List of works - Pascal A Niklaus

A comparison of the strength of biodiversity effects across multiple functions

scientific article

A field study of the effects of elevated CO(2) on plant biomass and community structure in a calcareous grassland

scientific article published in January 1999

A guide to analyzing biodiversity experiments

scientific article published in 2017

A link between plant diversity, elevated CO2 and soil nitrate

article

A meta-analysis of responses of soil biota to global change

scientific article

A plant biodiversity effect resolved to a single chromosomal region

article

A study of soil methane sink regulation in two grasslands exposed to drought and N fertilization

Above- and below-ground methane fluxes and methanotrophic activity in a landfill-cover soil

scientific article

Analysis of carbon and nitrogen dynamics in riparian soils: model validation and sensitivity to environmental controls.

scientific article published on 12 May 2012

Author Correction: Directed species loss reduces community productivity in a subtropical forest biodiversity experiment

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Belowground nitrogen partitioning in experimental grassland plant communities of varying species richness

scientific article

Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests

scientific article published in Nature Communications

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 increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

scientific article

Biodiversity promotes primary productivity and growing season lengthening at the landscape scale

scientific article published on 5 September 2017

Biodiversity promotes tree growth during succession in subtropical forest

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Biodiversity: Complementary canopies

scientific article published in 2017

Can niche plasticity promote biodiversity-productivity relationships through increased complementarity?

scientific article

Competition for light causes plant biodiversity loss after eutrophication

scientific article

Compositional and functional stability of aerobic methane consuming communities in drained and rewetted peat meadows.

scientific article published on 7 October 2015

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

scientific article published on 10 October 2018

Correction: Biodiversity Promotes Tree Growth during Succession in Subtropical Forest.

scientific article published on 31 December 2013

Decomposing functional trait associations in a Chinese subtropical forest.

scientific article

Design and Evaluation of a Low-Power Sensor Device for Induced Rockfall Experiments

scientific article published in April 2018

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

article

Direct vs. Microclimate-Driven Effects of Tree Species Diversity on Litter Decomposition in Young Subtropical Forest Stands

scientific article

Directed species loss reduces community productivity in a subtropical forest biodiversity experiment

scientific article published on 02 March 2020

Disentangling effects of air and soil temperature on C allocation in cold environments: A 14C pulse-labelling study with two plant species

scientific article published on 13 July 2018

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

scientific article

Diversity–functioning relationships across hierarchies of biological organization

scientific article published on 5 December 2023

Do grassland plant communities profit from N partitioning by soil depth?

scientific article

Does species richness of subtropical tree leaf litter affect decomposition, nutrient release, transfer and subsequent uptake by plants?

scientific article published in 2017

Ecological and evolutionary approaches to improving crop variety mixtures

scientific article published on 01 July 2021

Effects of Long-Term CO2 Enrichment on Soil-Atmosphere CH4 Fluxes and the Spatial Micro-Distribution of Methanotrophic Bacteria

scientific article

Effects of Plant Species Diversity and Composition on Nitrogen Cycling and the Trace Gas Balance of Soils

article

Effects of drought and N-fertilization on N cycling in two grassland soils.

scientific article

Effects of enemy exclusion on biodiversity–productivity relationships in a subtropical forest experiment

scientific article published in 2022

Effects of plant community history, soil legacy and plant diversity on soil microbial communities

scientific article published in 2021

Effects of plant diversity, functional group composition, and fertilization on soil microbial properties in experimental grassland

scientific article published on 4 May 2015

Effects of plant productivity and species richness on the drought response of soil respiration in temperate grasslands

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Effects of warming and drought on potential N2O emissions and denitrifying bacteria abundance in grasslands with different land-use

scientific article

Erratum to: Effects of drought and N-fertilization on N cycling in two grassland soils

scholarly article

Experimental soil warming and cooling alters the partitioning of recent assimilates: evidence from a (14)C-labelling study at the alpine treeline

scientific article

Field-scale manipulation of soil temperature and precipitation change soil CO2 flux in a temperate agricultural ecosystem

Forest soil respiration reflects plant productivity across a temperature gradient in the Alps

scientific article published on 10 June 2012

Globally consistent influences of seasonal precipitation limit grassland biomass response to elevated CO2

scientific article published on 08 February 2019

Heavy-machinery traffic impacts methane emissions as well as methanogen abundance and community structure in oxic forest soils.

scientific article

How does leaf functional diversity affect the light environment in forest canopies? An in-silico biodiversity experiment

scientific article published on 22 December 2020

How puzzles are shaping our understanding of biodiversity: A call for more research into biodiversity representation in educational games

scientific article published in 2022

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

Increasing soil methane sink along a 120-year afforestation chronosequence is driven by soil moisture

scientific article

Integrative research efforts at the boundary of biodiversity and global change research

