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2018

Arias-Andres, M., U. Klümper, K. Rojas-Jimenez, and H.-P. Grossart. 2018. Microplastic pollution increases gene exchange in aquatic ecosystems. Environmental Pollution 237:253–261.
Bacher, S., T. M. Blackburn, F. Essl, P. Genovesi, J. Heikkilä, J. M. Jeschke, G. Jones, R. Keller, M. Kenis, C. Kueffer, A. F. Martinou, W. Nentwig, J. Pergl, P. Pyšek, W. Rabitsch, D. M. Richardson, H. E. Roy, W.-C. Saul, R. Scalera, M. Vilà, J. R. U. Wilson, and S. Kumschick. 2018. Socio-economic impact classification of alien taxa (SEICAT). Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9:159–168.
Blankers, T., S. T. Vilaça, I. Waurick, D. A. Gray, R. M. Hennig, C. J. Mazzoni, F. Mayer, and E. L. Berdan. 2018. Demography and selection shape transcriptomic divergence in field crickets. Evolution 72:553–567.
Braga, R. R., L. Gómez-Aparicio, T. Heger, J. R. S. Vitule, and J. M. Jeschke. 2018. Structuring evidence for invasional meltdown: broad support but with biases and gaps. Biological Invasions 20:923–936.
Busse, A., P. A. P. Antiqueira, A. S. Neutzling, A. M. Wolf, G. Q. Romero, and J. S. Petermann. 2018. Different in the dark: The effect of habitat characteristics on community composition and beta diversity in bromeliad microfauna. PLOS ONE 13:e0191426.
Bukowski, A. R., C. Schittko, and J. S. Petermann. 2018. The strength of negative plant-soil feedback increases from the intraspecific to the interspecific and the functional group level. Ecology and Evolution 8:2280–2289.
Camenzind, T., S. Hättenschwiler, K. K. Treseder, A. Lehmann, and M. C. Rillig. 2018. Nutrient limitation of soil microbial processes in tropical forests. Ecological Monographs 88:4–21.
Camenzind, T., E. C. Hammer, J. Lehmann, D. Solomon, S. Horn, M. C. Rillig, and S. Hempel. 2018. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal and soil microbial communities in African Dark Earths. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 94.
Camenzind, T., J. Lehmberg, P. Weimershaus, L. Álvarez-Garrido, D. R. Andrade Linares, J. P. Súarez, and M. C. Rillig. 2018. Do fungi need salt licks? No evidence for fungal contribution to the Sodium Ecosystem Respiration Hypothesis based on lab and field experiments in Southern Ecuador. Fungal Ecology 32:18–28.
Cárate-Tandalla, D., T. Camenzind, C. Leuschner, and J. Homeier. 2018. Contrasting species responses to continued nitrogen and phosphorus addition in tropical montane forest tree seedlings. Biotropica 50:234–245.
Caruso, T., E. C. Hammer, S. Hempel, J. Kohler, E. Kathryn Morris, S. D. Veresoglou, N. Opitz, J. Wehner, and M. C. Rillig. 2018. Assessing soil ecosystem processes – biodiversity relationships in a nature reserve in Central Europe. Plant and Soil 424:491–501.
de Souza Machado, A. A., W. Kloas, C. Zarfl, S. Hempel, and M. C. Rillig. 2018. Microplastics as an emerging threat to terrestrial ecosystems. Global Change Biology 24:1405–1416.
Dittrich, C., A. Rodríguez, O. Segev, S. Drakulić, H. Feldhaar, M. Vences, M.-O. Rödel, and M. Taborsky. 2018. Temporal migration patterns and mating tactics influence size-assortative mating in Rana temporaria. Behavioral Ecology 29:418–428.
Du, B., J. Kreuzwieser, M. Dannenmann, L. V. Junker, A. Kleiber, M. Hess, K. Jansen, M. Eiblmeier, A. Gessler, U. Kohnle, I. Ensminger, H. Rennenberg, and H. Wildhagen. 2018. Foliar nitrogen metabolism of adult Douglas-fir trees is affected by soil water availability and varies little among provenances. PLOS ONE 13:e0194684.
Elands, B. H. M., K. Vierikko, E. Andersson, L. K. Fischer, P. Gonçalves, D. Haase, I. Kowarik, A. C. Luz, J. Niemelä, M. Santos-Reis, and K. F. Wiersum. In Press. Biocultural diversity: A novel concept to assess human-nature interrelations, nature conservation and stewardship in cities. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.
Enders, M., M.-T. Hütt, and J. M. Jeschke. 2018. Drawing a map of invasion biology based on a network of hypotheses. Ecosphere 9:e02146.
Felsmann, K., M. Baudis, Z. E. Kayler, H. Puhlmann, A. Ulrich, and A. Gessler. 2018. Responses of the structure and function of the understory plant communities to precipitation reduction across forest ecosystems in Germany. Annals of Forest Science 75:3.
Fischer, L. K., D. Brinkmeyer, S. J. Karle, K. Cremer, E. Huttner, M. Seebauer, U. Nowikow, B. Schütze, P. Voigt, S. Völker, and I. Kowarik. In press. Biodiverse edible schools: Linking healthy food, school gardens and local urban biodiversity. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.
Fischer, L. K., J. Honold, A. Botzat, D. Brinkmeyer, R. Cvejić, T. Delshammar, B. Elands, D. Haase, N. Kabisch, S. J. Karle, R. Lafortezza, M. Nastran, A. B. Nielsen, A. P. van der Jagt, K. Vierikko, and I. Kowarik. In Press. Recreational ecosystem services in European cities: Sociocultural and geographical contexts matter for park use. Ecosystem Services.
Fischer, L. K., J. Honold, R. Cvejić, T. Delshammar, S. Hilbert, R. Lafortezza, M. Nastran, A. B. Nielsen, M. Pintar, A. P. N. van der Jagt, and I. Kowarik. 2018. Beyond green: Broad support for biodiversity in multicultural European cities. Global Environmental Change 49:35–45.
Gopal, D., M. von der Lippe, and I. Kowarik. 2018. Sacred sites as habitats of culturally important plant species in an Indian megacity. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 32:113–122.
Guo, T., H. Weise, S. Fiedler, D. Lohmann, and B. Tietjen. 2018. The role of landscape heterogeneity in regulating plant functional diversity under different precipitation and grazing regimes in semi-arid savannas. Ecological Modelling 379:1–9.
Hecker, S., R. Bonney, M. Haklay, F. Hölker, H. Hofer, C. Goebel, M. Gold, Z. Makuch, M. Ponti, A. Richter, L. Robinson, J. R. Iglesias, R. Owen, T. Peltola, A. Sforzi, J. Shirk, J. Vogel, K. Vohland, T. Witt, and A. Bonn. 2018. Innovation in Citizen Science – Perspectives on Science-Policy Advances. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice 3.
Heger, T., G. Nikles, and B. S. Jacobs. 2018. Differentiation in native as well as introduced ranges: germination reflects mean and variance in cover of surrounding vegetation. AoB PLANTS 10.
Higgs, E. S., J. A. Harris, T. Heger, R. J. Hobbs, S. D. Murphy, and K. N. Suding. 2018. Keep ecological restoration open and flexible. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2:580–580.
Jesch, A., K. E. Barry, J. M. Ravenek, D. Bachmann, T. Strecker, A. Weigelt, N. Buchmann, H. de Kroon, A. Gessler, L. Mommer, C. Roscher, and M. Scherer-Lorenzen. In Press. Below-ground resource partitioning alone cannot explain the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship: A field test using multiple tracers. Journal of Ecology.
Kowarik, I., and M. von der Lippe. In press. Plant population success across urban ecosystems: A framework to inform biodiversity conservation in cities. Journal of Applied Ecology.
Lehr, C., R. Dannowski, T. Kalettka, C. Merz, B. Schröder, J. Steidl, and G. Lischeid. 2018. Detecting dominant changes in irregularly sampled multivariate water quality data sets. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions:1–59.
Löbel, S., L. Mair, N. Lönnell, B. Schröder, and T. Snäll. In press. Biological traits explain bryophyte species distributions and responses to forest fragmentation and climatic variation. Journal of Ecology.
Lokatis, S., and J. M. Jeschke. 2018. The island rule: An assessment of biases and research trends. Journal of Biogeography 45:289–303.
Martín, E., M. Ryo, M. Doering, and C. Robinson. 2018. Evaluation of Restoration and Flow Interactions on River Structure and Function: Channel Widening of the Thur River, Switzerland. Water 10:439.
Martin-Sanchez, P. M., A. A. Gorbushina, and J. Toepel. 2018. Quantification of microbial load in diesel storage tanks using culture- and qPCR-based approaches. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation 126:216–223.
McKinney, M. L., and K. Ingo. 2018. The contribution of wild urban ecosystems to liveable cities. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 29:334–335.
Menzel, A., S. Hempel, J. Davison, M. Moora, P. Pyšek, M. C. Rillig, M. Zobel, and I. Kühn. In Press. Widely distributed native and alien plant species differ in arbuscular mycorrhizal associations and related functional trait interactions. Ecography.
Müller, J., E. Roberts, E. Naylor, and N. Stevens. 2018. A Fossil Gekkotan (Squamata) from the Late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation, Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania. Journal of Herpetology 52:223–227.
Musseau, C., S. Vincenzi, D. Jesenšek, S. Boulêtreau, F. Santoul, D. Nicolas, and A. J. Crivelli. (in press). Dietary niche expansion and niche shift in native marble trout (Salmo marmoratus) living in sympatry with introduced rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Ecology of Freshwater Fish.
Nopper, J., J. C. Riemann, K. Brinkmann, M.-O. Rödel, and J. U. Ganzhorn. 2018. Differences in land cover – biodiversity relationships complicate the assignment of conservation values in human-used landscapes. Ecological Indicators 90:112–119.
