Spezielle Botanik und Funktionelle Biodiversität

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  • Bassi L, Hennecke J, Albracht C, Solbach MC, Rai A, Pinheiro Alves de Souza Y, Fox A, Zeng M, Döll S, Doan VC, Richter R, Kahl A, von Sivers L, Winkler L, Eisenhauer N, Meyer ST, van Dam NM, Weigelt A (2025) Plant species richness promotes the decoupling of leaf and root defence traits while species-specific responses in physical and chemical defenses are rare. New Phytologist. DOI: 10.1111/nph.20434
  • Hennecke J, Bassi L, Albracht C, Amytas A, Bergmann J, Eisenhauer N, Fox A, Heimbold L, Heintz-Buschart A, Kuyper TW, Lange M, Pinheiro Alves de Souza Y, Rai A, Solbach MD, Mommer L, Weigelt A (2025) Plant species richness and the root economics space drive soil fungal communities. Ecology Letters, 28,1, e70032,2025, DOI: 10.1111/ele.70032.
  • Lenk, A.; Waha, S.; Wirth, C. (2025) Elevated tree mortality as a regeneration niche for oak? Testing different management approaches in a meliorated floodplain forest. Forest Ecology and Management. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2025.122678
     

  • Albracht C, Solbach MD, Hennecke J, Bassi L, van der Ploeg GR, Eisenhauer N, Weigelt A, Buscot F, Heintz-Buschart A (2024) Common soil history is more important than plant history for arbuscular mycorrhizal community assembly in an experimental grassland diversity gradient. Biology and Fertility of Soils,1-16, DOI:10.1007/s00374-024-01821-0.
  • Buchner, D., Sinclair, J.S., Ayasse, M., Beermann, A.J., Buse, J., Dziock, F., Enss, J., Frenzel, M., Hörren, T., Li, Y., Monaghan, M.T., Morkel, C., Müller, J., Pauls, S.U., Richter, R., Scharnweber, T., Sorg, M., Stoll, S., Twietmeyer, S.,  Weisser, W.W., Wiggering, B., Wilmking, M., Zotz, G., Gessner, M.O., Haase, P., Leese, F. (2025). Upscaling biodiversity monitoring: Metabarcoding estimates 31,846 insect species from Malaise traps across Germany. Molecular Ecology Resources, 25, e14023. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.14023
  • Eisenhauser N, Frank K, Weigelt A, Bartkowski B, Beugnon R, Liebal K, Mahecha M, Quaas M, Al-Halbouni D, Bastos A, Bohn FJ, de Brito MM, Denzler J, Feilhauer H, Fischer R, Fritsche I, Guimaraes-Steinicke C, Hänsel M, Haun DBM, Herrmann H, Huth A, Kalesse-Los H, Koetter M, Kolleck N, Krause M, Kretschmer M, Leitao PJ, Masson T, Mora K, Müller K, Peng J, Pöhlker M, Ratzke L, Reichstein M, Richter S, Rüger N, Sánchez-Parra B, Shadydeh M, Sippel S, Tegen I, Thrän D, Umlauft J, Wendisch M, Wolf K, Wirth C, Zacher H, Zaehle S, Quaas J (2024) A belowground perspective on the nexus between biodiversity change, climate change, and human well‐being. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, 3, 2, e212108,2024, DOI: 10.1002/sae2.12108.
