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List of works by Martin M. Gossner

A Biodiversity Boost From the Eurasian Beaver (Castor fiber) in Germany’s Oldest National Park

scientific article published on 13 May 2022

A glimmer of hope – ash genotypes with increased resistance to ash dieback pathogen show cross‐resistance to emerald ash borer

scientific article published in 2023

A slow-fast trait continuum at the whole community level in relation to land-use intensification

scientific article published on 10 February 2024

A summary of eight traits of Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Orthoptera and Araneae, occurring in grasslands in Germany

scientific article published on 31 March 2015

A synthesis of multi-taxa management experiments to guide forest biodiversity conservation in Europe

scientific article published in 2023

Among stand heterogeneity is key for biodiversity in managed beech forests but does not question the value of unmanaged forests: Response to Bruun and Heilmann‐Clausen (2021)

scientific article published on 31 August 2021

Amplifying feedback loop between growth and wood anatomical characteristics of Fraxinus excelsior explains size-related susceptibility to ash dieback

scientific article published on 24 July 2020

Animal-Mediated Ecosystem Process Rates in Forests and Grasslands are Affected by Climatic Conditions and Land-Use Intensity

scientific article published on 06 August 2020

Are gastropods, rather than ants, important dispersers of seeds of myrmecochorous forest herbs?

scientific article published on 22 November 2011

Arthropod communities in fungal fruitbodies are weakly structured by climate and biogeography across European beech forests

scientific article published in 2019

Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Assessing Insecticide Effects in Forests: A Tree-Level Approach Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Author Correction: Heterogeneity-diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests

scientific article published on 30 July 2020

Beech forest management does not affect the infestation rate of the beech scaleCryptococcus fagisugaacross three regions in Germany

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Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article

Biodiversity promotes resistance but dominant species shape recovery of grasslands under extreme drought

scientific article published on 22 March 2024

Biotic threats for 23 major non-native tree species in Europe

scientific article

Blue and green food webs respond differently to elevation and land use

Blue and green food webs respond differently to elevation and land use

scientific article published on 23 December 2021

Building-up of a DNA barcode library for true bugs (insecta: hemiptera: heteroptera) of Germany reveals taxonomic uncertainties and surprises

scientific article

Can School Children Support Ecological Research? Lessons from the Oak Bodyguard Citizen Science Project

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Can multi‐taxa diversity in European beech forest landscapes be increased by combining different management systems?

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Can rove beetles (Staphylinidae) be excluded in studies focusing on saproxylic beetles in central European beech forests?

scientific article

Changes in plant-herbivore network structure and robustness along land-use intensity gradients in grasslands and forests

scientific article published on 14 May 2021

City life of mycorrhizal and wood-inhabiting macrofungi: Importance of urban areas for maintaining fungal biodiversity

Climate Change Effects on Trophic Interactions of Bark Beetles in Inner Alpine Scots Pine Forests

scientific article published in 2021

Climate, host and geography shape insect and fungal communities of trees

scientific article published on 18 July 2023

Climate, immigration and speciation shape terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity in the European Alps

scientific article published in 2022

Congruent patterns of functional diversity in saproxylic beetles and fungi across European beech forests

scientific article published on 09 April 2019

Conservation in Brazil needs to include non-forest ecosystems

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Conserving forest insect biodiversity requires the protection of key habitat features

scientific article published in 2023

Contrasting effects of grassland management modes on species-abundance distributions of multiple groups

article

Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity

scientific article published on 24 June 2021

Coverage based diversity estimates of facultative saproxylic species highlight the importance of deadwood for biodiversity

scientific article published in 2022

Cross-scale effects of land use on the functional composition of herbivorous insect communities

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Current near-to-nature forest management effects on functional trait composition of saproxylic beetles in beech forests.

scientific article

Deadwood enrichment combining integrative and segregative conservation elements enhances biodiversity of multiple taxa in managed forests

scientific article published in 2018

Deadwood enrichment in European forests – Which tree species should be used to promote saproxylic beetle diversity?