Onandia, G., G. Lischeid, T. Kalettka, A. Kleeberg, M. Omari, K. Premke, and G. B. Arhonditsis. 2018. Biogeochemistry of natural ponds in agricultural landscape: Lessons learned from modeling a kettle hole in Northeast Germany. Science of The Total Environment 634:1615–1630.
Penner, J., and M.-O. Rödel. In press. Keep it simple? Dispersal abilities can explain why species range sizes differ, the case study of West African amphibians. Acta Oecologica.
Penner, J., M. Augustin, and M.-O. Rödel. In press. Modelling the spatial baseline for amphibian conservation in West Africa. Acta Oecologica.
Reck, A., C. Jackisch, T. L. Hohenbrink, B. Schröder, A. Zangerlé, and L. van Schaik. 2018. Impact of Temporal Macropore Dynamics on Infiltration: Field Experiments and Model Simulations. Vadose Zone Journal 17:0.
Reeg, J., S. Heine, C. Mihan, T. G. Preuss, S. McGee, and F. Jeltsch. In press. Potential impact of effects on reproductive attributes induced by herbicides on a plant community. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.
Ryo, M., E. Harvey, C. T. Robinson, and F. Altermatt. 2018. Nonlinear higher order abiotic interactions explain riverine biodiversity. Journal of Biogeography 45:628–639.
Schulz, K., M. Guschal, I. Kowarik, J. S. Almeida-Cortez, E. V. S. B. Sampaio, and A. Cierjacks. 2018. Grazing, forest density, and carbon storage: towards a more sustainable land use in Caatinga dry forests of Brazil. Regional Environmental Change:1–13.
Seebens, H., T. M. Blackburn, E. E. Dyer, P. Genovesi, P. E. Hulme, J. M. Jeschke, S. Pagad, P. Pyšek, M. van Kleunen, M. Winter, M. Ansong, M. Arianoutsou, S. Bacher, B. Blasius, E. G. Brockerhoff, G. Brundu, C. Capinha, C. E. Causton, L. Celesti-Grapow, W. Dawson, S. Dullinger, E. P. Economo, N. Fuentes, B. Guénard, H. Jäger, J. Kartesz, M. Kenis, I. Kühn, B. Lenzner, A. M. Liebhold, A. Mosena, D. Moser, W. Nentwig, M. Nishino, D. Pearman, J. Pergl, W. Rabitsch, J. Rojas-Sandoval, A. Roques, S. Rorke, S. Rossinelli, H. E. Roy, R. Scalera, S. Schindler, K. Štajerová, B. Tokarska-Guzik, K. Walker, D. F. Ward, T. Yamanaka, and F. Essl. In press. Global rise in emerging alien species results from increased accessibility of new source pools. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115:E2264–E2273.
Sosa-Hernández, M. A., J. Roy, S. Hempel, and M. C. Rillig. 2018. Evidence for subsoil specialization in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. bioRxiv:252544.
Synodinos, A. D., B. Tietjen, D. Lohmann, and F. Jeltsch. 2018. The impact of inter-annual rainfall variability on African savannas changes with mean rainfall. Journal of Theoretical Biology 437:92–100.
Thiele, J., S. Kellner, S. Buchholz, and J. Schirmel. 2018. Connectivity or area: what drives plant species richness in habitat corridors? Landscape Ecology 33:173–181.
Wilson, S. D., D. R. Schlaepfer, J. B. Bradford, W. K. Lauenroth, M. C. Duniway, S. A. Hall, K. Jamiyansharav, G. Jia, A. Lkhagva, S. M. Munson, D. A. Pyke, and B. Tietjen. 2018. Functional Group, Biomass, and Climate Change Effects on Ecological Drought in Semiarid Grasslands. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 123:1072–1085.
Yu, G., D. Y. Baeder, R. R. Regoes, and J. Rolff. In press. The More The Better? Combination Effects of Antimicrobial Peptides. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

2017

Aguilar-Trigueros, C. A., M. C. Rillig, and T. W. Crowther. 2017. Applying allometric theory to fungi. The ISME Journal 11:2175–2180.
Aguilar-Trigueros, C. A., M. C. Rillig, and M.-B. Ballhausen. 2017. Environmental Filtering Is a Relic. A Response to Cadotte and Tucker. Trends in ecology & evolution 32:882–884.
Berdan, E. L., J. Finck, P. R. Johnston, I. Waurick, C. J. Mazzoni, and F. Mayer. 2017. Transcriptome profiling of ontogeny in the acridid grasshopper Chorthippus biguttulus. PLOS ONE 12:e0177367.
Bergholz, K., F. May, M. Ristow, I. Giladi, Y. Ziv, and F. Jeltsch. 2017. Two Mediterranean annuals feature high within-population trait variability and respond differently to a precipitation gradient. Basic and Applied Ecology 25:48–58.
Bergmann, J., M. Ryo, D. Prati, S. Hempel, and M. C. Rillig. 2017. Root traits are more than analogues of leaf traits: the case for diaspore mass. New Phytologist 216:1130–1139.
Bradford, J. B., D. R. Schlaepfer, W. K. Lauenroth, C. B. Yackulic, M. Duniway, S. Hall, G. Jia, K. Jamiyansharav, S. M. Munson, S. D. Wilson, and B. Tietjen. 2017. Future soil moisture and temperature extremes imply expanding suitability for rainfed agriculture in temperate drylands. Scientific Reports 7:12923.
Braga, R. R., L. Gómez-Aparicio, T. Heger, J. R. S. Vitule, and J. M. Jeschke. 2017. Structuring evidence for invasional meltdown: broad support but with biases and gaps. Biological Invasions:1–14.
Brugger, J., G. Feulner, and S. Petri. 2017. Baby, it’s cold outside: Climate model simulations of the effects of the asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous. Geophysical Research Letters 44:419–427.
Carus, J., M. Heuner, M. Paul, and B. Schröder. 2017. Which factors and processes drive the spatio-temporal dynamics of brackish marshes?—Insights from development and parameterisation of a mechanistic vegetation model. Ecological Modelling 363:122–136.
Chen, Y.-L., Z.-W. Xu, T.-L. Xu, S. D. Veresoglou, G.-W. Yang, and B.-D. Chen. 2017. Nitrogen deposition and precipitation induced phylogenetic clustering of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 115:233–242.
Chen, H., N. J. Oram, K. E. Barry, L. Mommer, J. van Ruijven, H. de Kroon, A. Ebeling, N. Eisenhauer, C. Fischer, G. Gleixner, A. Gessler, O. González Macé, N. Hacker, A. Hildebrandt, M. Lange, M. Scherer-Lorenzen, S. Scheu, Y. Oelmann, C. Wagg, W. Wilcke, C. Wirth, and A. Weigelt. 2017. Root chemistry and soil fauna, but not soil abiotic conditions explain the effects of plant diversity on root decomposition. Oecologia:1–13.
Courchamp, F., A. Fournier, C. Bellard, C. Bertelsmeier, E. Bonnaud, J. M. Jeschke, and J. C. Russell. 2017. Invasion Biology: Specific Problems and Possible Solutions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 32:13–22.
Delavaux, C. S., T. Camenzind, J. Homeier, R. Jiménez-Paz, M. Ashton, and S. A. Queenborough. 2017. Nutrient enrichment effects on mycorrhizal fungi in an Andean tropical montane Forest. Mycorrhiza 27:311–319.
Dick, J. T. A., M. E. Alexander, A. Ricciardi, C. Laverty, P. O. Downey, M. Xu, J. M. Jeschke, W.-C. Saul, M. P. Hill, R. Wasserman, D. Barrios-O’Neill, O. L. F. Weyl, and R. H. Shaw. 2017. Functional responses can unify invasion ecology. Biological Invasions 19:1667–1672.
Dick, J. T. A., M. E. Alexander, A. Ricciardi, C. Laverty, P. O. Downey, M. Xu, J. M. Jeschke, W.-C. Saul, M. P. Hill, R. Wasserman, D. Barrios-O’Neill, O. L. F. Weyl, and R. H. Shaw. 2017. Fictional responses from Vonesh et al. Biological Invasions 19:1677–1678.
Eisenhauer, N., P. M. Antunes, A. E. Bennett, K. Birkhofer, A. Bissett, M. A. Bowker, T. Caruso, B. Chen, D. C. Coleman, W. de Boer, P. de Ruiter, T. H. DeLuca, F. Frati, B. S. Griffiths, M. M. Hart, S. Hättenschwiler, J. Haimi, M. Heethoff, N. Kaneko, L. C. Kelly, H. P. Leinaas, Z. Lindo, C. Macdonald, M. C. Rillig, L. Ruess, S. Scheu, O. Schmidt, T. R. Seastedt, N. M. van Straalen, A. V. Tiunov, M. Zimmer, and J. R. Powell. 2017. Priorities for research in soil ecology. Pedobiologia 63:1–7.
Estendorfer, J., B. Stempfhuber, P. Haury, G. Vestergaard, M. C. Rillig, J. Joshi, P. Schröder, and M. Schloter. 2017. The Influence of Land Use Intensity on the Plant-Associated Microbiome of Dactylis glomerata L. Frontiers in Plant Science 8:930.
Feichtinger, L. M., R. T. W. Siegwolf, A. Gessler, N. Buchmann, M. Lévesque, and A. Rigling. 2017. Plasticity in gas-exchange physiology of mature Scots pine and European larch drive short- and long-term adjustments to changes in water availability. Plant, Cell & Environment 40:1972–1983.
Fer, I., B. Tietjen, F. Jeltsch, and M. H. Trauth. 2017. Modelling vegetation change during Late Cenozoic uplift of the East African plateaus. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 467:120–130.
Fer, I., B. Tietjen, F. Jeltsch, and C. Wolff. 2017. The influence of El Niño–Southern Oscillation regimes on eastern African vegetation and its future implications under the RCP8.5 warming scenario. Biogeosciences 14:4355–4374.
Heinze, J., and J. Joshi. 2017. Plant–soil feedback effects can be masked by aboveground herbivory under natural field conditions. Oecologia:1–12.