  • Eisenhauer N, Mueller K, Ebeling A, Gleixner G, Huang Y, Madaj A-M, Roscher C, Weigelt A, Bahn M, Bonkowski M, et int, Forest Isbell (2024) The multiple-mechanisms hypothesis of biodiversity–stability relationships, Basic and Applied Ecology, 79 (153-166). DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2024.07.004.
  • Kattenborn, T., Wieneke, S., Montero, D.,Mahecha, M.D., Richter, R., Guimarães-Steinicke, C., Wirth, C., Ferlian, O., Feilhauer, H., Sachsenmaier. L., Eisenhauer, N., Dechant, B. (2024). Temporal dynamics in vertical leaf angles can confound vegetation indices widely used in Earth observations. Commun Earth Environ 5, 550. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01712-0
  • Lenk, A., Richter, R., Kretz, L., Wirth, C. (2024). Effects of canopy gaps on microclimate, soil biological activity and their relationship in a European mixed floodplain forest. Science of The Total Environment, 941 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173572
  • Mahecha MD, Bastos A, Bohn FJ, Eisenhauer N, Feilhauer H, Hickler T, Kalesse-Los H, Migliavacca M, Otto FEL, Peng J, Sippel S, Tegen I, Weigelt A, Wendisch M, Wirth C, Al-Halbouni D, et. int, Quaas J (2024) Biodiversity and climate extremes: known interactions and research gaps. Earth's Future, 12, 6, e2023EF003963, DOI: 10.1029/2023EF003963.
  • Sachsenmaier, L., Schnabel, F., Dietrich, P., Eisenhauer, N., Ferlian, O., Quosh, J., Richter, R., & Wirth, C. (2024). Forest growth resistance and resilience to the 2018–2020 drought depend on tree diversity and mycorrhizal type. Journal of Ecology, 112, 1787–1803. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14360
  • Sanaei A, van der Plas F, Chen H, Davids S, Eckhardt S, Hennecke J, Kahl A, Möller Y, Richter R, Schütze J, Wirth C, Weigelt A (2024) Tree growth is better explained by absorptive fine root traits than by transport fine root traits, bioRxiv, DOI: 10.1101/2024.03.19.585673.
  • Sinclair, J.S.,  Buchner, D., Gessner, M.O., Müller, J., Pauls, S.U., Stoll, S., Welti, E.A.R., Bässler, C., Buse, J., Dziock, F., Enss, J., Hörren, T., Künast, R., Li,Y., Marten, A., Morkel, C., Richter, R., Seibold, S., Sorg, M., Twietmeyer, S., Weis, D., Weisser, W., Wiggering, B., Wilmking, M., Zotz, G., Frenzel, M., Leese, F., Haas P. (2024). Effects of land cover and protected areas on flying insect diversity. Conservation Biology, e14425. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14425
  • Staude, I., Dehnhardt, A, Engelmann, R.A., Foos, E., Haase, D., Kaltofen, K., Marx, J., Meyer, J., Munscheck, M., Puhlmann, T., Richter, R., Witt, R., Bode, T., Wirth, C. (2024). Kleingärten als Modelle gesellschaftlicher Transformation für die Erhaltung und Förderung von Biodiversität. Zeitschrift für Naturschutz und Landschaftspflege, 12, 589-595. 10.19217/NuL2024-12-03 

