@article{BergholzBalthasarWeissetal.2023,
  author    = {Bergholz, Kolja and Balthasar, Cathrina and Weiss, Anne-Marie and Brunkhardt, Jennifer and Ristow, Michael and Weiß, Lina},
  title     = {Niche differentiation of arthropods and plants along small-scale gradients in temporary wetlands (kettle holes)},
  series = {Basic and applied ecology : journal of the Gesellschaft f{\"u}r {\"O}kologie},
  volume    = {73},
  journal   = {Basic and applied ecology : journal of the Gesellschaft f{\"u}r {\"O}kologie},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Amsterdam},
  issn      = {1439-1791},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.baae.2023.10.003},
  pages     = {10 -- 17},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {Small temporary wetlands, like kettle holes, provide many valuable ecosystem functions and serve as refuge habitats in otherwise monotonous agricultural landscapes. However, the mechanisms that maintain biodiversity in these habitats are still poorly understood. In this study, we investigate how three taxa (vascular plants, ground beetles and spiders) respond to small-scale flooding and disturbance gradients in kettle holes as well as kettle hole area. For this purpose, we determined total, hygrophilic and red list species richness for all taxa and activity density for arthropods along transects extending from the edge towards the center of kettle holes. Furthermore, we calculated the community-weighted mean body size for arthropods and seed mass for plants as surrogates for the ability to respond to disturbance. Our analyses revealed that in particular plants and ground beetles showed strong responses along the small-scale spatial gradient. Total plant species richness decreased towards the center, while hygrophilic plant species increased. In contrast, both total and hygrophilic species richness of ground beetles increased towards the center. Spiders showed similar responses as ground beetles, but less pronounced. We found no evidence that disturbance at the edge of kettle holes leads to smaller body sizes or seed masses. However, arthropods in adjacent arable fields (one meter from the kettle hole edge) were particularly small. Kettle hole area had only weak effects on plants, but not on arthropods. Our study indicates that differences in the depth at the drier edge and the moist, regularly flooded center have a large and taxon-dependent influence on the species composition. Therefore, small-scale heterogeneity seems to be an important predictor for the maintenance of species diversity.},
  language  = {en}
}
@book{AmbauenArnoldBeckeretal.2021,
  author    = {Ambauen, Ladina and Arnold, Maren and Becker, Christian and Chahrour, Mohamed Chaker and Destanovic, Edis and Fretter, Alexandra and Geißler, Marc and Gr{\"u}nberg, Uwe and Habl, Moritz and Hoffmann, Sandra and Juchler, Ingo and Jurkatis, Lena Christine and Keitel, Bernhard and Losensky, Nikolai and Mrowietz, Christian and Nadol, Dominic and Naumann, Asja and Ockenga, Imke and Pohlandt, Anne and P{\"u}rschel, Tobias and Recktenwald, Michelle and Stephan, Roswitha and Tuchel, Johannes and Weinkamp, Christina and Weiß, Christian and Wiecking, Ole and Wockenfuß, Patricia and Zalitatsch, Nora Lina},
  title     = {Mildred Harnack und die Rote Kapelle in Berlin},
  editor    = {Juchler, Ingo},
  edition   = {2., verbesserte Auflage},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-500-2},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-48176},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-481762},
  publisher      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {170},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Mildred Harnack, geb. Fish, stammte urspr{\"u}nglich aus Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Zusammen mit ihrem Ehemann Arvid Harnack zog sie nach Deutschland und lebte seit 1930 in Berlin. Hier lehrte die Literaturwissenschaftlerin an der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit{\"a}t (heute Humboldt-Universit{\"a}t) und am Berliner Abendgymnasium (heute Peter A. Silbermann-Schule). Bereits kurz nach der Macht{\"u}bernahme von Adolf Hitler hatte sich um das Ehepaar Harnack ein Kreis von Freunden gebildet, der gegen die Herrschaft der Nationalsozialisten opponierte. Dazu z{\"a}hlten auch Karl Behrens und Bodo Schl{\"o}singer, die beide Sch{\"u}ler Mildred Harnacks am Berliner Abendgymnasium waren. Mildred Harnack konnte mit Hilfe ihrer Kontakte zur amerikanischen Botschaft ihren Sch{\"u}lern im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland ansonsten nicht zug{\"a}ngliche Informationen besorgen. Aufgrund von Funkkontakten des Freundeskreises zur Sowjetunion wurde die Gruppe von den Nationalsozialisten Rote Kapelle genannt - „rot" bezog sich auf