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Lars Götzenberger

Lars Götzenberger

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Ecology and Evolution

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33
Citations
7042
World Ranking
7769
National Ranking
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Overview

Lars Götzenberger is a researcher affiliated with the Czech Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic. Their work primarily spans the fields of environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with extensive contributions to subfields including nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, plant science, ecology, and ecological modeling.

Their research topics cover a broad spectrum, emphasizing ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, species distribution and climate change, animal ecology and behavior studies, plant parasitism and resistance, land use and ecosystem services, as well as botany and plant ecology studies.

Lars Götzenberger has contributed to several recent papers, which include:

  • Functional trait effects on ecosystem stability: assembling the jigsaw puzzle, 2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Linking Plant Functional Ecology to Island Biogeography, 2020, Trends in Plant Science
  • The neglected importance of floral traits in trait-based plant community assembly, 2020, Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Floral and reproductive traits are an independent dimension within the plant economic spectrum of temperate central Europe, 2022, New Phytologist

The scientist frequently collaborates with others, including:

  • Francesco de Bello
  • Carlos P. Carmona
  • Marco Moretti
  • André T. C. Dias
  • Matty P. Berg

Their publications often appear in venues such as:

  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Journal of Biogeography

In addition to journal articles, Lars Götzenberger has contributed to books published by institutions including the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology and Cambridge University Press. Notably, these include titles related to trait-based ecology such as the "Handbook of Trait-Based Ecology: From Theory to R Tools" (2021) and the "Handbook of Trait-Based Ecology" (2021).

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Ecological assembly rules in plant communities--approaches, patterns and prospects.

    Lars Götzenberger;Francesco de Bello;Kari Anne Bråthen;John Davison

  • Predicting species’ maximum dispersal distances from simple plant traits

    Riin Tamme;Lars Götzenberger;Lars Götzenberger;Martin Zobel;James M. Bullock

  • A synthesis of empirical plant dispersal kernels

    James M. Bullock;Laura Mallada González;Riin Tamme;Riin Tamme;Lars Götzenberger

  • Functional species pool framework to test for biotic effects on community assembly

    Francesco de Bello;Jodi N. Price;Tamara Münkemüller;Jaan Liira

  • 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

  • Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale.

    Enrique Valencia;Francesco de Bello;Thomas Galland;Peter B Adler;Peter B Adler

  • Mycorrhizas in the Central European flora: relationships with plant life history traits and ecology

    Stefan Hempel;Lars Götzenberger;Ingolf Kühn;Stefan G. Michalski

  • Positive effect of shade on plant growth: amelioration of stress or active regulation of growth rate?

    Marina Semchenko;Mari Lepik;Lars Götzenberger;Kristjan Zobel

  • Decoupling phylogenetic and functional diversity to reveal hidden signals in community assembly

    Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Petr Šmilauer;Jose Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho;Carlos Perez Carmona

  • Evaluating Functional Diversity: Missing Trait Data and the Importance of Species Abundance Structure and Data Transformation.

    Maria Májeková;Maria Májeková;Taavi Paal;Nichola S. Plowman;Michala Bryndová

  • Linking Plant Functional Ecology to Island Biogeography.

    Gianluigi Ottaviani;Gunnar Keppel;Lars Götzenberger;Susan Harrison

  • On the need for phylogenetic 'corrections' in functional trait-based approaches

    Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Matty P. Berg;Andre T. C. Dias;Jose Alexandre F. Diniz-Filho

  • Which randomizations detect convergence and divergence in trait‐based community assembly? A test of commonly used null models

    Lars Götzenberger;Zoltán Botta-Dukát;Jan Lepš;Jan Lepš;Meelis Pärtel

  • Multidimensional ecological analyses demonstrate how interactions between functional traits shape fitness and life history strategies

    Nuria Pistón;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;André T. C. Dias;Lars Götzenberger;Lars Götzenberger

  • Invaders among locals: Alien species decrease phylogenetic and functional diversity while increasing dissimilarity among native community members

    Priscilla P. Loiola;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Milan Chytrý;Lars Götzenberger

  • On the Relationship between Pollen Size and Genome Size

    Charles A. Knight;Rachel B. Clancy;Lars Götzenberger;Leighton Dann

  • Applying the dark diversity concept to nature conservation

    Rob J. Lewis;Rob J. Lewis;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Jonathan A. Bennett;Pavel Fibich

  • The neglected importance of floral traits in trait-based plant community assembly

    Anna E‐Vojtkó;Anna E‐Vojtkó;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Walter Durka;Ingolf Kühn;Ingolf Kühn

  • Post-fire regeneration in a Mediterranean pine forest with historically low fire frequency

    Constanze Buhk;Lars Götzenberger;Karsten Wesche;Pedro Sánchez Gómez

  • Handbook of Trait-Based Ecology: From Theory to R Tools

    Francesco de Bello;Carlos P. Carmona;André T. C. Dias;Lars Götzenberger

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesco de Bello
Francesco de Bello Spanish National Research Council
Jan Lepš
Jan Lepš University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
Carlos P. Carmona
Carlos P. Carmona University of Tartu
Marco Moretti
Marco Moretti Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Matty P. Berg
Matty P. Berg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jitka Klimešová
Jitka Klimešová Czech Academy of Sciences
Meelis Pärtel
Meelis Pärtel University of Tartu
Martin Zobel
Martin Zobel University of Tartu
Jiří Doležal
Jiří Doležal Czech Academy of Sciences
Pierre Liancourt
Pierre Liancourt University of Tübingen

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