Bioclimatology

Publications


  • Klinge M, Schwindt D, Drollinger S, Asabere SB (2026). ​Soil-moisture dynamics across contrasting levels of beech forest vitality under extreme drought in the Harz Mountains, central Germany. Trees 40, 84. doi: 10.1007/s00468-026-02788-1.
  • Hellwig FM, Fluhrer A, Dubois C, Schellenberg K, Chaparro D, Zehner M, Klosterhalfen A, Piles M, Schmullius C, Kunstmann H, Jagdhuber T (2026). ​Tracking water dynamics of a temperate forest under drought and non‐drought conditions using active and passive microwave and optical remote sensing. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 131(5), e2025JG009240. doi: 10.1029/2025JG009240.
  • Teickner H, Agethen S, Berger S, Boelsen RI, Borken W, Bragazza L, Broder T, De La Cruz FB, Diaconu A-C, Dise NB, Drollinger S, Estop-Aragonés C, Gałka M, Martí M, Glatzel S, Groß J, Harris L, Heffernan L, Hodgkins SB, Hömberg-Grandjean A, Hoppe H, Kleinebecker T, Knierzinger W, Liu H, Mathijssen P, Mollmann C, Schuster W, Närtker L, Olefeldt D, Pancotto V, Pelletier N, Reuter H, Robroek B, Svensson BH, Talbot J, Thompson L, Worrall F, Yu Z-G, Knorr K-H (2026). Peatland mid-infrared database. Scientific Data 13, 538. doi: 10.1038/s41597-026-06986-x.
  • Magh R, Paligi S, Papastefanou P, Klosterhalfen A, Ammer C, Beyer M, Dubbert M, Haberstroh S, Rohde C, Werner C, Hildebrandt A (2026). ​Continuous stem water potential measurements with microtensiometry reveal species identity and soil matric potential control of stem water potential in temperate forests. Ecohydrology 19(3). ​doi: 10.1002/eco.70197 .
  • Hanggara BB, Stiegler C, Hata Y, Melling L, June T, Kumagai TO, Hirano T, Knohl A (2026). Trade‐offs between carbon and water fluxes along a land use intensity gradient in Southeast Asian forests and plantations. Global Change Biology 32(2), e70753. doi: 10.1111/gcb.70753.
  • Kröcher J, Ghazaryan G, Spank U, Zimmermann B, Beyrich F, Dietrich O, Markwitz C, van Ramshorst JGA, Callejas-Rodelas JÁ, Lischeid G (2026). Monitoring changes in the landscape water balance: validation of satellite- and model-based evapotranspiration data in Lusatia, Germany. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 198, 284. doi: 10.1007/s10661-026-15120-8.
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Ely KS, Rogers A, Agarwal DA, Ainsworth EA, Albert LP, Ali A, et al. (2021). A reporting format for leaf-level gas exchange data and metadata. Ecological Informatics 61, 101232. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101232.
  • Yazbeck T, Bohrer G, Gentine P, Ye LP, Arriga N, Bernhofer C, Blanken PD, Desai AR, Durden D, Knohl A, Kowalska N, Metzger S, Moelder M, Noormets A, Novick K, Scott RL, Sigut L, Soudani K, Ueyama M, Varlagin A (2021). Site characteristics mediate the relationship between forest productivity and satellite measured solar induced fluorescence. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 4, 695269. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2021.695269.
  • Harrison PA, Camarretta N, Krisanski S, Bailey TG, Davidson NJ, Bain G, Hamer R, Gardiner R, Proft K, Sadegh Taskhiri M, Turner P, Turner D, Lucieer A (2021). From communities to individuals: Using remote sensing to inform and monitor woodland restoration. Ecological Management & Restoration 22(S2), 127-139. doi: 10.1111/emr.12505.
  • Jürgensen J, Muhr J, Knohl A (2021). Variations of the oxidative ratio across ecosystem components and seasons in a managed temperate beech forest (Leinefelde, Germany). Forests 12, 1693. doi: 10.3390/f12121693.
  • Camarretta N, Ehbrecht M, Seidel D, Wenzel A, Zuhdi M, Merk MS, Schlund M, Erasmi S, Knohl A (2021). Using airborne laser scanning to characterize land-use systems in a tropical landscape based on vegetation structural metrics. Remote Sensing 13, 4794. doi: 10.3390/rs13234794.
  • Migliavacca M, Musavi T, Mahecha MD, Nelson JA, Knauer J, Baldocchi DD, et al. (2021). The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function. Nature 598(7881), 468-472. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03939-9.
  • Park SB, Knohl A, Migliavacca M, Thum T, Vesala T, Peltola O, Mammarella I, Prokushkin A, Kolle O, Lavric J, Park SS, Heimann M (2021). Temperature control of spring CO2 fluxes at a coniferous forest and a peat bog in central Siberia. Atmosphere 12(8), 984. doi: 10.3390/atmos12080984.
