Marquard, E.; Weigelt, A.; Temperton, V. M.; Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Buchmann, N.; Fischer, M.; Weisser, W. W.; Schmid, B.: Plant species richness and functional composition drive overyielding in a six-year grassland experiment. Ecology 90 (12), pp. 3290 - 3302 (2009)
Roscher, C.; Temperton, V. M.; Buchmann, N.; Schulze, E. D.: Community assembly and biomass production in regularly and never weeded experimental grasslands. Acta oecologica: international journal of ecology 35 (2), pp. 206 - 217 (2009)
Vaganov, E. A.; Schulze, E. D.; Skomarkova, M. V.; Knohl, A.; Brand, W. A.; Roscher, C.: Intra-annual variability of anatomical structure and δ 13C values within tree rings of spruce and pine in alpine, temperate and boreal Europe. Oecologia 161 (4), pp. 729 - 745 (2009)
Fischer, M.; Rottstock, T.; Marquard, M.; Middelhoff, C.; Roscher, C.; Temperton, V. M.; Oelmann, Y.; Weigelt, A.: L'expérience de léna démontre les avantages de la diversité végétale pour les prairies. Fourrages 195, pp. 275 - 286 (2008)
Lorentzen, S.; Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Schulze, E. D.; Schmid, B.: Species richness and identity affect the use of aboveground space in experimental grasslands. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 10 (2), pp. 73 - 87 (2008)
Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Weisser, W. W.; Schulze, E. D.: Genetic identity affects performance of species in grasslands of different plant diversity: An experiment with Lolium perenne cultivars. Annals of Botany 102 (1), pp. 113 - 125 (2008)
Roscher, C.; Thein, S.; Schmid, B.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.: Complementary nitrogen use among potentially dominant species in a biodiversity experiment varies between two years. Journal of Ecology 96 (3), pp. 477 - 488 (2008)
Thein, S.; Roscher, C.; Schulze, E.-D.: Effects of trait plasticity on aboveground biomass production depend on species identity in experimental grasslands. Basic and Applied Ecology 9 (5), pp. 475 - 484 (2008)
Oelmann, Y.; Kreutziger, Y.; Temperton, V. M.; Buchmann, N.; Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Schulze, E. D.; Weisser, W. W.; Wilcke, W.: Nitrogen and phosphorus budgets in experimental grasslands of variable diversity. Journal of Environmental Quality 36 (2), pp. 396 - 407 (2007)
Oelmann, Y.; Wilcke, W.; Temperton, V. M.; Buchmann, N.; Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Schulze, E.-D.; Weisser, W. W.: Soil and plant nitrogen pools as related to plant diversity in an experimental grassland. Soil Science Society of America 71 (3), pp. 720 - 729 (2007)
Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Foitzik, O.; Schulze, E. D.: Resistance to rust fungi in Lolium perenne depends on within-species variation and performance of the host species in grasslands of different plant diversity. Oecologia 153 (1), pp. 173 - 183 (2007)
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.