891: Forest management in the Earth system

Principal investigator: Julia Pongratz

Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie (Community project)

Project abstract

Report 1/2015 to 12/2015
Report 1/2016 to 12/2016
Report 1/2017 to 12/2017
Report 1/2018 to 12/2018
Report 1/2019 to 12/2019
Report 1/2020 to 12/2020
Report 1/2021 to 12/2021
Report 1/2022 to 12/2022
Report 1/2023 to 12/2023
Report 1/2024 to 12/2024
Report 1/2025 to 12/2025
Report 1/2026 to 12/2026

Publications

• Rosan, T.M. et al., incl. Schwingshackl, C., Nützel, T.: The South American Greenhouse Gas Budget (2010-2024), under review.
• Bernardello, R. et al. incl. Gupta, S., Pongratz, P.: Response of the Earth system to large-scale CDR under future overshoot scenarios. A multi-model activity-driven exercise (in prep.)
• Gupta, S., Pongratz, J. et al.: Overshoot vulnerability hotspots: regional heat extremes and land–atmosphere feedbacks under plausible CDR portfolio pathways (in prep.)
• DOI: 10.5194/esd-17-1341-2026, Schwinger, J., Merfort, L., Bauer, N., Bernadello, R., Butenschön, M., Bourgeois, T., Gidden, M. J., Gupta, S., et al.: Assessing Earth system responses in mitigation scenarios with activity-driven simulation of carbon dioxide removal, Earth Syst. Dynam., 17, 1341–1363, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-17-1341-2026, 2026.
• DOI: 10.1038/s41612-025-01302-7, O’Sullivan, M., Friedlingstein, P., Sitch, S., Pongratz, J., Schwingshackl, C., Gasser, T., Ciais, P., Arora, V., Kato, E., Knauer, J., Monier, E., Nützel, T., Sun, Q., Yuan, W., Yue, X., Zaehle, S. (2026): An improved approach to estimate the natural land carbon sink. npj Clim Atmos Sci 9, 29. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-025-01302-7
• DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2026-2682, Jäschke, A. I. R., Obermeier, W. A., Schwingshackl, C., Amali, A. A., Pongratz, J., and Ganzenmüller, R.: Potential Natural Vegetation as Overlooked Determinant of Land-Use Change Flux Estimates, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2682. 2026.
• Huang, Y. et al., incl. Nützel, T.: Surge in net carbon release over Amazonia during the 2023–2024 drought revealed by spaceborne CO2 lidar measurements, under review.
• Ganzenmüller, R., Obermeier, W. A., and Pongratz, J.: Ecosystem carbon mapping reduces global land-use change flux estimates, under review.
• Friedlingstein, P., et al. (incl. Pongratz, J., Schwingshackl, C., and Nützel, T.): Global Carbon Budget 2026. Earth Syst. Sci. Data Disc. [preprint]
• DOI: 10.1029/2025JG009588, Endsley, K.A., Kimball, J.S., Reichle, R.H., Ardizzone, J.V., Kundig, T., Colligan, T., Heinke, J., Kato, E., Knauer, J., Ma, L., Nützel, T., Sun, Q., Yuan, W. (2026): A Global, Daily Carbon Budget for Terrestrial Ecosystems Constrained by Satellite Observations of Soil Moisture: The SMAP Level 4 Carbon Product at Ten Years. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 131, e2025JG009588. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JG009588
• DOI: 10.1038/s41561-025-01875-1, Dong, G., Jiang, F., Zhang, Yongguang, Ju, W., Piao, S., Ciais, P., Peters, W., Luijkx, I.T., Liu, J., Chevallier, F., Zeng, N., Tian, X., Maksyutov, S., Sonnentag, O., Arain, M.A., Barr, A.G., Huang, Y., Yue, C., Yuan, W., Liu, L., Fan, L., Yue, X., Xiao, J., Li, X., Sitch, S., Friedlingstein, P., O’Sullivan, M., Knauer, J., Arora, V., Kennedy, D., Ma, L., Thornton, P.E., Séférian, R., Nützel, T., Heinke, J., Sun, Q., Zaehle, S., Peylin, P., Kato, E., Alcock, H., Lecavalier, B., Wu, M., Wang, J., Zhang, L., Lv, G., Zhang, Yuanyuan, Zhao, D., Chen, J.M. (2026). Canadian net forest CO2 uptake enhanced by heat drought via reduced respiration. Nat. Geosci. 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-025-01875-1
• Chen, R. et al., incl. Nützel, T.: Forest-area and age biases distort model estimates of China’s forest biomass carbon stock and dynamics, under review.
