List of works - Karsten Wesche

A checklist for using Beals’ index with incomplete floristic monitoring data

scientific article published on 10 May 2021

A complete digitization of German herbaria is possible, sensible and should be started now

scientific article published on 3 February 2020

Analysis of differences and commonalities in wildlife hunting across the Africa-Europe South-North gradient

scientific article published in 2022

Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats

scientific article

BioChangeFields – vegetation database of arable plant communties in Central Germany

scientific article published in 2012

BioChangeMeadows – German meadows in the 1950s, 1990s and in 2008

scientific article published in 2012

Chromosome numbers of the flora of Germany—a new online database of georeferenced chromosome counts and flow cytometric ploidy estimates

scientific article published in 2016

Climate Sensitivity of the Arid Scrublands on the Tibetan Plateau Mediated by Plant Nutrient Traits and Soil Nutrient Availability

scientific article published in 2022

Combined effects of livestock grazing and abiotic environment on vegetation and soils of grasslands across Tibet

scientific article published on 19 April 2017

Contrasting effects of precipitation and fertilization on seed viability and production of Stipa krylovii in Mongolia

scientific article published on 05 February 2011

Correlation of trends in cashmere production and declines of large wild mammals: response to Berger et al. 2013.

scientific article published on 4 November 2014

Declining Genetic Diversity and Increasing Genetic Isolation toward the Range Periphery of Stipa pennata, a Eurasian Feather Grass

article

Delineating probabilistic species pools in ecology and biogeography

article

DiSSCo Prepare Project: Increasing the Implementation Readiness Levels of the European Research Infrastructure

scientific article published on 12 October 2023

Directional trends in species composition over time can lead to a widespread overemphasis of year‐to‐year asynchrony

scientific article published on 21 June 2020

Dry grasslands adjacent to organic fields have higher plant diversity − Even far into their interior

scientific article published in 2023

Effectiveness of protected areas influenced by socio-economic context

scientific article published on 15 August 2022

Effects of altitude and livestock on the regeneration of two tree line forming Polylepis species in Ecuador

scholarly article by Arne Cierjacks et al published 21 April 2007 in Plant Ecology

Effects of large herbivore grazing on relics of the presumed mammoth steppe in the extreme climate of NE-Siberia

scientific article published on 21 June 2021

Environmental controls override grazing effects on plant functional traits in Tibetan rangelands

scientific article published on 25 November 2019

Erläuterungen und Kommentare zu Neuerungen, Abweichungen von der Standardliste der Gefäßpflanzen Deutschlands sowie zu Gattungs- und Artkonzepten in der Rothmaler Exkursionsflora, Auflage 22 ⬇️

scientific article published on 18 October 2022

Exkursionsflora von Deutschland

Extreme genetic depauperation and differentiation of both populations and species in Eurasian feather grasses (Stipa)

article

Fifty years of change in Central European grassland vegetation: Large losses in species richness and animal-pollinated plants ⬇️

article

Front Cover

scientific article published on 29 June 2020

Functional trait trade-offs define plant population stability across different biomes

scientific article published in 2023

Germination performance of native and non-native Ulmus pumila populations

scientific article published on 14 December 2012

Global assessment of the non-equilibrium concept in rangelands

scientific article published on March 2012

Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

scientific article published in September 2022

Global trait-environment relationships of plant communities

article

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

article

Grazing Effects on Mongolian Steppe Vegetation—A Systematic Review of Local Literature

scientific article published on 25 October 2021

Grazing effects on intraspecific trait variability vary with changing precipitation patterns in Mongolian rangelands

scientific article published on 26 December 2019

Habitat engineering under dry conditions: The impact of pikas (Ochotona pallasi) on vegetation and site conditions in southern Mongolian steppes

Habitat loss of floodplain meadows in north Germany since the 1950s

article

Highly Reduced Genetic Diversity of<i>Rosa rubiginosa</i>L. Populations in the Invasive Range

scientific article published in 2010

Historic and recent fragmentation coupled with altitude affect the genetic population structure of one of the world's highest tropical tree line species

scientific article published in 2011

Historical and recent fragmentation of temperate floodplain grasslands: Do patch size and distance affect the richness of characteristic wet meadow plant species?