     

  • Andraczek K, Weigelt A, Cantuarias CJB, Fischer M, Hinderling J, Prati D, Rauwolf E, van der Plas F (2023) Relationships between species richness and biomass production are context dependent in grasslands differing in land-use and seed addition. Scientific Reports,13,1,19663,2023, DOI:10.1038/s41598-023-47020-z.
  • Andraczek K, Weigelt A, Hinderling J, Kretz L, Prati D, van der Plas F (2023) Biomass removal promotes plant diversity after short-term de-intensification of managed grasslands. PlosOne 18(6): e0287039, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0287039.
  • Bassi, L., Hennecke, J., Albracht, C., Bröcher, M., Solbach, M. D., Schaller, J., Doan, V. C., Wagner, H., Eisenhauer, N., Ebeling, A., Meyer, S. T., van Dam, N. M., & Weigelt, A. (n.d.). Uncovering the secrets of monoculture yield decline: Trade-offs between leaf and root chemical and physical defence traits in a grassland experiment. Oikos, e10061. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10061
  • Bonato Asato AE, Wirth C, Eisenhauer N, Hines J (2023) On the phenology of soil organisms: Current knowledge and future steps. Ecology & Evolution. 10.1002/ece310022
  • Bucher SF, Uhde L, Weigelt A, Cesarz S, Eisenhauer N, Gebler A, Kyba C, Römermann C, Shatwell T, Hines J (2023) Artificial light at night decreases plant diversity and performance in experimental grassland communities. Philosophical Transactions Royal Society B, 378: 20220358. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0358.
  • Eisenhauer N, Ochoa-Hueso R, Huang Y, Barry KE, Gebler A, Guerra CA, Hines J, Jochum M, Andraczek K, Bucher S, Buscot F, Ciobanu M, Chen H, Junker R, Lange M, Lehmann A, Rillig M, Römermann C, Ulrich J, Weigelt A, Schmidt A, Türke M (2023) Ecosystem consequences of invertebrate decline. Current Biology, 33, 20, 4538-4547, e5, DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.09.012.
  • Gomarasca U, Migliavacca M, Kattge J, Nelson JA, Niinemets Ü, Wirth C, Cescatti A, Bahn M, Nair R, Acosta A, Arain A, Beloiu M, Black T, Bruun HH, Bucher F, Buchmann N, Carrara A, Byun C, Conte A, da Silva A, Duveiller G, Fares S, Ibrom A, Knohl A, Komac B, Limousin J, Lusk C, Mahecha M, Martini D, Minden V, Montagnani L, Mori A, Onoda Y, Penuelas J, Perez-Priego O, Poschlod P, Powell T, Reich P, Šigut L, van Bodegom P, Walther S, Wohlfahrt G, Wright I, Reichstein M. (2023) Leaf-level coordination principles propagate to the ecosystem scale. Nature Communications 14(1) 3948
  • Hennecke, J., Bassi, L., Mommer, L., Albracht, C., Bergmann, J., Eisenhauer, N., Guerra, C. A., Heintz-Buschart, A., Kuyper, T. W., Lange, M., Solbach, M. D., & Weigelt, A. (2023). Responses of rhizosphere fungi to the root economics space in grassland monocultures of different age. New Phytologist, 240(5), 2035–2049. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19261
  • Langer L, Burghardt M, Borgards R, Richter R, Wirth C (2023) The relation between biodiversity in literature and social and spatial situation of authors: Reflections on the nature–culture entanglement.  People and Nature. DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10551
  • Maciá-Vicente, J. G., Francioli, D., Weigelt, A., Albracht, C., Barry, K. E., Buscot, F., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Hennecke, J., Heintz-Buschart, A., Ruijven, J. van, & Mommer, L. (2023). The structure of root-associated fungal communities is related to the long-term effects of plant diversity on productivity. Molecular Ecology, 32(13), 3763–3777. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16956
  • Munschek M, Witt R, Kaltofen K, Segar J, Wirth C, Weigelt A, Engelmann R, Staude IR (2023) Putting conservation gardening into practice. Scientific Reports 13, Article number 12671. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39432-8.
