List of works - Claus Bässler

50 Years of Cumulative Open-Source Data Confirm Stable and Robust Biodiversity Distribution Patterns for Macrofungi

scientific article published in 2022

A replicated study on the response of spider assemblages to regional and local processes

scientific article published on 7 April 2022

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

scientific article published in 2023

Aggregative response in bats: prey abundance versus habitat

scientific article published on 05 January 2012

Airborne DNA reveals predictable spatial and seasonal dynamics of fungi

scientific article published on 10 July 2024

An experimental test of the habitat-amount hypothesis for saproxylic beetles in a forested region

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2019

Arthropod species richness in the Norway Spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) canopy along an elevation gradient

scientific article published in 2010

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

scientific article published on 30 July 2020

Bacteria inhabiting deadwood of 13 tree species are heterogeneously distributed between sapwood and heartwood

scientific article published on 17 September 2018

Bark Beetle Population Dynamics in the Anthropocene: Challenges and Solutions

scientific article published on 28 June 2019

Bark Beetles Increase Biodiversity While Maintaining Drinking Water Quality

Bark coverage shifts assembly processes of microbial decomposer communities in dead wood

scientific article published on 09 October 2019

Bark-scratching of storm-felled trees preserves biodiversity at lower economic costs compared to debarking

scientific article published in 2016

Beetle diversity is higher in sunny forests due to higher microclimatic heterogeneity in deadwood

scientific article published on 04 March 2022

BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

scientific article published in July 2018

Biodiversity along temperate forest succession

scientific article published on 11 July 2018

Changes in the community composition and trophic structure of microarthropods in sporocarps of the wood decaying fungus Fomitopsis pinicola along an altitudinal gradient

scientific article published on 06 July 2014

Changes in the dominant assembly mechanism drive species loss caused by declining resources

scientific article published on 27 November 2015

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

scientific article published on 09 April 2019

Continental-scale macrofungal assemblage patterns correlate with climate, soil carbon and nitrogen deposition

scientific article published on 18 June 2018

Contrasting patterns of lichen functional diversity and species richness across an elevation gradient

scientific article published in 2015

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

scientific article published in 2022

Dead-wood addition promotes non-saproxylic epigeal arthropods but effects are mediated by canopy openness

scientific article published on 19 October 2016

Deadwood retention in forests lowers short-term browsing pressure on silver fir saplings by overabundant deer

scholarly article

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

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

Diversity and specialization responses to climate and land use differ between deadwood fungi and bacteria

scientific article published in 2023

Do differences in herbivore resistance contribute to elevational niches of species and hybrids in the central European Senecio nemorensis (Compositae, Senecioneae) syngameon?

scientific article published on 15 December 2016

Do plant-based biogeographical regions shape aphyllophoroid fungal communities in Europe?

article

Drivers of bryophyte diversity allow implications for forest management with a focus on climate change

scientific article published in 2010

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

Ecology versus society: Impacts of bark beetle infestations on biodiversity and restorativeness in protected areas of Central Europe

scientific article published on 15 January 2021

Ectomycorrhizal fungi have larger fruit bodies than saprotrophic fungi

scientific article published on 30 August 2014

Effects of macroclimate and resource on the diversity of tropical wood-inhabiting fungi

scientific article published in 2019

Effects of natural disturbances and salvage logging on biodiversity – Lessons from the Bohemian Forest

scientific article published in 2017

Effects of resource availability and climate on the diversity of wood-decaying fungi

scientific article published in 2010

Estimating retention benchmarks for salvage logging to protect biodiversity

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

Estimation of the extinction risk for high-montane species as a consequence of global warming and assessment of their suitability as cross-taxon indicators

article

European mushroom assemblages are darker in cold climates

scientific article published on 28 June 2019

Evolutionary dynamics of host specialization in wood-decay fungi

scientific article published on 03 August 2018

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

Experiments with dead wood reveal the importance of dead branches in the canopy for saproxylic beetle conservation

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

Explaining European fungal fruiting phenology with climate variability

scientific article published on 08 May 2018

Factors influencing carrion communities are only partially consistent with those of deadwood necromass

scientific article published on 25 January 2023

Forest disturbance and salvage logging have neutral long-term effects on drinking water quality but alter biodiversity

scientific article published in 2021

Forest vegetation structure has more influence on predation risk of artificial ground nests than human activities

scientific article published in 2013

Fungal Community Development in Decomposing Fine Deadwood Is Largely Affected by Microclimate

scientific article published on 13 April 2022

Fungal fruit body assemblages are tougher in harsh microclimates

scientific article published on 31 January 2022

Fungal spore diversity reflects substrate-specific deposition challenges

scientific article published on 29 March 2018

Fungi and deadwood diversity: A test of the area‐heterogeneity trade‐off hypothesis

scientific article published on 17 June 2024

Fungi and lichens recorded during the Cryptogam Symposium on Natural Beech Forests, Slovakia 2011.