deren linke Haltung und mit „Kapelle" wurden Funker assoziiert, die wie Pianisten in einer Kapelle spielen. Der Berliner Oppositionszirkel umfasste bis zu seiner Zerschlagung durch die Nationalsozialisten etwa 150 Personen verschiedenster Berufsgruppen, unterschiedlicher parteipolitischer Einstellungen und Konfessionen. Die Gruppe verfertigte oppositionelle Flugbl{\"a}tter und lieferte Informationen an die amerikanische Botschaft sowie an die Sowjetunion. Mildred Harnack wurde - wie viele ihrer Mitstreiterinnen und Mitstreiter - nach ihrer Verhaftung vom Reichskriegsgericht zum Tode verurteilt und am 16. Februar 1943 in Pl{\"o}tzensee guillotiniert. In diesem Band stellen Studierende der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam sowie H{\"o}rerinnen und H{\"o}rer der Peter A. Silbermann-Schule (Berlin) nach einem kurzen {\"U}berblick zum Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus in Deutschland das Netzwerk der Roten Kapelle sowie die Biographien von Mildred Harnack und ihren Sch{\"u}lern Karl Behrens und Bodo Schl{\"o}singer vom Berliner Abendgymnasium eindr{\"u}cklich vor.},
  language  = {de}
}
@book{AmbauenArnoldBeckeretal.2017,
  author    = {Ambauen, Ladina and Arnold, Maren and Becker, Christian and Chahrour, Mohamed Chaker and Destanovic, Edis and Fretter, Alexandra and Geißler, Marc and Gr{\"u}nberg, Uwe and Habl, Moritz and Hoffmann, Sandra and Juchler, Ingo and Jurkatis, Lena Christine and Keitel, Bernhard and Losensky, Nikolai and Mrowietz, Christian and Nadol, Dominic and Naumann, Asja and Ockenga, Imke and Pohlandt, Anne and P{\"u}rschel, Tobias and Recktenwald, Michelle and Stephan, Roswitha and Tuchel, Johannes and Weinkamp, Christina and Weiß, Christian and Wiecking, Ole and Wockenfuß, Patricia and Zalitatsch, Nora Lina},
  title     = {Mildred Harnack und die Rote Kapelle in Berlin},
  editor    = {Juchler, Ingo},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-407-4},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-398166},
  publisher      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {170},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {Mildred Harnack, geb. Fish, stammte urspr{\"u}nglich aus Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Zusammen mit ihrem Ehemann Arvid Harnack zog sie nach Deutschland und lebte seit 1930 in Berlin. Hier lehrte die Literaturwissenschaftlerin an der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit{\"a}t (heute Humboldt-Universit{\"a}t) und am Berliner Abendgymnasium (heute Peter A. Silbermann-Schule). Bereits kurz nach der Macht{\"u}bernahme von Adolf Hitler hatte sich um das Ehepaar Harnack ein Kreis von Freunden gebildet, der gegen die Herrschaft der Nationalsozialisten opponierte. Dazu z{\"a}hlten auch Karl Behrens und Bodo Schl{\"o}singer, die beide Sch{\"u}ler Mildred Harnacks am Berliner Abendgymnasium waren. Mildred Harnack konnte mit Hilfe ihrer Kontakte zur amerikanischen Botschaft ihren Sch{\"u}lern im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland ansonsten nicht zug{\"a}ngliche Informationen besorgen. Aufgrund von Funkkontakten des Freundeskreises zur Sowjetunion wurde die Gruppe von den Nationalsozialisten Rote Kapelle genannt - „rot" bezog sich auf deren linke Haltung und mit „Kapelle" wurden Funker assoziiert, die wie Pianisten in einer Kapelle spielen. Der Berliner Oppositionszirkel umfasste bis zu seiner Zerschlagung durch die Nationalsozialisten etwa 150 Personen verschiedenster Berufsgruppen, unterschiedlicher parteipolitischer Einstellungen und Konfessionen. Die Gruppe verfertigte oppositionelle Flugbl{\"a}tter und lieferte Informationen an die amerikanische Botschaft sowie an die Sowjetunion. Mildred Harnack wurde - wie viele ihrer Mitstreiterinnen und Mitstreiter - nach ihrer Verhaftung vom Reichskriegsgericht zum Tode verurteilt und am 16. Februar 1943 in Pl{\"o}tzensee guillotiniert. In diesem Band stellen Studierende der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam sowie H{\"o}rerinnen und H{\"o}rer der Peter A. Silbermann-Schule (Berlin) nach einem kurzen {\"U}berblick zum Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus in Deutschland das Netzwerk der Roten Kapelle sowie die Biographien von Mildred Harnack und ihren Sch{\"u}lern Karl Behrens und Bodo Schl{\"o}singer vom Berliner Abendgymnasium eindr{\"u}cklich vor.},
  language  = {de}
}
@misc{BergholzSittelRistowetal.2022,
  author    = {Bergholz, Kolja and Sittel, Lara-Pauline and Ristow, Michael and Jeltsch, Florian and Weiß, Lina},
  title     = {Pollinator guilds respond contrastingly at different scales to landscape parameters of land-use intensity},
  series = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {1298},
  issn      = {1866-8372},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-57730},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-577307},
