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List of works by Ivan Nijs

A hierarchical framework for integrating invasibility experiments incorporating different factors and spatial scales

A simple method to vary soil heterogeneity in three dimensions in experimental mesocosms

scientific article published in 2017

Alien roadside species more easily invade alpine than lowland plant communities in a subarctic mountain ecosystem

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Altered response to nitrogen supply of mixed grassland communities in a future climate: a controlled environment microcosm study

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An alternative approach for infrared heater control in warming and extreme event experiments in terrestrial ecosystems

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An extended patch-dynamic framework for food chains in fragmented landscapes

scientific article published on 09 September 2016

Are plasticity in functional traits and constancy in performance traits linked with invasiveness? An experimental test comparing invasive and naturalized plant species

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Basalt addition improves the performance of young grassland monocultures under more persistent weather featuring longer dry and wet spells

scientific article published in 2023

Both seed germination and seedling mortality increase with experimental warming and fertilization in a subarctic tundra

scientific article published on September 2017

Can complementarity in water use help to explain diversity-productivity relationships in experimental grassland plots?

scientific article published on May 2008

Climatic characteristics of heat waves and their simulation in plant experiments

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Coexistence of species with different dispersal across landscapes: a critical role of spatial correlation in disturbance

scientific article published in May 2016

Comparing temperature data sources for use in species distribution models: From in‐situ logging to remote sensing

scientific article published on 22 July 2019

Corrigendum: An extended patch-dynamic framework for food chains in fragmented landscapes

scientific article published on 19 October 2016

Critical periods for impact of climate warming on early seedling establishment in subarctic tundra

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Disentangling invasiveness and invasibility during invasion in synthesized grassland communities

article by Ann Milbau et al published 15 July 2003 in New Phytologist

Dispersal network heterogeneity promotes species coexistence in hierarchical competitive communities

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

Disturbance effects on early succession of field margins along the shaded and unshaded side of a tree lane

Disturbance is the key to plant invasions in cold environments

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Diurnal changes in the response of canopy photosynthetic rate to elevated CO2 in a coupled temperature-light environment

scientific article published on 01 May 1992

Does climate warming stimulate or inhibit soil protist communities? A test on testate amoebae in high-arctic tundra with free-air temperature increase

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Does previous exposure to extreme precipitation regimes result in acclimated grassland communities?

scientific article published in 2022

Does the stress tolerance of mixed grassland communities change in a future climate? A test with heavy metal stress (zinc pollution).

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Drought inhibits synergistic interactions of native and exotic litter mixtures during decomposition in temperate grasslands

Dynamics of Metabolic Responses to Combined Heat and Drought Spells in Arabidopsis Thaliana under Ambient and Rising Atmospheric CO2.

scientific article published on 15 February 2018

Ecophysiological and morphological parameters related to survival in grass species exposed to an extreme climatic event

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Ecotrons: powerful and versatile ecosystem analysers for ecology, agronomy and environmental science

scientific article published on 03 December 2020

Effect of light and botanical species richness on insect diversity

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Effect of margin strips on soil mineral nitrogen and plant biodiversity

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Effects of a warmer climate on seed germination in the subarctic

scientific article published on 13 May 2009

Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on grassland productivity are altered by future climate and below-ground resource availability

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Effects of climate warming and species richness on photochemistry of grasslands.

scientific article published on October 2007

Effects of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide on gas exchange and growth of white clover

scientific article published on 01 February 1988

Effects of space partitioning in a plant species diversity model

scientific article published on 31 January 2013

Effects of species evenness can be derived from species richness - ecosystem functioning relationships

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Elevated CO2 alters carbon fluxes in early successional Mediterranean ecosystems

Evolution of the vegetation of mown field margins over their first 3 years

Exposure to warming and CO2 enrichment promotes greater above-ground biomass, nitrogen, phosphorus and arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization in newly established grasslands

