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Nov 17, 2015
Reflections on a three-decade legacy
The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) will come to a close at t...
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Nov 17, 2015
Use of and access to content on this website
Text and images produced by IGBP in house are free to use with appropriate credi...
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Nov 12, 2015
Bella Gaia performance and panel discussion to mark IGBP's closure
A musical performance by Bella Gaia will celebrate the achievements and legacy o...
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Towards Future Earth:
evolution or revolution?
During its three decades of existence, the International Geosphere-Biosphere Pro...
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A personal note on IGBP and the social sciences
Humans are an integral component of the Earth system as conceptualised by IGBP. João Morais recalls key milestones in IGBP’s engagement with the social sciences and offers some words of advice for Future Earth.
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IGBP and Earth observation:
a co-evolution
The iconic images of Earth beamed back by the earliest spacecraft helped to galvanise interest in our planet’s environment. The subsequent evolution and development of satellites for Earth observation has been intricately linked with that of IGBP and other global-change research programmes, write Jack Kaye and Cat Downy .
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Deltas at risk
Around 500 million people worldwide live on deltas, but many of the world's deltas are sinking due ...
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Climate change: the state of the science
A new data visualization released on the first day of the plenary negotiations at the UNFCCC’s clima...
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Climate Change:
the State of the Science
Videos now online from the Stockholm public forum to mark the launch of the IPCC's climate report, 2...
Publications
IGBP produces a range of publications: Yearly annual reports, the Global Change magazine and its predecessor the Global Change Newsletter, summaries for policymakers, various types of reports, and articles in peer-reviewed journals.
This page contains a sample of 50 publications - For complete lists from each category go to menu on the left hand side.
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November 19, 2015
European Lifestyles and Marine Ecosystems: Exploring challenges for managing Europe’s seas
Book | University of Plymouth Marine Institute (2007) Langmead O, McQuatters-Gollop A and Mee LD -
November 17, 2015
The coastal innovation paradox
Article | Sustainability (2013) Glavovic B C -
November 17, 2015
A global assessment of precipitation chemistry and deposition of sulfur, nitrogen, sea salt, base cations, organic acids, acidity and pH, and phosphorus
Article | Atmospheric Environment (2014) Veta R, Artz R S, Carou S, Shawa M, Roa C-U, Aasc W, Bakerd A, Bowersoxe Van C, Dentenerf F, Galy-Lacauxg C, Houa A, Plenaarh J J, Gilletti R, Fortij M C, Gromovk S, Haral H, Khodzherm T, Mahowaldn N M, Nickovica S, Raop P S P, Reidq N W -
November 17, 2015
HONO Emissions from Soil Bacteria as a Major Source of Atmospheric Reactive Nitrogen
Article | Science (2013) Oswald R, Behrendt T, Ermel M, Wu D, Su H, Cheng Y, Breuninger C, Moravek A, Mougin E, Delon C, Loubet B, Pommerening-Röser A, Sörgel M, Pöschl U, Hoffmann T, Andreae M O, Meixner F X and Trebs I -
November 17, 2015
Agent-based modelling of land use effects on ecosystem processes and services
Special Journal Edition | Journal of Land Use Science (2011) Polhill J G, Gimona A and Aspinall R (eds) -
November 17, 2015
Palaeoclimate, environmental sustainability and our future
Special Journal Edition | Climate of the Past (2006) Brigham-Grette J, Kiefer T, Wang P and Wanner H (eds) -
November 16, 2015
UNsustainable?
Article | Science (2012) Nobre, C -
November 16, 2015
Changes in land surface water dynamics since the 1990s and relation to population pressure
Special Journal Edition | Geophysical Research Letters (2012) Prigent C, Papa F, Aires F, Jimenez C, Rossow W B and Matthews E (eds) -
November 16, 2015
Uncertainties in gas-phase atmospheric iodine chemistry
Article | Atmospheric Environment (2012) Sommariva R, Bloss W J and von Glasow R -
November 16, 2015
Linear relation between convective cloud drop number concentration and depth for rain initiation
Special Journal Edition | Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres (2012) Freud E and Rosenfeld D (eds) -
November 16, 2015
Comparative studies of climate effects on polar and subpolar ocean ecosystems: progress in observation and prediction
Special Journal Edition | ICES Journal of Marine Science (2012) Drinkwater K F, Hunt Jr G L, Astthorsson O S and Head E J H (eds) -
November 16, 2015
Aquatic and marine systems
Special Journal Edition | Current Opinion in Environment Sustainability (2012) Perry I, Bundy A and Hofmann E (eds) -
