Publications
Peer-reviewed papers
Huber, V., Gerten, D., Adrian, R. 2012: To bloom or not to bloom: To bloom or not to bloom: Contrasting responses of cyanobacteria to different heat waves explained by critical thresholds of abiotic drivers. Oecologia 169, 245–256.
Gudmundsson, L., Tallaksen, L.M., Stahl, K., Clark, D.B., Dumont, E., Hagemann, S., Bertrand, N., Gerten, D., Heinke, J., Hanasaki, N., Voß, F., Koirala, S. 2012: Comparing large-scale hydrological models to observed runoff percentiles in Europe. J. Hydrometeor. 13, 604–620.
Gerten, D., Heinke, J., Hoff, H.,
Biemans, H., Fader, M., Waha, K. 2011: Global water availability and
requirements for future food production. Journal of
Hydrometeorology 12, 885–899.
Heyder, U., Schaphoff, S., Gerten, D., Lucht, W. 2011: Risk of severe climate change impact on the terrestrial biosphere. Environmental Research Letters 6, 034036.
Langerwisch, F., Rost, S., Gerten, D., Poulter, B., Rammig, A., Zimmermann-Timm, H., Cramer, W.: Potential effects of climate change on inundation pattern in the Amazon basin. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. (open discussion).
Hagemann, S., Chen, C., Härter, J.O., Heinke, J., Gerten, D., Piani, C. 2011: Impact of a statistical bias correction on the projected hydrological changes obtained from three GCMs and two hydrology models. Journal of Hydrometeorology 12, 556–578.
Haddeland, I., Clark, D.B., Franssen, W., Ludwig, F., Voß, F., Arnell, N.W., Bertrand, N., Best, M., Folwell, S., Gerten, D. et al. 2011: Multi-model estimate of the global water balance: setup and first results. Journal of Hydrometeorology 12, 869–884.
Popp, A., Dietrich, J.P., Lotze-Campen, H., Klein, D., Bauer, N., Krause, M., Beringer, T., Gerten, D., Edenhofer, O. 2011: The potential contribution of bioenergy to climate change mitigation including its costs and side effects. Environmental Research Letters 6, 034017.
Biemans, H., Haddeland, I., Kabat, P., Ludwig, F., Hutjes, R.W.A., Heinke, J., von Bloh, W., Gerten, D. 2011: Impact of reservoirs on river discharge and irrigation water supply during the 20th century. Water Resources Research 47, W03509.
Fader, M., Gerten, D., Thammer, M., Heinke, J., Lotze-Campen, H., Lucht, W., Cramer, W. 2011: Internal and external green-blue agricultural water footprints of nations, and related water and land savings through trade. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 15, 1641–1660.
Jung, M., Reichstein, M., Ciais, P., Seneviratne, S.I., Sheffield, J., Goulden, M.L., Bonan, G., Cescatti, A., Chen, J., de Jeu, R., Dolman, A.J., Eugster, W., Gerten, D. et al. 2010: Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply. Nature 467, 951–954.
Strengers, B.J., Müller, C., Schaeffer, M., Haarsma, R.J., Severijns, C., Gerten, D., Schaphoff, S., van den Houdt, R., Oostenrijk, R. 2010. Assessing 20th century climate-vegetation feedbacks of land-use change and natural vegetation dynamics in a fully coupled vegetation-climate model. International Journal of Climatology 30, 2055–2065.
Huber, V., Adrian, R., Gerten, D. 2010. A matter of timing: Heat wave impact on crustacean zooplankton. Freshwater Biology 55, 1769–1779.
Fader, M., Rost, S., Müller, C., Bondeau, A., Gerten, D. 2010. Virtual water content of temperate cereals and maize: Present and potential future patterns. Journal of Hydrology (Special Issue) 384, 218–231.
Hoff, H., Falkenmark, M., Gerten, D., Gordon, L., Karlberg, L., Rockström, J. 2010. Greening the global water system. Journal of Hydrology (Special Issue) 384, 177–184.
von Bloh, W., Rost, S., Gerten, D., Lucht, W. 2010. Efficient parallelization of a dynamical global vegetation model with river routing. Environmental Modelling and Software 25, 685–690.
Rost, S., Gerten, D., Hoff, H., Lucht, W., Falkenmark, M., Rockström, J. 2009. Global potential to increase crop production through water management in rainfed agriculture. Environmental Research Letters 4, 044002.
Biemans, H., Hutjes, R., Kabat, P., Strengers, B., Gerten, D., Rost, S. 2009. Impacts of precipitation uncertainty on discharge calculations for main river basins, Journal of Hydrometeorology 10, 1011–1025.
