Nico Eisenhauer

This study examines energy flux changes in soil food webs during secondary succession, finding shifts from herbivory to detritivory and differences between plantation and natural forest types.

The study shows that warmer microclimates in forest gaps boost biodiversity in colder regions but not in warmer ones, suggesting climate-specific forest management strategies.

TreeTOP enables standardized manipulative experiments in forest canopies by providing accessible platforms for potted plants across different heights.

The paper shows that nutrient enrichment, especially with nitrogen and phosphorus, reduces C4 plant cover in grasslands, disrupting climate-driven C3-C4 balance globally.

This study shows that tree diversity and mycorrhizal associations affect canopy cooling in forests, with diversity reducing temperature and mycorrhizal types influencing structural complexity and water content.

The paper examines how multitrophic species interaction networks influence ecosystem multifunctionality and finds that network structure, including niche overlap and linkage density, significantly affects ecosystem function.

This study investigates how earthworm invasion affects biodiversity and ecosystem functioning by analyzing multiple variables and functions across four forests.

The paper quantifies microclimatic heterogeneity in forests and links it to biodiversity, showing that canopy structure and gaps influence temperature variation and species diversity.

The paper manipulates forest structural complexity to study its effects on soil nematode diversity, finding functional diversity responds more strongly than taxonomic diversity to structural changes.

The paper experimentally increases forest structural heterogeneity and finds it boosts soil fungal gamma-diversity mainly through beta-diversity and microclimate effects, with weak phylogenetic diversity gains and contrasting functional responses.

The paper introduces a continuum of information-based temporal stability measures parameterized by q, applicable to ecological time series data, and demonstrates their use with biomass data from the Jena Experiment.

This study examines how enhancing structural complexity in German forests affects soil microbial properties, finding site-specific effects influenced by soil moisture and understorey vegetation.

The paper shows that increasing tree species spatial heterogeneity in forests improves litter decomposition and nitrogen cycling by 45%.

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

The paper examines how plant diversity affects volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions at species and community levels using experimental plant communities.

The paper quantifies a global soil organic carbon sink of 1.83 petagrams per year from 1992 to 2020, driven by extratropical and boreal ecosystems, highlighting the importance of soil conservation for climate mitigation.

The paper shows that plant species richness and root economics space axes influence soil fungal community composition in a grassland experiment.

The paper estimates the global number of earthworm species using the Joppa model, suggesting around 30,000 species with current descriptions representing only 20%.

This study links soil health to primary productivity across Europe's woodlands, grasslands, and croplands, showing higher soil health in woodlands and positive associations with productivity in croplands and grasslands.

This study examines how tree diversity and mycorrhizal associations affect forest growth resistance and resilience during extreme drought, finding that mixed mycorrhizal types enhance drought tolerance.

The paper quantifies the compound processing potential of gut and soil metagenomes to link microbiome function to human health and ecosystem quality.

The paper examines how tree species diversity and mycorrhizal associations affect nutrient dynamics in forest ecosystems, finding that mycorrhizal strategies mediate diversity effects on nutrient storage.

The study shows that soil history has a greater impact than plant history on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community assembly in a grassland diversity experiment.

The paper analyzes animal stoichiometry across species and body sizes, finding body size better predicts intraspecific than interspecific variation in elemental content.

This study shows that higher tree species diversity enhances forest temperature buffering across multiple time scales, mediated by canopy density and structural diversity.

The paper investigates genetic structure and dispersal patterns of invasive earthworms in Minnesota, finding multiple introductions but not from current bait dumping.

This study evaluates how variations in the Baermann funnel method affect nematode extraction efficiency and community composition in soil samples.