Ernst‐Detlef Schulze

Research interests

Publications

• Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01316-9

• Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers

  Nature · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1684-3

• Climate and soils together regulate photosynthetic carbon isotope discrimination within C 3 plants worldwide

  Global Ecology and Biogeography · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12764

• Biodiversity–multifunctionality relationships depend on identity and number of measured functions

  Nature Ecology & Evolution · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0391-4

• 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

• Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

  Science · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaf8957

• Using Plant Functional Traits to Explain Diversity–Productivity Relationships

  PLoS ONE · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036760

• Reduction of forest soil respiration in response to nitrogen deposition

  Nature Geoscience · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo844

• Implementing large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research: The Biodiversity Exploratories

  Basic and Applied Ecology · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2010.07.009

• Bottom-up effects of plant diversity on multitrophic interactions in a biodiversity experiment

  Nature · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09492

• The influence of climate and fructification on the inter-annual variability of stem growth and net primary productivity in an old-growth, mixed beech forest

  Tree Physiology · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpq027

• Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks

  Nature · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07276

• CO 2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

  Global Change Biology · 2007 · 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01439.x

• Inter-annual and seasonal variability of radial growth, wood density and carbon isotope ratios in tree rings of beech (Fagus sylvatica) growing in Germany and Italy

  Trees · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-006-0072-4

• Reconciling Carbon-cycle Concepts, Terminology, and Methods

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

• Overyielding in experimental grassland communities – irrespective of species pool or spatial scale

  Ecology Letters · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00736.x

• Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003

  Nature · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature03972

• Forest and agricultural land‐use‐dependent CO2 exchange in Thuringia, Germany

  Global Change Biology · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2004.00863.x

• 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

• Large carbon uptake by an unmanaged 250-year-old deciduous forest in Central Germany

  Agricultural and Forest Meteorology · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0168-1923(03)00115-1

• Carbon dioxide exchange of a Russian boreal forest after disturbance by wind throw

  Global Change Biology · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2486.2002.00475.x

• Productivity overshadows temperature in determining soil and ecosystem respiration across European forests

  Global Change Biology · 2001 · https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2486.2001.00412.x

• 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

• 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

• Plant Diversity and Productivity Experiments in European Grasslands

  Science · 1999 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.286.5442.1123

• Rooting depth, water availability, and vegetation cover along an aridity gradient in Patagonia

  Oecologia · 1996 · https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00333727

• A global analysis of root distributions for terrestrial biomes

  Oecologia · 1996 · https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00333714

• Maximum rooting depth of vegetation types at the global scale

  Oecologia · 1996 · https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00329030

Current projects

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