  pages     = {11},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {Land-use intensification is the main factor for the catastrophic decline of insect pollinators. However, land-use intensification includes multiple processes that act across various scales and should affect pollinator guilds differently depending on their ecology. We aimed to reveal how two main pollinator guilds, wild bees and hoverflies, respond to different land-use intensification measures, that is, arable field cover (AFC), landscape heterogeneity (LH), and functional flower composition of local plant communities as a measure of habitat quality. We sampled wild bees and hoverflies on 22 dry grassland sites within a highly intensified landscape (NE Germany) within three campaigns using pan traps. We estimated AFC and LH on consecutive radii (60-3000 m) around the dry grassland sites and estimated the local functional flower composition. Wild bee species richness and abundance was positively affected by LH and negatively by AFC at small scales (140-400 m). In contrast, hoverflies were positively affected by AFC and negatively by LH at larger scales (500-3000 m), where both landscape parameters were negatively correlated to each other. At small spatial scales, though, LH had a positive effect on hoverfly abundance. Functional flower diversity had no positive effect on pollinators, but conspicuous flowers seem to attract abundance of hoverflies. In conclusion, landscape parameters contrarily affect two pollinator guilds at different scales. The correlation of landscape parameters may influence the observed relationships between landscape parameters and pollinators. Hence, effects of land-use intensification seem to be highly landscape-specific.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{BergholzKoberJeltschetal.2021,
  author    = {Bergholz, Kolja and Kober, Klarissa and Jeltsch, Florian and Schmidt, Kristina and Weiß, Lina},
  title     = {Trait means or variance},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  issn      = {1866-8372},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-51990},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-519905},
  pages     = {3357 -- 3365},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {One of the few laws in ecology is that communities consist of few common and many rare taxa. Functional traits may help to identify the underlying mechanisms of this community pattern, since they correlate with different niche dimensions. However, comprehensive studies are missing that investigate the effects of species mean traits (niche position) and intraspecific trait variability (ITV, niche width) on species abundance. In this study, we investigated fragmented dry grasslands to reveal trait-occurrence relationships in plants at local and regional scales. We predicted that (a) at the local scale, species occurrence is highest for species with intermediate traits, (b) at the regional scale, habitat specialists have a lower species occurrence than generalists, and thus, traits associated with stress-tolerance have a negative effect on species occurrence, and (c) ITV increases species occurrence irrespective of the scale. We measured three plant functional traits (SLA = specific leaf area, LDMC = leaf dry matter content, plant height) at 21 local dry grassland communities (10 m × 10 m) and analyzed the effect of these traits and their variation on species occurrence. At the local scale, mean LDMC had a positive effect on species occurrence, indicating that stress-tolerant species are the most abundant rather than species with intermediate traits (hypothesis 1). We found limited support for lower specialist occurrence at the regional scale (hypothesis 2). Further, ITV of LDMC and plant height had a positive effect on local occurrence supporting hypothesis 3. In contrast, at the regional scale, plants with a higher ITV of plant height were less frequent. We found no evidence that the consideration of phylogenetic relationships in our analyses influenced our findings. In conclusion, both species mean traits (in particular LDMC) and ITV were differently related to species occurrence with respect to spatial scale. Therefore, our study underlines the strong scale-dependency of trait-abundance relationships.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{WeissPfestorfMayetal.2014,
  author    = {Weiß, Lina and Pfestorf, Hans and May, Felix and K{\"o}rner, Katrin and Boch, Steffen and Fischer, Markus and M{\"u}ller, J{\"o}rg and Prati, Daniel and Socher, Stephanie A. and Jeltsch, Florian},
  title     = {Grazing response patterns indicate isolation of semi-natural European grasslands},
  series = {Oikos},
  volume    = {123},
