Dr Marko Scholze

Research summary

My present research field can be described broadly as the dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems, including carbon cycling, and their interactions with the climate system. In particular, I am interested in how the terrestrial biosphere and terrestrial carbon fluxes respond to changes in climate on various time scales such as interannual variability, future global warming but also paleo glacial-interglacial transitions. An important aspect of this research is to quantify the anthropogenic perturbation on the carbon cycle and with it the detection of measures to mitigate climate change. To this end, I am using observational data and data assimilation techniques to optimise ...

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Selected publications

• Ziehn, T, Kattge, J, Knorr, W & Scholze, M 2011, ‘Improving the predictability of global CO2 assimilation rates under climate change’. Geophysical Research Letters, vol 38.
• Scholze, M 2011, ‘A risk analysis for world ecosystems under future climate change’. in: K Richardson, W Steffen, D Liverman (eds) Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions. Cambridge University Press

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Recent publications

• Ciais, P, Tagliabue, A, Cuntz, M, Bopp, L, Scholze, M, Hoffmann, G, Lourantou, A, Harrison, S, Prentice, I, Kelly, DJ, Koven, C & Piao, S 2012, ‘Large inert carbon pool in the terrestrial biosphere during the last glacial maximum’. Nature Geosciences.
• Rayner, PJ, Koffi, E, Scholze, M, Kaminski, T & Dufresne, J 2011, ‘Constraining predictions of the carbon cycle using data’. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, vol 369., pp. 1955 - 1966

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