Scientific publications
Changes amid constancy: flower and leaf microbiomes along land use gradients and between bioregions. Basic and Applied Ecology 50, 1-15. https://doi.org
Below‐ and aboveground traits explain local abundance, and regional, continental and global occurrence frequencies of grassland plants. Oikos 130 (1), 110-120. https://doi.org
Linear mixed models and geostatistics for designed experiments in soil science ‐ two entirely different methods or two sides of the same coin? European Journal of Soil Science 72 (1), 47-68. https://doi.org
TubeDB: An on-demand processing database system for climate station data. Computers & Geosciences 146: 104641. https://doi.org
Scientific publications
Animal-Mediated Ecosystem Process Rates in Forests and Grasslands are Affected by Climatic Conditions and Land-Use Intensity. Ecosystems. https://doi.org
Dispersal ability, trophic position and body size mediate species turnover processes: Insights from a multi‐taxa and multi‐scale approach. Diversity and Distributions, in press. https://doi.org
Heterogeneity-diversity relationships in sessile organisms: a unified framework. Ecology Letters 23 (1), 193-207. https://doi.org
An experimental test of the area–heterogeneity tradeoff. PNAS 117 (9), 4815-4822. https://doi.org
Root exudate composition of grass and forb species in natural grasslands. Scientific Reports 10: 10691. https://doi.org
Plant species richness increases with light availability, but not variability, in temperate forests understorey. BMC Ecology 20, 43. https://doi.org
Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services. PNAS 117 (45), 28140-28149. https://doi.org
Contrasting Responses of Protistan Plant Parasites and Phagotrophs to Ecosystems, Land Management and Soil Properties. Frontiers in Microbiology 11:1823. https://www.frontiersin.org
Soil organic matter mineralization as driven by nutrient stoichiometry in soils under differently managed forest stands. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 3:99. https://doi.org
Early stage root-associated fungi show a high temporal turnover, but are independent of beech progeny. Microorganisms 8 (2), 210. https://doi.org
Unraveling spatio‐temporal variability of arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi in a temperate grassland plot. Environmental Microbiology 22 (3), 873-888. https://doi.org
Heterogeneity–diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4, 1204–1212. https://doi.org
The results of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4, 1485–1494. https://doi.org
Effect of tree species mixing on stand structural complexity. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research 93 (1), 75–83. https://doi.org
Microbial metaproteome data from decayed beech dead wood. Data in Brief 29: 105285. https://doi.org
Drought boosts risk of nitrate leaching from grassland fertilisation. Science of The Total Environment 726, 137877. https://doi.org
Correlation of the abundance of bacteria catalyzing phosphorus and nitrogen turnover in biological soil crusts of temperate forests of Germany. Biology and Fertility of Soils. https://doi.org
Hybridization ddRAD-sequencing for population genomics of non-model plants using highly degraded historical specimen DNA. Molecular Ecology Resources 20 (5), 1228-1247. https://doi.org
Less is more: Effects of competition reduction and facilitation on intra-annual (basal area) growth of mature European beech. Trees 34, 17–36. https://doi.org
Changes in Chemical and Microbial Soil Parameters Following 8 Years of Deadwood Decay: An Experiment with Logs of 13 Tree Species in 30 Forests. Ecosystems. https://doi.org
Fungal and bacterial diversity patterns of two diversity levels retrieved from a late decaying Fagus sylvatica under two temperature regimes. Frontiers in Microbiology, in press. https://www.frontiersin.org
Influence of management intensity and environmental conditions on microbiota in biological soil crust and crust-free soil habitats of temperate forests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 144: 107761. https://doi.org
Soil and root nutrient chemistry structure root - associated fungal assemblages in temperate forests. Environmental Microbiology 22 (8), 3081-3095. https://doi.org
Ökosystemforschung: Pflanzenvielfalt fördert Stabilität von Nahrungsnetzen. Anliegen Natur 42 (1), 91-98
Integrating Key Insights of Sociological Risk Theory into the Ecosystem Services Framework. Sustainability 12, 6437. https://doi.org
Direct and indirect effects of forest management on tree-hole inhabiting aquatic organisms and their functional traits. Science of The Total Environment 704: 135418. https://doi.org
Stochastic dispersal rather than deterministic selection explains the spatio-temporal distribution of soil bacteria in a temperate grassland. Frontiers in Microbiology 11: 1391. https://doi.org
Can multi‐taxa diversity in European beech forest landscapes be increased by combining different management systems? Journal of Applied Ecology 57 (7), 1363-1375. https://doi.org
Resident and phytometer plants host comparable rhizosphere fungal communities in managed grassland ecosystems. Scientific Reports 10: 919. https://doi.org
Deriving Stand Structural Complexity from Airborne Laser Scanning Data—What Does It Tell Us about a Forest? Remote Sensing 12, 1854. https://doi.org
Drought survival is positively associated with high turgor loss points in temperate perennial grassland species. Functional Ecology 34 (4), 788-798. https://doi.org
Divergent drivers of the microbial methane sink in temperate forest and grassland soils. Global Change Biology, in press. https://doi.org
Effects of forest structure on the interaction between avian hosts, dipteran vectors and haemosporidian parasites. BMC Ecology 20: 47. https://doi.org
Bacterial colonization of minerals in grassland soils is selective and highly dynamic. Environmental Microbiology 22 (3), 917-933. https://doi.org
Terricaulis silvestris gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel prosthecate, budding member of the family Caulobacteraceae isolated from forest soil. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (9), 4966-4977. https://doi.org
Drivers of the composition of active rhizosphere bacterial communities in temperate grasslands. The ISME Journal 14, 463–475. https://doi.org
Alkaloid Concentrations of Lolium perenne Infected with Epichloë festucae var. lolii with Different Detection Methods—A Re-Evaluation of Intoxication Risk in Germany? Journal of Fungi 6 (3), 177. https://doi.org
Forest habitat parameters influence abundance and diversity of cadaver-visiting dung beetles in Central Europe. Royal Society Open Science 7 (3): 191722. http://dx.doi.org
Local and Landscape Effects on Carrion-Associated Rove Beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) Communities in German Forests. Insects 11 (12), 828. https://doi.org
The Attraction of the Dung Beetle Anoplotrupes stercorosus (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae) to Volatiles from Vertebrate Cadavers. Insects 11 (8), 476. https://doi.org
Globally Abundant “Candidatus Udaeobacter” Benefits from Release of Antibiotics in Soil and Potentially Performs Trace Gas Scavenging. mSphere 5: e00186-20. https://doi.org
Distribution of Medically Relevant Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Mobile Genetic Elements in Soils of Temperate Forests and Grasslands Varying in Land Use. Genes 11 (2), 150. https://doi.org
RSDB: an easy to deploy open‐source web platform for remote sensing raster and point cloud data management, exploration and processing. Ecography, in press. https://doi.org
PhD dissertation
Evolutionary consequences of land use – Epigenetic and phenotypic variation in Plantago lanceolata. Dissertation, Universität Tübingen. https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de
Quantifying the impact of forest management intensity and tree species diversity on individual tree shape and three-dimensional stand structure. Dissertation, Universität Göttingen
Scale challenges in inventory of forests aided by remote sensing. Dissertation, Universität Göttingen. https://ediss.uni-goettingen.de
Belowground plant microbiome diversity and community composition in grassland ecosystems along land-use gradients in the German Biodiversity Exploratories. Dissertation, Universität Leipzig
Development of workflows for metabarcoding of mass-samples: A case study on Diptera. Dissertation, Universität Bonn. https://bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de
Epichloë endophyte-grass symbioses in Germany – Infection rates, alkaloid concentrations and possible intoxication risks. Dissertation, Universität Würzburg. https://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de
Assessment of antibiotic resistance in soil and its link to different land use types and intensities. Dissertation, Universität Göttingen. https://ediss.uni-goettingen.de
Diploma/Master/Bachelor Theses
Exploration of the multi-resistant Candidatus Udaeobacter and antibiotic resistance determinants across soils varying in land use history. Masterarbeit, Universität Göttingen
Das Plant-Soil-Feedback von Graslandarten nach Herbivoren-Einwirkung mit unterschiedlicher Intensität. Masterarbeit, Universität Potsdam
Interactions of Predatory Myxobacteria with Soil Microbes and Nematodes. Masterarbeit, Universität Greifswald
Vergleich der Ökosysteme Wald und Grasland anhand ökologischer Prozessraten. Bachelorarbeit, TU Darmstadt
Bestimmung der Enzymaktivität im Totholz. Bachelorarbeit, Hochschule Coburg
Der Einfluss von Borkenkäfern (Curculionidae, Scolytinae) auf das Mykobiom der Gemeinen Fichte (Picea abies (L.) H. Karst., Pinaceae) im Biodiversitäts-Exploratorium Hainich-Dün. Bachelorarbeit, FU Berlin
Quantifizierung von Diazotrophen in einer holzabbauenden mikrobiellen Lebensgemeinschaft. Bachelorarbeit, Hochschule Coburg
Influence of forestry on dung beetle diversity. Bachelorarbeit, TU Darmstadt
Untersuchung des Masseverlusts und der pH-Wertänderung von sterilen Totholzprüfkörpern nach zweijähriger Exposition in Totholzstämmen mit spätabbauender mikrobieller Gemeinschaft. Bachelorarbeit, Hochschule Coburg
Auswirkung anthropogener Störungen auf edaphische Mikroarthropoden in unterschiedlichen Landnutzungsflächen Deutschlands. Masterarbeit, Universität Gießen
Priming effect induced by different root exudate components in temperate forest soils. Masterarbeit, Universität Bayreuth
Einfluss von Dünger und Bodenverdichtung auf die Überlebensrate von Mikroathropoden nach Besiedlung im Mikrokosmos Experiment. Masterarbeit, Universität Gießen
Deriving Essential Biodiversity Variable on ecosystem fragmentation with Remote Sensing in German grasslands. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Bonn
Dynamics of three-dimensional forest structure and canopy openness in European beech forests. Masterarbeit, Universität Göttingen
Scientific publications
Ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic soil fungal biomass are driven by different factors and vary among broadleaf and coniferous temperate forests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 131, 9–18. https://doi.org
Radar vision in the mapping of forest biodiversity from space. Nature Communications 10:4757. https://doi.org
An R package facilitating sensitivity analysis, calibration and forward simulations with the LPJ-GUESS dynamic vegetation model. Environmental Modelling and Software 111, 55-60. https://doi.org
Biological soil crusts as key player in biogeochemical P cycling during pedogenesis of sandy substrate. Geoderma 338, 145-158. https://doi.org
Deprivation of root-derived resources affects microbial biomass but not community structure in litter and soil. PLoS ONE 14 (3): e0214233. https://doi.org
Protura are unique: first evidence of specialized feeding on ectomycorrhizal fungi in soil invertebrates. BMC Ecology 19:10. https://doi.org
Plant functional trait shifts explain concurrent changes in the structure and function of grassland soil microbial communities. Journal of Ecology 107 (5), 2197-2210. https://doi.org
Trait–performance relationships of grassland plant species differ between common garden and field conditions. Ecology and Evolution 9 (4), 1691-1701. https://doi.org
Will I stay or will I go? Plant species‐specific response and tolerance to high land‐use intensity in temperate grassland ecosystems. Journal of Vegetation Science 30 (4), 674-686. https://doi.org
Draft Genome Sequence of Xylaria longipes DSM 107183, a Saprotrophic Ascomycete Colonizing Hardwood. Microbiology Resource Announcements 8:e00157-19. https://doi.org
Draft genome sequence of the wood-staining ascomycete Chlorociboria aeruginascens DSM 107184. Microbiology Resource Announcements 8 (17), e00249-19. https://doi.org
Draft genome sequence of Xylaria hypoxylon DSM 108379, a ubiquitous fungus on hardwood. Microbiology Resource Announcements 8:e00845-19. https://doi.org
Intraspecific trait variation increases species diversity in a trait-based grassland model. Oikos 128 (3), 441-455. https://doi.org
Semi‐polar root exudates in natural grassland communities. Ecology and Evolution 9 (10), 5526-5541. https://doi.org
Response of Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) Trees to Competition—New Insights from Using Fractal Analysis. Remote Sensing 11 (22), 2656. https://doi.org
Effects of structural heterogeneity on the diurnal temperature range in temperate forest ecosystems. Forest Ecology and Management 432, 860-867. https://doi.org
Sensitivity of bistatic TanDEM-X data to stand structural parameters in temperate forests. Remote Sensing 11 (24), 2966. https://doi.org
Functional Traits and Spatio-Temporal Structure of a Major Group of Soil Protists (Rhizaria: Cercozoa) in a Temperate Grassland. Frontiers in Microbiology 10:1654. https://doi.org
Structure, stability and ecological significance of natural epigenetic variation: a large-scale survey in Plantago lanceolata. New Phytologist 221 (3), 1585-1596. https://doi.org
Effects of management on ambrosia beetles and their antagonists in European beech forests. Forest Ecology and Management 437, 126-133. https://doi.org
Analyzing the relationship between historic canopy dynamics and current plant species diversity in the herb layer of temperate forests using long-term Landsat time series. Remote Sensing of Environment 232, 111305. https://doi.org
Landscape-Scale Mixtures of Tree Species are More Effective than Stand-Scale Mixtures for Biodiversity of Vascular Plants, Bryophytes and Lichens. Forests 10 (1), 73. https://doi.org
The relative importance of plant-soil feedbacks for plant-species performance increases with decreasing intensity of herbivory. Oecologia 190 (3), 651-664. https://doi.org
Direct and indirect effects of land-use intensification on ant communities in temperate grasslands. Ecology and Evolution 9 (7), 4013-4024. https://doi.org
The mineralosphere – Succession and physiology of bacteria and fungi colonising pristine minerals in grassland soils under different land-use intensities. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 136: 107534. https://doi.org
Plant-Soil Feedbacks of Plantago lanceolata in the Field Depend on Plant Origin and Herbivory. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7:422. https://doi.org
Scale-guided mapping of forest stand structural heterogeneity from airborne LiDAR. Ecological indicators 102, 410-425. https://doi.org
Using herbaria to study global environmental change. New Phytologist 221, 110-122. https://doi.org
Effects of forest management on herbivorous insects in temperate Europe. Forest Ecology and Management 437, 232-245. https://doi.org
Molecular fungal community and its decomposition activity in sapwood and heartwood of 13 temperate European tree species. PLoS ONE 14(2): e0212120. https://doi.org
Land-use components, abundance of predatory arthropods, and vegetation height affect predation rates in grasslands. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 270–271, 84-92. https://doi.org
Effects of forest management on bryophyte species richness in Central European forests. Forest Ecology and Management 432, 850-859. https://doi.org
Cross-scale effects of land use on the functional composition of herbivorous insect communities. Landscape Ecology 34 (8), 2001–2015. https://doi.org
Specialisation and diversity of multiple trophic groups are promoted by different forest features. Ecology Letters 22 (1), 170-180. https://doi.org
Soziokulturelle Dynamiken vonÖkosystemleistungen – Wie viel Risiko ist sozial akzeptabel. BfN-Skripten - Treffpunkt Biologische Vielfalt 527, 197-203
Home-Field Advantage in Wood Decomposition Is Mainly Mediated by Fungal Community Shifts at “Home” Versus “Away”. Microbial Ecology 78 (3), 725–736. https://doi.org
Application of next‐generation sequencing technologies to conservation of wood‐inhabiting fungi. Conservation Biology 33 (3), 716-724. https://doi.org
Genome and secretome of Chondrostereum purpureum correspond to saprotrophic and phytopathogenic life styles. PLoS ONE 14(3): e0212769. https://doi.org
Recovery of ecosystem functions after experimental disturbance in 73 grasslands differing in land‐use intensity, plant species richness and community composition. Journal of Ecology 107 (6), 2635-2649. https://doi.org
Exclusion of large herbivores affects understorey shrub vegetation more than herb vegetation across 147 forest sites in three German regions. PLoS ONE 14(7): e0218741. https://doi.org
Canopy penetration depth estimation with TanDEM-X and its compensation in temperate forests. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 147, 232–241. https://doi.org
Towards an Ecological Trait-data Standard. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10 (12), 2006-2019. https://doi.org
Assembly processes of trophic guilds in the root mycobiome of temperate forests. Molecular Ecology 28 (2), 348-364. https://doi.org
Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers. Nature 574, 671–674. https://doi.org
Dissolved organic matter characteristics of deciduous and coniferous forests with variable management: different at the source, aligned in the soil. Biogeosciences, 16, 1411-1432. https://doi.org
Land-use intensity shapes kinetics of extracellular enzymes in rhizosphere soil of agricultural grassland plant species. Plant Soil 437 (1–2), 215–239. https://doi.org
Towards the development of general rules describing landscape heterogeneity-multifunctionality relationships. Journal of Applied Ecology 56 (1), 168-179. https://doi.org
Management of ecosystems alters vector dynamics and haemosporidian infections. Scientific Reports 9:8779. https://doi.org
Infection Rates and Alkaloid Patterns of Different Grass Species with Systemic Epichloë Endophytes. Applies and Environmental Microbiology 85 (17), e00465-19. https://doi.org
Eleven years’ data of grassland management in Germany. Biodiversity Data Journal 7: e36387. https://doi.org
Metatranscriptomics reaveal unsuspected protistan diversity in leaf litter across temperate beech forests, with Amoebozoa the dominating lineage. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 95 (10), fiz142. https://doi.org
Land‐use in Europe affects land snail assemblages directly and indirectly by modulating abiotic and biotic drivers. Ecosphere 10 (5), e02726. https://doi.org
Plant species’ range type determines local responses to biotic interactions and land use. Ecology 100 (12), e02890. https://doi.org
Discovery of novel antibiotic resistance determinants in forest and grassland soil metagenomes. Frontiers in Microbiology 10:460. https://doi.org
PhD dissertation
Spatial and temporal variations of microorganisms in grassland soils: influences of land-use intensity, plants and soil properties. Dissertation, Universität Hohenheim. http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de
Using enrichment planting to test for environmental filtering and niche differentiation in grassland communities. Dissertation, Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Root exudates in the grassland ecosystem. Dissertation, Universität Halle-Wittenberg. http://dx.doi.org
Fungal communities in living and decaying leaves: new insights into their structure and functional activity by multi-meta’omic approaches. Dissertation, Universität Bochum
The Effects of Land Use and Management on Belowground Carbon and Nutrient Interactions. Dissertation, Universität Jena. https://www.db-thueringen.de
Temperate ant communities under anthropogenic impact. Dissertation, Universität Bayreuth. https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de
The effect of neighborhood identity on seasonal tree growth responses and ecophysiological characteristics of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.). Dissertation, Universität Göttingen. https://ediss.uni-goettingen.de
Comparative drought resistance of temperate grassland species: mechanisms, prediction and relation to species distribution across moisture gradients. Dissertation, Universität Bayreuth. https://doi.org
Bacterial adaptation strategies and interactions in different soil habitats. Dissertation, TU Braunschweig. https://doi.org
Diploma/Master/Bachelor Theses
Einfluss unterschiedlicher Waldnutzungsintensitäten auf das Abbauverhalten verschiedener Totholzarten durch mikrobielle Gemeinschaften. Bachelorarbeit, Hochschule Coburg
Does disturbance and seed addition affect plant functional diversity in grasslands along a land-use gradient? Bachelorarbeit, Universität Münster.
Der Einfluss unterschiedlicher Grasland Nutzungstypen auf das Abbaupotential der mikrobiellen Gemeinschaft in verschiedenen Totholzarten. Bachelorarbeit, Hochschule Coburg
Der Einfluss von Störung und Ansaat auf die Bodenphosphorkonzentration im Wirtschaftsgrünland. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Münster
Quantifizierung Biologischer Bodenkrusten im Biosphärenreservat Schorfheide-Chorin. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Rostock
Plant-soil feedbacks play a minor role in explaining intraspecific phenotypic variance under natural conditions. Bachelorarbeit, University of Tübingen
Analyse von Antibiotikaresistenz-vermittelnden Genen und Genprodukten mikrobieller Gemeinschaften des Bodens. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Göttingen
Predicting Land-use Intensities in Grasslands with Sentinel-2 using Machine Learning Approaches. Masterarbeit, Universität Marburg
Markergen-basierte Analyse von potentiell multiresistenten Vertretern der Chthoniobacterales in Bodenproben der Biodiversitäts-Exploratorien. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Göttingen
Land-use intensity and associated biodiversity as drivers of the phosphorus cycle in Central European forest ecosystems: Do dry conditions in spring matter?. Masterarbeit, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Abhängigkeit der Stickstoffaufnahme von der Baumart in der Schorfheide-Chorin. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Göttingen
Metaproteomische Analyse von mikrobellen Gemeinschaften in Totholz. Technischer Bericht, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH – UFZ, Leipzig
Einfluss von Ansaat und Störung auf die Kohlenstoff- und Stickstoffverfügbarkeit in Grünlandböden der Region Hainich-Dün. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Münster
Rückschlüsse aus Veränderungen im Isotopenverhältnis und der elementaren Zusammensetzung auf die saprophytische Lebensgemeinschaft. Bachelorarbeit, Hochschule Coburg
Erstellung einer Kalibriergeraden für Messergebnisse der EA- IRMS. Technischer Bericht, Hochschule Coburg
Pflanzen als Indikatoren für regional vorherrschende meteorologische Verhältnisse. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Freiburg
Antibiotic resistance gene abundance in soils varying in land-use and genome-based analysis of multi-resistant Candidatus Udaeobacter. Masterarbeit, Universität Göttingen
Scientific publications
Direct and indirect effects of land use on bryophytes in grasslands. Science of The Total Environment 644, 60-67. https://doi.org
Low-intensity management promotes bryophyte diversity in grasslands. Tuexenia 38, 311–328. https://doi.org
Using co-occurrence information and trait composition to understand individual plant performance in grassland communities. Scientific Reports 8:9076. https://doi.org
Characterization of EST-SSRs for European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and their transferability to Fagus orientalis Lipsky, Castanea dentata Bork., and Quercus rubra L.. Silvae Genetica, 67 (1), 127-132. https://doi.org
Nutrient stoichiometry and land use rather than species richness determine plant functional diversity. Ecology and Evolution 8 (1), 601–616. doi: 10.1002/ece3.3609.
