List of works - Michael Bahn

A methodology to derive global maps of leaf traits using remote sensing and climate data

scientific article published in 2018

A model of whole plant gas exchange for herbaceous species from mountain grassland sites differing in land use

article

A multi-component, multi-species model of vegetation–atmosphere CO2 and energy exchange for mountain grasslands

article

A multisite analysis of temporal random errors in soil CO2efflux

scholarly article

A nitrogen sensitive model of leaf carbon dioxide and water vapour gas exchange: application to 13 key species from differently managed mountain grassland ecosystems

article

A systemic overreaction to years versus decades of warming in a subarctic grassland ecosystem

scientific article published on 09 December 2019

Accounting for Complexity in Resilience Comparisons: A Reply to Yeung and Richardson, and Further Considerations

scientific article published on 17 July 2018

Advancing the Understanding of Adaptive Capacity of Social‐Ecological Systems to Absorb Climate Extremes

Asymmetric Responses of Primary Productivity to Altered Precipitation Simulated by Ecosystem Models across Three Longterm Grassland Sites

article

Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to altered precipitation simulated by ecosystem models across three long-term grassland sites

article

Biotic, Abiotic, and Management Controls on the Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange of European Mountain Grassland Ecosystems

Can current moisture responses predict soil CO<sub>2</sub> efflux under altered precipitation regimes? A synthesis of manipulation experiments

article

Canopy structure versus physiology effects on net photosynthesis of mountain grasslands differing in land use

scholarly article by Georg Wohlfahrt et al published December 2003 in Ecological Modelling

Carbon allocation and carbon isotope fluxes in the plant-soil-atmosphere continuum: a review

article

Catalytic power of enzymes decreases with temperature: new insights for understanding soil C cycling and microbial ecology under warming

scientific article published on 23 April 2018

Circadian Regulation Does Not Optimize Stomatal Behaviour

scientific article published on 25 August 2020

Circadian rhythms have significant effects on leaf-to-canopy gas exchange under field conditions

Circadian rhythms have significant effects on leaf-to-canopy scale gas exchange under field conditions

scientific article

Circadian rhythms regulate the environmental responses of net CO 2 exchange in bean and cotton canopies

article

Climate change alters temporal dynamics of alpine soil microbial functioning and biogeochemical cycling via earlier snowmelt

scientific article published on 22 February 2021

Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

scientific article

Climate-biosphere interactions in a more extreme world

scientific article published on 3 January 2014

Climatic and evolutionary contexts are required to infer plant life history strategies from functional traits at a global scale

scientific article published on 27 February 2021

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

scientific article published on 23 December 2021

Comparing ecosystem and soil respiration: Review and key challenges of tower-based and soil measurements

Composition and activity of nitrifier communities in soil are unresponsive to elevated temperature and CO2, but strongly affected by drought

scientific article published on 07 August 2020

Connecting the Green and Brown Worlds

scientific article published in 2013

Contrasting drought legacy effects on gross primary productivity in a mixed versus pure beech forest

scientific article published in 2022

Contribution of above- and below-ground plant traits to the structure and function of grassland soil microbial communities

scientific article

Corrigendum to "Can current moisture responses predict soil CO 2 efflux under altered precipitation regimes? A synthesis of manipulation experiments"

article

Decomposing the land-use specific response of plant functional traits along environmental gradients

scientific article

Denitrifying pathways dominate nitrous oxide emissions from managed grassland during drought and rewetting

scientific article published in 2021

Designing an experiment with quantitative treatment factors to study the effects of climate change

Determination of root and microbial contributions to the CO2 emission from soil by the substrate-induced respiration method

Different functional characteristics can explain different dimensions of plant invasion success

scientific article

Disentangling climate from soil nutrient effects on plant biomass production using a multispecies phytometer

scientific article published on 09 August 2021

Disentangling leaf area and environmental effects on the response of the net ecosystem CO2 exchange to diffuse radiation

scientific article (publication date: August 2008)

Does photosynthesis affect grassland soil-respired CO2 and its carbon isotope composition on a diurnal timescale?

scientific article (publication date: 2009)