  journal   = {Oikos},
  number    = {5},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {0030-1299},
  doi       = {10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00957.x},
  pages     = {599 -- 612},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Identifying drivers of species diversity is a major challenge in understanding and predicting the dynamics of species-rich semi-natural grasslands. In particular in temperate grasslands changes in land use and its consequences, i.e. increasing fragmentation, the on-going loss of habitat and the declining importance of regional processes such as seed dispersal by livestock, are considered key drivers of the diversity loss witnessed within the last decades.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{JeltschBlaumBroseetal.2013,
  author    = {Jeltsch, Florian and Blaum, Niels and Brose, Ulrich and Chipperfield, Joseph D. and Clough, Yann and Farwig, Nina and Geissler, Katja and Graham, Catherine H. and Grimm, Volker and Hickler, Thomas and Huth, Andreas and May, Felix and Meyer, Katrin M. and Pagel, J{\"o}rn and Reineking, Bj{\"o}rn and Rillig, Matthias C. and Shea, Katriona and Schurr, Frank Martin and Schroeder, Boris and Tielb{\"o}rger, Katja and Weiß, Lina and Wiegand, Kerstin and Wiegand, Thorsten and Wirth, Christian and Zurell, Damaris},
  title     = {How can we bring together empiricists and modellers in functional biodiversity research?},
  series = {Basic and applied ecology : Journal of the Gesellschaft f{\"u}r {\"O}kologie},
  volume    = {14},
  journal   = {Basic and applied ecology : Journal of the Gesellschaft f{\"u}r {\"O}kologie},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Jena},
  issn      = {1439-1791},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.baae.2013.01.001},
  pages     = {93 -- 101},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {Improving our understanding of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and our capacity to inform ecosystem management requires an integrated framework for functional biodiversity research (FBR). However, adequate integration among empirical approaches (monitoring and experimental) and modelling has rarely been achieved in FBR. We offer an appraisal of the issues involved and chart a course towards enhanced integration. A major element of this path is the joint orientation towards the continuous refinement of a theoretical framework for FBR that links theory testing and generalization with applied research oriented towards the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. We further emphasize existing decision-making frameworks as suitable instruments to practically merge these different aims of FBR and bring them into application. This integrated framework requires joint research planning, and should improve communication and stimulate collaboration between modellers and empiricists, thereby overcoming existing reservations and prejudices. The implementation of this integrative research agenda for FBR requires an adaptation in most national and international funding schemes in order to accommodate such joint teams and their more complex structures and data needs.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BergholzKoberJeltschetal.2021,
  author    = {Bergholz, Kolja and Kober, Klarissa and Jeltsch, Florian and Schmidt, Kristina and Weiß, Lina},
  title     = {Trait means or variance},
  series = {Ecology and evolution},
  volume    = {11},
  journal   = {Ecology and evolution},
  number    = {7},
  publisher = {John Wiley \& Sons, Inc.},
  issn      = {2045-7758},
  doi       = {10.1002/ece3.7287},
  pages     = {3357 -- 3365},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {One of the few laws in ecology is that communities consist of few common and many rare taxa. Functional traits may help to identify the underlying mechanisms of this community pattern, since they correlate with different niche dimensions. However, comprehensive studies are missing that investigate the effects of species mean traits (niche position) and intraspecific trait variability (ITV, niche width) on species abundance. In this study, we investigated fragmented dry grasslands to reveal trait-occurrence relationships in plants at local and regional scales. We predicted that (a) at the local scale, species occurrence is highest for species with intermediate traits, (b) at the regional scale, habitat specialists have a lower species occurrence than generalists, and thus, traits associated with stress-tolerance have a negative effect on species occurrence, and (c) ITV increases species occurrence irrespective of the scale. We measured three plant functional traits (SLA = specific leaf area, LDMC = leaf dry matter content, plant height) at 21 local dry grassland