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2018 (25)

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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Bachmann, D., Roscher, C., Buchmann, N., (2018):
How do leaf trait values change spatially and temporally with light availability in a grassland diversity experiment?
Oikos 127 (7), 935 - 948
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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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Bjorkman, A.D., Myers-Smith, I.H., Elmendorf, S.C., Normand, S., Rüger, N., Beck, P.S.A., Blach-Overgaard, A., Blok, D., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Forbes, B.C., Georges, D., Goetz, S.J., Guay, K.C., Henry, G.H.R., HilleRisLambers, J., Hollister, R.D., Karger, D.N., Kattge, J., Manning, P., Prevéy, J.S., Rixen, C., Schaepman-Strub, G., Thomas, H.J.D., Vellend, M., Wilmking, M., Wipf, S., Carbognani, M., Hermanutz, L., Lévesque, E., Molau, U., Petraglia, A., Soudzilovskaia, N.A., Spasojevic, M.J., Tomaselli, M., Vowles, T., Alatalo, J.M., Alexander, H.D., Anadon-Rosell, A., Angers-Blondin, S., te Beest, M., Berner, L., Björk, R.G., Buchwal, A., Buras, A., Christie, K., Cooper, E.J., Dullinger, S., Elberling, B., Eskelinen, A., Frei, E.R., Grau, O., Grogan, P., Hallinger, M., Harper, K.A., Heijmans, M.M.P.D., Hudson, J., Hülber, K., Iturrate-Garcia, M., Iversen, C.M., Jaroszynska, F., Johnstone, J.F., Jørgensen, R.H., Kaarlejärvi, E., Klady, R., Kuleza, S., Kulonen, A., Lamarque, L.J., Lantz, T., Little, C.J., Speed, J.D.M., Michelsen, A., Milbau, A., Nabe-Nielsen, J., Schøler Nielsen, S., Ninot, J.M., Oberbauer, S.F., Olofsson, J., Onipchenko, V.G., Rumpf, S.B., Semenchuk, P., Shetti, R., Siegwart Collier, L., Street, L.E., Suding, K.N., Tape, K.D., Trant, A., Treier, U.A., Tremblay, J.P., Tremblay, M., Venn, S., Weijers, S., Zamin, T., Boulanger-Lapointe, N., Gould, W.A., Hik, D.S., Hofgaard, A., Jónsdóttir, I.S., Jorgenson, J., Klein, J., Magnusson, B., Tweedie, C., Wookey, P.A., Bahn, M., Blonder, B., van Bodegom, P.M., Bond-Lamberty, B., Campetella, G., Cerabolini, B.E.L., Chapin III, F.S., Cornwell, W.K., Craine, J., Dainese, M., de Vries, F.T., Díaz, S., Enquist, B.J., Green, W., Milla, R., Niinemets, Ü., Onoda, Y., Ordoñez, J.C., Ozinga, W.A., Penuelas, J., Poorter, H., Poschlod, P., Reich, P.B., Sandel, B., Schamp, B., Sheremetev, S., Weiher, E., (2018):
Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome
Nature 562 (7725), 57 - 62
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Buchmann, T., Schumacher, J., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Fischer, M., Gleixner, G., Hacker, N., Lange, M., Oelmann, Y., Schulze, E.-D., Weigelt, A., Weisser, W.W., Wilcke, W., Roscher, C., (2018):
Connecting experimental biodiversity research to real-world grasslands
Perspect. Plant Ecol. Evol. Syst. 33 , 78 - 88
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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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Clark, A.T., Neuhauser, C., (2018):
Harnessing uncertainty to approximate mechanistic models of interspecific interactions
Theor. Popul. Biol. 123 , 35 - 44
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Craven, D., Eisenhauer, N., Pearse, W.D., Hautier, Y., Isbell, F., Roscher, C., Bahn, M., Beierkuhnlein, C., Bönisch, G., Buchmann, N., Byun, C., Catford, J.A., Cerabolini, B.E.L., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Craine, J.M., De Luca, E., Ebeling, A., Griffin, J.N., Hector, A., Hines, J., Jentsch, A., Kattge, J., Kreyling, J., Lanta, V., Lemoine, N., Meyer, S.T., Minden, V., Onipchenko, V., Wayne Polley, H., Reich, P.B., van Ruijven, J., Schamp, B., Smith, M.D., Soudzilovskaia, N.A., Tilman, D., Weigelt, A., Wilsey, B., Manning, P., (2018):
Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship
Nat. Ecol. Evol. 2 , 1579 - 1587
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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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Fischer, C., Leimer, S., Roscher, C., Ravenek, J., de Kroon, H., Kreutziger, Y., Baade, J., Beßler, H., Eisenhauer, N., Weigelt, A., Mommer, L., Lange, M., Gleixner, G., Wilcke, W., Schröder, B., Hildebrandt, A., (2018):
Plant species richness and functional groups have different effects on soil water content in a decade‐long grassland experiment
