LPJ Publications
Here we want to give an overview of all the papers, articles, book chapters, written conference contributions etc. that have
been published or are submitted with the LPJ - Program as a main role.
Sitch, S.; Smith, B.; Prentice, I. C.; Arneth, A.; Bondeau, A.; Cramer, W.; Kaplan, J.; Levis, S.; Lucht, W.; Sykes, M.;
Thonicke, K. and Venevski, S. (2003):
Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ Dynamic Vegetation Model
Global Change Biology, 9, p. 161-185
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Sitch, S., McGuire, A. D., Kimball, J., Gedney, N., Gamon, J., Engstrom, R., Wolf, A., Zhuang, Q., and Clein, J.:
Assessing the circumpolar carbon balance of arctic tundra with remote sensing and process-based modeling approaches
Beer, C., Lucht, W., Gerten, D., Thonicke, K., Schmullius, C. (2007):
Effects of freeze-thaw processes on biomass in Siberia.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles, in press.
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Arneth, A., Niinemets, Ü., Pressley, S., Bäck, J., Hari, P., Karl, T., Noe, S., Prentice, I.C., Serça, D., Hickler, T., Wolf, A. & Smith,B.(2007):
Process-based estimates of terrestrial ecosystem isoprene emissions: incorporating the effects of a direct CO2-isoprene interaction.
Journal of Biogeography 33: 145-157.
Bondeau A, Smith P, Zaehle S, Schaphoff S, Lucht W, Cramer W, Gerten D, Lotze-Campen H, Müller C, Reichstein M, Smith B (2007):
Modelling the role of agriculture for the 20th century global terrestrial carbon balance.
Global Change Biology: online first, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01305.x
Gerten, D., S. Schaphoff, and W. Lucht (2006):
Potential future changes in water limitations of the terrestrial biosphere.
Climatic Change: online first, doi: 10.1007/s10584-006-9104-8.
Morales, P., Hickler, T., Rowell, D.P., Smith, B. & Sykes, M.T. (2007) :
Changes in European ecosystem productivity and carbon balance driven by Regional Climate Model output.
Global Change Biology 13: 108-122.
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Gritti, E.S., Smith, B. & Sykes, M.T.(2006):
Vulnerability of Mediterranean basin ecosystems to climate change and invasion by exotic plant species.
Journal of Biogeography 33: 145-157.
Hély, C., Bremond, L., Alleaume, S., Smith, B., Sykes, M.T. & Guiot, J. (2006) :
Sensitivity of African biomes to changes in the precipitation regime.
Global Ecology and Biogeography 15: 258-270.
Hickler, T., Prentice, I.C., Smith, B., Sykes, M.T. & Zaehle, S. (2006) :
Implementing plant hydraulic architecture within the LPJ Dynamic Global Vegetation Model.
Global Ecology and Biogeography 15: 567-577.
Koca, D., Smith, B. & Sykes, M.T. (2006):
Modelling regional climate change effects on Swedish ecosystems.
Climatic Change 78: 381-406.
Leipprand, A & Gerten, D (2006):
Global effects of doubled atmospheric CO sub(2) content on evapotranspiration, soil moisture and runoff under potential natural vegetation.
Hydrological Sciences Journal Vol. 51, no. 1: 171-185.
Lucht, W., Schaphoff, S., Erbrecht, T., Heyder, U., Cramer, W. (2006):
Terrestrial vegetation redistribution and carbon balance under climate change.
Carbon Balance and Management 1, 6: doi: 10.1186/1750-0680-1-6.
Müller, C., Bondeau, A., Lotze-Campen, H., Cramer, W. Lucht, W. (2006):
Comparative impact of climatic and non-climatic factors on global terrestrial carbon and water cycles.
Global Biogeochem. Cycle 20 (4): Art. No. GB4015.
Müller, C. & W. Lucht, W. (2006):
Robustness of terrestrial carbon and water cycle simulations against variations in spatial resolution.
Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres.
Schaphoff, S., Lucht, W., Gerten, D., Sitch, S., Cramer, W. & Prentice, I.C. (2006):
Terrestrial biosphere climate storage under alternative climate projections.
Climatic Change 74: 97-122.
