Working Groups - Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research

Working Groups:

Functional Plant Community Ecology

Project Groups:

Team Eskelinen
Team Dunker

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German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)

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Recent Publications

2018 (11)

Anderson, T.M., Griffith, D.M., Grace, J.B., Lind, E.M., Adler, P.B., Biederman, L.A., Blumenthal, D.M., Daleo, P., Firn, J., Hagenah, N., Harpole, W.S., MacDougall, A.S., McCulley, R.L., Prober, S.M., Risch, A.C., Sankaran, M., Schuetz, M., Seabloom, E.W., Stevens, C.J., Sullivan, L.L., Wragg, P.D., Borer, E.T., (2018):
Herbivory and eutrophication mediate grassland plant nutrient responses across a global climatic gradient
Ecology 99 (4), 822 - 831
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Bannar-Martin, K.H., Kremer, C.T., Ernest, S.K.M., Leibold, M.A., Auge, H., Chase, J., Declerck, S.A.J., Eisenhauer, N., Harpole, S., Hillebrand, H., Isbell, F., Koffel, T., Larsen, S., Narwani, A., Petermann, J.S., Roscher, C., Cabral, J.S., Supp, S.R., (2018):
Integrating community assembly and biodiversity to better understand ecosystem function: the Community Assembly and the Functioning of Ecosystems (CAFE) approach
Ecol. Lett. 21 (2), 167 - 180
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Clark, A.T., Lehman, C., Tilman, D., (2018):
Identifying mechanisms that structure ecological communities by snapping model parameters to empirically observed tradeoffs
Ecol. Lett. 21 (4), 494 - 505
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Dunker, S., Wilhelm, C., (2018):
Cell wall structure of coccoid green algae as an important trade-off between biotic interference mechanisms and multidimensional cell growth
Front. Microbiol. 9 , art. 719
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Frater, P.N., Borer, E.T., Fay, P.A., Jin, V., Knaeble, B., Seabloom, E., Sullivan, L., Wedin, D.A., Harpole, W.S., (2018):
Nutrients and environment influence arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization both independently and interactively in Schizachyrium scoparium
Plant Soil 425 (1–2), 493 - 506
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Guderle, M., Bachmann, D., Milcu, A., Gockele, A., Bechmann, M., Fischer, C., Roscher, C., Landais, D., Ravel, O., Devidal, S., Roy, J., Gessler, A., Buchmann, N., Weigelt, A., Hildebrandt, A., (2018):
Dynamic niche partitioning in root water uptake facilitates efficient water use in more diverse grassland plant communities
Funct. Ecol. 32 (2), 214 - 227
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Hautier, Y., Isbell, F., Borer, E.T., Seabloom, E.W., Harpole, W.S., Lind, E.M., MacDougall, A.S., Stevens, C.J., Adler, P.B., Alberti, J., Bakker, J.D., Brudvig, L.A., Buckley, Y.M., Cadotte, M., Caldeira, M.C., Chaneton, E.J., Chu, C., Daleo, P., Dickman, C.R., Dwyer, J.M., Eskelinen, A., Fay, P.A., Firn, J., Hagenah, N., Hillebrand, H., Iribarne, O., Kirkman, K.P., Knops, J.M.H., Pierre, K.J.L., McCulley, R.L., Morgan, J.W., Pärtel, M., Pascual, J., Price, J.N., Prober, S.M., Risch, A.C., Sankaran, M., Schuetz, M., Standish, R.J., Virtanen, R., Wardle, G.M., Yahdjian, L., Hector, A., (2018):
Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality
Nat. Ecol. Evol. 2 (1), 50 - 56
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Hillebrand, H., Blasius, B., Borer, E.T., Chase, J.M., Downing, J.A., Eriksson, B.K., Filstrup, C.T., Harpole, W.S., Larsen, S., Lewandowska, A.M., Seabloom, E.W., Van de Waal, D.B., Ryabov, A.B., (2018):
Biodiversity change is uncoupled from species richness trends: Consequences for conservation and monitoring
J. Appl. Ecol. 55 (1), 169 - 184
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Meyer, S.T., Ptacnik, R., Hillebrand, H., Bessler, H., Buchmann, N., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Engels, C., Fischer, M., Halle, S., Klein, A.-M., Oelmann, Y., Roscher, C., Rottstock, T., Scherber, C., Scheu, S., Schmid, B., Schulze, E.-D., Temperton, V.M., Tscharntke, T., Voigt, W., Weigelt, A., Wilcke, W., Weisser, W.W., (2018):
Biodiversity–multifunctionality relationships depend on identity and number of measured functions
Nat. Ecol. Evol. 2 , 44 - 49
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Mortensen, B., Danielson, B., Harpole, W.S., Alberti, J., Arnillas, C.A., Biederman, L., Borer, E.T., Cadotte, M.W., Dwyer, J.M., Hagenah, N., Hautier, Y., Peri, P.L., Seabloom, E.W., (2018):
Herbivores safeguard plant diversity by reducing variability in dominance
J. Ecol. 106 (1), 101 - 112
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Schulze, E.D., Bouriaud, O., Weber, U., Roscher, C., Hessenmoeller, D., Kroiher, F., Schall, P., (2018):
Management breaks the natural productivity-biodiversity relationship in forests and grassland: an opinion
For. Ecosyst. 5 , art. 3
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