communities (10 m × 10 m) and analyzed the effect of these traits and their variation on species occurrence. At the local scale, mean LDMC had a positive effect on species occurrence, indicating that stress-tolerant species are the most abundant rather than species with intermediate traits (hypothesis 1). We found limited support for lower specialist occurrence at the regional scale (hypothesis 2). Further, ITV of LDMC and plant height had a positive effect on local occurrence supporting hypothesis 3. In contrast, at the regional scale, plants with a higher ITV of plant height were less frequent. We found no evidence that the consideration of phylogenetic relationships in our analyses influenced our findings. In conclusion, both species mean traits (in particular LDMC) and ITV were differently related to species occurrence with respect to spatial scale. Therefore, our study underlines the strong scale-dependency of trait-abundance relationships.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BergholzSittelRistowetal.2022,
  author    = {Bergholz, Kolja and Sittel, Lara-Pauline and Ristow, Michael and Jeltsch, Florian and Weiß, Lina},
  title     = {Pollinator guilds respond contrastingly at different scales to landscape parameters of land-use intensity},
  series = {Ecology and evolution},
  volume    = {12},
  journal   = {Ecology and evolution},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {2045-7758},
  doi       = {10.1002/ece3.8708},
  pages     = {11},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {Land-use intensification is the main factor for the catastrophic decline of insect pollinators. However, land-use intensification includes multiple processes that act across various scales and should affect pollinator guilds differently depending on their ecology. We aimed to reveal how two main pollinator guilds, wild bees and hoverflies, respond to different land-use intensification measures, that is, arable field cover (AFC), landscape heterogeneity (LH), and functional flower composition of local plant communities as a measure of habitat quality. We sampled wild bees and hoverflies on 22 dry grassland sites within a highly intensified landscape (NE Germany) within three campaigns using pan traps. We estimated AFC and LH on consecutive radii (60-3000 m) around the dry grassland sites and estimated the local functional flower composition. Wild bee species richness and abundance was positively affected by LH and negatively by AFC at small scales (140-400 m). In contrast, hoverflies were positively affected by AFC and negatively by LH at larger scales (500-3000 m), where both landscape parameters were negatively correlated to each other. At small spatial scales, though, LH had a positive effect on hoverfly abundance. Functional flower diversity had no positive effect on pollinators, but conspicuous flowers seem to attract abundance of hoverflies. In conclusion, landscape parameters contrarily affect two pollinator guilds at different scales. The correlation of landscape parameters may influence the observed relationships between landscape parameters and pollinators. Hence, effects of land-use intensification seem to be highly landscape-specific.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BergholzJeltschWeissetal.2015,
  author    = {Bergholz, Kolja and Jeltsch, Florian and Weiß, Lina and Pottek, Janine and Geißler, Katja and Ristow, Michael},
  title     = {Fertilization affects the establishment ability of species differing in seed mass via direct nutrient addition and indirect competition effects},
  series = {Oikos},
  volume    = {124},
  journal   = {Oikos},
  number    = {11},
  publisher = {Wiley-Blackwell},
  address   = {Hoboken},
  issn      = {0030-1299},
  doi       = {10.1111/oik.02193},
  pages     = {1547 -- 1554},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Fertilization causes species loss and species dominance changes in plant communities worldwide. However, it still remains unclear how fertilization acts upon species functional traits, e.g. seed mass. Seed mass is a key trait of the regeneration strategy of plants, which influences a range of processes during the seedling establishment phase. Fertilization may select upon seed mass, either directly by increased nutrient availability or indirectly by increased competition. Since previous research has mainly analyzed the indirect effects of fertilization, we disentangled the direct and indirect effects to examine how nutrient availability and competition influence the seed mass relationships on four key components during seedling establishment: seedling emergence, time of seedling emergence, seedling survival and seedling growth. We conducted a common garden experiment with 22 dry grassland species with a two-way