Thonicke, K. and Cramer, W.(2006):
Long-term trends in vegetation dynamics and forest fires in Brandenburg (Germany) under a changing climate
Natural Hazards, DFNK special issue: 283-300.
Zaehle, S., Sitch, S., Prentice, I.C., Liski, J., Cramer, W., Erhard, M., Hickler, T. & Smith, B. (2006):
The importance of representing age-related decline in forest NPP for modeling regional carbon balances.
Ecological Applications 16: 1555-1574.
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Gerten D., Lucht W., Schaphoff S., Cramer W., Hickler T. & Wagner W. (2005):
Hydrologic resilience of the terrestrial biosphere
Geophys Res Lett 32(21):L21408, doi: 10.1029/2005GL024247
Gerten, D., Haberlandt, U., Cramer, W., Erhard, M.(2005) :
Terrestrial carbon and water fluxes
in: Hantel, M.(Ed.), Observed Global Climate, Landolt-Börnstein New Series Vol. 6, Springer, Berlin
Gerten, D., Hoff, H., Bondeau, A., Lucht, W., Smith, P. & Zaehle, S.(2005):
Contemporary "green" water flows: simulations with a dynamic global vegetation and water balance model.
Phys. Chem. Earth 30, 334-338.
Hickler, T., L. Eklundh, J. W. Seaquist, B. Smith, M. T. Sykes, J. Ardö, L. Olsson, and M. Sjötröm (2005):
Precipitation controls Sahel greening trend.
Geophysical Research Letters, VOL. 32, L21415, doi:10.1029/2005GL024370.
Ni Jian, Harrison, SP, Prentice, IC, Kutzbach J & Stich S. (2005):
Impact of climate variability on present and Holocene vegetation: A model-based study.
Ecological Modelling, 191, (pp. 469-486),ISSN: 0304-3800.
Peylin, P., Bousquet, P., Le Quere, C., Sitch, S., Friedlingsstein, P., McKinley, G., Gruber, N., Rayner, P. and Ciais, P. (2005):
Multiple constraints on regional CO2 flux variations over land and oceans
Global Change Biology, 19, GB1011, doi:10.1029/2003GB002214
Sitch, S.; Brovkin, V. and Bloh v., W.(2005):
Impacts of future land cover changes on atmospheric CO2 and climate
Global Biogeochemical Cycles, VOL. 19, GB2013, doi:10.1029/2004GB002311
Thonicke, K., I. C. Prentice, and C. Hewitt (2005):
Modeling glacial-interglacial changes in global fire regimes and trace gas emissions
Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 19, GB3008, doi:10.1029/2004GB002278.
Zaehle, S., S. Sitch, B. Smith, and F. Hatterman (2005):
Effects of parameter uncertainties on the modeling of terrestrial biosphere dynamics
Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 19, GB3020, doi:10.1029/2004GB002395.
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Cramer, W.; Bondeau, A.; Schaphoff, S.; Lucht, W.; Smith, B. and Sitch, S. (2004):
Tropical forests and the global carbon cycle: impacts of atmospheric carbon dioxide, climate change and rate of dedorestation
Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B, 359, p. 331-343
Brovkin, V.; Sitch, S.; Bloh von, W.; Clausen, M.; Bauer, E. and Cramer, W. (2004):
Role of land cover changes for atmospheric CO2 increase and climate change during the last 150 years
Global Change Biology, 10, 1-14 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00812.x
Gerber, S.; Joos, F. and Prentice, I. C.(2004):
Sensitivity of a dynamic global vegetation model to climate and atmospheric CO2
Global Change Biology, 7, p. 357-373
Gerten, D., Bondeau, A., Hoff, H., Lucht, W., Schaphoff, S. & Smith, P.(2004) :
Assessment of 'green' water fluxes with a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model
in: Webb, B., Arnell, N., Onof, C., MacIntyre, N., Gurney, R. & Kirby, C. (Eds.), Hydrology: Science and Practice for the
21st Century, Vol. I, pp. 29-35. British Hydrological Society
Gerten, D.; Schaphoff, S.; Haberlandt, U.; Lucht, W. and Sitch; S. (2004):
Terrestrial vegetation and water balance - hydrological evaluation of a dynamic global vegetation model
Journal of Hydrology, 286, p. 249-270, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2003.09.029
Hickler, T.; Smith, B.; Sykes, M. T.; Davis, M. B.; Sugita, S. and Walker, K.(2004):
Using a generalized vegetation model to simulate vegetation dynamics in the western Great Lakes region, USA, under
alternative disturbance regime
Ecology, 85, p. 519-530
Joos, F.; Gerber, S.; Prentice, I. C.; Otto-Bliesner, B. L. and Valdes, P. J.(2004):
Transient simulations of Holocene atmospheric carbon dioxide and terrestrial carbon since the Last Glacial Maximum
Global Biogeochemical Cycles 18 (2): Art. No. GB2002.
