Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Norbert Hölzel 

Publications

• 2025
• 2024
• 2023
• 2022
• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007
• 2006
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002
• 2001

2025

• Giese, L., Baumberger, M., Ludwig, M., Schneidereit, H., Sánchez, E., Robroek, BJ., Lamentowicz, M., Lehmann, J., Hölzel, N., Knorr, K., & Meyer, H. (2025). Recent trends in moisture conditions across European peatlands. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 37, 101385–101385. doi: 10.1016/j.rsase.2024.101385.
• Schwesig, K., Zizka, V., Scherber, C., & Hölzel, N. (2025). Comparing eDNA and transect methods for aquatic biodiversity assessment in lakes and ponds. Molecular Ecology Resources, 25 (3), Article e14060. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.14060.
• Zizka, V., Schwesig, K., Engel, N., Hölzel, N., & Scherber, C. (2025). Environmental DNA supports importance of heterogeneous pond landscapes for arthropod diversity conservation. Ecosphere, 16 (2). doi: 10.1002/ecs2.70171.

2024

• Bhagwat T.; Kuemmerle T.; Soofi M.; Donald P.F.; Hölzel N.; Salemgareev A.; Stirnemann I.; Urazaliyev R.; Baumann M.; Kamp J. (2024). A novel, post-Soviet fire disturbance regime drives bird diversity and abundance on the Eurasian steppe. Global Change Biology, 30 (1), 1–14. doi: 10.1111/gcb.17026.
• Neyret, M., Le Provost, G., Boesing, A.L., Schneider, F.D., Baulechner, D., Bergmann, J., de Vries, F.T., Fiore-Donno, A.M., Geisen, S., Goldmann, K., Merges, A., Saifutdinov, R.A., Simons, N.K., Tobias, J.A., Zaitsev, A.S., Gossner, M.M., Jung, K., Kandeler, E., Krauss, J., Penone, C., Schloter, M., Schulz, S., Staab, M., Wolters, V., Apostolakis, A., Birkhofer, K., Boch, S., Boeddinghaus, R.S., Bolliger, R., Bonkowski, M., Buscot, F., Dumack, K., Fischer, M., Gan, H.Y., Heinze, J., Hölzel, N., John, K., Klaus, V.H., Kleinebecker, T., Marhan, S., Müller, J., Renner, S.C., Rillig, M.C., Schenk, N.V., Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., Seibold, S., Socher, S.A., Solly, E.F., Teuscher, M., van Kleunen, M., Wubet, T., & … Manning, P. (2024). A slow-fast trait continuum at the whole community level in relation to land-use intensification. Nature Communications, 15 (1), 1251. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-45113-5.
• Pichon, N.A., Cappelli, S.L., Soliveres, S., Mannall, T., Nwe, T.Z., Hölzel, N., Klaus, V.H., Kleinebecker, T., Vincent, H., & Allan, E. (2024). Nitrogen availability and plant functional composition modify biodiversity-multifunctionality relationships. Ecology Letters, 27 (1). doi: 10.1111/ele.14361.
• Bucharova, A., Conrady, M., Klein-Raufhake, T., Ratka, V., Schultz, F., & Hölzel, N. (2024). Rapid evolution of flower phenology and clonality in restored populations of multiple grassland species. Journal of Applied Ecology, 00 (1-11). doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.14600.
• Klein-Raufhake, T., Hölzel, N., Schaper, JJ., Hortmann, A., Elmer, M., Fornfeist, M., Linnemann, B., Meyer, M., Rentemeister, K., Santora, L., Wöllecke, J., & Hamer, U. (2024). Severity of topsoil compaction controls the impact of skid trails on soil ecological processes. Journal of Applied Ecology, 00, 1–12. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.14708.
