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Christiane Roscher is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions spanning several related subfields.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

The detailed subfields of Christiane Roscher's work cover:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Plant Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change

Key topics addressed in their research include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies

Christiane Roscher has published extensively in various scientific journals. The venues where they have most frequently appeared include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

Frequent co-authors involved in their research collaborations are:

  • Nico Eisenhauer
  • Anne Ebeling
  • Eric W. Seabloom
  • Elizabeth T. Borer
  • Carly J. Stevens

Among recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Christiane Roscher are:

  • Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle, 2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Global gene flow releases invasive plants from environmental constraints on genetic diversity, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales, 2020, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

    Forest Isbell;Dylan Craven;John Connolly;Michael Loreau

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

    Christoph Scherber;Nico Eisenhauer;Nico Eisenhauer;Wolfgang W Weisser;Bernhard Schmid

  • The role of biodiversity for element cycling and trophic interactions: an experimental approach in a grassland community

    Christiane Roscher;Jens Schumacher;Jussi Baade;Wolfgang Wilcke

  • Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship

    Dylan Craven;Nico Eisenhauer;William D. Pearse;Yann Hautier

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

    Wolfgang W. Weisser;Christiane Roscher;Sebastian T. Meyer;Anne Ebeling

  • The Future of Complementarity: Disentangling Causes from Consequences

    Kathryn E. Barry;Liesje Mommer;Jasper van Ruijven;Christian Wirth;Christian Wirth

  • Plant species richness and functional composition drive overyielding in a six‐year grassland experiment

    Elisabeth Marquard;Elisabeth Marquard;Alexandra Weigelt;Vicky M. Temperton;Christiane Roscher

  • Plant diversity positively affects short‐term soil carbon storage in experimental grasslands

    Sibylle Steinbeiss;Holger Bessler;Christof Engels;Vicky M. Temperton

  • Using Plant Functional Traits to Explain Diversity–Productivity Relationships

    Christiane Roscher;Jens Schumacher;Marlén Gubsch;Annett Lipowsky

  • Predicting ecosystem stability from community composition and biodiversity

    Claire de Mazancourt;Claire de Mazancourt;Forest Isbell;Forest Isbell;Allen Larocque;Frank Berendse

  • More diverse plant communities have higher functioning over time due to turnover in complementary dominant species.

    Eric Allan;Wolfgang Weisser;Alexandra Weigelt;Christiane Roscher

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

    Christiane Roscher;Vicky M. Temperton;Michael Scherer-Lorenzen;Martin Schmitz;Martin Schmitz

  • Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle.

    Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Sandra Lavorel;Sandra Lavorel;Lauren M. Hallett;Enrique Valencia

  • Plant diversity improves protection against soil-borne pathogens by fostering antagonistic bacterial communities

    Ellen Latz;Nico Eisenhauer;Björn C. Rall;Eric Allan

  • Long‐term study of root biomass in a biodiversity experiment reveals shifts in diversity effects over time

    Janneke M. Ravenek;Holger Bessler;Christof Engels;Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen

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

    Sebastian T. Meyer;Robert Ptacnik;Helmut Hillebrand;Holger Bessler

  • Plant diversity effects on grassland productivity are robust to both nutrient enrichment and drought

    Dylan Craven;Forest Isbell;Pete Manning;John Connolly

  • Biotic and abiotic properties mediating plant diversity effects on soil microbial communities in an experimental grassland

    Markus Lange;Maike Habekost;Nico Eisenhauer;Christiane Roscher

  • Positive biodiversity–productivity relationship due to increased plant density

    Elisabeth Marquard;Elisabeth Marquard;Alexandra Weigelt;Christiane Roscher;Marlén Gubsch

  • Plant Diversity Surpasses Plant Functional Groups and Plant Productivity as Driver of Soil Biota in the Long Term

    Nico Eisenhauer;Alexandru Milcu;Alexander C. W. Sabais;Holger Bessler

  • Niche pre-emption increases with species richness in experimental plant communities

    Peter N. Mwangi;Peter N. Mwangi;Martin Schmitz;Martin Schmitz;Christoph Scherber;Christiane Roscher

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexandra Weigelt
Alexandra Weigelt Leipzig University
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich
Nico Eisenhauer
Nico Eisenhauer Leipzig University
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Nina Buchmann
Nina Buchmann ETH Zurich
Jens Schumacher
Jens Schumacher Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Anne Ebeling
Anne Ebeling Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Alexandru Milcu
Alexandru Milcu Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Wolfgang Wilcke
Wolfgang Wilcke Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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