A Green Planet Versus a Desert World: Estimating the Maximum Effect of Vegetation on the Land Surface Climate

A Green Planet versus a Desert World: Estimating the Effect of Vegetation Extremes on the Atmosphere

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A basic introduction to the thermodynamics of the Earth system far from equilibrium and maximum entropy production

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A global distribution of biodiversity inferred from climatic constraints: results from a process-based modelling study

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A multi-model analysis of risk of ecosystem shifts under climate change

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A simple explanation for the sensitivity of the hydrologic cycle to surface temperature and solar radiation and its implications for global climate change

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A thermodynamic approach to link self-organization, preferential flow and rainfall–runoff behaviour

A thermodynamic formulation of root water uptake

A topographic index explaining hydrological similarity by accounting for the joint controls of runoff formation

Advancing catchment hydrology to deal with predictions under change

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An explanation for the different climate sensitivities of land and ocean surfaces based on the diurnal cycle

Applying the concept of "energy return on investment" to desert greening of the Sahara/Sahel using a global climate model

Are there multiple steady states in the long-term carbon cycle?

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Assessing the role of deep rooted vegetation in the climate system with model simulations: mechanism, comparison to observations and implications for Amazonian deforestation

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Belowground Consequences of Vegetation Change and Their Treatment in Models

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Beyond Gaia: Thermodynamics of Life and Earth System Functioning

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Carbon residence time dominates uncertainty in terrestrial vegetation responses to future climate and atmospheric CO2

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Climatic constraints on maximum levels of human metabolic activity and their relation to human evolution and global change

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Deep roots sustain amazonian rainforest in climate model simulations of the Last Ice Age

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Deep-rooted vegetation, Amazonian deforestation, and climate: results from a modelling study. GCTE/LUCC RESEARCH LETTER

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Diurnal land surface energy balance partitioning estimated from the thermodynamic limit of a cold heat engine

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Dominant controls of transpiration along a hillslope transect inferred from ecohydrological measurements and thermodynamic limits

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Earth as a Hybrid Planet: The Anthropocene in an Evolutionary Astrobiological Context

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Eco-hydrological versus supply-limited weathering regimes and the potential for biotic enhancement of weathering at the global scale

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Effects of Tropical Deforestation on Surface Energy Balance Partitioning in Southeastern Amazonia Estimated From Maximum Convective Power

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Energy states of soil water – a thermodynamic perspective on soil water dynamics and storage-controlled streamflow generation in different landscapes

Energy states of soil water – a thermodynamic perspective on storage dynamics and the underlying controls

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Entropy production of soil hydrological processes and its maximisation

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Estimates of the climatological land surface energy and water balance derived from maximum convective power

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Estimating global carbon uptake by lichens and bryophytes with a process-based model

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Estimating global nitrous oxide emissions by lichens and bryophytes with a process-based productivity model

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Estimating global nitrous oxide emissions by lichens and bryophytes with a process-based productivity model

Estimating impacts of lichens and bryophytes on global biogeochemical cycles

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Estimating maximum global land surface wind power extractability and associated climatic consequences

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Evaluating the Response of Diurnal Variations in Surface and Air Temperature to Evaporative Conditions across Vegetation Types in FLUXNET and ERA5

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Evaluating the effect of nutrient redistribution by animals on the phosphorus cycle of lowland Amazonia

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Evaluating the effect of nutrient redistribution by animals on the phosphorus cycle of lowland Amazonia

Evaluation of climate-related carbon turnover processes in global vegetation models for boreal and temperate forests

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Future no-analogue vegetation produced by no-analogue combinations of temperature and insolation

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Geoengineering ist keine Lösung

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Global Datasets of Rooting Zone Depth Inferred from Inverse Methods

Global NO and HONO emissions of biological soil crusts estimated by a process-based non-vascular vegetation model

Global NO and HONO emissions of biological soil crusts estimated by a process-based non-vascular vegetation model

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Global sensitivity of weathering rates to atmospheric CO2 under the assumption of saturated river discharge

Have wind turbines in Germany generated electricity as would be expected from the prevailing wind conditions in 2000-2014?

