Dr. Maria-Theresa Jessen
I am a plant ecologist interested in the interactive effects of global change drivers on plant community composition and diversity. I primarily work in experimental grasslands subjected to nutrient enrichment and loss of large mammalian herbivores. In my current postdoc I am looking at cascading effects of fertilization on (below-ground) disturbance activity by small mammalian herbivores and possible links to above-ground plant community diversity.
since November 2022
2022
2017 - 2021
2015 - 2017
2011 - 2015
Postdoc in the strategic NEu project at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ/German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Scientific employee at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ/German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
PhD at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ/German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Main supervisor: Anu Eskelinen
Co-supervisors: Harald Auge Stan Harpole Yann Hautier
M.Sc. in Ecology at Umeå University (Sweden)
B.Sc. in International Forest Ecosystem Management at University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde (HNEE)
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2023 (4)
- Eskelinen, A., Jessen, M.-T., Bahamonde, H.A., Bakker, J.D., Borer, E.T., Caldeira, M.C., Harpole, W.S., Jia, M., Lannes, L.S., Nogueira, C., Venterink, H.O., Peri, P.L., Porath-Krause, A.J., Seabloom, E.W., Schroeder, K., Tognetti, P.M., Yasui, S.-L.E., Virtanen, R., Sullivan, L.L. (2023):
Herbivory and nutrients shape grassland soil seed banks
Nat. Commun. 14 , art. 3949 10.1038/s41467-023-39677-x - Jessen, M.-T., Auge, H., Harpole, W.S., Eskelinen, A. (2023):
Litter accumulation, not light limitation, drives early plant recruitment
J. Ecol. 111 (6), 2274 - 1187 10.1111/1365-2745.14099 - Jessen, M.-T., Dorrepaal, E., Lett, S., Wardle, D., Nilsson, M.-C., Teuber, L., Krab, E. (2023):
Data from: Understory functional groups and fire history but not experimental warming drive tree seedling performance in unmanaged boreal forests
figshare 10.6084/m9.figshare.22717678.v1 - Jessen, M.-T., Krab, E.J., Lett, S., Nilsson, M.-C., Teuber, L., Wardle, D.A., Dorrepaal, E. (2023):
Understory functional groups and fire history but not experimental warming drive tree seedling performance in unmanaged boreal forests
Front. For. Glob. Change 6 , art. 1130532 10.3389/ffgc.2023.1130532
2022 (6)
- Eskelinen, A., Harpole, W.S., Jessen, M.-T., Virtanen, R., Hautier, Y. (2022):
Data for: Light competition drives herbivore and nutrient effects on plant diversity
Dryad 10.5061/dryad.rjdfn2zdm - Eskelinen, A., Harpole, W.S., Jessen, M.-T., Virtanen, R., Hautier, Y. (2022):
Data for: Light competition drives herbivore and nutrient effects on plant diversity
Version: 1 Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.7269719 - Eskelinen, A., Harpole, W.S., Jessen, M.-T., Virtanen, R., Hautier, Y. (2022):
Light competition drives herbivore and nutrient effects on plant diversity
Nature 611 (7935), 301 - 305 10.1038/s41586-022-05383-9 - Jessen, M.-T., Auge, H., Harpole, W.S., Hautier, Y., Eskelinen, A. (2022):
Grazing and light modify Silene latifolia responses to nutrients and future climate
PLOS One 17 (11), e0276789 10.1371/journal.pone.0276789 - Jessen, M.-T., Auge, H., Harpole, W.S., Hautier, Y., Eskelinen, A. (2022):
Data from: Grazing and light modify Silene latifolia responses to nutrients and future climate [Dataset]
figshare 10.6084/m9.figshare.21369714.v1 - Virtanen, R., Bakker, J.D., Jessen, M.-T., Sullivan, L.L., Harpole, W.S., Eskelinen, A. (2022):
Is the bryophyte soil diaspore bank buffered against nutrient enrichment and grazing exclusion?
Plant Soil 477 (1-2), 487 - 499 10.1007/s11104-022-05450-0
2020 (1)
- Jessen, M.-T., Kaarlejärvi, E., Olofsson, J., Eskelinen, A. (2020):
Mammalian herbivory shapes intraspecific trait responses to warmer climate and nutrient enrichment
Glob. Change Biol. 26 (12), 6742 - 6752 10.1111/gcb.15378