Interactive effects between plant functional types and soil factors on tundra species diversity and community composition

scientific article

Interactive effects of plant species diversity and elevated CO2 on soil biota and nutrient cycling.

scientific article

Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia

scientific article published on 11 May 2020

Leaching of soils during laboratory incubations does not affect soil organic carbon mineralisation but solubilisation.

scientific article

Leaf area increases with species richness in young experimental stands of subtropical trees

article

Leaf litter diversity alters microbial activity, microbial abundances, and nutrient cycling in a subtropical forest ecosystem

scientific article published on 05 July 2017

Leaf litter diversity positively affects the decomposition of plant polyphenols

scientific article published on 21 July 2017

Leaf-litter overyielding in a forest biodiversity experiment in subtropical China

article

Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions

scientific article published on 23 August 2023

Nutrient relations in calcareous grassland under elevated CO

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

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

article

Options of partners improve carbon for phosphorus trade in the arbuscular mycorrhizal mutualism

scientific article published on 13 April 2016

Plant diversity drives soil microbial biomass carbon in grasslands irrespective of global environmental change factors

scientific article

Plant species diversity affects soil-atmosphere fluxes of methane and nitrous oxide

scientific article

Plant trait response of tundra shrubs to permafrost thaw and nutrient addition

scientific article published on 18 October 2020

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

scientific article published on 05 October 2020

Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests ⬇️

scientific article

Positive diversity-functioning relationships in model communities of methanotrophic bacteria.

scientific article published on 11 January 2018

Positive effects of tree species diversity on litterfall quantity and quality along a secondary successional chronosequence in a subtropical forest

article

Remotely sensed between‐individual functional trait variation in a temperate forest

scientific article published on 22 July 2021

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

scientific article published in 2023

Resistance and resilience of the forest soil microbiome to logging-associated compaction

scientific article

Response to Comment on “Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment”

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Shrub growth rate and bark responses to soil warming and nutrient addition – A dendroecological approach in a field experiment

scientific article published on 06 July 2017

Soil environmental conditions and microbial build-up mediate the effect of plant diversity on soil nitrifying and denitrifying enzyme activities in temperate grasslands

scientific article

Soil macrofauna and leaf functional traits drive the decomposition of secondary metabolites in leaf litter

scientific article published on 09 June 2019

Soil moisture dynamics of calcareous grassland under elevated CO2

scientific article published on 01 November 1998

Soil moisture effects determine CO2 responses of grassland species

scientific article published on November 2000

Soil nitrogen dynamics in a river floodplain mosaic.

scientific article published on November 2012

Soil-atmosphere fluxes of the greenhouse gases CO2, CH4 and N2O in a mountain spruce forest subjected to long-term N addition and to tree girdling

article

Spatial micro-distribution of methanotrophic activity along a 120-year afforestation chronosequence

scientific article

Strong positive biodiversity-productivity relationships in a subtropical forest experiment

Temperature and moisture are minor drivers of regional-scale soil organic carbon dynamics

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

Terrestrial land-cover type richness is positively linked to landscape-level functioning

scientific article published on 09 January 2020

The 'island effect' in terrestrial global change experiments: a problem with no solution?

scientific article published on 27 July 2015

The influence of leaf litter diversity and soil fauna on initial soil erosion in subtropical forests

scientific article published in 2015

Throughfall kinetic energy in young subtropical forests: Investigation on tree species richness effects and spatial variability

scientific article published in November 2015

Toward a methodical framework for comprehensively assessing forest multifunctionality

scientific article published on 6 November 2017

Tracking litter-derived dissolved organic matter along a soil chronosequence using 14C imaging: Biodegradation, physico-chemical retention or preferential flow?

Trait-based approaches for understanding microbial biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.

scientific article

Tree Diversity Enhances Stand Carbon Storage but Not Leaf Area in a Subtropical Forest.

scientific article

Tree diversity drives diversity of arthropod herbivores, but successional stage mediates detritivores

scientific article

Tree diversity increases levels of herbivore damage in a subtropical forest canopy: evidence for dietary mixing by arthropods?

article

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)

Tree-species interactions increase light absorption and growth in Chinese subtropical mixed-species plantations

scientific article published on 28 August 2019

List of works by Pascal A Niklaus

A comparison of the strength of biodiversity effects across multiple functions

A field study of the effects of elevated CO(2) on plant biomass and community structure in a calcareous grassland

A guide to analyzing biodiversity experiments

A link between plant diversity, elevated CO2 and soil nitrate

A meta-analysis of responses of soil biota to global change

A plant biodiversity effect resolved to a single chromosomal region

A study of soil methane sink regulation in two grasslands exposed to drought and N fertilization

Above- and below-ground methane fluxes and methanotrophic activity in a landfill-cover soil

Analysis of carbon and nitrogen dynamics in riparian soils: model validation and sensitivity to environmental controls.