  • Schlund M, Kotowska MM, Brambach F, Hein J, Wessel B, Camarretta N, Silalahi M, Surati Jaya IN, Erasmi S, Leuschner C, Kreft H (2021). Spaceborne height models reveal above ground biomass changes in tropical landscapes. Forest Ecology and Management 497, 119497. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119497.
  • Donfack LS, Röll A, Ellsäßer F, Ehbrecht M, Irawan B, Hölscher D, Knohl A, Kreft H, Siahaan EJ, Sundawati L, Stiegler C, Zemp DC (2021). Microclimate and land surface temperature in a biodiversity enriched oil palm plantation. Forest Ecology and Management 497, 119480. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119480.
  • George JP, Yang W, Kobayashi H, Biermann T, Carrara A, Cremonese E, Cuntz M, Fares S, Gerosa G, Grünwald T, Hase N, Heliasz M, Ibrom A, Knohl A, Kruijt B, Lange H, Limousin JM, Loustau D, Lukes P, Marzuoli R, Mölder M, Montagnani L, Neirynck J, Peichl M, Rebmann C, Schmidt M, Serrano FRL, Soudani K, Vincke C, Pisek J (2021). Method comparison of indirect assessments of understory leaf area index (LAIu): A case study across the extended network of ICOS forest ecosystem sites in Europe. Ecological Indicators 128, 107841. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107841.
  • Xenakis G, Ash A, Siebicke L, Perks M, Morison JIL (2021). Comparison of the carbon, water, and energy balances of mature stand and clear-fell stages in a british sitka spruce forest and the impact of the 2018 drought. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 306, 108437. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108437.
  • Foken T, Babel W, Munger JW, Grönholm T, Vesala T, Knohl A (2021). Selected breakpoints of net forest carbon uptake at four eddy-covariance sites. Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology 73(1), 1915648. doi: 10.1080/16000889.2021.1915648.
  • Camarretta N, Harrison PA, Lucieer A, Potts BM, Davidson N, Hunt M (2021). Handheld Laser Scanning detects spatiotemporal differences in the development of structural traits among species in restoration plantings. Remote Sensing 13(9), 1706. doi: 10.3390/rs13091706.
  • Ali AA, Nugroho B, Moyano FE, Brambach F, Jenkins MW, Pangle R, Stiegler C, Blei E, Cahyo AN, Olchev A, Irawan B, Ariani R, June T, Tarigan S, Corre MD, Veldkamp E, Knohl A (2021). Using a bottom-up approach to scale leaf photosynthetic traits of oil palm, rubber, and two coexisting tropical woody species. Forests 12(3), 359. doi: 10.3390/f12030359.
  • Benezoli VH, Imbuzeiro HMA, Cuadra SV, Colmanetti MAA, de Araújo AC, Stiegler C, Motoike SY (2021). Modeling oil palm crop for Brazilian climate conditions. Agricultural Systems 190, 103130. doi: 10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103130.
  • Luyssaert S, Schulze E-D, Knohl A, Law BE, Ciais P, Grace J (2021). Reply to: Old-growth forest carbon sinks overestimated. Nature 591(7851), E24-E25. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03267-y.
  • Ellsäßer F, Stiegler C, Röll A, June T, Knohl A, Hölscher D (2021). Predicting evapotranspiration from drone-based thermography – a method comparison in a tropical oil palm plantation. Biogeosciences 18(3), 861-872. doi: 10.5194/bg-18-861-2021.
  • Pisek J, Erb A, Korhonen L, Biermann T, Carrara A, Cremonese E, Cuntz M, Fares S, Gerosa G, Grünwald T, Hase N, Heliasz M, Ibrom A, Knohl A, Kobler J, Kruijt B, Lange H, Leppänen L, Limousin J-M, Lopez Serrano FR, Loustau D, Lukeš P, Lundin L, Marzuoli R, Mölder M, Montagnani L, Neirynck J, Peichl M, Rebmann C, Rubio E, Santos-Reis M, Schaaf C, Schmidt M, Simioni G, Soudani K, Vincke C (2021). Retrieval and validation of forest background reflectivity from daily Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) data across European forests. Biogeosciences 18(2), 621-635. doi: 10.5194/bg-18-621-2021.
  • Ma’rufah U, June T, Faqih A, Ali AA, Stiegler C, Knohl A (2021). Implication of land use change to biogeophysical and biogeochemical processes in Jambi, Indonesia: Analysed using CLM5. Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences 32(2), 203-215. doi: 10.3319/TAO.2020.12.17.01.
  • Tiralla N, Holzapfel M, Ansorge H (2021). Feeding ecology of the wolf (Canis lupus) in a near-natural ecosystem in Mongolia. Mammalian Biology 101(1), 83-89. doi: 10.1007/s42991-020-00093-z.

