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New publications
21.02.2025 ► Kurze, S., Engelbrecht, B.M.J., Bilton, M.C., Tielbörger, K., Álvarez-Cansino, L. (2025): Winter annuals not only escape but also withstand winter droughts: Results from a multi-trait, multi-species approach. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 67, 125849. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2025.125849
13.02.2025 ► Harkort, L., Okujeni, A., Amputu, V., Mahler, J., Nill, L., Pflugmacher, D., Röder, A., & Hostert, P. (2025). Mapping fractional vegetation cover in Sub-Saharan rangelands using phenological feature spaces. Remote Sensing of Environment, 319, 114646. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.RSE.2025.114646
27.12.2024 ► Alcántara, J.M., Verdú, M., Garrido, J.L., …, Tielbörger, K., ... (2024). Key concepts and a world-wide look at plant recruitment networks. Biol Rev. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13177
30.10.2024 ► Ivison, K., van Kleunen, M., Speed, J., …, Tielbörger, K., ... (2024). Non-Native, Non-Naturalised Plants Suffer Less Herbivory Than Native Plants Across European Botanical Gardens. Divers Distrib, e13938. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13938
14.10.2024 ► Biancari, L., Aguiar, M.R., Eldridge, D.J., ..., Liancourt, P., ..., Tielbörger, K., ..., van den Brink, L., ... (2024). Drivers of woody dominance across global drylands. Sci. Adv. 10, eadn6007. 10.1126/sciadv.adn6007
27.08.2024 ► van den Brink, L., Canessa, R., Liancourt, P., Neidhardt, H., Cavieres, L.A., Oelmann, Y., Bader, M.Y., Tielbörger, K. (2024). Increases and decreases in soil moisture in water-limited plant communities cause asymmetrical responses in biomass but not in diversity. Journal of Vegetation Science, 35, e13300. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13300
09.07.2024 ► Pan, X., Ferris, N.D., Applová, M., Gresse, J., ... (2024). The convex relationship between plant cover and biomass: Implications for assessing species and community properties. Journal of Vegetation Science 35(4): e13288. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13288
22.05.2024 ► Amputu, V., Männer, F., Tielbörger, K., Knox, N. (2024). Spatio-temporal transferability of drone-based models to predict forage supply in drier rangelands. Remote Sensing 16, 1842. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16111842
12.04.2024 ► Eldridge, D.J., ..., Canessa, R., ..., Liancourt, P., ...,Tielbörger, K., ..., van den Brink, L., ... (2024). Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands. Nature Plants https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01670-7
11.04.2024 ► Majekova, M., Springer, B., Ferenc, V., Gruntman, M., & Tielbörger, K. (2024). Leaf fluctuating asymmetry is not a reliable indicator of stress. Functional Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14564
31.01.2024 ► Zimmer, K., Amputu, V., Schwarz, L.-M., Linstädter, A., Sandhage-Hofmann, A. (2024). Soil characteristics within vegetation patches are sensitive indicators of savanna rangeland degradation in central Namibia. Geoderma Regional, e00771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geodrs.2024.e00771
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PhD-Defense: Vistorina Amputu
13.05.2025
Congratulations to Visto! She has successfully defended her PhD project on multispectral imaging to monitor dryland degradation and detect early warning signs within the NamTip Project.
Katja contributed to a podcast
19.03.2025
Katja contributed to a podcast related to an art exhibition about Plant Intelligence at Sinclair House in Bad Homburg.
The exhibition merges art and science and relates to Katja's research about the cool things plants can do.
Katja co-authored a new publication in PPEES about plant strategies in annuals, which is based on a very large set of species and traits. Congratulations! doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2025.125849
A new publication on so-called recruitment networks
27.12.2024
Katja is part of a new multi-author consortium which just published on so-called recruitment networks. The publication reviews the opportunities for studying plant-plant interactions at a community level published and provides the analytical tools to do so. Among others, the study shows that facilitative interactions among plants often dominate natural communities, and competition is sometimes almost unimportant.
Marie Geisbusch wins this year's sustainability award of the University of Tübingen! Each year, the best BSc and MSc Theses at Tübingen University with high relevance for sustainable development run for the prize. One of this year's awards goes to Marie for her Bachelor work entitled: Restoration effects on peatland vegetation – integrating field and Landsat data.
Congratulations!
A new publication provides evidence for the enemy-release hypothesis
30.10.2024
A new paper published in Diversity and Distributions provides evidence for the enemy-release hypothesis: non-native plants suffer less herbivory than natives. The study was conduced in 15 botanical gardens across Europe and thus encompassed a very large number of non-native species. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13938
Congratulations to Katja and the Tübingen Botanical Garden!
New publication in Science Advances
14.10.2024
Katja, Liesbeth, Rafa and Pierre have co-authored a new study shedding light on the mechanisms driving of woody cover in drylands!
New paper about drought responses of plants in Chile
27.08.2024
Liesbeth's new paper about drought responses of plants in Chile has been published! We could show that responses of plant biomass to drought and more rainfall are not in the opposite direction!
Pierre, Katja, Liesbeth, Rafa, and Jan from the Plant Ecology Group contributed to a new publication in Nature. This work demonstrated that the diversity of traits in desert plants can be twice as high as that of plants in humid areas. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07731-3
This highlights the importance of desert plants as a genetic reservoir and as organisms that may withstand major environmental disturbances. A picture of Katja also made the cover page of Nature today - congratulations!
