Rzanny, M.; Bebber, A.; Wittich, H. C.; Fritz, A.; Boho, D.; Mäder, P.; Wäldchen, J.: More than rapid identification—Free plant identification apps can also be highly accurate. People and Nature 6 (6), pp. 2178 - 2181 (2024)
Wäldchen, J.; Wittich, H. C.; Rzanny, M.; Fritz, A.; Mäder, P.: Towards more effective identification keys: A study of people identifying plant species characters. People and Nature 4 (6), pp. 1603 - 1615 (2022)
Katal, N.; Rzanny, M.; Mäder, P.; Wäldchen, J.: Deep learning in plant phenological research: A systematic literature review. Frontiers in Plant Science 13, 805738 (2022)
Schmid, B.; Schmitz, M.; Rzanny, M.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Mwangi, P. N.; Weisser, W. W.; Hector, A.; Schmid, R.; Flynn, D. F. B.: Removing subordinate species in a biodiversity experiment to mimic observational field studies. Grassland Research 1 (1), pp. 53 - 62 (2022)
Mahecha, M. D.; Rzanny, M.; Kraemer, G.; Mäder, P.; Seeland, M.; Wäldchen, J.: Crowd-sourced plant occurrence data provide a reliable description of macroecological gradients. Ecography 44 (8), pp. 1131 - 1142 (2021)
Mäder, P.; Boho, D.; Rzanny, M.; Seeland, M.; Wittich, H. C.; Deggelmann, A.; Wäldchen, J.: The Flora Incognita app – interactive plant species identfication. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 12 (7), pp. 1335 - 1342 (2021)
Rzanny, M.; Mäder, P.; Deggelmann, A.; Chen, M.; Wäldchen, J.: Flowers, leaves or both? How to obtain suitable images for automated plant identification. Plant Methods 15, 77 (2019)
Hines, J.; Giling, D. P.; Rzanny, M.; Voigt, W.; Meyer, S. T.; Weisser, W. W.; Eisenhauer, N.; Ebeling, A.: A meta‐food web for invertebrate species collected in a European grassland. Ecology 100 (6), e02679 (2019)
Seeland, M.; Rzanny, M.; Boho, D.; Wäldchen, J.; Mäder, P.: Image-based classification of plant genus and family for trained and untrained plant species. BMC Bioinformatics 20, 4 (2019)
Wittich, H. C.; Seeland, M.; Wäldchen, J.; Rzanny, M.; Mäder, P.: Recommending plant taxa for supporting on-site species identification. BMC Bioinformatics 19, 190 (2018)
Ebeling, A.; Rzanny, M.; Lange, M.; Eisenhauer, N.; Hertzog, L. R.; Meyer, S. T.; Weisser, W. W.: Plant diversity induces shifts in the functional structure and diversity across trophic levels. Oikos 127 (2), pp. 208 - 219 (2018)
On June 24, Prof. Dr. Henrik Hartmann, head of the Julius Kühn Institute for Forest Protection and former group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, received an important award for his scientific achievements in the field of forestry. Our warmest congratulations!
We have gained a new external member: Prof. Dr. Christian Wirth has been appointed by the Senate of the Max Planck Society as External Scientific Member. As a former group leader and later fellow at the institute, Prof. Wirth initiated and supported the development of the TRY database, the world's largest collection on plant traits.
Information gaps in global maps of plant characteristics can be filled with data from nature identification apps. Users of the iNaturalist app are playing a key role in helping researchers create global maps of plant traits. Among other things, the new maps provide an improved basis for understanding plant-environment interactions and for Earth system modeling.
An international research team has succeeded in identifying globally acting factors that cause the diversity of forms and functions of plants. Researchers compiled plant data from around the world and were able to show for the first time how strongly these are determined by climate and soil properties for characteristics such as the size, structure and life span of plants.