  • Pacheco‐Labrador J, de Bello F, Migliavacca M, Ma X, Carvalhais N, Wirth C (2023) A generalizable normalization for assessing plant functional diversity metrics across scales from remote sensing. Methods in Ecology & Evolution. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X14163
  • Rüger N, Schorn ME, Kambach S, Chazdon RL, Farrior CE, Meave JA, Muñoz R, Breugel ML, Amissah L, Bongers F, Craven D, Hérault B, Jakovac CC, Norden N, Poorter L, van der Sande MT, Wirth C, Delgado D, Dent DH, DeWalt SJ, Dupuy JM, Finean B, Hall JS, Hernández‐Stefanoni JL, Lopez OR (2023) Global Ecology & Biogeography 32(6). DOI: 10.1111/geb.13669
  • Sanaei A, Herrmann H, Alshaabi L, Beck J, Ferlian O, Wadinga Fomba K, Haferkorn S, van Pinxteren M, Quaas J, Quosh J, Rabe R, Wirth C, Eisenhauer N, Weigelt A. (2023) Changes in biodiversity impact atmospheric chemistry and climate through plant volatiles and particles. Communications Earth & Environment 4(1), Article 455. doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01113-9  
  • Schellenberger Costa D, Bönisch G, Freiberg M, Govaerts R, Grenié M, Hassler M, Kattge J, Muellner-Riehl AN, Andrés BM, Winter M, Watson M, Zizka A, Wirth C (2023) The big for of plant taxonomy – a comparison of global checklists of vascular plant names. New Phytologist. 10.1111/nph.18961
  • Schuldt A, Liu X, Buscot F, Bruelheide H, Erfmeier A, He J-S, Klein A-M, Ma K, Scherer‐Lorenzen M, Schmid B, Scholten T, Tang Z, Trogisch S, Wirth C, Wubet T, Staab M (2023) Carbon–biodiversity relationships in a highly diverse subtropical forest. Global Change Biology. 10.1111/gcb.16697
  • Staude IR, Weigelt A, Wirth C (2023) Biodiversity change in light of succession theory. Oikos 11 e09883, doi: 10.1111/oik.09883
  • The Herbivory Variability Network. (2023). Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain within-population variability in herbivory. Science, 382(6671), 679–683. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adh8830
  • Van Der Plas, F., Hennecke, J., Chase, J. M., Van Ruijven, J., & Barry, K. E. (2023). Universal beta-diversity–functioning relationships are neither observed nor expected. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 38(6), 532–544. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.01.008
  • van der Plas F, Schröder-Georgi T, Weigelt A, Barry K, Meyer S, Alzate A, Barnard RL, Buchmann N, de Kroon H, Ebeling A, Eisenhauer N, Engels C, Fischer M, Gleixner G, Hildebrandt A, Koller-France E, Leimer S, Milcu A, Mommer L, Niklaus PA, Oelmann Y, Roscher C, Scherber C, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Scheu S, Schmid B, Schulze E-D, Temperton V, Tscharntke T, Voigt W, Weisser W, Wilke W, Wirth C (2023) Reply to: Plant traits alone are good predictors of ecosystem properties when used carefully. Nature Ecology & Evolution: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01957-y
  • Weigelt A, Mommer L, Andraczek K, Iversen CM, Bergmann J, Bruelheide H, Freschet GT, Guerrero-Ramirez NR, Kattge J, Kuyper TW, Lauglin DC, Meier IC, van der Plas F, Poorter H, Roumet C, van Ruijven J, Sabatini FM, Semchenko M, Sweeney CJ, Valverde-Barrantes O, York LM, McCormack ML (2023) The importance of trait selection in ecology. Nature, 618: 7967, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06148-8
  • Yu, W., Albert, G., Rosenbaum, B., Schnabel, F., Bruelheide, H., Connolly, J., Härdtle, W., von Oheimb, G., Trogisch, S., Rüger, N., Brose, U. (2023). Systematic Distributions of Interaction Strengths across Tree Interaction Networks Yield Positive Diversity–Productivity Relationships. Ecology Letters, ele.14338. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14338.

