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Global decoupling of functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities

Functional diversity and phylogenetic diversity are expected to be positively correlated. Here the authors show that the covariation between these metrics in vascular plant communities around the world is often either inconsistent or negative.

Georg J. A. Hähn
Gabriella Damasceno
Helge Bruelheide
Research03 Dec 2024
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 9, P: 237-248
More losses than gains during one century of plant biodiversity change in Germany

Time-series data including 1,794 plant species from 7,738 vegetation plots in Germany between 1927 and 2020 reveal patterns of change in biodiversity, and suggest that more species declined than increased in abundance during this period.

Ute Jandt
Helge Bruelheide
Monika Wulf
Research19 Oct 2022
Nature

Volume: 611, P: 512-518
Climate-trait relationships exhibit strong habitat specificity in plant communities across Europe

Climatic variables are useful but often weak predictors of plant functional trait variation across ecosystems. Here the authors investigate how assigning plant communities to a habitat hierarchy improves the explanatory power of climate-trait relationships at the continental scale.

Stephan Kambach
Francesco Maria Sabatini
Helge Bruelheide
ResearchOpen Access09 Feb 2023
Nature Communications

Volume: 14, P: 1-11
Replacements of small- by large-ranged species scale up to diversity loss in Europe’s temperate forest biome

The loss of biodiversity at the global scale has been difficult to reconcile with observations of no net loss at local scales. Vegetation surveys across European temperate forests show that this may be explained by the replacement of small-ranged species with large-ranged ones, driven by nitrogen deposition.

Ingmar R. Staude
Donald M. Waller
Lander Baeten
Research13 Apr 2020
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 4, P: 802-808
Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

Global patterns of regional plant diversity are relatively well known, but whether they hold for local communities is debated. This study created multi-grain global maps of alpha diversity for vascular plants to provide a nuanced understanding of plant diversity hotspots and improve predictions of global change effects on biodiversity.

Francesco Maria Sabatini
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro
Helge Bruelheide
ResearchOpen Access01 Sept 2022
Nature Communications

Volume: 13, P: 1-16
Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

Although plant functional trait combinations reflect ecological trade-offs at the species level, little is known about how this translates to whole communities. Here, the authors show that global trait composition is captured by two main dimensions that are only weakly related to macro-environmental drivers.

Helge Bruelheide
Jürgen Dengler
Ute Jandt
Research19 Nov 2018
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 2, P: 1906-1917
History and environment shape species pools and community diversity in European beech forests

A continent-wide analysis of community assembly in European beech forests shows different emphasis on historical or environmental effects on species pools across different scales.

Borja Jiménez-Alfaro
Marco Girardello
Thomas Wohlgemuth
Research29 Jan 2018
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 2, P: 483-490
ReSurveyGermany: Vegetation-plot time-series over the past hundred years in Germany

Ute Jandt
Helge Bruelheide
Monika Wulf
ResearchOpen Access19 Oct 2022
Scientific Data

Volume: 9, P: 1-13
Root exudate composition of grass and forb species in natural grasslands

Sophie Dietz
Katharina Herz
Dierk Scheel
ResearchOpen Access01 Jul 2020
Scientific Reports

Volume: 10, P: 1-15
Using co-occurrence information and trait composition to understand individual plant performance in grassland communities

Eva Breitschwerdt
Ute Jandt
Helge Bruelheide
ResearchOpen Access13 Jun 2018
Scientific Reports

Volume: 8, P: 1-15

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