and industrial oil palm plantations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121(17), e230722012. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2307220121.
  • Wei J, von Arx G, Fan Z, Ibrom A, Mund M, Knohl A, Peters RL, Babst F (2024). Drought alters aboveground biomass production efficiency: Insights from two European beech forests. Science of The Total Environment 919, 170726. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170726.
  • von Groß V, Sibhatu KT, Knohl A, Qaim M, Veldkamp E, Hölscher D, Zemp DC, Corre MD, Grass I, Fiedler S, Stiegler C, Irawan B, Sundawati L, Husmann K, Paul C (2024). Transformation scenarios towards multifunctional landscapes: A multi-criteria land-use allocation model applied to Jambi Province, Indonesia. Journal of Environmental Management 356, 120710. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120710.
  • Kloos S, Klosterhalfen A, Knohl A, Menzel A (2024). Decoding autumn phenology: Unraveling the link between observation methods and detected environmental cues. Global Change Biology, 30(3), e17231. doi: 10.1111/gcb.17231.
  • Vernay A, Hasselquist N, Leppä K, Klosterhalfen A, Gutierrez Lopez J, Stangl ZR, Chi J, Kozii N, Marshall JD (2024). Partitioning gross primary production of a boreal forest among species and strata: A multi-method approach. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 345, 109857. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109857.


    • Publications 2023


  • Brown LA, Morris H, Meier C, Knohl A, Lanconelli C, Gobron N, Dash J, Danso FM (2023). Stage 1 Validation of plant area index from the global ecosystem dynamics investigation. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters 20, 2505005. doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2023.3319528.
  • Yan Y, Klosterhalfen A, Moyano FE, Cuntz M, Manning AC, Knohl A (2023). A modeling approach to investigate drivers, variability and uncertainties in O2 fluxes and O2:CO2 exchange ratios in a temperate forest. Biogeosciences, 20(19), 4087-4107. doi: 10.5194/bg-20-4087-2023.
  • Graf A, Wohlfahrt G, Aranda-Barranco S, Arriga N, Brümmer C, Ceschia E, Ciais P, Desai AR, Di Lonardo S, Gharun M, Grünwald T, Hörtnagl L, Kasak K, Klosterhalfen A, Knohl A, Kowalska N, Leuchner M, Lindroth A, Mauder M, Migliavacca M, Morel AC, Pfennig A, Poorter H, Poppe Terán C, Reitz O, Rebmann C, Sanchez-Azofeifa A, Schmidt M, Šigut L, Tomelleri E, Yu K, Varlagin A, Vereecken H (2023). Joint optimization of land carbon uptake and albedo can help achieve moderate instantaneous and long-term cooling effects. Communications Earth & Environment, 4(1), 298. doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-00958-4.
  • Bulusu M, Ellsäßer F, Stiegler C, Ahongshangbam J, Marques I, Hendrayanto H, Röll A, Hölscher D (2023). UAV-based thermography reveals spatial and temporal variability of evapotranspiration from a tropical rainforest. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 6, 1232410. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2023.1232410
  • Stiegler C, June T, Markwitz C, Camarretta N, Ali AA, Knohl A (2023). Wind regimes above and below a dense oil palm canopy: Detection of decoupling and its implications on CO2 flux estimates. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 341, 109668. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109668.
  • Stiegler C, Koebsch F, Ali AA, June T, Veldkamp E, Corre MD, Koks J, Tjoa A, Knohl A (2023). Temporal variation in nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes from an oil palm plantation in Indonesia: An ecosystem-scale analysis. Global Change Biology - Bioenergy 00, 1-19. doi: 10.1111/gcbb.13088.
  • Mansourmoghaddam M, Rousta I, Cabral P, Ali AA, Olafsson H, Zhang H, Krzyszczak J (2023). Investigation and prediction of the land use/land cover (LU/LC) and land surface temperature (LST) changes for Mashhad City in Iran during 1990–2030. Atmosphere 14(4), 741. doi: 10.3390/atmos14040741.
  • Mansourmoghaddam M, Naghipur N, Rousta I, Alavipanah SK, Olafsson H, Ali AA (2023). Quantifying the effects of green-town development on land surface temperatures (LST) (A case study at Karizland (Karizboom), Yazd, Iran). Land 12(4), 885. doi: 10.3390/land12040885.
  • Ali AA (2023). Comparing durations of plant and human physiological processes and highlighting their importance to the earth system. American Journal of Plant Sciences 14(02), 113-117. doi: 10.4236/ajps.2023.142009.
  • Gomarasca U, Migliavacca M, Kattge J, Nelson JA, Niinemets Ü, Wirth C, Cescatti A, Bahn M, Nair R, Acosta ATR, Arain MA, Beloiu M, Black TA, Bruun HH, Bucher SF, Buchmann N, Byun C, Carrara A, Conte A, da Silva AC, Duveiller G, Fares S, Ibrom A, Knohl A, Komac B, Limousin J-M, Lusk CH, Mahecha MD, Martini D, Minden V, Montagnani L, Mori AS, Onoda Y, Peñuelas J, Perez-Priego O, Poschlod P, Powell TL, Reich PB, Šigut L, van Bodegom PM, Walther S, Wohlfahrt G, Wright IJ, Reichstein M (2023). Leaf-level coordination principles propagate to the ecosystem scale. Nature Communications 14, 3948. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-39572-5.
  • Helm J, Salomón RL, Hilman B, Muhr J, Knohl A, Steppe K, Gibon Y, Cassan C, Hartmann H (2023). Differences between tree stem CO2 efflux and O2 influx rates cannot be explained by internal CO2 transport or storage in large beech trees. Plant, Cell & Environment, 14614. doi: 10.1111/pce.14614.
  • Toda M, Knohl A, Luyssaert S, Hara T (2023). Simulated effects of canopy structural complexity on forest productivity. Forest Ecology and Management 538, 120978. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2023.120978.
  • Greenshields B, von der Lühe B, Hughes HJ, Stiegler C, Tarigan S, Tjoa A, Sauer D (2023). Oil-palm management alters the spatial distribution of amorphous silica and mobile silicon in topsoils. Soil 9(1), 169-188. doi: 10.5194/soil-9-169-2023.
  • Emad A (2023). Optimal frequency-response corrections for eddy covariance flux measurements using the Wiener deconvolution method. Boundary-Layer Meteorology 188, 29-53. doi: 10.1007/s10546-023-00799-w.
  • Emad A, Siebicke L (2023). True eddy accumulation - Part 2: Theory and experiment of the short-time eddy accumulation method. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 16, 41-55. doi: 10.5194/amt-16-41-2023.
  • Emad A, Siebicke L (2023). True eddy accumulation - Part 1: Solutions to the problem of non-vanishing mean vertical wind velocity. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 16, 29-40. doi: 10.5194/amt-16-29-2023.
  • Veldkamp E, Schmidt M, Markwitz C, Beule L, Beuschel R, Biertümpfel A, Bischel X, Duan X, Gerjets R, Göbel L, Graß R, Guerra V, Heinlein F, Komainda M, Langhof M, Luo J, Potthoff M, van Ramshorst JGV, Rudolf C, Seserman D-M, Shao G, Siebicke L, Svoboda N, Swieter A, Carminati A, Freese D, Graf T, Greef JM, Isselstein J, Jansen M, Karlovsky P, Knohl A, Lamersdorf N, Priesack E, Wachendorf C, Wachendorf M, Corre MD (2023). Multifunctionality of temperate alley-cropping agroforestry outperforms open cropland and grassland. Communications Earth & Environment 4, 20. doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-00680-1.