Holloway, J. V., M. C. Rillig, and A. M. Gurnell. 2017. Underground riparian wood: Reconstructing the processes influencing buried stem and coarse root structures of Black Poplar (Populus nigra L.). Geomorphology 279:199–208.
Holloway, J. V., M. C. Rillig, and A. M. Gurnell. 2017. Underground riparian wood: Buried stem and coarse root structures of Black Poplar (Populus nigra L.). Geomorphology 279:188–198. Link.
Holloway, J. V., M. C. Rillig, and A. M. Gurnell. 2017. Physical environmental controls on riparian root profiles associated with black poplar (Populus nigra L.) along the Tagliamento River, Italy. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 42:1262–1273.
Horn, S., S. Hempel, E. Verbruggen, M. C. Rillig, and T. Caruso. 2017. Linking the community structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plants: a story of interdependence? The ISME Journal 11:1400–1411.
Hortal, S., Y. M. Lozano, F. Bastida, C. Armas, J. L. Moreno, C. Garcia, and F. I. Pugnaire. 2017. Plant-plant competition outcomes are modulated by plant effects on the soil bacterial community. Scientific Reports 7:17756.
Joos, J., M. Kirchner, M. Vamberger, M. Kaviani, M. R. Rahimibashar, U. Fritz, and J. Müller. (2017). Climate and patterns of body size variation in the European pond turtle, Emys orbicularis. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society XX:1-15.
Jousset, A., C. Bienhold, A. Chatzinotas, L. Gallien, A. Gobet, V. Kurm, K. Küsel, M. C. Rillig, D. W. Rivett, J. F. Salles, M. G. A. van der Heijden, N. H. Youssef, X. Zhang, Z. Wei, and W. H. G. Hol. 2017. Where less may be more: how the rare biosphere pulls ecosystems strings. The ISME Journal 11:853–862.
Kalinkat, G., J. S. Cabral, W. Darwall, G. F. Ficetola, J. L. Fisher, D. P. Giling, M.-P. Gosselin, H.-P. Grossart, S. C. Jähnig, J. M. Jeschke, K. Knopf, S. Larsen, G. Onandia, M. Pätzig, W.-C. Saul, G. Singer, E. Sperfeld, and I. Jarić. 2017. Flagship umbrella species needed for the conservation of overlooked aquatic biodiversity. Conservation Biology 31:481–485.
Kalinkat, G., S. C. Jähnig, and J. M. Jeschke. (2017). Exceptional body size-extinction risk relations shed new light on the freshwater biodiversity crisis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114:E10263-E10264
Kayler, Z., C. Keitel, K. Jansen, and A. Gessler. 2017. Experimental evidence of two mechanisms coupling leaf-level C assimilation to rhizosphere CO2 release. Environmental and Experimental Botany 135:21–26.
Khudr, M. S., O. Y. Buzhdygan, J. S. Petermann, and S. Wurst. 2017. Fear of predation alters clone-specific performance in phloem-feeding prey. Scientific Reports 7:7695.
Kirchhof, S., R. S. Hetem, H. M. Lease, D. B. Miles, D. Mitchell, J. Müller, M.-O. Rödel, B. Sinervo, T. Wassenaar, and I. W. Murray. 2017. Thermoregulatory behavior and high thermal preference buffer impact of climate change in a Namib Desert lizard. Ecosphere 8:e02033.
Kirchhof, S., J. Penner, M.-O. Rödel, and J. Müller. 2017. Resolution of the types, diagnostic features, and distribution of two easily confused Sand Lizards, Pedioplanis laticeps (Smith, 1845) and P. burchelli (Duméril &amp; Bibron, 1839) (Squamata: Lacertidae). Zootaxa 4318:82.
Kleiber, A., Q. Duan, K. Jansen, L. V. Junker, B. Kammerer, H. Rennenberg, I. Ensminger, A. Gessler, and J. Kreuzwieser. 2017. Drought effects on root and needle terpenoid content of a coastal and an interior Douglas fir provenance. Tree Physiology:1–11.
Kohler, J., A. Roldán, M. Campoy, and F. Caravaca. 2017. Unraveling the role of hyphal networks from arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in aggregate stabilization of semiarid soils with different textures and carbonate contents. Plant and Soil 410:273–281.
Kühn, I., P. Pyšek, and I. Kowarik. 2017. Seven years of NeoBiota – the times, were they a changin’? NeoBiota 36:57–69.
Langerwisch, F., T. Vaclavik, W. von Bloh, T. Vetter, and K. Thonicke. 2017. Combined effects of climate and land-use change on the provision of ecosystem services in rice agro-ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters 13 045012.
Latombe, G., P. Pyšek, J. M. Jeschke, T. M. Blackburn, S. Bacher, C. Capinha, M. J. Costello, M. Fernández, R. D. Gregory, D. Hobern, C. Hui, W. Jetz, S. Kumschick, C. McGrannachan, J. Pergl, H. E. Roy, R. Scalera, Z. E. Squires, J. R. U. Wilson, M. Winter, P. Genovesi, and M. A. McGeoch. (2017). A vision for global monitoring of biological invasions. Biological Conservation 213: 295-308.
Lehmann, A., W. Zheng, and M. C. Rillig. 2017. Soil biota contributions to soil aggregation. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1:1828–1835.
Lohmann, D., T. Guo, and B. Tietjen. 2017. Zooming in on coarse plant functional types—simulated response of savanna vegetation composition in response to aridity and grazing. Theoretical Ecology:1–13.
Maaß, S., D. Daphi, A. Lehmann, and M. C. Rillig. 2017. Transport of microplastics by two collembolan species. Environmental Pollution 225:456–459.
Menzel, A., S. Hempel, S. Klotz, M. Moora, P. Pyšek, M. C. Rillig, M. Zobel, and I. Kühn. 2017. Mycorrhizal status helps explain invasion success of alien plant species. Ecology 98:92–102.
Mestre, M., I. Ferrera, E. Borrull, E. Ortega-Retuerta, S. Mbedi, H.-P. Grossart, J. M. Gasol, and M. M. Sala. 2017. Spatial variability of marine bacterial and archaeal communities along the particulate matter continuum. Molecular Ecology 26:6827–6840.
Milcu, A., A. Gessler, C. Roscher, L. Rose, Z. Kayler, D. Bachmann, K. Pirhofer-Walzl, S. Zavadlav, L. Galiano, T. Buchmann, M. Scherer-Lorenzen, and J. Roy. 2017. Top canopy nitrogen allocation linked to increased grassland carbon uptake in stands of varying species richness. Scientific reports 7:8392.
Müller, C. M., B. Huwe, V. Wissemann, J. Joshi, and B. Gemeinholzer. 2017. Conservation genetic assessment of four plant species in a small replica of a steppe ecosystem >30 years after establishment. Biodiversity and Conservation:1–18.
Musseau, C., S. Vincenzi, D. Jesenšek, and A. J. Crivelli. 2017. Cannibalism in non-native brown trout Salmo trutta and rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss stream-dwelling populations. Journal of Fish Biology 91:1737–1744.
Nitzsche, K. N., T. Kalettka, K. Premke, G. Lischeid, A. Gessler, and Z. E. Kayler. 2017. Land-use and hydroperiod affect kettle hole sediment carbon and nitrogen biogeochemistry. Science of The Total Environment 574:46–56.
Nitzsche, K. N., M. Kaiser, K. Premke, A. Gessler, R. H. Ellerbrock, C. Hoffmann, A. Kleeberg, and Z. E. Kayler. 2017. Organic matter distribution and retention along transects from hilltop to kettle hole within an agricultural landscape. Biogeochemistry 136:47–70.
Palliwoda, J., I. Kowarik, and M. von der Lippe. 2017. Human-biodiversity interactions in urban parks: The species level matters. Landscape and Urban Planning 157:394–406.
Pärtel, M., M. Öpik, M. Moora, L. Tedersoo, R. Szava-Kovats, S. Rosendahl, M. C. Rillig, Y. Lekberg, H. Kreft, T. Helgason, O. Eriksson, J. Davison, F. de Bello, T. Caruso, and M. Zobel. 2017. Historical biome distribution and recent human disturbance shape the diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. New Phytologist 216:227–238.
Penk, M., W.-C. Saul, J. T. A. Dick, I. Donohue, M. E. Alexander, S. Linzmaier, and J. M. Jeschke. 2017. A trophic interaction framework for identifying the invasive capacity of novel organisms. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8:1786–1794.
Pergl, J., P. Pyšek, S. Bacher, F. Essl, P. Genovesi, C. A. Harrower, P. E. Hulme, J. E. Jeschke, M. Kenis, I. Kühn, I. Perglová, W. Rabitsch, A. Roques, D. B. Roy, H. E. Roy, M. Vilà, M. Winter, and W. Nentwig. 2017. Troubling travellers: are ecologically harmful alien species associated with particular introduction pathways? NeoBiota 32:1–20.
Ricciardi, A., T. M. Blackburn, J. T. Carlton, J. T. A. Dick, P. E. Hulme, J. C. Iacarella, J. M. Jeschke, A. M. Liebhold, J. L. Lockwood, H. J. MacIsaac, P. Pyšek, D. M. Richardson, G. M. Ruiz, D. Simberloff, W. J. Sutherland, D. A. Wardle, and D. C. Aldridge. 2017. Invasion Science: A Horizon Scan of Emerging Challenges and Opportunities. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 32:464–474.
Rieger, I., I. Kowarik, P. Cherubini, and A. Cierjacks. 2017. A novel dendrochronological approach reveals drivers of carbon sequestration in tree species of riparian forests across spatiotemporal scales. Science of The Total Environment 574:1261–1275.
Rillig, M. C., L. A. Muller, and A. Lehmann. 2017. Soil aggregates as massively concurrent evolutionary incubators. The ISME Journal 11:1943–1948.
Rillig, M. C., and I. Mansour. 2017. Microbial Ecology: Community Coalescence Stirs Things Up. Current Biology 27:R1280–R1282.