Joos, F. and Prentice, I. C.(2004):
A paleo-perspective on changes in atmospheric CO2
and climate
in: Towards stabilization of atmospheric CO2
, Field C. and Raupach M. (eds.),
SCOPE/GCP rapid assessment of the carbon cycle, Island Press
McCloy, K. R. and Lucht, W. (2004):
Comparative evaluation of seasonal patterns in long time series of satellite data and simulations of a global vegetation model
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 42, p. 140-153
Bachelet, D.; Neilson, R. P.; Hickler, T.; Drapek, R. J.; Lenihan, J. M.; Sykes, M.; Smith, B.; Sitch, S. and Thonicke, K. (2003):
Simulating past and future dynamics of natural ecosystems in the United States
Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 17(2), 1045, doi: 10.1029/2001GB001508, 2003
Bonan, G.; Levis, S.; Sitch, S.; Vertenstein, M. and Oleson, K. W. (2003):
A dynamic global vegetation model for use with climate models: concepts and description of simulated vegetation dynamics
Global Change Biology, 9(11), p. 1543-1566, doi: 10.1046/j.1529-8817.2003.00681.x
Gerber, S.; Joos, F.; Brügger, P.; Stocker, T. F.; Mann, M. E.; Sitch, S. and Scholze, M. (2003):
Constraining temperature variations over the last millenium by comparing simulated and observed atmospheric CO2
Climate Dynamics, 20, p. 281-299, doi: 10.1007/s00382-002-0270-8
Kaplan, J. O.; Bigelow, N. H.; Prentice, I. C.; Harrison, S. P:; Bartlein, P. J.; Christensen, T. R.; Cramer, W.; Matveyeva, N. V.;
McGuire, A. D.; Murray, D. F.; Razzhivin, V. Y.; Smith, B.; Walker, D. A.; Anderson, P. M.; Andreev, A. A.; Brubaker, L. B.;
Edwards, M. E. and Lozhkin, A. V. (2003):
Climate change and Arctic ecosystems: 2. Modeling, paleodata-model comparisons, and future projections
Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(D19), 8171, doi: 10.1029/2002JD002559, 2003
Lucht, W. (2003):
Der Norden ergrnt im Computer
Spektrum der Wissenschaften, 02/2003, p. 8-10
Scholze, M.; Kaplan, J. O.; Knorr, W. and Heimann, M. (2003):
Climate and interannual variability of the atmosphere-biosphere
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CO2
flux
Geophysical Research Letters, 30(2), 1097, doi: 10.1029/2002GL015631
Sitch, S.; Smith, B.; Prentice, I. C.; Arneth, A.; Bondeau, A.; Cramer, W.; Kaplan, J.; Levis, S.; Lucht, W.; Sykes, M.;
Thonicke, K. and Venevski, S. (2003):
Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ Dynamic Vegetation Model
Global Change Biology, 9, p. 161-185
Wagner, W.; Scipal, K.; Pathe, C.; Gerten, D.; Lucht, W. and Rudolf, B. (2003):
Evaluation of the agreement between the first global remotely sensed soil moisture data with model and precipitation data
Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(D19), 4611, doi: 10.1029/2003JD003663, 2003
Dargaville, R. J.; Heimann, M.; McGuire, A. D.; Prentice, I. C.; Kicklighter, D. W.; Joos, F.; Clein, J. S.; Esser G.;
Foley, J.; Kaplan, J.; Meier, R.A.; Melillo, J. M.; Moore III, B.; Ramankutty, N.; Reichenau, T.; Schloss, A.; Sitch, S.;
Tian, H.; Williams, L. J. and Wittenberg, U. (2002):
Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models with atmospheric CO2 measurements: Results from transient simulations
considering increasing CO2, climate, and land-use effects
Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 16(4), 1092, doi: 10.1029/2001GB001426, 2002
