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)
Ebeling, A.; Klein, A. M.; Schumacher, J.; Weisser, W. W.; Tscharntke, T.: How does plant richness affect pollinator richness and temporal stability of flower visits? Oikos 117 (12), pp. 1808 - 1815 (2008)
Getzin, S.; Wiegand, K.; Schumacher, J.; Gougeon, F. A.: Scale-dependent competition at the stand level assessed from crown areas. Forest Ecology and Management 255 (7), pp. 2478 - 2485 (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)
Turner, N. C.; Schulze, E. D.; Nicolle, D.; Schumacher, J.; Kuhlmann, I.: Annual rainfall does not directly determine the carbon isotope ratio of leaves of Eucalyptus species. Physiologia Plantarum 132 (4), pp. 440 - 445 (2008)
Bisutti, I.; Hilke, I.; Schumacher, J.; Raessler, M.: A novel single-run dual temperature combustion (SRDTC) method for the determination of organic, in-organic and total carbon in soil samples. Talanta 71 (2), pp. 521 - 528 (2007)
Don, A.; Schumacher, J.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Scholten, T.; Schulze, E. D.: Spatial and vertical variation of soil carbon at two grassland sites - Implications for measuring soil carbon stocks. Geoderma 141 (3-4), pp. 272 - 282 (2007)
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)
Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Weisser, W. W.; Schmid, B.; Schulze, E. D.: Detecting the role of individual species for overyielding in experimental grassland communities composed of potentially dominant species. Oecologia 154 (3), pp. 535 - 549 (2007)
Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Schulze, E. D.; Don, A.; Schumacher, J.; Weller, E.: Exploring the functional significance of forest diversity: A new long-term experiment with temperate tree species (BIOTREE). Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 9 (2), pp. 53 - 70 (2007)
Scherber, C.; Mwangi, P. N.; Temperton, V. M.; Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Schmid, B.; Weisser, W. W.: Effects of plant diversity on invertebrate herbivory in experimental grassland. Oecologia 147 (3), pp. 489 - 500 (2006)
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.