Draft genome sequence of Scytalidium lignicola DSM 105466, a ubiquitous saprotrophic fungus. Resource Announcements 7:e01208-18. https://doi.org
Intensive land use drives small-scale homogenization of plant- and leafhopper communities and promotes generalists. Oecologia 186 (2), 529-540. https://doi.org
Early stage litter decomposition across biomes. Science of the Total Environment 628-629, 1369 - 1394. https://doi.org
Testing the validity of functional response models using molecular gut content analysis for prey choice in soil predators. Oikos 127 (7), 915-926. https://doi.org
Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services. Nature Communications 9:4839. https://doi.org
Responses of the structure and function of the understory plant communities to precipitation reduction across forest ecosystems in Germany. Annals of Forest Science 75:3. https://doi.org
New barcoded primers for efficient retrieval of cercozoan sequences in high-throughput environmental diversity surveys, with emphasis on worldwide biological soil crusts. Molecular Ecology Resources 18 (2), 229-239. https://doi.org
In search of cues: dung beetle attraction and the significance of volatile composition of dung. Chemoecology 28 (4–5), 145–152. https://doi.org
Global dung webs: high trophic generalism of dung beetles along the latitudinal diversity gradient. Ecology Letters 21 (8), 1229-1236. https://doi.org
Algal richness in BSCs in forests under different management intensity with some implications for P cycling. Biogeosciences 15 (13), 4181-4192. https://doi.org
Phylogenetic and trophic determinants of gut microbiota in soil oribatid mites. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 123, 155-164. https://doi.org
Effect of forest management on temperate ant communities. Ecosphere 9 (6), e02303. https://doi.org
Transient leaf endophytes are the most active fungi in 1-year-old beech leaf litter. Fungal Diversity 89 (1), 237–251. https://doi.org
Cutting reduces variation in biomass production of forage crops and allows low-performers to catch up: A case study of Trifolium pratense L. (red clover). Plant Biology 20 (3), 465-473. https://doi.org
Linking root exudates to functional plant traits. PLoS ONE 13(10): e0204128. https://doi.org
Mikroorganismen: Ökosystemfunktionen und Naturschutz. Anliegen Natur 40 (1)
Contribution of the soil seed bank to the restoration of temperate grasslands by mechanical sward disturbance. Restoration Ecology 26 (2), 114-122. https://doi.org
Land use intensity, rather than plant species richness, affects the leaching risk of multiple nutrients from permanent grasslands. Global Change Biology 24 (7), 2828-2840. https://doi.org
Effects of mowing, grazing and fertilization on soil seed banks in temperate grasslands in Central Europe. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 256, 211-217. https://doi.org
And the winner is …! A test of simple predictors of plant species richness in agricultural grasslands. Ecological Indicators 87, 296–301. https://doi.org
Hide and seek – Infection rates and alkaloid concentrations of Epichloë festucae var. lolii in Lolium perenne along a land-use gradient in Germany. Grass and Forage Science 73 (2), 510-516. https://doi.org
Knowing your neighbourhood—the effects of Epichloë endophytes on foliar fungal assemblages in perennial ryegrass in dependence of season and land-use intensity. PeerJ 6:e4660. https://doi.org
Community level lipid profiling of consumers as a tool for soil food web diagnostics. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9 (5), 1265-1275. https://doi.org
Does plant diversity affect the water balance of established grassland systems? Ecohydrology 11 (4), e1945. https://doi.org
Draft Genome Sequence of the Sordariomycete Lecythophora (Coniochaeta) hoffmannii CBS 245.38. Genome Announcements 6 (7): e01510-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01510-17.
Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2, 427-436. doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0461-7.
Fagus sylvatica seedlings show provenance differentiation rather than adaptation to soil in a transplant experiment. BMC Ecology 18 (1): 42. doi: 10.1186/s12898-018-0197-5.
Bacteria inhabiting deadwood of 13 tree species are heterogeneously distributed between sapwood and heartwood. Environmental Microbiology 20 (10), 3744-3756. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14376.
Cirsium rivulare (JACQ.) ALL. Wiederfund für Brandenburg. In "Neuigkeiten zu den Farn- und Samenpflanzen von Berlin und Brandenburg I" Stefan Rätzel, Michael Ristow und Volker Kummer (Hrsg.). Botanischer Verein von Berlin und Brandenburg 150, 149-153
Genetic variation of European beech populations and their progeny from northeast Germany to southwest Switzerland. Forests 9 (8), 469. doi: 10.3390/f9080469.
Increasing N deposition impacts neither diversity nor functions of deadwood-inhabiting fungal communities, but adaptation and functional redundancy warrants ecosystem function. Environmental Microbiology 20 (5), 1693-1710. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14081.
Molecular evidence strongly supports deadwood-inhabiting fungi exhibiting unexpected tree species preferences in temperate forests. The ISME Journal 12, 289–295. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2017.177.
Determinants of deadwood-inhabiting fungal communities in temperate forest: molecular evidence from a large scale deadwood decomposition experiment. Frontiers in Microbiology 9:2120. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.02120.
Leaf Attenuated Total Reflection Fourier Transform Infrared (ATR-FTIR) biochemical profile of grassland plant species related to land-use intensity. Ecological Indicators 84, 803-810. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.09.047.
Divergent response to forest structure of two mobile vertebrate groups. Forest Ecology and Management 415–416, 129-138. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2018.02.028.
Regional environmental conditions shape microbial community structure stronger than local forest management intensity. Forest Ecology and Management 409, 250-259. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2017.11.027.
The impact of even-aged and uneven-aged forest management on regional biodiversity of multiple taxa in European beech forests. Journal of Applied Ecology 55 (1), 267–278. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12950.
Relations between forest management, stand structure and productivity across different types of Central European forests. Basic and Applied Ecology 32, 39-52. https://doi.org
Land-use intensity rather than plant functional identity shapes bacterial and fungal rhizosphere communities. Frontiers in Microbiology 9:2711. https://doi.org
Bedeutung natürlicher Waldentwicklung für die Biodiversität. Allgemeine Forst Zeitschrift/Der Wald 20, 12-13
A holistic approach to determine tree structural complexity based on laser scanning data and fractal analysis. Ecology and Evolution 8 (1), 128–134. doi: 10.1002/ece3.3661.
Applying fractal analysis to stem distribution maps. Ecological Indicators 93, 243-246. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2018.05.016.
Intransitive competition is common across five major taxonomic groups and is driven by productivity, competitive rank and functional traits. Journal of Ecology 106 (3), 852–864. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12959.
Unravelling the age of fine roots of temperate and boreal forests. Nature Communications 9:3006. doi: 10.1038/S41467-018-05460-6.
The role of soil chemical properties, land use and plant diversity for microbial phosphorus in forest and grassland soils. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 181 (2), 185-197. doi: 10.1002/jpln.201700082.
The hidden diversity of flagellated protists in soil. Protist 169 (3), 432-449. doi: 10.1016/j.protis.2018.04.007.
Discrepancies between molecular and morphological databases of soil ciliates studied for temperate grasslands of central Europe. Protist 169 (4), 521-538. doi: 10.1016/j.protis.2018.04.001.
Effects of abiotic environmental factors and land use on the diversity of carrion-visiting silphid beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae): A large scale carrion study. PLoS ONE 13(5): e0196839. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196839.
Belowground Tritrophic Food Chain Modulates Soil Respiration in Grasslands. Pedosphere 28 (1), 114-123. doi: 10.1016/S1002-0160(18)60008-6.
PhD dissertation
Land-use responses of dung beetle communities and their ecosystem services. Dissertation,TU Darmstadt
Comparative transcriptome analysis and phenotypic monitoring of Trifolium pratense (Fabaceae) under land use scenarios. Dissertation, Universität Gießen
Fungal grass endophytes and their dependence on land-use intensity. Dissertation,Universität Würzburg
Diversity and function of root-associated fungal communities in relation to nitrogen nutrition in temperate forests. Dissertation, Universität Göttingen
Diversity-stability relationships in temperate grasslands and forests of differing land-use intensities. Dissertation,Universität Bern
Land use and biodiversity effects on P-transformation in soil. Dissertation, Universität Tübingen
Influence of harvesting intensity on species and structural diversity of forests. Dissertation, Universität Freiburg
Dissolved organic matter in differently managed forest ecosystems. Dissertation,TU Berlin
The protistan microbiome of German grassland soils. Dissertation,Universität zu Köln
Diploma/Master/Bachelor Theses
Identification and characterization of antibiotic resistance genes derived from soil metagenomes. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Göttingen
Einfluss der Landnutzungsintensität auf die mikrobielle Bio-masse von Grünlandböden. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Hohenheim
Wirkungen der historischen Landnutzung auf die Pflanzengemeinschaften des Grünlands im Hainich (Thüringen). Masterarbeit, Universität Münster
Analyse bakterieller Gemeinschaften des Bodens. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Göttingen
Biomasse- Blattzahl- und Höhenvergleich von Rotbuchen (Fagus sylvatica L.) verschiedener Herkünfte im Biodiversitäts-Exploratorium „Schorfheide“. Technischer Bericht, Universität Göttingen
Störungs- und Ansaateffekte auf arbuskuläre Mykorrhizakolonisation entlang eines Landnutzungradienten. Bachelorarbeit, FU Berlin
Long-term effects of disturbance and seed addition on soil microbial biomass in grassland with high and low land-use intensity. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Hohenheim
Auswirkung von pflanzlichen Nachbarschaftseffekten auf die pilzliche Diversität und Gemeinschaftszusammensetzung in der Rhizosphäre. Masterarbeit, Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Predicting grassland plant traits and biodiversity using hyperspectral aerial observation and a forward feature selection machine learning approach. Masterarbeit, Universität Marburg
Etablierung von Grünlandarten durch Störung und Ansaat im Wirtschaftsgrünland. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Münster
Grazing and its ecological effects: A new index for grazing intensity in grasslands. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Münster
Influence of stand structural attributes, land-use intensity and biodiversity on the spatial heterogeneity of throughfall in forest ecosystems. Masterarbeit, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Der Einfluss von zwei Temperaturregimen auf die sukzessive Verteilung der xylotrophen mikrobiellen Gemeinschaft und deren Abbaupotential in Fagus sylvatica. Bachelorarbeit, Hochschule Coburg
Einfluss von Klimaparametern und der Landnutzung auf die Ökosystemdienstleistung des Dungabbaus und dessen Variabilität. Bachelorarbeit, TU Darmstadt
Resilienz von arbuskulärer Mykorrhizakolonisierung in Grünländern gegen Störungs- und Einsaateffekte entlang eines Landnutzungsgradienten. Bachelorarbeit, FU Berlin
Resistenz und Resilienz von Pflanzengemeinschaften des Wirtschaftsgrünlandes gegenüber Ansaat und Störung. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Münster
Qualitative und quantitative Analyse der Totholzvorräte des Biodiversitäts-Exploratoriums Schwäbische Alb. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Göttingen
Einfluss von Pflanzendiversität und Landnutzungsintensität auf Biomasseproduktion und Futterqualität im Grünland in Hainich-Dün. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Münster
Resilienz von arbuskulärer Mykorrhiza gegenüber Einsaat und Störung entlang eines Landnutzungsgradienten. Bachelorarbeit, FU Berlin
Die Resilienz von arbuskulärer Mykorrhizakolonisierung gegenüber Störungs- und Einsaateffekten entlang eines Landnutzungsgradienten in Grasländern. Bachelorarbeit, FU Berlin
Biotic and abiotic drivers of nitrate and ammonium concentrations in soil solution of established grassland systems: A Bayesian approach. Masterarbeit, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Scientific publications
Waldbewirtschaftung und Biodiversität: Vielfalt ist gefragt!. Allgemeine Forst Zeitschrift/Der Wald 17, 20-25
Buche in Mischbeständen bei Trockenheit weniger gestresst. Allgemeine Forst Zeitschrift/Der Wald 72 (17), 13-15
Biological soil crusts of temperate forests: Their role in P cycling. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 109, 156–166. https://doi.org
Roots traits are more than analogues of leaf traits: the case for diaspore mass. New Phytologist 216 (4), 1130–1139. https://doi.org
Weak correlation of flower color and nectar-tube depth in temperate grasslands. Journal of Plant Ecology 10 (2), 397-405. https://doi.org
Land-use type and intensity differentially filter traits in above- and below-ground arthropod communities. Journal of Animal Ecology 86 (3), 511–520. https://doi.org
Draft genome sequence of the wood-degrading ascomycete Kretzschmaria deusta DSM 104547. Genome Announcements 5 (43): e01076-17. https://doi.org
Ecophysiological Response on Dehydration and Temperature in Terrestrial Klebsormidium (Streptophyta) Isolated from Biological Soil Crusts in Central European Grasslands and Forests. Microbial Ecology 73 (4), 850–864. https://doi.org
No consistent effect of plant species richness on resistance to simulated climate change for above- or below-ground processes in managed grasslands. BMC Ecology 17(1):23. https://doi.org
No evidence for larger leaf trait plasticity in ecological generalists compared to specialists. Journal of Biogeography 44 (3), 511–521. https://doi.org
Does plant phylogenetic diversity increase invertebrate herbivory in managed grasslands?. Basic and Applied Ecology 20, 40–50. https://doi.org
Quantifying stand structural complexity and its relationship with forest management, tree species diversity and microclimate. Agricultural & Forest Meteorology 242, 1–9. https://doi.org
The influence of land use intensity on the plant-associated microbiome of Dactyls glomerata L.. Frontiers in Plant Sciences 8:930. https://doi.org
Nutrient quality of vertebrate dung as a diet for dung beetles. Scientific Reports 7:12141. https://doi.org
Land use affects dung beetle communities and their ecosystem services in forests and grasslands. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 243, 114-122. https://doi.org
Habitat availability drives the distribution–abundance relationship in phytophagous true bugs in managed grasslands. Ecology 98 (10), 2561–2573. https://doi.org
Grassland management in Germany: effects on plant diversity and vegetation composition. Tuexenia 37, 379-397. https://doi.org
Habitat-specific composition of morphotypes with low genetic diversity in the green algal genus Klebsormidium (Streptophyta) isolated from biological soil crusts in Central European grasslands and forests. European Journal of Phycology 52 (2), 188-199. https://doi.org
Direct and indirect effects of agricultural intensification on a host-parasitoid system on the ribwort plantain (/Plantago lanceolata/ L.) in a landscape context. Landscape Ecology 32 (10), 2015–2028. https://doi.org
Drivers of intraspecific trait variation of grass and forb species in German meadows and pastures. Journal of Vegetation Science 28 (4), 705–716. https://doi.org
Predicting individual plant performance in grasslands. Ecology and Evolution 7 (21), 8958–8965. https://doi.org
Zur Artenvielfalt im Grünland. Natur in NRW 2/2017, 35-39
Canopy space filling rather than conventional measures of structural diversity explains productivity of beech stands. Forest Ecology and Management 395, 19–26. https://doi.org
How management intensity and neighborhood composition affect the structure of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) trees. Trees - Structure and Function 31 (5), 1723–1735. https://doi.org
Wood decay rates of 13 temperate tree species in relation to wood properties, enzyme activities and organismic diversities. Forest Ecology and Management 391, 86-95. https://doi.org
Bumblebee footprints on bird’s-foot trefoil uncover increasing flower visitation with land-use intensity. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 240, 77–83. https://doi.org
Evaluating the effects of floral resource specialisation and of nitrogen regulation on the vulnerability of social bees in agricultural landscapes. Apidologie, 48 (3), 371–383. https://doi.org
Enriching plant diversity in grasslands by large-scale experimental sward disturbance and seed addition along gradients of land-use intensity. Journal of Plant Ecology 10 (4) 581–591. https://doi.org
Surface area–volume ratios in insects. Insect Science 24 (5), 829–841. https://doi.org
Diversity and trait composition of moths respond to land-use intensity in grasslands: Generalists replace specialists. Biological Conservation 26 (14), 3385–3405. https://doi.org
Comparison and confirmation of SNP-bud burst associations in European beech populations in Germany. Tree Genetics & Genomes 13:59. https://doi.org
De novo transcriptome assembly and analysis of differential gene expression in response to drought in European beech. PLoS ONE 12 (9): e0184167. https://doi.org
Impact of ectomycorrhizal community composition and soil treatment on inorganic nitrogen nutrition and performance of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) provenances. Trees - structure and function 31 (6), 1891–1904. https://doi.org
Exploratorien zur funktionellen Biodiversitätsforschung –Ein DFG Schwerpunktprogramm. Landschaftspflege und Naturschutz in Thüringen 54 (2), 83-85
Function of bacterial community dynamics in the formation of cadaveric semiochemicals during in situ carcass decomposition. Environmental Microbiology 19 (8), 3310-3322. https://doi.org
Phylogenetic and functional traits of ectomycorrhizal assemblages in top soil from different biogeographic regions and forest types. Mycorrhiza 27 (3), 233–245. https://doi.org
Driving factors and temporal fluctuation of Collembola communities and reproductive mode across forest types and regions. Ecology and Evolution 7 (12), 4390-4403. https://doi.org
Spatial and temporal dynamics of nitrogen fixing, nitrifying and denitrifying microbes in an unfertilized grassland soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 109, 214–226. https://doi.org
Ecological and Functional Traits in 99 Bird Species over a Large-Scale Gradient in Germany. Data 2 (2), 12. https://doi.org
Terrestrisches Laserscanning erfasst komplexe Waldstrukturen. Allgemeine Forst Zeitschrift/Der Wald 72 (17), 25-28
Inferring interactions in complex microbial communities from nucleotide sequence data and enviromental parameters. PLoS ONE 12(3): e0173765. https://doi.org
Contrasting effects of grassland management modes on species-abundance distributions of multiple groups. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 237, 143–153. https://doi.org
Agriculture. Ecosystems and Environment 237, 143–153. https://doi.org
Agricultural intensification without biodiversity loss is possible in grassland landscapes. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1, 1136–1145. https://doi.org
Soil pH and plant diversity drive co-occurrence patterns of ammonia and nitrite oxidizer in soils from forest ecosystems. Biology and Fertility of Soils 53 (6), 691–700. https://doi.org
The protistan microbiome of grassland soil: diversity in the mesoscale. Protist 168 (5), 546-564. https://doi.org
Lutitalea pratensis gen. nov., sp. nov. a new member of subdivision 6 Acidobacteria isolated from temperate grassland soil. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 67, 1408-1414. https://doi.org
Evolutionary responses to land use in eight common grassland plants. Journal of Ecology 105 (5), 1290–1297. https://doi.org
Comparing canopy leaf temperature of three Central European tree species based on simultaneous confidence bands for penalized splines. Environmental and Ecological Statistics 24 (3), 385–398. https://doi.org
Preservation of nucleic acids by freeze-drying for next generation sequencing analyses of soil microbial communities. Journal of Plant Ecology 10 (1), 81-90. https://doi.org
Trophic level, successional age and trait matching determine specialization of deadwood-based interaction networks of saproxylic beetles. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 284 (1854): 20170198. https://doi.org
PhD dissertation
Die Rolle oxidativer Pilzenzyme für die Totholzzersetzung und die Zersetzungsdynamik von Fagus sylvatica, Picea abies und Pinus sylvestris. Dissertation, TU Darmstadt
Mycorrhizal fungal biomass and community structure in relation to forest management intensity and environmental factors in temperate forests. Dissertation, Universität Göttingen
Root traits and their effect in plant-soil interactions. Dissertation, FU Berlin
Variation in sex pheromone communication in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides: causes and consequences. Dissertation, Universität Ulm
Land-use mediated effects on communities and single species of herbivorous insects. Dissertation, TU Darmstadt
Evaluation of an integrative strategy in forests: does deadwood enrichment work and increase biodiversity?. Dissertation, TU München