• Berner L.T.; Orndahl K.M.; Rose M.; Tamstorf M.; Arndal M.F.; Alexander H.D.; Humphreys E.R.; Loranty M.M.; Ludwig S.M.; Nyman J.; Juutinen S.; Aurela M.; Happonen K.; Mikola J.; Mack M.C.; Vankoughnett M.R.; Iversen C.M.; Salmon V.G.; Yang D.; Kumar J.; Grogan P.; Danby R.K.; Scott N.A.; Olofsson J.; Siewert M.B.; Deschamps L.; Lévesque E.; Maire V.; Morneault A.; Gauthier G.; Gignac C.; Boudreau S.; Gaspard A.; Kholodov A.; Bret-Harte M.S.; Greaves H.E.; Walker D.; Gregory F.M.; Michelsen A.; Kumpula T.; Villoslada M.; Ylänne H.; Luoto M.; Virtanen T.; Forbes B.C.; Hölzel N.; Epstein H.; Heim R.J.; Bunn A.; Holmes R.M.; Hung J.K.Y.; Natali S.M.; Virkkala A.M.; Goetz S.J. (2024). The Arctic Plant Aboveground Biomass Synthesis Dataset. Scientific data, 11 (1), Article 305. doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-03139-w.
• Biancari L.; Aguiar M.R.; Eldridge D.J.; Oñatibia G.R.; Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y.; Saiz H.; Gross N.; Austin A.T.; Ochoa V.; Gozalo B.; Asensio S.; Guirado E.; Valencia E.; Berdugo M.; Plaza C.; Martínez-Valderrama J.; Mendoza B.J.; García-Gómez M.; Abedi M.; Ahumada R.J.; Alcántara J.M.; Amghar F.; Anadón J.D.; Aramayo V.; Arredondo T.; Bader M.Y.; Bahalkeh K.; Salem F.B.; Blaum N.; Boldgiv B.; Bowker M.; Branquinho C.; Bu C.; Byambatsogt B.; Calvo D.A.; Castillo Monroy A.P.; Castro H.; Castro-Quezada P.; Chibani R.; Conceição A.A.; Currier C.M.; Donoso D.A.; Dougill A.; Ejtehadi H.; Espinosa C.I.; Fajardo A.; Farzam M.; Ferrante D.; Fraser L.H.; Gaitán J.J.; Gherardi L.A.; Gusmán-Montalván E.; Hernández-Hernández R.M.; Hölzel N.; Huber-Sannwald E.; Hughes F.M.; Jadán O.; Jeltsch F.; Jentsch A.; Ju M.; Kaseke K.F.; Kindermann L.; Köbel M.; le Roux P.C.; Liancourt P.; Linstädter A.; Liu J.; Louw M.A.; Maggs-Kölling G.; Issa O.M.; Marais E.; Margerie P.; Messeder J.V.S.; Mora J.P.; Moreno G.; Munson S.M.; Oliva G.; Pueyo Y.; Emiliano Quiroga R.; Reed S.C.; Rey P.J.; Rodríguez A.; Rodríguez L.B.; Rolo V.; Ruppert J.C.; Sala O.; Salah A.; Stavi I.; Stephens C.R.A.; Swemmer A.M.; Teixido A.L.; Thomas A.D.; Throop H.L.; Tielbörger K.; Travers S.K.; van den Brink L.; Wagner V.; Wamiti W.; Wang D.; Wang L.; Wolff P.; Yahdjian L.; Zaady E.; Maestre F.T. (2024). Drivers of woody dominance across global drylands. Science advances, 10 (41), Article eadn6007. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adn6007.