  • Skiba U, Hergoualc’h K, Drewer J, Meijide A, Knohl A (2020). Oil palm plantations are large sources of nitrous oxide, but where are the data to quantify the impact on global warming? Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 47, 81-88. ​doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2020.08.019.
  • Zhang Y, Bastos A, Maignan F, Goll D, Boucher O, Li L, Cescatti A, Vuichard N, Chen XZ, Ammann C, Arain MA, Black TA, Chojnicki B, Kato T, Mammarella I, Montagnani L, Roupsard O, Sanz MJ, Siebicke L, Urbaniak M, Vaccari FP, Wohlfahrt G, Woodgate W, Ciais P (2020). Modeling the impacts of diffuse light fraction on photosynthesis in ORCHIDEE (v5453) land surface model. Geoscientific Model Development 13(11), 5401-5423. ​doi: 10.5194/gmd-13-5401-2020.
  • Markwitz C, Knohl A, Siebicke L (2020). Evapotranspiration over agroforestry sites in Germany. Biogeosciences 17, 5183-5208. doi: 10.5194/bg-17-5183-2020.
  • van Ramshorst JGV, Coenders-Gerrits M, Schilperoort B, van de Wiel BJH, Izett JG, Selker JS, Higgins CW, Savenije HHG, van de Giesen NC (2020). Revisiting wind speed measurements using actively heated fiber optics: a wind tunnel study. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 13(10), 5423-5439. doi: 10.5194/amt-13-5423-2020.
  • Nelson JA, Pérez‐Priego O, Zhou S, Poyatos R, Zhang Y, Blanken PD, Gimeno TE, Wohlfahrt G, Desai AR, Gioli B, Limousin J-M, Bonal D, Paul-Limoges E, Scott RL, Varlagin A, Fuchs K, Montagnani L, Wolf S, Delpierre N, Berveiller D, Gharun M, Marchesini LB, Gianelle D, Šigut L, Mammarella I, Siebicke L, Black TA, Knohl A, Hörtnagl L, Magliulo V, Besnard S, Weber U, Carvalhais N, Migliavacca M, Reichstein M, Jung M (2020). Ecosystem transpiration and evaporation: Insights from three water flux partitioning methods across FLUXNET sites. Global Change Biology 26(12), 6916-6930. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15314.
  • Smith NE, Kooijmans LMJ, Koren G, van Schaik E, van der Woude AM, Wanders N, Ramonet M, Xueref-Remy I, Siebicke L, Manca G, Brümmer C, Baker IT, Haynes KD, Luijkx IT, Peters W (2020). Spring enhancement and summer reduction in carbon uptake during the 2018 drought in northwestern europe. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375(1810), 20190509. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0509.
  • Graf A, Klosterhalfen A, Arriga N, Bernhofer C, Bogena H, Bornet F, et al. (2020). Altered energy partitioning across terrestrial ecosystems in the European drought year 2018. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375(1810), 20190524. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0524.
  • Fu Z, Ciais P, Bastos A, Stoy PC, Yang H, Green JK, Wang B, Yu K, Huang Y, Knohl A, Šigut L, Gharun M, Cuntz M, Arriga N, Roland M, Peichl M, Migliavacca M, Cremonese E, Varlagin A, Brümmer C, Gourlez de la Motte L, Fares S, Buchmann N, El-Madany TS, Pitacco A, Vendrame N, Li Z, Vincke C, Magliulo E, Koebsch F (2020). Sensitivity of gross primary productivity to climatic drivers during the summer drought of 2018 in Europe. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375(1810), 20190747. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0747.
  • de la Motte LG, Beauclaire Q, Heinesch B, Cuntz M, Foltýnová L, Šigut L, Kowalska N, Manca G, Ballarin IG, Vincke C, Roland M, Ibrom A, Lousteau D, Siebicke L, Neiryink J, Longdoz B (2020). Non-stomatal processes reduce gross primary productivity in temperate forest ecosystems during severe edaphic drought. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375(1810), 20190527. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0527.
