C. Roscher

Local nutrient addition drives plant biodiversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands

This study shows nutrient addition reduces plant diversity at local and larger scales equally, without causing biotic homogenization in global grasslands.

Low land-use intensity buffers grasslands against future climate and inter-annual climate variability in a large field experiment

This study shows that low land-use intensity grasslands are more resilient to climate change than intensively managed ones, based on eight years of field experiments in Germany.

Plant geographic distribution influences chemical defenses in native and introduced Plantago lanceolata populations

This study shows that introduced Plantago lanceolata populations have higher chemical defenses than native populations without reducing biomass.

Multidimensional responses of ecological stability to eutrophication in grasslands

This study quantifies how nutrient addition affects ecological stability facets in grasslands, finding reduced resistance in species richness and community composition but not biomass.

Plant diversity stabilizes soil temperature

This study shows plant diversity stabilizes soil temperature by increasing organic carbon and leaf area index, with effects strengthening over time and under extreme conditions.

Sustainable land management enhances ecological and economic multifunctionality under ambient and future climate

This study shows sustainable land management improves ecological and economic multifunctionality in agroecosystems, even under future climate conditions.

Intra-annual temperature variability and nutrient enrichment drive seasonal beta-diversity in global grasslands

The paper investigates how intra-annual temperature variability and nutrient enrichment affect seasonal beta-diversity in global grasslands, finding temperature variability increases beta-diversity while nutrient enrichment alters functional group dynamics.

Change in functional trait diversity mediates the effects of nutrient addition on grassland stability

This study examines how nutrient addition affects grassland stability through changes in functional trait diversity and finds that these effects are generally weak compared to direct impacts.

ReSurveyGermany: Vegetation-plot time-series over the past hundred years in Germany

The paper compiles and harmonizes vegetation-plot resurvey data from Germany over almost 100 years, enabling analysis of biodiversity change and species distribution shifts.

Diversity-induced plant history and soil history effects modulate plant responses to global change

The paper investigates how plant and soil history affect plant responses to global change by testing offspring from different diversity communities under various environmental conditions.

Modeling How Community Assembly Alters the Functioning of Ecosystems

The paper evaluates how community assembly affects ecosystem productivity using two approaches and applies them to experimental data, finding resource competition and facilitation by nitrogen fixing plants as likely explanations.

Plant traits are poor predictors of long-term ecosystem functioning

This study shows that plant traits poorly predict long-term ecosystem functioning, with only moderate explanatory power across years.

The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic

This paper compares biodiversity experiments to real-world plant communities and finds that experimental results are robust to the inclusion of unrealistic communities.

Functional composition rather than species richness drive carbon gain and allocation in experimental grasslands

The paper investigates how functional composition, not species richness, influences carbon gain and allocation in grasslands using 13CO2 labeling.