Publications of Jens Kattge

Chebbo, S.; Violle, C.; Mahaut, L.; Kattge, J.; Peaucelle, M.; Choler, P.; Viovy, N.: Unveiling the role of spatial functional trait variations on grassland primary productivity at france scale. Journal of Biogeography 52 (4), e15079 (2025)

Hähn, G. J. A.; Damasceno, G.; Alvarez-Davila, E.; Aubin, I.; Bauters, M.; Bergmeier, E.; Biurrun, I.; Bjorkman, A. D.; Bonari, G.; Botta-Dukát, Z. et al.; Campos, J. A.; Čarni, A.; Chytrý, M.; Ćušterevska, R.; de Gasper, A. L.; Sanctis, M. D.; Dengler, J.; Dolezal, J.; El-Sheikh, M. A.; Finckh, M.; Galán-de-Mera, A.; Garbolino, E.; Gholizadeh, H.; Golub, V.; Haider, S.; Hatim, M. Z.; Hérault, B.; Homeier, J.; Jandt, U.; Jansen, F.; Jentsch, A.; Kattge, J.; Kessler, M.; Khanina, L.; Kreft, H.; Küzmič, F.; Lenoir, J.; Moeslund, J. E.; Mucina, L.; Naqinezhad, A.; Noroozi, J.; Pérez-Haase, A.; Phillips, O. L.; Pillar, V. D.; Rivas-Torres, G.; Ruprecht, E.; Sandel, B.; Schmidt, M.; Schmiedel, U.; Schnitzer, S.; Schrodt, F.; Šilc, U.; Sparrow, B.; Sporbert, M.; Stančić, Z.; Strohbach, B.; Svenning, J.-C.; Tang, C. Q.; Tang, Z.; Vibrans, A. C.; Violle, C.; Waller, D.; Wana, D.; Wang, H.-F.; Whitfeld, T.; Zizka, G.; Sabatini, F. M.; Bruelheide, H.: Global decoupling of functional and phylogenetic diversity in plant communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution 9, pp. 237 - 248 (2025)

Kretz, L.; Schnabel, F.; Richter, R.; Raabgrund, A.; Kattge, J.; Andraczek, K.; Kahl, A.; Künne, 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 (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)

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 (2025)

Wu, F.; Liu, S.; Lamour, J.; Atkin, O. K.; Yang, N.; Dong, T.; Xu, W.; Smith, N. G.; Wang, Z.; Wang, H. et al.; Su, Y.; Liu, X.; Shi, Y.; Xing, A.; Dai, G.; Dong, J.; Swenson, N. G.; Kattge, J.; Reich, P. B.; Serbin, S. P.; Rogers, A.; Wu, J.; Yan, Z.: Linking leaf dark respiration to leaf traits and reflectance spectroscopy across diverse forest types. New Phytologist 246 (2), pp. 481 - 497 (2025)

Calbi, M.; Boenisch, G.; Boulangeat, I.; Bunker, D.; Catford, J. A.; Changenet, A.; Culshaw, V.; Dias, A. S.; Hauck, T.; Joschinski, J. et al.; Kattge, J.; Mimet, A.; Pianta, M.; Poschlod, P.; Weisser, W. W.; Roccotiello, E.: A novel framework to generate plant functional groups for ecological modelling. Ecological Indicators 166, 112370 (2024)

Dechant, B.; Kattge, J.; Pavlick, R.; Schneider, F. D.; Sabatini, F. M.; Moreno-Martínez, A.; Butler, E. E.; van Bodegom, P. M.; Vallicrosa, H.; Kattenborn, T. et al.; Boonman, C. C. F.; Madani, N.; Wright, I. J.; Dong, N.; Feilhauer, H.; Penuelas, J.; Sardans, J.; Aguirre-Gutierrez, J.; Reich, P. B.; Leitao, P. J.; Cavender-Bares, J.; Myers-Smith, I. H.; Duran, S. M.; Croft, H.; Prentice, I. C.; Huth, A.; Rebel, K.; Zaehle, S.; Símov, I.; Díaz, S.; Reichstein, M.; Schiller, C.; Bruelheide, H.; Mahecha, M.; Wirth, C.; Malhi, Y.; Townsend, P. A.: Intercomparison of global foliar trait maps reveals fundamental differences and limitations of upscaling approaches. Remote Sensing of Environment 311, 114276 (2024)