Roberts, D. R., V. Bahn, S. Ciuti, M. S. Boyce, J. Elith, G. Guillera-Arroita, S. Hauenstein, J. J. Lahoz-Monfort, B. Schröder, W. Thuiller, D. I. Warton, B. A. Wintle, F. Hartig, and C. F. Dormann. 2017. Cross-validation strategies for data with temporal, spatial, hierarchical, or phylogenetic structure. Ecography 40:913–929.
Rottstock, T., V. Kummer, M. Fischer, and J. Joshi. 2017. Rapid transgenerational effects in Knautia arvensis in response to plant community diversity. Journal of Ecology 105:714–725.
Roy, J., R. Reichel, N. Brüggemann, S. Hempel, and M. C. Rillig. 2017. Succession of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi along a 52-years agricultural recultivation chronosequence. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 93:fix102.
Ruland, F., and J. M. Jeschke. 2017. Threat-dependent traits of endangered frogs. Biological Conservation 205:310–313.
Ryo, M., and M. C. Rillig. 2017. Statistically reinforced machine learning for nonlinear patterns and variable interactions. Ecosphere 8:e01976.
Santana, L. M., G. Weithoff, and C. Ferragut. (2017). Seasonal and spatial functional shifts in phytoplankton communities of five tropical reservoirs. Aquatic Ecology:1–13.
Santonja, M., L. Minguez, M. O. Gessner, and E. Sperfeld. 2017. Predator–prey interactions in a changing world: humic stress disrupts predator threat evasion in copepods. Oecologia 183:887–898.
Saul, W.-C., H. E. Roy, O. Booy, L. Carnevali, H.-J. Chen, P. Genovesi, C. A. Harrower, P. E. Hulme, S. Pagad, J. Pergl, and J. M. Jeschke. 2017. Assessing patterns in introduction pathways of alien species by linking major invasion data bases. Journal of Applied Ecology 54:657–669.
Schibalski, A., A. Lehtonen, T. Hickler, and B. Schröder. 2017. Identifying important topics for model refinement in a widely used process-based model informed by correlative model analyses in a boreal forest. Silva Fennica 51:6977.
Schlaepfer, D. R., J. B. Bradford, W. K. Lauenroth, S. M. Munson, B. Tietjen, S. A. Hall, S. D. Wilson, M. C. Duniway, G. Jia, D. A. Pyke, A. Lkhagva, and K. Jamiyansharav. 2017. Climate change reduces extent of temperate drylands and intensifies drought in deep soils. Nature Communications 8:14196.
Sousa, N. M. F., S. D. Veresoglou, F. Oehl, M. C. Rillig, and L. C. Maia. 2017. Predictors of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Communities in the Brazilian Tropical Dry Forest. Microbial Ecology:1–12.
Stillfried, M., P. Gras, M. Busch, K. Börner, S. Kramer-Schadt, and S. Ortmann. 2017. Wild inside: Urban wild boar select natural, not anthropogenic food resources. PloS one 12:e0175127.
Strayer, D. L., C. M. D’Antonio, F. Essl, M. S. Fowler, J. Geist, S. Hilt, I. Jarić, K. Jöhnk, C. G. Jones, X. Lambin, A. W. Latzka, J. Pergl, P. Pyšek, P. Robertson, M. von Schmalensee, R. A. Stefansson, J. Wright, and J. M. Jeschke. 2017. Boom-bust dynamics in biological invasions: towards an improved application of the concept. Ecology Letters 20:1337–1350.
Tietjen, B., D. R. Schlaepfer, J. B. Bradford, W. K. Lauenroth, S. A. Hall, M. C. Duniway, T. Hochstrasser, G. Jia, S. M. Munson, D. A. Pyke, and S. D. Wilson. 2017. Climate change-induced vegetation shifts lead to more ecological droughts despite projected rainfall increases in many global temperate drylands. Global Change Biology 23:2743–2754.
Tischew, S., F. Kommraus, L. K. Fischer, and I. Kowarik. 2017. Drastic site-preparation is key for the successful reintroduction of the endangered grassland species Jurinea cyanoides. Biological Conservation 214:88–100. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2017.07.03.
Veresoglou, S. D., M. Wulf, and M. C. Rillig. 2017. Facilitation between woody and herbaceous plants that associate with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in temperate European forests. Ecology and Evolution 7:1181–1189.
Veresoglou, S. D., D. Wang, D. R. Andrade-Linares, S. Hempel, and M. C. Rillig. 2017. Fungal Decision to Exploit or Explore Depends on Growth Rate. Microbial Ecology:1–4.
Weithoff, G., and U. Gaedke. 2017. Mean functional traits of lake phytoplankton reflect seasonal and inter-annual changes in nutrients, climate and herbivory. Journal of Plankton Research 39:509–517.
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Zanchi, C., P. R. Johnston, and J. Rolff. 2017. Evolution of defence cocktails: Antimicrobial peptide combinations reduce mortality and persistent infection. Molecular Ecology 26:5334–5343.

2016

Aguilar-Trigueros, C. A., and M. C. Rillig. 2016. Effect of different root endophytic fungi on plant community structure in experimental microcosms. Ecology and Evolution 6:8149–8158.
Anderegg, W. R. L., J. Martinez-Vilalta, M. Cailleret, J. J. Camarero, B. E. Ewers, D. Galbraith, A. Gessler, R. Grote, C. Huang, S. R. Levick, T. L. Powell, L. Rowland, R. Sánchez-Salguero, and V. Trotsiuk. 2016. When a Tree Dies in the Forest: Scaling Climate-Driven Tree Mortality to Ecosystem Water and Carbon Fluxes. Ecosystems 19:1133–1147.
Andrade-Linares, D. R., A. Lehmann, and M. C. Rillig. 2016. Microbial stress priming: a meta-analysis. Environmental Microbiology 18:1277–1288.
Andrade-Linares, D. R., S. D. Veresoglou, and M. C. Rillig. 2016. Temperature priming and memory in soil filamentous fungi. Fungal Ecology 21:10–15.
Arias, S., W. G. Berendsohn, T. Borsch, H. Flores-Olvera, H. Ochoterena, S. von Mering, and F. O. Zuloaga. 2016. Caryophyllales 2015 in Berlin and the Global Caryophyllales Initiative. Taxon 65:427–428.
Arora, R., K. Tockner, and M. Venohr. 2016. Changing river temperatures in northern Germany: trends and drivers of change. Hydrological Processes 30:3084–3096.
Berdan, E. L., T. Blankers, I. Waurick, C. J. Mazzoni, and F. Mayer. 2016. A genes eye view of ontogeny: de novo assembly and profiling of the Gryllus rubens transcriptome. Molecular Ecology Resources 16:1478–1490.
Bergmann, J., E. Verbruggen, J. Heinze, D. Xiang, B. Chen, J. Joshi, and M. C. Rillig. 2016. The interplay between soil structure, roots, and microbiota as a determinant of plant-soil feedback. Ecology and Evolution 6:7633–7644.
Boit, A., B. Sakschewski, L. Boysen, A. Cano-Crespo, J. Clement, N. Garcia-alaniz, K. Kok, M. Kolb, F. Langerwisch, A. Rammig, R. Sachse, M. van Eupen, W. von Bloh, D. Clara Zemp, and K. Thonicke. 2016. Large-scale impact of climate change vs. land-use change on future biome shifts in Latin America. Global Change Biology 22:3689–3701.
Botzat, A., L. K. Fischer, and I. Kowarik. 2016. Unexploited opportunities in understanding liveable and biodiverse cities. A review on urban biodiversity perception and valuation. Global Environmental Change 39:220–233.
Buchholz, S. 2016. Natural peat bog remnants promote distinct spider assemblages and habitat specific traits. Ecological Indicators 60:774–780.
Camenzind, T., J. Homeier, K. Dietrich, S. Hempel, D. Hertel, A. Krohn, C. Leuschner, Y. Oelmann, P. A. Olsson, J. P. Suárez, and M. C. Rillig. 2016. Opposing effects of nitrogen versus phosphorus additions on mycorrhizal fungal abundance along an elevational gradient in tropical montane forests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 94:37–47.
Camenzind, T., H. J. Papathanasiou, A. Förster, K. Dietrich, D. Hertel, J. Homeier, Y. Oelmann, P. A. Olsson, J. P. Suárez, and M. C. Rillig. 2016. Increases in Soil Aggregation Following Phosphorus Additions in a Tropical Premontane Forest are Not Driven by Root and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Abundances. Frontiers in Earth Science 3:89.
Carus, J., M. Paul, and B. Schröder. 2016. Vegetation as self-adaptive coastal protection: Reduction of current velocity and morphologic plasticity of a brackish marsh pioneer. Ecology and Evolution 6:1579–1589.
Dietz, C., A. Gazaryan, G. Papov, H. Dundarova, and F. Mayer. 2016. Myotis hajastanicus is a local vicariant of a widespread species rather than a critically endangered endemic of the Sevan lake basin (Armenia). Page Mammalian Biology - Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde 81:518-522.
Eilers, E. J., D. Veit, M. C. Rillig, B. S. Hansson, M. Hilker, and A. Reinecke. 2016. Soil substrates affect responses of root feeding larvae to their hosts at multiple levels: Orientation, locomotion and feeding. Basic and Applied Ecology 17:115–124.
Essl, F., P. E. Hulme, J. M. Jeschke, R. Keller, P. Pyšek, D. M. Richardson, W.-C. Saul, S. Bacher, S. Dullinger, R. A. Estévez, C. Kueffer, H. E. Roy, H. Seebens, and W. Rabitsch. 2016. Scientific and Normative Foundations for the Valuation of Alien-Species Impacts: Thirteen Core Principles. BioScience 63:biw160.
Fer, I., B. Tietjen, and F. Jeltsch. 2016. High-resolution modelling closes the gap between data and model simulations for Mid-Holocene and present-day biomes of East Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 444:144–151.
Finck, J., E. L. Berdan, F. Mayer, B. Ronacher, and S. Geiselhardt. 2016. Divergence of cuticular hydrocarbons in two sympatric grasshopper species and the evolution of fatty acid synthases and elongases across insects. Scientific Reports 6:33695.