November 16, 2015
End-to-end modeling: toward comparative analysis of marine ecosystem organization
Special Journal Edition | Progress in Oceanography (2012) Steele J H, Hofmann E E, Gifford D J and Aydin K (eds) -
November 16, 2015
Antarctic Ecosystems: An Extreme Environment in a Changing World
Book | Wiley (2012) Rogers A D, Johnston N M, Murphy E J and Clarke A (eds) -
November 16, 2015
Linking the historic 2011 Mississippi River flood to coastal wetland sedimentation
Article | Nature Geoscience (2012) Falcini F, Khan N S, Macelloni L, Horton B P, Lutken C B, McKee K L, Santoleri R, Colella S, Li C, Volpe G, D’Emidio M, Salusti A and Jerolmack D J -
November 16, 2015
Exploring uncertainties in the relationship between temperature, ice volume and sea level over the past 50 million years
Article | Reviews of Geophysics (2012) Gasson E, Siddall M, Lunt D J, Rackham O J L, Lear C H and Pollard D -
November 16, 2015
A review of 2000 years of paleoclimatic evidence in the Mediterranean
Article | Elsevier (2012) Luterbacher J, García-Herrera R, Akcer-On S, Allan R, Alvarez-Castro M C, Benito G, Booth J, Büntgen U, Cagatay N, Colombaroli D, Davis B, Esper J, Felis T, Fleitmann D, Frank D, Gallego D, Garcia-Bustamante E, Glaser R, Gonz.lez-Rouco J F, Goosse H, Kiefer T, Macklin M G, Manning S, Montagna P, Newman L, Power M J, Rath V, Ribera P, Riemann D, Roberts N, Silenzi S, Tinner W, Valero-Garces B, Schrier G V D, Tzedakis C, Vannière B, Vogt S, Wanner H, Werner J P, Willett G, Williams M H, Xoplaki E, Zerefos C S and Zorita E -
November 16, 2015
Historical drought trends revisited
Article | Nature (2012) Seneviratne S I -
November 16, 2015
Multiphase halogen chemistry in the tropical Atlantic Ocean
Article | Environmental Science & Technology (2012) Sommariva R and von Glasow, R -
November 16, 2015
Atmospheric chemistry of iodine
Article | Chemical Reviews (2012) Saiz-Lopez A, Plane J M C, Baker A R, Carpenter L J, von Glasow R, Gómez Martín J C, McFiggans G and Saunders R W -
November 16, 2015
Significant concentrations of nitryl chloride observed in rural continental Europe associated with the influence of sea salt chloride and anthropogenic emissions
Special Journal Edition | Geophysical Research Letters (2012) Philips G J, Tang M J, Thieser J, Brickwedde B, Schuster G, Bohn B, Lelieveld J and Crowley J N (eds) -
November 12, 2015
Assessing the impact of the sloping land conversion programme on rural sustainability in Guyuan, Western China
Article | Land Degradation & Development (2012) König H J, Zhen L, Helming, Uthes S, Yang L, Cao X and Wiggering H -
November 12, 2015
Coordination of nine policy briefs for the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, with international partners
Article | -
November 12, 2015
Change the approach to sustainable development
Article | Nature (2012) Stafford Smith, M -
November 12, 2015
Analyzing sustainable development goals
Article | Science (2012) Brito L -
November 12, 2015
Planetary stewardship in an urbanizing world: beyond city limits
Article | AMBIO (2012) Seitzinger, S P, Svedin U, Crumley C, Steffen W, Abdullah S A, Alfsen C, Broadgate W, Biermann F, Bondre N R, Dearing J A, Deutsch L, Dhakal S, Elmqvist T, Farahbakhshazad N, Gaffney O, Haberl H, Lavorel S, Mbow C, McMichael A J, de Morais J M, Olsson P, Pinho P F, Seto K C, Sinclair P, Stafford Smith M, Sugar L -
November 12, 2015
Challenges for land system science
Article | Land Use Policy (2012) Rounsevell M D A, Pedroli B, Erb K-H, Gramberger M, Gravsholt Busck A, Haberl H, Kristensen S, Kuemmerle T, Lavorel S, Lindner M, Lotze-Campen H, Metzger M J, Murray- Rust D, Popp A, P.rez-Soba M, Reenberg A, Vadineanu A, Verburg P H and Wolfslehner B -
November 12, 2015
Pushing the planetary boundaries
Article | Science (2012) Erb K-H, Haberl H, DeFries R, Ellis E C, Krausmann F and Verburg P H -
November 12, 2015
Urban land teleconnections and sustainability
Article | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2012) Seto K C, Reenberg A, Boone C G, Fragkias M, Haase D, Langanke T, Marcotullio P, Munroe D K, Olah B and Simon D -
November 12, 2015
Land system architecture: using land systems to adapt and mitigate global environmental change
Article | Global Environmental Change (2013) Turner II B L, Janetos A, Verburg P H and Murray A T -
November 12, 2015
Latitudinal distribution of reactive iodine in the Eastern Pacific and its link toopen ocean sources
Article | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2012) Mahajan A S, Gómez Martín J C, Hay T D, Royer S-J, Yvon-Lewis S, Liu Y, Hu L, Prados-Roman C, Ord..ez C, Plane J M C and Saiz-Lopez A -
November 12, 2015
BVOC-aerosol-climate interactions in the global aerosol-climate model CHAM5.5-HAM2
Article | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2012) Makkonen R, Asmi A, Kerminen V‐M, Boy M, Arneth A, Guenther A and Kulmala M -
November 12, 2015
Eddy covariance flux measurements with a weight-shift microlight aircraft
