List of works - Pete Manning

A global comparison of grassland biomass responses to CO2 and nitrogen enrichment

scientific article

A global horizon scan of the future impacts of robotics and autonomous systems on urban ecosystems

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 10 February 2024

Abiotic drivers and plant traits explain landscape-scale patterns in soil microbial communities

scientific article

Above- and belowground biodiversity jointly tighten the P cycle in agricultural grasslands

scientific article published on 21 July 2021

All size classes of soil fauna and litter quality control the acceleration of litter decay in its home environment

article

Assessing the impact of grassland management on landscape multifunctionality

scientific article published in December 2021

Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

scientific article

Bioenergy, Food Production and Biodiversity - An Unlikely Alliance?

article

Biotic carbon feedbacks in a materially closed soil–vegetation–atmosphere system

article

Biotic homogenization can decrease landscape-scale forest multifunctionality

scientific article

COVID-19: Lessons for the climate change emergency

scientific article published on 27 June 2020

Changes in plant species abundance alter the multifunctionality and functional space of heathland ecosystems

scientific article published on 04 August 2021

Combatting global grassland degradation

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 24 June 2021

Decoupling the direct and indirect effects of nitrogen deposition on ecosystem function

article

Direct and indirect effects of nitrogen deposition on litter decomposition

article published in 2008

Discontinuity in the responses of ecosystem processes and multifunctionality to altered soil community composition

scientific article

Ecosystem functions are resistant to extreme changes to rainfall regimes in a mesotrophic grassland

Ecosystem responses to reduced and oxidised nitrogen inputs in European terrestrial habitats.

scientific article published on 06 January 2011

Forage quality declines with rising temperatures, with implications for livestock production and methane emissions

scientific article published in 2017

Forage quality declines with rising temperatures, with implications for livestock production and methane emissions

Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome

scientific article published on 12 March 2020

Global root traits (GRooT) database

scientific article

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

article

Hierarchical responses of plant-soil interactions to climate change: consequences for the global carbon cycle

article

High throughput sequencing combined with null model tests reveals specific plant‐fungi associations linked to seedling establishment and survival

scientific article published on 20 September 2019

Identification of General Patterns of Nutrient and Labile Carbon Control on Soil Carbon Dynamics Across a Successional Gradient

article

Impacts of 120 years of fertilizer addition on a temperate grassland ecosystem.

scientific article

Increasing plant species richness by seeding has marginal effects on ecosystem functioning in agricultural grasslands

scientific article published in 2023

Intransitive competition is widespread in plant communities and maintains their species richness

scientific article published on June 2015

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

scientific article

Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

scientific article published on 22 June 2015

Land-use history impacts functional diversity across multiple trophic groups

scientific article published on 06 January 2020

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

scientific article published on 22 October 2020

Landscape management for grassland multifunctionality

Landscape management strategies for multifunctionality and social equity

scientific article published on 16 January 2023

Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published in May 2016

Lost in trait space: species-poor communities are inflexible in properties that drive ecosystem functioning

scientific article published in 2019

Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services

scientific article published in Nature Communications

National Forest Inventories capture the multifunctionality of managed forests in Germany

scientific article published on 27 January 2021

Nitrogen enrichment modifies plant community structure via changes to plant-soil feedback

scientific article published on 16 July 2008

Not a melting pot: Plant species aggregate in their non‐native range

scientific article

Novel Urban Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services

scholarly article published 31 January 2013

Passive CO2 removal in urban soils: Evidence from brownfield sites

scientific article published on 18 November 2019

Piling on the pressures to ecosystems

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Plant and arthropod community sensitivity to rainfall manipulation but not nitrogen enrichment in a successional grassland ecosystem

scientific article

Plant attributes explain the distribution of soil microbial communities in two contrasting regions of the globe

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

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

scientific article

Plant diversity effects on grassland productivity are robust to both nutrient enrichment and drought

scientific article

Plant ecology. Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

scientific article published on July 2015

Plant functional group composition modifies the effects of precipitation change on grassland ecosystem function

scientific article

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

scientific article published in Nature

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

Plant functional trait shifts explain concurrent changes in the structure and function of grassland soil microbial communities

scientific article published on 9 May 2019

Predicting habitat affinities of plant species using commonly measured functional traits

article

Publisher Correction: Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Publisher Correction: Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published on 16 February 2018

Reply to Byrnes et al.: Aggregation can obscure understanding of ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published on 5 December 2014

Response to Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness"

scientific article published in Science

Seasonal Variation in the Capacity for Plant Trait Measures to Predict Grassland Carbon and Water Fluxes

article

Sensitivity of functional diversity metrics to sampling intensity

scientific article published in 2017

Shifts in microbial communities do not explain the response of grassland ecosystem function to plant functional composition and rainfall change

article

Shifts in seed size across experimental nitrogen enrichment and plant density gradients

article

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

article

Spatial heterogeneity in the determinants of woody plant invasion of lowland heath

article by Peter Manning et al published 2007 in Applied Vegetation Science

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

scientific article published on 21 November 2018

Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient

scientific article published on 20 September 2021

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 Open Traits Network: Using Open Science principles to accelerate trait-based science across the Tree of Life ⬇️