Quantifying three-dimensional stand structure and its relationship with forest management and microclimate in temperate forest ecosystems. Dissertation, Universität Göttingen
Scale-dependencies and determinants of soil microbial communities in forest ecosystems across the German Biodiversity Exploratories. Dissertation, Universität Leipzig
The impact of soil microbiota on plant species performance and diversity in semi-natural grasslands. Dissertation, Universität Potsdam
Drivers of intraspecific variation of plant functional traits, plant performance and root exudates in German grasslands. Dissertation, Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Land use and climate change: Anthropogenic effects on arthropod communities and functional traits. Dissertation, TU Darmstadt
Testing paradigms in conservation biology: spatio-temporal dimensions of habitat fragmentation in a stenotopic woodland ground beetle. Dissertation, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Understanding the emergence and maintenance of biodiversity in grasslands: linking individual plant responses to community patterns. Dissertation, Universität Potsdam
Diploma/Master/Bachelor Theses
Die Entwicklung der floristischen Diversität von Grünlandökosystemen unter dem Einfluss unterschiedlicher Landnutzung. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Münster
Effects of seed addition and sward disturbance on species diversity and herbivory in grasslands. Masterarbeit, Universität Münster
Eine Langzeitanalyse der Beziehungen zwischen Landnutzungsintensität, Aufwuchsqualität und Pflanzendiversität im Grünland. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Münster
Das Fraß- Verhalten von Elateriden- Larven verschiedener Größenklassen im Wurzelsystem von wolligem Honiggras (Holcus lanatus). Bachelorarbeit, FU Berlin
Einfluss von Ansaat und Störung auf die Pflanzendiversität landwirtschaftlich genutzter Grünländer. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Münster
Kohlenstoff-Stickstoff-Interaktion in der Rhizosphäre nach Zugabe von Glukose und Ammoniumnitrat. Bachelorarbeit, Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie Jena
Identification of novel antibiotic resistance genes in soils representing different land use types. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Göttingen
Dynamik der C-, N-, P- und K- Flüsse in Freiland- und Bestandsniederschlag unterschiedlich bewirtschafteter Grünlandökosysteme. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Jena
Analyse des Lokalklimas im Nationalpark Hainich. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Göttingen
Die potentielle Methan-Oxidation des Bodens in Abhängigkeit von der Landnutzungsintensität am Beispiel von Grünland und Wald. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Hohenheim
The effect of antibiotic treatment on bacterial communities in soils with different land use history. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Göttingen
Biomasse- und Höhenvergleich von Rotbuchen (Fagus sylvatica L.) verschiedener Herkünfte im Biodiversitäts-Exploratorium „Schwäbische Alb“. Technischer Bericht, Universität Göttingen
2016
Scientific Publications
Arnstadt T., Hoppe B., Kahl T., Kellner H., Krüger D., Bässler C., Bauhus J., Hofrichter M. (2016): Patterns of laccase and peroxidases in coarse woody debris of Fagus sylvatica, Picea abies and Pinus sylvestrisand their relation to different wood parameters. European Journal of Forest Research 135 (1), 109-124. doi: 10.1007/s10342-015-0920-0
Arnstadt T., Hoppe B., Kahl T., Kellner H., Krüger D., Bauhus J., Hofrichter M. (2016): Dynamics of fungal community composition, decomposition and resulting deadwood properties in logs of Fagus sylvatica, Picea abies and Pinus sylvestris. Forest Ecology and Management 382, 129–142. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.10.004
Baber K., Otto P., Kahl T., Gossner M. M., Wirth C., Gminder A., Bässler C. (2016): Disentangling the effects of forest-stand type and dead-wood origin of the early successional stage on the diversity of wood-inhabiting fungi. Forest Ecology and Management 377, 161-169. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.07.011
Barnes A. D., Weigelt P., Jochum M., Ott D., Hodapp D., Haneda N. F., Brose U. (2016): Species richness and biomass explain spatial turnover in ecosystem functioning across tropical and temperate ecosystems. Philosophical Transactions B of the Royal Society 371 (1694). doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0279
Baumann K., Schöning I., Schrumpf M., Ellerbrock R. H., Leinweber P. (2016): Rapid assessment of soil organic matter: soil color analysis and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Geoderma 278, 49–57. doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2016.05.012
Bergmann J., Verbruggen E., Heinze J., Xiang D., Chen B., Joshi J., Rillig M. C. (2016): The interplay between soil structure, roots, and microbiota as a determinant of plant–soil feedback. Ecology and Evolution 6 (21), 7633–7644. doi: 10.1002/ece3.2456
Birkhofer K., Dietrich C., John K., Schorpp Q., Zaitsev A. S., Wolters V. (2016): Regional Conditions and Land-Use Alter the Potential Contribution of Soil Arthropods to Ecosystem Services in Grasslands. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 3:150. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00150
Bluhm C., Scheu S., Maraun M. (2016): Temporal fluctuations in oribatid mites indicate that density-independent factors favour parthenogenetic reproduction. Experimental and Applied Acarology 68 (4), 387-407. doi: 10.1007/s10493-015-0001-6
Blüthgen N., Simons N., Jung K, Prati D., Renner S., Boch S., Fischer M., Hölzel N., Klaus V. H., Kleinebecker T., Tschapka M., Weisser W. W., Gossner M. M. (2016): Land use imperils plant and animal community stability through changes in asynchrony rather than diversity. Nature Communications 7:10697. doi: 10.1038/ncomms10697
Boch S., Allan E., Birkhofer K., Bossdorf O., Blüthgen N., Christ-Breulmann S., Diekötter T., Dormann C. F., Gossner M. M.,Hallmann C., Hemp A., Hölzel N., Jung K., Klaus V. H., Klein A. M., Kleinebecker T., Lange M., Müller J., Nacke H., Prati D., Renner S. C., Rothenwöhrer C., Schall P., Schulze E.-D., Socher S., Tscharntke T., Türke M., Weiner C. N., Weisser W. W., Westphal C., Wolters W., Wubet T., Fischer M. (2016): Extensive und jährlich wechselnde Nutzungsintensität fördert den Artenreichtum im Grünland. Anliegen Natur 38 (1), 86-95
Boch S., Fischer M., Prati D. (2016): Gastropods slow down succession and maintain diversity in cryptogam communities. Ecology 97 (9), 2184–2191. doi: 10.1002/ecy.1498
Boch S., Prati D., Schöning I., Fischer M. (2016): Lichen species richness is highest in non-intensively used grasslands promoting suitable microhabitats and low vascular plant competition. Biodiversity and Conservation 25 (2), 225-238. doi: 10.1007/s10531-015-1037-y
Chisté M. N., Mody K., Gossner M. M., Simons N. K., Köhler G., Weisser W. W., Blüthgen N. (2016): Losers, winners, and opportunists: How grassland land-use intensity affects orthopteran communities. Ecosphere 7 (11): e01545. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.1545
Dostál P., Fischer M., Prati D. (2016): Phenotypic plasticity is a negative, though weak, predictor of the commonness of 105 grassland species. Global Ecology and Biogeography 25 (4), 464–474. doi: 10.1111/geb.12429
Ehbrecht M., Schall P., Juchheim J., Ammer C., Seidel D. (2016): Effective number of layers: A new measure for quantifying three-dimensional stand structure based on sampling with terrestrial LiDAR. Forest Ecology and Management 380, 212–223. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.09.003
Fiore-Donno A. M., Weinert J., Wubet T., Bonkowski M. (2016): Metacommunity analysis of amoeboid protists in grassland soils. Scientific Reports 6: 19068. doi: 10.1038/srep19068
Gimbel K. F., Puhlmann H., Weiler M. (2016): Does drought alter hydrological functions in forest soils? Hydrology and Earth System Science 20 (3), 1301-1317. doi:10.5194/hess-20-1301-2016
Goldmann K., Schröter K., Pena R., Schöning I., Schrumpf M., Buscot F., Polle A., Wubet T. (2016): Divergent habitat filtering of root and soil fungal communities in temperate beech forests. Scientific Reports 6:31439. doi: 10.1038/srep31439
Gossner M. M., Lade P., Rohland A., Sichardt N., Kahl T., Bauhus J., Weisser W. W., Petermann J. S. (2016): Effects of management on aquatic tree-hole communities in temperate forests are mediated by detritus amount and water chemistry. Journal of Animal Ecology 85 (1), 213–226. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12437
Gossner M. M., Lewinsohn T., Kahl T., Grassein F., Boch S., Prati D., Birkhofer K., Renner S. C., Sikorski J., Wubet T., Arndt H., Baumgartner V., Blaser S., Blüthgen N., Börschig C., Buscot F., Diekötter T., Jorge L. R., Jung K., Keyel A. C., Klein A.-M., Klemmer S., Krauss J., Lange M., Müller J., Overmann J., Pašalić E., Penone C., Perović D. J., Purschke O., Schall P., Socher S. A., Sonnemann I., Tschapka M., Tscharntke T., Türke M., Venter P. C., Weiner C. N., Werner M., Wolters V., Wurst S., Westphal C., Fischer M., Weisser W. W., Allan E. (2016): Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenisation of grassland communities. Nature 540 (7632), 266–269. doi: 10.1038/nature20575
Gossner M. M., Struwe J.-F., Sturm S., Max S., McCutcheon M., Weisser W. W., Zytynska S. E. (2016): Searching for the Optimal Sampling Solution: Variation in Invertebrate Communities, Sample Condition and DNA Quality. PLoS ONE 11(2): e0148247. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0148247
Gossner M. M., Wende B., Levick S., Schall P., Floren A., Linsenmair K. E., Steffan-Dewenter I., Schulze E.-D., Weisser W. W. (2016): Deadwood enrichment in European forests – Which tree species should be used to promote saproxylic beetle diversity? Biological Conservation 201, 92–102. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.06.032
Hodač L., Hallmann C., Spitzer C., Elster J., Faßhauer F., Brinkmann N., Lepka D., Diwan V., Friedl T. (2016): Widespread green algae Chlorella and Stichococcus exhibit polar-temperate and tropical-temperate biogeography. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 92 (8), fiw122. doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiw122
Hoppe B., Purahong W., Wubet T., Kahl T., Bauhus J., Arnstadt T., Hofrichter M., Buscot F., Krüger D. (2016): Linking molecular deadwood-inhabiting fungal diversity and community dynamics to ecosystem functions and processes in Central European forests. Fungal Diversity 77 (1), 367-379. doi: 10.1007/s13225-015-0341-x
Huang S., Vieira V., Bunk B., Riedel T., Spröer C., Overmann J. (2016): First Complete Genome Sequence of a Subdivision 6 Acidobacterium. Genome Announcements 4(3):e00469-16. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00469-16
Kaiser K., Wemheuer B., Korolkow V., Wemheuer F., Nacke H., Schöning I., Schrumpf M., Daniel R. (2016): Driving forces of soil bacterial community structure, diversity, and function in temperate grasslands and forests. Scientific Reports 6:33696. doi:10.1038/srep33696
Kämper W., Werner P. K., Hilpert A., Westphal C., Blüthgen N., Eltz T., Leonhardt S. D. (2016): How landscape, pollen intake and pollen quality affect colony growth in Bombus terrestris. Landscape Ecology 31 (10), 2245–2258. doi: 10.1007/s10980-016-0395-5
Kaur P., Gaikwad J., König-Ries B. (2016): Towards recommending visualizations for biodiversity data. Biodiversity and Conservation 25 (9), 1801-1803. doi: 10.1007/s10531-016-1157-z
Keyel A. C., Gerstenlauer J. L. K., Wiegand K. (2016): SpatialDemography: a spatially explicit, stage-structured, metacommunity model. Ecography 39 (11), 1129–1137. doi: 10.1111/ecog.02295
Keyel A. C., Wiegand K. (2016): Validating the use of unique trait combinations for measuring multivariate functional richness. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7 (8), 929–936. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.12558
Klaus V. H., Boch S., Boeddinghaus H., Hölzel N., Kandeler E., Marhan S., Oelmann Y., Prati D., Regan K. M., Schmitt B., Sorkau E., Kleinebecker T. (2016): Temporal and small-scale spatial variation in grassland productivity, biomass quality, and nutrient limitation. Plant Ecology 217 (7), 843–856. doi: 10.1007/s11258-016-0607-8
Klaus V. H., Hölzel N., Prati D., Schmitt B., Schöning I., Schrumpf M., Solly E., Hänsel F., Fischer M., Kleinebecker T. (2016): Plant diversity moderates drought stress in grasslands: Implications from a large real-world study on 13C natural abundances. Science of The Total Environment 566–567, 215–222. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.05.008
Leberecht M., Tu J., Polle A. (2016): Acid and calcareous soils affect nitrogen nutrition and organic nitrogen uptake by beech seedlings (Fagus sylvatica L.) under drought, and their ectomycorrhizal community structure. Plant and Soil 409 (1), 143–157 doi: 10.1007/s11104-016-2956-4
Metz J., Annighöfer P., Schall P., Zimmermann J., Kahl T., Schulze E.-D., Ammer C. (2016): Site adapted admixed tree species reduce drought susceptibility of mature European beech. Global Change Biology 22 (2), 903–920. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13113
Nacke H., Goldmann K., Schöning I., Pfeiffer B., Kaiser K., Castillo-Villamizar G. A., Schrumpf M., Buscot F., Daniel R., Wubet T. (2016): Fine spatial scale variation of soil microbial communities under European beech and Norway spruce. Frontiers in Microbiology 7:2067. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.02067
Noll L., Leonhardt S., Arnstadt T., Hoppe B., Poll C., Matzner E., Hofrichter M., Kellner H. (2015): Fungal biomass and extracellular enzyme activities in coarse woody debris of 13 tree species in the early phase of decomposition. Forest Ecology and Management 378, 181-192. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.07.035
Petermann J. S., Rohland A., Sichardt N., Lade P., Guidetti B., Weisser W. W., Gossner M. M. (2016): Forest management intensity affects aquatic communities in artificial tree holes. PLoS ONE 11(5): e0155549. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155549
Pfestorf H., Koerner K., Sonnemann I., Wurst S., Jeltsch F. (2016): Coupling experimental data with individual-based modelling reveals differential effects of root herbivory on grassland plant co-existence along a resource gradient. Journal of Vegetation Science 27, 269–282. doi: 10.1111/jvs.12357
Purahong W., Arnstadt T., Kahl T., Bauhus J., Kellner H., Hofrichter M., Krüger D., Buscot F., Hoppe B. (2016): Are correlations between deadwood fungal community structure, wood physico-chemical properties and lignin-modifying enzymes stable across different geographical regions? Fungal Ecology 22, 98–105. doi: 10.1016/j.funeco.2016.01.002
Purahong W., Krüger D., Buscot F., Wubet T. (2016): Correlations between the composition of modular fungal communities and litter decomposition-associated ecosystem functions. Fungal Ecology 22, 106–114. doi: 10.1016/j.funeco.2016.04.009
Purahong W., Wubet T., Lentendu G., Schloter M., Pecyna M. J., Kapturska D., Hofrichter M., Krüger D., Buscot F. (2016): Life in leaf litter: novel insights into community dynamics of bacteria and fungi during litter decomposition. Molecular Ecology 25 (16), 4059–4074. doi: 10.1111/mec.13739
Renner S. C., Lüdtke B., Kaiser S., Kienle J., Schaefer M. H., Segelbacher G., Tschapka M., Santiago-Alarcon D. (2016): Forests of opportunities and mischief: disentangling the interactions between forests, parasites and immune responses. International Journal for Parasitology 46 (9), 571–579. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2016.04.008
Renner S. C., Suarez-Rubio M., Wiesner K. R., Drögemüller C., Gockel S., Kalko E. K. V., Ayasse M., Frantz A. C. (2016): Using multiple landscape genetic approaches to test the validity of genetic clusters in a species characterized by an isolation-by-distance pattern. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 118 (2), 292-303. doi: 10.1111/bij.12737
Schulze E.-D., Boch S., Müller J., Levick S., Schumacher J. (2016): Seltene und gefährdete Pflanzen wachsen im Laubwald überall. AFZ - der Wald, 13, 35-38
Schwarz M. T., Bischoff S., Blaser S., Boch S., Grassein F., Klarner B., Schmitt B., Solly E. F., Ammer C., Michalzik B., Schall P., Scheu S., Schöning I., Schrumpf M., Schulze E. D., Siemens J., Wilcke W. (2016): Drivers of nitrogen leaching from organic layers in Central European beech forests. Plant and Soil 403 (1), 343–360. doi: 10.1007/s11104-016-2798-0
Simons N. K., Weisser W. W., Gossner M. M. (2016): Multi-taxa approach shows consistent shifts in arthropod functional traits along grassland land-use intensity gradient. Ecology 97 (3), 754–764. doi: 10.1890/15-0616.1
Soliveres S., Manning P., Prati D., Gossner M. M., Alt F., Arndt H., Baumgartner V., Binkenstein J., Birkhofer K., Blaser S., Blüthgen N., Boch S., Böhm S., Börschig C., Buscot F., Diekötter T., Heinze J., Hölzel N., Jung K., Klaus V. H., Klein A.-M., Kleinebecker T., Klemmer S., Krauss J., Lange M., Morris K. E., Müller J., Oelmann Y., Overmann J., Pašalić E., Renner S. C., Rillig M. C., Schäfer M., Schloter M., Schmitt B., Schöning I., Schrumpf M., Sikorski J., Socher S. A., Solly E., Sonnemann I., Sorkau E., Steckel J., Steffen-Dewenter I., Stempfhuber B., Tschapka M., Türke M., Venter P., Weiner C. N., Weisser W. W., Werner M., Westphal C., Wilcke W., Wolters V., Wubet T., Wurst S., Fischer M., Allan E. (2016): Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality. Phylosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371(1694):20150269. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0269
Soliveres S., van der Plas F., Manning P., Prati D., Gossner M. M., Renner S. C., Alt F., Arndt H., Baumgartner V., Binkenstein J., Birkhofer K., Blaser S., Blüthgen N., Boch S., Böhm S., Börschig C., Buscot F., Diekötter T., Heinze J., Hölzel N., Jung K., Klaus V. H., Kleinebecker T., Klemmer S., Krauss J., Lange M., Morris K. E., Müller J., Oelmann Y., Overmann J., Pašalić E., Rillig M. C., Schäfer M., Schloter M., Schmitt B., Schöning I., Schrumpf M., Sikorski J., Socher S. A., Solly E., Sonnemann I., Sorkau I., Steckel J., Steffen-Dewenter I., Stempfhuber B., Tschapka M., Türke M., Venter P., Weiner C., Weisser W. W., Werner M., Westphal C., Wilcke W., Wolters V., Wubet T., Wurst S., Fischer M., Allan E. (2016): Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality. Nature 536, 456–459. doi: 10.1038/nature19092
Sonnemann I., Buchholz Y., Rautenberg D., Wurst S. (2016): Land use intensity modulates the impact of root herbivores on plant interactions with above- and below-ground organisms. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 219, 26–31. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2015.12.003
Stempfhuber B., Richter-Heitmann T., Regan K. M., Kölbl A., Wüst P. K., Marhan S., Sikorski J., Overmann J., Friedrich M., Kandeler E., Schloter M. (2016): Spatial Interaction of Archaeal Ammonia-Oxidizers and Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacteria in an Unfertilized Grassland Soil. Frontiers in Microbiology 6:01567. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01567
Thieme L., Graeber D., Kaupenjohann M., Siemens J. (2016): Fast-freezing with liquid nitrogen preserves bulk dissolved organic matter concentrations, but not its composition. Biogeosciences 13, 4697-4705, doi: 10.5194/bg-13-4697-2016
Treitler J. T., Heim O., Tschapka M., Jung K. (2016): The effect of local land use and loss of forests on bats and nocturnal insects. Ecology and Evolution 6 (13), 4289–4297. doi: 10.1002/ece3.2160
Wang Z., Bossdorf O., Prati D., Fischer M., van Kleunen M. (2016): Transgenerational effects of land use on offspring performance and growth in Trifolium repens. Oecologia 180 (2), 409-420. doi: 10.1007/s00442-015-3480-6
Wüst P. K., Nacke H., Kaiser K., Marhan S., Sikorski J., Kandeler E., Daniel R., Overmann J. (2016): Estimates of the bacterial ribosome content and diversity in soils are significantly affected by different nucleic acid extraction methods. Applied Environmental Microbiology 82:9, 2595-2607. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00019-16
Yurkov A. M., Wehde T., Federici J., Schäfer A. M., Ebinghaus M., Lotze-Engelhard S., Mittelbach M., Prior R., Richter C., Röhl O., Begerow D. (2016): Yeast diversity and species recovery rates from beech forest soils. Mycological Progress 15 (8), 845–859. doi: 10.1007/s11557-016-1206-8
Book section
Owonibi M., Petzold E., König-Ries B. (2016): Towards a Generic Resource Booking Management System. In "Innovations in Enterprise Information Systems Management and Engineering" Felderer, M., Piazolo, F., Ortner, W., Brehm, L., Hof, H.-J. (Eds.). Springer International Publishing, S. 73-81. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-32799-0
PhD dissertation
Aberle H. (2016): Hyperspectral Remote Sensing and Field Measurements for Forest Characteristics - A Case Study in the Hainich National Park, Central Germany. Dissertation, University Göttingen
Bluhm C. (2016): Oribatid mite community structure and trophic ecology along a forest land-use gradient: effect of dead wood, time and root-trenching. Dissertation, University Göttingen
Glaser K. (2016): Monitoring diversity patterns of active flagellate taxa in different grassland ecosystems as a tool in terrestrial ecology. Dissertation, University Leipzig
Hodač L. (2016): Green algae in soil: assessing their biodiversity and biogeography with molecular-phylogenetic methods based on cultures. Dissertation, University Göttingen
Holzwarth F. M. (2016): Pathways of tree diversity effects on forest dynamics – combining empirical analysis and mechanistic modelling. Dissertation, University Leipzig
Kämper W. (2016): Bumblebees in agricultural landscapes in Central Europe: colony performance, floral resource use and pathogen load. Dissertation, University Bochum
Kaiser K. (2016): Dependence of soil microbial community structure and function on land use types and management regimes. Dissertation, University Göttingen