Rockström, J., Falkenmark, M., Karlberg, L., Hoff, H., Rost, S., Gerten, D. 2009. Future water availability for global food production: The potential of green water for increasing resilience to global change. Water Resources Research 45, W00A12.
Gerten, D., Rost, S., von Bloh, W., Lucht, W. 2008. Causes of change in 20th century global river discharge. Geophysical Research Letters 35, L20405.
Gerten, D., Luo, Y., Le Maire, G., Parton, W.J., Keough, C., Weng, E., Beier, C., Ciais, P., Cramer, W., Dukes, J.S., Hanson, P.J., Knapp, A., Linder, S., Nepstad, D., Rustad, L., Sowerby, A. 2008. Modelled effects of precipitation on ecosystem carbon and water dynamics in different climatic zones. Global Change Biology 14, 2365–2379.
Luo, Y., Gerten, D., Le Maire, G., Parton, W.J., Weng, E., Keough, C., Zhou, X., Beier, C., Ciais, P., Cramer, W., Dukes, J.S., Emmett, B., Hanson, P.J., Knapp, A., Linder, S., Nepstad, D., Rustad, L. 2008. Modelled interactive effects of precipitation, temperature, and CO2 on ecosystem carbon and water dynamics in different climatic zones. Global Change Biology 14, 1986–1999.
Gerten, D. 2008. Climatic change, aquatic science, multiple shifts in paradigms. International Review of Hydrobiology 93 (centenary issue), 397–403.
Rost, S., Gerten, D., Bondeau, A., Lucht, W., Rohwer, J., Schaphoff, S. 2008. Agricultural green and blue water consumption and its influence on the global water system. Water Resources Research 44, W09405.
Rost, S., Gerten, D., Heyder, U. 2008. Human alterations of the terrestrial water cycle through land management. Advances in Geosciences 18, 43-50.
Huber, V., Adrian, R., Gerten, D. 2008. Phytoplankton response to climate warming modified by trophic state. Limnology & Oceanography 53, 1–13.
Döll, P., Berkhoff, K., Bormann, H., Fohrer, N., Gerten, D., Hagemann, S., Krol, M.: Advances and visions in large-scale hydrological modelling: Findings from the 11th Workshop on Large-scale Hydrological Modelling. Advances in Geosciences 18, 51–61.
Gerten, D., Schaphoff, S., Lucht, W. 2007. Potential future changes in water limitations of the terrestrial biosphere. Climatic Change 80, 277–299.
Beer, C., Lucht, W., Gerten, D., Thonicke, K., Schmullius, C. 2007. Effects of freeze-thaw processes on biomass in Siberia. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 21, GB1012.
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 13, 679–706.
Schaphoff, S., Lucht, W., Gerten, D., Sitch, S., Cramer, W., Prentice, I.C. 2006. Terrestrial biosphere carbon storage under alternative climate projections. Climatic Change 74, 97–122.
Leipprand, A., Gerten, D. 2006. Global effects of doubled atmospheric CO2 content on evapotranspiration, soil moisture and runoff under potential natural vegetation. Hydrological Sciences Journal 51, 171–185.
Adrian, R., Wilhelm, S., Gerten, D. 2006. Life history traits of lake plankton species may govern their phenological response to climate warming. Global Change Biology 12, 652–661.
Gerten, D., Lucht, W., Schaphoff, S., Cramer, W., Hickler, T., Wagner, W. 2005. Hydrologic resilience of the terrestrial biosphere. Geophysical Research Letters 32, 21408-21411.
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. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 30, 334–338.
Gerten, D., Schaphoff, S., Haberlandt, U., Lucht, W., Sitch, S. 2004. Terrestrial vegetation and water balance: hydrological evaluation of a dynamic global vegetation model. Journal of Hydrology 286, 249–270.
Wagner, W., Scipal, K., Pathe, C., Gerten, D., Lucht, W., 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.
Gerten, D., Adrian, R. 2002. Responses of lake temperatures to diverse North Atlantic Oscillation indices. Verhandlungen der Internationalen Vereinigung für Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 28, 1593–1596.
Gerten, D., Adrian, R. 2002. Species-specific changes in the phenology and peak abundance of freshwater copepods in response to warm summers. Freshwater Biology 47, 2163–2173.
Mohr, S., Gerten, D., Adrian, R. 2002. Minimal algal food requirements in the presence of protozoan prey for the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus. Journal of Plankton Research 24, 723–728.
Gerten, D., Adrian, R. 2002. Effects of climate warming, North Atlantic Oscillation and El Niño on thermal conditions and plankton dynamics in European and North American lakes. TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2, 586–606.
