Participants

TERRABITES Chairs:

Christian Reick (Chair), MPI for Meteorology, Hamburg
Michael Berger (Vice Chair), ESA, Frascati

Coordination of Short Term Scientific Missions:

Antonello Provenzale, National Research Council, Italy (coordinator)
Camilla Geels, University Aarhus, Denmark (vice coordinator)
Tomasz Staszewski, Insitute for Ecology, Katowice, Poland (vice coordinator)

Working Group 1: Modeling Plant Functioning

Name Role in WG Affiliation
Almut Arneth Chair GeoBiosphere Science Centre, Lund University, Sweden
Frederic Baret Vice Chair Institut national de la recherche agronomique (INRA), France
Stephen Sitch Vice Chair School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK
Tuula Aaalto member Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland
Philippe Choler member UFR de Biologie, University Grnoble
Iolanda Filella member Centre de Recerca Ecologia i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF), Spain
Tiina Markkanen member Finnish Meteorological Instititute, Finland
Thomas Hickler member GeoBiosphere Science Centre, Lund University, Sweden
Josep Penuelas member CSIC-CREAF, Univ. Autonoma Barcelona, Spain
Colin Prentice member QUEST, Department of Earth Sciences, Univ. of Bristol, UK
Christophe Sturm member Dpt. of Geology and Geochemistry, Stockholm Univ., Sweden

Working Group 2: Modeling Carbon and Nutrient Cycling

Name Role in WG Affiliation
Ivan Janssens Chair University Antwerp, Department of Biology
Jed Kaplan Vice Chair Inst. of Env. Science and Techn., Ecole Polyt. Féd. de Lausanne
Jurate Aleinikoviene member Lithuanian Forest Research Institute
Camilla Geels member Dpt. of Atmosph. Environment, Univ. Aarhus, DK
Christoph Heinze member Univ. of Bergen, Geophys. Inst. & Bjerknes Centre for Clim. Res.
Theodore Karyotis member Nat. Agricultural Res. Found., Inst. for Soil Mapping, Greece
Jari Liski member Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Helsinki
Kristof van Oost member University Leuven, Belgium
Josep Penuelas member CSIC-CREAF, Univ. Autonoma Barcelona, Spain
Kim Pilegaard member Technical Univ. of Denmark, Nat. Lab. for Sustainable Energy
Peter Rayner member LSCE/IPSL, Saclay
Christian Reick member Res. Group Global Vegetation Modeling, MPI for Met., Hamburg
Caroline Roelandt member University of Bergen and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Norway

Working Group 3: Modeling Plant Ecology

Name Role in WG Affiliation
Peter van Bodegom Chair Systems Ecology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Victor Brovkin Vice Chair Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany
Michael Berger member European Space Agency (ESA), Italy
Alexander Chikalanov member Europe For Everyone (EFEO), Bulgaria
Will Cornwell member Systems Ecology, Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jens Kattge Member Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany
Mariyana Lyubenova member Dpt. of Ecology, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Ryan Pavlick member Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany
Josep Penuelas member CSIC-CREAF, Univ. Autonoma Barcelona, Spain
Antonello Provenzale member Inst. of Atmosph. Sci. and Climate, Nat. Res. Council, Italy
Geertje van der Heijden member Dpt. Animal and Plant Sci., Univ. Sheffield, UK
Miguel Zavala member Inst. Nac. de Invest. y Tecnol. Agraria y Aliment. (CIFOR), Spain

Working Group 4: Modeling Human Landuse

Name Role in WG Affiliation
Wolfgang Lucht Chair Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Karl-Heinz Erb Vice Chair Inst. of Social Ecology, Alpen Adria University, Vienna
Saulius Marcinkonis Vice Chair Lithuanian Institute of Agriculture
Jurate Aleinikoviene member Lithuanian Forest Research Institute
Sebastiaan Luyssaert Member Univ. of Antwerp, Dpt. of Biology, Plant and Veget. ecology
Jose Moreno Member Univ. of Valencia, Dpt. of Earth Physics and Thermodynamics