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Factors determining plant–neighbour interactions on different spatial scales in young species-rich grassland communities

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Fertilized graminoids intensify negative drought effects on grassland productivity

scientific article published on 06 March 2021

ForestClim—Bioclimatic variables for microclimate temperatures of European forests

ForestTemp – Sub‐canopy microclimate temperatures of European forests

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Gap formation following climatic events in spatially structured plant communities

scientific article published on 26 June 2015

Global Change Experiments: Challenges and Opportunities

article by Hans J De Boeck et al published 31 July 2015 in BioScience

Global maps of soil temperature

scientific article published on 30 December 2021

Global maps of soil temperature

Global maps of soil temperature.

Grassland species will not necessarily benefit from future elevated air temperatures: a chlorophyll fluorescence approach to study autumn physiology

Greater impact of extreme drought on photosynthesis of grasslands exposed to a warmer climate in spite of acclimation.

scientific article published on May 2009

Habitat properties and plant traits interact as drivers of non-native plant species' seed production at the local scale.

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How do climate warming and species richness affect CO2 fluxes in experimental grasslands?

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Ideas and perspectives: Heat stress: more than hot air

scientific article published on 24 October 2016

Impact of climate extremes modulated by species characteristics and richness

scientific article published in 2017

Incorporating microclimate into species distribution models

scientific article published in 2018

Increased Turnover but Little Change in the Carbon Balance of High-Arctic Tundra Exposed to Whole Growing Season Warming

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Interspecific plant competition mediates impact of climate change on the ecophysiology of a plant-herbivore interaction

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Invader presence disrupts the stabilizing effect of species richness in plant community recovery after drought

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Leaf and canopy responses of Lolium perenne to long-term elevated atmospheric carbon-dioxide concentration.

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Leaf temperatures in glasshouses and open-top chambers.

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Longer Dry and Wet Spells Alter the Stochasticity of Microbial Community Assembly in Grassland Soils

scientific article published in 2022

Longer dry and wet spells alter the stochasticity of microbial community assembly in grassland soils

scientific article published in 2023

Microclimate shifts in a dynamic world

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Microclimate variability in alpine ecosystems as stepping stones for non-native plant establishment above their current elevational limit

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Modelling plant population size and extinction thresholds from habitat loss and habitat fragmentation: Effects of neighbouring competition and dispersal strategy

scientific article published in 2013

Mountain roads shift native and non-native plant species' ranges

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New Methodologies for Analyzing and Predicting Alien Plant Invasions from Species and Ecosystem Traits1

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On the use of weather data in ecological studies along altitudinal and latitudinal gradients

article by Bente J. Graae et al published 24 October 2011 in Oikos

Patterns and drivers of biodiversity-stability relationships under climate extremes

scientific article published in 2017

Phenology and growth of Fagus sylvatica and Quercus robur seedlings in response to temperature variation in the parental versus offspring generation

scientific article published on 04 March 2019

Phenotypic variation along urban-to-rural gradients: an attempt to disentangle the mechanisms at play using the alien species Matricaria discoidea (Asteraceae)

scientific article published in 2022

Physiological, biochemical, and genome-wide transcriptional analysis reveals that elevated CO2 mitigates the impact of combined heat wave and drought stress in Arabidopsis thaliana at multiple organizational levels

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Plant functional group diversity promotes soil protist diversity

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

Post-drought rewetting triggers substantial K release and shifts in leaf stoichiometry in managed and abandoned mountain grasslands

scientific article published in 2020

Pre-adaptation or genetic shift after introduction in the invasive species Impatiens glandulifera?

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Proximal microclimate: Moving beyond spatiotemporal resolution improves ecological predictions

Quantification of excess water loss in plant canopies warmed with infrared heating

scientific article published on 12 June 2012

Quantifying the randomness of extinctions

Quantifying the randomness of extinctions

scientific article published in 2008

Recovery dynamics and invasibility of herbaceous plant communities after exposure to experimental climate extremes

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Resprouting of woody species encroaching temperate European grasslands after cutting and burning

scientific article published on 19 January 2017

Risk of short-term biodiversity loss under more persistent precipitation regimes

scientific article published on 23 December 2020

Robustness of metacommunities with omnivory to habitat destruction: disentangling patch fragmentation from patch loss.

