Dr. Alrun Siebenkäs
Contact
Department Physiological Diversity
German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
Puschstraße 4
04103 Leipzig
Germany
Phone: 0341 9733256
E-mail: alrun.siebenkaes@ufz.de
- Biodiversity and resource effects on plant functional trait variation and stoichiometry
- Community ecology
- Plant ecophysiology, stress physiology
- Population biology of threatened species
- 2011 - 2016 PHD STUDENT at UFZ/MLU Halle in the DFG project "Effects of plant diversity and resource availability on plant functional trait variation, plant interactions and community productivity" (Supervisor: PD Fr. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Christiane Roscher)
- 2004 - 2010 DIPLOMA Biology (Plant Physiology, Geobotany) at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg;
Thesis at the Institute of Geobotany (Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. H. Bruelheide) "The relationship between distribution boundary and frost hardiness of characteristic woody species of Chinese subtropical forests" (part of DFG FOR891: BEF China SP3)
- Nutrient Network (NutNet, since 2023)
- The DivResource Experiment (until 2014)
- Kattge J, Bönisch G, Díaz S, et al. TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access. Glob Change Biol. (2020); 26: 119–188. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14904
- Poorter H, Niinemets Ü, Ntagkas N, Siebenkäs A, Mäenpää Maarit, Matsubara S, Pons T (2019) A meta-analysis of plant responses to light intensity for 70 traits ranging from molecules to whole plant performance. New Phytologist doi: 10.1111/nph.15754
2017 (1)
- Siebenkäs, A., Schumacher, J., Roscher, C. (2017):
Trait variation in response to resource availability and plant diversity modulates functional dissimilarity among species in experimental grasslands
J. Plant Ecol. 10 (6), 981 - 993 10.1093/jpe/rtw110
2016 (3)
- Craven, D., Isbell, F., Manning, P., Connolly, J., Bruelheide, H., Ebeling, A., Roscher, C., van Ruijven, J., Weigelt, A., Wilsey, B., Beierkuhnlein, C., De Luca, E., Griffin, J.N., Hautier, Y., Hector, A., Jentsch, A., Kreyling, J., Lanta, V., Loreau, M., Meyer, S.T., Mori, A.S., Naeem, S., Palmborg, C., Wayne Polley, H., Reich, P.B., Schmid, B., Siebenkäs, A., Seabloom, E., Thakur, M.P., Tilman, D., Vogel, A., Eisenhauer, N. (2016):
Plant diversity effects on grassland productivity are robust to both nutrient enrichment and drought
Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B-Biol. Sci. 371 (1694), art. 20150277 10.1098/rstb.2015.0277 - Siebenkäs, A., Roscher, C. (2016):
Functional composition rather than species richness determines root characteristics of experimental grasslands grown at different light and nutrient availability
Plant Soil 404 (1), 399 - 412 10.1007/s11104-016-2853-x - Siebenkäs, A., Schumacher, J., Roscher, C. (2016):
Resource availability alters biodiversity effects in experimental grass-forb mixtures
PLOS One 11 (6), e0158110 10.1371/journal.pone.0158110
2015 (1)
- Siebenkäs, A., Schumacher, J., Roscher, C. (2015):
Phenotypic plasticity to light and nutrient availability alters functional trait ranking across eight perennial grassland species
AoB Plants 7 , plv029 10.1093/aobpla/plv029