Joos, F.; Prentice I. C. and House, J. I. (2002):
Growth enhancement due to global atmospheric change as predicted by terrestrial ecosystem models: consistent with U. S. forest inventory
Global Change Biology, 8, p. 299-303
Knorr, W.; Smith, B.; Widlowski, J.-L.; Pinty, B. and Gobron, N.(2002)s:
Combining remote sensing techniques with productivity models: a case study for monitoring carbon stocks in northern European forests
Proceedings of the OECD Workshop "Remote Sensing for Agriculture and the Environment", Kifissia, Greece, September 17-20, 2002
Lucht, W.; Prentice, I. C.; Myneni, R. B.; Sitch, S.; Friedlingstein, P.; Cramer, W.; Bousquet, P.;
Buermann, W. and Smith, B. (2002):
Climate effects upon vegetation explain remotely-sensed boreal greening trend and Pinatubo effect
Science, 296, p. 1687 - 1689
article and abstract
Pan, Yude; McGuire, A. David; Melillo, Jerry M.; Kicklighter, David W.; Sitch, Stephen and Prentice, I. Colin (2002):
A biogeochemistry-based dynamic vegetation model and its application along a moisture gradient in the continental United States
Journal of Vegetation Science, 13, p. 369-382
Scheffler, C. (2002):
Frherkennung und Beobachtung von Hochwasser mittels ERS-Scatterometerdaten am Beispiel der Einzugsgebiete Sambesi und
Limpopo im Zeitraum von 1992 bis 2000
Diplomarbeit Technische Universit� Dresden, Dresden, unver�fentlicht
Thonicke, K.; Venevsky, S. and Cramer, W. (2002):
Vegetation and fire interactions under different climate conditions - Two examples of human-dominated fire regimes
Conference Proceedings of IV International Conference of Forest Fire Research, 18.-23. November 2002, Luso-Coimbra, Portugal
Venevsky, S.; Thonicke, K.; Sitch, S. and Cramer, W. (2002):
Simulating fire regimes in human-dominated ecosystems: Iberian Peninsula case study
Global Change Biology, 8, p. 984-998
Cramer, W., Bondeau, A.; Woodward, F.I.; Prentice, I.C.; Betts, R. A.; Brovkin, V.; Cox, P. M.; Fisher, V.; Foley, J.;
Friend, A. D.; Kucharik, C.; Lomas, M. R.; Ramankutty, N.; Sitch, S.; Smith, B.; White, A. and Young-Molling, C. (2001):
Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function
to CO2
and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models.
Global Change Biology, 7, p. 357-373
McCloy, K. R. and Lucht, W. (2001):
Comparison of the Fraction Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR) data derived from AVHRR NDVI data with that
estimated by the LPJ global dynamic vegetation model, for the globe over the period July 1981 - June 1998.
International geoscience remote sensing symposium 01, July 9 - 13, 2001, Sydney, Australia
McGuire, A.D., Sitch, S.; Clein, J. S.; Dargaville, R.; Esser, G.; Foley, J.; Heimann, M.; Joos, F.; Kaplan, J.;
Kicklighter, D. W.; Meier,R. A.; Melillo, J. M.; Moore III, B.; Prentice, I. C.; Ramankutty, N.; Reichenau, T.; Schloss, A.;
Tian, H.; Williams, L. J. and Wittenberg, U. (2001):
Carbon balance of the terrestrial biosphere in the twentieth century: Analyses of CO2,
climate and land use effects with
four process-based ecosystem models.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 15(1), p. 183-206
Joos, F.; Prentice, I. C.; Sitch, S.; Meyer, R.; Hooss, G.; Plattner, G.-K.; Gerber, S. and Hasselmann, K. (2001):
Global warming feedbacks on terrestrial carbon uptake under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emmission scenarios.
Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 15, p. 891-908
Lucht, W.; Bondeau, A.; Sitch, S.; Cramer, W.; Venevsky, S. and Thonicke, K. (2001):
Synergistic use of satellite data and a dynamic model of the global biospheric carbon cycle
8th Int. Symp. Phys. Meas. Signat. in Remote Sensing, Aussois, France, January 8-12, p. 659-668
Smith, Benjamin; Prentice, I. Colin and Sykes, Martin T. (2001):
Representation of vegetation dynamics in the modelling of terrestrial ecosystems: comparing two contrasting approaches
within European climate space
Global Ecology & Biogeography, 10 (ETEMA special issue), p. 621-637
Thonicke, K.; Venevsky, S.; Sitch, S. and Cramer, W. (2001):
The role of fire disturbance for global vegetation dynamics: coupling fire into a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model
Global Ecology & Biogeography, 10 (ETEMA special issue), p. 661-677
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Heimann, M., and CCMLP Participants (2000):
The Carbon Cycle Model Linkage Project (CCMLP)
IGBP GAIM Research Newsletter, Vol. 4, No. 1, p. 7-15
Prentice, I.C.; Heimann, M.; and Sitch, S. (2000):
The carbon balance of the terrestrial biosphere: ecosystem models and atmospheric observations
Ecological Applications, 10, p. 1553-1573
Sitch, S. (2000):
The role of vegetation dynamics in the control of atmospheric CO2
content
Dissertation, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Cramer, W.; Kicklighter, D. W.; Bondeau, A.; Moore III, B.; Churkina, G.; Nemry, B.; Ruimy, A.; Schloss, A. L. and
Participants of "Potsdam '95" (1999):
Comparing global models of terrestrial net primary productivity (NPP): Overview and key results.
Global Change Biology, Vol. 5, Suppl. 1, p. 1-15
Fosberg, M. A.; Cramer, W.; Brovkin, V.; Fleming, R.; Gardner, R. H.; Gill, A. M.; Goldammer, J. G.; Keane, R.; Koehler, P.;
Lenihan, J.; Neilson, R. P.; Sitch, S.; Thonicke, K.; Venevski, S.; Weber, M.G. and Wittenberg, U. (1999):
Strategy for a fire module in dynamic global vegetation models
International Journal of Wildland Fire, 9, p. 79-84
Kicklighter, D. W.; Bruno, M.; Doenges, S.; Esser, G.; Heimann, M.; Helfrich, J.; Ift, F.; Joos, F.; Kaduk, J.;
Kohlmaier, G. H.; McGuire, A. D.; Melillo, J. M.; Meyer, R.; Moore III, B.; Nadler, A.; Prentice, I. C.; Sauf, W.; Schloss, A. L.;
Sitch, S.; Wittenberg, U. and Wrth, G. (1999):
A first order analysis of the potential role of CO2
fertilization to affect the global carbon budget: A comparison
study of four terrestrial biosphere models.
Tellus, Ser. B, 51, p. 343-366
Cramer, W. (1997):
Using Plant Functional Types in a Global Vegetation Model.
in: Smith, T. M.; Shugart, H. H. and Woodward, F. I. (ed.), Plant Funtional Types: Their Relevance to Ecosystem Properties
and Global Change, Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, p. 271-288
Haxeltine, Alex and Prentice, I. Colin (1996):
BIOME3: An equikibrium terrestrial biosphere model based on ecophysiological constraints, resource availability, and competition
among plant functional types
Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 10(4), p. 693-709
Steffen, W. L.; Cramer, W.; Pl�hl, M. and Bugmann, H. (1996):
Global Vegetation Models: Incorporating Transient Changes to Structure and Composition
Journal of Vegetation Science, 7(3), p. 321-328
Cramer, W. (1994):
Using plant functional types in a global vegetation model
PIK Report No.3, Potsdam, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Prentice, I. C.; Cramer, W.; Harrison, S. P.; Leemans, R.; Monserud, R. A. and Solomon, A. M. (1992):
A global biome model based on plant physiology and dominance, soil properties and climate
Journal of Biogeography, 19(2), p. 117-134