Helge Bruelheide

The paper examines how functional niche attributes influence species interaction roles in ecological networks, finding that niche variability inversely affects interaction variability and that these effects depend on species biomass and community composition.

The paper integrates belowground plant traits to show persistence strategies are a critical dimension of plant function beyond resource acquisition and exploration.

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.

The paper examines how tree diversity affects microbial investment in nutrient-acquiring enzymes in soil, finding increased investment in nitrogen and phosphorus acquisition with higher tree species richness.

The paper quantifies global shifts in plant functional trait composition due to human introductions, finding convergence toward smaller, more acquisitive, and shorter-lived assemblages.

This study shows non-native species disrupt global plant biogeography by reducing distinct floristic realms and subrealms, with environmental factors remaining key in structuring plant distributions.

The paper shows that woodiness in angiosperms is more common on continents than islands, driven by drought and frost-free temperatures, with additional factors like precipitation seasonality and elevation.

The paper analyzes species trends across German federal states using habitat mapping data to identify biodiversity changes in different habitat types.

This paper combines crowdsourced biodiversity data with Earth observation to model plant traits at high resolution, achieving strong predictive power and improving spatial coverage for global trait mapping.

The paper examines how tree diversity and canopy cover affect host-parasitoid community composition and interaction networks in a subtropical tree biodiversity experiment.

The paper investigates how tree species diversity and functional traits affect canopy space filling and productivity in tropical forests, finding that functional diversity and taxonomic diversity enhance overyielding.

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 analyzes biodiversity trends across 50,000 time-series, finding stronger compositional change and species turnover in marine assemblages compared to terrestrial ones.