Search filters

List of works by Christian Wirth

A Comprehensive Solution for Deterministic Replay Debugging of SoftPLC Applications

A comparison of the strength of biodiversity effects across multiple functions

scientific article

A generic structure for plant trait databases

article

A mosaic of induced and non‐induced branches promotes variation in leaf traits, predation and insect herbivore assemblages in canopy trees

scientific article published on 27 December 2021

A multitrophic perspective on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

A novel comparative research platform designed to determine the functional significance of tree species diversity in European forests

article

A trait-based experimental approach to understand the mechanisms underlying biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships

article published in 2014

Allometric equations for integrating remote sensing imagery into forest monitoring programmes.

scientific article

Belowground top-down and aboveground bottom-up effects structure multitrophic community relationships in a biodiverse forest

scientific article

Beyond distance-invariant survival in inverse recruitment modeling: A case study in Siberian Pinus sylvestris forests

scientific article published in 2012

Beyond the fast-slow continuum: demographic dimensions structuring a tropical tree community

scientific article published on 09 May 2018

Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context

scientific article

Biodiversity change in light of succession theory

scientific article published on 6 September 2023

Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions

article by Wolfgang W Weisser et al published September 2017 in Basic and Applied Ecology

Biodiversity effects on nitrate concentrations in soil solution: a Bayesian model

article

Biodiversity facets affect community surface temperature via 3D canopy structure in grassland communities

scientific article published in 2021

Biodiversity post‐2020: Closing the gap between global targets and national‐level implementation

scientific article published on 22 November 2021

Biotic Interactions as Mediators of Context-Dependent Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning Relationships

scientific article published on 7 June 2022

Biotic homogenization can decrease landscape-scale forest multifunctionality

scientific article

Biotic interactions, community assembly, and eco-evolutionary dynamics as drivers of long-term biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships

scientific article published on 4 October 2019

Branch-Localized Induction Promotes Efficacy of Volatile Defences and Herbivore Predation in Trees

scientific article published on 12 November 2020

Canopy transpiration in a chronosequence of Central Siberian pine forests

scientific article

Carbon cycling under 300 years of land use change: Importance of the secondary vegetation sink

scientific article

Carbon–biodiversity relationships in a highly diverse subtropical forest

scientific article published on 3 April 2023

Characterization of Unexplored Deadwood Mycobiome in Highly Diverse Subtropical Forests Using Culture-independent Molecular Technique

scientific article

China, Japan, and East Asian regional cooperation: the views of 'self' and 'other' from Beijing and Tokyo

article

Citizen science plant observations encode global trait patterns

scientific article published in 2022

Climate- and successional-related changes in functional composition of European forests are strongly driven by tree mortality

scientific article

Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation

scientific article published on 23 December 2021

Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

article

Complementarity effects on tree growth are contingent on tree size and climatic conditions across Europe

scientific article

Consistency of demographic trade‐offs across 13 (sub)tropical forests

scientific article published in 2022

Continental mapping of forest ecosystem functions reveals a high but unrealised potential for forest multifunctionality

scientific article

Correction to 'Tree species richness increases ecosystem carbon storage in subtropical forests'

scientific article published on 10 October 2018

Cumulative growth and stress responses to the 2018–2019 drought in a European floodplain forest

scientific article published on 20 December 2021

Demographic performance of European tree species at their hot and cold climatic edges

scientific article published on 24 October 2020

Demographic trade-offs predict tropical forest dynamics

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Designing forest biodiversity experiments: general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China

article

Detecting Tree Species Effects on Forest Canopy Temperatures with Thermal Remote Sensing: The Role of Spatial Resolution

scientific article published on 04 January 2021

Different facets of tree sapling diversity influence browsing intensity by deer dependent on spatial scale

scientific article published on 26 July 2017

Disentangling coordination among functional traits using an individual-centred model: impact on plant performance at intra- and inter-specific levels

scientific article

Disentangling the effects of forest-stand type and dead-wood origin of the early successional stage on the diversity of wood-inhabiting fungi

scientific article published in 2016

Disentangling the environmental-heterogeneity--species-diversity relationship along a gradient of human footprint

scientific article

Dispersal limitation drives successional pathways in Central Siberian forests under current and intensified fire regimes

scientific article

Diversity Effects on Canopy Structure Change throughout a Growing Season in Experimental Grassland Communities

scientific article published on 24 March 2022

Diversity promotes temporal stability across levels of ecosystem organization in experimental grasslands

scientific article

Drivers of CO2 Emission Rates from Dead Wood Logs of 13 Tree Species in the Initial Decomposition Phase

