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Publications 2025

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First-, second- and/or senior authors:

• Bhadra,  S., Damasceno, G., Hoss, D.,  & Weyrich, A. (2025). Improving  gender equity in academia depends on  the workplace environment. eLife, 14, e105352. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.105352   

• Kambach,  S., Bruelheide, H., Comita,  L. S., Condit, R., Wright, S. J., Aguilar,  S., ... & Rüger, N.  (2025). Putting seedlings on the map:  Trade‐offs in demographic rates  between ontogenetic size classes in  five tropical forests. Ecology, 106(1), e4527. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4527   

• Wirth,  C., Bruelheide, H., Farwig, N.,  Settele, J., Marx, J. M., Ellerbrok,  J. S., ... & Xylander, W.  (2024). Faktencheck Artenvielfalt:  Zusammenfassung für die politische  und gesellschaftliche  Entscheidungsfindung. Faktencheck Artenvielfalt. https://doi.org/10.14512/9783987263361
     

• Schnabel,  F., Beugnon, R., Yang, B.,  Richter, R., Eisenhauer, N., Huang, Y., ...  & Bruelheide, H. (2025).  Tree Diversity Increases Forest  Temperature Buffering via Enhancing  Canopy Density and Structural  Diversity. Ecology Letters, 28(3), e70096. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70096   

• Wirth, C., Bruelheide, H., Farwig, N.,  Marx, J., Ellerbrok, J. S.,  & Settele, J. (2025). German  biodiversity assessment goes below  ground: Editorial–This paper is part  of the special collection  ‘Faktencheck Artenvielfalt’. Soil Organisms, 97(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.25674/465    

Co-Authors:

• Kühn,  P., Umazekabiri, R., Römermann, C., Bruelheide, H., & Wesche,  K.  (2025). Nitrogen content of herbarium specimens from arable fields  and  mesic meadows reflect the intensifying agricultural management  during  the 20th century. Journal of Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14474   

• Pilon,  N., Peixoto, F., Oliveira, R. S., Oliveira, A. C. C., Alquéres,  J.,  Alvarado, S., ... & Durigan, G. (2025). Open letter: There are  more  than just trees and forests to be conserved and restored. Plants, People, Planet. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10635   

• Klinkovská,  K., Sperandii, M. G.,  Knollová, I., Danihelka, J., Hájek, M., Hájková,  P., ... & Chytrý,  M. (2025). Half a Century of Temperate  Non‐Forest Vegetation Changes: No  Net Loss in Species Richness, but  Considerable Shifts in Taxonomic and  Functional Composition. Global Change Biology, 31(1), e70030. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70030   

• Dugerdil,  L., Peyron, O., Violle, C.,  Joannin, S., Ménot, G., Denelle, P., ...  & Garnier, E. (2025).  Functional Signatures of Surface Pollen and  Vegetation Are Broadly  Similar: Good News for Past Reconstructions of  Vegetation. Journal of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15100   

• Buzhdygan,  O., Baldauf, S., Borovyk,  D., Vynokurov, D., Ladouceur, E., Chusova,  O., ... & Kuzemko, A.  (2025). Scale‐Dependent Effects of Plant  Diversity Drivers Across  Different Grassland Habitats in Ukraine. Ecology and Evolution, 15(2), e70941. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70941   

• Chen,  C., Yan, G., Schmid, B., Li, Y.,  Bongers, F. J., Bruelheide, H., ...  & Liu, X. (2025). Understory  shrub diversity: equally vital as  overstory tree diversity to promote  forest productivity. National Science Review, nwaf093. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf093   

• Bwambale,  J., Aisu, J., & Mugwanya, M. (2025). Insights into small Heat Shock  Proteins: Drivers of environmental stress tolerance in selected animal  species. https://doi.org/10.46793/BiolNyss.16.1.5B   

• Bricca,  A., Jiménez‐Alfaro, B.,  Chytrý, M., Chytrý, K., Padullés Cubino, J.,  Fernández‐González, F., ...  & Bonari, G. (2025). Biodiversity  Within and Beyond the Native  Distribution of Tree Species: The Case of  Pinus nigra Forests in Europe.  Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(4), e70036. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70036   

• Tang,  T., Schmid, B., Schuman, M. C.,  Bongers, F. J., Li, S., Liang, Y., ...  & Liu, X. Identifying seed  families with high mixture performance  in a subtropical forest  biodiversity experiment. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70130   

• Zhang,  S., Veen, G. F., Van der  Putten, W. H., Liu, X., Bruelheide, H., Ma,  K., & Zhang, N. (2025).  Non‐random tree species loss shifts soil  fungal communities. Journal of Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70029   

• Mäkinen, J., Ellis, E. E., Antão, L.  H., Davrinche, A., Laine, A. L.,  Saastamoinen, M., ... & Roslin, T.  (2025). Thermal homogenization  of boreal communities in response to  climate warming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(17), e2415260122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2415260122   

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