article

Impact of sowing, canopy cover and litter on seedling dynamics of two Polylepis species at upper tree lines in central Ecuador

scholarly article by Arne Cierjacks et al published 24 April 2007 in Journal of Tropical Ecology

Improved non-destructive 2D and 3D X-ray imaging of leaf venation

scientific article

Interactions between species richness, herbivory and precipitation affect standing biomass in Mongolian rangelands

scientific article published in 2021

Intra- and interspecific hybridization in invasive Siberian elm

Kommentare und Ergänzungen zur Neubearbeitung der 22. Auflage der Rothmaler Exkursionsflora von Deutschland: Grundband 2019: Eine Vorbemerkung ⬇️

scientific article published on 20 November 2018

LOTVS: A global collection of permanent vegetation plots

scientific article published on 30 January 2022

LOTVS: a global collection of permanent vegetation plots

Long-Term Grazing Exclusion Effects Populations Genetics and Functional Traits of Artemisia Frigida in Mongolia

scientific article published in 2022

Long-term decline in the abundance of leafhoppers and planthoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) in Central European protected dry grasslands

article published in 2012

More losses than gains during one century of plant biodiversity change in Germany

scientific article published on 19 October 2022

Mountain forest islands and Holocene environmental changes in Central Asia: A case study from the southern Gobi Altay, Mongolia

article

Non-native populations of an invasive tree outperform their native conspecifics ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Patterns of long‐term vegetation change vary between different types of semi‐natural grasslands in Western and Central Europe

scientific article published on 31 January 2019

Phylogeography of <i>Artemisia frigida</i> (Anthemideae, Asteraceae) based on genotyping‐by‐sequencing and plastid DNA data: Migration through Beringia

scientific article published in 2021

Plant communities of the Gobi Gurvan Sayhan National Park (South Gobi Aymak, Mongolia) ⬇️

scientific article published in 2005

Plant communities of the southern Mongolian Gobi

scientific article published on 22 October 2009

Plant species richness increase across crop field–dry grassland edges masks diverging patterns in generalists and specialists

scientific article published in 2024

Ploidy in the alpine sedgeKobresia pygmaea(Cyperaceae) and related species: combined application of chromosome counts, new microsatellite markers and flow cytometry

article

Post-Fire Population Dynamics of Two Tree Species in High-Altitude Polylepis Forests of Central Ecuador

scholarly article by Arne Cierjacks et al published 25 September 2007 in Biotropica

Post-fire regeneration in a Mediterranean pine forest with historically low fire frequency

scientific article published in 2006

Potential lateral expansion of Polylepis forest fragments in central Ecuador

scholarly article by Arne Cierjacks et al published April 2007 in Forest Ecology and Management

ReSurveyEurope: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe

scientific article published in March 2024

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

scientific article published in 2022

Recruitment of trees at tropical alpine treelines:Ericain Africa versusPolylepisin South America

article

Regional differences in soil pH niche among dry grassland plants in Eurasia

article

Shrub management is the principal driver of differing population sizes between native and invasive populations of Rosa rubiginosa L

article published in 2012

Similar performance in central and range-edge populations of a Eurasian steppe grass under different climate and soil pH regimes

scientific article published in 2010

Step(pe) up! Raising the profile of the Palaearctic natural grasslands

article by Péter Török et al published 26 September 2016 in Biodiversity and Conservation

