Publications

2020

• Buzhdygan, O., Meyer, S., Weisser, W., Eisenhauer, N., Ebeling, A., Borrett, S., . . . Petermann, J. (2020). Biodiversity increases multitrophic energy use efficiency, flow and storage in grasslands. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4(3), 393-405.

• Dittrich, C., & Rödel, M.-O. (2020). Description of female release calls of the European Common Frog, Rana temporaria (Anura: Ranidae). Salamandra, 56(1), 91-94.

• Essl, F., Courchamp, F., Dullinger, S., Jeschke, J., & Schindler, S. (2020). Make Open Access Publishing Fair and Transparent! BioScience.

• Essl, F., Dullinger, S., Genovesi, P., Hulme, P., Jeschke, J., Katsanevakis, S., . . . Bacher, S. (2020). Distinct Biogeographic Phenomena Require a Specific Terminology: A reply to Wilson and Sagoff. BioScience.

• Grimm, J., Dick, J., Verreycken, H., Jeschke, J., Linzmaier, S., & Ricciardi, A. (2020). Context-dependent differences in the functional responses of conspecific native and non-native crayfishes. NeoBiota, 54, 71-88.

• Schirmer, A., Hoffmann, J., Eccard, J., & Dammhahn, M. (2020). My niche: individual spatial niche specialization affects within- and between-species interactions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1918), 20192211.

• Zhang, S., Guo, X., Yun, W., Xia, Y., You, Z., & Rillig, M. (2020). Arbuscular mycorrhiza contributes to the control of phosphorus loss in paddy fields. Plant and Soil.

2019

• Aguilar-Trigueros, C., Hempel, S., Powell, J., Cornwell, W., & Rillig, M. (2019). Bridging reproductive and microbial ecology: a case study in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. ISME Journal, 13(4), 873-884.

• Barthel, L. M. F., Hofer, H., & Berger, A. 2019. An easy, flexible solution to attach devices to hedgehogs ( Erinaceus europaeus ) enables long-term high-resolution studies. Ecology and Evolution, 9(1), 672–679.

• Bartram, I., & Jeschke, J. (2019). Do cancer stem cells exist? A pilot study combining a systematic review with the hierarchy-of-hypotheses approach. (D. Nie, Hrsg.) PLOS ONE, 14(12), e0225898.

• Bartz, R., & Kowarik, I. (2019). Assessing the environmental impacts of invasive alien plants: A review of assessment approaches. NeoBiota, 43, 69-99.
• Bennett, J., Cosin, D., Duhour, A., Gutiérrez, M., Holdsworth, A., Holmstrup, M., . . . Holdsworth, A. (2019). Global distribution of earthworm diversity. Science, 366(6464), 480-485.

• Bernard-Verdier, M., & Hulme, P. E. (in press). Alien plants can be associated with a decrease in local and regional native richness even when at low abundance. Journal of Ecology.

• Bielčik, M., Aguilar-Trigueros, C., Lakovic, M., Jeltsch, F., & Rillig, M. (2019). The role of active movement in fungal ecology and community assembly. Movement Ecology, 7(1), 36.

• Blankers, T., Berdan, E., Hennig, R., & Mayer, F. (2019, 4 1). Physical linkage and mate preference generate linkage disequilibrium for behavioral isolation in two parapatric crickets. Evolution, 73(4), 777-791.

• Buchholz, S., & Kowarik, I. (2019). Urbanisation modulates plant-pollinator interactions in invasive vs. native plant species. Scientific Reports, 9(1).

• Camenzind, T., Scheu, S., & Rillig, M. (2019). Expanding the toolbox of nutrient limitation studies: A novel method of soil microbial in-growth bags to evaluate nutrient demands in tropical forests. Functional Ecology.

• Çoraman, E., Dietz, C., Hempel, E., Ghazaryan, A., Levin, E., Presetnik, P., . . . Mayer, F. (2019, 2 1). Reticulate evolutionary history of a Western Palaearctic Bat Complex explained by multiple mtDNA introgressions in secondary contacts. Journal of Biogeography, 46(2), 343-354.

