Jüergen Kreyling, Jürgen Dengler, Julia Walter, Nikolay Velev et al.
Biodiversity can buffer ecosystem functioning against extreme climatic events, but few experiments have explicitly tested this. Here, we present the first multisite biodiversity × drought manipulation experiment to examine drought resistance and recovery at five temperate and Mediterranean grassland...
Jüergen Kreyling, Kerstin Grant, Verena Hammerl, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan et al.
Climate change affects all seasons, but warming is more pronounced in winter than summer at mid- and high latitudes. Winter warming can have profound ecological effects, which are rarely compared to the effects of summer warming, and causal explanations are not well established. We compared mild abo...
Andrey V. Malyshev, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Manuel J. Steinbauer et al.
Within-species and among-species differences in growth responses to a changing climate have been well documented, yet the relative magnitude of within-species vs. among-species variation has remained largely unexplored. This missing comparison impedes our ability to make general predictions of biodi...
Jüergen Kreyling, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, Fahmida Sultana, W. Babel et al.
Extreme drought events challenge ecosystem functioning. Ecological response to drought is studied worldwide in a growing number of field experiments by rain-out shelters. Yet, few meta-analyses face severe challenges in the comparability of studies. This is partly because build-up of drought stress ...
Mohammad Belal Uddin, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Anke Jentsch, Sharif A. Mukul et al.
Introduction of exotic plant species in the tropics has occurred since the colonial period, and has mostly been for timber production. However, due to uncontrolled distribution and lack of awareness, many of these species became invasive, and have been increasingly reported as a source of threats to...
Lokman Hossain, Carl Beierkuhnlein
Global climate change is projected to increase temperature and alter precipitation pattern, which could affect grassland ecosystem. Long-term observation at a field experiment can be a powerful approach to explore the impacts of climate change on biomass productivity in grassland. In attempting to u...
Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, Kerstin Grant, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Jüergen Kreyling et al.
Manuel J. Steinbauer, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, David E. V. Harter et al.
Abstract Positive plant–plant interactions (i.e. facilitation) receive increasing attention as a potentially important driver of community assembly. We conducted a systematic literature review indicating broad support for positive effects of potential facilitator species. However, a large majority o...
Lokman Hossain, Jianfeng Li, Yangchen Lai, Carl Beierkuhnlein
Grassland ecosystems are affected by the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme climate events (e.g., droughts). Understanding how grassland ecosystems maintain their functioning, resistance, and resilience under climatic perturbations is a topic of current concern. Resistance is the capacity...
Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Jüergen Kreyling, Sabrina Backhaus et al.
Shifts in flowering phenology of plants are indicators of climate change. The great majority of existing phenological studies refer solely to gradual warming. However, knowledge on how flowering phenology responds to changes in seasonal variation of warming and precipitation regimes is missing. We r...
Lokman Hossain, Khusnur Jahan Shapna, Jianfeng Li, Md. Humayain Kabir et al.
Global agricultural production has been affected by the increased frequency of climate extremes (e.g., droughts) in dry regions and heightened soil and water salinity in coastal regions. Exploration of sustainable agricultural practices is central to addressing the impacts of climate-induced shocks,...
Ellen Gellesch, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, Anke Jentsch, Carl Beierkuhnlein
Md Anwar Hossain, Muha Abdullah Al Pavel, Kazuhiro Harada, Carl Beierkuhnlein et al.
Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, Jüergen Kreyling, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Anke Jentsch
Mohammad Belal Uddin, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Carl Beierkuhnlein
Assessing biodiversity and the spatial structures of forest ecosystems are important for forestry and nature conservation. However, tropical forests of Bangladesh are only sparsely investigated. Here we determined biodiversity (alpha, beta and gamma), spatial species turnover and stand characteristi...