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Dr. Martin Thurner
PostDoc Member of Research Group 'Quantitative Biogeography' Research interests
My main interest is in the response and feedback of the carbon cycle in the land vegetation to climate change, with a special focus on boreal and temperate forest ecosystems. I am particularly interested if increases in plant respiration and forest mortality due to rising temperatures and more frequent and severe climate extremes may outweigh gross productivity increases in the future. In order to address these research questions, the monitoring of vegetation characteristics and dynamics therein by remote sensing technologies will be of vital importance. I am using remote sensing-based information on the spatial distribution of forest carbon stocks (biomass) in synergy with field data in order to evaluate, calibrate and improve global vegetation models. Contact Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre Postal address: Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Email Short CV Since 01/2019 Postdoc at BiK-F 2016-2018 Postdoc at Stockholm University and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research 2011-2016 PhD student at MPI Biogeochemistry (2011-2014) and Stockholm University (2014-2016), thesis defended at Friedrich Schiller University Jena 2008-2011 M.Sc. Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing at FSU Jena 2005-2008 B.Sc. Geography at FSU Jena Selected publications Thurner, M., Beer, C., Crowther, T., Falster, D., Manzoni, S., Prokushkin, A., Schulze, E.-D.(2019): Sapwood biomass carbon in northern boreal and temperate forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/geb.12883
Erb, K.-H., Kastner, T., Plutzar, C., Bais, A.L.S., Carvalhais, N., Fetzel, T., Gingrich, S., Haberl, H., Lauk, C., Niedertscheider, M., Pongratz, J., Thurner, M., Luyssaert, S. (2018): Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass. Nature, 553, 73-76. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25138 Thurner, M., Beer, C., Ciais, P., Friend, A.D., Ito, A., Kleidon, A., Lomas, M.R., Quegan, S., Rademacher, T.T., Schaphoff, S., Tum, M., Wiltshire, A., Carvalhais, N. (2017): Evaluation of climate-related carbon turnover processes in global vegetation models for boreal and temperate forests. Global Change Biology, 23, 8, 3076-3091. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13660
Thurner, M., Beer, C., Carvalhais, N., Forkel, M., Santoro, M., Tum, M., Schmullius, C. (2016): Large-scale variation in forest carbon turnover rate related to climate. Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 4576-4585. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL068794
Thurner, M., Beer, C., Santoro, M., Carvalhais, N., Wutzler, T., Schepaschenko, D., Shvidenko, A., Kompter, E., Ahrens, B., Levick, S.R., Schmullius, C. (2014): Carbon stock and density of northern boreal and temperate forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23, 3, 297-310. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12125
Carvalhais, N., Forkel, M., Khomik, M., Bellarby, J., Jung, M., Migliavacca, M., Mu, M., Saatchi, S., Santoro, M., Thurner, M., Weber, U., Ahrens, B., Beer, C., Cescatti, A., Randerson, J.T., Reichstein, M. (2014): Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems. Nature, 514, 213-217. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13731 External Links Martin Thurner on Twitter Martin Thurner at Researchgate Martin Thurner at Google scholar Personal website Data products Carbon stock distribution (biomass) in boreal and temperate forests (Thurner et al., 2014) https://www.bgc-jena.mpg.de/geodb/projects/Home.php Sapwood biomass carbon in northern boreal and temperate forests (Thurner et al., in press) https://bolin.su.se/data/Thurner-2019 Conferences/Meetings/Workshops Convener of the EGU 2019 session BG2.12: Constraining present and future global vegetation dynamics and carbon stocks https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/session/32157
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