Does the leaf economic spectrum hold within plant functional types? A Bayesian multivariate trait meta-analysis

scientific article published on 30 January 2020

Does the leaf economic spectrum hold within plant functional types? A Bayesian multivariate trait meta-analysis:

article

Drought erodes mountain plant community resistance to novel species under a warming climate

scientific article published on 7 March 2023

Drought history affects grassland plant and microbial carbon turnover during and after a subsequent drought event

scientific article published on 24 May 2016

Drought intensity alters productivity, carbon allocation and plant nitrogen uptake in fast versus slow grassland communities

scientific article published on 6 June 2023

Drought soil legacy alters drivers of plant diversity-productivity relationships in oldfield systems

scientific article published on 6 May 2022

Drought-Induced Accumulation of Root Exudates Supports Post-drought Recovery of Microbes in Mountain Grassland

scientific article published on 07 November 2018

Drought-induced reduction in uptake of recently photosynthesized carbon by springtails and mites in alpine grassland

scientific article

ECOMONT: a combined approach of field measurements and process-based modelling for assessing effects of land-use changes in mountain landscapes

scientific article published in 1998

Ecological memory of recurrent drought modifies soil processes via changes in soil microbial community

scientific article published on 06 September 2021

Ecosystem fluxes during drought and recovery in an experimental forest

Eddy covariance measurements of carbon dioxide, latent and sensible energy fluxes above a meadow on a mountain slope

scientific article

Effects of Land-Use Changes on Sources, Sinks and Fluxes of Carbon in European Mountain Grasslands

article

Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts

scientific article

Effects of drought on nitrogen turnover and abundances of ammonia-oxidizers in mountain grassland

article

Effects of land use and climate on carbon and nitrogen pool partitioning in European mountain grasslands

scientific article published on 22 January 2022

Elevated CO2 maintains grassland net carbon uptake under a future heat and drought extreme

scientific article

Elevation alters ecosystem properties across temperate treelines globally

scientific article

Emerging mechanisms of ecosystem functioning in a warmer and drier world

Estimation of daytime ecosystem respiration to determine gross primary production of a mountain meadow

article

Experimental assessment of the contribution of plant root respiration to the emission of carbon dioxide from the soil

article

Experimental drought reduces the transfer of recently fixed plant carbon to soil microbes and alters the bacterial community composition in a mountain meadow

scientific article

Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

scientific article published on 8 January 2024

Few multiyear precipitation-reduction experiments find a shift in the productivity-precipitation relationship

scientific article

Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought

scientific article published on 10 March 2022

Free and protected soil organic carbon dynamics respond differently to abandonment of mountain grassland

article

Functional thresholds alter the relationship of plant resistance and recovery to drought

scientific article published in 2023

Glacier forelands reveal fundamental plant and microbial controls on short‐term ecosystem nitrogen retention

scientific article

Greenhouse gas fluxes over managed grasslands in Central Europe.

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Impact of land-use change on nitrogen mineralization in subalpine grasslands in the Southern Alps

article by V. Zeller et al published 4 July 2000 in Biology and Fertility of Soils

Importance of nondiffusive transport for soil CO2 efflux in a temperate mountain grassland

scientific article published on 24 March 2015

Improved representation of plant functional types and physiology in the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES v4.2) using plant trait information

article

Increases in functional diversity of mountain plant communities is mainly driven by species turnover under climate change

scientific article published in 2023

Individual and interactive effects of warming and nitrogen supply on CO<sub>2</sub> fluxes and carbon allocation in subarctic grassland

scientific article published in 2023

Influence of plant traits, soil microbial properties, and abiotic parameters on nitrogen turnover of grassland ecosystems

scientific article published on 21 November 2016

Influences of changing land use and CO2 concentration on ecosystem and landscape level carbon and water balances in mountainous terrain of the Stubai Valley, Austria

research work

Inter-specific variation of the biochemical limitation to photosynthesis and related leaf traits of 30 species from mountain grassland ecosystems under different land use

article

Land Use Alters the Drought Responses of Productivity and CO2 Fluxes in Mountain Grassland.

scientific article published on 15 September 2017

Land use affects the net ecosystem CO2 exchange and its components in mountain grasslands

scientific article published in August 2010

Land use in mountain grasslands alters drought response and recovery of carbon allocation and plant-microbial interactions.

scientific article

Land-use and abandonment alters methane and nitrous oxide fluxes in mountain grasslands