Dry season soil water potential maps of a 50 hectare tropical forest plot on Barro Colorado Island, Panama

scientific article published on 17 May 2019

Early subtropical forest growth is driven by community mean trait values and functional diversity rather than the abiotic environment

scientific article

Ecophysiological Characteristics of Mature Trees and Stands - Consequences for Old-Growth Forest Productivity

Effective Biodiversity Monitoring Needs a Culture of Integration

scientific article

Effective restoration measures in river‐floodplain ecosystems: Lessons learned from the ‘Wilde Mulde’ project

scientific article published on 10 February 2022

Effects of above- and belowground partial harvest disturbance on growth and water status of residual sugar maple

scientific article published in December 2008

Effects of reforestation, deforestation, and afforestation on carbon storage in soils

scientific article published on January 2005

Erratum: Complementarity effects on tree growth are contingent on tree size and climatic conditions across Europe.

scientific article published on 4 June 2018

Essential Annotation Schema for Ecology (EASE)-A framework supporting the efficient data annotation and faceted navigation in ecology

scientific article published on 12 October 2017

Estimating Basal Area of Spruce and Fir in Post-fire Residual Stands in Central Siberia Using Quickbird, Feature Selection, and Random Forests

article

Evaluating tree carbon predictions for beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in western Germany

scientific article published on 05 November 2003

Evolution of interdisciplinarity in biodiversity science

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

Forest growth resistance and resilience to the 2018–2020 drought depend on tree diversity and mycorrhizal type

scientific article published on 12 July 2024

From pots to plots: hierarchical trait-based prediction of plant performance in a mesic grassland

article

Functional Resilience against Climate-Driven Extinctions - Comparing the Functional Diversity of European and North American Tree Floras

scientific article

Functional diversity underlies demographic responses to environmental variation in European forests

article

Functional traits explain light and size response of growth rates in tropical tree species

scientific article published on December 2012

Functional traits influence patterns in vegetative and reproductive plant phenology – a multi‐botanical garden study

scientific article published in 2022

Gemini: A grassland model simulating the role of plant traits for community dynamics and ecosystem functioning. Parameterization and evaluation

article

Generic biomass functions for Common beech (Fagus sylvatica) in Central Europe: predictions and components of uncertainty

scientific article published on 02 June 2008

Generic biomass functions for Norway spruce in Central Europe--a meta-analysis approach toward prediction and uncertainty estimation

scientific article published on February 2004

Global meta-analysis of wood decomposition rates: a role for trait variation among tree species?

scientific article published on 5 November 2008

Global relationship of wood and leaf litter decomposability: the role of functional traits within and across plant organs

article

Global trait-environment relationships of plant communities

article

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

article

Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits

scientific article published on 8 January 2015

Growth responses to soil water potential indirectly shape local species distributions of tropical forest seedlings

article

Habitat filtering and niche differentiation jointly explain species relative abundance within grassland communities along fertility and disturbance gradients

scientific article

Harmonizing, annotating and sharing data in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research

article by Karin Nadrowski et al published 20 December 2012 in Methods in Ecology and Evolution

How can we bring together empiricists and modellers in functional biodiversity research?

scientific article published in 2013

Identifying the tree species compositions that maximize ecosystem functioning in European forests

article

Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment

scientific article

Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment

scientific article published in Science

Inferring plant functional diversity from space: the potential of Sentinel-2

scientific article published on 24 August 2019

Integrated Regional Changes in Arctic Climate Feedbacks: Implications for the Global Climate System

article

Intraspecific trait variability of trees is related to canopy species richness in European forests

scientific article published on 27 December 2018

Is forest diversity driving ecosystem function and service?