Kloss L. (2016): The link between genetic diversity and species diversity: Patterns and processes in plants of agriculturally managed grassland. Dissertation, University Potsdam
Nölke N. (2016): Integrating Remote Sensing Techniques into Forest Monitoring: Selected Topics with a Focus on Thermal Remote Sensing. Dissertation, University Göttingen
Pecyna M. (2016): Molecular biological charaterization of heme-thiolate and DyP-type peroxidases of selected basidiomycetes. Dissertation, TU Dresden
Regan K. M. (2016): Linking Microbial Abundance and Function to Understand Nitrogen Cycling in Grassland Soils. Dissertation, University Hohenheim
Richter-Heitmann T. (2016): (Acido)bacterial diversity in space and time. Dissertation, University Bremen
Selzer M. (2016): Nitratreduktion, Denitrifikation und Dissimilatorische Nitritreduktion zu Ammonium in Grünland- und Waldböden : Populationen und Einflussfaktoren. Dissertation, University Bayreuth
Stempfhuber B. H. J. (2016): Drivers for the performance of nitrifying organisms and their temporal and spatial interaction in grassland and forest ecosystems. Dissertation, TU München
Vályi K. (2016): Community ecology of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in the molecular era. Dissertation, FU Berlin
Weiner C. N. (2016): Diversity and resource choice of flower-visiting insects in relation to pollen nutritional quality and land use. Dissertation, TU Darmstadt
Diploma/Master/Bachelor Theses
Berg J. (2016): Einfluss von Landnutzung und Standorteigen-schaften auf den oberirdischen Streueintrag. Bachelor thesis, University Jena
Binder I. (2016): Impact of soil disturbance on microorganisms in differently managed grassland soils linked to the ecosystem resilience. Master thesis, University Hohenheim
Craemer A., Steffen P. (2016): Carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions under supervised treatments along a land use gradient – a mesocosm study. Technical report, University Münster
Deißler M. R. (2016): Der Einfluss von Landnutzungsintensität und Habitatbeschaffenheit auf die Körpergröße von Anoplotrupes stercorosus (Coleoptera: Geotrupidae). Bachelor thesis, University Ulm
Hoever C. J. (2016): Grasslands soil seed banks: composition, diversity and its response to disturbance. Master thesis, University Münster
Kienle J. (2016): Insect vector abundance in beech forests as an indicator for avian malaria infection risk. Master thesis, University Ulm
Kühn J. (2016): Community level lipid profiling as a new tool to assign changes in food web structure in European forest soils. Master thesis, HU Berlin
Kolodziej V. (2016): Soil moisture fluctuations and plant diversity: testing the hydrological niche trade-off hypothesis. Bachelor thesis, University Freiburg
Sermon J. (2016): Use of water-filled tree holes by terrestrial organisms in differently managed forest stands. Master thesis, FU Berlin/University Bremen
Traub K. (2016): Phosphorus budget of German grasslands - effects of management and relation to biodiversity. Master thesis, University Tübingen
Wolanska K. (2016): Mesokosmen-Experiment 2015 - Ergebnisbericht. Technical report, University Münster
Zilensek F. L. (2016): Einflüsse unterschiedlicher Bewirtschaftung auf Kohlenstoffkonzentrationen und Kohlenstoffvorräte in Waldböden der Biodiversitäts-Exploratorien Schorfheide-Chorin, Hainich-Dün und Schwäbische Alb. Bachelor thesis, University Jena
2015
Scientific Publications
Allan E., Manning P., Alt F., Binkenstein J., Blaser S., Blüthgen N., Böhm S., Grassein F., Hölzel N., Klaus V., Kleinebecker T., Morris K. E., Oelmann Y., Prati D., Renner S. C., Rillig M. C., Schäfer M., Schloter M., Schmitt B., Schöning I., Schrumpf M., Solly E., Sorkau E., Steckel J., Steffen-Dewenter I., Stempfhuber B., Tschapka M., Weiner C. N., Weisser W. W., Werner M., Westphal C., Wilcke W., Fischer M. (2015): Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition. Ecology Letters 18 (8), 834–843. doi: 10.1111/ele.12469
Baudis M., Premper T., Welk E., Bruelheide H. (2015): The response of three Fagus sylvatica L. provenances to water availability at different soil depths. Ecological Research 30 (5), 853–865. doi: 10.1007/s11284-015-1287-x
Binkenstein J., Schaefer M. (2015): Flower colours in temperate forest and grassland habitats: a comparative study. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 9 (3), 289-299. doi: 10.1007/s11829-015-9369-9
Birkhofer K., Diekötter T., Meub C., Stötzel K., Wolters V. (2015): Optimizing arthropod predator conservation in permanent grasslands by considering diversity components beyond species richness. Agriculture, Ecosystem and Environments 211, 65–72. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2015.05.014
Birkhofer K., Smith H. G., Weisser W. W., Wolters V., Gossner M. M. (2015): Land-use effects on the functional distinctness of arthropod communities. Ecography 38 (9), 889–900. doi: 10.1111/ecog.01141
Bischoff S., Schwarz M. T., Siemens J., Thieme L., Wilcke W., Michalzik B. (2015): Properties of dissolved and total organic matter in throughfall, stemflow and forest floor leachate of central European forests. Biogeosciences 12, 2695-2706. doi: 10.5194/bg-12-2695-2015
Bluhm C., Scheu S., Maraun M. (2015): Oribatid mite communities on the bark of dead wood vary with log type, surrounding forest and regional factors. Applied Soil Ecology 89, 102–112. doi: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2015.01.013
Boch S., Fischer M., Prati D. (2015): To eat or not to eat – Relationship of lichen herbivory by snails with secondary compounds and field frequency of lichens. Journal of Plant Ecology 8 (6), 642-650. doi: 10.1093/jpe/rtv005
Boeddinghaus R. S., Nunan N., Berner D., Marhan S., Kandeler E. (2015): Do general spatial relationships for microbial biomass and soil enzyme activities exist in temperate grassland soils? Soil Biology & Biochemistry 88, 430-440. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.05.026
Breitschwerdt E., Jandt U., Bruelheide H. (2015): Do newcomers stick to the rules of the residents? Designing trait-based community assembly tests. Journal of Vegetation Science 26 (2), 219–232. doi: 10.1111/jvs.12235
Clissmann F., Fiore-Donno A. M., Hoppe B., Krüger D., Kahl T., Unterseher M., Schnittler M. (2015): First insight into dead wood protistan diversity: a molecular sampling of bright-spored Myxomycetes (Amoebozoa, slime-moulds) in decaying beech logs. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 91 (6), pii: fiv050. doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiv050
Felsmann K., Baudis M., Gimbel K., Kayler Z. E., Ellerbrock R., Bruehlheide H., Bruckhoff J., Welk E., Puhlmann H., Weiler M., Gessler A., Ulrich A. (2015): Soil bacterial community structure responses to precipitation reduction and forest management in forest ecosystems across Germany. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0122539. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0122539
Ferlian O., Klarner B., Langeneckert A. E., Scheu S. (2015): Trophic niche differentiation and utilisation of food resources in collembolans based on complementary analyses of fatty acids and stable isotopes. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 82, 28–35. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.12.012
Floren A., Krüger D., Müller T., Dittrich M., Rudloff R., Hoppe B., Linsenmair K. E. (2015): Diversity and interactions of wood-inhabiting fungi and beetles after deadwood enrichment. PLoS ONE 10 (11): e0143566. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0143566
Gámez-Virués S., Perović D. J., Gossner M. M., Börschig C., Blüthgen N., de Jong H., Simons N., Klein A.-M., Krauss J., Maier G., Scherber C., Steckel J., Rothenwöhrer C., Steffan-Dewenter I., Weiner C. N., Weisser W. W., Werner M., Tscharntke T., Westphal C. (2015): Landscape simplification filters species traits and drives biotic homogenization. Nature Communications 6: 8568. doi: 10.1038/ncomms9568
Gimbel K. F., Felsmann K., Baudis M., Puhlmann H., Gessler A., Bruelheide H., Kayler Z., Ellerbrock R. H., Ulrich A., Welk E., Weiler M. (2015): Drought in forest understory ecosystems - a novel rainfall reduction experiment. Biogeosciences 12 (4), 961-975. doi: 10.5194/bg-12-961-2015
Glaser K., Kuppardt A., Boenigk J., Harms H., Fetzer I., Chatzinotas A. (2015): The influence of environmental factors on protistan microorganisms in grassland soils along a land-use gradient. Science of The Total Environment 537, 33–42. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.07.158
Goldmann K., Schöning I., Buscot F., Wubet T. (2015): Forest Management Type Influences Diversity and Community Composition of Soil Fungi across Temperate Forest Ecosystems. Frontiers in Microbiology 6:1300. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.0130
Gossner M. M., Simons N. K., Achtziger R., Blick T., Dorow W. H. O., Dziock F., Köhler F., Weisser W. W. (2015): A summary of eight traits of Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Orthoptera and Araneae, occurring in grasslands in Germany. Scientific Data 2:150013. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2015.13
Gossner M. M., Simons N. K., Höck L., Weisser W. W. (2015): Morphometric measures of Heteroptera sampled in grasslands across three regions of Germany. Ecology 96 (4), 1154–1154. doi: 10.1890/14-2159.1
Heim O., Treitler J. T., Tschapka M., Knörnschild M., Jung K. (2015): The Importance of Landscape Elements for Bat Activity and Species Richness in Agricultural Areas. PLoS ONE 10(7): e0134443. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0134443
Heinze J., Bergmann J., Rillig M. C., Joshi J. (2015): Negative biotic soil-effects enhance biodiversity by restricting potentially dominant plant species in grasslands. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 17 (3), 227–235. doi: 10.1016/j.ppees.2015.03.002
Heinze J., Werner T., Weber E., Rillig M. M., Joshi J. (2015): Soil biota effects on local abundances of three grass species along a land-use gradient. Oecologia 179 (1), 249-259. doi: 10.1007/s00442-015-3336-0
Holzwarth F., Rüger N., Wirth C. (2015): Taking a closer look: disentangling effects of functional diversity on ecosystem functions with a trait-based model across hierarchy and time. Royal Society Open Science 2:140541. doi: 10.1098/rsos.140541
Hoppe B., Krüger D., Kahl T., Arnstadt T., Buscot F., Bauhus J., Wubet T. (2015): A pyrosequencing insight into sprawling bacterial diversity and community dynamics in decaying deadwood logs of Fagus sylvatica and Picea abies. Nature, Scientific Reports 5: 9456. doi:10.1038/srep09456
Kahl T., Baber K., Otto P., Wirth C., Bauhus J. (2015): Drivers of CO2 Emission Rates from Dead Wood Logs of 13 Tree Species in the Initial Decomposition Phase. Forests 6 (7), 2484-2504. doi:10.3390/f6072484
Kaur P., Owonibi M., Koenig-Ries B. (2015): Towards Visualization Recommendation-A Semi-Automated Domain-Specific Learning Approach. Grundlagen von Datenbanken 30-35
Keil D., Niklaus P. A., von Riedmatten L. R., Boeddinghaus R. S., Dormann K. F., Scherer-Lorenzen M., Kandeler E., Marhan S. (2015): Effects of warming and drought on potential N2O emissions and denitrifying bacteria abundance in grasslands with different land use. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 91(7), pii: fiv066. doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiv066
Köhler G., Pasalic E., Weisser W. W., Gossner M. M. (2015): Beech forest management does not affect the infestation rate of the beech scale Cryptococcus fagisuga across three regions in Germany. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 17 (2), 197–204. doi: 10.1111/afe.12097
Köhler G., Pasalic E., Gossner M. M., Baier U. (2015): Die Buchenwollschildlaus Cryptococcus fagisuga und ihre ambivalente Rolle in thüringischen Buchenwäldern. Landschaftspflege und Naturschutz in Thüringen 52 (3), 104 – 111
Kühsel S., Blüthgen N. (2015): High diversity stabilizes the thermal resilience of pollinator communities in intensively managed grasslands. Nature Communications 6:7989. doi: 10.1038/ncomms8989
Mangels J., Blüthgen N., Frank K., Grassein F., Hilpert A., Mody K. (2015): Tree Species Composition and Harvest Intensity Affect Herbivore Density and Leaf Damage on Beech, Fagus sylvatica, in Different Landscape Contexts. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0126140. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0126140
Manning P., Gossner M. M., Bossdorf O., Allan E., Zhang Y.-Y., Prati D., Blüthgen N., Boch S., Böhm S., Börschig C., Hölzel N., Jung K., Klaus V. H., Klein A. M., Kleinbecker T., Krauss J., Lange M., Müller J., Pašalić E., Socher S. A., Tschapka M., Türke M., Weiner C., Werner M., Gockel S., Hemp A., Renner S. C., Wells C., Buscot F., Kalko E. K. V., Linsenmair K.-E., Weisser W. W., Fischer M. (2015): Grassland management intensification weakens the associations among the diversities of multiple plant and animal taxa. Ecology 96 (6), 1492–1501. doi: 10.1890/14-1307.1
Marcus T., Boch S., Durka W., Fischer M., Gossner M. M., Müller J., Schöning I., Weisser W. W., Drees K., Assmann T. (2015): Living in heterogeneous woodlands – are habitat continuity or quality drivers of genetic variability in a flightless ground beetle? PLoS ONE 10(12): e0144217. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0144217
Müller J., Boch S., Blaser S., Fischer M., Prati D. (2015): Effects of forest management on bryophyte communities on deadwood. Nova Hedwigia 100 (3-4), 423-438. doi: 10.1127/nova_hedwigia/2015/0242
Müller J., Brustel H., Brin A., Bussler H., Bouget C., Obermaier E., Heidinger I. M. M., Lachat T., Förster B., Horak J., Procházka J., Köhler F., Larrieu L., Bense U., Isacsson G., Zapponi L., Gossner M. M. (2015): Increasing temperature may compensate for lower amounts of dead wood in driving richness of saproxylic beetles. Ecography 38 (5) 499–509. doi: 10.1111/ecog.00908
Müller J., Wende B., Strobl C., Eugster M., Gallenberger I., Floren A., Steffan-Dewenter I., Linsenmair K. E., Weisser W. W., Gossner M. M. (2015): Forest management and regional tree composition drive the host preference of saproxylic beetle communities. Journal of Applied Ecology 52 (3), 753–762. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12421
Müller M., Seifert S., Finkeldey R. (2015): Identification of SNPs in candidate genes potentially involved in bud burst in European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.). Silvae Genetica 64 (1-2), 1-20
Nölke N., Beckschäfer P., Kleinn C. (2015): Thermal canopy photography in forestry - an alternative to optical cover photography. iForest 8, 1-5. doi: 10.3832/ifor1129-007
Parmain G., Bouget C., Müller J., Horak J., Gossner M. M., Lachat T., Isacsson G. (2015): Can rove beetles (Staphylinidae) be excluded in studies focusing on saproxylic beetles in central European beech forests? Bulletin of Entomological Research 105 (01), 101-109. doi: 10.1017/S0007485314000741
Perović D., Gámez-Virués S., Börschig C., Klein A.-M., Krauss J., Steckel J., Rothenwöhrer C., Erasmi S., Tscharntke T., Westphal K. (2015): Configurational landscape heterogeneity shapes functional community composition of grassland butterflies. Journal of Applied Ecology 52 (2), 505–513. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12394
Pollierer M. M., Ferlian O., Scheu S. (2015): Temporal dynamics and variation with forest type of phospholipid fatty acids in litter and soil of temperate forests across regions. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 91, 248-257. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.08.035
Purahong W., Kapturska D., Pecyna M. J., Jariyavidyanont K., Kaunzner J., Juncheed K., Uengwetwanit T., Rudloff R., Schulz E., Hofrichter M., Schloter M., Krüger D., Buscot F. (2015): Effects of Forest Management Practices in Temperate Beech Forests on Bacterial and Fungal Communities Involved in Leaf Litter Degradation. Microbial Ecology 69 (4), 905-913. doi: 10.1007/s00248-015-0585-8
Purahong W., Stempfhuber B., Lentendu G., Francioli D., Reitz T., Buscot F., Schloter M., Krüger D. (2015): Influence of Commonly Used Primer Systems on Automated Ribosomal Intergenic Spacer Analysis of Bacterial Communities in Environmental Samples. PLoS ONE 10(3): e0118967. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0118967
Reichel-Jung K. (2015): Ein Einblick in die Biodiversitätsexploratorien. Blätter des Schwäbischen Albvereins 2/2015, 12-15
Renoult J. P., Blüthgen N., Binkenstein J., Weiner C. N., Werner M., Schaefer M. (2015): The relative importance of color signaling for plant generalization in pollination networks. Oikos 124 (3), 347–354. doi: 10.1111/oik.01361
Schulze E.-D., Ammer C. (2015): Spannungsfeld Forstwirtschaft und Naturschutz. Biologie in unserer Zeit 45 (5), 304–314. doi: 10.1002/biuz.201510574
Simons N. K., Gossner M. M., Lewinsohn T. M,, Lange M., Türke M., Weisser W. W. (2015): Effects of land-use intensity on arthropod species abundance distributions in grasslands. Journal of Animal Ecology 84 (1), 143–154. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12278
Soliveres S., Maestre F. T., Ulrich W., Manning P., Boch S., Bowker M., Prati D., Delgado-Baquerizo M., Quero J. L., Schöning I., Gallardo A., Weisser W. W., Müller J., García-Gómez M., Ochoa V., Schulze E.-D., Fischer M., Allan E. (2015): Intransitive competition is widespread in plant communities and maintains their species richness. Ecology Letters 18 (8), 790–798. doi: 10.1111/ele.12456
Solly E., Schöning I., Herold N., Trumbore S., Schrumpf M. (2015): No depth-dependence of fine root litter decomposition in temperate beech forest soils. Plant and Soil 393 (1), 273-282. doi:10.1007/s11104-015-2492-7
Sonnemann I., Pfestorf H., Jeltsch F., Wurst S. (2015): Community- Weighted Mean Plant Traits Predict Small Scale Distribution of Insect Root Herbivore Abundance. PLoS ONE 10 (10): e0141148. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141148
Stempfhuber B., Engel M., Fischer D., Neskovic-Prit G., Wubet T., Schöning I., Gubry-Rangin C., Kublik S., Schloter-Hai B., Rattei T., Welzl G., Nicol G. W., Schrumpf M., Buscot F., Prosser J. I., Schloter M. (2015): pH as a Driver for Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea in Forest Soils. Microbial Ecology 69 (4), 879-883. doi: 10.1007/s00248-014-0548-5
Vályi K., Rillig M. C., Hempel S. (2015): Land-use intensity and host plant identity interactively shape communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in roots of grassland plants. New Phytologist 205 (4), 1577–1586. doi: 10.1111/nph.13236
Wäschke N., Hancock C., Hilker M., Obermaier E., Meiners T. (2015): Does vegetation complexity affect host plant chemistry, and thus multitrophic interactions, in a human-altered landscape? Oecologia 179 (1), 281-292. doi: 10.1007/s00442-015-3347-x
Weiss L., Jeltsch F. (2015): The response of simulated grassland communities to the cessation of grazing. Ecological Modelling 303, 1–11. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.02.002
PhD dissertation
Bantle A. K. (2015): Tree species effects on the release of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen from decomposing logs. Dissertation, University Bayreuth
Egorov E. (2015): Community phylogenetics and invertebrate herbivory in managed grasslands. Dissertation, University Marburg
Gimbel K. F. (2015): Influence of Artificial Drought on Soil Hydrology in Temperate Forest Ecosystems. Dissertation, University Freiburg
Hallmann C. (2015): Biodiversity of terrestrial algal communities from soil and air-exposed substrates using a molecular approach. Dissertation, University Göttingen
Hoppe B. (2015): Microbial diversity and community structure in deadwood of Fagus sylvatica L. and Picea abies (L.) H. Karst. Dissertation, University Freiburg. doi: 10.6094/UNIFR/10228
Hotopp I. (2015): Nitrifikation und Denitrifikation im Boden in Abhängigkeit von Sauerstoff und mikrobieller Aktivität - Entwicklung, Analyse, Parametrisierung und Anwendung eines gekoppelten Simulationsmodells. Dissertation, University Osnabrück
Keil D. (2015): Influence of land use on abundance, function and spatial distribution of N-cycling microorganisms in grassland soils. Dissertation, University Hohenheim
Kühsel S. (2015): Pollinator trait diversity: functional implications at different land-use intensities and environmental conditions. Dissertation, TU Darmstadt
Müller J. (2015): Response of bryophyte diversity to land-use and management in forest and grassland habitats. Dissertation, University Potsdam
Ott D. (2015): Towards a unified allometric and stoichiometric perspective in ecology. Dissertation, University Göttingen
Pfestorf H. (2015): Land use intensity and insect root herbivores: from spatial pattern to plant community feedback. Dissertation, University Potsdam
Schmitt B. (2015): Plant community assembly in temperate grasslands of different land-use intensity. Dissertation, University Bern
Schröter K. (2015): Functional diversity of mycorrhiza in relation to land-use changes and ecosystem functions. Dissertation, University Göttingen
Schwarz M. (2015): Biotic and abiotic controls of nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in Central European forests. Dissertations, University Bern
Simons N. (2015): Effects of land-use intensity on arthropod diversity and community structure in grassland. Dissertation, TU München
Wende B. (2015): Diversity of saproxylic beetles and host tree specialisation in differently managed forests across Germany. Dissertation, University Würzburg
Diploma/Master/Bachelor Theses
Abele M. (2015): Der Einfluss chemischer Signale auf Dungpräferenzen von Dungkäfern. Bachelor thesis, University Würzburg
Boob M. (2015): Einfluss der Landnutzungsintensität auf die mikrobielle Biomasse und Enzymaktivitäten im Rhizosphärenboden verschiedener Grünlandpflanzenarten. Master thesis, University Hohenheim
Dimmerling R. (2015): Der Einfluss der Landnutzung auf die Abundanz Aas-besuchender Scarabaeiden. State examenation, University Ulm
