Markus Fischer

Education

1996 – 2001 Venia legendi in Environmental Sciences, University of Zurich; Switzerland
1993 – 1996 PhD in Botany, Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Switzerland
1990 – 1992 Studies and BSc in Biology, University of Basel, Switzerland
1982 – 1989 Studies and MSc Diploma in Physics, Technical University Munich, Germany
Academic positions, professional experience
Since 2007 Full Professor of Plant Ecology, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern and (since 2010)
Director of the Botanical Garden of the University of Bern
Since 2012 Director, since 2019 Vice-Director, Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern
Since 2012 Guest researcher, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Institute, Frankfurt, Germany
2008 – 2011 Head, Biology Department, University of Bern
2007 – 2012 Professor at the University of Potsdam, Germany
2003 – 2007 Full Professor of Botany and Community Ecology, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, and
Director of the Botanical Garden, University of Potsdam
1996 – 2003 Main Assistant, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland 1993 – 1996 Research Associate, Botanical Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland
1990 Research Associate, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A.

Scientific expertise
Markus Fischer, Professor of Plant Ecology at the University of Bern, has a long-standing interest and expertise in biodiversity research, in collaborative research, and in linking science and society/policy (see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lXhKkcAAAAAJ&hl=en). His scientific track record covers a very broad scope of biodiversity and ecosystem process/service issues. He is highly visible internationally, e.g. as Highly Cited Researcher 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and he has an excellent international collaboration network. He pursues research projects in Europe, America, Africa and Asia.

Selected research activities (of the last 5 years)
2018 – 2021 Mountain biodiversity and the Sustainable Development Goals: Knowledge for synergistic action
(Swiss National Science Foundation)
2015 – 2021 Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences)
2012 – 2021 Ex-situ conservation and reintroduction of highly endangered plant species (Swiss Federal Office of the Environment)
2006 – 2026 Large-scale and long-term exploratories for functional biodiversity research (DFG priority program, speaker)
2010 – 2019 The Mechanisms underlying plant community productivity, stability and assembly in the Jena Experiment (within research unit 456, DFG; involved since 2005)
2010 – 2019 Plant diversity and performance: communities, populations, ecological genetics (with Andreas Hemp, within DFG research unit KiLi at Kilimanjaro, Tanzania)
2010 – 2015 The role of pollinator diversity for plant genetic diversity (part of STEP (Status of European Pollinators), a framework 7 consortium on pollinator biodiversity funded by EU)
2010 – 2015 The role of biodiversity for multiple ecosystem processes (part of FUNDIV, a framework 7 consortium on forest biodiversity funded by EU)
Prizes and awards
2016,17,18,19
1998 Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics) John L. Harper Young Investigator’s Prize, British Ecological Society
Committees and memberships (selection)
Since 2018 Chair, Permanent Senate Commission on Fundamental Issues of Biological Diversity of the German Science Foundation DFG
2015 – 2018 Co-chair, IPBES Regional assessment on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Europe and Central Asia (ECA), and host of the ECA Technical Support Unit
Since 2018 Member, Multidisciplinary Expert Panel of IPBES
2017 Co-chair of Future Earth committee of the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences
Since 2015 Chair, Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment
Since 2013 Scientific head, Alpine Botanical Garden Schynige Platte, Switzerland
Since 2012 Member of Swiss Delegation at IPBES plenaries, IPBES expert group meetings on conceptual framework, scoping of regional assessment and global IPBES assessments
Since 2012 Member, National Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation 2011 – 2018 President, Science-Policy Forum Biodiversity, Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences
2009 – 2017 Vice–Chair and from 2015 Chair of the Senate Commission on Biodiversity Research of the German Science Foundation DFG
Since 2006 Speaker, Exploratories for Long-term and Large-scale Biodiversity Research

Editorial Boards

Since 2011 Editorial board of Alpine Botany
Since 2009 Editorial board of Biological Conservation (2009-2011 also Editor (Plants, Europe and Africa))
Since 2009 Editorial board of Journal of Plant Ecology
2002 – 2018 Editorial board of Basic and Applied Ecology
Since 1999 Reviews of grant proposals submitted to British (NERC), Austrian (FWF), Swiss (SNF), German (DFG), Swedish (FORMAS), Belgian (FWO), Dutch (NWO), US American (NSF) and regional Science Foundations

Graduate Advisory Experience

>50 supervised diploma/masters and PhD students 5 Fischer lab alumni are now professors
Organisation of conferences Since 1998 organisation and co-organisation of >50 conferences and conference symposia, including 16 assemblies of the Biodiversity Exploratories and 3 IPBES author meetings each with ~150 participants.
List of Publications by Markus Fischer, 30 November 2019
Publication statistics
Google Scholar statistics, accessed 30 November 2019: Sum of the times cited: 19808 (h index: 72)
Publons: accessed 30 November 2019: 259 ISI-listed publications; 13223 citations (h index: 58)
Publications in international peer-reviewed scientific journals
Awad, A., Majcherczyk, A., Schall, P., Schröter, K., Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., Ehbrecht, M., Boch, S., Kahl, T., Bauhus, J., Seidel, D., Ammer, C., Fischer, M., Kües, U., Pena, R. (2019) Ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic soil fungal biomass are driven by different factors and vary among broadleaf and coniferous temperate forests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 131:9-18. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2018.12.014
Bae, S., Levick, S.R., Heidrich, L., Magdon, P., Leutner, B.F., Wöllauer, S., Serebryanyk, A., Nauss, T., Krzystek, P., Gossner, M.M., Schall, P., Heibl, C., Bässler, C., Doerfler, I., Schulze, E.-D., Krah, F.-S., Culmsee, H., Jung, K., Heurich, M., Fischer, M., Seibold, S., Thorn, S., Gerlach, T., Hothorn, T., Weisser, W.W., Müller, J. (2019) Radar vision in the mapping of forest biodiversity from space. Nature Communications 10 (1) doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-12737-x
Baeten, L., Bruelheide, H., van der Plas, F., Kambach, S., Ratcliffe, S., Jucker, T., Allan, E., Ampoorter, E., Barbaro, L., Bastias, C.C., Bauhus, J., Benavides, R., Bonal, D., Bouriaud, O., Bussotti, F., Carnol, M., Castagneyrol, B., Charbonnier, Y., Chećko, E., Coomes, D.A., Dahlgren, J., Dawud, S.M., De Wandeler, H., Domisch, T., Finér, L., Fischer, M., Fotelli, M., Gessler, A., Grossiord, C., Guyot, V., Hättenschwiler, S., Jactel, H., Jaroszewicz, B., Joly, F.-X., Koricheva, J., Lehtonen, A., Müller, S., Muys, B., Nguyen, D., Pollastrini, M., Radoglou, K., Raulund-Rasmussen, K., Ruiz-Benito, P., Selvi, F., Stenlid, J., Valladares, F., Vesterdal, L., Verheyen, K., Wirth, C., Zavala, M.A., Scherer-Lorenzen, M. (2019) Identifying the tree species compositions that maximize ecosystem functioning in European forests. Journal of Applied Ecology 56 (3):733-744. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13308
Boeddinghaus, R.S., Marhan, S., Berner, D., Boch, S., Fischer, M., Hölzel, N., Kattge, J., Klaus, V.H., Kleinebecker, T., Oelmann, Y., Prati, D., Schäfer, D., Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., Sorkau, E., Kandeler, E., Manning, P. (2019) Plant functional trait shifts explain concurrent changes in the structure and function of grassland soil microbial communities. Journal of Ecology 107 (5):2197-2210. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13182