• De Souza Machado, A., Lau, C., Kloas, W., Bergmann, J., Bachelier, J., Faltin, E., . . . Rillig, M. (2019, 5 21). Microplastics Can Change Soil Properties and Affect Plant Performance. Environmental Science and Technology, 53(10), 6044-6052.

• Dittrich, C., Huster, J., Rödel, M.-O., & Feldhaar, H. (in press). Matriline effects on metamorphic traits in a natural system in the European common frog (Rana temporaria). Ecology and Evolution.

• Eilers, E., & Heger, T. (2019, 10 17). Past Competition Affects Offspring Foliar Terpenoid Concentrations, Seed Traits, and Fitness in the Invasive Forb Erodium cicutarium (Geraniaceae). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7.

• El Shazely, B., Urbański, A., Johnston, P., & Rolff, J. (2019). In vivo exposure of insect AMP resistant Staphylococcus aureus to an insect immune system. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 110, 60-68.

• Enders, M., Havemann, F., & Jeschke, J. (2019, 6 19). A citation-based map of concepts in invasion biology. NeoBiota, 47(47), 23-42.

• Essl, F., Dullinger, S., Genovesi, P., Hulme, P., Jeschke, J., Katsanevakis, S., . . . Bacher, S. (2019). A Conceptual Framework for Range-Expanding Species that Track Human-Induced Environmental Change. BioScience.

• Essl, F., Lenzner, B., Courchamp, F., Dullinger, S., Jeschke, J., Kühn, I., . . . Seebens, H. (2019, 4 15). Introducing AlienScenarios: A project to develop scenarios and models of biological invasions for the 21st century. NeoBiota, 45, 1-17.

• Fiore-Donno, A., Richter-Heitmann, T., Degrune, F., Dumack, K., Regan, K., Marhan, S., . . . Bonkowski, M. (2019). Functional traits and spatio-temporal structure of a major group of soil protists (rhizaria: Cercozoa) in a temperate grassland. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10(JUN).

• 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. 2019. Plant species richness and functional groups have different effects on soil water content in a decade‐long grassland experiment. Journal of Ecology, 107(1), 127–141.

• Frost, C., Allen, W., Courchamp, F., Jeschke, J., Saul, W.-C., & Wardle, D. (2019, 9). Using Network Theory to Understand and Predict Biological Invasions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 34(9), 831-843.

• Gallardo, B., Bacher, S., Bradley, B., Comín, F., Gallien, L., Jeschke, J., . . . Vilà, M. (2019, 10 14). InvasiBES: Understanding and managing the impacts of Invasive alien species on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. NeoBiota, 50, 109-122.

• González-Moreno, P., Lazzaro, L., Vilà, M., Preda, C., Adriaens, T., Bacher, S., . . . Kenis, M. (2019). Consistency of impact assessment protocols for non-native species. NeoBiota, 44, 1-25.

• Gopal, D., von der Lippe, M., & Kowarik, I. (2019). Sacred sites, biodiversity and urbanization in an Indian megacity. Urban Ecosystems, 22(1), 161-172.

• Gottsberger, B., & Mayer, F. (2019, 9 1). Dominance effects strengthen premating hybridization barriers between sympatric species of grasshoppers (Acrididae, Orthoptera). Journal of Evolutionary Biology(32), 921-930.

• Grünfeld, L., Wulf, M., Rillig, M., Manntschke, A., & Veresoglou, S. (2019). Neighbours of arbuscular‐mycorrhiza associating trees are colonized more extensively by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi than their conspecifics in ectomycorrhiza dominated stands. New Phytologist, nph.16377.

• Heger, T., Bernard-Verdier, M., Gessler, A., Greenwood, A., Grossart, H.-P., Hilker, M., . . . Jeschke, J. (2019, 9 18). Towards an Integrative, Eco-Evolutionary Understanding of Ecological Novelty: Studying and Communicating Interlinked Effects of Global Change. BioScience.

• Heinze, J., Simons, N., Seibold, S., Wacker, A., Weithoff, G., Gossner, M., . . . Joshi, J. (2019). The relative importance of plant-soil feedbacks for plant-species performance increases with decreasing intensity of herbivory. Oecologia(190), 651-664.

