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 ...
Andrey V. Malyshev, Hugh A. L. Henry, Andreas Bolte, Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan et al.
Phenological responses to winter and spring warming in trees alter growing season length and can influence productivity. An improved mechanistic understanding of phenology, including temporal changes in budburst forcing requirements (BFR) and photoperiod sensitivity, could improve projections of phe...
Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, Kerstin Grant, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Jüergen Kreyling et al.
Vanessa Vetter, Jüergen Kreyling, Jürgen Dengler, Iva Apostolova et al.
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...
Hugh A. L. Henry, Mehdi Abedi, Concepción L. Alados, Karen H. Beard et al.
Reduced precipitation treatments often are used in field experiments to explore the effects of drought on plant productivity and species composition. However, in seasonally snow-covered regions reduced precipitation also reduces snow cover, which can increase soil frost depth, decrease minimum soil ...
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...
Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan, Jüergen Kreyling, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Anke Jentsch