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Publications

Reviewer for 

Earth Interactions, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Global Change Biology, Ecosystems, Trends in Plant Science, New Phytologist, Palaeo-3, Science and others.

Editor for

Biogeoscience (http://www.biogeosciences.net/ )

(as of Apr 2011)

Peer-reviewed articles

 

2011
  • Costa-Carvalho L, Thonicke K, Poulter B, Badeck F-W in press, Sensitivity of Portuguese forest fires to climatic, human and landscape variables – Differences between fire drivers in extreme fire years and decadal averages. Regional Environmental Change, doi: 10.1007/s10113-010-0169-6.

 

2010 
  • Jupp T, Cox P, Rammig A, Thonicke K, Lucht W & Cramer W 2010. Development of probability density functions for future South American rainfall. New Phytol 187(3):682-693
  • Arneth A, Lehsten V, Thonicke K & Spessa A 2010 Climate–Fire Interactions and Savanna Ecosystems: A Dynamic Vegetation Modeling Study for the African Continent. In: Hill MJ and Hanan NP (eds) Ecosystem Function in Savannas: Measurement and Modeling at Landscape to Global Scales, pp. 463-478. CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group.
  • The SPITFIRE model publication: Thonicke K, Spessa A, Prentice IC, Harrison SP, Dong L & Carmona-Moreno C 2010. The influence of vegetation, fire spread and fire behaviour on biomass burning and trace gas emissions: results from a process-based model. Biogeoscience 7(6):1991-2011

  • Poulter B, Aragão L, Heyder U, Gumpenberger M, Heinke J, Langerwisch F, Rammig A, Thonicke K & Cramer W Net biome production of the Amazon Basin in the 21st century. Global Change Biology 16(7):2062-2075, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02064.x

  • Arneth A, Sitch S, Bondeau A, … Thonicke K et al. (2010) From biota to chemistry and climate: towards a comprehensive description of trace gas exchange between the biosphere and atmosphere. Biogeosciences, 7, 121-149. http://www.biogeosciences.net/7/121/2010/bg-7-121-2010.html

2009
  • Meyn A, Taylor SW, Flannigan MD, Thonicke K and Cramer W (2009) Relationship between fire, climate oscillations, and drought in British Columbia, Canada, 1920-2000. Global Change Biol, 16(3), 977-989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02061.x
  • Lehsten V, Tansey K, Balzter H, Thonicke K, Spessa A, Weber U, Smith B & Arneth A (2009) Estimating carbon emissions from African wildfires. Biogeosciences, 6, 349-360. www.biogeosciences.net/6/349/2009/

2008

 

  • Power MJ, Marlon J, Ortiz N, Bartlein PJ, Harrison SP, Mayle FE, Ballouche A, Bradshaw RHW, Carcaillet C, Cordova C, Mooney S, Moreno PI, Prentice IC, Thonicke K, Tinner W, Whitlock C, Zhang Y, Zhao Y et al. (2008) Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data. Climate Dynamics, 30, 887-907. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-007-0334-x
  • Schulz MG, Heil A, Hoelzemann J, Spessa A, Thonicke K, Goldammer JG, Held AC , Pereira JMC (2008) Global Emissions from Vegetation Fires from 1960 to 2000. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 22, doi:10.1029/2007GB003031. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2007GB003031

1999-2007
  • Beer C, Lucht W, Gerten D, Thonicke K , Schmullius C (2007) Effects of soil freezing and thawing on vegetation carbon density in Siberia: A modeling analysis with the Lund-Potsdam-Jena Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (LPJ-DGVM). Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 21, doi:10.1029/2006GB002760. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2006GB002760
  • Thonicke K, Cramer W (2006), Long-term trends in vegetation dynamics and forest fire in Brandenburg (Germany) under a changing climate. Natural Hazards, 38: 283-300, DOI 10.1007/s11069-005-8639-8.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-005-8639-8
  • Thonicke, K., Prentice, I.C., & Hewitt, C. (2005) Modelling glacial-interglacial changes in global fire regimes and trace gas emissions. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 19, doi:10.1029/2004GB002278.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004GB002278
  • Schröter D, Cramer W, Leemans R, …Thonicke K,… et al. (2005) Ecosystem service supply and vulnerability to global change in Europe. Science, 310(5752), 1333-1337. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1115233
  • Bachelet D, Neilson RP, Hickler T, Drapek RJ, Lenihan JM, Sykes MT, Smith B, Sitch S, Thonicke K (2003), Past and future carbon sources and sinks in the conterminous USA. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 17(2), 1045, doi: 10.1029/2001GB001508. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2001GB001508
  • Sitch S, Smith B, Prentice IC, Arneth A, Bondeau A, Cramer W, Kaplan JO, Levis S, Lucht W, Sykes MT, Thonicke K, Venevsky S (2003), Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ Dynamic Global Vegetation Model. Global Change Biology 9, 161-185.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2486.2003.00569.x
  • Venevsky S, Thonicke K, Sitch S, Cramer W (2002), Simulating fire regimes in human-dominated ecosystems: Iberian Peninsula case study. Global Change Biology 8, 984-998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2486.2002.00528.x
  • Thonicke K, Venevsky S, Sitch S, Cramer W (2001), The role of fire disturbance for global vegetation dynamics: coupling fire into a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model. Global Ecology & Biogeography 10, 661-677. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1466-822X.2001.00175.x
  • Fosberg MA, Cramer W, Brovkin V, Fleming R, Gardner R, Gill AM, Goldammer JG, Keane R, Koehler P, Lenihan J, Neilson R, Sitch S, Thonicke K, Venevsky S (1999), Weber MG, Wittenberg U, Strategy for a Fire Module in Dynamic Global Vegetation Models. International Journal of Wildland Fire 9, 79-84.

 

 

Non-peer-reviewed articles

 

Badeck FW, Lasch P, Hauf Y, Rock J, Suckow F, Thonicke K (2004), Steigendes klimatisches Waldbrandrisiko (Increasing climatic fire danger; in German). AFZ/Der Wald  59(2), 90-93.

 

Other publications (including reports)

 

Thonicke K (1998), Die Berücksichtigung natürlicher Störungen in der Vegetationsdynamik verschiedener Klimagebiete (The consideration of natural disturbances in the vegetation dynamics of several climate zones; in German). PIK-Report 38, 142 pp.

Thonicke K, Venevsky S, 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, Luso-Coimbra, Portugal, 18.-23. Nov. 2002. 14 pp.

 

Spessa A, McBeth B, Thonicke K, Prentice IC (2003).  Modelling the relationship between fire frequency, rainfall and vegetation in the Kimberleys region Australia, using a fire model coupled to a DGVM.  Proceedings of the 3rd International Wildland Fire Conference, Sydney, Australia, Oct 2003. 15 pp.

 

Thonicke K (2003), Fire disturbance and vegetation dynamics - analysis and models, Dissertation, Universitätsverlag Potsdam, http://pub.ub.uni-potsdam.de/2003meta/0012/door.htm. 96 pp.

 

 

 

 

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