  • Babalou S, Schellenberger Costa D, Bruelheide H, Kattge J, Römermann C, Wirth C, König-Ries B (2022) iKNOW: A platform for knowledge graph construction for biodiversity. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 6:e93867.

  • Díaz S, Kattge J, Cornelissen HC, Wright IJ, Lavorel S, Dray S, Reu B, Kleyer M, Wirth C, et al. (2022) The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset. Scientific Data 9(1): 755 

  • Eisenhauer N, Bonfante P, Buscot F, Cesarz S, Guerra C, Heintz-Buschart A, Hines J, Patoine, G, Rillig M, Schmid B, Verheyen K, Wirth C, Ferlian O (2022) Biotic interactions as mediators of context-dependent biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships. Research Ideas and Outcomes 8, e85873.
  • Guimarães-Steinicke C., Weigelt A., Ebeling A., Eisenhauer N., Wirth C. Diversity Effects on Canopy Structure Change throughout a Growing Season in Experimental Grassland Communities. Remote Sens. 14, 1557. Online Artikel.

  • Haack N, Borges PA, Grimm-Seyfarth A, Schlegel M, Wirth C, Bernhard D, Brunk I, Henle K, Pereira HM (2022) Response of common and rare beetle species to tree species and vertical stratification in a floodplain forest. Insects 13:161.

  • Holz, H., Segar, J., Valdez, J., & Staude, I. R. (2022). Assessing extinction risk across the geographic ranges of plant species in Europe. Plants, People, Planet, 4(3), 303-311. Online Artikel.
  • Joswig J.S., Wirth C., Schuman M.C., Kattge J., Reu B., Wright I.J., Sippel S.D., Rüger N., Richter R., ..., Mahecha M.D. Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation. Nat Ecol Evol 6, 36–50. Online Artikel.

  • Kambach S, Condit R, Aguilar S, Bruelheide H, Bunyavejchewin S, Chang-Yang C-H, Chen Y-Y, Chuyong G, Davies SJ, Ediriweera S, Gunatilleke N, Gunatilleke S, Hubbell SP, Itoh A, Kenfack D, Kiratiprayoon S, Lin YC, Makana JR, Mohamad MB, Pongpattananurak N, Pérez R, Rodriguez LJV, Sun IF, Tan S, Thomas D, Thompson J, Uriarte M, Valencia R, Wirth C,  Wright SJ, Wu SH, Yamakura T, Yao TL, Zimmerman J, Rüger N (2022) Consistency of demographic trade-offs across 13 (sub) tropical forests. Journal of Ecology 110:1485–1496.

  • Kattenborn T, Richter R, Guimarães-Steinicke C, Feilhauer H, Wirth C (2022) AngleCam: Predicting the temporal variation of leaf angle distributions from image series with deep learning. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 00, 1–15, Online Artikel. 

  • Kretz L, Koll K, Seele-Dilbat C, van der Plas F, Weigelt A, Wirth C (2022) Effects of plant species identity override diversity effects in explaining sedimentation within vegetation in a flume experiment. International Review of Hydrobiology 107:108–116.

  • Langer L., Burghardt M., Borgards R., Köhring E., Wirth C. Digital Environmental Humanities – Zum Potential von „Computational and Literary BiodiversityStudies“ (CoLiBiS). In: Proceedings of the 8th annual conference of the DHd (Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum) Association, 82-86. Online Artikel.
  • Liu X, Huang Y, Chen L, Li S, Bongers FJ, Castro‐Izaguirre N, Liang Y, Yang B, Chen Y, Schnabel F, Tang T, Xue Y, Trogisch S, Staab M, Bruelheide H, Schmid B, Ma K (2022). Species richness, functional traits and climate interactively affect tree survival in a large forest biodiversity experiment. Journal of Ecology. Online Artikel.

  • Mahecha MD, Bastos A, Bohn FJ, Eisenhauer N, Feilhauer H, Hartmann H, Hickler T, Kalesse-Los H, Migliavacca M, Otto FE, Peng J, Quaas J, Tegen I, Weigelt A, Wendisch M, Wirth C (2022) Biodiversity loss and climate extremes—study the feedbacks. Nature 612:30–32.

  • Overbeck, G. E., Vélez-Martin, E., da Silva Menezes, L., Anand, M., Baeza, S., Carlucci, M. B., ... Staude, I. R., … & Müller, S. C. (2022). Placing Brazil's grasslands and savannas on the map of science and conservation. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 125687. Online Artikel. 

  • Pacheco-Labrador J, Migliavacca M, Ma X, Mahecha M, Carvalhais N, Weber U, Benavides R, O. Bouriaud O, Barnoaiea I, Coomes DA, Bohn FJ, Kraemer G, Heiden U, Huth A, Wirth C (2022) Challenging the link between functional and spectral diversity with radiative transfer modeling and data. Remote Sensing of Environment 280:113170.

  • Richter R, Ballasus H, Engelmann RA, Zielhofer C, Wirth C (2022) Tree species matter for forest microclimate regulation during the drought year 2018: Disentangling environmental drivers and biotic drivers. Scientific Reports, 12, 17559, Online Artikel.

