Marquard, E.; Weigelt, A.; Temperton, V. M.; Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Buchmann, N.; Fischer, M.; Weisser, W. W.; Schmid, B.: Plant species richness and functional composition drive overyielding in a six-year grassland experiment. Ecology 90 (12), pp. 3290 - 3302 (2009)
Ebeling, A.; Klein, A. M.; Schumacher, J.; Weisser, W. W.; Tscharntke, T.: How does plant richness affect pollinator richness and temporal stability of flower visits? Oikos 117 (12), pp. 1808 - 1815 (2008)
Getzin, S.; Wiegand, K.; Schumacher, J.; Gougeon, F. A.: Scale-dependent competition at the stand level assessed from crown areas. Forest Ecology and Management 255 (7), pp. 2478 - 2485 (2008)
Lorentzen, S.; Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Schulze, E. D.; Schmid, B.: Species richness and identity affect the use of aboveground space in experimental grasslands. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 10 (2), pp. 73 - 87 (2008)
Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Weisser, W. W.; Schulze, E. D.: Genetic identity affects performance of species in grasslands of different plant diversity: An experiment with Lolium perenne cultivars. Annals of Botany 102 (1), pp. 113 - 125 (2008)
Turner, N. C.; Schulze, E. D.; Nicolle, D.; Schumacher, J.; Kuhlmann, I.: Annual rainfall does not directly determine the carbon isotope ratio of leaves of Eucalyptus species. Physiologia Plantarum 132 (4), pp. 440 - 445 (2008)
Bisutti, I.; Hilke, I.; Schumacher, J.; Raessler, M.: A novel single-run dual temperature combustion (SRDTC) method for the determination of organic, in-organic and total carbon in soil samples. Talanta 71 (2), pp. 521 - 528 (2007)
Don, A.; Schumacher, J.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Scholten, T.; Schulze, E. D.: Spatial and vertical variation of soil carbon at two grassland sites - Implications for measuring soil carbon stocks. Geoderma 141 (3-4), pp. 272 - 282 (2007)
Oelmann, Y.; Kreutziger, Y.; Temperton, V. M.; Buchmann, N.; Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Schulze, E. D.; Weisser, W. W.; Wilcke, W.: Nitrogen and phosphorus budgets in experimental grasslands of variable diversity. Journal of Environmental Quality 36 (2), pp. 396 - 407 (2007)
Oelmann, Y.; Wilcke, W.; Temperton, V. M.; Buchmann, N.; Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Schulze, E.-D.; Weisser, W. W.: Soil and plant nitrogen pools as related to plant diversity in an experimental grassland. Soil Science Society of America 71 (3), pp. 720 - 729 (2007)
Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Foitzik, O.; Schulze, E. D.: Resistance to rust fungi in Lolium perenne depends on within-species variation and performance of the host species in grasslands of different plant diversity. Oecologia 153 (1), pp. 173 - 183 (2007)
Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Weisser, W. W.; Schmid, B.; Schulze, E. D.: Detecting the role of individual species for overyielding in experimental grassland communities composed of potentially dominant species. Oecologia 154 (3), pp. 535 - 549 (2007)
Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Schulze, E. D.; Don, A.; Schumacher, J.; Weller, E.: Exploring the functional significance of forest diversity: A new long-term experiment with temperate tree species (BIOTREE). Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 9 (2), pp. 53 - 70 (2007)
Scherber, C.; Mwangi, P. N.; Temperton, V. M.; Roscher, C.; Schumacher, J.; Schmid, B.; Weisser, W. W.: Effects of plant diversity on invertebrate herbivory in experimental grassland. Oecologia 147 (3), pp. 489 - 500 (2006)
The Germany-wide citizen science project GartenDiv will research plant diversity in Germany's gardens for the first time. A one-year pilot project will provide an overview of which plants thrive in gardens across the country.
Thanks to FLUXCOM-X, the next generation of data driven, AI-based earth system models, scientists can now see the Earth’s metabolism at unprecedented detail – assessed everywhere on land and every hour of the day.
More frequent strong storms are destroying ever larger areas of the Amazon rainforest. Storm damage was mapped between 1985 and 2020. The total area of affected forests roughly quadrupled in the period studied.
From the Greek philosopher Aristotle to Charles Darwin to the present day, scientists have dealt with this fundamental question of biology. Contrary to public perception, however, it is still largely unresolved. Scientists have now presented a new approach for the identification and delimitation of species using artificial intelligence (AI).
A research team led by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) and Leipzig University has developed an algorithm that analyses observational data from the Flora Incognita app. The novel can be used to derive ecological patterns that could provide valuable information about the effects of climate change on plants.
Tropical forests are continuously being fragmented and damaged by human influences. Using remote sensing data and cutting-edge data analysis methods, researchers can now show for the first time that the impact of this damage is greater than previously estimated.
Plant observations collected with plant identification apps such as Flora Incognita allow statements about the developmental stages of plants - both on a small scale and across Europe.
We have gained a new external member: Prof. Dr. Christian Wirth has been appointed by the Senate of the Max Planck Society as External Scientific Member. As a former group leader and later fellow at the institute, Prof. Wirth initiated and supported the development of the TRY database, the world's largest collection on plant traits.
A new study shows a natural solution to mitigate the effects of climate change such as extreme weather events. Researchers found that a diverse plant community acts as a buffer against fluctuations in soil temperature. This buffer, in turn, can have a decisive influence on important ecosystem processes.
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) is to fund a Research Unit in the Jena Experiment for a further four years with around five million euros. The new focus is on the stabilising effect of biodiversity against extreme climate events such as heat, frost or heavy rainfall.
With a kick-off event on January 12, 2023, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and the German Aerospace Center jointly opened the ELLIS Unit Jena. Machine learning and artificial intelligence are being used to help address global environmental crises.