Dirks R. (2015): Ecosystem resilience, biodiversity and land-use intensity: Effect of a parasiticide on dung decomposition. Bachelor thesis, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Geisthardt M. (2015): Predation along a land-use gradient in German grasslands. Master thesis, TU München
Grunz S. (2015): Regeneration eines Wurzelherbivoren - Grünlandpflanzensystems: Konsequenzen der Wurzelherbivorie für die Pflanzengemeinschaft. Master thesis, FU Berlin
Jauch D. (2015): Influence of land use intensity on the biodiversity of the cadaver inhabiting silphid beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) and the decomposition rate in differently managed forests. Master thesis, University Ulm
Kirchberger J. (2015): Predation along a land-use gradient in German forests. Master thesis, TU München
Kubotsch C. (2015): Einfluss der Landnutzungsintensität auf die Biodiversität zersetzender Käfer (Coleoptera: Silphidae). State examination, University Ulm
Mertens D. (2015): Untersuchungen zur Bodensamenbank im Grünland: Effekte experimenteller Oberbodenstörung. Bachelor thesis, University Münster
Mösch S. (2015): Flüsse, chemische Zusammensetzung und Umsatz von Streufall in zwei mitteleuropäischen Regionen: Einfluss der Landnutzungsintensität und mit ihr verbundener Biodiversität. Master thesis, University Bern
Mutz J.-E. (2015): Effects of biological soil crusts on phosphorus pools in near-surface soil. Bachelor thesis, University Rostock
Noll L. (2015): Kohlenstoff- und Stickstoffdynamik in Totholz: Bedeutung der Flüsse mit der gelösten Phase und der pilzlichen N-Translokation aus dem Boden. Master thesis, University Bayreuth
Ostertag J. (2015): Der Einfluss der Vegetationsstruktur auf die Schalltransmission. State examination, University Freiburg
Plumbaum K. (2015): Germination success of grassland-species on soils of different land-use intensity. Bachelor thesis, University Münster
Reichling R. P. (2015): Resilience of grassland in the Biodiversity Exploratories. Bachelor thesis, University Münster
Rose T. (2015): The influence of experimental nitrogen deposition on coarse woody debris CO and CO2 efflux. Master thesis, University Freiburg
Szagun S. (2015): Body size of Nicrophorus vespilloides (Coleoptera: Silphidae) in relation to land use intensity and population density. Bachelor thesis, University Ulm
Tielbürger S. (2015): Untersuchung radialer Wachstumsmuster von Rotbuche (Fagus sylvatica) in unterschiedlichen Stammhöhen unter dem Einfluss des Standortes, der Konkurrenzbaumart und des Klimas. Master thesis, University Göttingen
Unger E. M. (2015): Phylogenetic diversity as proxy for functional diversity. Master thesis, University Göttingen
Vogt L. M. (2015): Einfluss der Landnutzung auf die Palatabilität von Dactylis glomerata L. Bachelor thesis, University Münster
Weithmann S. (2015): Abundance of dung-associated beetles on carrion in differently managed forests (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Master thesis, University Ulm
2014
Scientific Publications
Allan E., Bossdorf O., Dormann C. F., Prati D., Gossner M. M., Tscharntke T., Blüthgen N., Bellach M., Birkhofer K., Boch S., Böhm S., Börschig C., Chatzinotas A., Christ S., Daniel R., Diekötter T., Fischer C., Friedl T., Glaser K., Hallmann C., Hodac L., Hölzel N., Jung K., Klein A. M., Klaus V. H., Kleinebecker T., Krauss J., Lange M., Morris K. E., Müller J., Nacke H., Pasalic E., Rillig M. C., Rothenwöhrer C., Schall P., Scherber C., Schulze W., Socher S. A., Steckel J., Steffan-Dewenter I., Türke M., Weiner C. N., Werner M., Westphal C., Wolters V., Wubet T., Gockel S., Gorke M., Hemp A., Renner S. C., Schöning I., Pfeiffer S., König-Ries B., Buscot F., Linsenmair K. E., Schulze E. D., Weisser W. W., Fischer M. (2014): Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity. PNAS 111, 308–313. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1312213111
Bantle A., Borken W., Ellerbrock R. H., Schulze E. D., Weisser W. W., Matzner E. (2014): Quantity and quality of dissolved organic carbon released from coarse woody debris of different tree species in the early phase of decomposition. Forest Ecology and Management 329, 287–294. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.06.035
Bantle A., Borken W., Matzner E. (2014): Dissolved nitrogen release from coarse woody debris of different tree species in the early phase of decomposition. Forest Ecology and Management 334, 277–283. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2014.09.01
Baudis M., Ellerbrock R., Felsmann K., Gessler A., Gimbel K., Kayler Z., Puhlmann H., Ulrich A., Weiler M., Welk E., Bruelheide H. (2014): Intraspecfic differences in responses to rainshelter-induced drought and competition of Fagus sylvatica L. across Germany. Forest Ecology and Management 330, 283–293. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.07.012
Börschig C., Klein A.-M., Krauss J. (2014): Effects of grassland management, endophytic fungi and predators on aphid abundance in two distinct regions. Journal of Plant Ecology 7 (5), 490-498. doi:10.1093/jpe/rtt047
Brose U., Scheu S. (2014): Into darkness: unravelling the structure of soil food webs. Oikos 123 (10), 1153–1156. doi: 10.1111/oik.01768
Digel C., Curtsdotter A., Riede J., Klarner, Brose U. (2014): Unravelling the complex structure of forest soil food webs: higher omnivory and more trophic levels. Oikos 123 (10), 1157–1172. doi: 10.1111/oik.00865
Egorov E., Prati D., Durka W., Michalski S., Fischer M., Schmitt B., Blaser S., Brändle M. (2014): Does Land-Use Intensification Decrease Plant Phylogenetic Diversity in Local Grasslands? PLoS ONE 9 (7), e103252. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0103252
Ehnes R. B., Pollierer M. M., Erdmann G., Klarner B., Eitzinger B., Maraun M., Scheu S., Brose U. (2014): Lack of energetic equivalence in forest soil invertebrates. Ecology 95 (2), 527-537. doi: 10.1890/13-0620.1
Eitzinger B., Unger E. M., Traugott M., Scheu S. (2014): Effects of prey quality and predator body size on prey DNA detection success in a centipede predator. Molecular Ecology 23 (15), 3767–3776. doi: 10.1111/mec.12654
Ferlian O., Cesarz S., Marhan S., Scheu S. (2014): Carbon food resources of earthworms of different ecological groups as indicated by 13C compound-specific stable isotope analysis. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 77, 22–30. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.06.002
Ferlian O., Scheu S. (2014): Shifts in trophic interactions with forest type in soil generalist predators as indicated by complementary analyses of fatty acids and stable isotopes. Oikos 123 (10), 1182–1191. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00848.x
Fischer M., Boch S., Allan E. (2014): Neue Ergebnisse aus den Biodiversitäts-Exploratorien. Senckenberg Natur · Forschung · Museum 144 (3/4), 98-101
Floren A., Müller T., Dittrich M., Weiss M., Linsenmair K. E. (2014): The influence of tree species, stratum and forest management on beetle assemblages responding to deadwood enrichment. Forest Ecology and Management 323, 57–64. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.03.028
Foesel B.U., Nägele V., Näther A., Wüst P., Weinert J., Bonkowski M., Alt F., Oelmann Y., Polle A., Lohaus G., Fischer M., Friedrich M.W., Overmann J. (2014): Determinants of Acidobacteria activity inferred from the relative abundances of 16S rRNA transcripts in German grassland and forest soils. Environmental Microbiology 16 (3), 658–675. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12162
Geisen S., Weinert J., Kudryavtsev A., Glotova A., Bonkowski M., Smirnov A. (2014): Two new species of the genus Stenamoeba (Discosea, Longamoebia): Cytoplasmic MTOC is present in one more amoebae lineage. European Journal of Protistology 50 (2), 153–165. doi: 10.1016/j.ejop.2014.01.007
Getzin S., Nuske R. S., Wiegand K. (2014): Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to Quantify Spatial Gap Patterns in Forests. Remote Sensing 6 (8), 6988-7004. doi:10.3390/rs6086988
Glaser K., Kuppardt A., Krohn S., Heidtmann A., Harms H., Chatzinotas A. (2014): Primer pairs for the specific environmental detection and T-RFLP analysis of the ubiquitousflagellate taxa Chrysophyceae and Kinetoplastea. Journal of Microbiological Methods 100, 8–16. doi: 10.1016/j.mimet.2014.02.006
Gossner M. M., Fonseca C. R., Pasalic E., Türke M., Lange M., Weisser W. W. (2014): Limitations to the use of arthropods as temperate forests indicators. Biodiversity and Conservation 23 (4), 945-962. doi: 10.1007/s10531-014-0644-3
Gossner M. M., Pasalic E., Lange M., Lange P., Boch S., Hessenmöller D., Müller J., Socher S. A., Fischer M., Schulze E.-D., Weisser W. W. (2014): Differential Responses of Herbivores and Herbivory to Management in Temperate European Beech. PLoS ONE 9(8), e104876. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.010487
Gossner M. M., Schall P., Ammer C., Ammer U., Engel K., Schubert H., Simon U., Utschick H., Weisser W. W. (2014): Forest management intensity measures as alternative to stand properties for quantifying effects on biodiversity. Ecosphere 5 (9), 113. doi:10.1890/es14-00177.1
Gossner M. M., Weisser W. W., Gershenzon J., Unsicker S. B. (2014): Insect attraction to herbivore-induced beech volatiles under different forest management regimes. Oecologia 176 (2), 569-80. doi: 10.1007/s00442-014-3025-4
Gossner M. M., Weisser W. W., Meyer S. T. (2014): Invertebrate herbivory decreases along a gradient of increasing land-use intensity in German grasslands. Basic and Applied Ecology 15, 347–352. doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2014.03.003
Günther B., Rall B. C., Ferlian O., Scheu S., Eitzinger B. (2014): Variations in prey consumption of centipede predators in forest soils as indicated by molecular gut content analysis. Oikos 123 (10), 1192–1198. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00868.x
Herold N., Schöning I., Berner D., Haslwimmer H., Kandeler E., Michalzik B., Schrumpf M. (2014): Vertical gradients of potential enzyme activities in soil profiles of European beech, Norway spruce and Scots pine dominated forest sites. Pedobiologia 57 (3), 181–189. doi: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2014.03.003
Herold N., Schöning I., Gutknecht J., Alt F., Boch S., Müller J., Oelmann Y., Socher S. A., Wilke W., Wubet T., Schrumpf M. (2014): Soil property and management effects on grassland microbial communities across a latitudinal gradient in Germany. Applied Soil Ecology 73, 41-50. doi: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2013.07.009
Herold N., Schöning I., Michalzik B., Trumbore S. E., Schrumpf M. (2014): Controls on soil carbon storage and turnover in German landscapes. Biogeochemistry 119 (1-3), 435-451. doi:10.1007/s10533-014-9978-x
Hoppe B., Kahl T., Karasch P., Wubet T., Bauhus J., Buscot F., Krüger D. (2014): Network Analysis Reveals Ecological Links between N-Fixing Bacteria and Wood-Decaying Fungi. PLoS ONE 9(2): e88141. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088141
Kahl T., Bauhus J. (2014): An index of forest management intensity based on assessment of harvested tree volume, tree species composition and dead wood origin. Nature Conservation 7, 15-27. doi: 10.3897/natureconservation.7.7281
Kellner H., Luis P., Pecyna M. J., Barbi F., Kapturska D., Krüger D., Zak D. R., Marmeisse R., Vandenbol M., Hofrichter M. (2014): Widespread Occurrence of Expressed Fungal Secretory Peroxidases in Forest Soils. PLoS ONE 9(4): e95557. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0095557
Klarner B., Ehnes R. B., Erdmann G., Eitzinger B., Pollierer M. M., Maraun M., Scheu S. (2014): Trophic shift of soil animal species with forest type as indicated by stable isotope analysis. Oikos 123 (10), 1173–1181. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00939.x
Kleinebecker T., Hölzel N., Prati D., Schmitt B., Fischer M., Klaus V. H. (2014): Evidence from the real world: 15N natural abundances reveal enhanced nitrogen use at high plant diversity in Central European grasslands. Journal of Ecology 102 (2), 456–465. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12202
Körner K., Pfestorf H., May F., Jeltsch F. (2014): Modelling the effect of belowground herbivory on grassland diversity. Ecological Modelling 273, 79–85. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.10.025
Kubiczek K., Renner S. C., Böhm S. M., Kalko E. K. V., Wells K. (2014): Movement and ranging patterns of the Common Chaffinch in heterogeneous forest landscapes. PeerJ 2:e368. doi: 10.7717/peerj.368
Lange M., Türke M., Pasalic E., Boch S., Hessenmöller D., Müller J., Prati D., Socher S. A., Fischer M., Weisser W. W., Gossner M. M. (2014): Effects of forest management on ground-dwelling beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae, Staphylinidae) in Central Europe are mainly mediated by changes in forest structure. Forest Ecology and Management 329, 166–176. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.06.012
Liu Y., Rothenwöhrer C., Scherber C., Batáry P., Elek Z., Steckel J., Erasmi S., Tscharntke T., Westphal C. (2014): Functional beetle diversity in managed grasslands: effects of region, landscape context and land use intensity. Landscape Ecology 29 (3), 529-540. doi: 10.1007/s10980-014-9987-0
Mehler K., Schöning I., Berli M. (2014): The importance of rock fragment density for the calculation of soil bulk density and soil organic carbon stock. Soil Science Society of America Journal 78 (4), 1186-1191. doi: 10.2136/sssaj2013.11.0480
Meyer A., Focks A., Radl V., Welzl G., Schöning I., Schloter M. (2014): Influence of land use intensity on the diversity of ammonia oxidizing bacteria and archaea in soils from grassland ecosystems. Microbial Ecology 67 (1), 161-166. doi: 10.1007/s00248-013-0310-4
Morris K. E., Caruso T., Buscot F., Fischer M., Hancock C., Maier T. S., Meiners T., Müller C., Obermaier E., Prati D., Socher S., Sonnemann I., Wäschke N., Wubet T., Wurst S., Rillig M. C. (2014): Choosing and using diversity indices: insights for ecological applications from the German Biodiversity Exploratories. Ecology and Evolution 4 (18), 3514–3524. doi: 10.1002/ece3.1155
Müller J., Heinze J., Joshi J., Boch S., Klaus V. H., Fischer M., Prati D. (2014): Influence of experimental soil disturbances on the diversity of plants in agricultural grasslands. Journal of Plant Ecology 7 (6), 509-517. doi: 10.1093/jpe/rtt062
Nacke H., Fischer C., Thürmer A., Meinicke P., Daniel R. (2014): Land Use Type Significantly Affects Microbial Gene Transcription in Soil. Microbial Ecology 67 (4), 919-930. doi: 10.1007/s00248-014-0377-6
Ott D., Digel C., Rall B. C. , Maraun M., Scheu S., Brose U. (2014): Unifying elemental stoichiometry and metabolic theory in predicting species abundances. Ecology Letters 17 (10), 1247–1256. doi: 10.1111/ele.12330
Ott D., Digel K., Klarner B., Maraun M., Pollierer M., Rall B. C., Scheu S., Seelig G., Brose U. (2014): Litter elemental stoichiometry and biomass densities of forest soil invertebrates. Oikos 123 (10), 1212–1223. doi: 10.1111/oik.01670
Purahong W., Hoppe B., Kahl T., Schloter M., Schulze E.-D., Bauhus J., Buscot F., Krüger D. (2014): Changes within a single land-use category alter microbial diversity and community structure: molecular evidence from wood-inhabiting fungi in forest ecosystems. Journal of Environmental Management 139, 109–119. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2014.02.031
Purahong W., Kahl T., Schloter M., Bauhus J., Buscot F., Krüger D. (2014): Comparing fungal richness and community composition in coarse woody debris in Central European beech forests under three types of management. Mycological Progress 13 (3), 959-964. doi: 10.1007/s11557-013-954-y
Purahong W., Kapturska D., Pecyna M. J., Schulz E., Schloter M., Buscot F., Hofrichter M., Krüger D. (2014): Influence of Different Forest System Management Practices on Leaf Litter Decomposition Rates, Nutrient Dynamics and the Activity of Ligninolytic Enzymes: A Case Study from Central European Forests. PLoS ONE 9(4): e93700. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0093700
Purahong W., Schloter M., Pecyna M. J., Kapturska D., Däumlich V., Mital S., Buscot F., Hofrichter M., Gutknecht J. L. M., Krüger D. (2014): Uncoupling of microbial community structure and function in decomposing litter across beech forest ecosystems in Central Europe. Scientific Reports 4:7014. doi: 10.1038/srep07014
Rajendra K.C., Seifert S., Prinz K., Gailing O., Finkeldey R. (2014): Subtle human impacts on neutral genetic diversity and spatial patterns of genetic variation in European beech (Fagus sylvatica). Forest Ecology and Management 319, 138–149. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.02.003
Regan K. M., Nunan N., Boeddinghaus R. S., Baumgarten V., Berner D., Boch S., Oelmann Y., Overmann J., Prati D., Schloter M., Schmitt B., Sorkau E., Steffens M., Kandeler E., Marhan S. (2014): Seasonal controls on grassland microbial biogeography: Are they governed by plants, abiotic properties or both? Soil Biology and Biochemistry 71, 21–30. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.12.024
Renner S. C., Gossner M. M., Fischer M., Kahl T., Kalko E. K. V., Weisser W. W., Allan E. (2014): Temporal Changes in Randomness of Bird Communities across Central Europe. PLoS ONE 9 (11): e112347. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112347
Schwarz M. T., Bischoff S., Blaser S., Boch S., Schmitt B. Thieme L., Fischer M., Michalzik B., Schulze E.-D., Siemens J., Wilcke W. (2014): More efficient aboveground nitrogen use in more diverse Central European forest canopies. Forest Ecology and Management 313, 274–282. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.11.021
Simons N. K., Gossner M. M., Lewinsohn T. M., Boch S., Lange M., Müller J., Pasalic E., Socher S. A., Türke M., Fischer M., Weisser W. W. (2014): Resource-Mediated Indirect Effects of Grassland Management on Arthropod Diversity. PLoS ONE 9 (9): e107033. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0107033
Solly E., Schöning I., Boch S., Kandeler E., Marhan S., Michalzik B., Müller J., Zscheischler J., Trumbore S. E., Schrumpf M. (2014): Factors controlling decomposition rates of fine root litter in temperate forests and grasslands. Plant and Soil 382 (1-2), 203-218. doi: 10.1007/s11104-014-2151-4
Sonnemann I., Grunz S., Wurst S. (2014): Horizontal migration of click beetle (Agriotes spp.) larvae depends on food availability. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 150 (2), 174–178. doi: 10.1111/eea.12150
Steckel J., Westphal C., Peters M. K., Bellach M., Rothenwöhrer C., Erasmi S., Scherber C., Tscharntke T., Steffan-Dewenter I. (2014): Landscape composition and configuration differently affect trap-nesting bees, wasps and their antagonists. Biological Conservation 172, 56–64. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2014.02.01
Stempfhuber B., Welzl G., Wubet T., Schöning I., Marhan S., Buscot F., Kandeler E., Schloter M. (2014): Drivers for ammonia-oxidation along a land-use gradient in grassland soils. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 69, 179–186. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.11.007
Wäschke N., Hardge K., Hancock C., Hilker M., Obermaier E., Meiners T. (2014): Habitats as Complex Odour Environments: How Does Plant Diversity Affect Herbivore and Parasitoid Orientation? PLoS ONE 9 (1): e85152. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0085152
Weiner C. N., Werner M., Linsenmair K. E., Blüthgen N. (2014): Land-use impacts on plant–pollinator networks: interaction strength and specialization predict pollinator declines. Ecology 95 (2), 466–474. doi: 10.1890/13-0436.1
Weiss L., Pfestorf H., May F., Körner K., Boch S., Fischer M., Müller J., Prati D., Socher S. A., Jeltsch F. (2014): Grazing response patterns indicate isolation of semi-natural European grasslands. Oikos 123 (5), 599–612. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00957.x
Welk A., Welk E., Bruelheide H. (2014): Biotic Interactions Overrule Plant Responses to Climate, Depending on the Species' Biogeography. PLoS ONE 9(10): e111023. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0111023
Wiesner K. R., Habel J. C., Gossner M. M., Loxdale H. D., Köhler G., Schneider A. R. R., Tiedemann R., Weisser W. W. (2014): Effects of habitat structure and land-use intensity on the genetic structure of the grasshopper species Chorthippus parallelus. The Royal Society Open Science 1: 140133. doi: 10.1098/rsos.140133
Book section
Owonibi M., Koenig-Ries B. (2014): A Quality Management Workflow Proposal for a Biodiversity Data Repository. In "Advances in Conceptual Modeling" Indulska M., Purao S. (Eds.). Springer International Publishing, pp 157-167. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-12256-4_17
PhD dissertation
Binkenstein J. (2014): The ecology of flower colors in temperate plant communities. Dissertation, University Freiburg
Blaser S. (2014): Effects of land use on the diversity of fungi in central European forests and grasslands. Dissertation, University Bern
Digel C. (2014): Allometric structure and topology of food webs: Energetic constraints conserve food-web structure across ecosystems and space. Dissertation, University Göttingen
Ehnes R. (2014): Allometry – Relations to Energy and Abundance. Dissertation, TU Darmstadt
Ferlian O. (2014): Soil animal food webs in temperate forests: effects of forest management on trophic structure as indicated by molecular gut content, stable isotope and fatty acid analyses. Dissertation, University Göttingen
Geisen S. (2014): Soil Protists - Diversity, Distribution and Ecological Functioning.Dissertation, Universität zu Köln
Grüneberg E. (2014): Variability of soil organic carbon stocks in managed forests on the national and regional scale. Dissertation, University Freiburg
Purahong W. (2014): Molecular microbial diversity of deadwood and leaf litter in forests of different forest management intensity. Dissertation, TU München
Solly E. (2014): The role of fine root litter for organic matter storage in soils. University Jena, Dissertation
Diploma/Master/Bachelor Theses
Buchwald K. (2014): Landnutzungseffekte auf die Artendiversität und -zusammensetzung von Heuschrecken. Bachelor thesis, TU Darmstadt