Decadal effects of landscape-wide enrichment of dead wood on saproxylic organisms in beech forests of different historic management intensity

scientific article published on 18 December 2018

Differential responses of herbivores and herbivory to management in temperate European beech

scientific article

Direct and indirect effects of forest management on tree-hole inhabiting aquatic organisms and their functional traits

scientific article published on 22 November 2019

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 importance of space and host tree for the beta-diversity of beetles, fungi, and bacteria: Lessons from a large dead-wood experiment

scientific article published in 2022

Dispersal ability, trophic position and body size mediate species turnover processes: Insights from a multi‐taxa and multi‐scale approach

scientific article published on 30 November 2020

Distance decay 2.0 – A global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities

scientific article published in 2022

Distance decay 2.0 – a global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities

scientific article published on 19 March 2021

Does organic grassland farming benefit plant and arthropod diversity at the expense of yield and soil fertility?

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Does plant phylogenetic diversity increase invertebrate herbivory in managed grasslands?

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Drivers of community assembly change during succession in wood-decomposing insect communities

scientific article published on 19 February 2022

Drivers of community assembly change during succession in wood‐decomposing beetle communities

scientific article published in 2022

Drivers of deadwood decay of 13 temperate tree species are similar between forest and grassland habitats

scientific article published in 2022

Dynamics of standing deadwood in Austrian forests under varying forest management and climatic conditions

scientific article published on 24 January 2023

Effect of dead wood enrichment in the canopy and on the forest floor on beetle guild composition

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Effect of forest management on temperate ant communities

scientific article published in June 2018

Effect of pitfall trap type and diameter on vertebrate by-catches and ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and spider (Araneae) sampling

scientific article published in 2010

Effects of forest management on ground-dwelling beetles (Coleoptera; Carabidae , Staphylinidae ) in Central Europe are mainly mediated by changes in forest structure

scholarly article by Markus Lange published in October 2014

Effects of forest management on herbivorous insects in temperate Europe

scientific article published in 2019

Effects of habitat structure and land-use intensity on the genetic structure of the grasshopper species Chorthippus parallelus

scientific article

Effects of land-use intensity on arthropod species abundance distributions in grasslands

scientific article

Effects of management on ambrosia beetles and their antagonists in European beech forests

scientific article published on 30 January 2019

Effects of management on aquatic tree-hole communities in temperate forests are mediated by detritus amount and water chemistry

scientific article published on 2 September 2015

Eleven years' data of grassland management in Germany

scientific article published on 27 September 2019

Experimental studies of dead-wood biodiversity — A review identifying global gaps in knowledge

Forest Management Intensity Affects Aquatic Communities in Artificial Tree Holes

scientific article

Forest management affects saproxylic beetles through tree species composition and canopy cover

scientific article published in 2022

Forest management and regional tree composition drive the host preference of saproxylic beetle communities

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Forest management intensity measures as alternative to stand properties for quantifying effects on biodiversity

scientific article published in 2014

From bottom‐up to top‐down control of invertebrate herbivores in a retrogressive chronosequence

scientific article published on 23 January 2023

From the South and from the North? – Quilnus marcosi Heiss & Baena and Aradus angularis J. Sahlberg, two flat bug species new for Central Europe (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Aradidae)

scientific article published on 5 January 2018

From water striders to water bugs: the molecular diversity of aquatic Heteroptera (Gerromorpha, Nepomorpha) of Germany based on DNA barcodes.

scientific article

Functional structure of European forest beetle communities is enhanced by rare species

scientific article published on 14 February 2022

Functional traits drive ground beetle community structures in Central European forests: Implications for conservation

Grassland management intensification weakens the associations among the diversities of multiple plant and animal taxa

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Habitat availability drives the distribution-abundance relationship in phytophagous true bugs in managed grasslands

scientific article published on 17 July 2017

Herbivory on the pedunculate oak along an urbanization gradient in Europe: Effects of impervious surface, local tree cover, and insect feeding guild

scientific article published in 2022

Heterogeneity-diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

Hierarchical trait filtering at different spatial scales determines beetle assemblages in deadwood

scientific article published in 2022

High‐resolution 3D forest structure explains ecomorphological trait variation in assemblages of saproxylic beetles

scientific article published on 8 October 2022

Historical and recent land use affects ecosystem functions in subtropical grasslands in Brazil

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Increasing temperature may compensate for lower amounts of dead wood in driving richness of saproxylic beetles

scientific article published in 2014

Influence of arthropod sampling solutions on insect genotyping reliability

article by Bernhard C. Stoeckle et al published May 2010 in Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Insect attraction to herbivore-induced beech volatiles under different forest management regimes.

