P. Weigelt

Using natural language processing to extract plant functional traits from unstructured text

This paper develops an NLP pipeline to extract plant functional traits from text, achieving high precision and recall for categorical traits and reasonable accuracy for numerical traits.

Reassessment of the risks of climate change for terrestrial ecosystems

The paper reassesses climate change risks for terrestrial ecosystems by transforming climate data into phytoclimates, finding significant changes and novel climates by 2070.

Scale-dependent landscape-biodiversity relationships shape multi-taxa diversity in an oil palm monoculture under restoration

The paper investigates how scale-dependent processes affect multi-taxa diversity in oil palm monocultures under restoration using a multi-scale approach.

GIFT an R package to access the Global Inventory of Floras and Traits

The paper introduces GIFT version 3.0, a global plant database with expanded checklists and an R-package for accessing its data.

The contribution of plant life and growth forms to global gradients of vascular plant diversity

The paper quantifies how different plant forms contribute to global vascular plant diversity gradients and identifies environmental and phylogenetic factors shaping their distribution.

Phylogenetic endemism of the world's seed plants

This study quantifies phylogenetic endemism in seed plants worldwide, identifying drivers and centers of neo- and paleoendemism, and highlights conservation priorities.

Climate and ant richness explain the global distribution of ant-plant mutualisms

This study examines how climate and ant richness influence the global distribution of three ant-plant mutualisms, revealing distinct biogeographic patterns and climate dependencies.

Machine learning improves global models of plant diversity

The paper uses machine learning and statistical models to predict global plant diversity patterns based on environmental data, achieving high accuracy for species and phylogenetic richness.

Assembly of functional diversity in an oceanic island flora

The paper analyzes the functional trait space of Tenerife's flora, finding that long-distance dispersal and speciation processes drive functional divergence, while cladogenesis leads to functional convergence.

Plant longevity, drought and island isolation favoured rampant evolutionary transitions towards insular woodiness

The paper identifies 1,097 insular woody species and infers 175 evolutionary transitions, finding that aseasonal climate, drought, and island isolation drive insular woodiness.

Vascular epiphytes contribute disproportionately to global centres of plant diversity

This study quantifies the contribution of vascular epiphytes to global plant diversity and identifies environmental drivers shaping their distribution.

Effects of land-use change and related pressures on alien and native subsets of island communities

The paper examines how land-use change and human pressures affect native and alien species on islands, finding that native species decline while alien species increase in disturbed areas.

Disharmony of the world’s island floras

The paper quantitatively assesses island disharmony by analyzing 320 island floras and 450 plant families, finding compositional bias linked to island characteristics rather than family traits.

GIFT - A Global Inventory of Floras and Traits for macroecology and biogeography

The paper introduces GIFT, a global database integrating plant species distributions, traits, and phylogenetic data, enabling macroecological and biogeographical research.