full factorial design that simulated additional nutrient supply and increased competition. While we found no evidence that fertilization either directly by additional nutrient supply or indirectly by increased competition alters the relationship between seed mass and (time of) seedling emergence, we revealed that large seed mass is beneficial under nutrient-poor conditions (seedlings have greater chances of survival, particularly in nutrient-poor soils) as well as under competition (large-seeded species produced larger seedlings, which suffered less from competition than small-seeded species). Based on these findings, we argue that both factors, i.e. nutrient availability and competition intensity, ought to be considered to understand how fertilization influences seedling establishment and species composition with respect to seed mass in natural communities. We propose a simple conceptual model, in which seed mass in natural communities is determined by competition intensity and nutrient availability. Here, we hypothesize that seed mass shows a U-shaped pattern along gradients of soil fertility, which may explain the contrasting soil fertility-seed mass relationships found in the recent literature.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Weiss2017,
  author    = {Weiß, Lina},
  title     = {Understanding the emergence and maintenance of biodiversity in grasslands},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {153},
  year      = {2017},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{WeissWulff2019,
  author    = {Weiß, Lina and Wulff, Monika},
  title     = {Ver{\"a}nderung der Landnutzung in der nord-westlichen Uckermark von 1780 bis heute},
  series = {Vielfalt in der Uckermark : Forschungsprojekte 2015 - 2018},
  journal   = {Vielfalt in der Uckermark : Forschungsprojekte 2015 - 2018},
  publisher = {oerding print GmbH},
  address   = {Braunschweig},
  pages     = {20 -- 21},
  year      = {2019},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{WeissJeltsch2015,
  author    = {Weiß, Lina and Jeltsch, Florian},
  title     = {The response of simulated grassland communities to the cessation of grazing},
  series = {Ecological modelling : international journal on ecological modelling and engineering and systems ecolog},
  volume    = {303},
  journal   = {Ecological modelling : international journal on ecological modelling and engineering and systems ecolog},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Amsterdam},
  issn      = {0304-3800},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.02.002},
  pages     = {1 -- 11},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Changes in land-use are supposed to be among the severest prospective threats to plant diversity worldwide. In semi-natural temperate grasslands, the cessation of traditional land use like livestock grazing is considered to be one of the most important drivers of the diversity loss witnessed within the last decades. Despite of the enormous number of studies on successional pathways following grazing abandonment there is no general pattern of how grassland communities are affected in terms of diversity, trait composition and pace of succession. To gain a comprehensive picture is difficult given the heterogeneity of environments and the time and effort needed for long-term investigations. We here use a proven individual- and trait-based grassland community model to analyze short- and long-term consequences of grazing abandonment under different assumptions of resource availability, pre-abandonment grazing intensity and regional isolation of communities. Grazing abandonment led to a decrease of plant functional type (PFT) diversity in all but two scenarios in the long-term. In short-term we also found an increase or no change in Shannon diversity for several scenarios. With grazing abandonment we overall found an increase in maximum plant mass, clonal integration and longer lateral spread, a decrease in rosette plant types and in stress tolerant plants, as well as an increase in grazing tolerant and a decrease in grazing avoiding plant types. Observed changes were highly dependent on the regional configuration of communities, prevalent resource conditions and land use intensity before abandonment. While long-term changes took around 10-20 years in resource rich conditions, new equilibria established in resource poor conditions only after 30-40 years. Our results confirm the potential threats caused by recent land-use changes and the assumption that oligotrophic communities are more resistant than mesotrophic communities also for long-term abandonment. Moreover, results revealed that species-rich systems are not per se more resistant than species-poor grasslands. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{WeissSchalowJeltschetal.2019,