  • Merten J, Stiegler C, Hennings N, Purnama ES, Röll A, Agusta H, Dippold MA, Fehrmann L, Gunawan D, Hölscher D, Knohl A, Kückes J, Otten F, Zemp DC, Faust H (2020). Flooding and land use change in Jambi Province, Sumatra: integrating local knowledge and scientific inquiry. Ecology and Society 25(3), 14. doi: 10.5751/ES-11678-250314.
  • Ellsäßer F, Röll A, Stiegler C, Hendrayanto N, Hölscher D (2020). Introducing QWaterModel, a QGIS plugin for predicting evapotranspiration from land surface temperatures. Environmental Modelling & Software 130, 104739. ​doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104739 .
  • Pastorello G, Trotta C, Canfora E, Chu H, Christianson D, Cheah Y-W, Poindexter C, et al. (2020). The FLUXNET2015 dataset and the ONEFlux processing pipeline for eddy covariance data. Scientific Data 7(1), 225. doi: 10.1038/s41597-020-0534-3.
  • Khan MdNI, Islam MdR, Rahman A, Azad MdS, Mollick AS, Kamruzzaman Md, Sadath MdN, Feroz SM, Rakkibu MdG, Knohl A (2020). Allometric relationships of stand level carbon stocks to basal area, tree height and wood density of nine tree species in Bangladesh. Global Ecology and Conservation 22, e01025. ​doi: 10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01025.
  • Solander KC, Newman BD, Carioca de Araujo A, Barnard HR, Berry ZC, Bonal D, Bretfeld M, Burban B, Antonio Candido L, Célleri R, Chambers JQ, Christoffersen BO, Detto M, Dorigo WA, Ewers BE, José Filgueiras Ferreira S, Knohl A, Leung LR, McDowell NG, Miller GR, Terezinha Ferreira Monteiro M, Moore GW, Negron-Juarez R, Saleska SR, Stiegler C, Tomasella J, Xu C (2020). The pantropical response of soil moisture to El Niño, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 24(5), 2303-2322. doi: 10.5194/hess-24-2303-2020.
  • Song R, Muller J-P, Kharbouche S, Yin F, Woodgate W, Kitchen M, Roland M, Arriga N, Meyer W, Koerber G, Bonal D, Burban B, Knohl A, Siebicke L, Buysse P, Loubet B, Leonardo M, Lerebourg C, Gobron N (2020). Validation of space-based albedo products from upscaled tower-based measurements over heterogeneous and homogeneous landscapes. Remote Sensing 12, 833. doi: 10.3390/rs12050833.
  • Tarigan S, Stiegler C, Wiegand K, Knohl A, Murtilaksono K (2020). Relative contribution of evapotranspiration and soil compaction to the fluctuation of catchment discharge: case study from a plantation landscape. Hydrological Sciences Journal 65(7), 1239-1248. doi: 10.1080/02626667.2020.1739287.
  • Grass I, Kubitza C, Krishna VV, Corre MD, Mußhoff O, Pütz P, Drescher J, Rembold K, Ariyanti ES, Barnes AD, Brinkmann N, Brose U, Brümmer B, Buchori D, Daniel R, Darras KFA, Faust H, Fehrmann L, Hein J, Hennings N, Hidayat P, Hölscher D, Jochum M, Knohl A, Kotowska MM, Krashevska V, Kreft H, Leuschner C, Lobite NJS, Panjaitan R, Polle A, Potapov AM, Purnama E, Qaim M, Röll A, Scheu S, Schneider D, Tjoa A, Tscharntke T, Veldkamp E, Wollni M (2020). Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes. Nature Communications 11, 1186. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15013-5.
  • Meijide A, de la Rua C, Guillaume T, Röll A, Hassler E, Stiegler C, Tjoa A, June T, Corre MD, Veldkamp E, Knohl A (2020). Measured greenhouse gas budgets challenge emission savings from palm-oil biodiesel. Nature Communications 11(1), 1089. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-14852-6.
  • Mund M, Herbst M, Knohl A, Matthaus B, Schumacher J, Schall P, Siebicke L, Tamrakar R, Ammer C (2020). It is not just a 'trade-off': indications for sink- and source-limitation to vegetative and regenerative growth in an old-growth beech forest. New Phytologist 226, 111-125. doi: 10.1111/nph.16408.


