Publications

Garcia-Franco N., Wiesmeier M., Buness V., Berauer B., Schuchardt M., Jentsch A., Schlingmann M., Andrade-Linares D., Wolf B., Kiese R., Dannenmann M., Kögel-Knabner I. (2024.0). Rapid loss of organic carbon and soil structure in mountainous grassland topsoils induced by simulated climate change. Geoderma, 442(), 116807. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2024.116807

Mountainous grassland soils are considered one of the most unique biological hotspots, rich in organic carbon (OC). At the same time, they are exposed to great threats, as climate warming is more pronounced in mountainous regions than in lowland areas. In this study, we assessed the effect of simula…

M.Schmitt T., Haensel M., Kaim A., Lee H., Reinermann S., Koellner T. (2024). Recreation and its synergies and trade-offs with other ecosystem services of Alpine and pre-Alpine grasslands. Regional Environmental Change, 24(2), . doi:10.1007/s10113-024-02213-8

AbstractAlpine and pre-Alpine grasslands provide numerous ecosystem services including provisioning services (e.g. fodder production), regulating services (e.g. soil erosion reduction), and cultural services (e.g. recreation). While intensively managed grasslands specifically target the production o…

Schuchardt M., Berauer B., Giejsztowt J., Heßberg A., Niu Y., Bahn M., Jentsch A. (2023.0). Drought erodes mountain plant community resistance to novel species under a warming climate. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 55(1), . doi:10.1080/15230430.2023.2174282

Warming in mountain regions is projected to occur three times faster than the global average. Recently, a small number of observational studies have reported species loss in mountain plant communities and have explored mechanisms facilitating the colonization by novel species. We monitored transloca…

Niu Y., Schuchardt M., von Heßberg A., Jentsch A. (2023.0). Stable plant community biomass production despite species richness collapse under simulated extreme climate in the European Alps. Science of The Total Environment, 864(), 161166. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.161166

Direct observation of biodiversity loss in response to abrupt climate change can resolve fundamental questions about temporal community dynamics and clarify the controversial debate of biodiversity loss impacts on ecosystem functioning. We tracked local plant species loss and the corresponding chang…

Andrade-Linares D., Schwerdtner U., Schulz S., Dannenmann M., Spohn M., Baum C., Gasche R., Wiesmeier M., Garcia-Franco N., Schloter M. (2023.0). Climate change and management intensity alter spatial distribution and abundance of P mineralizing bacteria and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in mountainous grassland soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 186(), 109175. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109175

In mountainous grasslands management adaptations are required to maintain soil functions. We investigated climate change (CC) and management effects on the abundance and potential activity of microbiota catalyzing the major steps of P transformation which are still unknown in these grasslands. Soil …

Daleo P., Alberti J., Chaneton E., Iribarne O., Tognetti P., Bakker J., Borer E., Bruschetti M., MacDougall A., Pascual J., Sankaran M., Seabloom E., Wang S., Bagchi S., Brudvig L., Catford J., Dickman C., Dickson T., Donohue I., Eisenhauer N., Gruner D., Haider S., Jentsch A., Knops J., Lekberg Y.,… (2023.0). Environmental heterogeneity modulates the effect of plant diversity on the spatial variability of grassland biomass. Nature Communications, 14(1), . doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37395-y

AbstractPlant productivity varies due to environmental heterogeneity, and theory suggests that plant diversity can reduce this variation. While there is strong evidence of diversity effects on temporal variability of productivity, whether this mechanism extends to variability across space remains el…

Alongi F., Rüthers J., Giejsztowt J., LaPaglia K., Jentsch A. (2023.0). Interspecific trait variability and local soil conditions modulate grassland model community responses to climate (Dataset). Dryad, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9s4mw6mhh(), .

Reinermann S., Asam S., Gessner U., Ullmann T., Kuenzer C. (2023.0). Multi-annual grassland mowing dynamics in Germany: spatio-temporal patterns and the influence of climate, topographic and socio-political conditions. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 11(), . doi:10.3389/fenvs.2023.1040551

Introduction: Grasslands cover one third of the agricultural area in Germany and are mainly used for fodder production. However, grasslands fulfill many other ecosystem functions, like carbon storage, water filtration and the provision of habitats. In Germany, grasslands are mown and/or grazed multi…

Ke Y., Yu Q., Wang H., Zhao Y., Jia X., Yang Y., Zhang Y., Zhou W., Wu H., Xu C., Sun T., Gao Y., Jentsch A., He N., Yu G. (2023.0). The potential bias of nitrogen deposition effects on primary productivity and biodiversity. Global Change Biology, 29(4), 1054-1061. doi:10.1111/gcb.16530

AbstractAtmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition is composed of both inorganic nitrogen (IN) and organic nitrogen (ON), and these sources of N may exhibit different impacts on ecosystems. However, our understanding of the impacts of N deposition is largely based on experimental gradients of INs or more r…

Engel T., Bruelheide H., Hoss D., Sabatini F., Altman J., Arfin‐Khan M., Bergmeier E., Černý T., Chytrý M., Dainese M., Dengler J., Dolezal J., Field R., Fischer F., Huygens D., Jandt U., Jansen F., Jentsch A., Karger D., Kattge J., Lenoir J., Lens F., Loos J., Niinemets Ü., Overbeck G., Ozinga W., … (2023.0). Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 32(5), 695-706. doi:10.1111/geb.13644

AbstractAimTheoretical, experimental and observational studies have shown that biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationships are influenced by functional community structure through two mutually non‐exclusive mechanisms: (1) the dominance effect (which relates to the traits of the dominant …