Article | Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (2012) Metzger S, Junkermann W, Mauder M, Beyrich F, Butterbach-Bahl K, Schmid H P and Foken T (2012) -
November 12, 2015
Hot days induced by precipitation deficits at the global scale
Article | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2012) Mueller B and Seneviratne S I -
November 12, 2015
Global changes in extreme events: regional and seasonal dimension
Article | Climatic Change (2012) Orlowsky B and Seneviratne S I -
November 12, 2015
Asymmetric European summer heat predictability from wet and dry southern winters and springs
Article | Nature Climate Change (2012) Quesada B, Vautard R, Yiou P, Hirschi M and Seneviratne S I -
November 12, 2015
Watertable height and microtopography control biogeochemical cycling in an Arctic coastal tundra ecosystem
Article | Biogeosciences (2012) Lipson D A, Zona D, Raab T K, Bozzolo F, Mauritz M and Oechel W C -
November 12, 2015
Cloud condensation nuclei production associated with atmospheric nucleation: a synthesis based on existing literature and new results
Article | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2012) Kerminen V-M, Paramonov M, Anttila T, Riipinen I, Fountoukis C, Korhonen H, Asmi E, Laakso L, Lihavainen H, Swietlicki E, Svenningsson B, Asmi A, Pandis S N, Kulmala M and Petäjä, T -
November 11, 2015
Within-plant isoprene oxidation confirmed by direct emissions of oxidation products methyl vinyl ketone and methacrolein
Article | Global Change Biology (2012) Jardine K, Monson R, Abrell L, Saleska S, Arneth A, Jardine A, Karl T, Fares S, Goldstein A, Loreto F, Huxman T E, Artaxo P and Ishida F -
November 11, 2015
Determining robust impacts of land‐use-induced land cover changes on surface climate over North America and Eurasia: results from the first set of LUCID experiments
Article | Journal of Climate (2012) de Noblet-Ducoudr. N, Boisier J-P, Pitman A, Bonan G B, Brovkin V, Cruz F, Delire C, Gayler V, van den Hurk B J J M, Lawrence P J, van der Molen M K, Müller C, Reick C H, Strengers B J and Voldoire A -
November 11, 2015
Evaluating litter decomposition in earth system models with long-term litterbag experiments: an example using the Community Land Model version 4 (CLM4)
Article | Global Change Biology (2012) Bonan G B, Hartman M D, Parton W J and Wieder W R -
November 11, 2015
Ecosystem photosynthesis inferred from carbonyl sulfide flux measurements
Article | Nature Geoscience (2013) Asaf D, Rotenberg E, Tatarinov T, Dicken U, Montzka S A and Yakir D -
November 11, 2015
Pathways between primary production and fisheries yields of large marine ecosystems
Article | Plos ONE (2012) Friedland K D, Stock C, Drinkwater K F, Link J, Leaf R, Shank B, Rose J, Pilskaln C H and Fogarty M -
November 11, 2015
EPOCA data management activities: a summary
Article | Journal (2012) Nisumaa A-M, Schlitzer R, Hansson L and Gattuso J-P -
November 11, 2015
Small changes in pH have direct effects on marine bacterial community composition: a microcosm approach
Article | Plos ONE (2012) Krause E, Wichels A, Giménez L, Lunau M, Schilhabel M B and Gerdts G -
November 11, 2015
Detecting regional anthropogenic trends in ocean acidification against natural variability
Article | Nature Climate Change (2012) Friedrich T, Timmermann A, Abe-Ouchi A, Bates N R, Chikamoto M O, Church M J, Dore J E, Gledhill D K, González-Dávila M, Heinemann M, Ilyina T, Jungclaus J H, McLeod E, Mouchet A and Santana-Casiano J M -
November 11, 2015
Potential for top-down control on tropical tunas based on size structure of predator-prey interactions
Article | Marine Ecology Progress Series (2012) Hunsicker M E, Olson R J, Essington T E, Maunder M N, Duffy L M and Kitchell J F -
November 11, 2015
Spatiotemporal variability and long-term trends of ocean acidification in the California Current System
Article | Biogeosciences (2013) Hauri C, Gruber N, Vogt M, Doney S C, Feely R A, Lachkar Z, Leinweber A, McDonnell A M P, Munnich M and Plattner G-K -
November 11, 2015
Rapid progression of ocean acidification in the California Current System
Article | Science (2012) Gruber N, Hauri C, Lachkar Z, Loher D, Frölicher T and Plattner G-K -
November 11, 2015
Assembly rules for aggregate-species production models: simulations in support of management strategy evaluation
Article | Marine Ecology Progress Series (2012) Gaichas S, Gamble R, Fogarty M, Benoît H, Essignton T, Fu C, Koen-Alonso M, Link J
IGBP closed at the end of 2015. This website is no longer updated.
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Global Change Magazine No. 84
This final issue of the magazine takes stock of IGBP’s scientific and institutional accomplishments as well as its contributions to policy and capacity building. It features interviews of several past...
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Global Change Magazine No. 83
This issue features a special section on carbon. You can read about peak greenhouse-gas emissions in China, the mitigation of black carbon emissions and the effect of the 2010-2011 La Niña event on gl...
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