Publications of Markus Lange

Dittmann, G.; Ding, S.; Hopmans, E. C.; Schröter, S. A.; Orme, A. M.; Kothe, E.; Lange, M.; Gleixner, G.: Bioavailable carbon additions to soil promote free-living nitrogen fixation and microbial biomass growth with N-free lipids. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 203, 109748 (2025)

Hennecke, J.; Bassi, L.; Albracht, C.; Amyntas, A.; Bergmann, J.; Eisenhauer, N.; Fox, A.; Heimbold, L.; Heintz-Buschart, A.; Kuyper, T. W. et al.; Lange, M.; de Souza, Y. P. A.; Rai, A.; Solbach, M. D.; Mommer, L.; Weigelt, A.: Plant species richness and the root economics space drive soil fungal communities. Ecology Letters 28 (1), e70032 (2025)

Li, Y.; Schuldt, A.; Ebeling, A.; Eisenhauer, N.; Huang, Y.; Albert, G.; Albracht, C.; Amyntas, A.; Bonkowski, M.; Bruelheide, H. et al.; Bröcher, M.; Chesters, D.; Chen, J.; Chen, Y.; Chen, J.-T.; Ciobanu, M.; Deng, X.; Fornoff, F.; Gleixner, G.; Guo, L.; Guo, P.-F.; Heintz-Buschart, A.; Klein, A.-M.; Lange, M.; Li, S.; Li, Q.; Li, Y.; Luo, A.; Meyer, S. T.; von Oheimb, G.; Rutten, G.; Scholten, T.; Solbach, M. D.; Staab, M.; Wang, M.-Q.; Zhang, N.; Zhu, C.-D.; Schmid, B.; Ma, K.; Liu, X.: Plant diversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality via multitrophic diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution 8, pp. 2037 - 2047 (2024)

Eisenhauer, N.; Mueller, K.; Ebeling, A.; Gleixner, G.; Huang, Y.; Madaj, A.-M.; Roscher, C.; Weigelt, A.; Bahn, M.; Bonkowski, M. et al.; Brose, U.; Cesarz, S.; Feilhauer, H.; Guimaraes-Steinicke, C.; Heintz-Buschart, A.; Hines, J.; Lange, M.; Meyer, S. T.; Mohanbabu, N.; Mommer, L.; Neuhauser, S.; Oelmann, Y.; Rahmanian, S.; Sasaki, T.; Scheu, S.; Schielzeth, H.; Schmid, B.; Schloter, M.; Schulz, S.; Unsicker, S. B.; Vogel, C.; Weisser, W. W.; Fores, I.: The multiple-mechanisms hypothesis of biodiversity–stability relationships. Basic and Applied Ecology 79, pp. 153 - 166 (2024)

Lange, M.; Azizi-Rad, M.; Dittmann, G.; Lange, D. F.; Orme, A. M.; Schroeter, S. A.; Simon, C.; Gleixner, G.: Stability and carbon uptake of the soil microbial community is determined by differences between rhizosphere and bulk soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 189, 109280 (2024)

Huang, Y.; Stein, G.; Kolle, O.; Kübler, K.; Schulze, E. D.; Dong, H.; Eichenberg, D.; Gleixner, G.; Hildebrandt, A.; Lange, M. et al.; Roscher, C.; Schielzeth, H.; Schmid, B.; Weigelt, A.; Weisser, W. W.; Shadaydeh, M.; Denzler, J.; Ebeling, A.; Eisenhauer, N.: Enhanced stability of grassland soil temperature by plant diversity. Nature Geoscience 17, pp. 44 - 50 (2024)

Hennecke, J.; Bassi, L.; Mommer, L.; Albracht, C.; Bergmann, J.; Eisenhauer, N.; Guerra, C. A.; Heintz-Buschart, A.; Kuyper, T. W.; Lange, M. et al.; Solbach, M. D.; Weigelt, A.: Responses of rhizosphere fungi to the root economics space in grassland monocultures of different age. New Phytologist 240 (5), pp. 2035 - 2049 (2023)

Argens, L.; Weisser, W.; Ebeling, A.; Eisenhauer, N.; Lange, M.; Oelmann, Y.; Roscher, C.; Schielzeth, H.; Schmid, B.; Wilcke, W. et al.; Meyer, S.: Relationships between ecosystem functions vary among years and plots and are driven by plant species richness. Oikos, e10096 (2023)

Eisenhauer, N.; Ochoa-Hueso, R.; Huang, Y.; Barry, K. E.; Gebler, A.; Guerra, C. A.; Hines, J.; Jochum, M.; Andraczek, K.; Bucher, S. F. et al.; Buscot, F.; Ciobanu, M.; Chen, H.; Junker, R.; Lange, M.; Lehmann, A.; Rillig, M.; Römermann, C.; Ulrich, J.; Weigelt, A.; Schmidt, A.; Türke, M.: Ecosystem consequences of invertebrate decline. Current Biology 33 (20), pp. 4538 - 4547.e5 (2023)

Lange, M.; Eisenhauer, N.; Chen, H.; Gleixner, G.: Increased soil carbon storage through plant diversity strengthens with time and extends into the subsoil. Global Change Biology 29 (9), pp. 2627 - 2639 (2023)