• Herden, J., Eckert, S., Stift, M., Joshi, J., & Kleunen, M. (2019, 9). No evidence for local adaptation and an epigenetic underpinning in native and non‐native ruderal plant species in Germany. Ecology and Evolution, 9(17), 9412-9426.

• Jarić, I., Heger, T., Castro Monzon, F., Jeschke, J., Kowarik, I., McConkey, K., . . . Essl, F. (2019, 4). Crypticity in Biological Invasions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 34(4), 291-302.

• Jeltsch, F., Grimm, V., Reeg, J., & Schlägel, U. (2019, 5 1). Give chance a chance: from coexistence to coviability in biodiversity theory. Ecosphere, 10(5).

• Jeschke, J., Börner, K., Stodden, V., & Tockner, K. (2019). Open Access journals need to become first choice, in invasion ecology and beyond. NeoBiota, 52, 1-11.

• Jeschke, J., Lokatis, S., Bartram, I., & Tockner, K. (2019, 6 1). Knowledge in the dark: scientific challenges and ways forward. FACETS, 4(1), 423-441.

• Johnston, P., Paris, V., & Rolff, J. (2019, 10 14). Immune gene regulation in the gut during metamorphosis in a holo- versus a hemimetabolous insect. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374(1783), 20190073.

• Kerkow, A., Wieland, R., Früh, L., Hölker, F., Jeschke, J., Werner, D., & Kampen, H. (2019). Can data from native mosquitoes support determining invasive species habitats? Modelling the climatic niche of Aedes japonicus japonicus (Diptera, Culicidae) in Germany. Parasitology Research.

• Kerkow, A., Wieland, R., Koban, M., Hölker, F., Jeschke, J., Werner, D., & Kampen, H. (2019, 12 14). What makes the Asian bush mosquito Aedes japonicus japonicus feel comfortable in Germany? A fuzzy modelling approach. Parasites & Vectors, 12(1), 106.

• Kpan, T., Ernst, R., Kouassi, P., & Rödel, M. (2019, 5 1). Prevalence of endoparasitic mites on four West African leaf-litter frogs depends on habitat humidity. Biotropica, 51(3), 432-442.

• Lammel, D., Arlt, T., Manke, I., & Rillig, M. (2019, 10 11). Testing Contrast Agents to Improve Micro Computerized Tomography ( µ CT ) for Spatial Location of Organic Matter and Biological Material in Soil. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 7(October), 1-10.

• Latimer, A., Jacobs, B., Gianoli, E., Heger, T., & Salgado-Luarte, C. (2019). Parallel functional differentiation of an invasive annual plant on two continents. AoB PLANTS, 11(2).

• Lehmann, A., Fitschen, K., & Rillig, M. (2019). Abiotic and Biotic Factors Influencing the Effect of Microplastic on Soil Aggregation. Soil Systems, 3(1), 21.

• Lehmann, A., Zheng, W., Soutschek, K., Roy, J., Yurkov, A., & Rillig, M. (2019). Tradeoffs in hyphal traits determine mycelium architecture in saprobic fungi. Scientific Reports, 9(1).

• Li, M., Wu, J., Song, C., He, Y., Niu, B., Fu, G., . . . Zhang, X. (2019). Temporal variability of precipitation and biomass of alpine grasslands on the northern Tibetan Plateau. Remote Sensing, 11(3), 360.

• Liang, Y., Lehmann, A., Ballhausen, M.-B., Muller, L., & Rillig, M. (2019, 9 6). Increasing Temperature and Microplastic Fibers Jointly Influence Soil Aggregation by Saprobic Fungi. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10.

• Lozada-Gobilard, S., Stang, S., Pirhofer-Walzl, K., Kalettka, T., Heinken, T., Schröder, B., . . . Joshi, J. (2019, 2 1). Environmental filtering predicts plant-community trait distribution and diversity: Kettle holes as models of meta-community systems. Ecology and Evolution, 9(4), 1898-1910.