Gerten, D., Adrian, R. 2001. Differences in the persistency of the North Atlantic Oscillation signal among lakes. Limnology & Oceanography 46, 448–455.
Gerten, D., Adrian, R. 2000. Climate-driven changes in spring phytoplankton dynamics and the sensitivity of shallow polymictic lakes to the North Atlantic Oscillation. Limnology & Oceanography 45, 1058–1066.
Gerten, D., Helbig, A., Wilke, K. 1998. Erfahrungen mit dem hydrologischen Modellsystem MMS-PRMS bei Anwendung auf das Einzugsgebiet der oberen Blies. Deutsche Gewässerkundliche Mitteilungen 42, 118–125.
Edited books, and book chapters
Gerten, D., Bergmann, S. (Eds.) 2012: Religion in Environmental and Climate Change: Suffering, Values, Lifestyles. Continuum, 270 pp.
Gerten, D., Bergmann, S. 2012: Facing the human faces of climate change. In: Gerten, D., Bergmann, S. (Eds.): Religion in Environmental and Climate Change. Continuum, 3–15.
Hoff, H., Gerten, D., Waha, K. (in press): Green and blue water in Africa – how foreign direct investment can support sustainable intensification. In: Allan, T., Keulertz, M., Sojamo, S., Warner, J. (Eds.), Handbook on Land and Water Grabs: Foreign Direct Investment and Food and Water Security. Routledge.
Gerten, D., Lucht, W., Kundzewicz, Z. W. 2012: Detection and attribution of changes in water resources. In: Kundzewicz, Z. W. (Ed.), Changes in Flood Risk in Europe, 421–434. IAHS Special Publication 10. CRC Press.
Bergmann, S., Gerten, D. (Eds.) 2010: Religion and Dangerous Environmental Change: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on the Ethics of Climate and Sustainability. LIT-Verlag, Münster, Berlin, Zürich, Wien, London. 256 pp.
Gerten, D. 2010: Adapting to climatic and hydrologic change: Variegated functions of religion. In: Bergmann, S., Gerten, D. (Eds.), Religion and Dangerous Environmental Change, 39–56. LIT.
Bergmann, S., Gerten, D. 2010: Religion in climate and environmental change: Towards a symphony of voices, memories and visions in a new polycentric field. In: Bergmann, S., Gerten, D. (Eds.), Religion in Dangerous Environmental Change, 1–12. LIT.
Climate change and water supply (with contribution by Gerten, D.) 2010. In: Edenhofer, O., Lotze-Campen, H., Wallacher, J., Reder, M. (Hg.), Global, aber gerecht: Klimawandel bekämpfen, Entwicklung ermöglichen. C. H. Beck.
Gerten, D. 2010: Hydrolatry in early European religions and Christian syncretism: How water transcends religions and epochs. In: Tvedt, T. & Oestigaard, T. (Eds.), Ideas of Water from Ancient Societies to the Modern World (A History of Water Series II, Vol. 1), 323-342. I.B. Tauris.
Gerten, D. 2009: Zum aktuellen Stand der Klimafolgenforschung. In: Bedford-Strohm, H. (Ed.), Und Gott sah, dass es gut war. Schöpfung und Endlichkeit im Zeitalter der Klimakatastrophe, 74–84. Neukirchener Verlag.
Gerten, D. 2008. Water of life, water of death: Pagan notions of water from antiquity to today. In: Shaw, S., Francis, A. (Eds.), Deep Blue – Critical Reflections on Nature, Religion and Water, 35–50. Equinox.
Gerten, D. 2008. Verschiebung der Vegetationszonen. In: Lozán, J.L., Graßl, H., Jendritzky, G., Karbe, L., Reise, K. (Hrsg.), Warnsignal Klima: Gesundheitsrisiken – Gefahren für Menschen, Tiere und Pflanzen. GEO/Wissenschaftliche Auswertungen, 89–92.
Diesel, A., Gerten, D. 2005/2007. Looking for Europe - Neofolk und Hintergründe. 2nd ed., Index, 544 pp. (French edition: Looking for Europe – Néofolk & Underground, Tome 1 & Tome 2, Camion Noir 2008/2009).
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, Group V: Geophysics, Vol. 6, 12-1–12-17, Springer.
Gerten, D. 2001. Changes in the thermal properties and the seasonal plankton succession in lakes: The role of climate warming and the North Atlantic Oscillation. PhD thesis, University of Potsdam, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, 105 pp.
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, 29–35. British Hydrological Society.