Kloos, S.; Lüpke, M.; Estrella, N.; Ghada, W.; Kattge, J.; Bucher, S. F.; Buras, A.; Menzel, A.: The linkage between functional traits and drone-derived phenology of 74 Northern Hemisphere tree species. Science of the Total Environment 952, 175753 (2024)

Komatsu, K. J.; Avolio, M. L.; Cubino, J. P.; Schrodt, F.; Auge, H.; Cavender-Bares, J.; Clark, A. T.; Flores-Moreno, H.; Grman, E.; Harpole, W. S. et al.; Kattge, J.; Kimmel, K.; Koerner, S. E.; Korell, L.; Langley, J. A.; Münkemüller, T.; Ohlert, T.; Onstein, R. E.; Roscher, C.; Soudzilovskaia, N. A.; Taylor, B. N.; Tedersoo, L.; Terry, R. S.; Wilcox, K.: CoRRE Trait Data: A dataset of 17 categorical and continuous traits for 4079 grassland species worldwide. Scientific Data 11, 795 (2024)

Lam, O. H. Y.; Kattge, J.; Tautenhahn, S.; Boenisch, G.; Kovach, K. R.; Townsend, P. A.: ‘rtry’: An R package to support plant trait data preprocessing. Ecology and Evolution 14 (5), e11292 (2024)

Lipoma, L.; Kambach, S.; Díaz, S.; Sabatini, F. M.; Damasceno, G.; Kattge, J.; Wirth, C.; Abella, S. R.; Beierkuhnlein, C.; Belote, T. R. et al.; Bernhardt-Römermann, M.; Craven, D.; Dolezal, J.; Eisenhauer, N.; Isbell, F.; Jentsch, A.; Kreyling, J.; Lanta, V.; Le Stradic, S.; Lepš, J.; Manninen, O.; Mariotte, P.; Reich, P. B.; Ruppert, J. C.; Schmidt, W.; Tilman, D.; van Ruijven, J.; Wagg, C.; Wardle, D. A.; Wilsey, B.; Bruelheide, H.: No general support for functional diversity enhancing resilience across terrestrial plant communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33 (10), e13895 (2024)

Tian, D.; Yan, Z.; Schmid, B.; Kattge, J.; Fang, J.; Stocker, B. D.: Environmental versus phylogenetic controls on leaf nitrogen and phosphorous concentrations in vascular plants. Nature Communications 15, 5346 (2024)

Yang, H.; Wang, S.; Son, R.; Lee, H. T.; Benson, V.; Zhang, W.; Zhang, Y.; Zhang, Y.; Kattge, J.; Boenisch, G. et al.; Schepaschenko, D.; Karaszewski, Z.; Stereńczak, K.; Moreno-Martínez, Á.; Nabais, C.; Birnbaum, P.; Vieilledent, G.; Weber, U.; Carvalhais, N.: Global patterns of tree wood density. Global Change Biology 30 (3), e17224 (2024)

Engel, T.; Bruelheide, H.; Hoss, D.; Sabatini, F. M.; Altman, J.; Arfin-Khan, M. A. S.; Bergmeier, E.; Černý, T.; Chytrý, M.; Dainese, M. et al.; Dengler, J.; Dolezal, J.; Field, R.; Fischer, F. M.; Huygens, D.; Jandt, U.; Jansen, F.; Jentsch, A.; Karger, D. N.; Kattge, J.; Lenoir, J.; Lens, F.; Loos, J.; Niinemets, Ü.; Overbeck, G. E.; Ozinga, W. A.; Penuelas, J.; Peyre, G.; Phillips, O.; Reich, P. B.; Römermann, C.; Sandel, B.; Schmidt, M.; Schrodt, F.; Velez-Martin, E.; Violle, C.; Pillar, V.: Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32 (5), pp. 695 - 706 (2023)

