Christian Wirth

Research interests

Publications

• Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01616-8

• Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment

  Science Advances · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abk1643

• Tree species richness increases ecosystem carbon storage in subtropical forests

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1240

• The Future of Complementarity: Disentangling Causes from Consequences

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2018.10.013

• Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests

  Nature Communications · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05421-z

• Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment

  Science · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat6405

• Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions

  Basic and Applied Ecology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2017.06.002

• Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context

  Ecology Letters · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12849

• Allometric equations for integrating remote sensing imagery into forest monitoring programmes

  Global Change Biology · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13388

• Biotic homogenization can decrease landscape-scale forest multifunctionality

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1517903113

• Jack-of-all-trades effects drive biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in European forests

  Nature Communications · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11109

• The global spectrum of plant form and function

  Nature · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16489

• Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

  Nature · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16476

• Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits

  New Phytologist · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13253

• Designing forest biodiversity experiments: general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical C hina

  Methods in Ecology and Evolution · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.12126

• Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

  Ecological Monographs · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1890/09-2172.1

• Carbon cycling under 300 years of land use change: Importance of the secondary vegetation sink

  Global Biogeochemical Cycles · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2007gb003176

• Quantifying photosynthetic capacity and its relationship to leaf nitrogen content for global‐scale terrestrial biosphere models

  Global Change Biology · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01744.x

• Plant traits and wood fates across the globe: rotted, burned, or consumed?

  Global Change Biology · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01916.x

• Global meta‐analysis of wood decomposition rates: a role for trait variation among tree species?

  Ecology Letters · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01259.x

• Reconciling Carbon-cycle Concepts, Terminology, and Methods

  Ecosystems · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-005-0105-7

• Generic biomass functions for Norway spruce in Central Europe--a meta-analysis approach toward prediction and uncertainty estimation

  Tree Physiology · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/24.2.121

• Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems

  Nature · 2001 · 10.1038/35102500

• Managing Forests After Kyoto

  Science · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.289.5487.2058

• Productivity of forests in the Eurosiberian boreal region and their potential to act as a carbon sink –‐ a synthesis

  Global Change Biology · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2486.1999.00266.x

Current projects

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