scientific article published on 31 July 2014

Insect herbivores drive sex allocation in angiosperm flowers

scientific article published in 2022

Insect herbivory facilitates the establishment of an invasive plant pathogen

scientific article

Insights from regional and short‐term biodiversity monitoring datasets are valuable: a reply to Daskalova <i>et al</i>. 2021

scientific article published in 2021

Integrating ecosystem functions into restoration ecology-recent advances and future directions

article published in 2016

Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity

scientific article

Invertebrate herbivory decreases along a gradient of increasing land-use intensity in German grasslands

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Just beautiful?! What determines butterfly species for nature conservation

scientific article published on 07 June 2021

Key ecological research questions for Central European forests

scientific article published in 2018

Land use imperils plant and animal community stability through changes in asynchrony rather than diversity

scientific article

Land use intensification results in abrupt transitions between contrasting grassland states

Land-use components, abundance of predatory arthropods, and vegetation height affect predation rates in grasslands

article by Sebastian T. Meyer et al published February 2019 in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

Land-use effects on the functional distinctness of arthropod communities

scientific article published in 2015

Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities

scientific article

Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services

scientific article published on 22 October 2020

Land-use intensity and landscape structure drive the acoustic composition of grasslands

scientific article published on 05 January 2022

Land-use type and intensity differentially filter traits in above- and below-ground arthropod communities

scientific article

Landscape simplification filters species traits and drives biotic homogenization

scientific article published on 20 October 2015

Less overall, but more of the same: drivers of insect population trends lead to community homogenization

scientific article published in 2023

Lessons learned from a long‐term irrigation experiment in a dry Scots pine forest: Impacts on traits and functioning

scientific article published on 09 January 2022

LiDAR-derived canopy structure supports the more-individuals hypothesis for arthropod diversity in temperate forests

scientific article published in 2018

Limitations to the use of arthropods as temperate forests indicators

Living in Heterogeneous Woodlands - Are Habitat Continuity or Quality Drivers of Genetic Variability in a Flightless Ground Beetle?

scientific article

Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published in May 2016

Long-term restoration success of insect herbivore communities in semi-natural grasslands: a functional approach

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

Losers, winners, and opportunists: How grassland land-use intensity affects orthopteran communities

article published in 2016

Management intensity and temporary conversion to other land-use types affect plant diversity and species composition of subtropical grasslands in southern Brazil

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Mind the gaps when using science to address conservation concerns

Minimal effects on genetic structuring of a fungus‐dwelling saproxylic beetle after recolonisation of a restored forest

scientific article published on 10 April 2018

Mobility costs and energy uptake mediate the effects of morphological traits on species' distribution and abundance

scientific article published on 17 June 2020

Molecular biogeography of the fungus-dwelling saproxylic beetle Bolitophagus reticulatus indicates rapid expansion from glacial refugia

scientific article published on 22 February 2021

Multi-taxa approach shows consistent shifts in arthropod functional traits along grassland land-use intensity gradient

scientific article

Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Multiple glacial refugia of the low-dispersal ground beetle Carabus irregularis: molecular data support predictions of species distribution models

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

National Forest Inventories capture the multifunctionality of managed forests in Germany

scientific article published on 27 January 2021

Native fauna on exotic trees: phylogenetic conservatism and geographic contingency in two lineages of phytophages on two lineages of trees

scientific article

On the occurrence of relict populations of Pytho abieticola J. R. Sahlberg, 1875 in Switzerland (Coleoptera, Pythidae)

scientific article published on 8 March 2023

Optimizing enrichment of deadwood for biodiversity by varying sun exposure and tree species: An experimental approach

scientific article published in 2020

Passive restoration of subtropical grasslands leads to incomplete recovery of ant communities in early successional stages

scientific article published on 15 November 2021

Pathologists and entomologists must join forces against forest pest and pathogen invasions

scientific article

Pflanzenwespen im Kronenraum einheimischer und eingeführter Baumarten in Süddeutschland, erfaßt mit Hilfe von Lufteklektoren (Hymenoptera: Symphyta)

scientific article published in 2008

Phylogenetic isolation of host trees affects assembly of local Heteroptera communities.

scientific article published on 24 March 2010

Plant species composition and local habitat conditions as primary determinants of terrestrial arthropod assemblages

scientific article published in 2023

Plant-invertebrate interactions across a forested retrogressive chronosequence

scientific article published on 31 March 2022

Population restoration of the nocturnal bird Athene noctua in Western Europe: an example of evidence based species conservation

