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)
Index:
2022 (3)2020 (1)
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2022 (3)
- 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
full text (doi) - 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
full text (doi) - 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
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2020 (1)
- Jessen, M.-T., Kaarlejärvi, E., Olofsson, J., Eskelinen, A.M. (2020):
Mammalian herbivory shapes intraspecific trait responses to warmer climate and nutrient enrichment
Glob. Change Biol. 26 (12), 6742 - 6752
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