    • EGU General Assembly, 03-08 May 2026, Vienna, Austria

  • Boersma OJ, Brüggemann N, Claß M, Emad A, Markwitz C, Rothfuss Y, Tunsch E, Knohl A
    Towards continuous, long-term eddy covariance measurements of CO2 isotopologues (Poster).
  • Dey B, Depp C, Gu Y, Sjøgren TD, Khare P, Gkatzelis GΙ, Wu Y, Vasireddy S, Knohl A, Rinnan R, Novelli A, Fuchs H, Hohaus T, Pfannerstill EY
    Ozone alters heat-driven biogenic VOC responses: evidence from forest and urban tree species under sequential stress (Poster).
  • Gehrmann M, Knohl A, Tunsch A, Markwitz C
    Comparison of high-frequency spectral correction methods for eddy-covariance fluxes over a central German cropland: effects on energy balance closure (Talk).
  • Klosterhalfen A
    Flux exchange of a near-natural temperate deciduous forest under drought stress (Talk).
  • Knohl A, Ammer C, Beyer M, Biester H, Dobelmann S, Drohmen S, Drollinger S, Hackmann C, Klosterhalfen A, Kößler A-K, Magdon P, Markwitz C, Oskamp L, Stangenberg L
    Assessing forest resilience using multiple indicators: integrating structural, hydrological, ecophysiological, and stakeholder perspectives (Poster).
  • Markwitz C, Emad A, Englert P, Meijide A, Münter C, Tunsch E, Knohl A
    CO2, water and energy fluxes over a cropland in central Germany (Poster).
  • Schacherl T, Kelly J, Kljun N, Knohl A, Lange H, Klosterhalfen A
    Disentangling effects of forest structure on carbon-, water-, and energy functioning of boreal and temperate forests (Poster).

    • Forstwissenschaftliche Tagung (FowiTa), 30 Sep-02 Oct 2025, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