Forster M. (2014): Effects of structural complexity within managed forest stands managed forest stands on the occurrence and activity of insectivorous bats. Master thesis, University Ulm
Geyer M. (2014): Dungpräferenzen bei heimischen Mistkäferarten. Bachelor thesis, University Würzburg
Jonov R. (2014): Charakterisierung von cDom mittels Fluoreszenzanalyse. Bachelor thesis, TU Berlin
Jost A. (2014): Einfluss von Landnutzung auf die Diversität, Komposition und Spezialisierung von Pflanzen und ihren Blütenbesuchern im Grünland. Thesis, TU Darmstadt
Rautenberg D. (2014): Einfluss von Wurzelherbivoren auf die AMF-Kolonisation von Plantago lanceolataunter verschiedenen Landnutzungsintensitäten. Bachelor thesis, FU Berlin
Rüdy M. (2014): Stickstoffbilanz von mitteleuropäischem Grünland unterschiedlicher Nutzungsintensität. Master thesis, University Bern
Smiatek M. (2014): Grazing and its ecological effects: A new index for grazing intensity in grasslands. Bachelor thesis, University Münster
Villamizar G. A. C. (2014): Microbial diversity associated to beech -spruce species and characterization of novel bacterial phosphatases from the German exploratories soil metagenomes. Master thesis, University Goettingen
2013
Scientific Publications
Alt F., Oelmann Y., Schöning I., Wilcke W. (2013): Phosphate release kinetics in calcareous grassland and forest soils in response to H+ addition. Soil Science Society of America Journal 77 (6), 2060-2070. doi:10.2136/sssaj2013.02.0072
Binkenstein J., Renoult J. P., Schaefer M. (2013): Increasing land-use intensity decreases floral colour diversity of plant communities in temperate grasslands. Oecologia 173 (2), 461-471. doi: 10.1007/s00442-013-2627-6
Blaser S., Prati D., Senn-Irlet B., Fischer M. (2013): Effects of forest management on the diversity of deadwood-inhabiting fungi in Central European forests. Forest Ecology and Management 304, 42–48. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.04.043
Boch S., Müller J., Prati D., Blaser S., Fischer M. (2013): Up in the Tree – The Overlooked Richness of Bryophytes and Lichens in Tree Crowns. PLoS ONE 8(12): e84913. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0084913
Boch S., Prati D., Hessenmöller D., Schulze E.-D., Fischer M. (2013): Richness of Lichen Species, Especially of Threatened Ones, Is Promoted by Management Methods Furthering Stand Continuity. PLoS ONE 8 (1): e55461. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055461
Boch S., Prati D., Müller J., Socher S., Baumbach H., Buscot F., Gockel S., Hemp A., Hessenmöller D., Kalko E. K. V., Linsenmair K. E., Pfeiffer S., Pommer U., Schöning I., Schulze E-D., Seilwinder C., Weisser W. W., Wells K., Fischer M. (2013): High plant species richness indicates management-related disturbances rather than the conservation status of forests. Basic and Applied Ecology 14 (6), 496–505. doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2013.06.001
Börschig C., Klein A. M., von Wehrden H., Krauss J.(2013): Traits of butterfly communities change from specialist to generalist characteristics with increasing land-use intensity. Basic and Applied Ecology 14 (7), 547–554. doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2013.09.002
Chrobock T., Weiner C. N., Werner M., Blüthgen N., Fischer M., van Kleunen M.(2013): Effects of native pollinator specialization, self-compatibility and flowering duration of European plant species on their invasiveness elsewhere. Journal of Ecology 101 (4), 916–923. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12107
Domonell A., Brabender M., Nitsche F., Bonkowski M., Arndt A. (2013): Community Structure of Cultivable Protists in Different Grassland and Forest Soils of Thuringia. Pedobiologia 56 (1), 1–7. doi: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2012.07.001
Eitzinger B., Micic A., Körner M., Traugott M., Scheu S. (2013): Unveiling soil food web links: New PCR assays for detection of prey DNA in the gut of soil arthropod predators. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 57 (943–945). doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2012.09.001
Gossner M. M., Floren A., Weisser W. W., Linsenmair K. E. (2013): Effect of dead wood enrichment in the canopy and on the forest floor on beetle guild composition. Forest Ecology and Management 302, (404–413). doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.03.039
Gossner M. M. (2013): Die Bedeutung von großskaligen Biodiversitätsstudien an Arthropoden am Beispiel der Biodiversitätsexploratorien. Entomologie heute 25, 31-46
Gossner M. M., Getzin S., Lange M., Pasalic E., Türke M., Wiegand K., Weisser W. W. (2013): The importance of heterogeneity revisited from a multiscale and multitaxa approach. Biological Conservation 166, 212–220. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.06.033
Gossner M. M., Lachat T., Brunet J., Isacsson G., Bouget C., Brustel H., Brandl R., Weisser W. W., Müller J. (2013): Current Near-to-Nature Forest Management Effects on Functional Trait Composition of Saproxylic Beetles in Beech Forests. Conservation Biology 27 (3), 605–614. doi: 10.1111/cobi.12023
Grüneberg E., Schöning I. , Hessenmöller D., Schulze E.-D., Weisser W. W. (2013): Organic layer and clay content control organic carbon stocks in density fractions of differently managed German beech forests. Forest Ecology and Management 303, 1-10. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2013.03.014
Hancock C., Wäschke N., Schumacher U., Linsenmair K. E., Meiners T., Obermaier E. (2013): Fertilizer application decreases insect abundance on Plantago lanceolata: a large-scale experiment in three geographic regions. Arthropod Plant Interactions 7 (2), 147-158. doi: 10.1007/s11829-012-9237-9
Herbst C., Wäschke N., Barto K., Arnold S., Geuß D., Halboth I., Reschke S., Sänger J., Meiners T., Obermaier E. (2013): Land use intensification in grasslands: higher trophic levels are more negatively affected than lower trophic levels.Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 147 (3), 269–281. doi: 10.1111/eea.12072
Hofmann M., Bütof A., Welk E., Bruelheide H. (2013): Relationship between fundamental and realized niches in terms of frost and drought resistance. Preslia 85 (1), 1–17
Holzwarth, F., Kahl A., Bauhus J., Wirth C. (2013): Many ways to die – partitioning tree mortality dynamics in a near-natural mixed deciduous forest. Journal of Ecology 101 (1), 220–230. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12015
Homburg K., Drees C., Gossner M. M., Rakosy L., Vrezec A., Assman T.(2013): Multiple Glacial Refugia of the Low-Dispersal Ground Beetle Carabus irregularis : Molecular Data Support Predictions of Species Distribution Models. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61185. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061185
Jeltsch F., Blaum N., Brose U., Chipperfield J. D., Clough Y., Farwig N., Geissler K., Graham C. H., Grimm V., Hickler T., Huth A., May F., Meyer K. M., Pagel J., Reineking B., Rillig M. C., Shea K., Schurr F. M., Schröder B., Tielbörger K., Weiss L., Wiegand K., Wiegand T., Wirth C., Zurell D. (2013): How can we bring together empiricists and modellers in functional biodiversity research? Basic and Applied Ecology 14 (2), 93–101. doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2013.01.001
Kalinkat G., Brose U., Rall B. C. (2013): Habitat structure alters top-down control in litter communities. Oecologia 172 (3), 877-887. doi: 10.1007/s00442-012-2530-6
Kalinkat G., Schneider F. D., Digel C., Guill G., Rall B. C., Brose U. (2013): Body masses, functional responses and predator–prey stability. Ecology Letter 16 (9), 1126-1134. doi: 10.1111/ele.12147
Klarner B., Maraun M., Scheu S. (2013): Trophic diversity and niche partitioning in a species rich predator guild – Natural variations in stable isotope ratios (13C/12C, 15N/14N) of mesostigmatid mites (Acari, Mesostigmata) from Central European beech forests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 57, 327–333. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2012.08.013
Klaus V. H., Hölzel N., Boch S., Müller J., Socher S. A., Prati D., Fischer M., Kleinebecker T. (2013): Direct and indirect associations between plant species richness and productivity in grasslands: regional differences preclude simple generalization of productivity-biodiversity relationships. Preslia 85, 97–112
Klaus V. H., Hölzel N., Prati D., Schmitt B., Schöning I., Schrumpf M., Fischer M., Kleinebecker T. (2013): Organic vs. Conventional Grassland Management: Do 15N and 13C Isotopic Signatures of Hay and Soil Samples Differ? PLoS ONE 8 (10): e78134. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0078134
Klaus V. H., Kleinebecker T., Prati D., Gossner M. M., Alt F., Boch S., Gockel S., Hemp A., Lange M., Müller J., Oelmann Y., Pasalic E., Renner S. C., Socher S., Türke M., Weisser W. W., Fischer M., Hölzel N. (2013): Does organic grassland farming benefit plant and arthropod diversityat the expense of yield and soil fertility? Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 177, 1– 9. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2013.05.019
Kuka K., Illerhaus B., Fritsch G., Joschko M., Rogasik H., Paschen H., Schulz H., Seyfarth M. (2013): A new method for the extraction of undisturbed soil samples for X-ray computed tomography. Journal of Nondestructive Testing & Ultrasonics 8, 1 - 8
Kuka K., Illerhaus B., Fox C. A., Joschko M. (2013): X-ray Computed Microtomography for the Study of the Soil–Root Relationship in Grassland Soils. Vadose Zone Journal 12 (4). doi: 10.2136/vzj2013.01.0014
Lang C., Finkeldey R., Polle A. (2013): Spatial patterns of ectomycorrhizal assemblages in a monospecific forest in relation to host tree genotype. Frontiers in Plant Science 4:103. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00103
Lauterbach R., Wells K., O’Hara R. B., Kalko E. K. V., Renner S. C. (2013): Variable strength of forest stand attributes and weather impacts on the density of Ixodes ricinus ticks over years in managed forests. PLoS ONE 8(1): e55365. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055365
Lüdtke B., Moser I., Schaefer M., Fischer M., Kalko E. K. V., Santiago-Alarcon D., Suarez-Rubio M., Tschapka M., Renner S. C. (2013): Associations of Forest Type, Parasitism and Body Condition of Two European Passerines, Fringilla coelebs and Sylvia atricapilla. PLoS ONE 8 (12): e81395. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0081395
Marcus T., Assmann T., Durka W., Drees C. (2013): A suite of multiplexed microsatellite loci for the ground beetle Abax parallelepipedus (Piller and Mitterpacher, 1783) (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Conservation Genetics Resources 5, 1151-1156. doi: 10.1007/s12686-013-9985-6
Metz J., Seidel D., Scheffer D., Schulze E.-D., Ammer C. (2013): Crown modeling by terrestrial laser scanning as an approach to assess the effect of aboveground intra- and interspecific competition on tree growth. Forest Ecology and Management 310, 275–288. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.08.014
Meyer A., Focks A., Radl V., Keil D., Welzl G., Schöning I., Boch S., Marhan S., Kandeler E., Schloter M. (2013): Different land use intensities in grassland ecosystems drive ecology of microbial communities involved in nitrogen turnover in soil. PLoS ONE 8(9): e73536. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0073536
Morris (Barto) K. E., Buscot F., Herbst C., Meiners T., Obermaier E., Wäschke N., Wubet T., Rillig M. C. (2013): Land use and host neighbor identity effects on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community composition in focal plant rhizosphere. Biodiversity and Conservation 22 (10), 2193-2205. doi: 10.1007/s10531-013-0527-z
Müller, J., Brunet J. , Brin A., Bouget C., Brustel H., Bussler H., Förster B., Gunnar I., Köhler F., Thibault L., Gossner M. M. (2013): Implications from large-scale spatial diversity patterns of saproxylic beetles for the conservation of European Beech forests. Insect Conservation and Diversity 6 (2), 162–169. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-4598.2012.00200
Pfestorf H., Weiß L., Boch S., Socher S. A., Müller J., Prati D., Schöning I., Weisser W. W., Fischer M., Jeltsch F. (2013): Community mean traits as additional indicators to monitor effects of land-use intensity on grassland plant diversity. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 15 (1), 1–11. doi: 10.1016/j.ppees.2012.10.003
Rasche F., Marhan S., Berner D., Keil D., Kandeler E., Cadisch G. (2013): midDRIFTS-based partial least square regression analysis allows predicting microbial biomass, enzyme activities and 16S rRNA gene abundance in soils of temperate grasslands. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 57, 504–512. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2012.09.030
Rothenwöhrer C., Scherber C., Tscharntke T. (2013): Grassland management for stem-boring insects: Abandoning small patches is better than reducing overall intensity. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 167, 38–42. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2013.01.005
Schall P., Ammer C. (2013): How to quantify forest management intensity in Central European forests. European Journal of Forest Research 132 (2), 379-396. doi: 10.1007/s10342-013-0681-6
Schöning I., Grüneberg E., Sierra C.A., Hessenmöller D., Schrumpf M., Weisser W. W., Schulze E.-D.(2013): Causes of variation in mineral soil C content and turnover in differently managed beech dominated forests. Plant and Soil 370 (1-2), 625-639. doi: 10.1007/s11104-013-1654-8
Socher S. A., Prati D., Boch S., Müller J., Baumbach H., Gockel S., Hemp A., Schöning I., Wells K., Buscot F., Kalko E. K. V., Linsenmair K. E., Schulze E.-D., Weisser W. W., Fischer M. (2013): Interacting effects of fertilization, mowing and grazing on plant species diversity of 1500 grasslands in Germany differ between regions- Basic and Applied Ecology 14 (2), 126–136. doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2012.12.003
Solly E., Schöning I., Boch S., Müller J., Socher S. A., Trumbore S. E., Schrumpf M. (2013): Mean age of carbon in fine roots from temperate forests and grasslands with different management. Biogeosciences 10, 4833-4843. doi: 10.5194/bg-10-4833-2013
Sonnemann I., Hempel S., Beutel M., Hanauer N., Reidinger S., Wurst S. (2013): The root herbivore history of the soil affects the productivity of a grassland plant community and determines plant response to new root herbivore attack. PLoS ONE 8(2): e56524. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0056524
Stacheter A., Noll M., Lee C.K., Selzer M., Glowik B., Ebertsch L., Mertel R., Schulze D., Lampert N., Drake H. L., Kolb S. (2013): Methanol Oxidation by Temperate Soils and Environmental Determinants of Associated Methylotrophs. The ISME Journal 7, 1051-1064. doi:10.1038/ismej.2012.167
Türke M., Weisser W. W. (2013): Species, Diaspore Volume and Body Mass Matter in Gastropod Seed Feeding Behavior. PLOS ONE 8(7), e68788. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068788
Völler E., Bossdorf O., Auge H., Prati D. (2013): Land use causes genetic differentiation of life-history traits in Bromus hordeaceus. Global Change Biology 19 (3), 892–899. doi: 10.1111/gcb.12087
Wäldchen J., Schulze E.-D., Schöning I., Schrumpf M., Sierra C. (2013): The influence of changes in forest management over the past 200 years on present soil organic carbon stocks. Forest Ecology and Management 289 (1), 243-254. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.10.014
Wellner S., Lodders N., Glaeser S. P., Kämpfer P. (2013): Methylobacterium trifolii sp. nov. and Methylobacterium thuringiense sp. nov., methanol-utilizing, pink-pigmented bacteria isolated from leaf surfaces. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 63, 2690–2699. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.047787-0
PhD dissertation
Alt F. (2013): The Phosphorus Cycle in Grassland and Forest Ecosystems of different Biodiversity and Management. Dissertation, University Tübingen
Domonell A. (2013): High resolution analysis of local and global protistan soil community structures using morphological and modern molecular techniques. Dissertation, University Cologne
Eitzinger B. (2013): Molecular analysis of centipede predation. Dissertation, University Göttingen
Herold H. (2013): Land management and soil property effects on soil microbial communities and carbon storage in temperate forest and grassland systems. Dissertation, University Jena
Homburg K. (2013): Effects of climate on diversity patterns in ground beetles: case studies in macroecology, phylogeography and global change biology. Dissertation, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Klarner B. (2013): Changes in trophic structure of decomposer communities with land use in Central European temperate forests. Dissertation, University Göttingen
Stacheter A. (2013): Methanoloxidation in oxischen Böden und Umweltparameter assoziierter methylotropher Mikroorganismen-Gemeinschaften. Dissertation, University Bayreuth
Steckel J. (2013): Effects of landscape heterogeneity and land use on interacting groups of solitary bees, wasps and their flying and ground-dwelling antagonists. Dissertation, University Würzburg
Wäschke N. (2013): Multitrophic interactions along a land use gradient: Effects of plant diversity and vegetation odour diversity. Dissertation, FU Berlin
Diploma/Master/Bachelor Theses
Buchholz Y. (2013): The impact of different land use intensities on the growth of Plantago lanceolata in the presence and absence of root herbivores. Bachelor thesis, FU Berlin
Felber V. (2013): Nitrification-denitrification-dynamics under different land-use intensities in grassland soils. Bachelor thesis, TU München
Feldmann S. (2013): Effects of land-use intensity on leaf traits of Taraxacum sect. ruderalia. Bachelor thesis, University Münster
Frieß N. (2013): Effects of biogeography, specialization and resource availability on the distribution-abundance relationship of phytophagous insects in managed grasslands. Bachelor thesis, University Marburg
Haller S. (2013): Qualitative und quantitative Analyse der Totholzvorräte des Biodiversitäts-Exploratorium Schorfheide. Master thesis, University Freiburg
Lüling J. (2013): Kleinräumige Variabilität und saisonale Dynamik der chemischen Biomassezusammensetzung eines Graslandes in der Schwäbischen Alb. Thesis, University Münster
Moser I. (2013): Birds and parasites. Avian blood parasites, hematology and body condition associated to three different types of forests in a common songbird, the blackcap. Thesis, University Tübingen
Müller L. (2013): Horizontale Migration von Drahtwürmern (Agriotes spp.) entlang eines Wurzeldichtegradienten ohne intraspezifische Konkurrenz. Bachelor thesis, FU Berlin
Neils J. (2013): Experimente zu Umweltfiltern und Nischenkomplementarität in Grünlandgemeinschaften der Schwäbischen Alb. Thesis, University Halle-Wittenberg
Nitsche M. (2013): Influence of different management regimes on the dead wood content in the Biodiversity Exploratory Hainich Dünn in Thuringia. Master thesis, University of Göttingen
Schäfer F. (2013): Characterizing microbial activity in coniferous and deciduous forest soils. Bachelor thesis, University Jena
Sohlström E. H. (2013): Effect of land use and animal diversity on the decomposition of two common leaf species. Bachelor thesis, University Göttingen
Steckel M. (2013): Ektomykorrhiza-Gesellschaften im Buchenwald: Beeinflussung durch abgestorbene Wurzeln. Bachelor thesis, University Gottingen
Stolze K. (2013): Fine root productivity and C dynamics in temperate grasslands and forests with different land uses. Bachelor thesis, University Jena
2012
Artikel in Fachzeitschriften
General Relationships between Abiotic Soil Properties and Soil Biota across Spatial Scales and Different Land-Use Types.. PLoS ONE 7(8): e43292. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043292
A quantitative index of land-use intensity in grasslands: integrating mowing, grazing and fertilization.. Basic and Applied Ecology 13 (3), 207–220. doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2012.04.001
Phylogenetic and Morphological Diversity of Novel Soil Cercomonad Species with a Description of Two New Genera (Nucleocercomonas and Metabolomonas).. Protist 163, 495–528. doi: 10.1016/j.protis.2012.02.002
The responses of grassland plants to simulated climate change depend on land use and region. . Global Change Biology 18 (1), 127–137. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02539.x
Pflanzen und Tiere unter der Lupe. Biodiversivitätsforschung auf der Schwäbischen Alb.. AGROjournal 4, 31-32
Regional factors rather than forest type drive the community structure of soil living oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida). . Experimental and Applied Acarology 57 (2), 157-169. doi: 10.1007/s10493-012-9546-9
Trophic interactions in centipedes (Chilopoda, Myriapoda) as indicated by fatty acid patterns: Variations with life stage, forest age and season. . Soil Biology and Biochemistry 52, 33–42. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2012.04.018
Assessing biodiversity in forests using very highresolution images and unmanned aerial vehicles.. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 3 (2), 397–404. doi: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00158.x
Molecular Evidence for theWide Distribution of Two Lineages of Terrestrial Green Algae (Chlorophyta) over Tropics to Temperate Zone.. ISRN Ecology 2012, ID 795924. doi: 10.5402/2012/795924
Moving in three dimensions: effects of structural complexity on occurrence and activity of insectivorous bats in managed forest stands.. Journal of Applied Ecology 49 (2), 523–531. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2012.02116.x
Duganella phyllosphaerae sp. nov., isolated from the leaf surface of Trifolium repens and proposal to reclassify Duganella violaceinigra into a novel genus as Pseudoduganella violceinigra gen. nov., comb. nov. . Systematic and Applied Microbiology 35 (1), 19-23. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2011.10.003.
