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A cross‐scale assessment of productivity–diversity relationships

scientific article published in 2020

A framework for disentangling ecological mechanisms underlying the island species-area relationship

A framework for disentangling ecological mechanisms underlying the island species–area relationship

scientific article published in 2019

Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats

scientific article

Dispersal and diversity - unifying scale-dependent relationships within the neutral theory

scientific article published in 2011

Do abundance distributions and species aggregation correctly predict macroecological biodiversity patterns in tropical forests?

scientific article

E-referrals: improving the routine interspecialty inpatient referral system

Ecosystem decay exacerbates biodiversity loss with habitat loss

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Embracing scale-dependence to achieve a deeper understanding of biodiversity and its change across communities

scientific article published on 05 September 2018

Embracing scale-dependence to achieve a deeper understanding of biodiversity and its change across communities

scientific article published on 3 March 2018

Environmental heterogeneity drives fine-scale species assembly and functional diversity of annual plants in a semi-arid environment

scientific article published on 07 January 2017

Extinction rate has a complex and non-linear relationship with area

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Forestry contributed to warming of forest ecosystems in northern Germany during the extreme summers of 2018 and 2019

scientific article published on 14 July 2021

FragSAD: A database of diversity and species abundance distributions from habitat fragments

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Grazing response patterns indicate isolation of semi-natural European grasslands

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How can we bring together empiricists and modellers in functional biodiversity research?

scientific article published in 2013

Integrating the underlying structure of stochasticity into community ecology

scientific article published on 26 December 2019

Interactions between winter and summer herbivory affect spatial and temporal plant nutrient dynamics in tundra grassland communities

scientific article published in 2020

Intraspecific trait variation increases species diversity in a trait-based grassland model

scientific article published on 05 October 2018

Linking trait similarity to interspecific spatial associations in a moist tropical forest

Measurement of Biodiversity (MoB): A method to separate the scale‐dependent effects of species abundance distribution, density, and aggregation on diversity change

scientific article

Mediterranean marine protected areas have higher biodiversity via increased evenness, not abundance

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

Metacommunity, mainland-island system or island communities? Assessing the regional dynamics of plant communities in a fragmented landscape

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MoB (Measurement of Biodiversity): a method to separate the scale-dependent effects of species abundance distribution, density, and aggregation on diversity change

scientific article published on 7 January 2018

Modelling the effect of belowground herbivory on grassland diversity

scientific article published in 2014

Monodominance in tropical forests: modelling reveals emerging clusters and phase transitions

scientific article

Moving beyond abundance distributions: neutral theory and spatial patterns in a tropical forest

scientific article published in March 2015

Plant functional traits and community assembly along interacting gradients of productivity and fragmentation

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Resolving the SLOSS dilemma for biodiversity conservation: a research agenda

scientific article

Reversed effects of grazing on plant diversity: the role of below-ground competition and size symmetry

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Scale-dependent determinants of plant species richness in a semi-arid fragmented agro-ecosystem

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Scale-dependent species-area and species-isolation relationships: a review and a test study from a fragmented semi-arid agro-ecosystem

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Spatial scaling of extinction rates: Theory and data reveal nonlinearity and a major upscaling and downscaling challenge

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Species composition and forest structure explain the temperature sensitivity patterns of productivity in temperate forests

scientific article published in 2018

Species composition and forest structure explain the temperature sensitivity patterns of productivity in temperate forests

Supplementary material to "Species composition and forest structure explain the temperature sensitivity patterns of productivity in temperate forests"

The function‐dominance correlation drives the direction and strength of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships

scientific article

The geometry of habitat fragmentation: Effects of species distribution patterns on extinction risk due to habitat conversion

scientific article published on 18 February 2019

The “Supporting Kids, Avoiding Problems” (SKIP) study: relationships between school exclusion, psychopathology, development and attainment – a case control study

Two Mediterranean annuals feature high within-population trait variability and respond differently to a precipitation gradient

scientific article published on 16 November 2017

What drives the spatial distribution and dynamics of local species richness in tropical forest?

scientific article published in September 2017

While shoot herbivores reduce, root herbivores increase nutrient enrichment’s impact on diversity in a grassland model

scientific article published on 12 March 2021

Woody plant diversity, composition and structure in relation to environmental variables and land‐cover types in Lake Wanchi watershed, central highlands of Ethiopia

scientific article published in 2020

mobsim: An <scp>r</scp> package for the simulation and measurement of biodiversity across spatial scales

scientific article published in 2018