Busch, V., Klaus, V.H., Schäfer, D., Prati, D., Boch, S., Müller, J., Chisté, M., Mody, K., Blüthgen, N., Fischer, M., Hölzel, N., Kleinebecker, T. (2019) Will I stay or will I go? Plant species-specific response and tolerance to high land-use intensity in temperate grassland ecosystems. Journal of Vegetation Science 30 (4):674-686. doi: 10.1111/jvs.12749
Ehbrecht, M., Schall, P., Ammer, C., Fischer, M., Seidel, D. (2019) Effects of structural heterogeneity on the diurnal temperature range in temperate forest ecosystems. Forest Ecology and Management 432 ():860-867. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2018.10.008
Goldmann, K., Boeddinghaus, R.S., Klemmer, S., Regan, K.M., Heintz-Buschart, A., Fischer, M., Prati, D., Piepho, H.-P., Berner, D., Marhan, S., Kandeler, E., Buscot, F., Wubet, T. (2019) Unraveling spatiotemporal variability of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in a temperate grassland plot. Environmental Microbiology. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14653
Heinrichs, S., Ammer, C., Mund, M., Boch, S., Budde, S., Fischer, M., Müller, J., Schöning, I., Schulze, E.-D., Schmidt, W., Weckesser, M., Schall, P. (2019) Landscape-scale mixtures of tree species are more effective than stand-scale mixtures for biodiversity of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens. Forests 10 (1). doi: 10.3390/f10010073
Manning, P., Loos, J., Barnes, A.D., Batáry, P., Bianchi, F.J.J.A., Buchmann, N., De Deyn, G.B., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Fischer, M., Fründ, J., Grass, I., Isselstein, J., Jochum, M., Klein, A.M., Klingenberg, E.O.F., Landis, D.A., Lepš, J., Lindborg, R., Meyer, S.T., Temperton, V.M., Westphal, C., Tscharntke, T. (2019) Transferring biodiversity-ecosystem function research to the management of ‘real-world’ ecosystems. Advances in Ecological Research 61 ():323-356. doi: 10.1016/bs.aecr.2019.06.009
Manzanedo, R.D., Fischer, M., María Navarro-Cerrillo, R., Allan, E. (2019) A new approach to study local adaptation in long-lived woody species: Virtual transplant experiments. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10 (10):1761-1772. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13267
Molina-Venegas, R., Fischer, M., Hemp, A. (2019) Disentangling the fundamental branching patterns of phylogenetic divergence to refine eco-phylogenetic analyses. Journal of Biogeography. doi: 10.1111/jbi.13692
Molina-Venegas, R., Fischer, M., Hemp, A. (2019) Plant evolutionary assembly along elevational belts at Mt. Kilimanjaro: Using phylogenetics to asses biodiversity threats under climate change. Environmental and Experimental Botany. doi: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2019.103853
Müller, J., Boch, S., Prati, D., Socher, S.A., Pommer, U., Hessenmöller, D., Schall, P., Schulze, E.D., Fischer, M. (2019) Effects of forest management on bryophyte species richness in Central European forests. Forest Ecology and Management 432 ():850-859. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2018.10.019
Parepa, M., Kahmen, A., Werner, R.A., Fischer, M., Bossdorf, O. (2019) Invasive knotweed has greater nitrogen-use efficiency than native plants: evidence from a 15N pulse-chasing experiment. Oecologia 191 (2):389-396. doi: 10.1007/s00442-019-04490-1
Penone, C., Allan, E., Soliveres, S., Felipe-Lucia, M.R., Gossner, M.M., Seibold, S., Simons, N.K., Schall, P., van der Plas, F., Manning, P., Manzanedo, R.D., Boch, S., Prati, D., Ammer, C., Bauhus, J., Buscot, F., Ehbrecht, M., Goldmann, K., Jung, K., Müller, J., Müller, J.C., Pena, R., Polle, A., Renner, S.C., Ruess, L., Schönig, I., Schrumpf, M., Solly, E.F., Tschapka, M., Weisser, W.W., Wubet, T., Fischer, M. (2019) Specialisation and diversity of multiple trophic groups are promoted by different forest features. Ecology Letters 22 (1):170-180. doi: 10.1111/ele.13182
Peters, M.K., Hemp, A., Appelhans, T., Becker, J.N., Behler, C., Classen, A., Detsch, F., Ensslin, A., Ferger, S.W., Frederiksen, S.B., Gebert, F., Gerschlauer, F., Gütlein, A., Helbig-Bonitz, M., Hemp, C., Kindeketa, W.J., Kühnel, A., Mayr, A.V., Mwangomo, E., Ngereza, C., Njovu, H.K., Otte, I., Pabst, H., Renner, M., Röder, J., Rutten, G., Schellenberger Costa, D., Sierra-Cornejo, N., Vollstädt, M.G.R., Dulle, H.I., Eardley, C.D., Howell, K.M., Keller, A., Peters, R.S., Ssymank, A., Kakengi, V., Zhang, J., Bogner, C., Böhning-Gaese, K., Brandl, R., Hertel, D., Huwe, B., Kiese, R., Kleyer, M., Kuzyakov, Y., Nauss, T.,Schleuning, M., Tschapka, M., Fischer, M., Steffan-Dewenter, I. (2019) Climate–land-use interactions shape tropical mountain biodiversity andecosystem functions. Nature 568 (7750):88-92. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1048-z
Roeder, A., Schweingruber, F.H., Fischer, M., Roscher, C. (2019) Increasing plant diversity of experimental grasslands alters the age and growth of Plantago lanceolata from younger and faster to older and slower. Oikos. doi: 10.1111/oik.05739
Schäfer, D., Klaus, V.H., Kleinebecker, T., Boeddinghaus, R.S., Hinderling, J., Kandeler, E., Marhan, S., Nowak, S., Sonnemann, I., Wurst, S., Fischer, M., Hölzel, N., Hamer, U., Prati, D. (2019) Recovery of ecosystem functions after experimental disturbance in 73 grasslands differing in land-use intensity, plant species richness and community composition. Journal of Ecology 107 (6):2635-2649. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13211
Schäfer, D., Prati, D., Schall, P., Ammer, C., Fischer, M. (2019) Exclusion of large herbivores affects understorey shrub vegetation more than herb vegetation across 147 forest sites in three German regions. PLoS ONE 14 (7) doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0218741
Seibold, S., Gossner M.M., Simons, N.K., Blüthgen, N., Müller, J., Ambarlı, D., Ammer, C., Bauhus, J., Fischer, M., Habel, J.C., Linsenmair, K.E., Nauss, T., Penone, C., Prati, D., Schall, P., Schulze, E.-D., Vogt, J., Wöllauer, S., Weisser, W.W. (2019). Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers. Nature, 574(7780), 671-674. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1684-3
Steidinger, B.S., Crowther, T.W., Liang, J., Van Nuland, M.E., Werner, G.D.A., Reich, P.B., Nabuurs, G., de-Miguel, S., Zhou, M., Picard, N., Herault, B., Zhao, X., Zhang, C., Routh, D., Peay, K.G., Abegg, M., Adou Yao, C.Y., Alberti, G., Almeyda Zambrano, A., Alvarez-Davila, E., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Alves, L.F., Ammer, C., Antón-Fernández, C., Araujo-Murakami, A., Arroyo, L., Avitabile, V., Aymard, G., Baker, T., Bałazy, R., Banki, O., Barroso, J., Bastian, M., Bastin, J.-F., Birigazzi, L., Birnbaum, P., Bitariho, R., Boeckx, P., Bongers, F., Bouriaud, O., Brancalion, P.H.S., Brandl, S., Brearley, F.Q., Brienen, R., Broadbent, E., Bruelheide, H., Bussotti, F., Cazzolla Gatti, R., Cesar, R., Cesljar, G., Chazdon, R., Chen, H.Y.H., Chisholm, C., Cienciala, E., Clark, C.J., Clark, D., Colletta, G., Condit, R., Coomes, D., Cornejo Valverde, F., Corral-Rivas, J.J., Crim, P., Cumming, J., Dayanandan, S., de Gasper, A.L., Decuyper, M., Derroire, G., DeVries, B., Djordjevic, I., Iêda, A., Dourdain, A., Obiang, N.L.E., Enquist, B., Eyre, T., Fandohan, A.B., Fayle, T.M., Feldpausch, T.R., Finér, L., Fischer, M., Fletcher, C., Fridman, J., Frizzera, L., Gamarra, J.G.P., Gianelle, D., Glick, H.B., Harris, D., Hector, A., Hemp, A., Hengeveld, G., Herbohn, J., Herold, M., Hillers, A., Honorio Coronado, E.N., Huber, M., Hui, C., Cho, H., Ibanez, T., Jung, I., Imai, N., Jagodzinski, A.M., Jaroszewicz, B., Johannsen, V., Joly, C.A., Jucker, T., Karminov, V., Kartawinata, K., Kearsley, E., Kenfack, D., Kennard, D., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Keppel, G., Khan, M.L., Killeen, T., Kim, H.S., Kitayama, K., Köhl, M., Korjus, H., Kraxner, F., Laarmann, D., Lang, M., Lewis, S., Lu, H., Lukina, N., Maitner, B., Malhi, Y., Marcon, E., Marimon, B.S., Marimon-Junior, B.H., Marshall, A.R., Martin, E., Martynenko, O., Meave, J.A., Melo-Cruz, O., Mendoza, C., Merow, C., Monteagudo Mendoza, A., Moreno, V., Mukul, S.A., Mundhenk, P., Nava-Miranda, M.G., Neill, D., Neldner, V., Nevenic, R., Ngugi, M., Niklaus, P., Oleksyn, J., Ontikov, P., Ortiz-Malavasi, E., Pan, Y., Paquette, A., Parada-Gutierrez, A., Parfenova, E., Park, M., Parren, M., Parthasarathy, N., Peri, P.L., Pfautsch, S., Phillips, O., Piedade, M.T., Piotto, D., Pitman, N.C.A., Polo, I., Poorter, L., Poulsen, A.D., Poulsen, J.R., Pretzsch, H., Ramirez Arevalo, F., Restrepo-Correa, Z., Rodeghiero, M., Rolim, S., Roopsind, A., Rovero, F., Rutishauser, E., Saikia, P., Saner, P., Schall, P., Schelhaas, M.-J., Schepaschenko, D., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schmid, B., Schöngart, J., Searle, E., Seben, V., Serra-Diaz, J.M., Salas-Eljatib, C., Sheil, D., Shvidenko, A., Silva-Espejo, J., Silveira, M., Singh, J., Sist, P., Slik, F., Sonké, B., Souza, A.F., Stereńczak, K., Svenning, J.-C., Svoboda, M., Targhetta, N., Tchebakova, N., Steege, H., Thomas, R., Tikhonova, E., Umunay, P., Usoltsev, V., Valladares, F., van der Plas, F., Van Do, T., Vasquez Martinez, R., Verbeeck, H., Viana, H., Vieira, S., von Gadow, K., Wang, H.-F., Watson, J., Westerlund, B., Wiser, S., Wittmann, F., Wortel, V., Zagt, R., Zawila-Niedzwiecki, T., Zhu, Z.-X., Zo-Bi, I.C. (2019) Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses. Nature 569 (7756):404-408. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1128-0