Present and historical landscape structure shapes current species richness in Central European grasslands

scientific article published on 12 January 2022

Protecting the Forests While Allowing Removal of Damaged Trees may Imperil Saproxylic Insect Biodiversity in the Hyrcanian Beech Forests of Iran

article by Müller Jörg et al published 19 June 2015 in Conservation Letters

Radar vision in the mapping of forest biodiversity from space

scientific article published on 18 October 2019

Resource-mediated indirect effects of grassland management on arthropod diversity

scientific article

Restoration‐oriented forest management affects community assembly patterns of deadwood‐dependent organisms

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

Saproxylic beetles as indicator species for dead-wood amount and temperature in European beech forests

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Search for top‐down and bottom‐up drivers of latitudinal trends in insect herbivory in oak trees in Europe

scientific article

Searching for the Optimal Sampling Solution: Variation in Invertebrate Communities, Sample Condition and DNA Quality

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

Seed consumption and dispersal of ant-dispersed plants by slugs

scientific article published on 4 April 2010

Shifting tree species composition affects biodiversity of multiple taxa in Central European forests

scientific article published on 05 August 2021

Short-distance attraction of saproxylic Heteroptera to olfactory cues

Side-effects of insecticides on leaf-miners and gall-inducers depend on species ecological traits and competition with leaf-chewers

scientific article published on 17 December 2020

Specialisation and diversity of multiple trophic groups are promoted by different forest features

scientific article published on 21 November 2018

Success of a deadwood enrichment strategy in production forests depends on stand type and management intensity

article published in 2017

Temporal and spatial dynamics in soil acoustics and their relation to soil animal diversity

Temporal changes in randomness of bird communities across Central Europe

scientific article

Testing a trapping protocol for generic surveillance of wood-boring beetles in heterogeneous landscapes

scientific article published in 2024

The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition

scientific article

The day after mowing: Time and type of mowing influence grassland arthropods

scientific article published in 2024

The diversity of saproxylic insects (Coleoptera, Heteroptera) on four tree species of the Hyrcanian forest in Iran

scientific article published on 16 September 2018

The impact of even-aged and uneven-aged forest management on regional biodiversity of multiple taxa in European beech forests

article by Peter Schall et al published 30 June 2017 in Journal of Applied Ecology

The impact of forest management on litter-dwelling invertebrates: a subtropical–temperate contrast

The importance of heterogeneity revisited from a multiscale and multitaxa approach

The influence of species traits and q-metrics on scale-specific β-diversity components of arthropod communities of temperate forests

scientific article published in 2011

The relative importance of plant-soil feedbacks for plant-species performance increases with decreasing intensity of herbivory

scientific article published on 24 June 2019

The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales

scientific article published in 2022

The use of forest inventory data for placing flight-interception traps in the forest canopy

The use of water-filled tree holes by vertebrates in temperate forests

scientific article published in 2021

Towards an Ecological Trait-data Standard

Towards an Ecological Trait-data Standard Vocabulary

scientific article published on 2 July 2019

Towards an ecological trait‐data standard

scientific article published on 16 September 2019

Tracking sucking herbivory with nitrogen isotope labelling: Lessons from an individual trait-based approach

scientific article published in 2022

Traits mediate niches and co‐occurrences of forest beetles in ways that differ among bioclimatic regions

scientific article

Trophic level, successional age and trait matching determine specialization of deadwood-based interaction networks of saproxylic beetles

scientific article

Warming underpins community turnover in temperate freshwater and terrestrial communities

scientific article published in March 2024

What does a threatened saproxylic beetle look like? Modelling extinction risk using a new morphological trait database

scientific article published on 04 May 2021

What makes a species a priority for nature conservation?

scientific article published in 2019

Where are we now with European forest multi-taxon biodiversity and where can we head to?

scientific article published in 2023

Where is the extended phenotype in the wild? The community composition of arthropods on mature oak trees does not depend on the oak genotype

scientific article

Wood decay rates of 13 temperate tree species in relation to wood properties, enzyme activities and organismic diversities

scientific article published in 2017

Wood resource and not fungi attract early-successional saproxylic species ofHeteroptera -an experimental approach

Worldwide diversity of endophytic fungi and insects associated with dormant tree twigs

scientific article published March 2022

Impact of non-native tree species in Europe on soil properties and biodiversity: a review

scientific article published in 2022

Invasive Drosophila suzukii outnumbers native controphics and causes substantial damage to fruits of forest plants

scientific article published in 2022

Worldwide tests of generic attractants, a promising tool for early detection of non-native cerambycid species

scientific article published in 2023