Fischer, L. K., J. Eichfeld, I. Kowarik, and S. Buchholz. 2016. Disentangling urban habitat and matrix effects on wild bee species. PeerJ 4:e2729.
Fischer, L. K., V. Rodorff, M. von der Lippe, and I. Kowarik. 2016. Drivers of biodiversity patterns in parks of a growing South American megacity. Urban Ecosystems 19:1231–1249. Link.
George, C., J. Kohler, and M. C. Rillig. 2016. Biochars reduce infection rates of the root-lesion nematode Pratylenchus penetrans and associated biomass loss in carrot. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 95:11–18. Link
Gossner, M. M., P. Lade, A. Rohland, N. Sichardt, T. Kahl, J. Bauhus, W. W. Weisser, and J. S. Petermann. 2016. Effects of management on aquatic tree-hole communities in temperate forests are mediated by detritus amount and water chemistry. Journal of Animal Ecology 85:213–226.
Guo, T., D. Lohmann, G. Ratzmann, and B. Tietjen. 2016. Response of semi-arid savanna vegetation composition towards grazing along a precipitation gradient—The effect of including plant heterogeneity into an ecohydrological savanna model. Ecological Modelling 325:47–56.
Guo, X., J. S. Petermann, C. Schittko, and S. Wurst. 2016. Root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne hapla) can modify the positive plant intraspecific diversity-productivity effect on red clover in clover-grass communities. Applied Soil Ecology 102:26–35.
Hagedorn, F., J. Joseph, M. Peter, J. Luster, K. Pritsch, U. Geppert, R. Kerner, V. Molinier, S. Egli, M. Schaub, J.-F. Liu, M. Li, K. Sever, M. Weiler, R. T. W. Siegwolf, A. Gessler, and M. Arend. 2016. Recovery of trees from drought depends on belowground sink control. Nature Plants 2:16111. Link.
Hausmann, S. L., J. S. Petermann, and J. Rolff. 2016. Wild bees as pollinators of city trees. Insect Conservation and Diversity 9:97–107. Link.
Heinze, J., S. Gensch, E. Weber, and J. Joshi. 2016. Soil temperature modifies effects of soil biota on plant growth. Journal of Plant Ecology 61:rtw097. Link.
Heinze, J., M. Sitte, A. Schindhelm, J. Wright, and J. Joshi. 2016. Plant-soil feedbacks: a comparative study on the relative importance of soil feedbacks in the greenhouse versus the field. Oecologia 181:559–569. Link.
Heuner, M., A. Weber, U. Schröder, B. Kleinschmit, and B. Schröder. 2016. Facilitating political decisions using species distribution models to assess restoration measures in heavily modified estuaries. Marine Pollution Bulletin 110:250–260. Link.
Hilker, M., J. Schwachtje, M. Baier, S. Balazadeh, I. Bäurle, S. Geiselhardt, D. K. Hincha, R. Kunze, B. Mueller-Roeber, M. C. Rillig, J. Rolff, T. Romeis, T. Schmülling, A. Steppuhn, J. van Dongen, S. J. Whitcomb, S. Wurst, E. Zuther, and J. Kopka. 2016. Priming and memory of stress responses in organisms lacking a nervous system. Biological Reviews 91:1118–1133. Link.
Hofmann, F., M. Kruse-Plass, U. Kuhn, M. Otto, U. Schlechtriemen, B. Schröder, R. Vögel, and W. Wosniok. 2016. Accumulation and variability of maize pollen deposition on leaves of European Lepidoptera host plants and relation to release rates and deposition determined by standardised technical sampling. Environmental Sciences Europe 28:14. Link.
Hommel, R., R. Siegwolf, S. Zavadlav, M. Arend, M. Schaub, L. Galiano, M. Haeni, Z. E. Kayler, and A. Gessler. 2016. Impact of interspecific competition and drought on the allocation of new assimilates in trees. Plant Biology 18:785–796. Link.
Johnston, P. R., A. J. Dobson, and J. Rolff. 2016. Genomic Signatures of Experimental Adaptation to Antimicrobial Peptides in Staphylococcus aureus. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 6:1535–1539. Link.
Klauschies, T., D. A. Vasseur, and U. Gaedke. 2016. Trait adaptation promotes species coexistence in diverse predator and prey communities. Ecology and Evolution 6:4141–4159. Link.
Koch, C., J. M. Jeschke, G. E. Overbeck, and J. Kollmann. 2016. Setting Priorities for Monitoring and Managing Non-native Plants: Toward a Practical Approach. Environmental Management 58:465–475. Link.
Kohler, J., F. Caravaca, R. Azcón, G. Díaz, and A. Roldán. 2016. Suitability of the microbial community composition and function in a semiarid mine soil for assessing phytomanagement practices based on mycorrhizal inoculation and amendment addition. Journal of Environmental Management 169:236–246. Link.
Kowarik, I., S. Buchholz, M. von der Lippe, and B. Seitz. 2016. Biodiversity functions of urban cemeteries: Evidence from one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Europe. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 19:68–78. Link.
Kruse, S., M. Wieczorek, F. Jeltsch, and U. Herzschuh. 2016. Treeline dynamics in Siberia under changing climates as inferred from an individual-based model for Larix. Ecological Modelling 338:101–121. Link.
Langerwisch, F., A. Walz, A. Rammig, B. Tietjen, K. Thonicke, and W. Cramer. 2016. Climate change increases riverine carbon outgassing, while export to the ocean remains uncertain. Earth System Dynamics 7:559–582. Link.
Langerwisch, F., A. Walz, A. Rammig, B. Tietjen, K. Thonicke, and W. Cramer. 2016. Deforestation in Amazonia impacts riverine carbon dynamics. Earth System Dynamics 7:953–968. Link
Maighal, M., M. Salem, J. Kohler, and M. C. Rillig. 2016. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi negatively affect soil seed bank viability. Ecology and Evolution 6:7683–7689. Link.
Mardhiah, U., T. Caruso, A. Gurnell, and M. C. Rillig. 2016. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal hyphae reduce soil erosion by surface water flow in a greenhouse experiment. Page Applied Soil Ecology 99:137-140. Link.
Marquard, E., K. Haubach, and A. Paulsch. 2016. Politische Vorgaben für den Schutz und die nachhaltige Nutzung von Biodiversität. In J. L. Lozán, S.-W. Breckle, R. Müller, and E. Rachor, editors. Warnsignal Klima: Die Biodiversität. pp 325-330.
Menzel, A., S. Hempel, A. M. Manceur, L. Götzenberger, M. Moora, M. C. Rillig, M. Zobel, and I. Kühn. 2016. Distribution patterns of arbuscular mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal plant species in Germany. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 21:78–88. Link.
Miller, B. A., S. Koszinski, W. Hierold, H. Rogasik, B. Schröder, K. Van Oost, M. Wehrhan, and M. Sommer. 2016. Towards mapping soil carbon landscapes: Issues of sampling scale and transferability. Soil and Tillage Research 156:194–208. Link.
Müller, M. E. H., S. Koszinski, D. E. Bangs, M. Wehrhan, A. Ulrich, G. Verch, and A. Brenning. 2016. Crop biomass and humidity related factors reflect the spatial distribution of phytopathogenic Fusarium fungi and their mycotoxins in heterogeneous fields and landscapes. Precision Agriculture 17:698–720. Link.
Müller, T., U. Behrendt, S. Ruppel, G. von der Waydbrink, and M. E. H. Müller. 2016. Fluorescent Pseudomonads in the Phyllosphere of Wheat: Potential Antagonists Against Fungal Phytopathogens. Current Microbiology 72:383–389. Link.
Petermann, J. S., A. Rohland, N. Sichardt, P. Lade, B. Guidetti, W. W. Weisser, and M. M. Gossner. 2016. Forest Management Intensity Affects Aquatic Communities in Artificial Tree Holes. PLOS ONE 11:e0155549. Link
Pfestorf, H., K. Körner, I. Sonnemann, S. Wurst, and F. Jeltsch. 2016. Coupling experimental data with individual-based modelling reveals differential effects of root herbivory on grassland plant co-existence along a resource gradient. Journal of Vegetation Science 27:269–282. Link.
Rillig, M. C., M. A. Sosa-Hernández, J. Roy, C. A. Aguilar-Trigueros, K. Vályi, and A. Lehmann. 2016. Towards an Integrated Mycorrhizal Technology: Harnessing Mycorrhiza for Sustainable Intensification in Agriculture. Frontiers in Plant Science 7:1625. Link.
Rillig, M. C., A. Lehmann, C. A. Aguilar-Trigueros, J. Antonovics, T. Caruso, S. Hempel, J. Lehmann, K. Valyi, E. Verbruggen, S. D. Veresoglou, and J. R. Powell. 2016. Soil microbes and community coalescence. Pedobiologia 59:37–40. Link.
Rillig, M. C., A. Tsang, and J. Roy. 2016. Microbial Community Coalescence for Microbiome Engineering. Frontiers in microbiology 7:1967. Link.
Ripperger, S., D. Josic, M. Hierold, A. Koelpin, R. Weigel, M. Hartmann, R. Page, and F. Mayer. 2016. Automated proximity sensing in small vertebrates: design of miniaturized sensor nodes and first field tests in bats. Ecology and evolution 6:2179–89. Link.
Roscher, C., J. Schumacher, J. S. Petermann, A. J. F. Fergus, U. Gerighausen, S. G. Michalski, B. Schmid, and E.-D. Schulze. 2016. Convergent high diversity in naturally colonized experimental grasslands is not related to increased productivity. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 20:32–45. Link.
Rotics, S., M. Kaatz, Y. S. Resheff, S. F. Turjeman, D. Zurell, N. Sapir, U. Eggers, A. Flack, W. Fiedler, F. Jeltsch, M. Wikelski, and R. Nathan. 2016. The challenges of the first migration: movement and behaviour of juvenile vs. adult white storks with insights regarding juvenile mortality. Journal of Animal Ecology 85:938–947. Link.