Steidinger, B.S., Crowther, T.W., Liang, J., Van Nuland, M.E., Werner, G.D.A., Reich, P.B., Nabuurs, G.J., de-Miguel, S., Zhou, M., Picard, N., Herault, B., Zhao, X., Zhang, C., Routh, D., Peay, K.G., Abegg, M., Adou Yao, C.Y., Alberti, G., Almeyda Zambrano, A., Alvarez-Davila, E., Alvarez-Loayza, P., Alves, L.F., Ammer, C., Antón-Fernández, C., Araujo-Murakami, A., Arroyo, L., Avitabile, V., Aymard, G., Baker, T., Bałazy, R., Banki, O., Barroso, J., Bastian, M., Bastin, J.-F., Birigazzi, L., Birnbaum, P., Bitariho, R., Boeckx, P., Bongers, F., Bouriaud, O., Brancalion, P.H.S., Brandl, S., Brearley, F.Q., Brienen, R., Broadbent, E., Bruelheide, H., Bussotti, F., Cazzolla Gatti, R., Cesar, R., Cesljar, G., Chazdon, R., Chen, H.Y.H., Chisholm, C., Cienciala, E., Clark, C.J., Clark, D., Colletta, G., Condit, R., Coomes, D., Cornejo Valverde, F., Corral-Rivas, J.J., Crim, P., Cumming, J., Dayanandan, S., de Gasper, A.L., Decuyper, M., Derroire, G., DeVries, B., Djordjevic, I., Iêda, A., Dourdain, A., Obiang, N.L.E., Enquist, B., Eyre, T., Fandohan, A.B., Fayle, T.M., Feldpausch, T.R., Finér, L., Fischer, M., Fletcher, C., Fridman, J., Frizzera, L., Gamarra, J.G.P., Gianelle, D., Glick, H.B., Harris, D., Hector, A., Hemp, A., Hengeveld, G., Herbohn, J., Herold, M., Hillers, A., Honorio Coronado, E.N., Huber, M., Hui, C., Cho, H., Ibanez, T., Jung, I., Imai, N., Jagodzinski, A.M., Jaroszewicz, B., Johannsen, V., Joly, C.A., Jucker, T., Karminov, V., Kartawinata, K., Kearsley, E., Kenfack, D., Kennard, D., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Keppel, G., Khan, M.L., Killeen, T., Kim, H.S., Kitayama, K., Köhl, M., Korjus, H., Kraxner, F., Laarmann, D., Lang, M., Lewis, S., Lu, H., Lukina, N., Maitner, B., Malhi, Y., Marcon, E., Marimon, B.S., Marimon-Junior, B.H., Marshall, A.R., Martin, E., Martynenko, O., Meave, J.A., Melo-Cruz, O., Mendoza, C., Merow, C., Monteagudo Mendoza, A., Moreno, V., Mukul, S.A., Mundhenk, P., Nava-Miranda, M.G., Neill, D., Neldner, V., Nevenic, R., Ngugi, M., Niklaus, P., Oleksyn, J., Ontikov, P., Ortiz-Malavasi, E., Pan, Y., Paquette, A., Parada-Gutierrez, A., Parfenova, E., Park, M., Parren, M., Parthasarathy, N., Peri, P.L., Pfautsch, S., Phillips, O., Piedade, M.T., Piotto, D., Pitman, N.C.A., Polo, I., Poorter, L., Poulsen, A.D., Poulsen, J.R., Pretzsch, H., Ramirez Arevalo, F., Restrepo-Correa, Z., Rodeghiero, M., Rolim, S., Roopsind, A., Rovero, F., Rutishauser, E., Saikia, P., Saner, P., Schall, P., Schelhaas, M.-J., Schepaschenko, D., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schmid, B., Schöngart, J., Searle, E., Seben, V., Serra-Diaz, J.M., Salas-Eljatib, C., Sheil, D., Shvidenko, A., Silva-Espejo, J., Silveira, M., Singh, J., Sist, P., Slik, F., Sonké, B., Souza, A.F., Stereńczak, K., Svenning, J.-C., Svoboda, M., Targhetta, N., Tchebakova, N., Steege, H., Thomas, R., Tikhonova, E., Umunay, P., Usoltsev, V., Valladares, F., van der Plas, F., Van Do, T., Vasquez Martinez, R., Verbeeck, H., Viana, H., Vieira, S., von Gadow, K., Wang, H.-F., Watson, J., Westerlund, B., Wiser, S., Wittmann, F., Wortel, V., Zagt, R., Zawila-Niedzwiecki, T., Zhu, Z.-X., Zo-Bi, I.C. (2019) Author Correction: Climatic controls of decomposition drive the global biogeography of forest-tree symbioses (Nature, (2019), 569, 7756, (404-408), 10.1038/s41586-019-1128-0). Nature 571 (7765):E8-. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1342-9
van der Plas, F., Allan, E., Fischer, M., Alt, F., Arndt, H., Binkenstein, J., Blaser, S., Blüthgen, N., Böhm, S., Hölzel, N., Klaus, V.H., Kleinebecker, T., Morris, K., Oelmann, Y., Prati, D., Renner, S.C., Rillig, M.C., Schaefer, H.M., Schloter, M., Schmitt, B., Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., Solly, E.F., Sorkau, E., Steckel, J., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Stempfhuber, B., Tschapka, M., Weiner, C.N., Weisser, W.W., Werner, M., Westphal, C., Wilcke, W., Manning, P. (2019) Towards the development of general rules describing landscape heterogeneity–multifunctionality relationships. Journal of Applied Ecology 56 (1):168-179. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13260Albrecht, J., Classen, A., Vollstädt, M.G.R., Mayr, A., Mollel, N.P., Schellenberger Costa, D., Dulle, H.I., Fischer, M., Hemp, A., Howell, K.M., Kleyer, M., Nauss, T., Peters, M.K., Tschapka, M., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Böhning-Gaese, K., Schleuning, M. (2018) Plant and animal functional diversity drive mutualistic network assembly across an elevational gradient. Nature Communications 9 (1). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05610-w
Boch, S., Allan, E., Humbert, J.-Y., Kurtogullari, Y., Lessard-Therrien, M., Müller, J., Prati, D., Rieder, N.S., Arlettaz, R., Fischer, M. (2018) Direct and indirect effects of land use on bryophytes in grasslands. Science of the Total Environment 644:60-67. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.323
Buchmann, T., Schumacher, J., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Fischer, M., Gleixner, G., Hacker, N., Lange, M., Oelmann, Y., Schulze, E.-D., Weigelt, A., Weisser, W.W., Wilcke, W., Roscher, C. (2018) Connecting experimental biodiversity research to real-world grasslands. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 33:78-88. DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2018.06.002
Busch, V., Klaus, V.H., Penone, C., Schäfer, D., Boch, S., Prati, D., Müller, J., Socher, S.A., Niinemets, Ü., Peñuelas, J., Hölzel, N., Fischer, M., Kleinebecker, T. (2018) Nutrient stoichiometry and land use rather than species richness determine plant functional diversity. Ecology and Evolution 8 (1):601-616. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3609
Cao, H.-X., Klein, A.-M., Zhu, C., Staab, M., Durka, W., Fischer, M., Fornoff, F. (2018) Intra- and interspecific tree diversity promotes multitrophic plant–Hemiptera–ant interactions in a forest diversity experiment. Basic and Applied Ecology 29:89-97. DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2018.03.005
Ensslin, A., Mollel, N.P., Hemp, A., Fischer, M. (2018) Elevational transplantation suggests different responses of African submontane and savanna plants to climate warming. Journal of Ecology 106 (1):296-305. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12842
Felipe-Lucia, M.R., Soliveres, S., Penone, C., Manning, P., van der Plas, F., Boch, S., Prati, D., Ammer, C., Schall, P., Gossner, M.M., Bauhus, J., Buscot, F., Blaser, S., Blüthgen, N., de Frutos, A., Ehbrecht, M., Frank, K., Goldmann, K., Hänsel, F., Jung, K., Kahl, T., Nauss, T., Oelmann, Y., Pena, R., Polle, A., Renner, S., Schloter, M., Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., Schulze, E.-D., Solly, E., Sorkau, E., Stempfhuber, B., Tschapka, M., Weisser, W.W., Wubet, T., Fischer, M., Allan, E. (2018) Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services. Nature communications 9 (1):4839-. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07082-4
Heer, N., Klimmek, F., Zwahlen, C., Fischer, M., Hölzel, N., Klaus, V.H., Kleinebecker, T., Prati, D., Boch, S. (2018) Hemiparasite-density effects on grassland plant diversity, composition and biomass. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 32:22-29. DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2018.01.004