• Lozano, Y. M., Hortal, S., Armas, C., & Pugnaire, F. I. (in press). Soil micro-organisms and competitive ability of a tussock grass species in a dry ecosystem. Journal of Ecology.
• Maas, B., Heath, S., Grass, I., Cassano, C., Classen, A., Faria, D., Gras, P., Williams-Guillén, K., Johnson, M., Karp, D. S., Linden, V., Martínez-Salinas, A., Schmack, J. M. & Kross, S. 2019. Experimental field exclosure of birds and bats in agricultural systems — Methodological insights, potential improvements, and cost-benefit trade-offs. Basic and Applied Ecology, 35, 1–12.
• Maaß, S., Hückelheim, R., & Rillig, M. (2019). Collembola laterally move biochar particles. PLoS ONE, 14(11).
• Marino, N., Céréghino, R., Gilbert, B., Petermann, J., Srivastava, D., de Omena, P., . . . Jocqué, M. (2019). Species niches, not traits, determine abundance and occupancy patterns: A multi-site synthesis. (J. Belmaker, Hrsg.) Global Ecology and Biogeography.
• McTee, M., Bullington, L., Rillig, M. C., & Ramsey, P. W. 2019. Do soil bacterial communities respond differently to abrupt or gradual additions of copper? FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 95(1).

• Müller, U., McMahon, D., & Rolff, J. (2019, 11 1). Exposure of the wild bee Osmia bicornis to the honey bee pathogen Nosema ceranae. Agricultural and Forest Entomology(21), 363-371.

• Musseau, C., Vincenzi, S., Santoul, F., Boulêtreau, S., Jesenšek, D., & Crivelli, A. (2019). Within‐individual trophic variability drives short‐term intraspecific trait variation in natural populations. Journal of Animal Ecology, 1365-2656.13149.

• Niemeier, S., Müller, J., & Rödel, M. (2019). Fluctuating asymmetry – Appearances are deceptive. Comparison of methods for assessing developmental instability in european common frogs (Rana temporaria). Salamandra, 55(1), 14-26.

• Numberger, D., Ganzert, L., Zoccarato, L., Mühldorfer, K., Sauer, S., Grossart, H., & Greenwood, A. (2019). Characterization of bacterial communities in wastewater with enhanced taxonomic resolution by full-length 16S rRNA sequencing. Scientific Reports, 9(1).

• Okiobe, S., Rillig, M., Mola, M., Augustin, J., Parolly, G., & Veresoglou, S. (2019). Arbuscular mycorrhiza has little influence on N2O potential emissions compared to plant diversity in experimental plant communities. FEMS Microbiology Ecology.

• Onandia, G., Schittko, C., Ryo, M., Bernard-Verdier, M., Heger, T., Joshi, J., . . . Gessler, A. (2019). Ecosystem functioning in urban grasslands: The role of biodiversity, plant invasions and urbanization. PLoS ONE, 14(11).

• Paraskevopoulou, S., Dennis, A., Weithoff, G., Hartmann, S., & Tiedemann, R. (2019). Within species expressed genetic variability and gene expression response to different temperatures in the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus sensu stricto. PLOS ONE, 14(9), e0223134.

• Pérez-Sánchez, A., Schibalski, A., Schröder, B., Klimek, S., & Dauber, J. (2019). Disentangling the effects of host resources, local, and landscape variables on the occurrence pattern of the dusky large blue butterfly (Phengaris nausithous) in upland grasslands. Journal of Insect Conservation.

• Radchuk, V., Reed, T., Teplitsky, C., van de Pol, M., Charmantier, A., Hassall, C., . . . Kramer-Schadt, S. (2019, 12 23). Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient. Nature Communications, 10(1), 3109.

• Rast, W., Barthel, L., & Berger, A. (2019). Music Festival Makes Hedgehogs Move: How Individuals Cope Behaviorally in Response to Human-Induced Stressors. Animals, 9(7), 455.

• Ratzmann, G., Zakharova, L., & Tietjen, B. (2019). Optimal leaf water status regulation of plants in drylands. Scientific Reports, 9(1).

• Rieger, I., Kowarik, I., Ziche, D., Wellbrock, N., & Cierjacks, A. (2019). Linkages between Phosphorus and Plant Diversity in Central European Forest Ecosystems—Complementarity or Competition? Forests, 10(12), 1156.

