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Monika Wulf is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany and conducts research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. The scientist's work spans several subfields, including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Insect Science, Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The research topics covered by Monika Wulf include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

The scientist has contributed authorship to several papers published in notable journals. Selected recent publications include:

  • Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming, 2020, Science
  • Replacements of small- by large-ranged species scale up to diversity loss in Europe's temperate forest biome, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • More losses than gains during one century of plant biodiversity change in Germany, 2022, Nature
  • Plant diversity in hedgerows and road verges across Europe, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Directional turnover towards larger-ranged plants over time and across habitats, 2021, Ecology Letters

Monika Wulf frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Science
  • Journal of Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Applied Ecology

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Monika Wulf's research, with frequent coauthors including Pieter De Frenne, Kris Verheyen, Jörg Brunet, Guillaume Decocq, and Tobias Naaf.

Best Publications

  • Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming

    Pieter De Frenne;Pieter De Frenne;Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez;David Anthony Coomes;Lander Baeten

  • Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming

    Florian Zellweger;Florian Zellweger;Pieter De Frenne;Jonathan Lenoir;Pieter Vangansbeke

  • Homogenization of forest plant communities and weakening of species–environment relationships via agricultural land use

    Mark Vellend;Kris Verheyen;Kathryn M. Flinn;Hans Jacquemyn

  • Driving factors behind the eutrophication signal in understorey plant communities of deciduous temperate forests

    Kris Verheyen;Lander Baeten;Pieter De Frenne;Markus Bernhardt-Römermann

  • Seasonal drivers of understorey temperature buffering in temperate deciduous forests across Europe

    Florian Zellweger;Florian Zellweger;David Coomes;Jonathan Lenoir;Leen Depauw

  • Plant species as indicators of ancient woodland in northwestern Germany

    Monika Wulf

  • Drivers of temporal changes in temperate forest plant diversity vary across spatial scales

    Markus Bernhardt-Römermann;Lander Baeten;Dylan Craven;Pieter De Frenne

  • Ecosystem Services from Small Forest Patches in Agricultural Landscapes

    Guillaume Decocq;Emilie Andrieu;Jörg Brunet;Olivier Chabrerie

  • Global environmental change effects on plant community composition trajectories depend upon management legacies.

    Michael P. Perring;Michael P. Perring;Markus Bernhardt‐Römermann;Lander Baeten;Gabriele Midolo;Gabriele Midolo

  • Effects of gap size, light and herbivory on the herb layer vegetation in European beech forest gaps

    Tobias Naaf;Monika Wulf

  • Interregional variation in the floristic recovery of post‐agricultural forests

    Pieter De Frenne;Lander Baeten;Bente J. Graae;Jörg Brunet

  • Habitat specialists and generalists drive homogenization and differentiation of temperate forest plant communities at the regional scale

    Tobias Naaf;Monika Wulf

  • More losses than gains during one century of plant biodiversity change in Germany

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  • Combining Biodiversity Resurveys across Regions to Advance Global Change Research

    Kris Verheyen;Pieter De Frenne;Lander Baeten;Donald M Waller

  • Replacements of small- by large-ranged species scale up to diversity loss in Europe’s temperate forest biome

    Ingmar R. Staude;Donald M. Waller;Markus Bernhardt-Römermann;Anne D. Bjorkman

  • Directional turnover towards larger-ranged plants over time and across habitats.

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  • Herb layer response to broadleaf tree species with different leaf litter quality and canopy structure in temperate forests

    Monika Wulf;Tobias Naaf

  • The European Forest Plant Species List (EuForPlant): Concept and applications

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  • Preference of plant species for woodlands with differing habitat continuities

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  • Light availability and land‐use history drive biodiversity and functional changes in forest herb layer communities

    Leen Depauw;Michael P. Perring;Michael P. Perring;Dries Landuyt;Sybryn L. Maes

  • High ecosystem service delivery potential of small woodlands in agricultural landscapes

    Alicia Valdés;Jonathan Lenoir;Pieter De Frenne;Emilie Andrieu

  • Plant species richness of afforestations with different former use and habitat continuity

    Monika Wulf

  • Ecological niche shifts of understorey plants along a latitudinal gradient of temperate forests in north‐western Europe

    Safaa Wasof;Jonathan Lenoir;Emilie Gallet-Moron;Aurélien Jamoneau

  • Plant diversity in hedgerows and road verges across Europe

    Thomas Vanneste;Sanne Govaert;Willem de Kesel;Sanne van den Berge

Frequent Co-Authors

Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Jörg Brunet
Jörg Brunet Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Guillaume Decocq
Guillaume Decocq University of Picardie Jules Verne
Pieter De Frenne
Pieter De Frenne Ghent University
Martin Kopecký
Martin Kopecký Czech Academy of Sciences
Thilo Heinken
Thilo Heinken University of Potsdam
Martin Diekmann
Martin Diekmann University of Bremen
Jonathan Lenoir
Jonathan Lenoir University of Picardie Jules Verne
Sara A. O. Cousins
Sara A. O. Cousins Stockholm University
Michael P. Perring
Michael P. Perring Ghent University

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