Huang, Y., Chen, Y., Castro-Izaguirre, N., Baruffol, M., Brezzi, M., Lang, A., Li, Y., Härdtle, W., Von Oheimb, G., Yang, X., Liu, X., Pei, K., Both, S., Yang, B., Eichenberg, D., Assmann, T., Bauhus, J., Behrens, T., Buscot, F., Chen, X.-Y., Chesters, D., Ding, B.-Y., Durka, W., Erfmeier, A., Fang, J., Fischer, M., Guo, L.-D., Guo, D., Gutknecht, J.L.M., He, J.-S., He, C.-L., Hector, A., Hönig, L., Hu, R.-Y., Klein, A.-M., Kühn, P., Liang, Y., Li, S., Michalski, S., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T., Schuldt, A., Shi, X., Tan, M.-Z., Tang, Z., Trogisch, S., Wang, Z., Welk, E., Wirth, C., Wubet, T., Xiang, W., Yu, M., Yu, X.-D., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, N., Zhou, H.-Z., Zhu, C.-D., Zhu, L., Bruelheide, H., Ma, K., Niklaus, P.A., Schmid, B. (2018) Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment. Science 362 (6410):80-83. DOI: 10.1126/science.aat6405
Kempel, A., Rindisbacher, A., Fischer, M., Allan, E. (2018) Plant soil feedback strength in relation to large-scale plant rarity and phylogenetic relatedness. Ecology 99 (3):597-606. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2145
Klaus, V.H., Hoever, C.J., Fischer, M., Hamer, U., Kleinebecker, T., Mertens, D., Schäfer, D., Prati, D., Hölzel, N. (2018) Contribution of the soil seed bank to the restoration of temperate grasslands by mechanical sward disturbance. Restoration Ecology 26:S114-S122. DOI: 10.1111/rec.12626
Klaus, V.H., Kleinebecker, T., Busch, V., Fischer, M., Hölzel, N., Nowak, S., Prati, D., Schäfer, D., Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., Hamer, U. (2018) Land use intensity, rather than plant species richness, affects the leaching risk of multiple nutrients from permanent grasslands. Global Change Biology 24 (7):2828-2840. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14123
Klaus, V.H., Schäfer, D., Prati, D., Busch, V., Hamer, U., Hoever, C.J., Kleinebecker, T., Mertens, D., Fischer, M., Hölzel, N. (2018) Effects of mowing, grazing and fertilization on soil seed banks in temperate grasslands in Central Europe. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 256:211-217. DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2017.11.008
Kleinebecker, T., Busch, V., Hölzel, N., Hamer, U., Schäfer, D., Prati, D., Fischer, M., Hemp, A., Lauterbach, R., Klaus, V.H. (2018) And the winner is …. ! A test of simple predictors of plant species richness in agricultural grasslands. Ecological Indicators 87:296-301. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.12.031
Leimer, S., Bischoff, S., Boch, S., Busch, V., Escher, P., Fischer, M., Hänsel, F., Hölzel, N., Kerber, K., Klaus, V.H., Kleinebecker, T., Michalzik, B., Nauss, T., Schäfer, D., Schöning, I., Schwarz, M.T., Siemens, J., Thieme, L., Wöllauer, S., Wilcke, W. (2018) Does plant diversity affect the water balance of established grassland systems?. Ecohydrology 11 (4). DOI: 10.1002/eco.1945
Manning, P., van der Plas, F., Soliveres, S., Allan, E., Maestre, F.T., Mace, G., Whittingham, M.J., Fischer, M. (2018) Erratum to: Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality (Nature Ecology & Evolution, (2018), 2, 3, (427-436), 10.1038/s41559-017-0461-7). Nature Ecology and Evolution 2 (9):1515-. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0660-x
Manning, P., Van Der Plas, F., Soliveres, S., Allan, E., Maestre, F.T., Mace, G., Whittingham, M.J., Fischer, M. (2018) Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2 (3):427-436. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0461-7
Manzanedo, R.D., Ballesteros-Cánovas, J., Schenk, F., Stoffel, M., Fischer, M., Allan, E. (2018) Increase in CO2 concentration could alter the response of Hedera helix to climate change. Ecology and Evolution . DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4388
Manzanedo, R.D., Schanz, F.R., Fischer, M., Allan, E. (2018) Fagus sylvatica seedlings show provenance differentiation rather than adaptation to soil in a transplant experiment. BMC Ecology 18 (1). DOI: 10.1186/s12898-018-0197-5
Meyer, S.T., Ptacnik, R., Hillebrand, H., Bessler, H., Buchmann, N., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Engels, C., Fischer, M., Halle, S., Klein, A.-M., Oelmann, Y., Roscher, C., Rottstock, T., Scherber, C., Scheu, S., Schmid, B., Schulze, E.-D., Temperton, V.M., Tscharntke, T., Voigt, W., Weigelt, A., Wilcke, W., Weisser, W.W. (2018) Biodiversity-multifunctionality relationships depend on identity and number of measured functions. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2 (1):44-49. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0391-4
Razanajatovo, M., Föhr, C., van Kleunen, M., Fischer, M. (2018) Phenological shifts and flower visitation of 185 lowland and alpine species in a lowland botanical garden. Alpine Botany 128 (1):23-33. DOI: 10.1007/s00035-018-0201-x
Schall, P., Gossner, M.M., Heinrichs, S., Fischer, M., Boch, S., Prati, D., Jung, K., Baumgartner, V., Blaser, S., Böhm, S., Buscot, F., Daniel, R., Goldmann, K., Kaiser, K., Kahl, T., Lange, M., Müller, J., Overmann, J., Renner, S.C., Schulze, E.-D., Sikorski, J., Tschapka, M., Türke, M., Weisser, W.W., Wemheuer, B., Wubet, T., Ammer, C. (2018) The impact of even-aged and uneven-aged forest management on regional biodiversity of multiple taxa in European beech forests. Journal of Applied Ecology 55 (1):267-278. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12950
Schall, P., Schulze, E.-D., Fischer, M., Ayasse, M., Ammer, C. (2018) Relations between forest management, stand structure and productivity across different types of Central European forests. Basic and Applied Ecology 32:39-52. DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2018.02.007
Schellenberger Costa, D., Gerschlauer, F., Kiese, R., Fischer, M., Kleyer, M., Hemp, A. (2018) Plant niche breadths along environmental gradients and their relationship to plant functional traits. Diversity and Distributions 24 (12):1869-1882. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12815
Schmidt, L., Fischer, M., Oja, T. (2018) Two closely related species differ in their regional genetic differentiation despite admixing. AoB PLANTS 10 (1). DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/ply007
Schmidt, L., Schmid, B., Oja, T., Fischer, M. (2018) Genetic differentiation, phenotypic plasticity and adaptation in a hybridizing pair of a more common and a less common Carex species. Alpine Botany 128 (2):149-167. DOI: 10.1007/s00035-018-0211-8
Schmidt, L., Schmid, B., Oja, T., Fischer, M. (2018) Genetic differentiation, phenotypic plasticity and adaptation in a hybridizing pair of a more common and a less common Carex species. Alpine Botany . DOI: 10.1007/s00035-018-0211-8
Slik, J.W.F., Franklin, J., Arroyo-Rodríguez, V., Field, R., Aguilar, S., Aguirre, N., Ahumada, J., Aiba, S.-I., Alves, L.F., Anitha, K., Avella, A., Mora, F., Aymard, G.A.C., Báez, S., Balvanera, P., Bastian, M.L., Bastin, J.-F., Bellingham, P.J., Van Den Berg, E., Da Conceição Bispo, P., Boeckx, P., Boehning-Gaese, K., Bongers, F., Boyle, B., Brambach, F., Brearley, F.Q., Brown, S., Chai, S.-L., Chazdon, R.L., Chen, S., Chhang, P., Chuyong, G., Ewango, C., Coronado, I.M., Cristóbal-Azkarate, J., Culmsee, H., Damas, K., Dattaraja, H.S., Davidar, P., DeWalt, S.J., DIn, H., Drake, D.R., Duque, A., Durigan, G., Eichhorn, K., Eler, E.S., Enoki, T., Ensslin, A., Fandohan, A.B., Farwig, N., Feeley, K.J., Fischer, M., Forshed, O., Garcia, Q.S., Garkoti, S.C., Gillespie, T.W., Gillet, J.-F., Gonmadje, C., Granzow-De La Cerda, I., Griffith, D.M., Grogan, J., Hakeem, K.R., Harris, D.J., Harrison, R.D., Hector, A., Hemp, A., Homeier, J., Hussain, M.S., Ibarra-Manríquez, G., Hanum, I.F., Imai, N., Jansen, P.A., Joly, C.A., Joseph, S., Kartawinata, K., Kearsley, E., Kelly, D.L., Kessler, M., Killeen, T.J., Kooyman, R.M., Laumonier, Y., Laurance, S.G., Laurance, W.F., Lawes, M.J., Letcher, S.G., Lindsell, J., Lovett, J., Lozada, J., Lu, X., Lykke, A.M., Bin Mahmud, K., Mahayani, N.P.D., Mansor, A., Marshall, A.R., Martin, E.H., Matos, D.C.L., Meave, J.A., Melo, F.P.L., Mendoza, Z.H.A., Metali,
