LSD Heatscatter with ggplot
I love the heatscatter() function from the LSD R package. I’ve even used it for my own publications (see Figs. 2 and 7 in Stocker …
Identifying drought impacts in a data-rich world
We live in a data-rich world. Satellites are collecting information about the state of the Earth surface in ever more fine-grained …
Contrasting CO2 emissions from different Holocene land-use reconstructions: Does the carbon budget add up?
Reliable reconstructions of past land-use change are essential to address several key challenges in understanding the role of humans in …
Why we need ecosystem manipulation experiments to reveal the coupled C-N system’s behaviour
In this blog, I’m going to argue why it is crucial to use observational data from ecosystem manipulation experiments (EME) for model …
The Fertility Question: How do soil nutrients influence the carbon cycle?
A general notion of “soil fertility” is commonly left unaccounted for in models of the terrestrial biosphere and has received …
The Big N Question: What controls rates of nitrogen fixation and losses?
To address this question, we have to start with the notion that, on the long term, N losses from ecosystems via gaseous and leaching …