• Eldridge, D.J., Ding, J., Dorrough, J., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Sala, O., Gross, N., Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Y., Mallen-Cooper, M., Saiz, H., Asensio, S., Ochoa, V., Gozalo, B., Guirado, E., García-Gómez, M., Valencia, E., Martínez-Valderrama, J., Plaza, C., Abedi, M., Ahmadian, N., Ahumada, R.J., Alcántara, J.M., Amghar, F., Azevedo, L., Ben, S. F., Berdugo, M., Blaum, N., Boldgiv, B., Bowker, M., Bran, D., Bu, C., Canessa, R., Castillo-Monroy, A.P., Castro, I., Castro-Quezada, P., Cesarz, S., Chibani, R., Conceição, A.A., Darrouzet-Nardi, A., Davila, Y.C., Deák, B., Díaz-Martínez, P., Donoso, D.A., Dougill, A.D., Durán, J., Eisenhauer, N., Ejtehadi, H., Espinosa, C.I., Fajardo, A., Farzam, M., Foronda, A., Franzese, J., Fraser, L.H., Gaitán, J., Geissler, K., Gonzalez, S.L., Gusman-Montalvan, E., Hernández, R.M., Hölzel, N., Hughes, F.M., Jadan, O., Jentsch, A., Ju, M., Kaseke, K.F., Köbel, M., Lehmann, A., Liancourt, P., Linstädter, A., Louw, M.A., Ma, Q., Mabaso, M., Maggs-Kölling, G., Makhalanyane, T.P., Issa, O.M., Marais, E., McClaran, M., Mendoza, B., Mokoka, V., Mora, J.P., Moreno, G., Munson, S., Nunes, A., Oliva, G., Oñatibia, G.R., Osborne, B., Peter, G., Pierre, M., Pueyo, Y., Emiliano, Q. R., Reed, S., Rey, A., Rey, P., Gómez, V.M.R., Rolo, V., Rillig, M.C., le Roux, P.C., Ruppert, J.C., Salah, A., Sebei, P.J., Sharkhuu, A., Stavi, I., Stephens, C., Teixido, A.L., Thomas, A.D., Tielbörger, K., Robles, S.T., Travers, S., Valkó, O., van den, B. L., Velbert, F., von Heßberg, A., Wamiti, W., Wang, D., Wang, L., Wardle, G.M., Yahdjian, L., Zaady, E., Zhang, Y., Zhou, X., & … Maestre, F.T. (2024). Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands. Nature plants, 10, 760–770. doi: 10.1038/s41477-024-01670-7.
• Gross N.; Maestre F.T.; Liancourt P.; Berdugo M.; Martin R.; Gozalo B.; Ochoa V.; Delgado-Baquerizo M.; Maire V.; Saiz H.; Soliveres S.; Valencia E.; Eldridge D.J.; Guirado E.; Jabot F.; Asensio S.; Gaitán J.J.; García-Gómez M.; Martínez P.; Martínez-Valderrama J.; Mendoza B.J.; Moreno-Jiménez E.; Pescador D.S.; Plaza C.; Pijuan I.S.; Abedi M.; Ahumada R.J.; Amghar F.; Arroyo A.I.; Bahalkeh K.; Bailey L.; Ben Salem F.; Blaum N.; Boldgiv B.; Bowker M.A.; Branquinho C.; van den Brink L.; Bu C.; Canessa R.; Castillo-Monroy A.d.P.; Castro H.; Castro P.; Chibani R.; Conceição A.A.; Darrouzet-Nardi A.; Davila Y.C.; Deák B.; Donoso D.A.; Durán J.; Espinosa C.; Fajardo A.; Farzam M.; Ferrante D.; Franzese J.; Fraser L.; Gonzalez S.; Gusman-Montalvan E.; Hernández-Hernández R.M.; Hölzel N.; Huber-Sannwald E.; Jadan O.; Jeltsch F.; Jentsch A.; Ju M.; Kaseke K.F.; Kindermann L.; le Roux P.; Linstädter A.; Louw M.A.; Mabaso M.; Maggs-Kölling G.; Makhalanyane T.P.; Issa O.M.; Manzaneda A.J.; Marais E.; Margerie P.; Hughes F.M.; Messeder J.V.S.; Mora J.P.; Moreno G.; Munson S.M.; Nunes A.; Oliva G.; Oñatibia G.R.; Peter G.; Pueyo Y.; Quiroga R.E.; Ramírez-Iglesias E.; Reed S.C.; Rey P.J.; Reyes Gómez V.M.; Rodríguez A.; Rolo V.; Rubalcaba J.G.; Ruppert J.C.; Sala O.; Salah A.; Sebei P.J.; Stavi I.; Stephens C.; Teixido A.L.; Thomas A.D.; Throop H.L.; Tielbörger K.; Travers S.; Undrakhbold S.; Val J.; Valkó O.; Velbert F.; Wamiti W.; Wang L.; Wang D.; Wardle G.M.; Wolff P.; Yahdjian L.; Yari R.; Zaady E.; Zeberio J.M.; Zhang Y.; Zhou X.; Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y. (2024). Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world. Nature, 632 (8026), 808–814. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07731-3.