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Root distribution responses to three-dimensional soil heterogeneity in experimental mesocosms

scientific article published in 2017

Shielded environments reduce stress in alien Asteraceae species during hot and dry summers along urban-to-rural gradients

scientific article published on 13 July 2021

Soil chemistry, temperature and bacterial community composition drive brGDGT distributions along a subarctic elevation gradient

scientific article published on 27 November 2021

SoilTemp: a global database of near-surface temperature

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Species extinction thresholds in the face of spatially correlated periodic disturbance

scientific article published on 20 October 2015

Species interactions determine the spatial mortality patterns emerging in plant communities after extreme events

scientific article published on 8 June 2015

Species persistence in landscapes with spatial variation in habitat quality: a pair approximation model

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Species richness effects on grassland recovery from drought depend on community productivity in a multisite experiment

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Sphagnum-dwelling testate amoebae in subarctic bogs are more sensitive to soil warming in the growing season than in winter: the results of eight-year field climate manipulations

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Sudden changes in environmental conditions do not increase invasion risk in grassland

scientific article published in 2013

Summer heat and drought extremes trigger unexpected changes in productivity of a temperate annual/biannual plant community

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Survival, Gap Formation, and Recovery Dynamics in Grassland Ecosystems Exposed to Heat Extremes: The Role of Species Richness

scientific article published in 2001

The Epiphytic Diatom Assemblages from Terrestrial Mosses in Zackenberg (Northeast Greenland)

scientific article published in 2000

The Importance of Phytogenic Mounds (Nebkhas) for Restoration of Arid Degraded Rangelands in Northern Sinai

scientific article published in 2003

The Role of Species Traits (Invasiveness) and Ecosystem Characteristics (Invasibility) in Grassland Invasions: A Framework1

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The observer effect in plant science.

scientific article published on 12 December 2007

The role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in non-native plant invasion along mountain roads

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

Think globally, measure locally: The MIREN standardized protocol for monitoring plant species distributions along elevation gradients

scientific article published on 15 February 2022

Three times greater weight of daytime than of night-time temperature on leaf unfolding phenology in temperate trees

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Three‐dimensional soil heterogeneity modulates responses of grassland mesocosms to an experimentally imposed drought extreme

scientific article published in 2021

Towards more predictive and interdisciplinary climate change ecosystem experiments

scientific article published on 28 October 2019

Trade-off between competition and facilitation defines gap colonization in mountains

scientific article published on 10 November 2015

Underlying effects of spatial aggregation (clumping) in relationships between plant diversity and resource uptake

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Understanding ecosystems of the future will require more than realistic climate change experiments - A response to Korell et al

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Unimodal relationship between three-dimensional soil heterogeneity and plant species diversity in experimental mesocosms

scientific article published in 2019

Unpunctual in diversity: The effect of stand species richness on spring phenology of deciduous tree stands varies among species and years

scientific article published on 27 March 2024

Urban alien plants in temperate oceanic regions of Europe originate from warmer native ranges

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Use of spatial analysis to test hypotheses on plant recruitment in a hyper-arid ecosystem.

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Vegetation development and floristical diversity of newly created sown and unsown field margin strips on ex arable land during the first 3 successional years.

scientific article published in January 2004

Warming affects different components of plant-herbivore interaction in a simplified community but not net interaction strength

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Whole-system responses of experimental plant communities to climate extremes imposed in different seasons

scientific article published on 4 November 2010

Woody invaders from contrasted climatic origins distribute differently across the urban-to-rural gradient in oceanic Europe – Is it trait-related?

scientific article published in 2022