• Bechon et al., in prep: Implementation of deadwood water dynamics equations based on in-situ measurements in the dynamic vegetation model FORMIND
• DOI: 10.5194/ bg-22-3547-2025, Brasika, I. B. M., Friedlingstein, P., Sitch, S., O'Sullivan, M., Duran-Rojas, M. C., Rosan, T. M., Goldewijk, K. K., Pongratz, J., Schwingshackl, C., Chini, L. P., and Hurtt, G. C. (2025): Uncertainties in carbon emissions from land use and land cover change in Indonesia, Biogeosciences, 22, 3547–3561, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-3547-2025.
• DOI: 10.1017/eds.2025.18., Young D, Francon O, Meyerson E, Schwingshackl C, Bieker J, Cunha H, et al., (2025): Discovering effective policies for land-use planning with neuroevolution. Environmental Data Science, https://doi.org/10.1017/eds.2025.18.
• O’Sullivan, M., et al. (incl. Pongratz, J., Schwingshackl, C., Nützel, T.): An improved approach to estimate the natural land carbon sink, npj Clim and Atm Science, in review.
• Obermeier, W. A., Schwingshackl, C., Ganzenmüller, R., Grassi, G., Heinrich, V., Luijkx, I. T., Bastos, A., Ciais, P.; Sitch, S., Pongratz, J.: Differences and uncertainties in land-use CO2 flux estimates, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, accepted.
• DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101392, Ganzenmüller, R., Obermeier, W. A., Bultan, S., Spawn-Lee, S. A., Zabel, F., & Pongratz, J. (2025): Humans have depleted global terrestrial carbon stocks by a quarter. One Earth, 8(8).
• Friedlingstein, P., et al. (incl. Pongratz, J., Schwingshackl, C., Nützel, T.): Global Carbon Budget 2025, in preparation for Earth System Science Data.
• DOI: 10.5194/essd-17-965-2025, Friedlingstein, P., et al. (incl. Pongratz, J., Schwingshackl, C., Nützel, T.), (2025): Global Carbon Budget 2024, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 17, 965–1039.
• Dong, G., et al. (incl. Nützel, T.): The 2023 Canadian heat-drought enhances net forest CO2 uptake via reduced respiration, accepted in Nat Geoscience.
• DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02144-0, Cabernard, L., Schwingshackl, C., Pfister, S. Hellweg, S., (2025): Rising greenhouse gas emissions embodied in the global bioeconomy supply chain. Commun Earth Environ 6, 172, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02144-0.
• DOI: 10.1038/s41612-025-01146-1, Banerjee, A., Gupta, S. et al., (2025): Recent changes in spatiotemporal patterns of heat extremes in South Asia. npj Clim Atmos Sci 8, 293, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-025-01146-1.
• DOI: 10.5194/esd-16-803-2025, Amali, A. A., Schwingshackl, C., Ito, A., Barbu, A., Delire, C., Peano, D., Lawrence, D. M., Wårlind, D., Robertson, E., Davin, E. L., Shevliakova, E., Harman, I. N., Vuichard, N., Miller, P. A., Lawrence, P. J., Ziehn, T., Hajima, T., Brovkin, V., Zhang, Y., Arora, V. K., and Pongratz, J.: Biogeochemical versus biogeophysical temperature effects of historical land-use change in CMIP6, Earth Syst. Dynam., 16, 803–840, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-16-803-2025, 2025.
• Friedlingstein, P., et al. (incl. Pongratz, J., Schwingshackl, C., Nützel, T.): Global Carbon Budget 2024, in preparation for Earth System Science Data.
• DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/F85QJ, Smith, S. M., Geden, O., Gidden, M. J., Lamb, W. F., Nemet, G. F., Minx, J. C., Buck, H., Burke, J., Cox, E., Edwards, M. R., Fuss, S., Johnstone, I., Müller-Hansen, F., Pongratz, J., Probst, B. S., Roe, S., Schenuit, F., Schulte, I., Vaughan, N. E. (eds.), 2024: The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal 2024 - 2nd Edition. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/F85QJ.
• DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01205-0, Rosan, T.M., et al. (incl. Pongratz, J., Schwingshackl, C., Falk, S.), 2024: Synthesis of the land carbon fluxes of the Amazon region between 2010 and 2020. Commun Earth Environ 5, 46. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01205-0.
• DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IOZXSKB, Pongratz, J., Smith, S. M., Schwingshackl, C., Dayathilake, L., Gasser, T., Grassi, G., Pilli, R., 2024: Chapter 7: Current levels of CDR. in The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal 2024 – 2nd Edition (eds. Smith, S. M. et al.). https://www.stateofcdr.org, doi:10.17605/OSF.IOZXSKB.
• DOI: 10.5194/essd-16-605-2024, Obermeier, W. A., Schwingshackl, C., Bastos, A., Conchedda, G., Gasser, T., Grassi, G., Houghton, R. A., Tubiello, F. N., Sitch, S., and Pongratz, J (2024).: Country-level estimates of gross and net carbon fluxes from land use, land-use change and forestry, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 16, 605–645, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-605-2024.
• Gidden, M. J. et al.  (incl. Gupta, S., Pongratz, J.): Forcing datasets for earth system models of emissions-driven temperature stabilization and overshoot scenarios including multiple carbon dioxide removal methods, in preparation.
• DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2024-1451, Egerer, S., Falk, S., Mayer, D., Nützel, T., Obermeier, W., and Pongratz, J.: How to measure the efficiency of terrestrial carbon dioxide removal methods, EGUsphere [preprint]
• DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51126-x, Dorgeist, L., Schwingshackl, C., Bultan, S. et al., 2024: A consistent budgeting of terrestrial carbon fluxes. Nat Commun 15, 7426. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51126-x.
• Ganzenmüller, R, Obermeier, W. A., Bultan S., Spawn-Lee, S. A., Zabel, F., Pongratz, J.: Humans have depleted global terrestrial carbon stocks by a quarter, One Earth, in review.
• DOI: 10.5194/essd-15-1093-2023, Grassi, G., Schwingshackl, C., Gasser, T., Houghton, R. A., Sitch, S., Canadell, J. G., Cescatti, A., Ciais, P., Federici, S., Friedlingstein, P., Kurz, W. A., Sanz Sanchez, M. J., Abad Viñas, R., Alkama, R., Bultan, S., Ceccherini, G., Falk, S., Kato, E., Kennedy, D., Knauer, J., Korosuo, A., Melo, J., McGrath, M. J., Nabel, J. E. M. S., Poulter, B., Romanovskaya, A. A., Rossi, S., Tian, H., Walker, A. P., Yuan, W., Yue, X., and Pongratz, J.: Harmonising the land-use flux estimates of global models and national inventories for 2000–2020, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 1093–1114
• DOI: 10.5194/esd-14-767-2023, Kou-Giesbrecht et al. (2023) 'Evaluating nitrogen cycling in terrestrial biosphere models: a disconnect between the carbon and nitrogen cycles'
• DOI: 10.5194/essd-14-4811-2022, Friedlingstein, P. et al. (2022) ‘Global Carbon Budget 2022’, Earth System Science Data, 14(11), pp. 4811–4900
• DOI: in Review, Ganzenmüller, R, Obermeier, W. A., Bultan S., Spawn-Lee, S. A., Zabel, F., Pongratz, J.: The terrestrial carbon deficit, Nature Geosciences
• DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02041-1, Jones, M.W., Peters, G.P., Gasser, T. et al. National contributions to climate change due to historical emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide since 1850. Sci Data 10, 155 (2023)
• DOI: 10.5194/essd-2023-281, bermeier, W. A., Schwingshackl, C., Bastos, A., Conchedda, G., Gasser, T., Grassi, G., Houghton, R. A., Tubiello, F. N., Sitch, S., and Pongratz, J.: Country-level estimates of gross and net carbon fluxes from land use, land-use change and forestry, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss. [preprint]
• DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/W3B4Z, Smith, S. M., Geden, O., Nemet, G., Gidden, M., Lamb, W. F., Powis, C., Bellamy, R., Callaghan, M., Cowie, A., Cox, E., Fuss, S., Gasser, T., Grassi, G., Greene, J., Lück, S., Mohan, A., Müller-Hansen, F., Peters, G., Pratama, Y., Repke, T., Riahi, K., Schenuit, F., Steinhauser, J., Strefler, J., Valenzuela, J. M., and Minx, J. C. (2023). The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal -1st Edition. The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal.