• Díaz-Martínez P.; Maestre F.T.; Moreno-Jiménez E.; Delgado-Baquerizo M.; Eldridge D.J.; Saiz H.; Gross N.; Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y.; Gozalo B.; Ochoa V.; Guirado E.; García-Gómez M.; Valencia E.; Asensio S.; Berdugo M.; Martínez-Valderrama J.; Mendoza B.J.; García-Gil J.C.; Zaccone C.; Panettieri M.; García-Palacios P.; Fan W.; Benavente-Ferraces I.; Rey A.; Eisenhauer N.; Cesarz S.; Abedi M.; Ahumada R.J.; Alcántara J.M.; Amghar F.; Aramayo V.; Arroyo A.I.; Bahalkeh K.; Ben Salem F.; Blaum N.; Boldgiv B.; Bowker M.A.; Bran D.; Branquinho C.; Bu C.; Cáceres Y.; Canessa R.; Castillo-Monroy A.P.; Castro I.; Castro-Quezada P.; Chibani R.; Conceição A.A.; Currier C.M.; Darrouzet-Nardi A.; Deák B.; Dickman C.R.; Donoso D.A.; Dougill A.J.; Durán J.; Ejtehadi H.; Espinosa C.; Fajardo A.; Farzam M.; Ferrante D.; Fraser L.H.; Gaitán J.J.; Gusman Montalván E.; Hernández-Hernández R.M.; von Hessberg A.; Hölzel N.; Huber-Sannwald E.; Hughes F.M.; Jadán-Maza O.; Geissler K.; Jentsch A.; Ju M.; Kaseke K.F.; Kindermann L.; Koopman J.E.; Le Roux P.C.; Liancourt P.; Linstädter A.; Liu J.; Louw M.A.; Maggs-Kölling G.; Makhalanyane T.P.; Issa O.M.; Marais E.; Margerie P.; Mazaneda A.J.; McClaran M.P.; Messeder J.V.S.; Mora J.P.; Moreno G.; Munson S.M.; Nunes A.; Oliva G.; Oñatibia G.R.; Osborne B.; Peter G.; Pueyo Y.; Quiroga R.E.; Reed S.C.; Reyes V.M.; Rodríguez A.; Ruppert J.C.; Sala O.; Salah A.; Sebei J.; Sloan M.; Solongo S.; Stavi I.; Stephens C.R.A.; Teixido A.L.; Thomas A.D.; Throop H.L.; Tielbörger K.; Travers S.; Val J.; Valko O.; van den Brink L.; Velbert F.; Wamiti W.; Wang D.; Wang L.; Wardle G.M.; Yahdjian L.; Zaady E.; Zeberio J.M.; Zhang Y.; Zhou X.; Plaza C. (2024). Vulnerability of mineral-associated soil organic carbon to climate across global drylands. Nature Climate Change, 14 (9), 976–982. doi: 10.1038/s41558-024-02087-y.