scientific article published in February 2016

Global Spore Sampling Project: A global, standardized dataset of airborne fungal DNA

scientific article published on 30 May 2024

Global analysis reveals an environmentally driven latitudinal pattern in mushroom size across fungal species

scientific article published on 11 February 2021

Guild-specific responses of forest Lepidoptera highlight conservation-oriented forest management – Implications from conifer-dominated forests

scientific article published in 2015

Handbook for the measurement of macrofungal functional traits: A start with basidiomycete wood fungi

scientific article published on 10 November 2018

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

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

Hill–Chao numbers allow decomposing gamma multifunctionality into alpha and beta components

scientific article published on 10 December 2023

Host abundance, durability, basidiome form and phylogenetic isolation determine fungivore species richness

scientific article published in 2015

How future climate and tree distribution changes shape the biodiversity of macrofungi across Europe

scientific article published in 2023

Hängt der Wachstumsverlauf der Fruchtkörper der Ektomykorrhizapilze vom Wirtsverhalten ab? Messmethode und erste Ergebnisse ⬇️

Identification of factors influencing the Puumala virus seroprevalence within its reservoir in aMontane Forest Environment

scientific article

Impacts of salvage logging on biodiversity: a meta-analysis.

scientific article

Importance of natural disturbance for recovery of the rare polypore Antrodiella citrinella Niemelä & Ryvarden ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2009

Increasing disturbance demands new policies to conserve intact forest

scholarly article published on 26 March 2018

Independent effects of host and environment on the diversity of wood-inhabiting fungi

scientific article published in 2018

Influence of macroclimate and local conservation measures on taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversities of saproxylic beetles and wood-inhabiting fungi

scientific article published on 05 July 2018

Insects overshoot the expected upslope shift caused by climate warming

scientific article

Lichen diversity in temperate montane forests is influenced by forest structure more than climate

scientific article published in 2009

Light and Malaise traps tell different stories about the spatial variations in arthropod biomass and method‐specific insect abundance

scientific article published in 2022

Logging operations creating snags, logs, and stumps under open and closed canopies promote stand-scale beetle diversity

scientific article published in 2023

Lost in the hybridisation vortex: high-elevation Senecio hercynicus (Compositae, Senecioneae) is genetically swamped by its congener S. ovatus in the Bavarian Forest National Park (SE Germany)

scientific article published on 11 March 2017

Mapping a ‘cryptic kingdom’: Performance of lidar derived environmental variables in modelling the occurrence of forest fungi

scientific article

Mean reproductive traits of fungal assemblages are correlated with resource availability

scientific article published on 9 January 2016

Mediterranean moth diversity is sensitive to increasing temperatures and drought under climate change

scientific article published in 2022

Microclimate and habitat heterogeneity as the major drivers of beetle diversity in dead wood

scientific article published in 2016

Molecular fungal community and its decomposition activity in sapwood and heartwood of 13 temperate European tree species

scientific article published on 14 February 2019

Mycoparasitism of Fomitopsis pinicola (Sw.) P. Karst. by Antrodiella citrinella Niemelä & Ryvarden

scientific article published in 2023

Near-to-nature logging influences fungal community assembly processes in a temperate forest

scientific article published in 2014

New insights into the consequences of post-windthrow salvage logging revealed by functional structure of saproxylic beetles assemblages

scientific article

No bull: dung-dwelling mushrooms show reproductive trait syndromes different from their non-coprophilous allies

scientific article published in 2020

Noctuid and geometrid moth assemblages show divergent elevational gradients in body size and color lightness

scientific article published on 11 May 2021

Open-source data reveal how collections-based fungal diversity is sensitive to global change

scientific article published in 2019

Patterns of laccase and peroxidases in coarse woody debris of Fagus sylvatica, Picea abies and Pinus sylvestris and their relation to different wood parameters

Primary determinants of communities in deadwood vary among taxa but are regionally consistent

scientific article published on 14 July 2020

Radar vision in the mapping of forest biodiversity from space

scientific article published on 18 October 2019

Rare species, functional groups, and evolutionary lineages drive successional trajectories in disturbed forests