Sakschewski, B., W. von Bloh, A. Boit, L. Poorter, M. Peña-Claros, J. Heinke, J. Joshi, and K. Thonicke. 2016. Resilience of Amazon forests emerges from plant trait diversity. Nature Climate Change 6:1032–1036. Link.
Sandberger-Loua, L., J. Doumbia, and M.-O. Rödel. 2016. Conserving the unique to save the diverse — Identifying key environmental determinants for the persistence of the viviparous Nimba toad in a West African World Heritage Site. Biological Conservation 198:15–21. Link.
Sardans, J., R. Alonso, I. A. Janssens, J. Carnicer, S. Vereseglou, M. C. Rillig, M. Fernández-Martínez, T. G. M. Sanders, and J. Peñuelas. 2016. Foliar and soil concentrations and stoichiometry of nitrogen and phosphorous across European Pinus sylvestris forests: relationships with climate, N deposition and tree growth. Functional Ecology 30:676–689. Link
Säumel, I., F. Weber, and I. Kowarik. 2016. Toward livable and healthy urban streets: Roadside vegetation provides ecosystem services where people live and move. Environmental Science & Policy 62:24–33. Link.
Scherer, C., F. Jeltsch, and N. Blaum. 2016. Merging trait-based and individual-based modelling: An animal functional type approach to explore the responses of birds to climatic and land use changes in semi-arid African savannas. Ecological Modelling 326:75–89. Link.
Schirmel, J., M. Bundschuh, M. H. Entling, I. Kowarik, and S. Buchholz. 2016. Impacts of invasive plants on resident animals across ecosystems, taxa, and feeding types: a global assessment. Global Change Biology 22:594–603. Link.
Schirmel, J., J. Thiele, M. H. Entling, and S. Buchholz. 2016. Trait composition and functional diversity of spiders and carabids in linear landscape elements. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 235:318–328. Link.
Schlaeppi, K., S. F. Bender, F. Mascher, G. Russo, A. Patrignani, T. Camenzind, S. Hempel, M. C. Rillig, and M. G. A. van der Heijden. 2016. High-resolution community profiling of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. New Phytologist 212:780–791. Link.
Schneider, A.-K., L. van Schaik, A. Zangerlé, J. A. Eccard, and B. Schröder. 2016. Which abiotic filters shape earthworm distribution patterns at the catchment scale? European Journal of Soil Science 67:431–442. Link.
Sitzia, T., T. Campagnaro, I. Kowarik, and G. Trentanovi. 2016. Using forest management to control invasive alien species: helping implement the new European regulation on invasive alien species. Biological Invasions 18:1–7. Link.
Soliveres, S., P. Manning, D. Prati, M. M. Gossner, F. Alt, H. Arndt, V. Baumgartner, J. Binkenstein, K. Birkhofer, S. Blaser, N. Blüthgen, S. Boch, S. Böhm, C. Börschig, F. Buscot, T. Diekötter, J. Heinze, N. Hölzel, K. Jung, V. H. Klaus, A.-M. Klein, T. Kleinebecker, S. Klemmer, J. Krauss, M. Lange, E. K. Morris, J. Müller, Y. Oelmann, J. Overmann, E. Pašalić, S. C. Renner, M. C. Rillig, H. M. Schaefer, M. Schloter, B. Schmitt, I. Schöning, M. Schrumpf, J. Sikorski, S. A. Socher, E. F. Solly, I. Sonnemann, E. Sorkau, J. Steckel, I. Steffan-Dewenter, B. Stempfhuber, M. Tschapka, M. Türke, P. Venter, C. N. Weiner, W. W. Weisser, M. Werner, C. Westphal, W. Wilcke, V. Wolters, T. Wubet, S. Wurst, M. Fischer, and E. Allan. 2016. Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 371. Link.
Soliveres, S., F. van der Plas, P. Manning, D. Prati, M. M. Gossner, S. C. Renner, F. Alt, H. Arndt, V. Baumgartner, J. Binkenstein, K. Birkhofer, S. Blaser, N. Blüthgen, S. Boch, S. Böhm, C. Börschig, F. Buscot, T. Diekötter, J. Heinze, N. Hölzel, K. Jung, V. H. Klaus, T. Kleinebecker, S. Klemmer, J. Krauss, M. Lange, E. K. Morris, J. Müller, Y. Oelmann, J. Overmann, E. Pašalić, M. C. Rillig, H. M. Schaefer, M. Schloter, B. Schmitt, I. Schöning, M. Schrumpf, J. Sikorski, S. A. Socher, E. F. Solly, I. Sonnemann, E. Sorkau, J. Steckel, I. Steffan-Dewenter, B. Stempfhuber, M. Tschapka, M. Türke, P. C. Venter, C. N. Weiner, W. W. Weisser, M. Werner, C. Westphal, W. Wilcke, V. Wolters, T. Wubet, S. Wurst, M. Fischer, and E. Allan. 2016. Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality. Nature 536:456–459. Link.
Stein, F. M., J. C. Y. Wong, V. Sheng, C. S. W. Law, B. Schröder, and D. M. Baker. 2016. First genetic evidence of illegal trade in endangered European eel (Anguilla anguilla) from Europe to Asia. Conservation Genetics Resources 8:533–537. Link.
Turjeman, S. F., A. Centeno-Cuadros, U. Eggers, S. Rotics, J. Blas, W. Fiedler, M. Kaatz, F. Jeltsch, M. Wikelski, and R. Nathan. 2016. Extra-pair paternity in the socially monogamous white stork (Ciconia ciconia) is fairly common and independent of local density. Scientific Reports 6:27976. Link
Václavík, T., F. Langerwisch, M. Cotter, J. Fick, I. Häuser, S. Hotes, J. Kamp, J. Settele, J. H. Spangenberg, and R. Seppelt. 2016. Investigating potential transferability of place-based research in land system science. Environmental Research Letters 11:95002. Link.
Vályi, K., U. Mardhiah, M. C. Rillig, and S. Hempel. 2016. Community assembly and coexistence in communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. The ISME Journal 10:2341–2351. Link.
van Schaik, L., J. Palm, J. Klaus, E. Zehe, and B. Schröder. 2016. Potential effects of tillage and field borders on within-field spatial distribution patterns of earthworms. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 228:82–90. Link.
Verbruggen, E., J. Jansa, E. C. Hammer, and M. C. Rillig. 2016. Do arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi stabilize litter-derived carbon in soil? Journal of Ecology 104:261–269. Link.
Veresoglou, S. D., I. C. Anderson, N. M. F. de Sousa, S. Hempel, and M. C. Rillig. 2016. Resilience of Fungal Communities to Elevated CO2. Microbial Ecology 72:493–495. Link.
Veresoglou, S. D., M. C. Rillig, L. H. Fraser, and J. M. Halley. 2016. The influence of sampled biomass on species-area relationships of grassland plants. New Phytologist 211:382–385. Link.
Volkmann, T. H. M., K. Haberer, A. Gessler, and M. Weiler. 2016. High-resolution isotope measurements resolve rapid ecohydrological dynamics at the soil-plant interface. New Phytologist 210:839–849. Link.
Weise, L., A. Ulrich, M. Moreano, A. Gessler, Z. E. Kayler, K. Steger, B. Zeller, K. Rudolph, J. Knezevic-Jaric, and K. Premke. 2016. Water level changes affect carbon turnover and microbial community composition in lake sediments. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 92:fiw035. Link.
Xiang, D., S. D. Veresoglou, M. C. Rillig, T. Xu, H. Li, Z. Hao, and B. Chen. 2016. Relative Importance of Individual Climatic Drivers Shaping Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Communities. Microbial Ecology 72:418–427. Link.
Xu, T., S. D. Veresoglou, Y. Chen, M. C. Rillig, D. Xiang, D. Ondřej, Z. Hao, L. Liu, Y. Deng, Y. Hu, W. Chen, J. Wang, J. He, and B. Chen. 2016. Plant community, geographic distance and abiotic factors play different roles in predicting AMF biogeography at the regional scale in northern China. Environmental Microbiology Reports 8:1048–1057. Link.
Yan, C.-F., A. Gessler, A. Rigling, M. Dobbertin, X.-G. Han, and M.-H. Li. 2016. Effects of mistletoe removal on growth, N and C reserves, and carbon and oxygen isotope composition in Scots pine hosts. Tree Physiology 36:562–575. Link.
Zheng, W., E. K. Morris, A. Lehmann, and M. C. Rillig. 2016. Interplay of soil water repellency, soil aggregation and organic carbon. A meta-analysis. Geoderma 283:39–47. Link.
Zurell, D., N. E. Zimmermann, T. Sattler, M. P. Nobis, and B. Schröder. 2016. Effects of functional traits on the prediction accuracy of species richness models. Diversity and Distributions 22:905–917. Link.

2015

Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Hempel S, Powell JR, Anderson IC, Antonovics J, Bergmann J, Cavagnaro TR, Chen BD, Hart MM, Klironomos J, Petermann JS, Verbruggen E, Veresoglou SD, Rillig MC. 2015. Branching out: Towards a trait-based understanding of fungal ecology. Fungal Biology Reviews 29: 34-41.
Allan E, Manning P, Alt F, Binkenstein J, Blaser S, Bluethgen N, Bohm S, Grassein F, Holzel N, Klaus VH, Kleinebecker T, Morris EK, Oelmann Y, Prati D, Renner SC, Rillig MC, Schaefer M, Schloter M, Schmitt B, Schoning I, Schrumpf M, Solly E, Sorkau E, Steckel J, Steffen-Dewenter I, Stempfhuber B, Tschapka M, Weiner CN, Weisser WW, Werner M, Westphal C, Wilcke W, Fischer M. 2015. Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition. Ecology Letters 18: 834–843.
Berdan EL, Mazzoni CJ, Waurick I, Roehr JT, Mayer F. 2015. A population genomic scan in Chorthippus grasshoppers unveils previously unknown phenotypic divergence. Molecular Evolution 24: 3918-3930.
