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List of works by Valentin H. Klaus

A conceptual framework for urban ecological restoration and rehabilitation

scientific article published on 17 February 2021

A guide to assess and value ecosystem services of grasslands

scientific article published on 15 November 2021

A quantitative index of land-use intensity in grasslands: Integrating mowing, grazing and fertilization

scientific article published in 2012

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

scientific article published on 10 February 2024

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

scientific article published on 21 July 2021

Acceptance of near-natural greenspace management relates to ecological and socio-cultural assigned values among European urbanites

scientific article published in February 2021

Additive effects of two agri-environmental schemes on plant diversity but not on productivity indicators in permanent grasslands in Switzerland

And the winner is …. ! A test of simple predictors of plant species richness in agricultural grasslands

scientific article published in April 2018

Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

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

Connectivity of public urban grasslands: implications for grassland conservation and restoration in cities

scientific article published on 29 October 2016

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

scientific article published on 24 June 2021

Contribution of the soil seed bank to the restoration of temperate grasslands by mechanical sward disturbance

scientific article

Convergence and divergence in science and practice of urban and rural forest restoration

Cropping systems alter hydraulic traits of barley but not pea grown in mixture

scientific article published in 2021

Decomposition disentangled: A test of the multiple mechanisms by which nitrogen enrichment alters litter decomposition

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

Direct and plant community mediated effects of management intensity on annual nutrient leaching risk in temperate grasslands

scientific article published on 31 May 2022

Direct and productivity-mediated indirect effects of fertilization, mowing and grazing on grassland species richness

scientific article published in 2012

Do biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments inform stakeholders how to simultaneously conserve biodiversity and increase ecosystem service provisioning in grasslands?

scientific article published on 06 April 2020

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

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Does plant diversity affect the water balance of established grassland systems?

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Drivers of soil respiration across a management intensity gradient in temperate grasslands under drought

scientific article published in 2022

Drought boosts risk of nitrate leaching from grassland fertilisation

scientific article published on 19 March 2020

Drought effects on trait space of winter wheat are independent of land management

scientific article published on 24 May 2024

Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

scientific article published in July 2018

Effects of management practices on the ecosystem-service multifunctionality of temperate grasslands

scientific article published on 7 May 2024

Effects of mowing, grazing and fertilization on soil seed banks in temperate grasslands in Central Europe

scientific article published in March 2018

Eleven years' data of grassland management in Germany

scientific article published on 27 September 2019

Enriching plant diversity in grasslands by large-scale experimental sward disturbance and seed addition along gradients of land-use intensity

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Enzyme kinetics inform about mechanistic changes in tea litter decomposition across gradients in land-use intensity in Central German grasslands

scientific article published in 2022

Evidence from the real world:15N natural abundances reveal enhanced nitrogen use at high plant diversity in Central European grasslands

scientific article published on 14 January 2014

Extracting flowering phenology from grassland species mixtures using time-lapse cameras

scientific article published in 2023

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

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Hemiparasite-density effects on grassland plant diversity, composition and biomass

scientific article published in June 2018

Impact of land-use intensity and productivity on bryophyte diversity in agricultural grasslands

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

scientific article published in 2023

Influence of experimental soil disturbances on the diversity of plants in agricultural grasslands

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Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity

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

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

scientific article published on 22 June 2015

Land use intensification results in abrupt transitions between contrasting grassland states

Land use intensity, rather than plant species richness, affects the leaching risk of multiple nutrients from permanent grasslands

scientific article published on 11 March 2018

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

scientific article published on 22 October 2020

Land-use intensity shapes kinetics of extracellular enzymes in rhizosphere soil of agricultural grassland plant species

scientific article published on 12 February 2019

Landscape management strategies for multifunctionality and social equity

scientific article published on 16 January 2023

Limited capability of organic farming and conservation tillage to enhance agroecosystem resilience to severe drought

Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality

scientific article published in May 2016

Microbial drivers of plant richness and productivity in a grassland restoration experiment along a gradient of land‐use intensity

scientific article published on 11 October 2022

NIRS meets Ellenberg's indicator values: Prediction of moisture and nitrogen values of agricultural grassland vegetation by means of near-infrared spectral characteristics

scientific article published in 2012

Nutrient concentrations and fibre contents of plant community biomass reflect species richness patterns along a broad range of land-use intensities among agricultural grasslands

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Nutrient stoichiometry and land use rather than species richness determine plant functional diversity

scientific article published on 3 December 2017

Organic vs. conventional grassland management: do (15)N and (13)C isotopic signatures of hay and soil samples differ?

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Permanent grasslands in Europe: Land use change and intensification decrease their multifunctionality

scientific article published in 2022

Plant diversity moderates drought stress in grasslands: Implications from a large real-world study on (13)C natural abundances.

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

scientific article published on 9 May 2019

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

scientific article published on 12 January 2022

Public attitudes toward biodiversity‐friendly greenspace management in Europe

scientific article published on 13 May 2020

Recovery of ecosystem functions after experimental disturbance in 73 grasslands differing in land‐use intensity, plant species richness and community composition

scientific article published on 21 June 2019

Reducing Sample Quantity and Maintaining High Prediction Quality of Grassland Biomass Properties with near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy

Restoration of plant diversity in permanent grassland by seeding: Assessing the limiting factors along land‐use gradients

scientific article published on 19 April 2021

Severe drought rather than cropping system determines litter decomposition in arable systems

scientific article published in 2022

Soil conditions drive below‐ground trait space in temperate agricultural grasslands

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

Special issue: Urban ecosystems: potentials, challenges, and solutions

scientific article published in 2021

Temporal and small-scale spatial variation in grassland productivity, biomass quality, and nutrient limitation

scientific article published in 2016

The Evolution of Ecological Diversity in Acidobacteria

scientific article published on 02 February 2022

The costs of diversity: higher prices for more diverse grassland seed mixtures

scientific article published on 04 August 2021

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 chemical properties, land use and plant diversity for microbial phosphorus in forest and grassland soils

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales

scientific article published in 2022

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

Urban Grassland Restoration: A Neglected Opportunity for Biodiversity Conservation

scientific article published on 8 September 2013

Water uptake patterns of pea and barley responded to drought but not to cropping systems

scientific article published in 2022

Will I stay or will I go? Plant species‐specific response and tolerance to high land‐use intensity in temperate grassland ecosystems

scientific article published on 20 March 2019