How do ecosystems respond to changing weather patterns, rising temperatures and increasing carbon dioxide concentrations? Is the effect of precipitation more important than that of temperature? Or are ecosystem dynamics more strongly affected by nutrient availability? What is the role of extreme events in shaping biogeochemical cycles? To find out the answers we need to understand the interactions among three complex systems: climate, vegetation, and soil. Thus, we combine experiments and in-situ long-term observation with Earth Observations gathered by aircraft and satellites across a range of spatial scales, and embrace data-driven machine learning and theory-driven mechanistic modelling. With our research, we try to understand how the terrestrial biosphere reacts to and exerts feedbacks on ongoing environmental change and variation in atmospheric conditions.
Latest publications
Wang, S., Yang, H., Koirala, S., Santoro, M., Candotti, A., Weber, U., et al. (2026). A global dataset of forest disturbance regimes derived from satellite biomass observations. Earth System Science Data, 18(8), 5895-5913. doi:10.5194/essd-18-5895-2026. // Figure 4. Global patterns of predicted disturbance regime parameters. The four panels show the grided global maps of ensemble means for (a) µ, (b) α, (c) β, and (d) Kb. Each parameter is displayed with a distinct color scale to highlight its unique spatial patterns.
Wang, S., Yang, H., Koirala, S., Santoro, M., Candotti, A., Weber, U., et al. (2026). A global dataset of forest disturbance regimes derived from satellite biomass observations. Earth System Science Data, 18(8), 5895-5913. doi:10.5194/essd-18-5895-2026. // Figure 4. Global patterns of predicted disturbance regime parameters. The four panels show the grided global maps of ensemble means for (a) µ, (b) α, (c) β, and (d) Kb. Each parameter is displayed with a distinct color scale to highlight its unique spatial patterns.
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Reuss, J.; Gikalo, E.; Körner, M.: DirPA: Addressing prior shift in imbalanced few-shot crop-type classification. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 242, pp. 585 - 606 (2026)
Munoz, E.; Anaya, J. A.; Clerici, N.; Estupinan-Suarez, L. M.; Lopera, I.; Richter, S.; Salazar, A.; Sierra, C.; Tangarife-Escobar, A.; Mahecha, M. D.et al.; Montero, D.; Palacios-Rodríguez, P.; Ramos, P.; Botia, S.: An interdisciplinary review of the interplay of conflict, socio-economic factors, and land cover and vegetation dynamics in Colombia. New Phytologist 8 (5), pp. 1533 - 1549 (2026)