Sustainable protected areas: Synergies between biodiversity conservation and socioeconomic development

scientific article published on 30 April 2022

Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale

scientific article published on 08 September 2020

Taxonomic diversity masks leaf vein–climate relationships: lessons from herbarium collections across a latitudinal rainfall gradient in West Africa

scientific article published on 11 January 2018

The Kobresia pygmaea ecosystem of the Tibetan highlands – Origin, functioning and degradation of the world's largest pastoral alpine ecosystem

scientific article published on 14 August 2018

The Palaearctic steppe biome: a new synthesis

The function of geophagy in Nepal gray langurs: Sodium acquisition rather than detoxification or prevention of acidosis

scientific article published on 21 November 2018

The performance of Polylepis australis trees along their entire altitudinal range: implications of climate change for their conservation

scientific article published on 03 February 2009

The relationship between plant species richness and soil pH vanishes with increasing aridity across Eurasian dry grasslands

article

Tracking the Origin of Invasive Rosa rubiginosa Populations in Argentina

article

Using incomplete floristic monitoring data from habitat mapping programmes to detect species trends

scientific article published on 25 March 2020

Water supply and demand remain coordinated during breakdown of the global scaling relationship between leaf size and major vein density

scientific article

Wesche, Krause, Culmsee, Leuschner: Fifty years of change in Central European grassland vegetation: Large losses in species richness and animal-pollinated plants ⬇️

scientific article

Which changes are needed to render all genera of the German flora monophyletic?

article

Zum 70. Geburtstag von Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Sander ⬇️

scientific article published in 2019

sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

article

sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots ⬇️

scientific article published on 21 June 2021

List of works by Karsten Wesche

A checklist for using Beals’ index with incomplete floristic monitoring data

A complete digitization of German herbaria is possible, sensible and should be started now

Analysis of differences and commonalities in wildlife hunting across the Africa-Europe South-North gradient

Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats

BioChangeFields – vegetation database of arable plant communties in Central Germany

BioChangeMeadows – German meadows in the 1950s, 1990s and in 2008

Chromosome numbers of the flora of Germany—a new online database of georeferenced chromosome counts and flow cytometric ploidy estimates

Climate Sensitivity of the Arid Scrublands on the Tibetan Plateau Mediated by Plant Nutrient Traits and Soil Nutrient Availability

Combined effects of livestock grazing and abiotic environment on vegetation and soils of grasslands across Tibet

Contrasting effects of precipitation and fertilization on seed viability and production of Stipa krylovii in Mongolia

Correlation of trends in cashmere production and declines of large wild mammals: response to Berger et al. 2013.

Declining Genetic Diversity and Increasing Genetic Isolation toward the Range Periphery of Stipa pennata, a Eurasian Feather Grass

Delineating probabilistic species pools in ecology and biogeography

DiSSCo Prepare Project: Increasing the Implementation Readiness Levels of the European Research Infrastructure

Directional trends in species composition over time can lead to a widespread overemphasis of year‐to‐year asynchrony

Dry grasslands adjacent to organic fields have higher plant diversity − Even far into their interior

Effectiveness of protected areas influenced by socio-economic context

Effects of altitude and livestock on the regeneration of two tree line forming Polylepis species in Ecuador

Effects of large herbivore grazing on relics of the presumed mammoth steppe in the extreme climate of NE-Siberia

Environmental controls override grazing effects on plant functional traits in Tibetan rangelands

Erläuterungen und Kommentare zu Neuerungen, Abweichungen von der Standardliste der Gefäßpflanzen Deutschlands sowie zu Gattungs- und Artkonzepten in der Rothmaler Exkursionsflora, Auflage 22 ⬇️

Exkursionsflora von Deutschland

Extreme genetic depauperation and differentiation of both populations and species in Eurasian feather grasses (Stipa)

Fifty years of change in Central European grassland vegetation: Large losses in species richness and animal-pollinated plants ⬇️

Front Cover

Functional trait trade-offs define plant population stability across different biomes

Germination performance of native and non-native Ulmus pumila populations

Global assessment of the non-equilibrium concept in rangelands

Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

Global trait-environment relationships of plant communities

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

Grazing Effects on Mongolian Steppe Vegetation—A Systematic Review of Local Literature

Grazing effects on intraspecific trait variability vary with changing precipitation patterns in Mongolian rangelands

Habitat engineering under dry conditions: The impact of pikas (Ochotona pallasi) on vegetation and site conditions in southern Mongolian steppes

Habitat loss of floodplain meadows in north Germany since the 1950s

Highly Reduced Genetic Diversity of<i>Rosa rubiginosa</i>L. Populations in the Invasive Range

Historic and recent fragmentation coupled with altitude affect the genetic population structure of one of the world's highest tropical tree line species

Historical and recent fragmentation of temperate floodplain grasslands: Do patch size and distance affect the richness of characteristic wet meadow plant species?