• DOI: https://essd.copernicus.org/preprints/essd-2023-409/, Friedlingstein, P. et al. (2023) ‘Global Carbon Budget 2023’, Earth System Science Data. [Pre-print]
• DOI: 10.5194/essd-15-4295-2023, McGrath, M. J., Petrescu, A. M. R., Peylin, P., Andrew, R. M., Matthews, B., Dentener, F., ... & Walther, S. (2023). The consolidated European synthesis of CO 2 emissions and removals for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990–2020. Earth System Science Data, 15(10), 4295-4370
• DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-00893-4, Winkler, K., Yang, H., Ganzenmüller, R., Fuchs, R., Ceccherini, G., Duveiller, G., ... & Ciais, P. (2023). Changes in land use and management led to a decline in Eastern Europe’s terrestrial carbon sink. Communications Earth & Environment, 4(1), 237
• DOI: 10.5194/essd-14-1917-2022, Friedlingstein, P. et al. (incl. Pongratz, J., Schwingshackl, C., Falk, S.) (2022). Global Carbon Budget 2022. Earth System Science Data
• Chini, L., Hurtt, G., Sahajpal, R., Frolking, S., Klein Goldewijk, K., Sitch, S., R Ganzenmüller, L Ma, L Ott, J Pongratz, & Poulter, B. (2021). Land-use harmonization datasets for annual global carbon budgets. Earth System Science Data, 13(8), 4175-4189.
• Ganzenmüller, R., Bultan, S., Winkler, K., Fuchs, R., Zabel, F., & Pongratz, J. (2022). Land-use change emissions based on high-resolution activity data substantially lower than previously estimated. Environmental Research Letters, 17(6), 064050.
• Kondo, M., Sitch, S., Ciais, P., Achard, F., Kato, E., Pongratz, J., ... & Zaehle, S. (2022). Are Land‐Use Change Emissions in Southeast Asia Decreasing or Increasing?. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 36(1), e2020GB006909.
• Lamb, W., Giacomo Grassi et al., incl Pongratz, J.: UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2022.
• Nützel, T., Nabel, J., Hansis, E., Holube, K. & Pongratz, J. (in prep.). More realistic parametrisations of wood products and slash lead to changes in the regional distribution of LULCC emissions in a bookkeeping model.
• Schwingshackl, Clemens; Wolfgang Obermeier, Selma Bultan, Giacomo Grassi, Josep G. Canadell, Pierre Friedlingstein, Thomas Gasser, Richard A. Houghton, Werner A. Kurz, Stephen Sitch, Julia Pongratz (in revision). Separating natural and land-use CO2 fluxes at country-level to reconcile land-based mitigation estimates. Future Earth.
• O'Sullivan, M., Pierre Friedlingstein, Stephen Sitch, Peter Anthoni, Almut Arneth, ...Julia Nabel, Julia Pongratz et al. (in press.). Process-oriented analysis of dominant sources of uncertainty in the land carbon sink. Nature Comm.
• Winkler, K., Hui Yang, Raphael Ganzenmüller, Richard Fuchs, Guido Ceccherini, Grégory Duveiller, Giacomo Grassi, Julia Pongratz, Ana Bastos, Anatoly Shvidenko, Arnan Araza, Martin Herold, Philippe Ciais (subm.). Decline of the Eastern European land carbon sink – analysing the contribution of land use, management and environmental change. Nature Climate Change
• DOI: 10.1029/2021JG006525, Wey, H., Pongratz, J., Nabel, J. E. M. S., & Naudts, K. (2022). Effects of Increased Drought in Amazon Forests Under Climate Change: Separating the Roles of Canopy Responses and Soil Moisture. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 127(3).
• Dohner, Julia L.; Benjamin Birner, Armin Schwartzman, Julia Pongratz, and Ralph F. Keeling (2022). Using the atmospheric CO2 growth rate to constrain the CO2 flux from land use and land cover change since 1900. Global Change Biology.
• DOI: 10.5194/gmd-15-1289-2022, Ciais, P., Ana Bastos, Frédéric Chevallier, Ronny Lauerwald, Ben Poulter, ... Julia Pongratz et al., Definitions and methods to estimate regional land carbon fluxes for the second phase of the REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes Project (RECCAP-2) (2022). Geoscientific Model Development 15(3): 1289-1316,
• DOI: 10.5194/essd-2022-245, Ganzenmüller, R., Bultan, S., Winkler, K., Fuchs, R., Zabel, F., & Pongratz, J. (2022). Land-use change emissions based on high-resolution activity data substantially lower than previously estimated. Environmental Research Letters, 17(6), 064050. Grassi, Giacomo; Clemens Schwingshackl, ... Julia Pongratz (2022). Mapping land-use fluxes for 2001-2020 from global models to national inventories. Earth System Science Data Discussion,
• DOI: doi:10.1088/1748-9326/abfac1, Chen et al. 2021a. Five years of variability in the global carbon cycle: comparing an estimate from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 and process-based models. Environmental Research Letters, 16: 054041.