F., Medjibe, V.P., Metzger, J.P., Metzker, T., Mohandass, D., Munguía-Rosas, M.A., Muñoz, R., Nurtjahya, E., De Oliveira, E.L., Onrizal, Parolin, P., Parren, M., Parthasarathy, N., Paudel, E., Perez, R., Pérez-García, E.A., Pommer, U., Poorter, L., Qi, L., Piedade, M.T.F., Pinto, J.R.R., Poulsen, A.D., Poulsen, J.R., Powers, J.S., Prasad, R.C., Puyravaud, J.-P., Rangel, O., Reitsma, J., Rocha, D.S.B., Rolim, S., Rovero, F., Rozak, A., Ruokolainen, K., Rutishauser, E., Rutten, G., Mohd Said, M.N., Saiter, F.Z., Saner, P., Santos, B., Dos Santos, J.R., Sarker, S.K., Schmitt, C.B., Schoengart, J., Schulze, M., Sheil, D., Sist, P., Souza, A.F., Spironello, W.R., Sposito, T., Steinmetz, R., Stevart, T., Suganuma, M.S., Sukri, R., Sultana, A., Sukumar, R., Sunderland, T., Supriyadi, Suresh, H.S., Suzuki, E., Tabarelli, M., Tang, J., Tanner, E.V.J., Targhetta, N., Theilade, I., Thomas, D., Timberlake, J., De Morisson Valeriano, M., Van Valkenburg, J., Van Do, T., Van Sam, H., Vandermeer, J.H., Verbeeck, H., Vetaas, O.R., Adekunle, V., Vieira, S.A., Webb, C.O., Webb, E.L., Whitfeld, T., Wich, S., Williams, J., Wiser, S., Wittmann, F., Yang, X., Yao, C.Y.A., Yap, S.L., Zahawi, R.A., Zakaria, R., Zang, R. (2018) Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115 (8):1837-1842. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1714977115
Sorkau, E., Boch, S., Boeddinghaus, R.S., Bonkowski, M., Fischer, M., Kandeler, E., Klaus, V.H., Kleinebecker, T., Marhan, S., Müller, J., Prati, D., Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., Weinert, J., Oelmann, Y. (2018) The role of soil chemical properties, land use and plant diversity for microbial phosphorus in forest and grassland soils. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 181 (2):185-197. DOI: 10.1002/jpln.201700082
Stampfli, A., Bloor, J.M.G., Fischer, M., Zeiter, M. (2018) High land-use intensity exacerbates shifts in grassland vegetation composition after severe experimental drought. Global Change Biology 24 (5):2021-2034. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14046
van der Plas, F., Ratcliffe, S., Ruiz-Benito, P., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Verheyen, K., Wirth, C., Zavala, M.A., Ampoorter, E., Baeten, L., Barbaro, L., Bastias, C.C., Bauhus, J., Benavides, R., Benneter, A., Bonal, D., Bouriaud, O., Bruelheide, H., Bussotti, F., Carnol, M., Castagneyrol, B., Charbonnier, Y., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Dahlgren, J., Checko, E., Coppi, A., Dawud, S.M., Deconchat, M., De Smedt, P., De Wandeler, H., Domisch, T., Finér, L., Fotelli, M., Gessler, A., Granier, A., Grossiord, C., Guyot, V., Haase, J., Hättenschwiler, S., Jactel, H., Jaroszewicz, B., Joly, F.-X., Jucker, T., Kambach, S., Kaendler, G., Kattge, J., Koricheva, J., Kunstler, G., Lehtonen, A., Liebergesell, M., Manning, P., Milligan, H., Müller, S., Muys, B., Nguyen, D., Nock, C., Ohse, B., Paquette, A., Peñuelas, J., Pollastrini, M., Radoglou, K., Raulund-Rasmussen, K., Roger, F., Seidl, R., Selvi, F., Stenlid, J., Valladares, F., van Keer, J., Vesterdal, L., Fischer, M., Gamfeldt, L., Allan, E. (2018) Continental mapping of forest ecosystem functions reveals a high but unrealised potential for forest multifunctionality. Ecology Letters 21 (1):31-42. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12868
Zhang, Y.-Y., Latzel, V., Fischer, M., Bossdorf, O. (2018) Understanding the evolutionary potential of epigenetic variation: a comparison of heritable phenotypic variation in epiRILs, RILs, and natural ecotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana. Heredity 121 (3):257-265. DOI: 10.1038/s41437-018-0095-9
Dostál, P., Fischer, M., Chytrý, M., Prati, D. (2017) No evidence for larger leaf trait plasticity in ecological generalists compared to specialists. Journal of Biogeography 44 (3):511-521. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12881
Gilhaus, K., Boch, S., Fischer, M., Hölzel, N., Kleinebecker, T., Prati, D., Rupprecht, D., Schmitt, B., Klaus, V.H. (2017) Grassland management in Germany: Effects on plant diversity and vegetation composition. Tuexenia 37 (1):379-397. DOI: 10.14471/2017.37.010
Hahn, C.Z., Michalski, S.G., Fischer, M., Durka, W. (2017) Genetic diversity and differentiation follow secondary succession in a multi-species study on woody plants from subtropical China. Journal of Plant Ecology 10 (1):213-221. DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtw054
Hahn, C.Z., Niklaus, P.A., Bruelheide, H., Michalski, S.G., Shi, M., Yang, X., Zeng, X., Fischer, M., Durka, W. (2017) Opposing intraspecific vs. interspecific diversity effects on herbivory and growth in subtropical experimental tree assemblages. Journal of Plant Ecology 10 (1):244-251. DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtw098
Hemp, A., Zimmermann, R., Remmele, S., Pommer, U., Berauer, B., Hemp, C., Fischer, M. (2017) Africa’s highest mountain harbours Africa’s tallest trees. Biodiversity and Conservation 26 (1):103-113. DOI: 10.1007/s10531-016-1226-3
Klaus, V.H., Schäfer, D., Kleinebecker, T., Fischer, M., Prati, D., Hölzel, N. (2017) Enriching plant diversity in grasslands by large-scale experimental sward disturbance and seed addition along gradients of land-use intensity. Journal of Plant Ecology 10 (4):581-591. DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtw062
Mollel, N.P., Fischer, M., Hemp, A. (2017) Usable wild plant species in relation to elevation and land use at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. Alpine Botany 127 (2):145-154. DOI: 10.1007/s00035-017-0187-9
Payne, D., Spehn, E.M., Snethlage, M., Fischer, M. (2017) Opportunities for research on mountain biodiversity under global change. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 29:40-47. DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2017.11.001
Pena, R., Lang, C., Lohaus, G., Boch, S., Schall, P., Schöning, I., Ammer, C., Fischer, M., Polle, A. (2017) Phylogenetic and functional traits of ectomycorrhizal assemblages in top soil from different biogeographic regions and forest types. Mycorrhiza 27 (3):233-245. DOI: 10.1007/s00572-016-0742-z
Ratcliffe, S., Wirth, C., Jucker, T., van der Plas, F., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Verheyen, K., Allan, E., Benavides, R., Bruelheide, H., Ohse, B., Paquette, A., Ampoorter, E., Bastias, C.C., Bauhus, J., Bonal, D., Bouriaud, O., Bussotti, F., Carnol, M., Castagneyrol, B., Chećko, E., Dawud, S.M., Wandeler, H.D., Domisch, T., Finér, L., Fischer, M., Fotelli, M., Gessler, A., Granier, A., Grossiord, C., Guyot, V., Haase, J., Hättenschwiler, S., Jactel, H., Jaroszewicz, B., Joly, F.-X., Kambach, S., Kolb, S., Koricheva, J., Liebersgesell, M., Milligan, H., Müller, S., Muys, B., Nguyen, D., Nock, C., Pollastrini, M., Purschke, O., Radoglou, K., Raulund-Rasmussen, K., Roger, F., Ruiz-Benito, P., Seidl, R., Selvi, F., Seiferling, I., Stenlid, J., Valladares, F., Vesterdal, L., Baeten, L. (2017) Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context. Ecology Letters 20 (11):1414-1426. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12849
Roeder, A., Schweingruber, F.H., Fischer, M., Roscher, C. (2017) Growth ring analysis of multiple dicotyledonous herb species—A novel community-wide approach. Basic and Applied Ecology 21:23-33. DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2017.05.001
Rottstock, T., Kummer, V., Fischer, M., Joshi, J. (2017) Rapid transgenerational effects in Knautia arvensis in response to plant community diversity. Journal of Ecology 105 (3):714-725. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12689
Schmidt, L., Fischer, M., Schmid, B., Oja, T. (2017) Despite admixing two closely related Carex species differ in their regional morphological differentiation. Plant Systematics and Evolution 303 (7):901-914. DOI: 10.1007/s00606-017-1420-0
Scholten, T., Goebes, P., Kuhn, P., Seitz, S., Assmann, T., Bauhus, J., Bruelheide, H., Buscot, F., Erfmeier, A., Fischer, M., Hartle, W., He, J.-S., Ma, K., Niklaus, P.A., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schmid, B., Shi, X., Song, Z., Von Oheimb, G., Wirth, C., Wubet, T., Schmidt, K. (2017) On the combined effect of soil fertility and topography on tree growth in subtropical forest ecosystems'a study from SE China. Journal of Plant Ecology 10 (1):111-127. DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtw065