Author Correction: Directed species loss reduces community productivity in a subtropical forest biodiversity experiment

Belowground nitrogen partitioning in experimental grassland plant communities of varying species richness

Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests

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

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

Biodiversity promotes primary productivity and growing season lengthening at the landscape scale

Biodiversity promotes tree growth during succession in subtropical forest

Biodiversity: Complementary canopies

Can niche plasticity promote biodiversity-productivity relationships through increased complementarity?

Competition for light causes plant biodiversity loss after eutrophication

Compositional and functional stability of aerobic methane consuming communities in drained and rewetted peat meadows.

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

Correction: Biodiversity Promotes Tree Growth during Succession in Subtropical Forest.

Decomposing functional trait associations in a Chinese subtropical forest.

Design and Evaluation of a Low-Power Sensor Device for Induced Rockfall Experiments

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

Direct vs. Microclimate-Driven Effects of Tree Species Diversity on Litter Decomposition in Young Subtropical Forest Stands

Directed species loss reduces community productivity in a subtropical forest biodiversity experiment

Disentangling effects of air and soil temperature on C allocation in cold environments: A 14C pulse-labelling study with two plant species

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

Diversity–functioning relationships across hierarchies of biological organization

Do grassland plant communities profit from N partitioning by soil depth?

Does species richness of subtropical tree leaf litter affect decomposition, nutrient release, transfer and subsequent uptake by plants?

Ecological and evolutionary approaches to improving crop variety mixtures

Effects of Long-Term CO2 Enrichment on Soil-Atmosphere CH4 Fluxes and the Spatial Micro-Distribution of Methanotrophic Bacteria

Effects of Plant Species Diversity and Composition on Nitrogen Cycling and the Trace Gas Balance of Soils

Effects of drought and N-fertilization on N cycling in two grassland soils.

Effects of enemy exclusion on biodiversity–productivity relationships in a subtropical forest experiment

Effects of plant community history, soil legacy and plant diversity on soil microbial communities

Effects of plant diversity, functional group composition, and fertilization on soil microbial properties in experimental grassland

Effects of plant productivity and species richness on the drought response of soil respiration in temperate grasslands

Effects of warming and drought on potential N2O emissions and denitrifying bacteria abundance in grasslands with different land-use

Erratum to: Effects of drought and N-fertilization on N cycling in two grassland soils

Experimental soil warming and cooling alters the partitioning of recent assimilates: evidence from a (14)C-labelling study at the alpine treeline

Field-scale manipulation of soil temperature and precipitation change soil CO2 flux in a temperate agricultural ecosystem

Forest soil respiration reflects plant productivity across a temperature gradient in the Alps

Globally consistent influences of seasonal precipitation limit grassland biomass response to elevated CO2

Heavy-machinery traffic impacts methane emissions as well as methanogen abundance and community structure in oxic forest soils.

How does leaf functional diversity affect the light environment in forest canopies? An in-silico biodiversity experiment

How puzzles are shaping our understanding of biodiversity: A call for more research into biodiversity representation in educational games

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

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

Increasing soil methane sink along a 120-year afforestation chronosequence is driven by soil moisture

Integrative research efforts at the boundary of biodiversity and global change research

Interactive effects between plant functional types and soil factors on tundra species diversity and community composition

Interactive effects of plant species diversity and elevated CO2 on soil biota and nutrient cycling.

Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia

Leaching of soils during laboratory incubations does not affect soil organic carbon mineralisation but solubilisation.

Leaf area increases with species richness in young experimental stands of subtropical trees

Leaf litter diversity alters microbial activity, microbial abundances, and nutrient cycling in a subtropical forest ecosystem

Leaf litter diversity positively affects the decomposition of plant polyphenols

Leaf-litter overyielding in a forest biodiversity experiment in subtropical China

Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions

Nutrient relations in calcareous grassland under elevated CO

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

Options of partners improve carbon for phosphorus trade in the arbuscular mycorrhizal mutualism

Plant diversity drives soil microbial biomass carbon in grasslands irrespective of global environmental change factors

Plant species diversity affects soil-atmosphere fluxes of methane and nitrous oxide

Plant trait response of tundra shrubs to permafrost thaw and nutrient addition

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

Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests ⬇️

Positive diversity-functioning relationships in model communities of methanotrophic bacteria.

Positive effects of tree species diversity on litterfall quantity and quality along a secondary successional chronosequence in a subtropical forest

Remotely sensed between‐individual functional trait variation in a temperate forest

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

Resistance and resilience of the forest soil microbiome to logging-associated compaction

Response to Comment on “Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment”

Shrub growth rate and bark responses to soil warming and nutrient addition – A dendroecological approach in a field experiment

Soil environmental conditions and microbial build-up mediate the effect of plant diversity on soil nitrifying and denitrifying enzyme activities in temperate grasslands

Soil macrofauna and leaf functional traits drive the decomposition of secondary metabolites in leaf litter