Global human-made mass exceeds all living biomass

Developments in the MPI-M Earth System Model version 1.2 (MPI-ESM 1.2) and its response to increasing CO2

(2019) Thorsten Mauritsen et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Towards a quantitative view of the global ubiquity of biofilms

(2019) Yinon M. Bar-On et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

(2019) Lucas Stephens et al.   SCIENCE

The Community Land Model Version 5: Description of New Features, Benchmarking, and Impact of Forcing Uncertainty

(2019) David M. Lawrence et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

From resource extraction to outflows of wastes and emissions: The socioeconomic metabolism of the global economy, 1900–2015

(2018) Fridolin Krausmann et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Patterns of plant carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus concentration in relation to productivity in China’s terrestrial ecosystems

(2018) Zhiyao Tang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The biomass distribution on Earth

(2018) Yinon M. Bar-On et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The biomass and biodiversity of the continental subsurface

(2018) C. Magnabosco et al.   Nature Geoscience

Integrating Material Stock Dynamics Into Economy-Wide Material Flow Accounting: Concepts, Modelling, and Global Application for 1900–2050

(2018) Dominik Wiedenhofer et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass

(2017) Karl-Heinz Erb et al.   NATURE

The impact of alternative trait-scaling hypotheses for the maximum photosynthetic carboxylation rate (V cmax ) on global gross primary production

(2017) Anthony P. Walker et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Global socioeconomic material stocks rise 23-fold over the 20th century and require half of annual resource use

(2017) Fridolin Krausmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global Patterns and Trends for Non-Metallic Minerals used for Construction

(2016) Alessio Miatto et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY

The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene

(2016) C. N. Waters et al.   SCIENCE

Socioeconomic metabolism as paradigm for studying the biophysical basis of human societies

(2015) Stefan Pauliuk et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Increased influence of nitrogen limitation on CO2 emissions from future land use and land use change

(2015) Prasanth Meiyappan et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Defining the Anthropocene

(2015) Simon L. Lewis et al.   NATURE

Air quality and human health improvements from reductions in deforestation-related fire in Brazil

(2015) C. L. Reddington et al.   Nature Geoscience

Recent reversal in loss of global terrestrial biomass

(2015) Yi Y. Liu et al.   Nature Climate Change

Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production: Patterns, Trends, and Planetary Boundaries

(2014) Helmut Haberl et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

North American terrestrial CO2 uptake largely offset by CH4 and N2O emissions: toward a full accounting of the greenhouse gas budget

(2014) Hanqin Tian et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

Unravelling the architecture of functional variability in wild populations ofPolygonum viviparumL

(2013) Florian C. Boucher et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Impact of root water content on root biomass estimation using ground penetrating radar: evidence from forward simulations and field controlled experiments

(2013) Li Guo et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Environmental and community controls on plant canopy chemistry in a Mediterranean-type ecosystem

(2013) K. M. Dahlin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Methodology and Indicators of Economy-wide Material Flow Accounting

(2011) M. Fischer-Kowalski et al.   JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY

Biomass allocation to leaves, stems and roots: meta-analyses of interspecific variation and environmental control

(2011) Hendrik Poorter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests

(2011) Y. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

How do traits vary across ecological scales? A case for trait-based ecology

(2010) Julie Messier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Growth in global materials use, GDP and population during the 20th century

(2009) Fridolin Krausmann et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS