Publications of Christian Wirth

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)

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 (2025)

Sanaei, A.; van der Plas, F.; Chen, H.; Davids, S.; Eckhardt, S.; Hennecke, J.; Kahl, A.; Möller, Y.; Richter, R.; Schütze, J. et al.; Wirth, C.; Weigelt, A.: Tree growth is better explained by absorptive fine root traits than by transport fine root traits. Communications Biology 8, 313 (2025)

Elles, L.; Boyce, J.; Henkel, S.; Kasperidus, H. D.; Scholz, M.; Schorn, M. E.; Vieweg, M.; Wirth, C.; Rüger, N.: Supporting conservation planning in a national biodiversity hotspot – Projecting species composition across a groundwater level gradient using a demographic forest model. Ecological Modelling 501, 110996 (2025)

Schnabel, F.; Guillemot, J.; Barry, K. E.; Brunn, M.; Cesarz, S.; Eisenhauer, N.; Gebauer, T.; Guerrero-Ramirez, N. R.; Handa, I. T.; Madsen, C. et al.; Mancilla, L.; Monteza, J.; Moore, T.; Oelmann, Y.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Schwendenmann, L.; Wagner, A.; Wirth, C.; Potvin, C.: Tree diversity increases carbon stocks and fluxes above—but not belowground in a tropical forest experiment. Global Change Biology 31 (2), e70089 (2025)

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)

Kretzschmar, J.; Pöhlker, M.; Stratmann, F.; Wex, H.; Wirth, C.; Quaas, J.: From trees to rain: enhancement of cloud glaciation and precipitation by pollen. Environmental Research Letters 19 (10), 104052 (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)

Lenk, A.; Richter, R.; Kretz, L.; Wirth, C.: Effects of canopy gaps on microclimate, soil biological activity and their relationship in a European mixed floodplain forest. Science of the Total Environment 941, 173572 (2024)

Sachsenmaier, L.; Schnabel, F.; Dietrich, P.; Eisenhauer, N.; Ferlian, O.; Quosh, J.; Richter, R.; Wirth, C.: Forest growth resistance and resilience to the 2018-2020 drought depend on tree diversity and mycorrhizal type. Journal of Ecology 112 (8), pp. 1787 - 1803 (2024)

Schorn, M. E.; Kambach, S.; Chazdon, R. L.; Craven, D.; Farrior, C. E.; Meave, J. A.; Muñoz, R.; van Breugel, M.; Amissah, L.; Bongers, F. et al.; Hérault, B.; Jakovac, C. C.; Norden, N.; Poorter, L.; van der Sande, M. T.; Wirth, C.; Delgado, D.; Dent, D. H.; DeWalt, S. J.; Dupuy, J. M.; Finegan, B.; Hall, J. S.; Hernández-Stefanoni, J. L.; Lopez, O. R.; Rüger, N.: Tree demographic strategies largely overlap across succession in Neotropical wet and dry forest communities. Ecology, e4321 (2024)

Schnabel, F.; Barry, K. E.; Eckhardt, S.; Guillemot, J.; Geilmann, H.; Kahl, A.; Moossen, H.; Bauhus, J.; Wirth, C.: Neighbourhood species richness and drought-tolerance traits modulate tree growth and delta¹³C responses to drought. Plant Biology 26 (2), pp. 330 - 345 (2024)

Langer, L.; Burghardt, M.; Borgards, R.; Richter, R.; Wirth, C.: The relation between biodiversity in literature and social and spatial situation of authors: Reflections on the nature–culture entanglement. People and Nature 6 (1), pp. 54 - 74 (2024)

Rauschkolb, R.; Bucher, S. F.; Hensen, I.; Ahrends, A.; Fernández‑Pascual, E.; Heubach, K.; Jakubka, D.; Jiménez‑Alfaro, B.; König, A.; Koubek, T. et al.; Kehl, A.; Khuroo, A. A.; Lindstädter, A.; Shafee, F.; Mašková, T.; Platonova, E.; Panico, P.; Plos, C.; Primack, R.; Rosche, C.; Shah, M. A.; Sporbert, M.; Stevens, A.; Tarquini, F.; Tielbörger, K.; Träger, S.; Vange, V.; Weigelt, P.; Bonn, A.; Freiberg, M.; Knickmann, B.; Nordt, B.; Wirth, C.; Römermann, C.: Spatial variability in herbaceous plant phenology is mostly explained by variability in temperature but also by photoperiod and functional traits. International Journal of Biometeorology 69, pp. 761 - 775 (2024)

Schellenberger-Costa, D.; Boenisch, G.; Freiberg, M.; Govaerts, R.; Grenié, M.; Hassler, M.; Kattge, J.; Muellner-Riehl, A. N.; Andrés, B. M. R.; Winter, M. et al.; Watson, M.; Zizka, A.; Wirth, C.: The big four of plant taxonomy – a comparison of global checklists of vascular plant names. New Phytologist 240 (4), pp. 1687 - 1702 (2023)

Staude, I. R.; Weigelt, A.; Wirth, C.: Biodiversity change in light of succession theory. Oikos, e09883 (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)

Pacheco-Labrador, J.; de Bello, F.; Migliavacca, M.; Ma, X.; Carvalhais, N.; Wirth, C.: A generalizable normalization for assessing plant functional diversity metrics across scales from remote sensing. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14 (8), pp. 2123 - 2136 (2023)