Seminars

Understanding the Effects of Parameter Uncertainty in Water and Carbon Models

Models of ecosystems or water at the land surface represent a large number of uncertain processes. Over time, these models have become increasingly complex, capturing ever more processes. However, the model parameters in these process representations often vary dramatically in space but are...

Large Historical Growth in Global Terrestrial Gross Primary Production

Growth in terrestrial gross primary production (GPP)—the amount of carbon dioxide that is ‘fixed’ into organic material through the photosynthesis of land plants—may provide a negative feedback for climate change. It remains uncertain, however, to what extent biogeochemical processes can...

Universal Laws of Life, Growth and Death from Organisms and Ecosystems to Cities and Companies

Unraveling the Functional Diversity of Tropical Forests

Tropical forests have fascinated ecologists and the public for centuries because of their extraordinary diversity at both local and regional scales. Recent attention has also recognized the critical role that tropical forests play in mitigating global carbon cycling and has underlined the...