NIRS meets Ellenberg's indicator values: Prediction of moisture and nitrogen values of agricultural grassland vegetation by means of near-infrared spectral characteristics.. Ecological Indicators 14 (1), 82-86. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.07.016
Diversity Measures in Environmental Sequences Are Highly Dependent on Alignment Quality—Data from ITS and New LSU Primers Targeting Basidiomycetes.. PLoS ONE 7(2): e32139. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0032139
Maschinelle Entnahme ungestörter Bodenprobensäulen für die Röntgen-Computertomographie.. ZfP-Zeitung 129
Saproxylic beetles as indicator species for dead-wood amount and temperature in European beech forests.. Ecological Indicators 23, 323–331. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.04.013
Diverse or uniform?—Intercomparison of two major German project databases for interdisciplinary collaborative functional biodiversity research. . Ecological Informatics 8, 10–19. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2011.11.004
Positive correlation between density and parthenogenetic reproduction in oribatid mites (Acari) supports the structured resource theory of sexual reproduction. . Evolutionary Ecology Research 14, 311-323
Impact of Land-Use Intensity and Productivity on Bryophyte Diversity in Agricultural Grasslands. . PLoS ONE 7(12): e51520. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051520
Identification and characterization of novel cellulolytic and hemicellulolytic genes and enzymes derived from German grassland soil metagenomes. . Biotechnology Letters 34, 663–675. doi: 10.1007/s10529-011-0830-2
Environmental factors affect acidobacterial communities below the subgroup level in grassland and forest soils.. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 78, 7398-7406. doi: 10.1128/AEM.01325-12
Climate change effects on macrofaunal litter decomposition.. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 367 (1605), 3025-3032. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0240
Assessing group differences in biodiversity by simultaneously testing a user-defined selection of diversity indices. Molekular Ecology Resources 12 (6), 1068-1078. https://doi.org
A better understanding of functional roles of fungi in the decomposition process: using precursor rRNA containing ITS regions as a marker for the active fungal community. . Annals of Forest Science 69 (6), 659-662. doi: 10.1007/s13595-012-0210-7
Food Preferences of Winter Bird Communities in Different Forest Types.. PLoS ONE 7(12): e53121. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0053121
Direct and productivity-mediated indirect effects of fertilization, mowing and grazing on grassland species richness. . Journal of Ecology 100 (6), 1391–1399. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2012.02020.x
Species specific responses of common grassland plants to a generalist root herbivore (Agriotes spp. larvae).. Basic and Applied Ecology 13, 579–586. doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2012.09.010
Are gastropods, rather than ants, important dispersers of seeds of myrmecochorous forest herbs? . American Naturalist 179 (1), 124-131
Geographical and land-use effects on seed-mass variation in common grassland plants.. Basic and Applied Ecology 13 (5), 395–404. doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2012.06.006
Estimation of clay content from easily measurable water content of air-dried soil.. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 175 (3), 367–376. doi: 10.1002/jpln.201100066
Methylobacterium cerastii sp. nov., a novel species isolated from the leaf surface of Cerastium holosteoides. . International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 62, 917–924, doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.030767-0
Trait-dependent occupancy dynamics of birds in temperate forest landscapes: fine-scale observations in a hierarchical multi-species framework. . Animal Conservation 15 (6), 626–637. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2012.00560.x
Differences in Soil Fungal Communities between European Beech ( Fagus sylvatica L.) Dominated Forests Are Related to Soil and Understory Vegetation. . PLoS ONE 7(10): e47500. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047500
Aboveground deadwood deposition supports development of soil yeasts.. Diversity 4 (4), 453-474. doi: 10.3390/d4040453
Assessment of yeast diversity in soils under different management regimes. . Fungal Ecology 5 (1), 24-35. doi:10.1016/j.funeco.2011.07.004
Doktorarbeiten
Effects of land-use intensity in grasslands on diversity, life-history traits and multitrophic interactions.. Dissertation, Universität Göttingen
Community structure, trophic ecology and reproductive mode of oribatid mites (Oribatida, Acari) in forest ecosystems.. Dissertation, Universität Göttingen
Life-history strategies of perennial grassland plants: bet-hedging in time and metapopulation viability in fragmented landscapes.. Dissertation, Universität Jena
Influence of land use on Plantago lanceolata L. and its higher trophic levels at different spatial scales and in three geographic regions.. Dissertation, Universität Würzburg
Towards an understanding of complexity: How body sizes, preferences and habitat structure constrain predator-prey interactions.. Dissertation, TU Darmstadt
Relationships between productivity, land-use intensity and plant species richness in agricultural grasslands.. Dissertation, Universität Münster
Compartmentalization and energy channels within the soil animal food web investigated by stable isotope and fatty acid analyses.. Dissertation, Universität Göttingen
Plant- herbivore- predator communities and grassland management intensity — Implications for biodiversity conservation practices on local and landscape scales. . Dissertation, Universität Göttingen
The evolutionary impact of land use: quantitative genetic differentiation in common grassland plants.. Dissertation, Universität Bern
Diplom/Master/Bachelorarbeiten
Räumliche Variabilität der chemischen Zusammensetzung oberirdischer Grünlandbiomasse entlang eines Landnutzungsgradienten. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Münster
Neutral or Niche: Beta-diversity of forest soil ecosystems. Diplomarbeit, TU Darmsadt
Horizontale Migration von Elateridenlarven in einem Wurzeldichtegradienten unter Interaktion mit Konkurrenz. Bachelorarbeit, FU Berlin
Prey spectrum of forest soil predators across a land-use gradient using molecular gut content analysis. Masterarbeit, Universität Göttingen
Einfluss von Rückegassen auf die Vegetation und Samenbank von Buchen- und Kiefernwäldern des Biodiversitätsexploratoriums Schorfheide-Chorin. Masterarbeit, Universität Potsdam
The effects of management and soil disturbance on ectomycorhizzal communities in beech woodlands in Hainich National Park, Germany. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Bangor.
Functional and phylogenetic analyses of soil microbial communities derived from the German Biodiversity Exploratory Hainich. Masterarbeit, Universität Göttingen.
Etablierung und Anwendung einer T-RFLP-basierten Diversitätsanalyse des nifH-Gens diazotropher Mikroorganismen. Masterarbeit, TU München.
Linking forest types, parasitism and health of Chaffinches (Fringilla coelebs ) on the Schwäbische Alb. Diplomarbeit, Universität Ulm.
Totholzvorräte in Abhängigkeit von Bewirtschaftungsform und Bewirtschaftungsintensität im Biodiversitäts-Exploratorium Schwäbische Alb. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Freiburg
Einfluss des pH-Wertes auf die Abundanz und Diversität Ammoniumoxidierender Archaeen in Waldböden. Masterarbeit, TU München
Einfluss der Kronenraumstruktur auf die räumliche Verteilung von kronenraumbürtigen Flüssen gelöster und partikulärer organischer Substanz in Waldökosystemen. Masterarbeit, Universität Jena
Divergent response of bats and insects to land use and soil types in agricultural grassland systems. Diplomarbeit, Universität Ulm
Effects of plant species richness on plant-available nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations in soils under grasslands of the Schwäbische Alb differing in land-use intensity. Diplomarbeit, Universität Tübingen.
Die Bedeutung der sukzessiven Entwicklung von Totholz für xylobionte Arthropoden in verschiedenartig bewirtschafteten Wäldern. Diplomarbeit, Universität Würzburg.
Interannuelle Variabilität der Aufwuchsqualität von Wirtschaftsgrünland entlang eines Landnutzungsgradienten. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Münster.
Fettsäuremuster zur Bestimmung der Nahrungsbiologie von Hornmilben (Oribatida) in Buchen- und Fichtenwäldern. Bachelorarbeit, Universität Göttingen
2011
Scientific Publications
Alt F., Oelmann Y., Herold N. (2011): Phosphorus partitioning in grassland and forest soils of Germany as related to land-use type, management intensity, and land use–related pH. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 174 (2), 195–209
Berner D., Marhan S., Keil D., Schützenmeister A., Piepho H.-P., Poll C., Kandeler E. (2011): Land-Use Intensity Modifies Spatial Distribution and Function of Soil Microorganisms in Grasslands. Pedobiologia 54 (5-6), 341-351 doi:10.1016/j.pedobi.2011.08.001
Birkhofer K., Diekötter T., Boch S., Fischer M., Müller, J., Socher S., Wolters V. (2011): Soil fauna feeding activity in temperate grassland soils increases with legume and grass species richness. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 43, 2200-2207, doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.07.008
Blüthgen, N., Klein, A.M. (2011): Functional complementarity and specialisation: The role of biodiversity in plant–pollinator interactions. Basic and Applied Ecology 12 (4), 282-291
Boch S., Prati D., Werth S., Rüetschi J., Fischer M. (2011): Lichen Endozoochory by Snails. PLoS ONE 6(4): e18770. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018770
Böhm S.M., Wells K., Kalko E.K.V. (2011): Top-Down Control of Herbivory by Birds and Bats in the Canopy of Temperate Broad-Leaved Oaks (Quercus robur). PLoS ONE 6(4): e17857. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017857
Bültmann H., Scholz P., Teuber D., Feuerer T. , Fischer P., Boch S., Bradtka J.H., Cezanne R. , Dolnik C., Drehwald U., Eichler M., Ewald J. , Heinken T., Hobohm C., Jansen F., Kriebitzsch W.-U. , Loos G.U. , Otte V. , Paul A., Printzen C., Schmidt M., Sparrius L., Waesch G.: Waldartenliste der Flechten Deutschlands in : Schmidt M., Kriebitzsch W-U., Ewald J. (Hrsg.) (2011): Waldartenlisten der Farn- und Blütenpflanzen, Moose und Flechten Deutschlands. - BfN-Skripten 299
Caruso T., Barto K.E. , Siddiky R.K.Md., Smigelski J., Rillig M.C. (2011): Are power laws that estimate fractal dimension a good descriptor of soil structure and its link to soil biological properties? Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43 (2), 359-366
Chipperfield J.D, Dytham C. , Hovestadt T. (2011): An Updated Algorithm for the Generation of Neutral Landscapes by Spectral Synthesis. PLoS ONE 6(2): e17040. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017040
Chipperfield J.D., Holland E.P., Dytham C., Thomas C.D. , Hovestadt T. (2011): On the approximation of continuous dispersal kernels in discrete-space models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2(6) 668–681. doi: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00117.x
Christ S., Wubet T., Theuerl S., Herold N., Buscot F. (2011): Fungal communities in bulk soil and stone compartments of different forest and soil types as revealed by a barcoding ITS rDNA and a functional laccase encoding gene marker. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 43, 1292-1299
Ehnes R.B., Rall B.C., Brose U. (2011): Phylogenetic grouping, curvature and metabolic scaling in terrestrial invertebrates.Ecology Letters 14, 993–1000, doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01660.x
Haubert D., Pollierer M.M., Scheu S. (2011): Fatty acid patterns as biomarker for trophic interactions: Changes after dietary switch and starvation.Soil Biology & Biochemistry 43, 490-494. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.10.008
Heidemann K., Scheu S., Ruess L., Maraun M. (2011): Molecular detection of nematode predation and scavenging in oribatid mites: Laboratory and field experiments. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 43 (11), 2229–2236. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.07.015
Heinze E., Boch S., Fischer F., Hessenmöller D., Bernd Klenk B.,Jörg Müller J., Daniel Prati D., Schulze E.-D., Seele C., Socher S., Halle S. (2011): Habitat use of large ungulates in northeastern Germany in relation to forest management. Forest Ecology and Management 261 (2), 288-296
Hessenmöller D., Nieschulze J., Seele C., von Lüpke N., Schulze E.-D. (2011) : Identification of forest management types from ground-based and remotely sensed variables and the effects of forest management on forest structure and composition. Forstarchiv 82, 171-183. doi: 10.4432/0300-4112-82-171
Jandt U., von Wehrden H., Bruelheide H. (2011): Exploring large vegetation databases to detect temporal trends in species occurrences. Journal of Vegetation Science 22 (6), 957–972. doi: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01318.x
Kämpfer P., Wellner S., Lohse K., Lodders N., Martin K. (2011): Williamsia phyllosphaerae sp. nov, isolated from the surface of Trifolium repens. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 61, 2758 – 2762. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.029322-0
Keil D., Meyer A., Berner D., Poll C., Schützenmeister A., Piepho H-P., Vlasenko A., Philippot L., Schloter M., Kandeler E., Marhan S. (2011): Influence of land-use intensity on the spatial distribution of N-cycling microorganisms in grassland soils. FEMS Mikrobiology Ecology 77 (1), 95-106.
Klaus V. H., Kleinebecker T., Hölzel N., Blüthgen N., Boch S., Müller J., Socher S.A., Prati D., Fischer M. (2011): Nutrient concentrations and fibre contents of plant community biomass reflect species richness patterns along a broad range of land-use intensities among agricultural grasslands. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 13 (4) 287–295. doi: 10.1016/j.ppees.2011.07.001
Klein A.-M. (2011): Plant–pollinator interactions in changing environments. Basic and Applied Ecology 12 (4), 279–281. doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2011.04.006
Kleinebecker T., Klaus V., Hölzel N. (2011): Reducing sample quantity and maintaining high-prediction quality of grassland biomass properties with near infrared reflectance spectroscopy. Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy 19(6), 495–505. doi: 10.1255/jnirs.957
Kloss L., Fischer M., Durka W. (2011): Land-use effects on genetic structure of a common grassland herb: A matter of scale. Basic and Applied Ecology 12 (5), 440-448. doi:10.1016/j.baae.2011.06.001
Kowalski E., Gossner M.M., Türke M., Lange M., Veddeler D., Hessenmöller D., Schulze E.-D., Weisser W.W. (2011): The use of forest inventory data for placing flight interception traps in the forest canopy. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 140 (1) 35–44
Lange M., Gossner M. M., Weisser W. W. (2011): Effect of pitfall trap type and diameter on vertebrate by-catches and ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and spider (Araneae) sampling. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2(2), 185-190
Lange M., Weisser W.W., Gossner M. M., Kowalski E., Türke M., Joner F., Fonseca C. R. (2011): The impact of forest management on litter-dwelling invertebrates: a subtropical - temperate contrast. Biodiversity and Conservation 20, 2133–2147. doi: 10.1007/s10531-011-0078-0
Liers C., Arnstadt T., Ullrich R., Hofrichter M.(2011):Patterns of lignin degradation and oxidative enzyme secretion by different wood- and litter-colonizing basidiomycetes and ascomycetes grown on beech-wood. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 78 (1), 91–102
Luyssaert S., Hessenmöller D., Von Lüpke N., Kaiser S., Schulze E. D. (2011): Quantifying land use and disturbance intensity in forestry, based on the self‐thinning relationship. Ecological Applications 21(8), 3272-3284. doi: 10.1890/10-2395.1
Maraun M., Erdmann G., Fischer B.M., Pollierer M.M., Norton R.A., Schneider K., Scheu S.(2011): Stable isotopes revisited: Their use and limits for oribatid mite trophic ecology. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 43, 877-882
Nacke H, Thürmer A, Wollherr A, Will C, Hodac L, et al. (2011): Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Bacterial Community Structure Along Different Management Types in German Forest and Grassland Soils. PLoS ONE 6(2): e17000. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017000
Nacke H., Will C., Herzog S., Nowka B., Engelhaupt M., Daniel R. (2011): Identification of novel lipolytic genes and gene families by screening of metagenomic libraries derived from soil samples of the German Biodiversity Exploratories. FEMS Microbiology 78 (1), 188–201. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01088.x
Preussing M., Drehwald U., Koperski M., Thiel H., Waesch G., Baumann M., Berg C., Dierschke H., Dolnik C., Dürhammer O., Ewald J. , Fischer A., Grünberg H. , Heinken T., Jansen F., Kison H.-U., Klawitter J., Kriebitzsch W.-U., Loos G.H. , Manthey M., Müller J., Paul A., Reimann M., Schmidt M., Schmidt W., Stetzka K.M., Teuber D., Teuber U., Wagner I., Wagner A., Weckesser M., Winter S., Wolf T., Wulf M. : Waldartenliste der Moose Deutschlands in : Schmidt M., Kriebitzsch W-U., Ewald J. (Hrsg.) (2011): Waldartenlisten der Farn- und Blütenpflanzen, Moose und Flechten Deutschlands. - BfN-Skripten 299
Schmidt M., Culmsee H., Boch S., Heinken T., Müller J., Schmiedel I.: Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von Waldartenlisten für Gefäßpflanzen, Moose und Flechten in : Schmidt M., Kriebitzsch W-U., Ewald J. (Hrsg.) (2011): Waldartenlisten der Farn- und Blütenpflanzen, Moose und Flechten Deutschlands. - BfN-Skripten 299
Sutter R., Müller C. (2011): Mining for treatment-specific and general changes in target compounds and metabolite fingerprints in response to herbivory and phytohormones in Plantago lanceolata. New Phytologist 191 (4), 1069–1082. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03768.x
Wäldchen J., Schulze E. D., Mund M., Winkler B. (2011): Der Einfluss politischer, rechtlicher und wirtschaftlicher Rahmenbedingungen des 19. Jahrhunderts auf die Bewirtschaftung der Wälder im Hainich-Dün-Gebiet (Nordthüringen). Forstarchiv 82, 35-47
Weiner C. N., Werner. M., Linsenmair K.E., Blüthgen N. (2011): Land use intensity in grasslands: Changes in biodiversity, species composition and specialisation in flower visitor networks. Basic and Applied Ecology 12 (4), 292-299
Wellner S., Lodders N., Kämpfer P. (2011): Diversity and biogeography of selected phyllosphere bacteria with special emphasis on Methylobacterium spp. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 34(8), 621–630. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2011.08.005.