Trogisch, S., Schuldt, A., Bauhus, J., Blum, J.A., Both, S., Buscot, F., Castro-Izaguirre, N., Chesters, D., Durka, W., Eichenberg, D., Erfmeier, A., Fischer, M., Geißler, C., Germany, M.S., Goebes, P., Gutknecht, J., Hahn, C.Z., Haider, S., Härdtle, W., He, J.-S., Hector, A., Hönig, L., Huang, Y., Klein, A.-M., Kühn, P., Kunz, M., Leppert, K.N., Li, Y., Liu, X., Niklaus, P.A., Pei, Z., Pietsch, K.A., Prinz, R., Proß, T., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T., Seitz, S., Song, Z., Staab, M., von Oheimb, G., Weißbecker, C., Welk, E., Wirth, C., Wubet, T., Yang, B., Yang, X., Zhu, C.-D., Schmid, B., Ma, K., Bruelheide, H. (2017) Toward a methodical framework for comprehensively assessing forest multifunctionality. Ecology and Evolution 7 (24):10652-10674. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3488
Trrogisch S., Schuldt A., Bauhus J., Blum J., Both S., Buscot F., Castro-Izaguirre N., Chesters D., Durka W., Eichenberg D., Erfmeier A., Fischer M., Geißler C., Germany M., Goebes P., Gutknecht J., Hahn C., Haider S., Härdtle W., He J.-S., Hector A., Hönig L., Huang Y., Klein A.-M., Kühn P., Kunz M., Leppert K., Li Y., Liu X., Niklaus P., Pei Z., Pietsch K., Prinz R., Proß T., Scherer-Lorenzen M., Schmidt K., Scholten T., Seitz S., Song Z., Staab M., von Oheimb G., Weißbecker C., Welk, E., Wirth C., Wubet T., Yang B., Yang X., Zhu C.-D., Schmid B., Ma K. & Bruelheide H. (2017) Towards a methodical framework for comprehensively assessing forest multifunctionality. Ecol Evol. 2017;00:1–23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3488
van der Plas, F., Ratcliffe, S., Ruiz-Benito, P., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Verheyen, K., Wirth, C., Zavala, M. A., Ampoorter, E., Baeten, L., Barbaro, L., Bastias, C. C., Bauhus, J., Benavides, R., Benneter, A., Bonal, D., Bouriaud, O., Bruelheide, H., Bussotti, F., Carnol, M., Castagneyrol, B., Charbonnier, Y., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Dahlgren, J., Checko, E., Coppi, A., Dawud, S. M., Deconchat, M., De Smedt, P., De Wandeler, H., Domisch, T., Finér, L., Fotelli, M., Gessler, A., Granier, A., Grossiord, C., Guyot, V., Haase, J., Hättenschwiler, S., Jactel, H., Jaroszewicz, B., Joly, F.-X., Jucker, T., Kambach, S., Kaendler, G., Kattge, J., Koricheva, J., Kunstler, G., Lehtonen, A., Liebergesell, M., Manning, P., Milligan, H., Müller, S., Muys, B., Nguyen, D., Nock, C., Ohse, B., Paquette, A., Peñuelas, J., Pollastrini, M., Radoglou, K., Raulund-Rasmussen, K., Roger, F., Seidl, R., Selvi, F., Stenlid, J., Valladares, F., van Keer, J., Vesterdal, L., Fischer, M., Gamfeldt, L. and Allan, E. (2017), Continental mapping of forest ecosystem functions reveals a high but unrealised potential for forest multifunctionality. Ecol Lett. DOI:10.1111/ele.12868
van der Plas, F., van Klink, R., Manning, P., Olff, H., Fischer, M. (2017) Sensitivity of functional diversity metrics to sampling intensity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8 (9):1072-1080. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12728
Weisser, W.W., Roscher, C., Meyer, S.T., Ebeling, A., Luo, G., Allan, E., Beßler, H., Barnard, R.L., Buchmann, N., Buscot, F., Engels, C., Fischer, C., Fischer, M., Gessler, A., Gleixner, G., Halle, S., Hildebrandt, A., Hillebrand, H., de Kroon, H., Lange, M., Leimer, S., Le Roux, X., Milcu, A., Mommer, L., Niklaus, P.A., Oelmann, Y., Proulx, R., Roy, J., Scherber, C., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Scheu, S., Tscharntke, T., Wachendorf, M., Wagg, C., Weigelt, A., Wilcke, W., Wirth, C., Schulze, E.-D., Schmid, B., Eisenhauer, N. (2017) Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions. Basic and Applied Ecology 23:1-73. DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2017.06.002
Zeng, X., Durka, W., Fischer, M. (2017) Species-specific effects of genetic diversity and species diversity of experimental communities on early tree performance. Journal of Plant Ecology 10 (1):252-258. DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtw108
Zeng, X., Durka, W., Welk, E., Fischer, M. (2017) Heritability of early growth traits and their plasticity in 14 woody species of Chinese subtropical forest. Journal of Plant Ecology 10 (1):222-231. DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtw086
Blüthgen, N., Simons, N.K., Jung, K., Prati, D., Renner, S.C., Boch, S., Fischer, M., Hölzel, N., Klaus, V.H., Kleinebecker, T., Tschapka, M., Weisser, W.W., Gossner, M.M. (2016) Land use imperils plant and animal community stability through changes in asynchrony rather than diversity. Nature Communications 7. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10697
Boch, S., Berlinger, M., Prati, D., Fischer, M. (2016) Is fern endozoochory widespread among fern-eating herbivores?. Plant Ecology 217 (1):13-20. DOI: 10.1007/s11258-015-0554-9
Boch, S., Prati, D., Fischer, M. (2016) Gastropods slow down succession and maintain diversity in cryptogam communities. Ecology 97 (9):2184-2191. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.1498
Boch, S., Prati, D., Schöning, I., Fischer, M. (2016) Lichen species richness is highest in non-intensively used grasslands promoting suitable microhabitats and low vascular plant competition. Biodiversity and Conservation 25 (2):225-238. DOI: 10.1007/s10531-015-1037-y
Crowther, T.W., Glick, H.B., Covey, K.R., Bettigole, C., Maynard, D.S., Thomas, S.M., Smith, J.R., Hintler, G., Duguid, M.C., Amatulli, G., Tuanmu, M.-N., Jetz, W., Salas, C., Stam, C., Piotto, D., Tavani, R., Green, S., Bruce, G., Williams, S.J., Wiser, S.K., Huber, M.O., Hengeveld, G.M., Nabuurs, G.-J., Tikhonova, E., Borchardt, P., Li, C.-F., Powrie, L.W., Fischer, M., Hemp, A., Homeier, J., Cho, P., Vibrans, A.C., Umunay, P.M., Piao, S.L., Rowe, C.W., Ashton, M.S., Crane, P.R., Bradford, M.A. (2016) Erratum: Mapping tree density at a global scale(Nature (2015) 525 (201-205) DOI:10.1038/nature14967). Nature 532 (7598):268-. DOI: 10.1038/nature16178
Dostál, P., Fischer, M., Prati, D. (2016) Phenotypic plasticity is a negative, though weak, predictor of the commonness of 105 grassland species. Global Ecology and Biogeography 25 (4):464-474. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12429
Gossner, M.M., Lewinsohn, T.M., Kahl, T., Grassein, F., Boch, S., Prati, D., Birkhofer, K., Renner, S.C., Sikorski, J., Wubet, T., Arndt, H., Baumgartner, V., Blaser, S., Blüthgen, N., Börschig, C., Buscot, F., DIekötter, T., Jorge, L.R., Jung, K., Keyel, A.C., Klein, A.-M., Klemmer, S., Krauss, J., Lange, M., Müller, J., Overmann, J., Pašali, E., Penone, C., Perovic, D.J., Purschke, O., Schall, P., Socher, S.A., Sonnemann, I., Tschapka, M., Tscharntke, T., Türke, M., Venter, P.C., Weiner, C.N., Werner, M., Wolters, V., Wurst, S., Westphal, C., Fischer, M., Weisser, W.W., Allan, E. (2016) Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities. Nature 540 (7632):266-269. DOI: 10.1038/nature20575
Klaus, V.H., Hölzel, N., Prati, D., Schmitt, B., Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., Solly, E.F., Hänsel, F., Fischer, M., Kleinebecker, T. (2016) Plant diversity moderates drought stress in grasslands: Implications from a large real-world study on 13C natural abundances. Science of the Total Environment 566-567:215-222. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.05.008
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Meyer, S.T., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Hertzog, L., Hillebrand, H., Milcu, A., Pompe, S., Abbas, M., Bessler, H., Buchmann, N., De Luca, E., Engels, C., Fischer, M., Gleixner, G., Hudewenz, A., Klein, A.-M., De Kroon, H., Leimer, S., Loranger, H., Mommer, L., Oelmann, Y., Ravenek, J.M., Roscher, C., Rottstock, T., Scherber, C., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Scheu, S., Schmid, B., Schulze, E.-D., Staudler, A., Strecker, T., Temperton, V., Tscharntke, T., Vogel, A., Voigt, W., Weigelt, A., Wilcke, W., Weisser, W.W. (2016) Effects of biodiversity strengthen over time as ecosystem functioning declines at low and increases at high biodiversity. Ecosphere 7 (12). DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1619