Land-use change in subalpine grassland soils: Effect on particulate organic carbon fractions and aggregation

article

Linking plant and ecosystem functional biogeography

scientific article

Linking stable oxygen and carbon isotopes with stomatal conductance and photosynthetic capacity: a conceptual model

scientific article published on November 2000

Long-Term Warming Reduced Microbial Biomass But Increased Recent Plant-Derived C in Microbes of a Subarctic Grassland

scientific article published on 04 November 2021

Long-term warming reduced microbial biomass but increased recent plant-derived C in microbes of a subarctic grassland

scientific article published in 2022

Looking deeper into the soil: biophysical controls and seasonal lags of soil CO2 production and efflux

scientific article

Management versus site effects on the abundance of nitrifiers and denitrifiers in European mountain grasslands

scientific article published on 04 August 2018

Mean annual precipitation predicts primary production resistance and resilience to extreme drought

Microbial growth and carbon use efficiency show seasonal responses in a multifactorial climate change experiment

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Night and day – Circadian regulation of night-time dark respiration and light-enhanced dark respiration in plant leaves and canopies

article

On the choice of the driving temperature for eddy-covariance carbon dioxide flux partitioning

scientific article published in 2012

On the multi-temporal correlation between photosynthesis and soil CO2 efflux: reconciling lags and observations

scientific article

On the ‘temperature sensitivity’ of soil respiration: Can we use the immeasurable to predict the unknown? ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2010

Patterns in CO2 gas exchange capacity of grassland ecosystems in the Alps

Plant carbon allocation in a changing world - challenges and progress: introduction to a Virtual Issue on carbon allocation: Introduction to a virtual issue on carbon allocation

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Plant community structure and nitrogen inputs modulate the climate signal on leaf traits

article

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

scientific article published in Nature

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

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

scientific article

Predicting habitat affinities of plant species using commonly measured functional traits

article

Prediction of annual soil respiration from its flux at mean annual temperature

scientific article published on 13 March 2020

Preface "Biotic interactions and biogeochemical processes in the soil environment"

scientific article published in 2012

Preface ``Stable Isotopes and Biogeochemical Cycles in Terrestrial Ecosystems''

scientific article published in 2012

Preface: Climate extremes and biogeochemical cycles in the terrestrial biosphere: impacts and feedbacks across scales

scientific article published in 2015

Pulse-labelling trees to study carbon allocation dynamics: a review of methods, current knowledge and future prospects

scientific article

Quantifying nighttime ecosystem respiration of a meadow using eddy covariance, chambers and modelling

article

Rainfall manipulation experiments as simulated by terrestrial biosphere models: Where do we stand?

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Redefinition and global estimation of basal ecosystem respiration rate

Relationships between functional traits and inorganic nitrogen acquisition among eight contrasting European grass species

scientific article published on 2 December 2014

Relationships between plant–soil feedbacks and functional traits

scientific article published on 17 June 2021

Relative contributions of plant traits and soil microbial properties to mountain grassland ecosystem services

article

Respiratory fluxes in a Canary Islands pine forest

Responses of belowground carbon allocation dynamics to extended shading in mountain grassland

scientific article published on 6 February 2013

Responses of grassland soil CO2 production and fluxes to drought are shifted in a warmer climate under elevated CO2

scientific article published in 2021

Robustness of trait connections across environmental gradients and growth forms

scientific article published on 02 September 2019

Root respiration in temperate mountain grasslands differing in land use

Seasonal and inter-annual variability of the net ecosystem CO2 exchange of a temperate mountain grassland: effects of climate and management

scientific article (publication date: 27 April 2008)

Seasonal and spatial variation of woody tissue respiration in a Pinus cembra tree at the alpine timberline in the central Austrian Alps

Short-term carbon allocation dynamics in subalpine dwarf shrubs and their responses to experimental summer drought

article

Shrub expansion modulates belowground impacts of changing snow conditions in alpine grasslands

scientific article published in 2021

Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Turnover at and below the Elevational Treeline in Northern Fennoscandia

article by J. Davis et al published August 1991 in Arctic and Alpine Research

Soil Respiration in European Grasslands in Relation to Climate and Assimilate Supply

scientific article (publication date: December 2008)

Soil carbon loss in warmed subarctic grasslands is rapid and restricted to topsoil

scientific article published in 2022

Soil properties as key predictors of global grassland production: Have we overlooked micronutrients?

scientific article

Soil respiration across scales: towards an integration of patterns and processes

scientific article published in April 2010

Soil respiration at mean annual temperature predicts annual total across vegetation types and biomes

scientific article (publication date: 9 July 2010)