  • Klosterhalfen A, Markwitz C, Koebsch F, Emad A, Mund M, Tiedemann F, Tunsch E, Knohl A
    Long-term dynamics of CO2 fluxes of a managed and an unmanaged beech forest (Talk).
    • EGU General Assembly, 28 Apr-02 May 2025, Vienna, Austria
  • Drollinger S, Asabere SB, Baumann K, Sauer D
    Stable carbon sequestration in temperate mountain peatland despite shifting plant species composition (Poster).
  • Emad A, Franke L, Demir G, Markwitz C, Dubbert M, Knohl A
    Dual-Isotope eddy covariance measurements: insights and challenges in ecosystem water flux measurements over winter wheat in Central Germany (Poster).
  • Klosterhalfen A, Markwitz C, Koebsch F, Mund M, Tiedemann F, Tunsch E, Knohl A
    Long-term dynamics of CO2 fluxes over a managed and an unmanaged beech forest (Poster).
  • Knohl A, Drollinger S, Ammer C, Beyer M, Biester H, Hartmann H, Koessler A-K, Magdon P, Mallick K, Paul C, Potsch S, Seidel D, Talkner U, Teuscher M
    FoResLab - Future Lab towards Forests Resilient to Climate Change (PICO).
  • Markwitz C, Tunsch E, Manning A, Pickers P, Knohl A
    Continuous measurements of O2:CO2 flux exchange ratios above a cropland in Central Germany (Talk).
  • Schacherl T, Kelly J, Kljun N, Knohl A, Klosterhalfen A
    Interrelation of forest structure and variability of ecosystem functional properties (Talk).
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    Kohlenstofftagung, 12-14 Mar 2025, Göttingen, Germany
  • Markwitz C, Klosterhalfen A, Koebsch F, Mund M, Tiedemann F, Tunsch E, Knohl A
    Langjährige Dynamik der CO2-Flüsse über einem bewirtschafteten und unbewirtschafteten Buchenwald (Talk).
  • Schacherl T, Kelly J, Kljun N, Knohl A, Klosterhalfen A
    Wechselwirkungen von Waldstruktur und Variabilität der klimarelevanten Ökosystemfunktionen (Poster).
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    ICOS Science Conference, 10-12 Sep 2024, Versailles, France
  • Callejas Rodelas JA, van Ramshorst J, Knohl A, Mammarella I, Vesala T, Peltola O, Markwitz C
    Lower-cost eddy covariance setups for increasing the spatial replication of CO2 and H2O flux measurements above agroforestry (Poster).
  • Knohl A, Koebsch F, Klosterhalfen A, Markwitz C, Dölling R, Heck K, Knohl N-M, Potsch S, Adamske A, Barden M
    Science communication: opportunities between Vivaldi and the Museum of Knowledge (Talk).
  • Markwitz C, Tunsch E, Manning A, Pickers P, Knohl A
    Continuous measurements of O2:CO2 flux exchange ratios above a cropland in Central Germany (Talk).
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    EGU General Assembly, 14-19 Apr 2024, Vienna, Austria
  • Callejas Rodelas JA, Knohl A, Mammarella I, Vesala T, Peltola O, Markwitz C
    Increased spatial replication above heterogeneous agroforestry improves the representativity of eddy covariance measurements (Talk).
  • Emad A
    Quantized eddy accumulation with error diffusion: a new direct micrometeorological technique with minimal requirements (Poster).
  • Koebsch F, Klosterhalfen A, Emad A, Mund M, Ammer C, Dietenberger S, Donfack L, Heidenreich M, Mueller MM, Seidel D, Thiel C, Tiedemann F, Knohl A
    Dynamics in CO2 uptake, growth, and mortality of an old-growth temperate forest under drought stress (Talk).
  • Yan Y, Klosterhalfen A, Moyano F, Cuntz M, Muhr J, Manning AC, Knohl A
    Oxygen flux simulation as a new tracer for the carbon and nitrogen cycles in a temperate forest ecosystem (Poster).
    • EFForTS – International Symposium, 11-13 Oct 2023, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
  • Ali AA, Brambach F, Stiegler C, Pallavi, Krashevska V, Kotowska M, Wenzel A, Fan Y, Ariani R, June T, Tarigan S, Hölscher D, Kreft H, Corre MD, Veldkamp E, Knohl A
    Leaf and ecosystem-level carbon and water fluxes of forests, oil palm and rubber plantations for the lowland areas of the Jambi Province (Talk).
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    European Conference on Ecological Modelling, 04-08 Sep 2023, Leipzig, Germany
  • Ali AA, Fan Y, Stiegler C, Kotowska M, Brambach F, Ariani R, Tarigan S, June T, Hölscher D, Kreft H, Corre MD, Veldkamp E, Knohl A
    Applying the newly developed rubber and oil palm plant functional types in the Community Land Model to agroforest ecosystems (Talk).
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    European Conference of Tropical Ecology, 19-24 Jun 2023, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
  • Ali AA, Fan Y, Stiegler C, Kotowska M, Brambach F, Ariani R, Tarigan S, June T, Hölscher D, Kreft H, Corre MD, Veldkamp E, Knohl A
    The response of oil palm, rubber and tropical forest plant functional types in the community land model (CLM5) to inter-annual variations in climate (Talk).

    • Wissenschaftliche Buchentagung (WiBuTa), 10-11 May 2023, Würzburg, Germany
  • Knohl A
    Stressreaktion und natürliche Waldumbauprozesse im Zuge des Dürresommers 2018: eine multiskalige Studie aus dem Nationalpark Hainich (Talk).

