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Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry
Institution
Section overview
Description
How ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles interact with changes in climate, land use and diversity is the central challenge for research at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry. In order to answer this question, it is not sufficient to merely register the present state of the total system and record the changes caused by human influence. Specific experiments must be performed to reveal functional relationships; and climatic conditions of the past must be studied, using paleoclimatological and paleoecological methods, to draw conclusions about the adaptability of organisms in the future.
A high degree of integration is required between scientific disciplines, and a strong link is necessary between modelling and observation, as well as between theoretical and experimental research. The Institute’s programme includes the planning and implementation of critical model experiments, comparison between models and observations, and the combination of paleodata and experimental results. Biologists, meteorologists, geologists, chemists and mathematicians work closely together in 3 departments, supported by central facilities for chemical and stable isotope analysis, 14C analysis, computing, and field campaign organization.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Networks
Coordinated projects
- Collaborative projects in climate change: strategies Moor Usage, Project: Soil trace gas measurement profiles - soil columns, policy advice
- Importance of biological drivers and water transport to elucidate biodiversity effects on carbon and nitrogen storage in the soil
- Land use and biodiversity shape the contribution of microbial necromass to soil carbon storage
- Modelling the effect of silicon and calcium availability on the future sustainability of Arctic permafrost carbon pools based on laboratory and field experiments
- SPP 1090 AG 4:
Involved in research projects
- Collaborative projects in climate change strategies: moor utilization, sub-project: measurement of trace gas emissions test areas 3 & 4, scaling, regionalization
- Effects of elevated atmospheric CO2-concentration on fluxes of carbon and water vapour of a crop rotation
- Impact of agricultural management on emissions of greenhouse gases and reactive nitrogen in carbon-rich cropland and grassland systems
- Integrated Carbon Observation System – Co-ordination of the German contribution
- Mineral surfaces as hotspots for microorganisms and element circulation in biodiversity exploratories
- Quantification of the carbon stocks and carbon sequestration in urban trees
Contact
Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry
Hans-Knöll-Straße 10
D-07745 Jena
Thuringia
Germany
Phone: 03641-57-60
Fax: 03641-57-70
Email: kontakt(@)bgc-jena.mpg.de