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

Regional variation in deadwood decay of 13 tree species: Effects of climate, soil and forest structure

scientific article published in 2023

Response of bird assemblages to windstorm and salvage logging — Insights from analyses of functional guild and indicator species

scientific article published on 18 July 2015

Ressourcenverfügbarkeit steuert Fruchtkörpereigenschaften von Pilzgesellschaften ⬇️

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

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

Seven Micarea (Pilocarpaceae) species new to Germany and notes on deficiently known species in the Bavarian Forest

scholarly article published in 2021

Short-distance attraction of saproxylic Heteroptera to olfactory cues

Small beetle, large-scale drivers: how regional and landscape factors affect outbreaks of the European spruce bark beetle

scientific article

Small differences in seasonal and thermal niches influence elevational limits of native and invasive Balsams

Small-scale positive response of terrestrial gastropods to dead-wood addition is mediated by canopy openness

scientific article published in 2017

Snags, logs, stumps, and microclimate as tools optimizing deadwood enrichment for forest biodiversity

scientific article published in 2022

Spinning a laser web: predicting spider distributions using LiDAR ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Spore wall traits of ectomycorrhizal and saprotrophic agarics may mirror their distinct lifestyles

scientific article published on 27 November 2014

Symbiotic status alters fungal eco‐evolutionary offspring trajectories

scientific article published in 2023

Tales and mysteries of fungal fruiting: How morphological and physiological traits affect a pileate lifestyle

scientific article published in 2016

The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition

scientific article

The critical role of tree species and human disturbance in determining the macrofungal diversity in Europe

scientific article published in 2021

Traits and phylogenies modulate the environmental responses of wood‐inhabiting fungal communities across spatial scales

scientific article published on 13 January 2022

Transcriptional response of mushrooms to artificial sun exposure

scientific article published on 05 July 2021

Umweltfaktoren und die Diversität von Großpilzen: eine Analyse mit Ellenbergschen Zeigerwerten ⬇️

What can intraspecific trait variability tell us about fungal communities and adaptations?

scientific article published on 05 July 2021

Windthrow and salvage logging alter β-diversity of multiple species groups in a mountain spruce forest

scientific article published in 2022

Wo die Liebe hinfällt oder Wie die Ektomykorrhiza-Spore ihre Wurzel findet ⬇️

Wo sind die Pfifferlinge vom letzten Jahr geblieben? Einblicke in die Ökologie der Fruchtkörperbildung von Ektomykorrhizapilzen ⬇️

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

Zur Ökologie und Verbreitung von Fomitopsis rosea (Alb. & Schwein.) P. Karst. Mykologische Berichte aus deutschen Nationalparks, Teil 1 (Berchtesgaden) ⬇️

Podpora biodiverzity ve středoevropských lesích - koncepce pro lesníky a pracovníky ochrany přírody

book edition published in 2022

Šumavské houby: druhy klasické i zvláštní, indikátory přirozenosti

book edition published in 2019

List of works by Claus Bässler

50 Years of Cumulative Open-Source Data Confirm Stable and Robust Biodiversity Distribution Patterns for Macrofungi

A replicated study on the response of spider assemblages to regional and local processes

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

Aggregative response in bats: prey abundance versus habitat

Airborne DNA reveals predictable spatial and seasonal dynamics of fungi

An experimental test of the habitat-amount hypothesis for saproxylic beetles in a forested region

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

Arthropod species richness in the Norway Spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) canopy along an elevation gradient

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

Bacteria inhabiting deadwood of 13 tree species are heterogeneously distributed between sapwood and heartwood

Bark Beetle Population Dynamics in the Anthropocene: Challenges and Solutions

Bark Beetles Increase Biodiversity While Maintaining Drinking Water Quality

Bark coverage shifts assembly processes of microbial decomposer communities in dead wood

Bark-scratching of storm-felled trees preserves biodiversity at lower economic costs compared to debarking

Beetle diversity is higher in sunny forests due to higher microclimatic heterogeneity in deadwood

BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

Biodiversity along temperate forest succession

Changes in the community composition and trophic structure of microarthropods in sporocarps of the wood decaying fungus Fomitopsis pinicola along an altitudinal gradient

Changes in the dominant assembly mechanism drive species loss caused by declining resources

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

Continental-scale macrofungal assemblage patterns correlate with climate, soil carbon and nitrogen deposition

Contrasting patterns of lichen functional diversity and species richness across an elevation gradient

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

Dead-wood addition promotes non-saproxylic epigeal arthropods but effects are mediated by canopy openness

Deadwood retention in forests lowers short-term browsing pressure on silver fir saplings by overabundant deer

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

Disentangling the effects of forest-stand type and dead-wood origin of the early successional stage on the diversity of wood-inhabiting fungi

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

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

Diversity and specialization responses to climate and land use differ between deadwood fungi and bacteria

Do differences in herbivore resistance contribute to elevational niches of species and hybrids in the central European Senecio nemorensis (Compositae, Senecioneae) syngameon?