    • Publications 2022


  • van Ramshorst JGV, Siebicke L, Baumeister M, Moyano FE, Knohl A, Markwitz C (2022). Reducing wind erosion through agroforestry: a case study using large eddy simulations. Sustainability 14(20), 13372. doi: 10.3390/su142013372.
  • Donfack LS, Schall P, Mund M, Knohl A, Ammer C (2022). Effects of competition reduction on intra-annual radial growth of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) at stem base and crown base. Trees 37, 435-447. doi: 10.1007/s00468-022-02360-7.
  • Lindroth A, Pirk N, Jónsdóttir IS, Stiegler C, Klemedtsson L, Nilsson MB (2022). CO2 and CH4 exchanges between moist moss tundra and atmosphere on Kapp Linné, Svalbard. Biogeosciences 19(16), 3921-3934. doi: 10.5194/bg-19-3921-2022.
  • Yu X, Orth R, Reichstein M, Bahn M, Klosterhalfen A, Knohl A, Koebsch F, Migliavacca M, Mund M, Nelson JA, Stocker BD, Walther S, Bastos A (2022). Contrasting drought legacy effects on gross primary productivity in a mixed versus pure beech forest. Biogeosciences 19(17), 4315-4329. doi: 10.5194/bg-19-4315-2022.
  • Schlund M, Wenzel A, Camarretta N, Stiegler C, Erasmi S (2022). Vegetation canopy height estimation in tropical landscapes with TanDEM-X supported by GEDI data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 00, 1-18. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13933.
  • Gisolo D, Bevilacqua I, van Ramshorst J, Knohl A, Siebicke L, Previati M, Canone D, Ferraris S (2022). Evapotranspiration of an abandoned grassland in the Italian alps: influence of local topography, intra- and inter-annual variability and environmental drivers. Atmosphere 13(6), 977. doi: 10.3390/atmos13060977.
  • Krashevska V, Stiegler C, June T, Widyastuti R, Knohl A, Scheu S, Potapov A (2022). Land-use change shifts and magnifies seasonal variations of the decomposer system in lowland tropical landscapes. Ecology and Evolution 12, e9020. doi: 10.1002/ece3.9020.
  • Ali AA, Fan Y, Corre MD, Kotowska MM, Preuss-Hassler E, Cahyo AN, Moyano FE, Stiegler C, Roell A, Meijide A, Olchev A, Ringeler A, Leuschner C, Ariani R, June T, Tarigan S, Kreft H, Hoelscher D, Xu C, Koven CD, Dagon K, Fisher RA, Veldkamp E, Knohl A (2022). Implementing a new rubber plant functional type in the Community Land Model (CLM5) improves accuracy of carbon and water flux estimation. Land 11(2), 183. doi: 10.3390/land11020183.
  • Fu Z, Ciais P, Makowski D, Bastos A, Stoy PC, Ibrom A, Knohl A, Migliavacca M, Cuntz M, Šigut L, Peichl M, Loustau D, El-Madany TS, Buchmann N, Gharun M, Janssens I, Markwitz C, Grünwald T, Rebmann C, Mölder M, Varlagin A, Mammarella I, Kolari P, Bernhofer C, Heliasz M, Vincke C, Pitacco A, Cremonese E, Foltýnová L, Wigneron J-P (2022). Uncovering the critical soil moisture thresholds of plant water stress for European ecosystems. Global Change Biology 28, 2111-2123. doi: 10.1111/gcb.16050.
  • Lembrechts JJ, van den Hoogen J, Aalto J, Ashcroft MB, De Frenne P, Kemppinen J, et al. (2022). Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology 28(9), 3110-3144. doi: 10.1111/gcb.16060.