• Rillig, M., & Lehmann, A. (2019, 7 1). Exploring the agricultural parameter space for crop yield and sustainability. New Phytologist, 223(2), 517-519.

• Rillig, M., Bonneval, K., & Lehmann, J. (2019). Sounds of Soil: A New World of Interactions under Our Feet? Soil Systems, 3(3), 45.

• Rillig, M., De Souza Machado, A., Lehmann, A., & Klümper, U. (2019). Evolutionary implications of microplastics for soil biota. Environmental Chemistry, 16(1), 3-7.

• Rillig, M., Lehmann, A., Ryo, M., & Bergmann, J. (2019). Shaping Up: Toward Considering the Shape and Form of Pollutants. Environmental Science & Technology, 53(14), 7925-7926.

• Rillig, M., Ryo, M., Lehmann, A., Aguilar-Trigueros, C., Buchert, S., Wulf, A., . . . Yang, G. (2019). The role of multiple global change factors in driving soil functions and microbial biodiversity. Science, 366(6467), 886-890.

• Ripperger, S., Günther, L., Wieser, H., Duda, N., Hierold, M., Cassens, B., Kapitza, R., Koelpin, A. & Mayer, F. 2019. Proximity sensors on common noctule bats reveal evidence that mothers guide juveniles to roosts but not food. Biology Letters, 15(2), 20180884.

• Rolff, J., Johnston, P., & Reynolds, S. (2019, 10 14). Complete metamorphosis of insects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374(1783), 20190063.

• Romero-Mujalli, D., Jeltsch, F., & Tiedemann, R. (2019). Elevated mutation rates are unlikely to evolve in sexual species, not even under rapid environmental change. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19(1).

• Romero-Mujalli, D., Jeltsch, F., & Tiedemann, R. 2019. Individual-based modeling of eco-evolutionary dynamics: state of the art and future directions. Regional Environmental Change, 19(1), 1–12.

• Ryo, M., Jeschke, J., Rillig, M., & Heger, T. (2019, 8 5). Machine learning with the hierarchy‐of‐hypotheses (HoH) approach discovers novel pattern in studies on biological invasions. Research Synthesis Methods.

• Schiro, G., Colangeli, P., & Müller, M. (2019, 9 10). A Metabarcoding Analysis of the Mycobiome of Wheat Ears Across a Topographically Heterogeneous Field. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10.

• Schiro, G., Müller, T., Verch, G., Sommerfeld, T., Mauch, T., Koch, M., Grimm, V. & Müller, M. E. H. 2019. The distribution of mycotoxins in a heterogeneous wheat field in relation to microclimate, fungal and bacterial abundance. Journal of Applied Microbiology, 126(1), 177–190.

• Schneider, A.-K., Strohbach, M., App, M., & Schröder, B. (2019). The ‘GartenApp’: Assessing and Communicating the Ecological Potential of Private Gardens. Sustainability, 12(1), 95.

• Schwarzer, C., & Joshi, J. (2019). Ecotypic differentiation, hybridization and clonality facilitate the persistence of a cold-adapted sedge in European bogs. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 1-17.

• Straka, T., Wolf, M., Gras, P., Buchholz, S., & Voigt, C. (2019). Tree cover mediates the effect of artificial light on urban bats. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7(MAR).

• Strayer, D., Adamovich, B., Adrian, R., Aldridge, D., Balogh, C., Burlakova, L., . . . Jeschke, J. (2019, 4 1). Long-term population dynamics of dreissenid mussels (Dreissena polymorpha and D. rostriformis): a cross-system analysis. Ecosphere, 10(4).

• Strohbach, M. W., Döring, A. O., Möck, M., Sedrez, M., Mumm, O., Schneider, A.-K., Weber, S. & Schröder, B. (in press). The “hidden urbanization”: trends of impervious surface in lowdensity housing developments and resulting impacts on the water balance. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 7, 29.
• Teckentrup, L., Kramer-Schadt, S., & Jeltsch, F. (2019). The risk of ignoring fear: underestimating the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on biodiversity. Landscape Ecology, 8, 1-18.
• Veresoglou, S., Chen, B., Fischer, M., Helgason, T., Mamolos, A., Rillig, M., . . . Johnson, D. (2019). Latitudinal constraints in responsiveness of plants to arbuscular mycorrhiza: the ‘sun-worshipper’ hypothesis. New Phytologist.
• Veresoglou, S. D., Liu, L., Xu, T., Rillig, M. C., Wang, M., Wang, J., Chen, Y., Hu, Y., Hao, Z. & Chen, B. (2019). Biogeographical constraints in Glomeromycotinan distribution across forest habitats in China. Journal of Ecology, 107(2), 684–695.