Impact of sowing, canopy cover and litter on seedling dynamics of two Polylepis species at upper tree lines in central Ecuador

Improved non-destructive 2D and 3D X-ray imaging of leaf venation

Interactions between species richness, herbivory and precipitation affect standing biomass in Mongolian rangelands

Intra- and interspecific hybridization in invasive Siberian elm

Kommentare und Ergänzungen zur Neubearbeitung der 22. Auflage der Rothmaler Exkursionsflora von Deutschland: Grundband 2019: Eine Vorbemerkung ⬇️

LOTVS: A global collection of permanent vegetation plots

LOTVS: a global collection of permanent vegetation plots

Long-Term Grazing Exclusion Effects Populations Genetics and Functional Traits of Artemisia Frigida in Mongolia

Long-term decline in the abundance of leafhoppers and planthoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) in Central European protected dry grasslands

More losses than gains during one century of plant biodiversity change in Germany

Mountain forest islands and Holocene environmental changes in Central Asia: A case study from the southern Gobi Altay, Mongolia

Non-native populations of an invasive tree outperform their native conspecifics ⬇️

Patterns of long‐term vegetation change vary between different types of semi‐natural grasslands in Western and Central Europe

Phylogeography of <i>Artemisia frigida</i> (Anthemideae, Asteraceae) based on genotyping‐by‐sequencing and plastid DNA data: Migration through Beringia

Plant communities of the Gobi Gurvan Sayhan National Park (South Gobi Aymak, Mongolia) ⬇️

Plant communities of the southern Mongolian Gobi

Plant species richness increase across crop field–dry grassland edges masks diverging patterns in generalists and specialists

Ploidy in the alpine sedgeKobresia pygmaea(Cyperaceae) and related species: combined application of chromosome counts, new microsatellite markers and flow cytometry

Post-Fire Population Dynamics of Two Tree Species in High-Altitude Polylepis Forests of Central Ecuador

Post-fire regeneration in a Mediterranean pine forest with historically low fire frequency

Potential lateral expansion of Polylepis forest fragments in central Ecuador

ReSurveyEurope: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe

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

Recruitment of trees at tropical alpine treelines:Ericain Africa versusPolylepisin South America

Regional differences in soil pH niche among dry grassland plants in Eurasia

Shrub management is the principal driver of differing population sizes between native and invasive populations of Rosa rubiginosa L

Similar performance in central and range-edge populations of a Eurasian steppe grass under different climate and soil pH regimes

Step(pe) up! Raising the profile of the Palaearctic natural grasslands

Sustainable protected areas: Synergies between biodiversity conservation and socioeconomic development

Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale

Taxonomic diversity masks leaf vein–climate relationships: lessons from herbarium collections across a latitudinal rainfall gradient in West Africa

The Kobresia pygmaea ecosystem of the Tibetan highlands – Origin, functioning and degradation of the world's largest pastoral alpine ecosystem

The Palaearctic steppe biome: a new synthesis

The function of geophagy in Nepal gray langurs: Sodium acquisition rather than detoxification or prevention of acidosis

The performance of Polylepis australis trees along their entire altitudinal range: implications of climate change for their conservation

The relationship between plant species richness and soil pH vanishes with increasing aridity across Eurasian dry grasslands

Tracking the Origin of Invasive Rosa rubiginosa Populations in Argentina

Using incomplete floristic monitoring data from habitat mapping programmes to detect species trends

Water supply and demand remain coordinated during breakdown of the global scaling relationship between leaf size and major vein density

Wesche, Krause, Culmsee, Leuschner: Fifty years of change in Central European grassland vegetation: Large losses in species richness and animal-pollinated plants ⬇️

Which changes are needed to render all genera of the German flora monophyletic?