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Werner Härdtle is affiliated with Leuphana University of Lüneburg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions to Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Insect Science.

They have focused extensively on topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Forest Ecology and Management, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, and Tree-ring Climate Responses.

Recent notable papers include:

  • Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment, 2021, Science Advances
  • Neighbourhood diversity mitigates drought impacts on tree growth, 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • The significance of tree-tree interactions for forest ecosystem functioning, 2021, Basic and Applied Ecology
  • Neighbourhood-mediated shifts in tree biomass allocation drive overyielding in tropical species mixtures, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Corridors as a tool for linking habitats - Shortcomings and perspectives for plant conservation, 2021, Journal for Nature Conservation

Frequently publishing venues for Werner Härdtle include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Basic and Applied Ecology
  • Plant Ecology
  • Ecology Letters
  • Applied Vegetation Science

Among their frequent co-authors are:

  • Andreas Fichtner
  • Goddert von Oheimb
  • Matthias Kunz
  • Helge Bruelheide
  • Florian Schnabel

Best Publications

  • Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment.

    Yuanyuan Huang;Yuxin Chen;Nadia Castro-Izaguirre;Martin Baruffol;Martin Baruffol

  • Ecosystem services as a boundary object for sustainability

    D.J. Abson;H. von Wehrden;S. Baumgärtner;J. Fischer

  • Designing forest biodiversity experiments : general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China

    Helge Bruelheide;Karin Nadrowski;Thorsten Assmann;Jürgen Bauhus

  • Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests

    Andreas Schuldt;Thorsten Assmann;Matteo Brezzi;Matteo Brezzi;François Buscot

  • Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

    Helge Bruelheide;Martin Böhnke;Sabine Both;Teng Fang

  • Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment

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  • The effects of light and soil conditions on the species richness of the ground vegetation of deciduous forests in northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein)

    Werner Härdtle;Goddert von Oheimb;Christina Westphal

  • Multiple plant diversity components drive consumer communities across ecosystems

    Andreas Schuldt;Andreas Schuldt;Anne Ebeling;Matthias Kunz;Michael Staab

  • Site use of grazing cattle and sheep in a large-scale pasture landscape: A GPS/GIS assessment

    Dorothee Putfarken;Jürgen Dengler;Stephan Lehmann;Werner Härdtle

  • Is the reverse J-shaped diameter distribution universally applicable in European virgin beech forests?

    Christina Westphal;Nils Tremer;Goddert von Oheimb;Jan Hansen

  • From competition to facilitation: how tree species respond to neighbourhood diversity.

    Andreas Fichtner;Werner Härdtle;Ying Li;Helge Bruelheide

  • Structural pattern of a near-natural beech forest (Fagus sylvatica) (Serrahn, North-east Germany)

    Goddert von Oheimb;Christina Westphal;Holger Tempel;Werner Härdtle

  • Tree diversity promotes insect herbivory in subtropical forests of south-east China

    Andreas Schuldt;Martin Baruffol;Martin Böhnke;Helge Bruelheide

  • Establishment success in a forest biodiversity and ecosystem functioning experiment in subtropical China (BEF-China)

    Xuefei Yang;Xuefei Yang;Jürgen Bauhus;Sabine Both;Teng Fang

  • On the combined effect of soil fertility and topography on tree growth in subtropical forest ecosystems - a study from SE China

    Thomas Scholten;Philipp Goebes;Peter Kühn;Steffen Seitz

  • Neighbourhood interactions drive overyielding in mixed-species tree communities.

    Andreas Fichtner;Werner Härdtle;Helge Bruelheide;Matthias Kunz

  • Effects of anthropogenic disturbances on soil microbial communities in oak forests persist for more than 100 years

    A. Fichtner;G. von Oheimb;W. Härdtle;C. Wilken;C. Wilken

  • Tree morphology responds to neighbourhood competition and slope in species-rich forests of subtropical China

    Anne C. Lang;Werner Härdtle;Helge Bruelheide;Christian Geißler

  • Plant traits affecting herbivory on tree recruits in highly diverse subtropical forests.

    Andreas Schuldt;Helge Bruelheide;Walter Durka;David Eichenberg

  • Crown plasticity and neighborhood interactions of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in an old-growth forest

    Matthias Schröter;Matthias Schröter;Werner Härdtle;Goddert von Oheimb

  • Neighbour species richness and local structural variability modulate aboveground allocation patterns and crown morphology of individual trees.

    Matthias Kunz;Andreas Fichtner;Werner Härdtle;Pasi Raumonen

  • Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

    Helge Bruelheide;Martin Bohnke;Sabine Both;Fang Teng

Frequent Co-Authors

Helge Bruelheide
Helge Bruelheide Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Thorsten Assmann
Thorsten Assmann Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Andreas Schuldt
Andreas Schuldt University of Göttingen
Keping Ma
Keping Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich
Thomas Scholten
Thomas Scholten University of Tübingen
Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth Leipzig University
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen University of Freiburg
Michael P. Perring
Michael P. Perring Ghent University

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