• Veresoglou, S., Verbruggen, E., Makarova, O., Mansour, I., Sen, R., & Rillig, M. (2019). Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Alter the Community Structure of Ammonia Oxidizers at High Fertility via Competition for Soil NH4+. Microbial Ecology, 78(1), 147-158.

• Vogeler, C., Möck, M., Bandelow, N., & Schröder, B. (2019). Livestock Farming at the Expense of Water Resources? The Water–Energy–Food Nexus in Regions with Intensive Livestock Farming. Water, 11(11), 2330.

• Voigt, C., Scholl, J., Bauer, J., Teige, T., Yovel, Y., Kramer-Schadt, S., & Gras, P. (2019). Movement responses of common noctule bats to the illuminated urban landscape. Landscape Ecology.

• Weise, H., Auge, H., Baessler, C., Baerlund, I., Bennett, E. M., Berger, U., … Grimm, V. 2019. Resilience trinity: safeguarding ecosystem services across three different time horizons and decision contexts. BioRxiv, 549873.

• Weithoff, G., Neumann, C., Seiferth, J., & Weisse, T. (2019). Living on the edge: reproduction, dispersal potential, maternal effects and local adaptation in aquatic, extremophilic invertebrates. Aquatic Sciences, 81(3).

• Wesener, F., & Tietjen, B. (2019). Primed to be strong, primed to be fast: modeling benefits of microbial stress responses. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 95(8).

• Wright, J., Bailey, J., Crawford, K., Kirchhoff, L., Kirschbaum, A., Joshi, J., . . . Heinze, J. (2019). Plant-Soil Feedbacks of Plantago lanceolata in the Field Depend on Plant Origin and Herbivory. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution | www.frontiersin.org, 7, 422.

• Aguilar-Trigueros, C. A., Hempel, S., Powell, J. R., Cornwell, W. K., & Rillig, M. C. 2018. Bridging reproductive and microbial ecology: a case study in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. The ISME Journal, 1. 
• 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.
• Baldauf, S., Ladrón de Guevara, M., Maestre, F. T., & Tietjen, B. 2018. Soil moisture dynamics under two rainfall frequency treatments drive early spring CO 2 gas exchange of lichen-dominated biocrusts in central Spain. PeerJ, 6, e5904. 
• Bellard, C., Jeschke, J. M., Leroy, B., & Mace, G. M. 2018. Insights from modeling studies on how climate change affects invasive alien species geography. Ecology and Evolution, 8(11), 5688–5700. 
• 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.
• Buchholz, S., Hannig, K., Möller, M., & Schirmel, J. 2018. Reducing management intensity and isolation as promising tools to enhance ground-dwelling arthropod diversity in urban grasslands. Urban Ecosystems, 21(6), 1139–1149. 
• Buchholz, S., & Möller, M. 2018. Assessing spider diversity in grasslands – does pitfall trap color matter? Journal of Arachnology, 46(2), 376–379. 
• 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.
• Darwall, W., Bremerich, V., De Wever, A., Dell, A. I., Freyhof, J., Gessner, M. O., Grossart, H.-P., Harrison, I., Irvine, K., Jähnig, S. C., Jeschke, J. M., Lee, J. J., Lu, C., Lewandowska, A. M., Monaghan, M. T., Nejstgaard, J. C., Patricio, H., Schmidt-Kloiber, A., Stuart, S. N., Thieme, M., Tockner, K, Turak, E. & Weyl, O. 2018. The Alliance for Freshwater Life : A global call to unite efforts for freshwater biodiversity science and conservation. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 28(4), 1015–1022. 
• 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.
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