Publications

Lenk, A.; Hanfstängl, M.; Waha, S.; Wirth, C.: Regeneration dynamics in response to an openness gradient caused by ash dieback, drought effects and understorey forest management in a meliorated European floodplain forest. Forest Ecology and Management 613, 123791 (2026)

Xu, W.-Y.; Gessler, A.; Peñuelas, J.; Zohner, C. M.; Dietze, M. C.; Sardans, J.; Hartmann, H.; Detto, M.; Wu, J.; Martin, A. R. et al.; Crowther, T.; Mo, L.-D.; Signori-Müller, C.; Schweiger, A. H.; Zhang, P.-P.; Wu, F.-Q.; Yang, N.; Luo, Y.-P.; Ma, S.-H.; Ni, X.-F.; Ji, C.-J.; Chen, G.-P.; Vallicrosa, H.; Smith, N. G.; Luo, Y.-Q.; Atkin, O. K.; Swenson, N. G.; Kattge, J.; Reich, P. B.; Yan, Z.-B.: Evolutionary history drives organ-specific variability in plant non-structural carbohydrates. Nature Ecology & Evolution (2026)

Pang, S. E. H.; Buitenwerf, R.; Baines, O.; Aćić, S.; Bernhardt-Römermann, M.; Biurrun, I.; Bonari, G.; Bruun, H. H.; Byun, C.; Chacón-Madrigal, E. et al.; Chiarucci, A.; Dang-Le, A. T.; De Frenne, P.; Dias, A.; Dolezal, J.; Garbolino, E.; Güler, B.; Hough-Snee, N.; Kattge, J.; Lenoir, J.; Martin, A. R.; Michaletz, S. T.; Minden, V.; Mori, A. S.; Niinemets, Ü.; Schmidt, W.; Šibíková, M.; Swacha, G.; Van Meerbeek, K.; Svenning, J.-C.: Disturbance regimes drive widespread plant range disequilibrium in Europe alongside climate change. Nature Ecology & Evolution (2026)

do Carmo, R. F. R.; Sena, P. H. A.; de Melo, F. P. L.; Januario, M.; Carvalho, T.; van der Plas, F.; Wirth, C.; Reich, P. B.; Gonçalves-Souza, T.: Functional diversity drives leaf decomposition across rainfall–disturbance gradients, but phylogenetic effects vary. Ecosphere 17 (6), e70653 (2026)

Rauschkolb, R.; Herben, T.; Kattge, J.; Knickmann, B.; Linstädter, A.; Menzel, A.; Mora, K.; Nordt, B.; Vitasse, Y.; Weigelt, P. et al.; Römermann, C.: The performance of growing degree day models to predict spring phenology of herbaceous species depends on the species' temporal niche. Functional Ecology 40 (5), p. 1207 - 1207 (2026)

Moreno-Martínez, Á.; Muñoz-Marí, J.; Adsuara, J. E.; Dechant, B.; Kattge, J.; Kattenborn, T.; Sabatini, F. M.; Schneider, F. D.; Duveiller, G.; van Bodegom, P. M. et al.; Butler, E. E.; Mahecha, M. D.; Izquierdo-Verdiguier, E.; Peñuelas, J.; Boenisch, G.; Pavlick, R.; Townsend, P. A.; Carvalhais, N.; Lusk, D.; Camps-Valls, G.: Leveraging remote sensing and crowd-sourced biodiversity data for enhanced plant functional trait mapping. Nature Communications 17, 5488 (2026)

Kretz, L.; Schnabel, F.; Richter, R.; Raabgrund, A.; Kattge, J.; Andraczek, K.; Kahl, A.; Kuenne, T.; Wirth, C.: Functional traits explain growth response to successive hotter droughts across a wide set of common and future tree species in Europe. Plant Biology 28 (3), pp. 827 - 845 (2026)

Ellerbrok, J.; Sporbert, M.; Schreiner, V.; Ristok, C.; Farwig, N.; Hähn, G. J. A.; Klenke, R.; Seidler, G.; Marx, J. M.; Schmidt, A. et al.; Settele, J.; Wirth, C.; Albert, C.; Bässler, C.; Braunisch, V.; Brunken, H.; Conze, K.-J.; Eichenberg, D.; Eisenhauer, N.; Ellwanger, G.; Ferenczy, J.; Gerlach, B.; Haase, D.; Harpke, A.; Herder, F.; Jansen, F.; Kamp, J.; Katzenberger, J.; Keil, P.; Kühn, E.; Mascarenhas, A.; Müller, J.; Musche, M.; Nguyen, H. H.; Pogoda, P.; Ssymank, A.; Suhling, F.; Vatterrott, H.-R.; Wellmann, T.; Bruelheide, H.: Determinants of terrestrial and limnic species richness in Germany. Diversity and Distributions 32 (3), e70170 (2026)

Mahecha, M. D.; Kraemer, G.; Reinhardt, M.; Montero, D.; Gans, F.; Bastos, A.; Feilhauer, H.; Flika, I.; Jia, C.; Kattenborn, T. et al.; Migliavacca, M.; Mönks, M.; Quaas, J.; Sippel, S.; Walther, S.; Wieneke, S.; Wirth, C.; Camps-Valls, G.: Accelerated north–east shift of the global green wave trajectory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 123 (9), e2515835123 (2026)