Spatial patterns and climate relationships of major plant traits in the New World differ between woody and herbaceous species

article

Species richness effects on grassland recovery from drought depend on community productivity in a multisite experiment

scientific article

Summer drought alters carbon allocation to roots and root respiration in mountain grassland

scientific article published on 10 November 2014

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

The Use of the Ratio between the Photosynthesis Parameters Pmland Vcmaxfor Scaling up Photosynthesis of C3Plants from Leaves to Canopies: A Critical Examination of Different Modelling Approaches

article

The added value of including key microbial traits to determine nitrogen-related ecosystem services in managed grasslands

scholarly article by Thomas Pommier et al published 13 November 2017 in Journal of Applied Ecology

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

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

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

article

The multiple-mechanisms hypothesis of biodiversity–stability relationships

scientific article published in July 2024

The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

scientific article published on 27 September 2021

The ‘Gas-Snake’: Design and validation of a versatile membrane-based gas flux measurement system in a grassland soil respiration study

To replicate, or not to replicate - that is the question: how to tackle nonlinear responses in ecological experiments

article

Towards a Comparable Quantification of Resilience

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

Trace gas fluxes from managed grassland soil subject to multifactorial climate change manipulation

article by Evi Deltedesco et al published May 2019 in Applied Soil Ecology

Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size‐related traits across the tundra biome

article

Understanding ecosystems of the future will require more than realistic climate change experiments - A response to Korell et al

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Using research networks to create the comprehensive datasets needed to assess nutrient availability as a key determinant of terrestrial carbon cycling

article by Sara Vicca et al published 24 October 2018 in Environmental Research Letters

Vegetation effects on the water balance of mountain grasslands depend on climatic conditions

Warming and redistribution of nitrogen inputs drive an increase in terrestrial nitrous oxide emission factor

Warming, elevated CO2 and drought in combination amplify shifts in canopy greenness dynamics in managed grassland

scientific article published in 2025

Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

article

Winter ecology of a subalpine grassland: Effects of snow removal on soil respiration, microbial structure and function

scientific article

List of works by Michael Bahn

A methodology to derive global maps of leaf traits using remote sensing and climate data

A model of whole plant gas exchange for herbaceous species from mountain grassland sites differing in land use

A multi-component, multi-species model of vegetation–atmosphere CO2 and energy exchange for mountain grasslands

A multisite analysis of temporal random errors in soil CO2efflux

A nitrogen sensitive model of leaf carbon dioxide and water vapour gas exchange: application to 13 key species from differently managed mountain grassland ecosystems

A systemic overreaction to years versus decades of warming in a subarctic grassland ecosystem

Accounting for Complexity in Resilience Comparisons: A Reply to Yeung and Richardson, and Further Considerations

Advancing the Understanding of Adaptive Capacity of Social‐Ecological Systems to Absorb Climate Extremes

Asymmetric Responses of Primary Productivity to Altered Precipitation Simulated by Ecosystem Models across Three Longterm Grassland Sites

Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to altered precipitation simulated by ecosystem models across three long-term grassland sites

Biotic, Abiotic, and Management Controls on the Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange of European Mountain Grassland Ecosystems

Can current moisture responses predict soil CO<sub>2</sub> efflux under altered precipitation regimes? A synthesis of manipulation experiments

Canopy structure versus physiology effects on net photosynthesis of mountain grasslands differing in land use

Carbon allocation and carbon isotope fluxes in the plant-soil-atmosphere continuum: a review

Catalytic power of enzymes decreases with temperature: new insights for understanding soil C cycling and microbial ecology under warming

Circadian Regulation Does Not Optimize Stomatal Behaviour

Circadian rhythms have significant effects on leaf-to-canopy gas exchange under field conditions

Circadian rhythms have significant effects on leaf-to-canopy scale gas exchange under field conditions

Circadian rhythms regulate the environmental responses of net CO 2 exchange in bean and cotton canopies

Climate change alters temporal dynamics of alpine soil microbial functioning and biogeochemical cycling via earlier snowmelt

Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

Climate-biosphere interactions in a more extreme world

Climatic and evolutionary contexts are required to infer plant life history strategies from functional traits at a global scale

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

Comparing ecosystem and soil respiration: Review and key challenges of tower-based and soil measurements

Composition and activity of nitrifier communities in soil are unresponsive to elevated temperature and CO2, but strongly affected by drought

Connecting the Green and Brown Worlds

Contrasting drought legacy effects on gross primary productivity in a mixed versus pure beech forest

Contribution of above- and below-ground plant traits to the structure and function of grassland soil microbial communities

