The 2nd TERRABITES symposium is part of a sequence of bi-annual conferences. The symposium aims at providing a comprehensive overview on the current research on the terrestrial biosphere in an Earth System context, identifying knowledge gaps, and showing perspectives for future research in the field.

• Plant functioning
• Local and large scale carbon and nutrient cycling
• Plant ecology at different spatial and temporal scales
• All aspects of human land cover change
• Remote sensing techniques for observation of vegetation
• Trait data bases
• Techniques of biosphere modeling
• Climate manipulation experiments
• Vegetation-atmosphere interaction