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Measuring tropical rainforest resilience under non-Gaussian disturbances
Vitus Benson, Jonathan F. Donges, Niklas Boers +5
The Amazon rainforest is considered one of the Earth's tipping elements and may lose stability under ongoing climate change. Recently a decrease in tropical rainforest resilience h…
How to sustain the terrestrial biosphere in the Anthropocene? A thermodynamic Earth system perspective
Axel Kleidon
Many aspects of anthropogenic global change, such as land cover change, biodiversity loss and the intensification of agricultural production, threaten the natural biosphere. These…
Respiration driven CO2 pulses dominate Australia's flux variability
Eva-Marie Metz, Sanam N. Vardag, Sourish Basu +22
The Australian continent contributes substantially to the year-to-year variability of the global terrestrial carbon dioxide (CO2) sink. However, the scarcity of in-situ observation…
What limits photosynthesis? Identifying the thermodynamic constraints of the biosphere within the Earth system
Axel Kleidon
Photosynthesis converts sunlight into the chemical free energy that feeds the Earth's biosphere, yet at levels much lower than what thermodynamics would allow for. I propose here t…
Geographic variation of surface energy partitioning in the climatic mean predicted from the maximum power limit
Chirag Dhara, Maik Renner, Axel Kleidon
Convective and radiative cooling are the two principle mechanisms by which the Earth's surface transfers heat into the atmosphere and that shape surface temperature. However, this…