Flores-Moreno, H.; Dalrymple, R. L.; Cornwell, W. K.; Popovic, G.; Nakagawa, S.; Atkinson, J.; Cooke, J.; Laffan, S. W.; Bonser, S. P.; Schwanz, L. E. et al.; Crean, A. J.; Eldridge, D. J.; Garratt, M.; Brooks, R. C.; Vergés, A.; Poore, A. G. B.; Cohen, D. R.; Clark, G. F.; Gupta, A. S.; Reich, P. B.; Cornelissen, J. H. C.; Craine, J. M.; Hemmings, F. A.; Kattge, J.; Niinemets, Ü.; Peñuelas, J.; Moles, A. T.: Is Australia weird? A cross-continental comparison of biological, geological and climatological features. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11, 1073842 (2023)

Gomarasca, U.; Migliavacca, M.; Kattge, J.; Nelson, J. A.; Niinemets, Ü.; Wirth, C.; Cescatti, A.; Bahn, M.; Nair, R.; Acosta, A. et al.; Arain, A.; Beloiu, M.; Black, T.; Bruun, H. H.; Bucher, F.; Buchmann, N.; Carrara, A.; Byun, C.; Conte, A.; da Silva, A.; Duveiller, G.; Fares, S.; Ibrom, A.; Knohl, A.; Komac, B.; Limousin, J.; Lusk, C.; Mahecha, M.; Martini, D.; Minden, V.; Montagnani, L.; Mori, A.; Onoda, Y.; Penuelas, J.; Perez-Priego, O.; Poschlod, P.; Powell, T.; Reich, P.; Šigut, L.; van Bodegom, P.; Walther, S.; Wohlfahrt, G.; Wright, I.; Reichstein, M.: Leaf-level coordination principles propagate to the ecosystem scale. Nature Communications 14, 3948 (2023)

Joswig, J.; Kattge, J.; Kraemer, G.; Mahecha, M. D.; Rüger, N.; Schaepman, M. E.; Schrodt, F.; Schuman, M. C.: Imputing missing data in plant traits: A guide to improve gap-filling. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32 (8), pp. 1395 - 1408 (2023)

Kambach, S.; Sabatini, F. M.; Attorre, F.; Biurrun, I.; Boenisch, G.; Bonari, G.; Čarni, A.; Carranza, M. L.; Chiarucci, A.; Chytrý, M. et al.; Dengler, J.; Garbolino, E.; Golub, V.; Güler, B.; Jandt, U.; Jansen, J.; Jašková, A.; Jiménez-Alfaro, B.; Karger, D. N.; Kattge, J.; Knollová, I.; Midolo, G.; Moeslund, J. E.; Pielech, R.; Rašomavičius, V.; Rūsiņa, S.; Šibík, J.; Stančić, Z.; Stanisci, A.; Svenning, J.-C.; Yamalov, S.; Zimmermann, N. E.; Bruelheide, H.: Climate-trait relationships exhibit strong habitat specificity in plant communities across Europe. Nature Communications 14, 712 (2023)

Keller, A.; Ankenbrand, M. J.; Bruelheide, H.; Dekeyzer, S.; Enquist, B. J.; Erfanian, M. B.; Falster, D. S.; Gallagher, R. V.; Hammock, J.; Kattge, J. et al.; Leonhardt, S. D.; Madin, J. S.; Maitner, B.; Neyret, M.; Onstein, R. E.; Pearse, W. D.; Poelen, J. H.; Salguero-Gomez, R.; Schneider, F. D.; Tóth, A. B.; Penone, C.: Ten (mostly) simple rules to future-proof trait data in ecological and evolutionary sciences. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14 (2), pp. 444 - 458 (2023)