• DOI: doi:10.17617/2.3311475, Wey, H.-W. (2021). Impact of forest drought response on land-atmosphere interactions. PhD Thesis, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg.
• DOI: doi:10.1029/2020GB006613, O'Sullivan et al. 2020. Climate-driven variability and trends in plant productivity over recent decades based on three global products. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 34: e2020GB006613.
• DOI: doi:10.5194/esd-12-635-2021, Obermeier et al. 2021. Modelled land use and land cover change emissions - A spatio-temporal comparison of different approaches. Earth System Dynamics, 12, 635-670.
• DOI: doi:10.5194/acp-21-6663-2021, Chen et al. 2021b. Linking global terrestrial CO2 fluxes and environmental drivers: inferences from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 satellite and terrestrial biospheric models. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 21, 6663-6680.
• DOI: doi:10.5194/essd-12-3269-2020, Friedlingstein et al. 2020. Global carbon budget 2020. Earth System Science Data, 12, 3269-3340.
• Wang, K., ..., Nabel, J., et al., Causes of slowing‐down seasonal CO2 amplitude at Mauna Loa. Glob Change Biol.; 26: 4462– 4477 (2020).
• Yang, H., ..., Nabel, J., et al., Comparison of forest above-ground biomass from dynamic global vegetation models with spatially explicit remotely sensed observation-based estimates. Glob. Chage Biol., 26: 3997-4012 (2020).
• Nabel, J., Naudts, K. & Pongratz, J.. Accounting for forest age in the tile-based dynamic global vegetation model JSBACH4 (4.20p7; git feature/forests) – a land surface model for the ICON-ESM. Geoscientific Model Development, 13, 185-200 (2020).
• Friedlingstein, P., ... Pongratz, J., ... Nabel, J.E.M.S., et al. (submitted). Global Carbon Budget 2020, submitted to Earth Syst. Sci. Data.
• Collalti, A., ..., Nabel, J., Pongratz, J., et al., Forest production efficiency increases with growth temperature. Nat Commun 11, 5322 (2020).
• DOI: e2019GB006393, Bastos, A., ... Pongratz, J., ..., Nabel, J., et al., Sources of uncertainty in regional and global terrestrial CO2 exchange estimates. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 34: e2019GB006393, (2020).
• Pan, S., ..., Nabel, J. et al., Evaluation of global terrestrial evapotranspiration using state-of-the-art approaches in remote sensing, machine learning and land surface modeling. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 24, 1485-1509 (2020).
• DOI: doi:10.5194/acp-19-12361-2019, Bastos, A., … Nabel, J., et al. (2019). Contrasting effects of CO2 fertilization, land-use change and warming on seasonal amplitude of Northern Hemisphere CO2 exchange. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 19, 12361-12375.
• DOI: doi:10.1126/sciadv.aax1396, Yuan, W., …, Nabel, J., et al. (2019). Increased atmospheric vapor pressure deficit reduces global vegetation growth. Science Advances, 5: eaax1396
• DOI: doi 10.5194/gmd-2019-68, Nabel, J., Naudts, K. & Pongratz, J. (2019). Accounting for forest age in the tile-based dynamic global vegetation model JSBACH4 (4.20p7; git feature/forests) – a land surface model for the ICON-ESM. In open review for Geoscientific Model Development Discussions
• DOI: doi 10.5194/bg-2019-368, Jung, M., …, Pongratz, J., … Nabel, J.E.M.S., et al. (submitted). Scaling carbon fluxes from eddy covariance sites to globe: Synthesis and evaluation of the FLUXCOM approach. In open review for Biogeosciences
• Forzieri. G., … Pongratz, J., … Nabel, J.E.M.S., et al. (in press). Increased control of vegetation on terrestrial energy fluxes. Nature Climate Change.
• Friedlingstein, P., … Pongratz, J., … Nabel, J.E.M.S., et al. (submitted). Global Carbon Budget 2019, submitted to Earth Syst. Sci. Data.
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