Publications

Reviewer for 

Earth Interactions, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Global Change Biology, Ecosystems, Trends in Plant Science, New Phytologist, Palaeo-3, Science and others.

Editor for

Biogeoscience (http://www.biogeosciences.net/ ) and Earth System Dynamics (http://www.earth-system-dynamics.net/)

(as of Aug 2020)

Six most important peer-reviewed articles

  • Functional Diversity of European natural forests (applying the LPJmL-FIT model): Thonicke K, Billing M, von Bloh W, Sakschewski B, Niinemets Ü, Peñuelas J, Cornelissen JHC, Onoda Y, van Bodegom P, Schaepman ME, Schneider FD, Walz A 2020. Simulating functional diversity of European natural forests along climatic gradients. J Biogeography, 47(5): 1069-1085, https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13809
  • Amazon forest resilience: Sakschewski B, von Bloh W, Boit A, Poorter L,Peña-Claros M, Heinke J, Joshi J, Thonicke K (2016), Resilience of Amazon forests emerges from plant trait diversity, Nature Climate Change, available online, doi:10.1038/nclimate3109
  • Reichstein M, Bahn M, Ciais P, Frank D, Mahecha MD, Seneviratne SI, Zscheischler J, Beer C, Buchmann N, Frank DC, Papale D, Rammig A, Smith P, Thonicke K, van der Velde M, Vicca S, Walz A, Wattenbach M 2013 Climate extremes and the carbon cycle. Nature, 500:287–295, doi 10.1038/nature12350
  • The SPITFIRE model publication: Thonicke K, Spessa A, Prentice IC, Harrison SP, Dong L & Carmona-Moreno C 2010. The influence of vegetation, fire spread and fire behaviour on biomass burning and trace gas emissions: results from a process-based model. Biogeoscience 7(6):1991-2011
  • The LPJ model publication: Sitch S, Smith B, Prentice IC, Arneth A, Bondeau A, Cramer W, Kaplan JO, Levis S, Lucht W, Sykes MT, Thonicke K, Venevsky S (2003), Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ Dynamic Global Vegetation Model. Global Change Biology 9, 161-185.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2486.2003.00569.x
  • The Glob-FIRM fire model publication: Thonicke K, Venevsky S, Sitch S, Cramer W (2001), The role of fire disturbance for global vegetation dynamics: coupling fire into a Dynamic Global Vegetation Model. Global Ecology & Biogeography 10, 661-677. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1466-822X.2001.00175.x

 

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