    • EGU General Assembly, 23-28 Apr 2023, Vienna, Austria
  • Callejas Rodelas JA, van Ramshorst J, Knohl A, Markwitz C
    Intercomparison of lower cost and conventional eddy covariance systems for CO2 and H2O flux measurements above cropland monoculture and agroforestry (Poster).
  • Klosterhalfen A, Fellert D, Koebsch F, Kreilein H, Markwitz C, Mund M, Peksa M, Tiedemann F, Tunsch E, Knohl A
    Analysis of a 23-years long eddy-covariance fluxes dataset from a mixed deciduous forest in Germany (Poster).
  • Knohl A, Klosterhalfen A, Muhr J, Blei E, Bonazza M, Fellert D, Manning AC, Markwitz C, Pickers PA, Tiedemann F, Tunsch E, Yan Y
    Simultaneous O2 and CO2 flux measurements with custom-made branch chambers for Fagus sylvatica (Talk).
  • Koebsch F, Mund M, Klosterhalfen A, Montero D, Donfack L, Heidenreich M, Thiel C, Dietenberger S, Markwitz C, Tiedemann F, Knohl A
    Stress response and transformation processes initiated by the summer drought 2018 a multi scale study from the Hainich forest (Poster).
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    AsiaFlux2022, 20-22 Sep 2022, Kuching, Malaysia
  • Stiegler C, Camarretta N, Ali A, June T, Wenzel A, Knohl A
    A rapid assessment of microclimate and canopy properties in the tropical lowlands of Jambi province (Sumatra, Indonesia) across 120 plot locations (Talk).
  • Stiegler C, Knohl A, Brambach F, Juhrbandt J, Knohl N-M, Allemeyer ML, Nurul Aini A, Donora A, Manurung I, Tjoa A
    Research and art connect for sustainability (Poster).
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    EGU General Assembly, 23-27 May 2022, Vienna, Austria
  • Stiegler C, Camarretta N, Ali A, June T, Wenzel A, Knohl A
    A rapid assessment of microclimate and meteorological conditions in the tropical lowlands of Jambi province (Sumatra, Indonesia): Land-use intensity gradients and spatial smallscale climate variability across 120 plot locations (Talk).
    •

    EGU General Assembly, 19-30 Apr 2021, Online

  • Camarretta N, Ehbrecht M, Wenzel A, Zuhdi M, Merk MS, Schlund M, Knohl A, Erasmi S
    Using airborne laser scanning to characterize different land uses in a tropical landscape based on their structural complexity (vPICO).
  • van Ramshorst J, Markwitz C, Hill T, Clement R, Knohl A, Siebicke L
    Evaluation of low-cost eddy covariance for CO2 fluxes over agroforestry and grassland (vPICO).
    • Forstwissenschaftliche Tagung (FowiTa), 13-15 Sep 2021, Online
  • Koebsch F, Klosterhalfen A, Markwitz C, Tiedemann F, Knohl A
    CO2- und H2O-Austausch in Zeiten des Klimawandels - Erkenntnisse aus Langzeitbeobachtungen aus einem naturnahen Buchenwald (Talk).
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    AsiaFlux Conference, 20-21 Dec 2021, Online
  • Stiegler C, June T, Markwitz C, Camarretta N, Ali A, Knohl A
    Wind regimes above and below a dense oil palm canopy: Detection of decoupling and its implications on CO2 flux estimates (Talk).
    •

    EGU General Assembly, 04-08 May 2020, Online

  • Stiegler C, June T, Knohl A
    Air mixing and sub-canopy advection in an oil palm plantation in Indonesia (Talk).
  • van Ramshorst J, Markwitz C, Hill T, Clement R, Knohl A, Siebicke L
    First application of low-cost eddy covariance for CO2 fluxes over agroforestry (vPICO).


  • Student Competition YES! – Young Economic Solutions
    As part of the German Climate Foundation’s student competition, Dr. Simon Drollinger and Dr. Christina Hackmann supervised the research question: “How can we make our forests resilient to climate change?”
  • Future Day in the Göttingen Forest
    During Future Day, Dr. Simon Drollinger and Prof. Alexander Knohl supervised students from grades 5 to 8.
  • Chalk Talk
    At Forum Wissen, Dr. Anne Klosterhalfen and Dr. Christina Hackmann gave a talk on the topic of water stress.

