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Mraja, A.; Unsicker, S. B.; Reichelt, M.; Gershenzon, J.; Roscher, C.: Plant community diversity influences allocation to direct chemical defence in Plantago lanceolata. Plos One 6 (12), p. e28055 (2011)
Nestmann, S.; Rajicic, T. S.; Dehmer, K. J.; Fischer, M.; Schumacher, J.; Roscher, C.: Plant species diversity and composition of experimental grasslands affect genetic differentiation of Lolium perenne populations. Molecular Ecology 20 (10), pp. 2188 - 2203 (2011)
Roscher, C.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Schumacher, J.; Temperton, V. M.; Buchmann, N.; Schulze, E. D.: Plant resource-use characteristics as predictors for species contribution to community biomass in experimental grasslands. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 13 (1), pp. 1 - 13 (2011)
Roscher, C.; Schmid, B.; Buchmann, N.; Weigelt, A.; Schulze, E.-D.: Legume species differ in the responses of their functional traits to plant diversity. Oecologia 165 (2), pp. 437 - 452 (2011)
Roscher, C.; Thein, S.; Weigelt, A.; Temperton, V. M.; Buchmann, N.; Schulze, E. D.: N2 fixation and performance of 12 legume species in a 6-year grassland biodiversity experiment. Plant and Soil 341 (1-2), pp. 333 - 348 (2011)
Petermann, J. S.; Fergus, A. J. F.; Roscher, C.; Turnbull, L. A.; Weigelt, A.; Schmid, B.: Biology, chance, or history? The predictable reassembly of temperate grassland communities. Ecology 91 (2), pp. 408 - 421 (2010)
Petermann, J. S.; Müller, C. B.; Roscher, C.; Weigelt, A.; Weisser, W. W.; Schmid, B.: Plant Species Loss Affects Life-History Traits of Aphids and Their Parasitoids. Plos One 5 (8), p. e12053 (2010)
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Bessler, H.; Temperton, V. M.; Roscher, C.; Buchmann, N.; Schmid, B.; Schulze, E. D.; Weisser, W. W.; Engels, C.: Aboveground overyielding in grassland mixtures is associated with reduced biomass partitioning to belowground organs. Ecology 90 (6), pp. 1520 - 1530 (2009)
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.