Wells K., Böhm S.M., Boch S., Fischer M. , E.K.V. Kalko (2011): Local- and landscape-scale forest attributes differ in their impact on bird assemblages across years in forest production landscapes. Basic and Applied Ecology 12 (2), 97-106
Yurkov A.M., Kemler M., Begerow D. (2011): Species accumulation curves and incidence-based species richness estimators to appraise the diversity of cultivable yeasts from beech forest soils. PLoS ONE 6(8): e23671, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023671
Yurkov A.M., Schäfer A.M., Begerow D. (2011): Leucosporidium drummii sp. nov. a new member of Microbotryomycetes isolated from soil. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 62, 728-734. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.027102-0
PhD dissertation
Boch S. (2011): Drivers of vascular plant and lichen diversity in Central European forests. Dissertation, University Bern
Christ S. (2011): Soil fungal communities along biogeographical gradients in the German Biodiversity Exploratories: classical and high-throughput molecular techniques. Dissertation, University Leipzig
Lange M. (2011): The effect of land use and biodiversity on ground-dwelling arthropods. Dissertation, University Jena
Rajendra K.C. (2011): Spatial dynamics of intraspecific genetic variation in European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.). Dissertation, University Göttingen
Nacke N. (2011): Identification and Characterization of Microbial Key Functions in Soils of the German Biodiversity Exploratories Representing Different Land Use and Management Types. Dissertation, University Göttingen
Näther A. (2011): Phylogenetische und funktionelle Diversität von Acidobacteria in Wald- und Grünlandböden unterschiedlicher Landnutzung. Dissertation, University Bremen
Seele C. (2011): The influence of deer browsing on natural forest regeneration. Dissertation, University Jena
Socher S. A. (2011): Effects of land use on the diversity of grassland plants. Dissertation, University of Bern
Türke M. (2011): Complicating a Complex Ecosystem Function: the Controversial Role of Gastropods in a Myrmecochorous Seed Dispersal Mutualism. Dissertation, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Wellner S. A. (2011): Diversity and biogeography of selected phyllosphere bacteria with special emphasis on Methylobacterium spp. Dissertation, University Giessen
Will C. (2011): Assessment of the functional diversity of soil microbial communities in the German Biodiversity Exploratories by metagenomics. Dissertation, University Göttingen
Diploma/Master/Bachelor Theses
Arnold S. (2011): Einfluss der Landnutzung und der umgebenden Landschaftsstruktur auf das tritrophische System des Spitzwegerichs (Plantago lanceolata). Thesis, University Würzburg
Baudis M. (2011): Wachstum und Überleben von Arten unterschiedlichen Arealtyps im Biodiversitäts-Exploratorium Schorfheide-Chorin. Thesis, University Halle
Baur S. (2011): Nahrungspräferenz der Blaumeise (Cyanistes caeruleus) vor Beginn der Brutzeit auf der Schwäbischen Alb. Bachelor thesis, University Ulm.
Böckelmann J. (2011): Artenpaare verschiedener Verbreitung in Interaktion mit Konkurrenz, Herbivorie, Landnutzung und Klimawandel im Biodiversitätsexploratorium Schwäbische Alb. Thesis, University Halle-Wittenberg.
Brandenburger A. (2011): Effects of land use on plant diversity and productivity and the population age of Cirsium oleraceum. Thesis, University Potsdam
Ferlian O. (2011): Analysing trophic interactions in centipedes (Chilopoda, Myriapoda) using fatty acid patterns: effects of life stage,forest type and season. Thesis, University Göttingen.
Heinsohn J.-P. (2011): Wie beeinflussen AMF-Gemeinschaften, die an wurzelfressende Elateridenlarven (Agriotes spp.) adaptiert sind, eine Grünland Pflanzengesellschaft? Bachelor thesis, FU Berlin
Keller S. (2011): Local adaptation of Plantago lanceolata to different land use regimes. Master thesis, University Bern
Kubiczek K. (2011): Home range size and movement patterns of male Chaffinches (Fringilla coelebs) in different forest types. Thesis, University Ulm
Knoll A. (2011): Einflüsse unterscheidlicher Bewirtschaftung auf Kohlenstoff- und Stickstofffraktionen in Grünlandböden des Biodiversitäts-Exploratoriums Hainich-Dün. State examination, University Jena
Lade P. (2011): Effekte der Habitatisolation und „Metacommunity-Prozesse“ auf die Artenzahl und Abundanz von Organismen in Phytotelmen. Bachelor thesis, University Jena
Nielsen L. (2011): Einfluss von Blüten- und Hintergrundfarben auf die Besucherhäufigkeit und die Zusammensetzung des Besucherspektrums von Blüten. Thesis, University Freiburg
Possler A. (2011): Nahrungspräferenz von Waldvögeln im Winter in Abhängigkeit von Waldtyp und Futterangebot auf der Schwäbischen Alb. Thesis, University Ulm.
Rügauf A. (2011): Diversität von Kleinsäugern in Buchenwäldern mit unterschiedlicher Bewirtschaftung. Thesis, University Jena
Schossleitner T. (2011): Der Beffall des Rot-Schwingels (Festuca rubra) durch den Endophyten Epichloë festucae und dessen Frequenz in Abhängigkeit der Landnutzung. Thesis, HU Berlin.
Seelig G. (2011): The effects of leaf-litter stoichometry on the invertebrate macrofauna of forest soils. Master Thesis, TU Darmsadt
Sichardt N. (2011): Effekte unterschiedlicher Waldnutzungsformen des Hainich-Dün auf Phytotelmenvielfalt und assoziierte Insektengemeinschaften. Bachelor thesis, University Jena.
Smirnowa O. (2011): Influence of landscape elements on diversity and activity of insectivorous bats in grassland systems of the Schorfheide-Chorin. Thesis, University Ulm.
Spindler K. (2011): Consumer density dependent functional response models in leaf litter systems. Thesis, TU Darmsadt
Weiß M. (2011): Die Bedeutung von Totholz für xylobionte Arthropoden in unterschiedlich bewirtschafteten Wäldern. Thesis, University Würzburg
Winkler J. (2011): Die Nahrungspräferenz der Kohlmeise (Parus major) vor Beginn der Brutzeit auf der Schwäbischen Alb. Bachelor thesis, University Ulm
2010
Scientific Publications
Barto K., Alt F., Oelmann Y., Wilcke W., Rillig M. C. (2010): Contributions of biotic and abiotic factors to soil aggregation across a land use gradient. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 42 (12), 2316-2324
Barto E. K., Rillig M.C. (2010): Does herbivory really suppress mycorrhiza? A meta-analysis. Journal of Ecology 98, 745–753
Blüthgen N. (2010): Why network analysis is often disconnected from community ecology: A critique and an ecologist's guide. Basic and Applied Ecology 11 (3), 185-195
Fischer M. et al. (2010): Implementing large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research: The Biodiversity Exploratories Basic and Applied Ecology 11 (6), 473-485
Grüneberg E., Schöning I., Kalko E.K.V., Weisser W. W. (2010): Regional organic carbon stock variability: A comparison between depth increments and soil horizons. Geoderma 155 (3-4), 426-433
Heimann D., Nieschulze J., König-Ries B. (2010): A flexible statistics web processing service - Added value for information systems for experiment data. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics 7(1), 140. doi: 10.2390/biecoll-jib-2010-140
Lang C., Dolynska A., Finkeldey R., Polle A. (2010): Are beech (Fagus sylvatica) roots territorial? Forest Ecology and Management 260 (7), 1212-1217
Pollierer, M. M., Scheu, S., Haubert, D. (2010):Taking it to the next level: Trophic transfer of marker fatty acids from basal resource to predators. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 42, 919-925
Randlkofer B., Obermaier E, Hilker M., Meiners T. (2010): Vegetation complexity—The influence of plant species diversity and plant structures on plant chemical complexity and arthropods. Basic and Applied Ecology 11, 383-395
Schulze E.-D., Hessenmöller D., Seele C., Waeldchen J., von Luepke N. (2010): Die Buche: Eine Kultur- und Wirtschaftgeschichte. Biologie in unserer Zeit 40 (3), 171-183
Türke M., Heinze E., Andreas K., Svendsen S. M., Gossner M. M., Weisser W. W. (2010): Seed consumption and dispersal of ant-dispersed plants by slugs. Oecologia 163 (3), 681-693 1-693
Weiner C. N., Hilpert A., Werner M., Linsenmair K.E., Blüthgen N. (2010): Pollen amino acids and flower specialisation in solitary bees. Apidologie 41 (4), 476 – 487
Will C., Nacke H., Daniel R. (2010): Charakterisierung und Nutzung der bakteriellen Diversität in Bodenmetagenomen. GenomXpress, No. 1/10, 9-12
Will C., Thürmer A., Wollherr A., Nacke H., Herold N., Schrumpf M., Gutknecht J., Wubet T., Buscot F., Daniel R. (2010): Horizon specific bacterial community composition of German grassland soils, as revealed by pyrosequencing-based analysis of 16S rRNA genes. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 76 (20), 6751-6759. doi: 10.1128/AEM.01063-10
Book section
Fischer M., Kalko E. K. V., Linsenmair K. E., Pfeiffer S., Prati D., Schulze E. D., Weisser W. W. (2010): Exploratories for large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research. In: Long-term ecological research – between Theory and Application. Müller F., Baessler C, Schubert H., Klotz S, eds.),Part 7, 429-443, Springer, Dordrecht
Pfeiffer S., Gockel S., Hemp A., Wells K., Prati D., Nieschulze J., Kalko E. K. V., Buscot F., Linsenmair K. E., Schulze E.-D., Weisser W. W., Fischer M: "Exploratories for Functional Biodiversity Research" in “Atlas of Biodiversity Risk” Settele J., Penev L., Georgiev T., Grabaum R., Grobelnik V., Hammen V., Klotz S., Kotarac M., Kühn I. (eds., 2010). Pensoft, Sofia, Moscow, 26-29.
PhD dissertation
Heinze E. (2010): Distribution and habitat use of selected small and large mammal species in relation to different land use. Dissertation, University Jena
Wäldchen J. (2010): The Influence of Historic Forest Management on Soil Organic Carbon Stocks in the Hainich-Dün Region, Central Germany. Dissertation, University Jena
Diploma/Master/Bachelor Theses
Andreas K. (2010): Samenverbreiter und Samenprädatoren myrmekochorer Pflanzen im Wald in Abhängigkeit des Landnutzungsgrades. Thesis, University Jena
Aumer D. (2010): Auswirkungen von Region, Pflanzendiversität und Massentracht auf den Reproduktionserfolg der roten Mauerbiene Osmia Bicornis. Bachelor thesis, University Bayreuth
Baldeweg H. (2010): Untersuchung lokaler Variationen von Kohlenstoffvorräten zur Beurteilung des potentiellen Einflusses von ausgelegtem Totholz. Thesis, University Jena
Baumhaker H. (2010): Effekte unterschiedlicher Wurzelherbivore auf Mykorrhizierung und Wachstum verschiedener Pflanzen. Bachelor thesis, FU Berlin
Braukmann A. (2010): Einfluss von Düngung auf verschiedene Vegetationsparameter und auf die Verbreitung der Gallmückenarten Jaapiella schmidti (Rübsamen, 1902) und Lestodiplosis sp. und den Parasitoiden Aprostocetus sp. auf Plantago lanceolata. Bachelor thesis, University Wuerzburg
Beutel M. (2010): Einfluss von Elateriden Larven auf die Mykorrhizierung von Plantago lanceolata in einer Grasland-Pflanzengemeinschaft. Bachelor thesis, FU Berlin
Detsch F. (2010): Untersuchung des Zusammenhangs zwischen Messungen der Globalstrahlung und aus Satellitendaten abgeleiteten Wolkeneigenschaften. Bachelor thesis, University Bayreuth
Faßhauer F. (2010): Veränderung in der Diversität von Algenbiofilmen auf Baumrinden: molekulare Analysen. Thesis, University Göttingen
Geisen S. (2010): Soil amoebae (Acanthamoeba castellanii) alter plant competition between Plantago lanceolata and Rumex acetosellain presence of mycophagous Collimonasbacteria. Master thesis, University Cologne.
Groh J. (2010): Diversität und Aktivität der Myriapoden, Isopoden und Lumbriciden auf Grünlandflächen der DFG-Biodiversitätexploratorien. Thesis, University Giessen
Hanauer N. (2010): Einfluss von Elateriden Larven auf die extraradikale AMF-Abundanz in einer Grasland-Pflanzengemeinschaft. Bachelor thesis, FU Berlin
Heinze J. (2010): Impacts of disturbance, productivity and soil microorganisms on plant-diversity. Thesis, University Potsdam
Hetz S. (2010): Saisonale Dynamiken von Genmarkern methylotropher Bakterien in belüfteten Böden. Bachelor thesis, University Bayreuth
Husmann H. (2010): Diversity and function of amoebae (Protozoa) from woodland soils of Biodiversity Exploratories. Thesis, University Cologne
Johnke J. (2010): Wie beeinflusst Landnutzung die Diversität von Protisten im Boden? Master thesis, University Leipzig
Ortmann A. (2010): Vergleich der Landschaftsstruktur der drei Biodiversitätsexploratorien Schorfheide-Chorin, Hainich und Schwäbische Alb. Bachelor thesis, University Göttingen
Radermacher N. (2010): Einfluss der Grünland-Bewirtschaftung und der geographischen Lage auf die Spinnengemeinschaften in den DFG- Biodiversitätsexploratorien. Thesis, University Giessen
Roth D. (2010): Diversität und Struktur arborikoler Arthropodengemeinschaften auf geringelten Buchen (Fagus sylvatica LINNÈ) in der Schwäbischen Alb. Bachelor thesis, University Würzburg
Sänger J. (2010): Einfluss von Landnutzung und Vegetationsparametern auf das tritrophische System des Spitzwegerichs (Plantago lanceolata) mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Parasitoiden Mesopolobus incultus (Hymenoptera). Thesis, University Würzburg
Schober A. (2010): Effekte der Landnutzung auf das Vorkommen von Phytotelmen und der mit diesen assoziierten Invertebratengemeinschaften im Biosphärengebiet „Schwäbische Alb“. Thesis, University Jena
Schwarz C. (2010): Vorhersage kompositorischer Merkmale von Grünland mittels Nahinfrarotspektroskopie (NIRS). Bachelor thesis, University Münster
Wagner K. (2010): Auswirkungen von Landnutzung auf die Nematodengesellschaften in Wäldern gemäßigter Breiten. Thesis, HU Berlin
Walter M. (2010): Influence of mowing and grazing on a tritrophic system (Plantago lanceolata, Cecidomyiidae, Chalcidoidea). Bachelor thesis, University Würzburg
State examination
Hilbig L. (2010): Vorräte und heißwasserlösliche Fraktionen von C und N in organischen Auflagen entlang eines forstlichen Nutzungsgradienten im Biodiversitäts-Exploratorium Hainich-Dün. State examination, University Jena
2009
Scientific Publications
Goßner M. M., Kowalski E., Lange M., Türke M., Weisser W.W. (2009): Effekte von Landnutzung auf die Diversität von Wanzen. HETEROPTERON 31
Goßner M. M., Weigel A., Schulze E.-D. (2009): Emus hirtus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) in Thüringen - ein Überblick. - Thüringer faunistische Abhandlungen 14, 171-176
Kolb S. (2009): Aerobic methanol-oxidizing Bacteria in soil. FEMS Microbiology Letters 300 1–10
Maraun M., Erdmann G., Schulz G., Norton R.A., Scheu S., Domes K. (2009): Multiple convergent evolution of arboreal life in oribatid mites indicates the primacy of ecology. Biological Science 276 (1671), 3219-3227. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0425
Pecyna M.J., Ullrich R., Clemens A., Schubert R., Scheibner K., Hofrichter M. (2009): Molecular characterization of aromatic peroxygenase from Agrocybe aegerita. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 84 (5), 885-897
Yurkov A., Schäfer A.M., Begerow D. (2009): Clavispora reshetovae. Persoonia, Fungal planet 35. Persoonia 23, 182-183
Yurkov A., Schäfer A.M., Begerow, D. (2009): Barnettozyma vustinii. Persoonia, Fungal planet 38, Persoonia 23, 188-189
Diploma/Master/Bachelor Theses
Becker C. (2009): Interaktion von Protozoen (Acanthamoeba sp.) Mykorrhiza und endophytischen Pilzen auf das Wachstum von Weidelgras (Lolium perenne). Bachelor thesis, University Cologne
Böhm E. (2009): Einfluss ausgewählter Waldtypen auf die Qualität des Reviergesangs beim Zaunkönig (Troglodytes troglodytes). Thesis, University Ulm
Ebertsch L. (2009): Methanol-oxidierende Mikroorganismen in belüfteten Böden. Bachelor thesis, University Bayreuth
Geesink P. (2009): Der Einfluss von Landnutzung auf Herbivorie an Buchen. Bachelor thesis, University Jena
Geuss D. (2009): Einfluss von Stickstoffdüngung auf die Herbivorie an Plantago lanceolata. Bachelor thesis, FU Berlin
Groh J. (2009): Diversität und Aktivität der Myriapoden, Isopoden und Lumbriciden auf Grünlandflächen der DFG Biodiversitäts-Exploratorien. Thesis, University Giessen
Guse T. (2009): Regeneration und Etablierung von sechs mitteleuropäischen Laubbaumarten in einem „naturnahen“ Kalkbuchenwald im Nationalpark Hainich/ Thüringen. Thesis, University Jena
Halboth I. (2009): Der Einfluss unterschiedlicher Landnutzungsintensität auf die Herbivorendichte und -diversität von Plantago lanceolata und die strukturelle Komplexität der Vegetation. Thesis, University Würzburg
Hardge K. (2009): Olfaktorische Orientierung der Rüsselkäferart - Mecinus pascuorum - in komplexen Duftumgebungen. Bachelor thesis, FU Berlin
Hecht A. (2009): Der Einfluss der Landnutzung und Artenvielfalt auf den bestäubervermittelten Pollentransport in experimentellen Pflanzenpopulationen. Thesis, University Halle-Wittenberg
Herzog S. (2009): Charakterisierung von aus Bodenmetagonomen isolierten lipolytischen Genen und Genprodukten. Thesis, University Göttingen
Klenk B. (2009): Monitoring von Schalenwild im Biodiversitäts-Exploratorium Schorfheide-Chorin. Thesis, University Potsdam
Kühsel S. (2009): Welchen Einfluss hat Raps auf das Nestbauverhalten der roten Mauerbiene Osmia bicornis. Bachelor, University Bayreuth
Lüpke N.von (2009): Bestandsvorrat und Baumartenvielfalt Kleinparzellierter Privatwälder im Vergleich zu anderen Bewirtschaftungsformen. Master thesis, University Göttingen
Meub C. (2009): Spinnengemeinschaften auf Grünländern der DFG- Biodiversitätsexploratorien: Einfluss der räumlichen Lage, der Bewirtschaftung und lokaler Standortbedingungen. Thesis, University Giessen
Micic A. (2009): Analysing detection of springtails (Insecta: Collembola) in arthropod predators. Thesis, University Darmstadt
Nowka B. (2009): Identifizierung und Charakterisierung von Genen für lipolytische Enzyme aus Bodenproben des Nationalparks Hainich. Thesis, University Göttingen
Reschke S. (2009): Untersuchungen an und um Plantago lanceolata L. auf landwirtschaftlich genutzten Flächen in der Schorfheide - Wie wirken sich Wirtspflanzenparameter und Vegetationskomplexität auf eine Herbivoren-Parasitoid-Interaktion aus? Thesis, FU Berlin
Schlichenmaier G. (2009): Altersbestimmung von Buchentotholz mittels dendrochronologischer Methoden, zur Ermittlung der Abbauraten, entlang eines Gradienten der Bewirtschaftungsintensität. Diplomarbeit, Universität Freiburg
Stötzel K. (2009): Diversität und Gemeinschaftsstruktur der Carabiden auf Grünlandflächen in den DFG Biodiversitäts-Exploratorien. Thesis, University Giessen
Türk M.-L. (2009): Vergleich der Kohlenstoffvorräte der organischen Auflage und des Oberbodens von Buchen- und Edellaubholzwäldern im Naturraum Hainich-Dün-Hainleite. Thesis, FSU Jena
Wilhelm H. (2009): Verknüpfung von Datensätzen mit Ontologien mittels struktureller und semantischer Registrierung. Thesis, FSU Jena
Wuchter K. M. (2009): The influence of land use on plant science diversity in the biosphere area "Schwäbische Alb", southwest Germany. Master thesis, HU Berlin
2008
Scientific Publications
Pfeiffer S., Bernert P., Großmann M., Henne E., Kalko E.K.V., Linsenmair K.E., Prati D., Schulze E.D., Weisser W.W., Fischer M. (2008): Exploratorien für funktionelle Biodiversitätsforschung. In: Wolters V., Krüß A. (eds) Naturschutz und Ökologie - Ausgewählte Beiträge zur GfÖ-Jahrestagung 2007 in Marburg. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt, BfN-Skripten 60, 183-188
Diploma/Master/Bachelor Theses
Breuer B.S. (2008): Einfluss von Landnutzungsintensität auf Mikroorganismen in Grünlandböden der schwäbischen Alb. Bachelor Thesis, University Hohenheim
Glatzle S.(2008): Räumliche Heterogenität mikrobieller Enzymaktivitäten in Grünlandböden der Schwäbischen Alb. Bachelor thesis, University Hohenheim
Kurth F. (2008): Molekulare Untersuchungen zur Biodiversität von Bodenpilzen in ausgewählten Wald- und Grünlandflächen. Bachelor thesis, University Bochum
May F. (2008): Modelling coexistence of plant functional types in grassland communities- the role of above- and below-ground competition. Thesis, University Potsdam
Mehler K.(2008): Bodenkohlenstoffvorräte in verschiedenen Waldbewirtschaftungsintensitäten im Hainich. Thesis, Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie Jena
Morgenstern A. (2008): Bird assemblages and animal-plant interactions in hedges on the Swabian Alb. Thesis, University Münster
Nietschke L. (2008): Die Rolle der Bodenmesofauna bei der Etablierung von Samen auf unterschiedlich genutzten Grünlandböden. Thesis, Universität Bremen
Öhy C. S. (2008): Distribution and foraging behaviour of corvids within the cultural landscape of Swabian Alb. Thesis, University Ulm