• Kindermann, E., Ebner, M., Hölzel, N., Bonari, G., Wassen, M.J., & Wellstein, C. (2024). Resurveying inner-alpine dry grasslands after 70 years calls for integrative conservation efforts. Biological Conservation, 289, Article 110393. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110393.

2023

• Freitag, M., Hölzel, N., Neuenkamp, L., Plas, F., Manning, P., Abrahão, A., Bergmann, J., Boeddinghaus, R., Bolliger, R., Hamer, U., Kandeler, E., Kleinebecker, T., Knorr, K.-H., Marhan, S., Neyret, M., Prati, D., Le Provost, G., Saiz, H., Kleunen, M., Schäfer, D., & … Klaus, VH. (2023). Increasing plant species richness by seeding has marginal effects on ecosystem functioning in agricultural grasslands. Journal of Ecology, early view (n/a). doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.14154.
• Le Provost, Gaëtane; Schenk, Noëlle V; Penone, Caterina; Thiele, Jan; Westphal, Catrin; Allan, Eric; Ayasse, Manfred; Blüthgen, Nico; Boeddinghaus, Runa S; Boesing, Andrea Larissa; Bolliger, Ralph; Busch, Verena; Fischer, Markus; Gossner, Martin M; Hölzel, Norbert; Jung, Kirsten; Kandeler, Ellen; Klaus, Valentin H; Kleinebecker, Till; Leimer, Sophia; Marhan, Sven; Morris, Kathryn; Müller, Sandra; Neff, Felix; Neyret, Margot; Oelmann, Yvonne; Perović, David J; Peter, Sophie; Prati, Daniel; Rillig, Matthias C; Saiz, Hugo; Schäfer, Deborah; Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael; Schloter, Michael; Schöning, Ingo; Schrumpf, Marion; Steckel, Juliane; Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf; Tschapka, Marco; Vogt, Juliane; Weiner, Christiane; Weisser, Wolfgang; Wells, Konstans; Werner, Michael; Wilcke, Wolfgang; Manning, Peter (2023). The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 7, 236–249. doi: 10.1038/s41559-022-01918-5.
• Ludwig, M., Moreno-Martinez, A., Hölzel, N., Pebesma, E., & Meyer, H. (2023). Assessing and improving the transferability of current global spatial prediction models. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, 1–13. doi: 10.1111/geb.13635.
• Neyret, M., Peter, S., Provost, Le., G., Boch, S., Boesing, L., A., Bullock, M., J., Hölzel, N., ..., Manning, & P. (2023). Landscape management strategies for multifunctionality and social equity. Nature Sustainability, 6, 391–403. doi: 10.1038/s41893-022-01045-w.
• Koshkina, A., Freitag, M., Grigoryeva, I., Hölzel, N., Stirnemann, I., Velbert, F., & Kamp, J. (2023). Post-Soviet fire and grazing regimes govern the abundance of a key ecosystem engineer on the Eurasian steppe, the yellow ground squirrel Spermophilus fulvus. Diversity and Distributions, Volume 29 (3), 395–408. doi: 10.1111/ddi.13668.
• Köhler, M., Schmidt, A., Hölzel, N., Baasch, A., & Tischew, S. (2023). Positive long-term effects of year-round horse grazing in orchid-rich dry calcareous grasslands–Results of a 12-year study. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, 35. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1107987.
• Kindermann, E., Hölzel, N., & Wellstein, C. (2023). Combining historical aerial photography with machine learning to map landscape change impacts on dry grasslands in the Central Alps. Landscape Ecology, 1-23. doi: 10.1007/s10980-023-01684-0.
• Conrady, M., Lampei, C., Bossdorf, O., Hölzel, N., Michalski, S., Durka, W., & Bucharova, A. (2023). Plants cultivated for ecosystem restoration can evolve toward a domestication syndrome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120 (20). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2219664120.