  • Schulz-Zunkel C, Seele-Dilbat C, Anlanger C, Baborowski M, Bondar-Kunze E, Brauns M, Gapinski CM, Gründling R, von Haaren C, Hein T, Henle K, Junge FW, Kasperidus HD, Koll K, Kretz L, Rast G, Schnauder I, Scholz M, Schrenner H, Sendek A, Sproessig C, Tavares CN, Vieweg M, von Tümpling W, Weitere C, Wirth C, Wunsch T, Dziock F (2022) Effective restoration measures in river-floodplain ecosystems: Lessons learned from the ‘Wilde Mulde’project. International Review of Hydrobiology 107:9–21.

  • Seele-Dilbat C., Kretz L., Wirth C., 2022. Vegetation of natural and stabilized riverbanks and early effects of removal of bank fixation. Int. Rev. Hydrobiol. Online Artikel.
  • Segar, J., Callaghan, C. T., Ladouceur, E., Meya, J. N., Pereira, H. M., Perino, A., & Staude, I. R. (2022). Urban conservation gardening in the decade of restoration. Nature Sustainability, 1-8. Online Artikel.
  • Sporbert M, Jakubka D, Bucher SF, Hensen I, Freiberg M, Heubach K, König A, Nordt B, Plos C, Blinova I, Bonn A, Knickmann B, Koubek T, Linstädter A, Maskova T, Primack RB, Rosche C, Shah MA, Stevens AD, Tielbörger K, Träger S, Wirth C, Römermann C (2022) Functional traits influence patterns in vegetative and reproductive plant phenology–a multi-botanical garden study. New Phytologist 235:2199–2210.
  • Staude, I. R., Pereira, H. M., Daskalova, G. N., Bernhardt‐Römermann, M., Diekmann, M., Pauli, H., ... & Baeten, L. (2022). Directional turnover towards larger‐ranged plants over time and across habitats. Ecology letters, 25(2), 466-482. Online Artikel.

  • Wolf S, Mahecha MD, Sabatini FM, Wirth C, Bruelheide H, Kattge J, Moreno Martínez A, Mora K, T. Kattenborn T (2022) Citizen science plant observations encode global trait patterns. Nature Ecology & Evolution:1–10.

  • Zanne AE, Flores-Moreno H, Powell JR, Cornwell WK, Dalling JW, Austin AT, Classen AT, Eggleton P, Okada K, Parr CL, …,Kahl A, ... Richter R, … [31 more co–authors], Wirth C, Woods MJ, Zalamea P-C (2022) Termite sensitivity to temperature affects global wood decay rates. Science, 377, 1440–1444. Online Artikel.