Peters, M.K., Hemp, A., Appelhans, T., Behler, C., Classen, A., Detsch, F., Ensslin, A., Ferger, S.W., Frederiksen, S.B., Gebert, F., Haas, M., Helbig-Bonitz, M., Hemp, C., Kindeketa, W.J., Mwangomo, E., Ngereza, C., Otte, I., Röder, J., Rutten, G., Schellenberger Costa, D., Tardanico, J., Zancolli, G., Deckert, J., Eardley, C.D., Peters, R.S., Rödel, M.-O., Schleuning, M., Ssymank, A., Kakengi, V., Zhang, J., Böhning-Gaese, K., Brandl, R., Kalko, E.K.V., Kleyer, M., Nauss, T., Tschapka, M., Fischer, M., Steffan-Dewenter, I. (2016) Predictors of elevational biodiversity gradients change from single taxa to the multi-taxa community level. Nature Communications 7. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13736
Prati, D., Peintinger, M., Fischer, M. (2016) Genetic composition, genetic diversity and small-scale environmental variation matter for the experimental reintroduction of a rare plant. Journal of Plant Ecology 9 (6):805-813. DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtv067
Purahong, W., Durka, W., Fischer, M., Dommert, S., Schöps, R., Buscot, F., Wubet, T. (2016) Tree species, tree genotypes and tree genotypic diversity levels affect microbe-mediated soil ecosystem functions in a subtropical forest. Scientific Reports 6. DOI: 10.1038/srep36672
Rutten, G., Prati, D., Hemp, A., Fischer, M. (2016) Plant-soil feedback in East-African savanna trees. Ecology 97 (2):294-301. DOI: 10.1890/15-1316.1
Soliveres, S., Manning, P., Prati, D., Gossner, M.M., Alt, F., Arndt, H., Baumgartner, V., Binkenstein, J., Birkhofer, K., Blaser, S., Blüthgen, N., Boch, S., Böhm, S., Börschig, C., Buscot, F., Diekötter, T., Heinze, J., Hölzel, N., Jung, K., Klaus, V.H., Klein, A.-M., Kleinebecker, T., Klemmer, S., Krauss, J., Lange, M., Morris, E.K., Müller, J., Oelmann, Y., Overmann, J., Pašalić, E., Renner, S.C., Rillig, M.C., Schaefer, H.M., Schloter, M., Schmitt, B., Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., Sikorski, J., Socher, S.A., Solly, E.F., Sonnemann, I., Sorkau, E., Steckel, J., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Stempfhuber, B., Tschapka, M., Türke, M., Venter, P., Weiner, C.N., Weisser, W.W., Werner, M., Westphal, C., Wilcke, W., Wolters, V., Wubet, T., Wurst, S., Fischer, M., Allan, E. (2016) Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371 (1694). DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0269
Soliveres, S., Van Der Plas, F., Manning, P., Prati, D., Gossner, M.M., Renner, S.C., Alt, F., Arndt, H., Baumgartner, V., Binkenstein, J., Birkhofer, K., Blaser, S., Blüthgen, N., Boch, S., Böhm, S., Börschig, C., Buscot, F., Diekötter, T., Heinze, J., Hölzel, N., Jung, K., Klaus, V.H., Kleinebecker, T., Klemmer, S., Krauss, J., Lange, M., Morris, E.K., Müller, J., Oelmann, Y., Overmann, J., Pašalić, E., Rillig, M.C., Schaefer, H.M., Schloter, M., Schmitt, B., Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., Sikorski, J., Socher, S.A., Solly, E.F., Sonnemann, I., Sorkau, E., Steckel, J., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Stempfhuber, B., Tschapka, M., Türke, M., Venter, P.C., Weiner, C.N., Weisser, W.W., Werner, M., Westphal, C., Wilcke, W., Wolters, V., Wubet, T., Wurst, S., Fischer, M., Allan, E. (2016) Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality. Nature 536 (7617):456-459. DOI: 10.1038/nature19092
Van Der Plas, F., Manning, P., Allan, E., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Verheyen, K., Wirth, C., Zavala, M.A., Hector, A., Ampoorter, E., Baeten, L., Barbaro, L., Bauhus, J., Benavides, R., Benneter, A., Berthold, F., Bonal, D., Bouriaud, O., Bruelheide, H., Bussotti, F., Carnol, M., Castagneyrol, B., Charbonnier, Y., Coomes, D., Coppi, A., Bastias, C.C., Muhie Dawud, S., De Wandeler, H., Domisch, T., Finér, L., Gessler, A., Granier, A., Grossiord, C., Guyot, V., Hättenschwiler, S., Jactel, H., Jaroszewicz, B., Joly, F.-X., Jucker, T., Koricheva, J., Milligan, H., Müller, S., Muys, B., Nguyen, D., Pollastrini, M., Raulund-Rasmussen, K., Selvi, F., Stenlid, J., Valladares, F., Vesterdal, L., Zielínski, D., Fischer, M. (2016) Jack-of-all-trades effects drive biodiversity-ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in European forests. Nature Communications 7. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11109
Van Der Plas, F., Manning, P., Soliveres, S., Allan, E., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Verheyen, K., Wirth, C., Zavala, M.A., Ampoorter, E., Baeten, L., Barbaro, L., Bauhus, J., Benavides, R., Benneter, A., Bonal, D., Bouriaud, O., Bruelheide, H., Bussotti, F., Carnol, M., Castagneyrol, B., Charbonnier, Y., Coomes, D.A., Coppi, A., Bestias, C.C., Dawud, S.M., De Wandeler, H., Domisch, T., Finér, L., Gessler, A., Granier, A., Grossiord, C., Guyot, V., Hättenschwiler, S., Jactel, H., Jaroszewicz, B., Joly, F.-X., Jucker, T., Koricheva, J., Milligan, H., Mueller, S., Muys, B., Nguyen, D., Pollastrini, M., Ratcliffe, S., Raulund-Rasmussen, K., Selvi, F., Stenlid, J., Valladares, F., Vesterdal, L., Zielinski, D., Fischer, M. (2016) Erratum: Biotic homogenization can decrease landscapescale forest multifunctionality (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2016) 113 (3557-3562) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1517903113). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113 (18):E2549-. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1605668113
Van Der Plas, F., Manning, P., Soliveres, S., Allan, E., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Verheyen, K., Wirth, C., Zavala, M.A., Ampoorter, E., Baeten, L., Barbaro, L., Bauhus, J., Benavides, R., Benneter, A., Bonal, D., Bouriaud, O., Bruelheide, H., Bussotti, F., Carnol, M., Castagneyrol, B., Charbonnier, Y., Coomes, D.A., Coppi, A., Bestias, C.C., Dawud, S.M., De Wandeler, H., Domisch, T., Finér, L., Gessler, A., Granier, A., Grossiord, C., Guyot, V., Hättenschwiler, S., Jactel, H., Jaroszewicz, B., Joly, F.-X., Jucker, T., Koricheva, J., Milligan, H., Mueller, S., Muys, B., Nguyen, D., Pollastrini, M., Ratcliffe, S., Raulund-Rasmussen, K., Selvi, F., Stenlid, J., Valladares, F., Vesterdal, L., Zielínski, D., Fischer, M., Schlesinger, W.H. (2016) Biotic homogenization can decrease landscape-scale forest multifunctionality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113 (13):3557-3562. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1517903113
Wang, Z., Bossdorf, O., Prati, D., Fischer, M., van Kleunen, M. (2016) Transgenerational effects of land use on offspring performance and growth in Trifolium repens. Oecologia 180 (2):409-420. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-015-3480-6
Zhang, Y., Parepa, M., Fischer, M., Bossdorf, O. (2016) Epigenetics of colonizing species? A study of Japanese knotweed in Central Europe. In: Barrett, Spencer C.H.; Colautti, Robert I.; Dlugosch, Katrina M.; Rieseberg, Loren H. (Hg.) Invasion Genetics: The Baker and Stebbins Legacy (S. 328-340) Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell
Allan, E., Manning, P., Alt, F., Binkenstein, J., Blaser, S., Blüthgen, N., Böhm, S., Grassein, F., Hölzel, N., Klaus, V.H., Kleinebecker, T., Morris, E.K., Oelmann, Y., Prati, D., Renner, S.C., Rillig, M.C., Schaefer, M., Schloter, M., Schmitt, B., Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., Solly, E., Sorkau, E., Steckel, J., Steffen-Dewenter, I., Stempfhuber, B., Tschapka, M., Weiner, C.N., Weisser, W.W., Werner, M., Westphal, C., Wilcke, W., Fischer, M. (2015) Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition. Ecology Letters 18 (8):834-843. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12469
Boch, S., Fischer, M., Knop, E., Allan, E. (2015) Endozoochory by slugs can increase bryophyte establishment and species richness. Oikos 124 (3):331-336. DOI: 10.1111/oik.01536
Boch, S., Fischer, M., Prati, D. (2015) To eat or not to eat-relationship of lichen herbivory by snails with secondary compounds and field frequency of lichens. Journal of Plant Ecology 8: 642-650, DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtv005