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

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

scientific article published on 7 December 2022

The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic

scientific article published on 5 August 2019

The role of soil phosphorus sorption characteristics in the functioning and stability of lowland heath ecosystems

The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales

scientific article published in 2022

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

Towards the development of general rules describing landscape heterogeneity-multifunctionality relationships

article by Fons van der Plas et al published 27 August 2018 in Journal of Applied Ecology

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

article

Trait-based classification and manipulation of plant functional groups for biodiversity-ecosystem function experiments

article

Transferring biodiversity-ecosystem function research to the management of ‘real-world’ ecosystems

scientific article published in 2019

Understanding context dependency in the response of forest understorey plant communities to nitrogen deposition

article

Weak reciprocal relationships between productivity and plant biodiversity in managed grasslands

scientific article published in 2024

sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

article

List of works by Pete Manning

A global comparison of grassland biomass responses to CO2 and nitrogen enrichment

A global horizon scan of the future impacts of robotics and autonomous systems on urban ecosystems

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

Abiotic drivers and plant traits explain landscape-scale patterns in soil microbial communities

Above- and belowground biodiversity jointly tighten the P cycle in agricultural grasslands

All size classes of soil fauna and litter quality control the acceleration of litter decay in its home environment

Assessing the impact of grassland management on landscape multifunctionality

Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

Bioenergy, Food Production and Biodiversity - An Unlikely Alliance?

Biotic carbon feedbacks in a materially closed soil–vegetation–atmosphere system

Biotic homogenization can decrease landscape-scale forest multifunctionality

COVID-19: Lessons for the climate change emergency

Changes in plant species abundance alter the multifunctionality and functional space of heathland ecosystems

Combatting global grassland degradation

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

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

Decoupling the direct and indirect effects of nitrogen deposition on ecosystem function

Direct and indirect effects of nitrogen deposition on litter decomposition

Discontinuity in the responses of ecosystem processes and multifunctionality to altered soil community composition

Ecosystem functions are resistant to extreme changes to rainfall regimes in a mesotrophic grassland

Ecosystem responses to reduced and oxidised nitrogen inputs in European terrestrial habitats.

Forage quality declines with rising temperatures, with implications for livestock production and methane emissions

Forage quality declines with rising temperatures, with implications for livestock production and methane emissions

Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome

Global root traits (GRooT) database

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

Hierarchical responses of plant-soil interactions to climate change: consequences for the global carbon cycle

High throughput sequencing combined with null model tests reveals specific plant‐fungi associations linked to seedling establishment and survival

Identification of General Patterns of Nutrient and Labile Carbon Control on Soil Carbon Dynamics Across a Successional Gradient

Impacts of 120 years of fertilizer addition on a temperate grassland ecosystem.

Increasing plant species richness by seeding has marginal effects on ecosystem functioning in agricultural grasslands

Intransitive competition is widespread in plant communities and maintains their species richness

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

Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

Land-use history impacts functional diversity across multiple trophic groups

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

Landscape management for grassland multifunctionality

Landscape management strategies for multifunctionality and social equity

Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality

Lost in trait space: species-poor communities are inflexible in properties that drive ecosystem functioning

Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship

Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services

National Forest Inventories capture the multifunctionality of managed forests in Germany

Nitrogen enrichment modifies plant community structure via changes to plant-soil feedback

Not a melting pot: Plant species aggregate in their non‐native range

Novel Urban Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services

Passive CO2 removal in urban soils: Evidence from brownfield sites

Piling on the pressures to ecosystems

Plant and arthropod community sensitivity to rainfall manipulation but not nitrogen enrichment in a successional grassland ecosystem

Plant attributes explain the distribution of soil microbial communities in two contrasting regions of the globe

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

Plant diversity effects on grassland productivity are robust to both nutrient enrichment and drought

Plant ecology. Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

Plant functional group composition modifies the effects of precipitation change on grassland ecosystem function

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

Plant functional trait shifts explain concurrent changes in the structure and function of grassland soil microbial communities

Predicting habitat affinities of plant species using commonly measured functional traits

Publisher Correction: Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life

Publisher Correction: Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality

Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality

Reply to Byrnes et al.: Aggregation can obscure understanding of ecosystem multifunctionality

Response to Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness"

Seasonal Variation in the Capacity for Plant Trait Measures to Predict Grassland Carbon and Water Fluxes

Sensitivity of functional diversity metrics to sampling intensity

Shifts in microbial communities do not explain the response of grassland ecosystem function to plant functional composition and rainfall change

Shifts in seed size across experimental nitrogen enrichment and plant density gradients

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

Spatial heterogeneity in the determinants of woody plant invasion of lowland heath

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

Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient

TRY - a global database of plant traits

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

The Open Traits Network: Using Open Science principles to accelerate trait-based science across the Tree of Life ⬇️

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

The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic

The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic

The role of soil phosphorus sorption characteristics in the functioning and stability of lowland heath ecosystems