Publications

Schuchardt M., Berauer B., Heßberg A., Wilfahrt P., Jentsch A. (2021.0). Drought effects on montane grasslands nullify benefits of advanced flowering phenology due to warming. Ecosphere, 12(7), . doi:10.1002/ecs2.3661

Warming due to climate change is generally expected to lengthen the growing season in areas of seasonal climate and to advance plant phenology, particularly the onset of leafing and flowering. However, a reduction in aboveground biomass production and reproductive output may occur when warming is ac…

Schmitt T., Martín-López B., Kaim A., Früh-Müller A., Koellner T. (2021.0). Ecosystem services from (pre-)Alpine grasslands: Matches and mismatches between citizens’ perceived suitability and farmers’ management considerations. Ecosystem Services, 49(), 101284. doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101284

The integration of socio-cultural assessments in ecosystem services research has increased steadily over the last years. However, the stakeholders’ perception of ecosystem services from grasslands, a major agricultural land cover in (pre-)Alpine landscapes, has received only limited attention. Furth…

Schucknecht A., Seo B., Krämer A., Asam S., Atzberger C., Kiese R. (2021.0). Estimating dry biomass and plant nitrogen concentration in pre-Alpine grasslands with low-cost UAS-borne multispectral data – a comparison of sensors, algorithms, and predictor sets. Biogeosciences, 19(10), 2699-2727. doi:10.5194/bg-19-2699-2022

Abstract. Grasslands are an important part of pre-Alpine and Alpine landscapes. Despite the economic value and the significant role of grasslands in carbon and nitrogen (N) cycling, spatially explicit information on grassland biomass and quality is rarely available. Remotely sensed data from unmanne…

Van Sundert K., Arfin Khan M., Bharath S., Buckley Y., Caldeira M., Donohue I., Dubbert M., Ebeling A., Eisenhauer N., Eskelinen A., Finn A., Gebauer T., Haider S., Hansart A., Jentsch A., Kübert A., Nijs I., Nock C., Nogueira C., Porath‐Krause A., Radujković D., Raynaud X., Risch A., Roscher C., Sc… (2021.0). Fertilized graminoids intensify negative drought effects on grassland productivity. Global Change Biology, 27(11), 2441-2457. doi:10.1111/gcb.15583

Droughts can strongly affect grassland productivity and biodiversity, but responses differ widely. Nutrient availability may be a critical factor explaining this variation, but is often ignored in analyses of drought responses. Here, we used a standardized nutrient addition experiment covering 10 Eu…

Schucknecht A., Krämer A., Asam S., Mejia-Aguilar A., Garcia-Franco N., Schuchardt M., Jentsch A., Kiese R. (2020.0). Vegetation traits of pre-Alpine grasslands in southern Germany. Scientific Data, 7(1), . doi:10.1038/s41597-020-00651-7

AbstractThe data set contains information on aboveground vegetation traits of > 100 georeferenced locations within ten temperate pre-Alpine grassland plots in southern Germany. The grasslands were sampled in April 2018 for the following traits: bulk canopy height; weight of fresh and dry biomass; dr…

Schlingmann M., Tobler U., Berauer B., Garcia-Franco N., Wilfahrt P., Wiesmeier M., Jentsch A., Wolf B., Kiese R., Dannenmann M. (2020.0). Intensive slurry management and climate change promote nitrogen mining from organic matter-rich montane grassland soils. Plant and Soil, 456(1-2), 81-98. doi:10.1007/s11104-020-04697-9

Abstract Aims Consequences of climate change and land use intensification on the nitrogen (N) cycle of organic-matter rich grassland soils in the alpine region remain poorly understood. We aimed to identify fates of fertilizer N and to determine the overall N balance of an organic-matter rich grassl…

Vidal A., Schucknecht A., Toechterle P., Linares D., Garcia-Franco N., von Heßberg A., Krämer A., Sierts A., Fischer A., Willibald G., Fuetterer S., Ewald J., Baumert V., Weiss M., Schulz S., Schloter M., Bogacki W., Wiesmeier M., Mueller C., Dannenmann M. (2020.0). High resistance of soils to short-term re-grazing in a long-term abandoned alpine pasture. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 300(), 107008. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2020.107008

Grazed alpine pastures have shaped landscapes of the European Alps for millennia, but have partially been abandoned since the 1950s. Re-grazing of abandoned pastures could preserve this cultural landscape with its high species diversity, but also alter soil carbon and nitrogen cycles, as well as mic…

Wang N., Wang C., Dannenmann M., Butterbach-Bahl K., Huang J. (2020.0). Response of microbial community and net nitrogen turnover to modify climate change in Alpine meadow. Applied Soil Ecology, 152(), 103553. doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2020.103553

In order to investigate the effect of climate change on the functional role of microbial community, we studied links between microbial community structure and the net ammonification and nitrification rates in a space for time climate change experiment. Abundance of bacteria and fungi as well as the …

Wu X., Chen Z., Kiese R., Fu J., Gschwendter S., Schloter M., Liu C., Butterbach-Bahl K., Wolf B., Dannenmann M. (2020.0). Dinitrogen (N2) pulse emissions during freeze-thaw cycles from montane grassland soil. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 56(7), 959-972. doi:10.1007/s00374-020-01476-7

AbstractShort-lived pulses of soil nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions during freeze-thaw periods can dominate annual cumulative N2O fluxes from temperate managed and natural soils. However, the effects of freeze thaw cycles (FTCs) on dinitrogen (N2) emissions, i.e., the dominant terminal product of the d…

Vetter V., Kreyling J., Dengler J., Apostolova I., Arfin‐Khan M., Berauer B., Berwaers S., De Boeck H., Nijs I., Schuchardt M., Sopotlieva D., Gillhausen P., Wilfahrt P., Zimmermann M., Jentsch A. (2020.0). Invader presence disrupts the stabilizing effect of species richness in plant community recovery after drought. Global Change Biology, 26(6), 3539-3551. doi:10.1111/gcb.15025

Higher biodiversity can stabilize the productivity and functioning of grassland communities when subjected to extreme climatic events. The positive biodiversity–stability relationship emerges via increased resistance and/or recovery to these events. However, invader presence might disrupt this diver…