• Neff, F., Prati, D., Achury, R., Ambarlı, D., Bolliger, R., Brändle, M., Freitag, M., Hölzel, N., Kleinebecker, T., Knecht, A., Schäfer, D., Schall, P., Seibold, S., Staab, M., Weisser, W.W., Pellissier, L., & Gossner, M.M. (2023). Reduction of invertebrate herbivory by land use is only partly explained by changes in plant and insect characteristics. Ecological Monographs, 93 (2). doi: 10.1002/ecm.1571.
• Graser, Anne; Kelling, Marit; Pabst, Rebecca; Schulz, Meike; Hoelzel, Norbert; Kamp, Johannes (2023). Habitat quality, not patch isolation, drives distribution and abundance of two light-demanding butterflies in fragmented coppice landscapes. Journal of Insect Conservation, 27 (5), 743–758. doi: 10.1007/s10841-023-00494-8.
• Schneider, S., Bergmeier, E., Boch, S., Ewald, J., Härdtle, W., Heinken, T., Hölzel, N., Horn, K., Lütt, S., Remy, D., Ruthsatz, B., Schwabe, A., Tischew, S., Becker, T., & Dierschke, H. (2023). Plant Community of the Year 2024: Vegetation of wet meadows (Calthion palustris) Pflanzengesellschaft des Jahres 2024: Die Sumpfdotterblumen-Wiesen (Calthion palustris). Tuexenia, 43, 277–334. doi: 10.14471/2023.43.006.

2022

• Heim, RJ., Yurtaev, A., Bucharova, A., Heim, W., Kutskir, V., Knorr, K., Lampei, C., Pechkin, A., Schilling, D., Sulkarnaev, F., & Hölzel, N. (2022). Fire in lichen-rich subarctic tundra changes carbon and nitrogen cycling between ecosystem compartments but has minor effects on stocks. Biogeosciences, 19 (10), 2729–2740. doi: 10.5194/bg-19-2729-2022.
• Heim W., Thomas A., Berner I., Korschefsky T., Hölzel N., Kamp J. (2022). Anthropogenic fire patterns affect niche breadth and niche overlap in sympatric songbird species. Science of the Total Environment, 833, Article 155160. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155160.
• Apostolakis A., Schöning I., Klaus V.H., Michalzik B., , Bischoff W.A., Bolliger R., Boeddinghaus R.S., Fischer M.,Hölzel N., Kandeler E., Kleinebecker T., Manning P., Marhan S., Neyret, Oelmann Y., Prati, van Kleunen, M., Schwarz A., Schurig E., Schrumpf M., (2022). Direct and plant community mediated effects of management intensity on annual nutrient leaching risk in temperate grasslands. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, 123 (3), 83–104. doi: 10.1007/s10705-022-10209-1.
• Apostolakis A., Schöning I., Michalzik B., Klaus V.H.,Boeddinghaus R.S., Kandeler E., Marhan S., Bolliger R., Fischer M., Prati D., Hänsel F., Nauss T., Hölzel N., Kleinebecker T., Schrumpf M., (2022). Drivers of soil respiration across a management intensity gradient in temperate grasslands under drought. Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems, 124 (1), 101–116. doi: 10.1007/s10705-022-10224-2.
• Meyer U.N., Tischer A., Freitag M., Klaus V.H., Kleinebecker T., Oelmann Y., Kandeler E., Hölzel N., Hamer U., (2022). Enzyme kinetics inform about mechanistic changes in tea litter decomposition across gradients in land-use intensity in Central German grasslands. Science of the Total Environment, 836, Article 155748. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155748.
• Stroot L., Brinkert A., Hölzel N., Rüsing A., Bucharova A. (2022). Establishment of wildflower strips in a wide range of environments: a lesson from a landscape-scale project. Restoration Ecology, 30 (4), Article e13542. doi: 10.1111/rec.13542.