Crowther, T.W., Glick, H.B., Covey, K.R., Bettigole, C., Maynard, D.S., Thomas, S.M., Smith, J.R., Hintler, G., Duguid, M.C., Amatulli, G., Tuanmu, M.-N., Jetz, W., Salas, C., Stam, C., Piotto, D., Tavani, R., Green, S., Bruce, G., Williams, S.J., Wiser, S.K., Huber, M.O., Hengeveld, G.M., Nabuurs, G.-J., Tikhonova, E., Borchardt, P., Li, C.-F., Powrie, L.W., Fischer, M., Hemp, A., Homeier, J., Cho, P., Vibrans, A.C., Umunay, P.M., Piao, S.L., Rowe, C.W., Ashton, M.S., Crane, P.R., Bradford, M.A. (2015) Mapping tree density at a global scale. Nature 525 (7568):201-205. DOI: 10.1038/nature14967
Díaz, S., Demissew, S., Carabias, J., Joly, C., Lonsdale, M., Ash, N., Larigauderie, A., Adhikari, J.R., Arico, S., Báldi, A., Bartuska, A., Baste, I.A., Bilgin, A., Brondizio, E., Chan, K.M.A., Figueroa, V.E., Duraiappah, A., Fischer, M., Hill, R., Koetz, T., Leadley, P., Lyver, P., Mace, G.M., Martin-Lopez, B., Okumura, M., Pacheco, D., Pascual, U., Pérez, E.S., Reyers, B., Roth, E., Saito, O., Scholes, R.J., Sharma, N., Tallis, H., Thaman, R., Watson, R., Yahara, T., Hamid, Z.A., Akosim, C., Al-Hafedh, Y., Allahverdiyev, R., Amankwah, E., Asah, T.S., Asfaw, Z., Bartus, G., Brooks, A.L., Caillaux, J., Dalle, G., Darnaedi, D., Driver, A., Erpul, G., Escobar-Eyzaguirre, P., Failler, P., Fouda, A.M.M., Fu, B., Gundimeda, H., Hashimoto, S., Homer, F., Lavorel, S., Lichtenstein, G., Mala, W.A., Mandivenyi, W., Matczak, P., Mbizvo, C., Mehrdadi, M., Metzger, J.P., Mikissa, J.B., Moller, H., Mooney, H.A., Mumby, P., Nagendra, H., Nesshover, C., Oteng-Yeboah, A.A., Pataki, G., Roué, M., Rubis, J., Schultz, M., Smith, P., Sumaila, R., Takeuchi, K., Thomas, S., Verma, M., Yeo-Chang, Y., Zlatanova, D. (2015) The IPBES Conceptual Framework - connecting nature and people. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 14:1-16. DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2014.11.002
Ensslin, A., Fischer, M. (2015) Variation in life-history traits and their plasticities to elevational transplantation among seed families suggests potential for adaptative evolution of 15 tropical plant species to climate change. American journal of botany 102 (8):1371-1379. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1400518
Ensslin, A., Rutten, G., Pommer, U., Zimmermann, R., Hemp, A., Fischer, M. (2015) Effects of elevation and land use on the biomass of trees, shrubs and herbs at Mount Kilimanjaro. Ecosphere 6 (3). DOI: 10.1890/ES14-00492.1
Fischer, R., Ensslin, A., Rutten, G., Fischer, M., Costa, D.S., Kleyer, M., Hemp, A., Paulick, S., Huth, A. (2015) Simulating carbon stocks and fluxes of an African tropical montane forest with an individual-based forest model. PLoS ONE 10 (4). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123300
Kempel, A., Razanajatovo, M., Stein, C., Unsicker, S.B., Auge, H., Weisser, W.W., Fischer, M., Prati, D. (2015) Herbivore preference drives plant community composition. Ecology 96 (11):2923-2934. DOI: 10.1890/14-2125.1
Kempel, A., Razanajatovo, M., Stein, C., Unsicker, S.B., Auge, H., Weisser, W.W., Fischer, M., Prati, D. (2015) Herbivore preference drives plant community composition. Ecology 96 (11):2923-2934.
Keser, L.H., Visser, E.J.W., Dawson, W., Song, Y.-B., Yu, F.-H., Fischer, M., Dong, M., van Kleunen, M. (2015) Herbaceous plant species invading natural areas tend to have stronger adaptive root foraging than other naturalized species. Frontiers in Plant Science 6 (APR). DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00273
Lopez, L., Barreiro, R., Fischer, M., Koch, M.A. (2015) Mining microsatellite markers from public expressed sequence tags databases for the study of threatened plants. BMC Genomics 16 (1). DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-2031-1
Manning, P., Gossner, M.M., Bossdorf, O., Allan, E., Zhang, Y.-Y., Prati, D., Blüthgen, N., Boch, S., Böhm, S., Börschig, C., Hölzel, N., Jung, K., Klaus, V.H., Klein, A.M., Kleinebecker, T., Krauss, J., Lange, M., Müller, J., PAŠALIć, E., Socher, S.A., Tschapka, M., Türke, M., Weiner, C., Werner, M., Gockel, S., Hemp, A., Renner, S.C., Wells, K., Buscot, F., Kalko, E.K.V., Linsenmair, K.E., Weisser, W.W., Fischer, M. (2015) Grassland management intensification weakens the associations among the diversities of multiple plant and animal taxa. Ecology 96 (6):1492-1501. DOI: 10.1890/14-1307.1
Marcus, T., Boch, S., Durka, W., Fischer, M., Gossner, M.M., Müller, J., Schöning, I., Weisser, W.W., Drees, C., Assmann, T. (2015) Living in Heterogeneous Woodlands - Are Habitat Continuity or Quality Drivers of Genetic Variability in a Flightless Ground Beetle?. PLoS ONE 10 (12). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144217
Müller, J., Boch, S., Blaser, S., Fischer, M., Prati, D. (2015) Effects of forest management on bryophyte communities on deadwood. Nova Hedwigia 100 (43558):423-438. DOI: 10.1127/nova_hedwigia/2015/0242
Razanajatovo, M., Föhr, C., Fischer, M., Prati, D., van Kleunen, M. (2015) Non-naturalized alien plants receive fewer flower visits than naturalized and native plants in a Swiss botanical garden. Biological Conservation 182:109-116. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2014.11.043
Rutten, G., Ensslin, A., Hemp, A., Fischer, M. (2015) Forest structure and composition of previously selectively logged and non-logged montane forests at Mt. Kilimanjaro. Forest Ecology and Management 337:61-66. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.10.036
Rutten, G., Ensslin, A., Hemp, A., Fischer, M. (2015) Vertical and horizontal vegetation structure across natural and modified habitat types at Mount Kilimanjaro. PLoS ONE 10 (9). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138822
Soliveres, S., Maestre, F.T., Ulrich, W., Manning, P., Boch, S., Bowker, M.A., Prati, D., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Quero, J.L., Schöning, I., Gallardo, A., Weisser, W., Müller, J., Socher, S.A., García-Gómez, M., Ochoa, V., Schulze, E.-D., Fischer, M., Allan, E. (2015) Intransitive competition is widespread in plant communities and maintains their species richness. Ecology Letters 18 (8):790-798. DOI: 10.1111/ele.12456
Allan, E., Bossdorf, O., Dormann, C.F., Prati, D., Gossner, M.M., Tscharntke, T., Blüthgen, N., Bellach, M., Birkhofer, K., Boch, S., Böhm, S., Börschig, C., Chatzinotas, A., Christ, S., Daniel, R., Diekötter, T., Fischer, C., Friedl, T., Glaser, K., Hallmann, C., Hodac, L., Hölzel, N., Jung, K., Klein, A.M., Klaus, V.H., Kleinebecker, T., Krauss, J., Lange, M., Morris, E.K., Müller, J., Nacke, H., Pašalić, E., Rillig, M.C., Rothenwöhrer, C., Schall, P., Scherber, C., Schulze, W., Socher, S.A., Steckel, J., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Türke, M., Weiner, C.N., Werner, M., Westphal, C., Wolters, V., Wubet, T., Gockel, S., Gorke, M., Hemp, A., Renner, S.C., Schöning, I., Pfeiffer, S., König-Ries, B., Buscot, F., Linsenmair, K.E., Schulze, E.-D., Weisser, W.W., Fischer, M. (2014) Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111 (1):308-313. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1312213111
Boch, S., Fischer, M., Prati, D. (2014) To eat or not to eat - Relationship of lichen herbivory by snails with secondary compounds and field frequency of lichens. Journal of Plant Ecology 8 (6):642-650. DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtv005
Bornand, C.N., Kéry, M., Bueche, L., Fischer, M. (2014) Hide-and-seek in vegetation: Time-to-detection is an efficient design for estimating detectability and occurrence. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5 (5):433-442. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12171
Bruelheide, H., Nadrowski, K., Assmann, T., Bauhus, J., Both, S., Buscot, F., Chen, X.-Y., Ding, B., Durka, W., Erfmeier, A., Gutknecht, J.L.M., Guo, D., Guo, L.-D., Härdtle, W., He, J.-S., Klein, A.-M., Kühn, P., Liang, Y., Liu, X., Michalski, S., Niklaus, P.A., Pei, K., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Scholten, T., Schuldt, A., Seidler, G., Trogisch, S., von Oheimb, G., Welk, E., Wirth, C., Wubet, T., Yang, X., Yu, M., Zhang, S., Zhou, H., Fischer, M., Ma, K., Schmid, B. (2014) Designing forest biodiversity experiments: General considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5 (1):74-89. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12126
Dawson W., Bottini A., Fischer M., van Kleunen M., Knop E. (2014) Little evidence for release from herbivores as a driver of plant invasiveness from a multi-species herbivore-removal experiment. Oikos 123 (12):1509-15