Beudert B, Bassler C, Thorn S, Noss R, Schroder B, Dieffenbach-Fries H, Foullois N, Müller J. 2015. Bark Beetles Increase Biodiversity While Maintaining Drinking Water Quality. Conservation Letters 8: 272-281.
Borsch T, Hernandez-Ledesma P, Berendsohn WG, Flores-Olvera H, Ochoterena H, Zuloaga FO, von Mering S, Kilian N. 2015. An integrative and dynamic approach for monographing species-rich plant groups - Building the global synthesis of the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 17: 284-300.
Buchholz S, Tietze H, Kowarik I, Schirmel J. 2015. Effects of a Major Tree Invader on Urban Woodland Arthropods. PLoS ONE 10(9): e0137723.
Cardinale, B. J., P. Venail, K. Gross, T. H. Oakley, A. Narwani, E. Allan, P. Flombaum, J. Joshi, P. B. Reich, D. Tilman, and J. van Ruijven. 2015. Further re-analyses looking for effects of phylogenetic diversity on community biomass and stability. Functional Ecology 29:1607–1610.
Dorling J, Moraes C, Rolff J. 2015. Recognition, survival and persistence of Staphylococcus aureus in the model host Tenebrio molitor. Developmental & Comparative Immunology 48: 284-290.
Eilers EJ, Pauls G, Rillig MC, Hansson BS, Hilker M, Reinecke A. 2015. Novel Set-Up for Low-Disturbance Sampling of Volatile and Non-volatile Compounds from Plant Roots. Journal of Chemical Ecology 41: 253-266.
Ensslin A, Tschöpe O, Burkart M, Joshi J. 2015. Fitness decline and adaptation to novel environments in ex situ plant collections: Current knowledge and future perspectives. Biological Conservation 192: 394–401.
Frank DA, Reichstein M, Bahn M, Thonicke K, Frank D, Mahecha MD, Smith P, Van der Velde M, Vicca S, Babst F, Beer C, Buchmann N, Canadell JP, Ciais P, Cramer W, Ibrom A, Miglietta F, Poulter B, Rammig A, Seneviratne SI, Walz A, Wattenbach M, Zavala MA, Zscheischler J. 2015. Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts. Global Change Biology 21: 2861–288.
Felsmann K, Baudis M, Gimbel K, Kayler ZE, Ellerbrock R, Bruelheide H, Bruckhoff J, Welk E, Puhlmann H, Weiler M, Gessler A, Ulrich A. 2015. Soil Bacterial Community Structure Responses to Precipitation Reduction and Forest Management in Forest Ecosystems across Germany. PLoS ONE 10: e0122539.
Geyer J, Strixner L, Kreft S, Jeltsch F, Ibisch PL. 2015. Adapting conservation to climate change: a case study on feasibility and implementation in Brandenburg, Germany. Regional Environmental Change 15: 139-153.
Gimbel KF, Felsmann K, Baudis M, Puhlmann H, Gessler A, Bruelheide H, Kayler Z, Ellerbrock RH, Ulrich A, Welk E, Weiler M. 2015. Drought in forest understory ecosystems - a novel rainfall reduction experiment. Biogeosciences 12: 961-975.
Grossiord C, Forner A, Gessler A, Granier A, Pollastrini M, Valladares F, Bonal D. 2015. Influence of species interactions on transpiration of Mediterranean tree species during a summer drought. European Journal of Forest Research: 134.
Guo XH, Petermann JS, Schittko C, Wurst S. 2015. Independent role of belowground organisms and plant cultivar diversity in legume-grass communities. Applied Soil Ecology 95: 1-8.
Hammer EC, Forstreuter M, Rillig MC, Kohler J. 2015. Biochar increases arbuscular mycorrhizal plant growth enhancement and ameliorates salinity stress. Applied Soil Ecology 96: 114-121.
Hampe O, Franke H, Hipsley CA, Kardjilov N, Müller J. 2015. Prenatal cranial ossification of the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae). Journal of Morphology 276: 564-582.
Heinze J, Bergmann J, Rillig MC, Joshi J. 2015. Negative biotic soil-effects enhance biodiversity by restricting potentially dominant plant species in grasslands. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 17: 227-235.
Heinze J, Werner T, Weber E, Rillig MC, Joshi J. 2015. Soil biota effects on local abundances of three grass species along a land-use gradient. Oecologia 179: 249-259.
Horn S, Hempel S, Ristow M, Rillig MC, Kowarik I, Caruso T. 2015. Plant community assembly at small scales: Spatial vs. environmental factors in a European grassland. Acta Oecologica 63: 56-62.
Hunke P, Müller EN, Schröder B, Zeilhofer P. 2015. The Brazilian Cerrado: Ecohydrological assessment of the water and soil degradation of meso-scale catchments under intensive agricultural use. Ecohydrology 8: 1154-1160.
Hunke P, Roller R, Zeilhofer P, Schröder B, Müller EN. 2015. Soil changes under different land use in heavily modified regions of the Cerrado of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Geoderma Regional 4: 31-43.
Johnston PR, Mikolajewski DJ, Rolff J. 2015. Identification of viruses associated with larvae of the dragonfly Leucorrhinia dubia, and damselfly Coenagrion puella from RNA sequencing data. International Journal of Odonatology 18: 81–88.
Johnston PR, Rolff J. 2015. Host and Symbiont Jointly Control Gut Microbiota during Complete Metamorphosis. PLoS Pathogens 11: e1005246.
Kahl SM, Ulrich A, Kirichenko AA, Müller MEH. 2015. Phenotypic and phylogenetic segregation of Alternaria infectoria from small-spored Alternaria species isolated from wheat in Germany and Russia. Journal of Applied Microbiology 119: 1637--1650. Link.
Karp DS, Tallis H, Sachse R, Halpern B, Thonicke K, Cramer W, Mooney H, Polasky S, Tietjen B, Waha K, Walz A, Wolny S. 2015. National indicators for observing ecosystem service change. Global Environmental Change 35: 12-21.
Kohler J, Caravaca F, Azcon R, Diaz G, Roldan A. 2015. The combination of compost addition and arbuscular mycorrhizal inoculation produced positive and synergistic effects on the phytomanagement of a semiarid mine tailing. Science of The Total Environment 514: 42–48. Link.
Lehmann A, Rillig MC. 2015. Understanding mechanisms of soil biota involvement in soil aggregation: A way forward with saprobic fungi? Soil Biology and Biochemistry 88: 298-302. Link.
Lehmann A, Rillig MC. 2015. Arbuscular mycorrhizal contribution to copper, manganese and iron nutrient concentrations in crops - A meta-analysis. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 81: 147-158. Link.
Leifheit EF, Verbruggen E, Rillig MC. 2015. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi reduce decomposition of woody plant litter while increasing soil aggregation. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 81: 323-328. Link.
Maaß S, Caruso T, Rillig MC. 2015. Functional role of microarthropods in soil aggregation. Pedobiologia 28: 59-63. Link.
Maaß S, Maraun M, Scheu S, Rillig MC, Caruso T. 2015. Environmental filtering vs. resource-based niche partitioning in diverse soil animal assemblages. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 85: 145-152. Link.
Mardhiah U, Rillig MC, Gurnell A. 2015. Reconstructing the development of sampled sites on fluvial island surfaces of the Tagliamento River, Italy, from historical sources. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 40: 629–641. Link.
Mikolajewski DJ, Rüsen L, Mauersberger R, Johansson F, Rolff J. 2015. Relaxed predation results in reduced phenotypic integration in a suite of dragonflies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28: 1354-1363. Link.
Moll J, Goldmann K, Kramer S, Hempel S, Kandeler E, Marhan S, Ruess L, Krüger D, Buscot F. 2015. Resource Type and Availability Regulate Fungal Communities Along Arable Soil Profiles. Microbial Ecology 70: 390-399. Link.
Petermann JS, Farjalla VF, Jocque M, Kratina P, MacDonald AAM, Marino NAC, de Omena PM, Piccoli GCO, Richardson BA, Richardson MJ, Romero GQ, Videla M, Srivastava DS. 2015. Dominant predators mediate the impact of habitat size on trophic structure in bromeliad invertebrate communities. Ecology 96: 428–439. Link.
Petermann JS, Kratina P, Marino NAC, MacDonald AAM, Srivastava DS. 2015. Resources Alter the Structure and Increase Stochasticity in Bromeliad Microfauna Communities. PLoS ONE 10: e0118952. Link.
Poorter L, van der Sande MT, Thompson J, et al. 2015. Diversity enhances carbon storage in tropical forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography 24: 1314–1328.
Ramirez KS, Döring M, Eisenhauer N, Gardi C, Ladau J, Leff JW, Lentendu G, Lindo Z, Rillig MC, Russell D, Scheu S, St. John MG, de Vries FT, Wubet T, van der Putten WH, Wall DH. 2015. Towards a global platform for linking soil biodiversity data. Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution 3: 91. Link.
Rieger I, Kowarik I, Cierjacks A. 2015. Drivers of carbon sequestration by biomass compartment of riparian forests. Ecosphere 6: 185.
Rillig MC, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Bergmann J, Verbruggen E, Veresoglou SD, Lehmann A. 2015. Plant root and mycorrhizal fungal traits for understanding soil aggregation. New Phytologist 205: 1385–1388. Link.
Rillig MC, Antonovics J, Caruso T, Lehmann A, Powell JR, Veresoglou SD, Verbruggen E. 2015. Interchange of entire communities: microbial community coalescence. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 30: 470-476. Link.
Rillig MC, Kiessling W, Borsch T, Gessler A, Greenwood AD, Hofer H, Joshi J, Schröder B, Thonicke K, Tockner K, Weißhuhn K, Jeltsch F. 2015. Biodiversity research: data without theory – theory without data. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 3: 20. Link.
Rillig MC, Rolff J, Tietjen B, Wehner J, Andrade-Linares DR. 2015. Community priming-effects of sequential stressors on microbial assemblages. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 91: fiv040. Link.