• Rupprecht, D., Jedrzejek, B., & Hölzel, N. (2022). Fallow deer foraging alone does not preserve the vegetation of traditionally sheep-grazed calcareous grasslands. Journal of Applied Ecology, 59 (10), 2520–2530. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.14253.
• Mudrák, O., Hrabovský, A., Dvorský, M., Liancourt, P., Albert, A.J., Doležal, J., Čierniková, M., Hölzel, N., & Májeková, M. (2022). Grassland restoration on former arable land: Fine-scale grass accumulation and damaged soil conditions limit species establishment. Applied Vegetation Science, 25 (2). doi: 10.1111/avsc.12665.
• Lachaise T., Bergmann J., Hölzel N., Klaus V.H., Kleinebecker T., Rillig M.C., van Kleunen M., (2022). Soil conditions drive below-ground trait space in temperate agricultural grasslands. Journal of Ecology, 110 (5), 1189–1200. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13862.
• Abrahão A.; Marhan S.; Boeddinghaus R.S.; Nawaz A.; Wubet T.; Hölzel N.; Klaus V.H.; Kleinebecker T.; Freitag M.; Hamer U.; Oliveira R.S.;Lambers H.; Kandeler E.; (2022). Microbial drivers of plant richness and productivity in a grassland restoration experiment along a gradient of land-use intensity. New Phytologist, 236 (5), 1936–1950. doi: 10.1111/nph.18503.
• Heim R.J.; Heim W.; Bültmann H.; Kamp J.; Rieker D.; Yurtaev A.; Hölzel N. (2022). Fire disturbance promotes biodiversity of plants, lichens and birds in the Siberian subarctic tundra. Global Change Biology, 28 (3), 1048–1062. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15963.
• Sikorski, Johannes; Baumgartner, Vanessa; Birkhofer, Klaus; Boeddinghaus, Runa S; Bunk, Boyke; Fischer, Markus; Fösel, Bärbel Ulrike; Friedrich, Michael W; Göker, Markus; Hölzel, Norbert; Huang, Sixing; Huber, Katharina Julia; Kandeler, Ellen; Klaus, Valentin H; Kleinebecker, Till; Marhan, Sven; Von Mering, Christian; Oelmann, Yvonne; Prati, Daniel; Regan, Kathleen M; Richter-Heitmann, Tim; Rodrigues, João F Matias; Schmitt, Barbara; Schöning, Ingo; Schrumpf, Marion; Schurig, Elisabeth; Solly, Emily F; Wolters, Volkmar; Overmann, Jörg (2022). The Evolution of Ecological Diversity in Acidobacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology, 13. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.715637.
• Maestre F.T.; Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y.; Delgado-Baquerizo M.; Eldridge D.J.; Saiz H.; Berdugo M.; Gozalo B.; Ochoa V.; Guirado E.; García-Gómez M.; Valencia E.; Gaitán J.J.; Asensio S.; Mendoza B.J.; Plaza C.; Díaz-Martínez P.; Rey A.; Hu H.W.; He J.Z.; Wang J.T.; Lehmann A.; Rillig M.C.; Cesarz S.; Eisenhauer N.; Martínez-Valderrama J.; Moreno-Jiménez E.; Sala O.; Abedi M.; Ahmadian N.; Alados C.L.; Aramayo V.; Amghar F.; Arredondo T.; Ahumada R.J.; Bahalkeh K.; Ben Salem F.; Blaum N.; Boldgiv B.; Bowker M.A.; Bran D.; Bu C.; Canessa R.; Castillo-Monroy A.P.; Castro H.; Castro I.; Castro-Quezada P.; Chibani R.; Conceição A.A.; Currier C.M.; Darrouzet-Nardi A.; Deák B.; Donoso D.A.; Dougill A.J.; Durán J.; Erdenetsetseg B.; Espinosa C.I.; Fajardo A.; Farzam M.; Ferrante D.; Frank