Corrigendum to "Can current moisture responses predict soil CO 2 efflux under altered precipitation regimes? A synthesis of manipulation experiments"

Decomposing the land-use specific response of plant functional traits along environmental gradients

Denitrifying pathways dominate nitrous oxide emissions from managed grassland during drought and rewetting

Designing an experiment with quantitative treatment factors to study the effects of climate change

Determination of root and microbial contributions to the CO2 emission from soil by the substrate-induced respiration method

Different functional characteristics can explain different dimensions of plant invasion success

Disentangling climate from soil nutrient effects on plant biomass production using a multispecies phytometer

Disentangling leaf area and environmental effects on the response of the net ecosystem CO2 exchange to diffuse radiation

Does photosynthesis affect grassland soil-respired CO2 and its carbon isotope composition on a diurnal timescale?

Does the leaf economic spectrum hold within plant functional types? A Bayesian multivariate trait meta-analysis

Does the leaf economic spectrum hold within plant functional types? A Bayesian multivariate trait meta-analysis:

Drought erodes mountain plant community resistance to novel species under a warming climate

Drought history affects grassland plant and microbial carbon turnover during and after a subsequent drought event

Drought intensity alters productivity, carbon allocation and plant nitrogen uptake in fast versus slow grassland communities

Drought soil legacy alters drivers of plant diversity-productivity relationships in oldfield systems

Drought-Induced Accumulation of Root Exudates Supports Post-drought Recovery of Microbes in Mountain Grassland

Drought-induced reduction in uptake of recently photosynthesized carbon by springtails and mites in alpine grassland

ECOMONT: a combined approach of field measurements and process-based modelling for assessing effects of land-use changes in mountain landscapes

Ecological memory of recurrent drought modifies soil processes via changes in soil microbial community

Ecosystem fluxes during drought and recovery in an experimental forest

Eddy covariance measurements of carbon dioxide, latent and sensible energy fluxes above a meadow on a mountain slope

Effects of Land-Use Changes on Sources, Sinks and Fluxes of Carbon in European Mountain Grasslands

Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts

Effects of drought on nitrogen turnover and abundances of ammonia-oxidizers in mountain grassland

Effects of land use and climate on carbon and nitrogen pool partitioning in European mountain grasslands

Elevated CO2 maintains grassland net carbon uptake under a future heat and drought extreme

Elevation alters ecosystem properties across temperate treelines globally

Emerging mechanisms of ecosystem functioning in a warmer and drier world

Estimation of daytime ecosystem respiration to determine gross primary production of a mountain meadow

Experimental assessment of the contribution of plant root respiration to the emission of carbon dioxide from the soil

Experimental drought reduces the transfer of recently fixed plant carbon to soil microbes and alters the bacterial community composition in a mountain meadow

Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

Few multiyear precipitation-reduction experiments find a shift in the productivity-precipitation relationship

Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought

Free and protected soil organic carbon dynamics respond differently to abandonment of mountain grassland

Functional thresholds alter the relationship of plant resistance and recovery to drought

Glacier forelands reveal fundamental plant and microbial controls on short‐term ecosystem nitrogen retention

Greenhouse gas fluxes over managed grasslands in Central Europe.

Impact of land-use change on nitrogen mineralization in subalpine grasslands in the Southern Alps

Importance of nondiffusive transport for soil CO2 efflux in a temperate mountain grassland

Improved representation of plant functional types and physiology in the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES v4.2) using plant trait information

Increases in functional diversity of mountain plant communities is mainly driven by species turnover under climate change

Individual and interactive effects of warming and nitrogen supply on CO<sub>2</sub> fluxes and carbon allocation in subarctic grassland

Influence of plant traits, soil microbial properties, and abiotic parameters on nitrogen turnover of grassland ecosystems

Influences of changing land use and CO2 concentration on ecosystem and landscape level carbon and water balances in mountainous terrain of the Stubai Valley, Austria

Inter-specific variation of the biochemical limitation to photosynthesis and related leaf traits of 30 species from mountain grassland ecosystems under different land use

Land Use Alters the Drought Responses of Productivity and CO2 Fluxes in Mountain Grassland.

Land use affects the net ecosystem CO2 exchange and its components in mountain grasslands

Land use in mountain grasslands alters drought response and recovery of carbon allocation and plant-microbial interactions.

Land-use and abandonment alters methane and nitrous oxide fluxes in mountain grasslands