Jack-of-all-trades effects drive biodiversity-ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in European forests

scientific article

LCVP, The Leipzig catalogue of vascular plants, a new taxonomic reference list for all known vascular plants

scientific article published on 26 November 2020

Large-scale wind disturbances promote tree diversity in a Central Amazon forest

scientific article

Laser ablation-combustion-GC-IRMS--a new method for online analysis of intra-annual variation of delta13C in tree rings

scientific article

Leaf and root C-to-N ratios are poor predictors of soil microbial biomass C and respiration across 32 tree species

scientific article published on 27 June 2017

Leaf area and pubescence drive sedimentation on leaf surfaces during flooding

scientific article published on 17 May 2020

Leaf trait-environment relationships in a subtropical broadleaved forest in South-East China

scientific article

Localized defense induction in trees: a mosaic of leaf traits promoting variation in plant traits, predation, and communities of canopy arthropods?

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Long-term study of root biomass in a biodiversity experiment reveals shifts in diversity effects over time

scientific article published in 2014

Maintenance of constant functional diversity during secondary succession of a subtropical forest in China

article

Many ways to die - partitioning tree mortality dynamics in a near-natural mixed deciduous forest

scientific article published in 2012

Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions

scientific article published in December 2017

Mechanisms behind plant diversity effects on inorganic and organic N leaching from temperate grassland

article

Modes of functional biodiversity control on tree productivity across the European continent

scientific article published in 2015

Monitoring Plant Functional Diversity Using the Reflectance and Echo from Space

scientific article published on 15 April 2020

Multiple plant diversity components drive consumer communities across ecosystems

article

Multitrophic diversity in a biodiverse forest is highly nonlinear across spatial scales

scientific article

Ocean governance, maritime security and the consequences of modernity in Northeast Asia

article

Of carrots and sticks

Old-Growth Forests: Function, Fate and Value – an Overview

On Learning From Game Annotations

On the biogeography of seed mass in Germany - distribution patterns and environmental correlates

article

On the combined effect of soil fertility and topography on tree growth in subtropical forest ecosystems—a study from SE China

article

Partitioning direct and indirect human-induced effects on carbon sequestration of managed coniferous forests using model simulations and forest inventories

article

Patterns of richness across forest beetle communities—A methodological comparison of observed and estimated species numbers

scientific article published on 21 December 2020

Performance of tropical forest seedlings under shade and drought: an interspecific trade-off in demographic responses

scientific article published on 11 December 2019

Physiodiversity - new tools allow physiologist to embrace biodiversity and reconstruct the evolution of 'physiologies'?

scientific article

Plant diversity effects on the water balance of an experimental grassland

article

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

Plant species richness negatively affects root decomposition in grasslands

article

Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning

scientific article published on 05 October 2020

Plasticity of plant form and function sustains productivity and dominance along environment and competition gradients. A modeling experiment with Gemini

article

Potential and limitations of inferring ecosystem photosynthetic capacity from leaf functional traits

scientific article

Potential links between wood-inhabiting and soil fungal communities: Evidence from high-throughput sequencing

scientific article published on 27 May 2019

Predicting biomass of hyperdiverse and structurally complex central Amazonian forests – a virtual approach using extensive field data

article by Daniel Magnabosco Marra et al published 11 March 2016 in Biogeosciences

Predicting invertebrate herbivory from plant traits: polycultures show strong nonadditive effects

scientific article published in July 2013

Predicting species' range limits from functional traits for the tree flora of North America

scientific article

Publisher Correction: Stand age and species richness dampen interannual variation of ecosystem-level photosynthetic capacity

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Readable workflows need simple data

scientific article published on 17 June 2014

Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems.

scientific article published on November 2001

Regeneration patterns in boreal Scots pine glades linked to cold-induced photoinhibition

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Regional carbon dioxide implications of forest bioenergy production

article

Reply to: Plant traits alone are good predictors of ecosystem properties when used carefully

scientific article published in 2023

Resilience trinity: safeguarding ecosystem services across three different time horizons and decision contexts

scholarly article published 14 February 2019

Response of demographic rates of tropical trees to light availability: can position-based competition indices replace information from canopy census data?