  author    = {Weiß, Lina and Schalow, Linda and Jeltsch, Florian and Geissler, Katja},
  title     = {Experimental evidence for root competition effects on community evenness in one of two phytometer species},
  series = {Journal of plant ecology},
  volume    = {12},
  journal   = {Journal of plant ecology},
  number    = {2},
  publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press},
  address   = {Oxford},
  issn      = {1752-9921},
  doi       = {10.1093/jpe/rty021},
  pages     = {281 -- 291},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Aims Plant-plant interactions, being positive or negative, are recognized to be key factors in structuring plant communities. However, it is thought that root competition may be less important than shoot competition due to greater size symmetry belowground. Because direct experimental tests on the importance of root competition are scarce, we aim at elucidating whether root competition may have direct or indirect effects on community structure. Indirect effects may occur by altering the overall size asymmetry of competition through root-shoot competitive interactions. Methods We used a phytometer approach to examine the effects of root, shoot and total competition intensity and importance on evenness of experimental plant communities. Thereby two different phytometer species, Festuca brevipila and Dianthus carthusianorum, were grown in small communities of six grassland species over three levels of light and water availability, interacting with neighbouring shoots, roots, both or not at all. Important Findings We found variation in community evenness to be best explained if root and shoot (but not total) competition were considered. However, the effects were species specific: in Dianthus communities increasing root competition increased plant community evenness, while in Festuca communities shoot competition was the driving force of this evenness response. Competition intensities were influenced by environmental conditions in Dianthus, but not in Festuca phytometer plants. While we found no evidence for root-shoot interactions for neither phytometer species root competition in Dianthus communities led to increased allocation to shoots, thereby increasing the potential ability to perform in size-asymmetric competition for light. Our experiment demonstrates the potential role of root competition in structuring plant communities.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{BergholzSittelRistowetal.2022,
  author    = {Bergholz, Kolja and Sittel, Lara-Pauline and Ristow, Michael and Jeltsch, Florian and Weiß, Lina},
  title     = {Pollinator guilds respond contrastingly at different scales to landscape parameters of land-use intensity},
  series = {Ecology and Evolution},
  volume    = {12},
  journal   = {Ecology and Evolution},
  number    = {3},
  publisher = {John Wiley \& Sons, Inc.},
  address   = {Hoboken (New Jersey)},
  issn      = {2045-7758},
  doi       = {10.1002/ece3.8708},
  pages     = {11},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {Land-use intensification is the main factor for the catastrophic decline of insect pollinators. However, land-use intensification includes multiple processes that act across various scales and should affect pollinator guilds differently depending on their ecology. We aimed to reveal how two main pollinator guilds, wild bees and hoverflies, respond to different land-use intensification measures, that is, arable field cover (AFC), landscape heterogeneity (LH), and functional flower composition of local plant communities as a measure of habitat quality. We sampled wild bees and hoverflies on 22 dry grassland sites within a highly intensified landscape (NE Germany) within three campaigns using pan traps. We estimated AFC and LH on consecutive radii (60-3000 m) around the dry grassland sites and estimated the local functional flower composition. Wild bee species richness and abundance was positively affected by LH and negatively by AFC at small scales (140-400 m). In contrast, hoverflies were positively affected by AFC and negatively by LH at larger scales (500-3000 m), where both landscape parameters were negatively correlated to each other. At small spatial scales, though, LH had a positive effect on hoverfly abundance. Functional flower diversity had no positive effect on pollinators, but conspicuous flowers seem to attract abundance of hoverflies. In conclusion, landscape parameters contrarily affect two pollinator guilds at different scales. The correlation of landscape parameters may influence the observed relationships between landscape parameters and pollinators. Hence, effects of land-use intensification seem to be highly landscape-specific.},
  language  = {en}
}