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Christine Römermann is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. Their research predominantly focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a notable number of publications in related subfields including nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolutionary behavior and systematics, ecological modeling, ecology, and plant science.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to plant and animal studies, species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics, remote sensing in agriculture, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, forest ecology and management, and tree-ring climate responses.

Christine Römermann has contributed to several notable papers, including:

  • "Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation," 2021, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Functional traits influence patterns in vegetative and reproductive plant phenology - a multi-botanical garden study," 2022, New Phytologist
  • "Nutrients and water availability constrain the seasonality of vegetation activity in a Mediterranean ecosystem," 2020, Global Change Biology
  • "Contrasting patterns of intraspecific trait variability in native and non-native plant species along an elevational gradient on Tenerife, Canary Islands," 2020, Annals of Botany
  • "The timing of leaf senescence relates to flowering phenology and functional traits in 17 herbaceous species along elevational gradients," 2021, Journal of Ecology

The scientist frequently publishes in several journals, with multiple publications appearing in Ecology and Evolution, New Phytologist, Flora, Journal of Ecology, and Basic and Applied Ecology.

Christine Römermann collaborates regularly with coauthors including Solveig Franziska Bucher, Isabell Hensen, Matthias Körschens, Joachim Denzler, and Carolin Plos, indicating a collaborative approach across diverse projects within their research scope.

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • The LEDA Traitbase: A database of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora

    M Kleyer;RM Bekker;RM Bekker;IC Knevel;IC Knevel;JP Bakker

  • Correlation and process in species distribution models: bridging a dichotomy

    Carsten F. Dormann;Carsten F. Dormann;Stanislaus J. Schymanski;Juliano Cabral;Isabelle Chuine

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Oliver Purschke;Jonathan Lenoir

  • Towards novel approaches to modelling biotic interactions in multispecies assemblages at large spatial extents

    W. D. Kissling;Carsten F. Dormann;Carsten F. Dormann;Juergen Groeneveld;Juergen Groeneveld;Thomas Hickler

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

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  • Dispersal failure contributes to plant losses in NW Europe.

    Wim A. Ozinga;Wim A. Ozinga;Christine Römermann;Renée M. Bekker;Andreas Prinzing

  • On the identification of the most suitable traits for plant functional trait analyses

    Markus Bernhardt-Römermann;Christine Römermann;Robert Nuske;Andreas Parth

  • Specific leaf area correlates with temperature: new evidence of trait variation at the population, species and community levels

    Sergey Rosbakh;Christine Römermann;Christine Römermann;Peter Poschlod

  • How to predict attachment potential of seeds to sheep and cattle coat from simple morphological seed traits

    Christine Römermann;Oliver Tackenberg;Peter Poschlod

  • Influence of former cultivation on the unique Mediterranean steppe of France and consequences for conservation management

    Christine Römermann;Thierry Dutoit;Peter Poschlod;Elise Buisson

  • The implications of seed rain and seed bank patterns for plant succession at the edges of abandoned fields in Mediterranean landscapes

    Elise Buisson;Thierry Dutoit;Franck Torre;Christine Römermann

  • Substitutes for grazing in semi-natural grasslands - do mowing or mulching represent valuable alternatives to maintain vegetation structure?

    Christine Römermann;Markus Bernhardt-Römermann;Michael Kleyer;Peter Poschlod

  • Advances in flowering phenology across the Northern Hemisphere are explained by functional traits

    Patrizia König;Susanne Tautenhahn;J. Hans C. Cornelissen;Jens Kattge;Jens Kattge

  • Explaining grassland biomass – the contribution of climate, species and functional diversity depends on fertilization and mowing frequency

    Markus Bernhardt-Römermann;Christine Römermann;Stefan Sperlich;Wolfgang Schmidt

  • How species traits and affinity to urban land use control large-scale species frequency

    Sonja Knapp;Ingolf Kühn;Jan P. Bakker;Michael Kleyer

  • What does diaspore morphology tell us about external animal dispersal? Evidence from standardized experiments measuring seed retention on animal-coats

    Oliver Tackenberg;Christine Römermann;Ken Thompson;Peter Poschlod

  • Using Near-Infrared-Enabled Digital Repeat Photography to Track Structural and Physiological Phenology in Mediterranean Tree–Grass Ecosystems

    Yunpeng Luo;Tarek S. El-Madany;Gianluca Filippa;Xuanlong Ma

  • Eutrophication and fragmentation are related to species' rate of decline but not to species rarity: results from a functional approach

    Christine Römermann;Christine Römermann;Oliver Tackenberg;Anne-Kathrin Jackel;Peter Poschlod

  • Plant colonization of ex-arable fields from adjacent species-rich grasslands : the importance of dispersal vs. recruitment ability

    Mathias Öster;Kristina Ask;Christine Römermann;Oliver Tackenberg

  • Functional traits influence patterns in vegetative and reproductive plant phenology - a multi-botanical garden study.

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  • A niche for biology in species distribution models

    Steven I. Higgins;Robert B. O'Hara;Christine Römermann;Christine Römermann

  • Woodlands and steppes : Pleistocene vegetation in Yakutia's most continental part recorded in the Batagay permafrost sequence

    Kseniia Ashastina;Kseniia Ashastina;Svetlana Kuzmina;Natalia Rudaya;Natalia Rudaya;Elena Troeva

  • Inter- and intraspecific variation in stomatal pore area index along elevational gradients and its relation to leaf functional traits

    Solveig Franziska Bucher;Solveig Franziska Bucher;Karl Auerswald;Susanne Tautenhahn;Anna Geiger;Anna Geiger

  • Stomatal traits relate to habitat preferences of herbaceous species in a temperate climate

    Solveig Franziska Bucher;Karl Auerswald;Christina Grün-Wenzel;Steven I. Higgins

  • Probability distributions of nonstructural carbon ages and transit times provide insights into carbon allocation dynamics of mature trees.

    David Herrera‐Ramírez;Jan Muhr;Jan Muhr;Henrik Hartmann;Christine Römermann

  • Nutrients and water availability constrain the seasonality of vegetation activity in a Mediterranean ecosystem.

    Yunpeng Luo;Tarek S. El-Madany;Xuanlong Ma;Richard K. F. Nair

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Poschlod
Peter Poschlod University of Regensburg
Karsten Wesche
Karsten Wesche Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz
Wim A. Ozinga
Wim A. Ozinga Wageningen University & Research
Mirco Migliavacca
Mirco Migliavacca Joint Research Centre
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Markus Bernhardt-Römermann
Markus Bernhardt-Römermann Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Ingolf Kühn
Ingolf Kühn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Michael Kleyer
Michael Kleyer Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth Leipzig University
Oliver Tackenberg
Oliver Tackenberg Goethe University Frankfurt

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