J. Ecol.
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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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Guiz, J., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Hacker, N., Hertzog, L., Oelmann, Y., Roscher, C., Wagg, C., Hillebrand, H., (2018):
Interspecific competition alters leaf stoichiometry in 20 grassland species
Oikos 127 (7), 903 - 914
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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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Hodapp, , Borer, E.T., Harpole, W.S., Lind, E.M., Seabloom, E.W., Adler, P.B., Alberti, J., Arnillas, C.A., Bakker, J.D., Biederman, L., Cadotte, M., Cleland, E.E., Collins, S., Fay, P.A., Firn, J., Hagenah, N., Hautier, Y., Iribarne, O., Knops, J.M.H., McCulley, R.L., MacDougall, A., Moore, J.L., Morgan, J.W., Mortensen, B., La Pierre, K.J., Risch, A.C., Schütz, M., Peri, P., Stevens, C.J., Wright, J., Hillebrand, H., (2018):
Spatial heterogeneity in species composition constrains plant community responses to herbivory and fertilisation
Ecol. Lett. 21 (9), 1364 - 1371
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Jyväsjärvi, J., Virtanen, R., Ilmonen, J., Paasivirta, L., Muotka, T., (2018):
Identifying taxonomic and functional surrogates for spring biodiversity conservation
Conserv. Biol. 32 (4), 883 - 893
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Maliniemi, T., Kapfer, J., Saccone, P., Skog, A., Virtanen, R., (2018):
Long‐term vegetation changes of treeless heath communities in northern Fennoscandia: Links to climate change trends and reindeer grazing
J. Veg. Sci. 29 (3), 469 - 479
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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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Roscher, C., Gubsch, M., Lipowsky, A., Schumacher, J., Weigelt, A., Buchmann, N., Schulze, E.-D., Schmid, B., (2018):
Trait means, trait plasticity and trait differences to other species jointly explain species performances in grasslands of varying diversity
Oikos 127 (6), 855 - 865
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Roscher, C., Schumacher, J., Gubsch, M., Lipowsky, A., Weigelt, A., Buchmann, N., Schmid, B., Schulze, E.-D., (2018):
Origin context of trait data matters for predictions of community performance in a grassland biodiversity experiment
Ecology 99 (5), 1214 - 1226
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Roscher, C., Schumacher, J., Gubsch, M., Lipowsky, A., Weigelt, A., Buchmann, N., Schulze, E.-D., Schmid, B., (2018):
Interspecific trait differences rather than intraspecific trait variation increase the extent and filling of community trait space with increasing plant diversity in experimental grasslands
Perspect. Plant Ecol. Evol. Syst. 33 , 42 - 50
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Roscher, C., Schumacher, J., Lipowsky, A., Gubsch, M., Weigelt, A., Schmid, B., Buchmann, N., Schulze, E.-D., (2018):
Functional groups differ in trait means, but not in trait plasticity to species richness in local grassland communities
Ecology 99 (10), 2295 - 2307
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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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