Lusk, D.; Wolf, S.; Svidzinska, D.; Dormann, C. F.; Kattge, J.; Bruelheide, H.; Sabatini, F. M.; Damasceno, G.; Martínez, Á. M.; Violle, C. et al.; Hending, D.; Hähn, G. J. A.; Tabeni, S.; Phartyal, S.; Gonçalves, F.; Kreft, H.; Schmidt, M.; Chen, H.; Güler, B.; Dolezal, J.; Pielech, R.; Guido, A.; Dwyer, C.; Napoleone, F.; Willie, J.; Gasper, A. L.; Macía, M. J.; Chytry, M.; Lenoir, J.; Thakur, D.; Dengler, J.; Świerszcz, S.; Altman, J.; Mucina, L.; Nerlekar, A. N.; Kakinuma, K.; Rawat, P.; Stančić, Z.; Testolin, R.; Hatim, M. Z.; Rodrigues, F.; Homeier, J.; Marques, M. C. M.; McCarthy, J. K.; El-Sheikh, M. A.; Korznikov, K.; Gerberding, K.; Kattenborn, T.: Crowdsourced biodiversity monitoring fills gaps in global plant trait mapping. Nature Communications 17, 1203 (2026)

Guo, W.-Y.; Serra-Diaz, J. M.; Guo, K.; Boonman, C. C. F.; Schrodt, F.; Maitner, B. S.; Merow, C.; Violle, C.; Anand, M.; Bruun, H. H. K. et al.; Byun, C.; Catford, J. A.; Cerabolini, B. E. L.; Chacón-Madrigal, E.; Ciccarelli, D.; Dang-Le, A. T.; Dias, A. S.; Giroldo, A. B.; Gutiérrez, A. G.; Jansen, S.; Kattge, J.; Kindt, R.; Klein, T.; Kramer, K.; Lusk, C. H.; Martin, A. R.; Michaletz, S. T.; Minden, V.; Mori, A. S.; Niinemets, Ü.; Onoda, Y.; Peñuelas, J.; Pisek, J.; Robroek, B. J. M.; Schamp, B.; Soudzilovskaia, N. A.; Thiffault, N.; van der Plas, F.; Enquist, B. J.; Svenning, J.-C.: Global functional shifts in trees driven by alien naturalization and native extinction. Nature Plants 312, pp. 308 - 318 (2026)

Frazee, L. J.; Aronson, M. F. J.; Kattge, J.; Struwe, L.: Asphalted parking lots are environmental filters for multiple propagule dispersal and pollination strategies. Nordic Journal of Botany, e04491 (2025)

Schellenberger Costa, D.; Freiberg, M.; Wirth, C.: Taxonomic description curves of major lineages are influenced by biological and societal factors. Scientific Reports 15, 41837 (2025)

Sachsenmaier, L.; Schnabel, F.; Tezeh, F. R.; Sánchez-Bermejo, P. C.; Eisenhauer, N.; Ferlian, O.; Haider, S.; Richter, R.; Paligi, S. S.; Schuldt, B. et al.; Wirth, C.: Hydro-functional traits and their dissimilarity to the neighbourhood buffer tree growth against the 2018-2020 central european drought. Global Change Biology 31 (11), e70588 (2025)

Li, X.; Burrows, G. E.; Dong, N.; Jordan, G. J.; Kattge, J.; Lenz, T. I.; Niinemets, Ü.; Onoda, Y.; Poorter, H.; Sack, L. et al.; Villar, R.; Westoby, M.; Wright, I. J.: A thinner jacket for frosty and windy climates? Global patterns in leaf cuticle thickness and its environmental associations. New Phytologist 248 (1), pp. 107 - 124 (2025)

Ceballos-Núñez, V.; Wirth, C.; Clark, A. T.; Crawford, M. S.; Farrior, C. E.; Hines, J.; Kattge, J.; Ladouceur, E.; Lichstein, J. W.; Maréchaux, I. et al.; Mori, A. S.; Reineking, B.; Turnbull, L. A.; Barry, K. E.; Rüger, N.: How size and resource traits control species' biomass in monoculture and mixture and drive biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships. Oikos, e11251 (2025)

Lenk, A.; Waha, S.; Wirth, C.: Elevated tree mortality as a regeneration niche for oak? Testing different management approaches in a meliorated floodplain forest. Forest Ecology and Management 586, 122678 (2025)

Schorn, M. E.; Quaas, M. F.; Schenk, H.; Wirth, C.; Rüger, N.: Optimising profits from timber harvest and the biodiversity conservation value in a central European beech forest using a novel bioeconomic forestry model. Ecological Modelling 505, 111108 (2025)

Mendonça, A. C.S.; Dias-Júnior, C. Q.; Acevedo, O. C.; Marra, D. M.; Cely-Toro, I. M.; Fisch, G.; Brondani, D. V.; Manzi, A. O.; Portela, B. T.T.; Quesada, C. A. et al.; Mortarini, L.: Estimation of the nocturnal boundary layer height over the Central Amazon forest using turbulence measurements. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 367, 110469 (2025)

Pan, Q.; Bauters, M.; Peaucelle, M.; Ellsworth, D.; Kattge, J.; Verbeeck, H.: Network-informed analysis of a multivariate trait-space reveals optimal trait selection. Communications Biology 8, 569 (2025)