Do plant-based biogeographical regions shape aphyllophoroid fungal communities in Europe?

Drivers of bryophyte diversity allow implications for forest management with a focus on climate change

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

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

Ecology versus society: Impacts of bark beetle infestations on biodiversity and restorativeness in protected areas of Central Europe

Ectomycorrhizal fungi have larger fruit bodies than saprotrophic fungi

Effects of macroclimate and resource on the diversity of tropical wood-inhabiting fungi

Effects of natural disturbances and salvage logging on biodiversity – Lessons from the Bohemian Forest

Effects of resource availability and climate on the diversity of wood-decaying fungi

Estimating retention benchmarks for salvage logging to protect biodiversity

Estimation of the extinction risk for high-montane species as a consequence of global warming and assessment of their suitability as cross-taxon indicators

European mushroom assemblages are darker in cold climates

Evolutionary dynamics of host specialization in wood-decay fungi

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

Experiments with dead wood reveal the importance of dead branches in the canopy for saproxylic beetle conservation

Explaining European fungal fruiting phenology with climate variability

Factors influencing carrion communities are only partially consistent with those of deadwood necromass

Forest disturbance and salvage logging have neutral long-term effects on drinking water quality but alter biodiversity

Forest vegetation structure has more influence on predation risk of artificial ground nests than human activities

Fungal Community Development in Decomposing Fine Deadwood Is Largely Affected by Microclimate

Fungal fruit body assemblages are tougher in harsh microclimates

Fungal spore diversity reflects substrate-specific deposition challenges

Fungi and deadwood diversity: A test of the area‐heterogeneity trade‐off hypothesis

Fungi and deadwood diversity: A test of the area‐heterogeneity trade‐off hypothesis

Fungi and lichens recorded during the Cryptogam Symposium on Natural Beech Forests, Slovakia 2011.

Global Spore Sampling Project: A global, standardized dataset of airborne fungal DNA

Global analysis reveals an environmentally driven latitudinal pattern in mushroom size across fungal species

Guild-specific responses of forest Lepidoptera highlight conservation-oriented forest management – Implications from conifer-dominated forests

Handbook for the measurement of macrofungal functional traits: A start with basidiomycete wood fungi

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

Hill–Chao numbers allow decomposing gamma multifunctionality into alpha and beta components

Host abundance, durability, basidiome form and phylogenetic isolation determine fungivore species richness

How future climate and tree distribution changes shape the biodiversity of macrofungi across Europe

Hängt der Wachstumsverlauf der Fruchtkörper der Ektomykorrhizapilze vom Wirtsverhalten ab? Messmethode und erste Ergebnisse ⬇️

Identification of factors influencing the Puumala virus seroprevalence within its reservoir in aMontane Forest Environment

Impacts of salvage logging on biodiversity: a meta-analysis.

Importance of natural disturbance for recovery of the rare polypore Antrodiella citrinella Niemelä &amp; Ryvarden ⬇️

Increasing disturbance demands new policies to conserve intact forest

Independent effects of host and environment on the diversity of wood-inhabiting fungi

Influence of macroclimate and local conservation measures on taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversities of saproxylic beetles and wood-inhabiting fungi

Insects overshoot the expected upslope shift caused by climate warming

Lichen diversity in temperate montane forests is influenced by forest structure more than climate

Light and Malaise traps tell different stories about the spatial variations in arthropod biomass and method‐specific insect abundance

Logging operations creating snags, logs, and stumps under open and closed canopies promote stand-scale beetle diversity

Lost in the hybridisation vortex: high-elevation Senecio hercynicus (Compositae, Senecioneae) is genetically swamped by its congener S. ovatus in the Bavarian Forest National Park (SE Germany)

Mapping a ‘cryptic kingdom’: Performance of lidar derived environmental variables in modelling the occurrence of forest fungi

Mean reproductive traits of fungal assemblages are correlated with resource availability

Mediterranean moth diversity is sensitive to increasing temperatures and drought under climate change

Importance of natural disturbance for recovery of the rare polypore Antrodiella citrinella Niemelä & Ryvarden ⬇️

Mycoparasitism of Fomitopsis pinicola (Sw.) P. Karst. by Antrodiella citrinella Niemelä & Ryvarden