  • Academy in Conversation: “What Does Our Forest Need?”
    At this event hosted by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony, three researchers, including Prof. Alexander Knohl, presented findings from forest research followed by a discussion with the audience.
  • Children’s University
    At the University of Göttingen’s Children’s University, the department delivered the interactive lecture “Forests in a Warming World.”
  • Night of Knowledge
    At the 6th Göttingen Night of Knowledge, members of the department presented research instruments and current findings.
  • Lecture Series “Forest in Transition”
    As part of the University of Göttingen lecture series “Forest in Transition,” Prof. Alexander Knohl gave a presentation on the impacts of climate extremes on forests.

  • “Digital Forest” Exhibition at the Hainich National Park Center
    In 2024, the exhibition “Digital Forest – A Virtual Journey into Climate Research” moved from Forum Wissen to the visitor center of Hainich National Park. There, visitors could use virtual reality to learn how the effects of drought on forests are studied.
  • Forest Excursion
    As part of the FoResLab project, a forest excursion was held with Green Party local politicians and the ZKfN.
  • VBIO Online Event “Soil, Trees, Climate – The Forest System”
    At this event for upper secondary school students, Prof. Alexander Knohl gave a lecture on the effects of drought years on low mountain range forests.
  • TV Feature on “Hallo Niedersachsen”
    In a television feature on NDR, Prof. Alexander Knohl presented the FoResLab research project and the Göttingen Forest research site.

  • Special Exhibition “Digital Forest” at Forum Wissen Göttingen
    The exhibition “Digital Forest – A Virtual Journey into Climate Research” at Forum Wissen uses virtual reality to demonstrate how researchers investigate the impact of drought on forests.
  • SciCon 2023
    At the Scientific Conference (SciCon) 2023 on the theme “Forests under Pressure” in Hainich National Park, Anne Klosterhalfen demonstrated the eddy covariance technique.
  • AStA Climate Festival
    At the University of Göttingen AStA Climate Festival, Franziska Koebsch gave a presentation on the influence of forests on local and global climate.
  • Contribution to Discussion Event
    At the University of Göttingen event “No Future?: The Climate Crisis in Science and the Public Sphere,” followed by a panel discussion, Franziska Koebsch spoke about scientific findings on climate change and its consequences.
  • Beech Conference 2023
    At the Beech Conference 2023, Alexander Knohl presented current research findings on the consequences of summer drought in Hainich National Park.

  • Concert Talk “The Four Seasons in a Changing (Climate) World”
    Inspired by climate change research, Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” was reinterpreted by Prof. Dr. Mark Barden (Professor of Composition, Detmold University of Music) and composition students Carlo Tosato, Zara Ali, and Daniel Kalantari. Between the four movements, Alexander Knohl, Anne Klosterhalfen, Franziska Koebsch, and Christian Markwitz explained current findings on the impacts of climate change on the four seasons and how these changes influenced the new composition.
  • Night of Knowledge
    At the Night of Knowledge in Göttingen, Anne Klosterhalfen, Andre Ringeler, and Franziska Koebsch presented bioclimatological measurement instruments and current research findings.
  • Ragna and Paul Ask Sustainable Questions
    In an episode of the University of Göttingen video series, Marius Heidenreich and Franziska Koebsch presented the Hainich research site and explained the Digital Forest project.
  • Forest Expert Program
    Anne Klosterhalfen and Franziska Koebsch led an excursion to the Hainich research site and discussed with forestry experts from the Forest Expert Program how forests are developing in the face of increasing droughts.

  • Threatened Clean-Air Providers – Forests Under Drought Stress
    NDR Info interviewed Prof. Alexander Knohl and Dr. Christian Markwitz about the effects of the 2018 drought year.
  • DUZ Special Edition
    A special DUZ issue by the University of Göttingen on digitalization featured an article by Prof. Alexander Knohl about the Digital Forests project.
  • University of Göttingen’s “Digital Forest” Project Receives Funding
    The Göttinger Tageblatt reported on the approval and funding of the Digital Forest project.