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61
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19775
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58

Overview

Daniel Prati is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant number of publications in these fields.

The main subfields of study addressed in their work include:

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

Key topics covered by Daniel Prati encompass:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies

Selected recent publications include:

  • "The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic", 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity", 2021, Nature Communications
  • "The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales", 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Above- and belowground biodiversity jointly tighten the P cycle in agricultural grasslands", 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Stochastic Dispersal Rather Than Deterministic Selection Explains the Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Soil Bacteria in a Temperate Grassland", 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Daniel Prati include:

  • Markus Fischer
  • Norbert Hölzel
  • Till Kleinebecker
  • Valentin H. Klaus
  • Deborah Schäfer

Daniel Prati publishes regularly in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication platforms are:

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

Best Publications

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

    Sebastian Seibold;Martin M. Gossner;Nadja K. Simons;Nadja K. Simons;Nico Blüthgen

  • Choosing and using diversity indices: Insights for ecological applications from the German Biodiversity Exploratories

    E. Kathryn Morris;E. Kathryn Morris;Tancredi Caruso;François Buscot;François Buscot;Markus Fischer

  • Phenotypic and genetic differentiation between native and introduced plant populations

    Oliver Bossdorf;Oliver Bossdorf;Oliver Bossdorf;Harald Auge;Lucile Lafuma;William E. Rogers;William E. Rogers

  • Invasive Plant Suppresses the Growth of Native Tree Seedlings by Disrupting Belowground Mutualisms

    Kristina A Stinson;Stuart A Campbell;Jeff R Powell;Benjamin E Wolfe

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

    Markus Fischer;Markus Fischer;Oliver Bossdorf;Sonja Gockel;Falk Hansel

  • Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

    Eric Allan;Pete Manning;Fabian Alt;Julia Binkenstein

  • Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

    Santiago Soliveres;Fons van der Plas;Peter Manning;Daniel Prati

  • NOVEL WEAPONS: INVASIVE PLANT SUPPRESSES FUNGAL MUTUALISTS IN AMERICA BUT NOT IN ITS NATIVE EUROPE

    Ragan M. Callaway;Don Cipollini;Kathryn Barto;Giles C. Thelen

  • Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities

    Martin M. Gossner;Martin M. Gossner;Thomas M. Lewinsohn;Thomas M. Lewinsohn;Tiemo Kahl;Fabrice Grassein

  • A quantitative index of land-use intensity in grasslands: Integrating mowing, grazing and fertilization

    Nico Blüthgen;Carsten F. Dormann;Daniel Prati;Valentin H. Klaus

  • INTRASPECIFIC AGGREGATION ALTERS COMPETITIVE INTERACTIONS IN EXPERIMENTAL PLANT COMMUNITIES

    Peter Stoll;Daniel Prati

  • Allelopathic inhibition of germination by Alliaria petiolata (Brassicaceae).

    Daniel Prati;Oliver Bossdorf

  • Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity.

    Eric Allan;Oliver Bossdorf;Oliver Bossdorf;Carsten F. Dormann;Daniel Prati

  • International genome-wide meta-analysis identifies new primary biliary cirrhosis risk loci and targetable pathogenic pathways

    Heather J. Cordell;Younghun Han;George F. Mells;Yafang Li

  • Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services

    María R. Felipe-Lucia;Santiago Soliveres;Santiago Soliveres;Caterina Penone;Peter Manning

  • The impact of even‐aged and uneven‐aged forest management on regional biodiversity of multiple taxa in European beech forests

    Peter Schall;Martin M. Gossner;Steffi Heinrichs;Markus Fischer

  • Direct and productivity-mediated indirect effects of fertilization, mowing and grazing on grassland species richness

    Stephanie A. Socher;Daniel Prati;Steffen Boch;Jörg Müller

  • RAPD variation among and within small and large populations of the rare clonal plant Ranunculus reptans (Ranunculaceae).

    Markus Fischer;René Husi;Daniel Prati;Markus Peintinger

  • Reduced competitive ability in an invasive plant

    Oliver Bossdorf;Oliver Bossdorf;Daniel Prati;Harald Auge;Bernhard Schmid

  • Molecular evidence for multiple introductions of garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata, Brassicaceae) to North America.

    Walter Durka;Oliver Bossdorf;Daniel Prati;Harald Auge

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
Steffen Boch
Steffen Boch Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Valentin H. Klaus
Valentin H. Klaus Ruhr University Bochum
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Till Kleinebecker
Till Kleinebecker University of Münster
Jörg Müller
Jörg Müller Heinz Sielmann Foundation
Norbert Hölzel
Norbert Hölzel University of Münster
Oliver Bossdorf
Oliver Bossdorf University of Tübingen
François Buscot
François Buscot Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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