scientific article

Root chemistry and soil fauna, but not soil abiotic conditions explain the effects of plant diversity on root decomposition

scientific article

Salivary cues: simulated roe deer browsing induces systemic changes in phytohormones and defence chemistry in wild-grown maple and beech saplings

article by Bettina Ohse et al published 8 August 2016 in Functional Ecology

Seasonal and annual variations in the photosynthetic productivity and carbon balance of a central Siberian pine forest

scientific article published on 17 December 2012

Securing Japan in the ‘West’: The US-Japan Alliance and Identity Politics in the Asian Century

article

Securing the seas, securing the state: Hope, danger and the politics of order in the Asia-Pacific

article

Simple measures of climate, soil properties and plant traits predict national-scale grassland soil carbon stocks

article

Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment

Species-specific and generic biomass equations for seedlings and saplings of European tree species

Stand age and species richness dampen interannual variation of ecosystem-level photosynthetic capacity

scholarly article by Talie Musavi et al published 23 January 2017 in Nature Ecology and Evolution

Strong positive biodiversity-productivity relationships in a subtropical forest experiment

TRY - a global database of plant traits

scientific article (publication date: 21 June 2011)

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Taking a closer look: disentangling effects of functional diversity on ecosystem functions with a trait-based model across hierarchy and time

scientific article

Tallo–a global tree allometry and crown architecture database

scientific article published on 15 June 2022

Temperature sensitivity of termites determines global wood decay rates

Terrestrial laser scanning reveals temporal changes in biodiversity mechanisms driving grassland productivity

scientific article published in 2019

The Future of Complementarity: Disentangling Causes from Consequences

scientific article published on 04 December 2018

The PhenObs initiative: A standardised protocol for monitoring phenological responses to climate change using herbaceous plant species in botanical gardens

scientific article published on 10 January 2021

The function‐dominance correlation drives the direction and strength of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships

scientific article

The global spectrum of plant form and function

scientific article

The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

The iDiv Ecotron—A flexible research platform for multitrophic biodiversity research

scientific article published on 07 October 2021

The imprint of plants on ecosystem functioning: A data-driven approach

article

The potential for rising CO2 to account for the observed uptake of carbon by tropical, temperate, and boreal forest biomes.

scientific article published on January 2005

The rise and fall of biodiversity in literature: A comprehensive quantification of historical changes in the use of vernacular labels for biological taxa in Western creative literature

scientific article from 2021

The significance of tree-tree interactions for forest ecosystem functioning

scientific article published on 09 February 2021

Time matters for plant diversity effects on nitrate leaching from temperate grassland

article

Topographical factors related to flooding frequency promote ecosystem multifunctionality of riparian floodplains

scientific article published on 30 October 2021

Toward a methodical framework for comprehensively assessing forest multifunctionality

scientific article published on 6 November 2017

Towards a thesaurus of plant characteristics: an ecological contribution

article

Tree neighbourhood matters – Tree species composition drives diversity–productivity patterns in a near-natural beech forest

article

Tree size and climatic water deficit control root to shoot ratio in individual trees globally

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Tree species richness increases ecosystem carbon storage in subtropical forests

scientific article published on 22 August 2018

Tree species traits but not diversity mitigate stem breakage in a subtropical forest following a rare and extreme ice storm

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

UBY - A Large-Scale Unified Lexical-Semantic Resource Based on LMF

scientific article published in April 2012

Vegetation characteristics control local sediment and nutrient retention on but not underneath vegetation in floodplain meadows

scientific article published on 02 December 2021

Vegetation of natural and stabilized riverbanks and early effects of removal of bank fixation

scientific article published on 11 February 2022

Weak reciprocal relationships between productivity and plant biodiversity in managed grasslands

scientific article published in 2024

Whole-plant trait spectra of North American woody plant species reflect fundamental ecological strategies

article

Whose ‘Freedom of Navigation’? Australia, China, the United States and the making of order in the ‘Indo-Pacific’

article

Windthrows control biomass patterns and functional composition of Amazon forests

article

Wood decomposition is more strongly controlled by temperature than by tree species and decomposer diversity in highly species rich subtropical forests

scientific article published on 16 November 2018

rBEFdata: documenting data exchange and analysis for a collaborative data management platform

scientific article

‘Power’ and ‘stability’ in the China–Japan–South Korea regional security complex

article