Sakschewski B, von Bloh W, Boit A, Rammig A, Kattge J, Poorter L, Peñuelas J, Thonicke K. 2015. Leaf and stem economics spectra drive diversity of functional plant traits in a dynamic global vegetation model. Global Change Biology 21: 2711–2725. Link.
Sardans J, Janssens IA, Alonso R, Veresoglou SD, Rillig MC, Sanders TGM, Carnicer J, Filella I, Farre-Armengol G, Penuelas J. 2015. Foliar elemental composition of European forest tree species associated with evolutionary traits and present environmental and competitive conditions. Global Ecology and Biogeography 24: 240-255. Link.
Seifert LI, Weithoff G, Gaedke U, Vos M. 2015. Warming-induced changes in predation, extinction and invasion in an ectotherm food web. Oecologia 178: 485–496. Link.
Synodinos AD, Tietjen B, Jeltsch F. 2015. Facilitation in drylands: Modeling a neglected driver of savanna dynamics. Ecological Modelling 304: 11-21. Link.
Sonnemann I, Pfestorf H, Jeltsch F, Wurst S. 2015. Community-Weighted Mean Plant Traits Predict Small Scale Distribution of Insect Root Herbivore Abundance. PLoS ONE 10: e0141148.
Stein FM, Doering-Arjes P, Fladung E, Brämick U, Bendal B, Schröder B. 2015. Downstream migration of European eel (Anguilla anguilla): Movement patterns and triggers. River Research and Applications 32: 666–676. Link.
Tischer A, Werisch M, Dobbelin F, Camenzind T, Rillig MC, Potthast K, Hamer U. 2015. Above- and belowground linkages of a nitrogen and phosphorus co-limited tropicalmountain pasture system-responses to nutrient enrichment. Plant and Soil 391: 333-352. Link.
Valyi K, Rillig MC, Hempel S. 2015. Land use intensity and host plant identity interactively shape communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in roots of grasssland plants. New Phytologist 205: 1577-1586. Link.
Venail P, Gross K, Oakley TH, Narwani A, Allan E, Flombaum P, Isbell F, Joshi J, Reich PB, Tilman D, van Ruijven J, Cardinale BJ. 2015. Species richness, but not phylogenetic diversity, influences community biomass production and temporal stability in a re-examination of 16 grassland biodiversity studies. Functional Ecology 29: 615–626. Link.
Verbruggen E, Xiang D, Chen BD, Xu TL, Rillig MC. 2015. Mycorrhizal fungi associated with high soil N:P ratios are more likely to be lost upon conversion from grasslands to arable agriculture. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 86: 1-4. Link.
Veresoglou SD, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Mansour I, Rillig MC. 2015. Self-DNA: a blessing in disguise? New Phytologist 207: 488-490. Link.
Veresoglou SD, Halley JM, Rillig MC. 2015. Extinction risk of soil biota. Nature Communications 6: 8862.
Weiss L, Jeltsch F. 2015. The response of simulated grassland communities to the cessation of grazing. Ecological Modelling 303: 1-11. Link.
Weithoff G, Rocha MR, Gaedke U. 2015. Comparing seasonal dynamics of functional and taxonomic diversity reveals the driving forces underlying phytoplankton community structure. Freshwater Biology 60: 758-767. Link.
Wurst S, Kaiser N, Nitzsche S, Haase J, Auge H, Rillig MC, Powell JR. 2015. Tree diversity modifies distance-dependent effects on seedling emergence but not plant-soil feedbacks of temperate trees. Ecology 96: 1529–1539. Link.
Zurell D, Eggers U, Kaatz M, Rotics S, Sapir N, Wikelski M, Nathan R, Jeltsch F. 2015. Individual-based modelling of resource competition to predict density-dependent population dynamics: a case study with white storks. Oikos 124: 319-330. Link.

2013 & 2014

Achatz, M., E. K. Morris, F. Müller, M. Hilker, and M. C. Rillig. 2014. Soil hypha-mediated movement of allelochemicals: arbuscular mycorrhizae extend the bioactive zone of juglone. Functional Ecology 28:1020–1029. Link.
Achatz, M., and M. C. Rillig. 2014. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal hyphae enhance transport of the allelochemical juglone in the field. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 78:76–82. Link.
Bauer, B., M. Vos, T. Klauschies, and U. Gaedke. 2014. Diversity, Functional Similarity, and Top-Down Control Drive Synchronization and the Reliability of Ecosystem Function. The American Naturalist 183:394–409. Link.
Bižić-Ionescu, M., R. Amann, H.-P. Grossart, S. Fietz, and J. Nedoma. 2014. Massive Regime Shifts and High Activity of Heterotrophic Bacteria in an Ice-Covered Lake. PLoS ONE 9:e113611. Link.
Boit, A., U. Gaedke, A. Basset, G. Peterson, J. Bengtsson, and K. Zinnel. 2014. Benchmarking Successional Progress in a Quantitative Food Web. PLoS ONE 9:e90404. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090404
Bukowski, A. R., and J. S. Petermann. 2014. Intraspecific plant-soil feedback and intraspecific overyielding in Arabidopsis thaliana. Ecology and Evolution 4:2533–2545. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1077
Camenzind, T., S. Hempel, J. Homeier, S. Horn, A. Velescu, W. Wilcke, and M. C. Rillig. 2014. Nitrogen and phosphorus additions impact arbuscular mycorrhizal abundance and molecular diversity in a tropical montane forest. Global Change Biology 20:3646–3659. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12618
Camenzind, T., and M. C. Rillig. 2013. Extraradical arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal hyphae in an organic tropical montane forest soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 64:96–102. DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.04.011
Chaudhary, V. B., T. E. O’Dell, M. C. Rillig, and N. C. Johnson. 2014. Multiscale patterns of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal abundance and diversity in semiarid shrublands. Fungal Ecology 12:32–43. DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2014.06.003
Cierjacks, A., I. Kowarik, J. Joshi, S. Hempel, M. Ristow, M. von der Lippe, and E. Weber. 2013. Biological Flora of the British Isles: Robinia pseudoacacia. Journal of Ecology 101:1623–1640. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12162
Dixon, S. D., S. M. Qassim, J. G. Rowson, F. Worrall, M. G. Evans, I. M. Boothroyd, and A. Bonn. 2014. Restoration effects on water table depths and CO2 fluxes from climatically marginal blanket bog. Biogeochemistry 118:159–176.
Dobson, A. J., J. Purves, and J. Rolff. 2014. Increased survival of experimentally evolved antimicrobial peptide-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in an animal host. Evolutionary Applications 7:905–912.
Du, B., K. Jansen, L. V. Junker, M. Eiblmeier, J. Kreuzwieser, A. Gessler, I. Ensminger, H. Rennenberg, K. R, T. M, and M. HL. 2014. Elevated temperature differently affects foliar nitrogen partitioning in seedlings of diverse Douglas fir provenances. Tree Physiology 34:1090–1101.
Fischer, C., and B. Schröder. 2014. Predicting spatial and temporal habitat use of rodents in a highly intensive agricultural area. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 189:145–153.
Fischer, L. K., M. von der Lippe, and I. Kowarik. 2013. Urban land use types contribute to grassland conservation: The example of Berlin. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 12:263–272.
Gockele, A., A. Weigelt, A. Gessler, and M. Scherer-Lorenzen. 2014. Quantifying resource use complementarity in grassland species: A comparison of different nutrient tracers. Pedobiologia 57:251–256.
Grossiord, C., A. Gessler, A. Granier, S. Berger, C. Bréchet, R. Hentschel, R. Hommel, M. Scherer-Lorenzen, and D. Bonal. 2014. Impact of interspecific interactions on the soil water uptake depth in a young temperate mixed species plantation. Journal of Hydrology 519:3511–3519.
Grossiord, C., A. Gessler, A. Granier, M. Pollastrini, F. Bussotti, and D. Bonal. 2014. Interspecific competition influences the response of oak transpiration to increasing drought stress in a mixed Mediterranean forest. Forest Ecology and Management 318:54–61.
Grossiord, C., A. Granier, A. Gessler, T. Jucker, and D. Bonal. 2014. Does Drought Influence the Relationship Between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Boreal Forests? Ecosystems 17:394–404.
Grossiord, C., A. Granier, A. Gessler, M. Pollastrini, and D. Bonal. 2013. The influence of tree species mixture on ecosystem-level carbon accumulation and water use in a mixed boreal plantation. Forest Ecology and Management 298:82–92.
Grözinger, F., J. Thein, H. Feldhaar, M.-O. Rödel, and M. Vellend. 2014. Giants, Dwarfs and the Environment – Metamorphic Trait Plasticity in the Common Frog. PLoS ONE 9:e89982.
Hammer, E. C., Z. Balogh-Brunstad, I. Jakobsen, P. A. Olsson, S. L. S. Stipp, and M. C. Rillig. 2014. A mycorrhizal fungus grows on biochar and captures phosphorus from its surfaces. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 77:252–260.
Hempel, S., L. Götzenberger, I. Kühn, S. G. Michalski, M. C. Rillig, M. Zobel, and M. Moora. 2013. Mycorrhizas in the Central European flora: relationships with plant life history traits and ecology. Ecology 94:1389–1399.
Hipsley, C. A., and J. Müller. 2014. Relict Endemism of Extant Rhineuridae (Amphisbaenia): Testing for Phylogenetic Niche Conservatism in the Fossil Record. The Anatomical Record 297:473–481.
Hommel, R., R. Siegwolf, M. Saurer, G. D. Farquhar, Z. Kayler, J. P. Ferrio, and A. Gessler. 2014. Drought response of mesophyll conductance in forest understory species - impacts on water-use efficiency and interactions with leaf water movement. Physiologia Plantarum 152:98–114.
Horn, S., T. Caruso, E. Verbruggen, M. C. Rillig, and S. Hempel. 2014. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities are phylogenetically clustered at small scales. The ISME Journal 8:2231–2242.
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