TY  - JOUR
A1  - Busch, Verena
A1  - Klaus, Valentin Helmut
A1  - Schaefer, Deborah
A1  - Prati, Daniel
A1  - Boch, Steffen
A1  - Müller, Jörg
A1  - Chiste, Melanie
A1  - Mody, Karsten
A1  - Blüthgen, Nico
A1  - Fischer, Markus
A1  - Hölzel, Norbert
A1  - Kleinebecker, Till
T1  - Will I stay or will I go? Plant species-specific response and tolerance to high land-use intensity in temperate grassland ecosystems
JF  - Journal of vegetation science
KW  - community composition
KW  - ecological strategies
KW  - Ellenberg indicator values
KW  - land-use intensity niche
KW  - plant functional traits
KW  - species-specific niche breadth
KW  - species-specific niche optima
KW  - temperate grasslands
KW  - vegetation dynamics
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12749
SN  - 1100-9233
SN  - 1654-1103
VL  - 30
IS  - 4
SP  - 674
EP  - 686
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Penone, Caterina
A1  - Allan, Eric
A1  - Soliveres, Santiago
A1  - Felipe-Lucia, Maria R.
A1  - Gossner, Martin M.
A1  - Seibold, Sebastian
A1  - Simons, Nadja K.
A1  - Schall, Peter
A1  - van der Plas, Fons
A1  - Manning, Peter
A1  - Manzanedo, Ruben D.
A1  - Boch, Steffen
A1  - Prati, Daniel
A1  - Ammer, Christian
A1  - Bauhus, Juergen
A1  - Buscot, Francois
A1  - Ehbrecht, Martin
A1  - Goldmann, Kezia
A1  - Jung, Kirsten
A1  - Mueller, Joerg
A1  - Mueller, Joerg C.
A1  - Pena, Rodica
A1  - Polle, Andrea
A1  - Renner, Swen C.
A1  - Ruess, Liliane
A1  - Schoenig, Ingo
A1  - Schrumpf, Marion
A1  - Solly, Emily F.
A1  - Tschapka, Marco
A1  - Weisser, Wolfgang W.
A1  - Wubet, Tesfaye
A1  - Fischer, Markus
T1  - Specialisation and diversity of multiple trophic groups are promoted by different forest features
JF  - Ecology letters
N2  - While forest management strongly influences biodiversity, it remains unclear how the structural and compositional changes caused by management affect different community dimensions (e.g. richness, specialisation, abundance or completeness) and how this differs between taxa. We assessed the effects of nine forest features (representing stand structure, heterogeneity and tree composition) on thirteen above- and belowground trophic groups of plants, animals, fungi and bacteria in 150 temperate forest plots differing in their management type. Canopy cover decreased light resources, which increased community specialisation but reduced overall diversity and abundance. Features increasing resource types and diversifying microhabitats (admixing of oaks and conifers) were important and mostly affected richness. Belowground groups responded differently to those aboveground and had weaker responses to most forest features. Our results show that we need to consider forest features rather than broad management types and highlight the importance of considering several groups and community dimensions to better inform conservation.
KW  - biodiversity exploratories
KW  - dark diversity
KW  - forest management
KW  - global change
KW  - land-use
KW  - multidiversity
KW  - specialisation
KW  - temperate forests
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13182
SN  - 1461-023X
SN  - 1461-0248
VL  - 22
IS  - 1
SP  - 170
EP  - 180
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Heinze, Johannes
A1  - Simons, Nadja K.
A1  - Seibold, Sebastian
A1  - Wacker, Alexander
A1  - Weithoff, Guntram
A1  - Gossner, Martin M.
A1  - Prati, Daniel
A1  - Bezemer, T. Martijn
A1  - Joshi, Jasmin Radha
T1  - The relative importance of plant-soil feedbacks for plant-species performance increases with decreasing intensity of herbivory
JF  - Oecologia
N2  - Under natural conditions, aboveground herbivory and plant-soil feedbacks (PSFs) are omnipresent interactions strongly affecting individual plant performance. While recent research revealed that aboveground insect herbivory generally impacts the outcome of PSFs, no study tested to what extent the intensity of herbivory affects the outcome. This, however, is essential to estimate the contribution of PSFs to plant performance under natural conditions in the field. Here, we tested PSF effects both with and without exposure to aboveground herbivory for four common grass species in nine grasslands that formed a gradient of aboveground invertebrate herbivory. Without aboveground herbivores, PSFs for each of the four grass species were similar in each of the nine grasslands-both in direction and in magnitude. In the presence of herbivores, however, the PSFs differed from those measured under herbivory exclusion, and depended on the intensity of herbivory. At low levels of herbivory, PSFs were similar in the presence and absence of herbivores, but differed at high herbivory levels. While PSFs without herbivores remained similar along the gradient of herbivory intensity, increasing herbivory intensity mostly resulted in neutral PSFs in the presence of herbivores. This suggests that the relative importance of PSFs for plant-species performance in grassland communities decreases with increasing intensity of herbivory. Hence, PSFs might be more important for plant performance in ecosystems with low herbivore pressure than in ecosystems with large impacts of insect herbivores.
KW  - Plant-soil feedback
KW  - Herbivorous insects
KW  - Field conditions
KW  - Selective herbivory
KW  - Nutritional quality
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-019-04442-9
SN  - 0029-8549
SN  - 1432-1939
VL  - 190
IS  - 3
SP  - 651
EP  - 664
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  -