  • Volf M, Volfová T, Seifert C L, Ludwig A, Engelmann R A, Jorge L R, Richter R, Schedl A, Weinhold A, Wirth C, van Dam N M. A mosaic of induced and non-induced branches promotes variation in leaf traits, predation and insect herbivore assemblages in canopy trees. Ecology Letters, 00, 1– 11. Online Article
  • Schnabel F, Purrucker S, Schmitt L, Engelmann RA, Kahl A, Richter R, Seele‐Dilbat C, Skiadaresis G & Wirth C. Cumulative growth and stress responses to the 2018–2019 drought in a European floodplain forest. Global Change Biology. Online Article.
  • Schnabel F, Liu X, Kunz M, Barry KE, Bongers FJ, Bruelheide H, Fichtner A, Härdtle W, Li S, Pfaff C-T, Schmid B, Schwarz JA, Tang Z, Yang B, Bauhus J, von Oheimb G, Ma K & Wirth C. Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment.  Science Advances, 7(51). Online Article. 
  • Sendek A, Kretz L, van der Plas F, Schulz-Zunkel C, Seele-Dilbat C, Vieweg M, Bondar-Kunze E, Weigelt A, Wirth C.  Topographical factors related to flooding frequency promote ecosystem multifunctionality of riparian floodplains. Ecological indicators. Vol. 132, 108312. Online Article.
  • Perino A, Pereira, H M, Felipe-Lucia M, Kim H, Kühl H, Marselle M R, Meya J N, Meyer C, Navarro L M, van Klink R, Albert G, Arratt C D, Bruelheide H, Cao Y, Chamoin A, Darbi M, Dornelas M, Eisenhauer N, Schnabel F, Staude I R, Wirth C, Essl F, … Bonn A. Biodiversity post-2020: Closing the gap between global targets and national-level implementation. Conservation Letters. 00 e12848. Online Article
  • Welti E A R., Zajicek P, Frenzel M, Ayasse M, Bornholdt T, Buse J, Classen A, Dziock F,  Engelmann R A, Englmeier J, Fellendorf M, Förschler MI, Fricke U, Ganuza C, Hippke M, Hoenselaar G, Kaus-Thiel A, Kerner J, Kilian D, Mandery K, Marten A, Monaghan MT, Morkel C, Müller J, Puffpaff S, Redlich S, Richter R, ...Haase P: Temperature drives variation in flying insect biomass across a German malaise trap network. Insect Conservation and Diversity, Online Article.
  • Hornick T, Richter A, Harpole W S, Bastl M, Bohlmann S, Bonn A, Bumberger J, Dietrich P, Gemeinholzer B, Grote R, Heinold B, Keller A, Luttkus ML, Mäder P, Motivans Švara E, Passonneau S, Punyasena SW, Rakosy D, Richter R, … Dunker, S: An integrative environmental pollen diversity assessment and its importance for the Sustainable Development Goals. Plants, People, Planet, Online Article.
  • Richter R, Hutengs C, Wirth C, Bannehr L, Vohland M: Detecting Tree Species Effects on Forest Canopy Temperatures with Thermal Remote Sensing: The Role of Spatial Resolution. Remote Sensing, Online Article.
  • Volf M, Weinhold A, Seifert CL, Holicová T, Uthe H, Alander E, Richter R, Salminen J-P, Wirth C, van Dam NM: Branch-Localized Induction Promotes Efficacy of Volatile Defences and Herbivore Predation in Trees. Journal of Chemical Ecology, Online Article.
  • Herrmann M, Geesink P, Richter R, Küsel K: Canopy Position Has a Stronger Effect than Tree Species Identity on Phyllosphere Bacterial Diversity in a Floodplain Hardwood Forest. Microbial Ecology, Online Article.  
  • Njovu H K, Steffan-Dewenter I, Gebert F, Schellenberger Costa D, Kleyer M, Wagner T, and Peters M K. 2021. Plant traits mediate the effects of climate on phytophagous beetle diversity on Mt. Kilimanjaro. Ecology 00( 00):e03521. Online Article.
  • Hietz P, Wagner K, Nunes Ramos F, Cabral J S, Agudelo C, Benavides A M, Cach-Pérez M J, Cardelús C L, Chilpa Galván N, Erickson Nascimento da Costa L, de Paula Oliveira R, Einzmann H J R, de Paiva Farias R, Guzmán Jacob V, Kattge J, Kessler M, Kirby C, Kreft H, Krömer T, Schellenberger Costa D, … Zotz G. Putting vascular epiphytes on the traits map. Journal of Ecology, 00, 1– 19. Online Article.
  • Schellenberger Costa D, Otto J, Chmara I, Bernhardt-Römermann M. Estimating historic N- and S-deposition with publicly available data – An example from Central Germany. Environmental Pollution, Vol. 292, Part B. Online Article.
  • Schmidt A, Hines J, Türke M, Buscot F, Schädler M, Weigelt A, Gebler A, Klotz S, Liu T, Reth S, Trogisch S, Roy J, Wirth C, and Eisenhauer N. (2021). The iDiv Ecotron—A flexible research platform for multitrophic biodiversity research. Ecology and Evolution, 11, 15174– 15190. Online Article.
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