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How does the Earth system generate and maintain thermodynamic disequilibrium and what does it imply for the future of the planet?

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Jet stream wind power as a renewable energy resource: little power, big impacts

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Life as the major driver of planetary geochemical disequilibrium

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Maximum entropy production allows a simple representation of heterogeneity in semiarid ecosystems

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Maximum entropy production and general trends in biospheric evolution

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Maximum entropy production and the strength of boundary layer exchange in an atmospheric general circulation model

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Maximum entropy production in environmental and ecological systems

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Minimum dissipation of potential energy by groundwater outflow results in a simple linear catchment reservoir

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Modeling Root Water Uptake in Hydrological and Climate Models

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Morphological controls on surface runoff: an interpretation of steady-state energy patterns, maximum power states and dissipation regimes within a thermodynamic framework

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Non-equilibrium thermodynamics, maximum entropy production and Earth-system evolution

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Nonequilibrium thermodynamics and maximum entropy production in the Earth system

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On the dynamic nature of hydrological similarity

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Optimised rooting depth and its impacts on the simulated climate of an atmospheric general circulation model

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Optimized stomatal conductance and the climate sensitivity to carbon dioxide

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Optimized stomatal conductance of vegetated land surfaces and its effects on simulated productivity and climate

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Physical Limits of Solar Energy Conversion in the Earth System

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Quantifying available energy and anthropogenic energy use in the Mississippi River Basin

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Quantifying drivers of chemical disequilibrium: theory and application to methane in the Earth's atmosphere

Quantifying the biologically possible range of steady-state soil and surface climates with climate model simulations

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Quantifying the thermodynamic entropy budget of the land surface: is this useful?

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Reply to comment by V. Arora on “Optimized stomatal conductance of vegetated land surfaces and its effects on simulated productivity and climate”

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Significant contribution of non-vascular vegetation to global rainfall interception

Simulated geographic variations of plant species richness, evenness and abundance using climatic constraints on plant functional diversity

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Testing the Effect of Life on Earth's Functioning: How Gaian Is the Earth System?

The Effect of Elevation Bias in Interpolated Air Temperature Data Sets on Surface Warming in China During 1951-2015

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The Jena Diversity-Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (JeDi-DGVM): a diverse approach to representing terrestrial biogeography and biogeochemistry based on plant functional trade-offs

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The Maximum Entropy Production Principle: Its Theoretical Foundations and Applications to the Earth System

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The atmospheric circulation and states of maximum entropy production

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The hydrological sensitivity to global warming and solar geoengineering derived from thermodynamic constraints

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The influence of rooting depth on the simulated hydrological cycle of a GCM

The problem of the second wind turbine – a note on a common but flawed wind power estimation method

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The relative importance of seed competition, resource competition and perturbations on community structure

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The role of climate and plant functional trade-offs in shaping global biome and biodiversity patterns

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The role of plant functional trade-offs for biodiversity changes and biome shifts under scenarios of global climatic change

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The role of tectonic uplift, climate, and vegetation in the long-term terrestrial phosphorous cycle

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The strengths of r- and K-selection shape diversity-disturbance relationships

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Thermodynamic Limits of the Critical Zone and their Relevance to Hydropedology

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Thermodynamics and environmental constraints make the biosphere predictable – a response to Volk

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Thermodynamics, maximum power, and the dynamics of preferential river flow structures at the continental scale

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Towards understanding how surface life can affect interior geological processes: a non-equilibrium thermodynamics approach

Triggering a Climate Change Dominated “Anthropocene”: Is It Common among Exocivilizations?

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Two methods for estimating limits to large-scale wind power generation

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Uncertainty of runoff sensitivity to climate change in the Amazon River basin

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Understanding model biases in the diurnal cycle of evapotranspiration: a case study in Luxembourg

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Using phase lags to evaluate model biases in simulating the diurnal cycle of evapotranspiration: a case study in Luxembourg

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What limits photosynthesis? Identifying the thermodynamic constraints of the terrestrial biosphere within the Earth system

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Why is planet Earth so habitable?

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Wind speed reductions by large-scale wind turbine deployments lower turbine efficiencies and set low generation limits

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