Krysanova, V., Gerten, D., Klöcking, B., Becker, A. 1999. Factors affecting nitrogen export from diffuse sources: a modelling study in the Elbe basin. In: L. Heathwaite (ed.): Impact of land-use change on nutrient loads from diffuse sources (IAHS publ. 257), 201–212.
Other publications (selection)
Gerten, D., Hagemann, S., Biemans, H., Saeed, F., Konzmann, M. 2011: Climate Change and Irrigation: Feedbacks and Impacts. WATCH Technical Report No. 47, CEH Wallingford.
Gerten, D. 2011: Water availability and scarcity: now and future trends. In: Kowarsch, M. (ed.)., „Water Management Options in a Globalised World – Proceedings of an International Scientific Workshop, 20–23 June 2011, Bad Schönbrunn”, 9–15. Institute for Social and Development Studies (IGP) at the Munich School of Philosophy (online).
Gerten, D., Rost, S. 2009: Climate change impacts on agricultural water stress and impact mitigation potential. Background note for the World Development Report 2010 (Development and Climate Change). World Bank.
Heinke, J., Gerten, D., Frieler, K. 2009: Implications of extreme global warming scenarios for global water availability. Abstract book of the International Climate Conference “4 Degrees and Beyond”, 61–66, Oxford.
Gerten, D. 2009: The noosphere in earth system analysis. IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science 6, 572020.
Gerten, D. 2009: Ensemble-based global-scale quantification of terrestrial biospheric and hydrological climate change impacts. ENSEMBLES Final Report, 150–154, Exeter.
Gerten, D., Heinke, J. 2009: Geht uns das Wasser aus? Globale Wasservorräte und -knappheiten heute und in Zukunft. Universitas 757, 664–675.
Lotze-Campen, H., Gerten, D. 2009: Virtueller Wasserhandel. Ein Beitrag zur Lösung von regionaler Wasserknappheit und Ernährungssicherung? Universitas 757, 676–689.
Gerten, D. 2009: Die globale terrestrische Biosphäre im Wandel. In: Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei: 5. Stechlin-Forum: "Ökologische Folgen des Klimawandels", 27–30. IGB.
Gerten, D. 2008. Klimawandel – Folgen für die weltweite Verfügbarkeit von Süßwasservorräten und Trinkwasser. In: FEI (Hrsg.): Zukunftsfähige Wasserversorgung – von der lokalen zur globalen Herausforderung. 22. Trinkwasserkolloquium am 14. Februar 2008. Oldenbourg, 1–10.
Rohwer, J., Gerten, D., Lucht, W. 2007. Development of functional irrigation types for improved global crop modelling. PIK Report 104, 91 pp.
Lucht, W., Gerten, D., Schaphoff, S. 2006. Klima, Vegetation und Kohlenstoff: Jahreszeitliche und langfristige gekoppelte Dynamik. DEKLIM Final Report, 46 pp.
Gerten, D., Kuhn, N. 2006. Der Flußlauf – die Kyll und die naturräumlichen Verhältnisse in ihrem Einzugsgebiet. In: Gerten, E., Wisniewski, A., Höser, R. 2006: Die Kyll. VG Kyllburg.
Gerten, D. 2005. Environmental modelling - finding simplicity in complexity (eds.: J. Wainwright & M. Mulligan). Hydrological Sciences Journal 50, 731. (Book review)
Gerten, D. 2004. World water resources at the beginning of the 21st century (eds.: I.A. Shiklomanov & J.C. Rodda). Hydrological Sciences Journal 49, 350. (Book review)
Gerten, D. 2002. Klimageschichte und naturräumliche Bedingungen. In: Gerten, E., Kreutz, J., Rech, C. (eds.): Oberkail – Geschichte eines Dorfes in der südlichen Eifel, 340–344, Oberkail.
Gerten, D., Adrian, R. 2001. Thermische Sensibilität verschiedener Seentypen gegenüber der Nordatlantischen Oszillation. IGB Annual Report 2000, 137–146.
Gerten, D., Helbig, A. 1998. Zur Berechnung der Verdunstung innerhalb des Niederschlag-Abfluß-Modells PRMS/MMS am Beispiel von Mosel-Einzugsgebieten. Annalen der Meteorologie 37, 281–282.
Umweltbundesamt (ed.) 1998. Ursachen der Hochwasserentstehung und ihre anthropogene Beeinflussung – Maßnahmenvorschläge, UBA, Berlin. Contribution by Gerten, D.
Gerten, D., Krysanova, V. 1997. Ein Ansatz zur makroskaligen Modellierung des Stoffhaushalts. Proc. workshop "Modellierung des Wasser- und Stofftransportes in großen Einzugsgebieten" (PIK-Report 43, 97–107), Potsdam.