Lange, M.; Ebeling, A.; Voigt, W.; Weisser, W.: Restoration of insect communities after land use change is shaped by plant diversity: a case study on carabid beetles (Carabidae). Scientific Reports 13, 2140 (2023)

Orme, A. M.; Lange, M.; Benk, S.; Wicke, M.; Kolle, O.; Pohnert, G.; Gleixner, G.: Drought reduces release of plant matter into dissolved organic matter potentially restraining ecosystem recovery. Frontiers in Soil Science 2, 904259 (2022)

Chowdhury, S.; Lange, M.; Malik, A. A.; Goodall, T.; Huang, J.; Griffiths, R. I.; Gleixner, G.: Plants with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi efficiently acquire Nitrogen from substrate additions by shaping the decomposer community composition and their net plant carbon demand. Plant and Soil 475, pp. 473 - 490 (2022)

Mielke, L.; Taubert, M.; Cesarz, S.; Ruess, L.; Kuesel, K.; Gleixner, G.; Lange, M.: Nematode grazing increases the allocation of plant-derived carbon to soil bacteria and saprophytic fungi, and activates bacterial species of the rhizosphere. Pedobiologia 90, 150787 (2022)

Oelmann, Y.; Lange, M.; Leimer, S.; Roscher, C.; Aburto, F.; Alt, F.; Bange, N.; Berner, D.; Boch, S.; Boeddinghaus, R. S. et al.; Buscot, F.; Dassen, S.; Deyn, G. D.; Eisenhauer, N.; Gleixner, G.; Goldmann, K.; Hölzel, N.; Jochum, M.; Kandeler, E.; Klaus, V. H.; Kleinebecker, T.; Le Provost, G.; Manning, P.; Marhan, S.; Prati, D.; Schäfer, D.; Schöning, I.; Schrumpf, M.; Schurig, E.; Wagg, C.; Wubet, T.; Wilcke, W.: Above- and belowground biodiversity jointly tighten the P cycle in agricultural grasslands. Nature Communications 12, 4431 (2021)

Le, G. P.; Thiele, J.; Westphal, C.; Penone, C.; Allan, E.; Neyret, M.; van der Plas, F.; Ayasse, M.; Bardgett, R. D.; Birkhofer, K. et al.; Boch, S.; Bonkowski, M.; Buscot, F.; Feldhaar, H.; Gaulton, R.; Goldmann, K.; Gossner, M. M.; Klaus, V. H.; Kleinebecker, T.; Krauss, J.; Renner, S.; Scherreiks, P.; Sikorski, J.; Baulechner, D.; Blüthgen, N.; Bolliger, R.; Börschig, C.; Busch, V.; Chisté, M.; Fiore-Donno, A. M.; Fischer, M.; Arndt, H.; Hoelzel, N.; John, K.; Jung, K.; Lange, M.; Marzini, C.; Overmann, J.; Paŝalić, E.; Perović, D. J.; Prati, D.; Schäfer, D.; Schöning, I.; Schrumpf, M.; Sonnemann, I.; Steffan-Dewenter, I.; Tschapka, M.; Türke, M.; Vogt, J.; Wehner, K.; Weiner, C.; Weisser, W.; Wells, K.; Werner, M.; Wolters, V.; Wubet, T.; Wurst, S.; Zaitsev, A. S.; Manning, P.: Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity. Nature Communications 12, 3918 (2021)

von Fromm, S. F.; Hoyt, A. M.; Lange, M.; Acquah, G. E.; Aynekulu, E.; Berhe, A. A.; Haefele, S. M.; McGrath, S. P.; Shepherd, K. D.; Sila, A. M. et al.; Six, J.; Towett, E. K.; Trumbore, S. E.; Vågen, T.-G.; Weullow, E.; Winowiecki, L. A.; Doetterl, S.: Continental-scale controls on soil organic carbon across sub-Saharan Africa. Soil 7 (1), pp. 305 - 332 (2021)

Lange, M.; Roth, V.-N.; Eisenhauer, N.; Roscher, C.; Dittmar, T.; Fischer, C.; Macé, O. G.; Hildebrandt, A.; Milcu, A.; Mommer, L. et al.; Oram, N. J.; Ravenek, J.; Scheu, S.; Schmid, B.; Strecker, T.; Wagg, C.; Weigelt, A.; Gleixner, G.: Plant diversity enhances production and downward transport of biodegradable dissolved organic matter. Journal of Ecology 109 (3), pp. 1284 - 1297 (2021)

Ding, S.; Lange, M.; Lipp, J.; Schwab, V. F.; Chowdhury, S.; Pollierer, M. M.; Krause, K.; Li, D.; Kothe, E.; Scheu, S. et al.; Welti, R.; Hinrichs, K.-U.; Gleixner, G.: Characteristics and origin of intact polar lipids in soil organic matter. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 151, 108045 (2020)

Lama, S.; Kuhn, T.; Lehmann, M. F.; Müller, C.; Gonzalez, O.; Eisenhauer, N.; Lange, M.; Scheu, S.; Oelmann, Y.; Wilcke, W.: The biodiversity - N cycle relationship: a ¹⁵N tracer experiment with soil from plant mixtures of varying diversity to model N pool sizes and transformation rates. Biology and Fertility of Soils 56, pp. 1047 - 1061 (2020)