A.S.K.; Fraser L.H.; Gherardi L.A.; Greenville A.C.; Guerra C.A.; Gusmán-Montalvan E.; Hernández-Hernández R.M.; Hölzel N.; Huber-Sannwald E.; Hughes F.M.; Jadán-Maza O.; Jeltsch F.; Jentsch A.; Kaseke K.F.; Köbel M.; Koopman J.E.; Leder C.V.; Linstädter A.; le Roux P.C.; Li X.; Liancourt P.; Liu J.; Louw M.A.; Maggs-Kölling G.; Makhalanyane T.P.; Issa O.M.; Manzaneda A.J.; Marais E.; Mora J.P.; Moreno G.; Munson S.M.; Nunes A.; Oliva G.; Oñatibia G.R.; Peter G.; Pivari M.O.D.; Pueyo Y.; Quiroga R.E.; Rahmanian S.; Reed S.C.; Rey P.J.; Richard B.; Rodríguez A.; Rolo V.; Rubalcaba J.G.; Ruppert J.C.; Salah A.; Schuchardt M.A.; Spann S.; Stavi I.; Stephens C.R.A.; Swemmer A.M.; Teixido A.L.; Thomas A.D.; Throop H.L.; Tielbörger K.; Travers S.; Val J.; Valkó O.; van den Brink L.; Ayuso S.V.; Velbert F.; Wamiti W.; Wang D.; Wang L.; Wardle G.M.; Yahdjian L.; Zaady E.; Zhang Y.; Zhou X.; Singh B.K.; Gross N.; Maestre F.T.; Gross N.; Singh B.K.; Zhou X.; Zhang Y.; Zaady E.; Yahdjian L.; Wardle G.M. (2022). Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands. Science, 378 (6622), 915–920. doi: 10.1126/science.abq4062.
• Nguyen, Ho., Trung, Ta. H., Phan, D. C., Anh Tran, T., Thi Hai Ly, N., Nasahara, K. N., Prishchepov, A. V., & Hölzel, N. (2022). Transformation of rural landscapes in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta from 1990 to 2019: a spatio-temporal analysis. Geocarto International, 37, 1–23. doi: 10.1080/10106049.2022.2086623.
• Remy, D., Tischew, S., Dierschke, H., Heinken, T., Hölzel, N., Bergmeier, E., Schneider, S., Horn, K., & Härdtle, W. (2022). Plant Community of the Year 2023: Vegetation of amphibious plants in nutrient-poor waters (Littorelletea uniflorae p.p.) Pflanzengesellschaft des Jahres 2023: Die Strandlingsrasen (Littorelletea uniflorae p.p.). Tuexenia, 42, 321–350. doi: 10.14471/2022.42.006.

2021

• Klein-Raufhake, T., Höfner, J., Hölzel, N., Knorr, K.-H., Lampei, C., Mudrák, O., & Bucharova, A. (2021). Nitrogen limitation reduces the performance of target plant species in restored meadows. Restoration Ecology, 30 (7), e13608. doi: 10.1111/rec.13608.
• Kwon, T., Shibata, H., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Schmidt, IK., Larsen, KS., Beier, C., Berg, B., Verheyen, K., Lamarque, J.-F., Hagedorn, F., Eisenhauer, N., Djukic, I., & TeaComposition, N. (2021). Effects of Climate and Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on Early to Mid-Term Stage Litter Decomposition Across Biomes. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 4. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2021.678480.
• Neff, F., Brändle, M., Ambarlı, D., Ammer, C., Bauhus, J., Boch, S., Hölzel, N., Klaus, VH., Kleinebecker, T., Prati, D., Schall, P., Schäfer, D., Schulze, E.-D., Seibold, S., Simons, NK., Weisser, WW., Pellissier, L., & Gossner, MM. (2021). Changes in plant-herbivore network structure and robustness along land-use intensity gradients in grasslands and forests. Science advances, 7 (20). doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abf3985.
• Le Provost, G., Thiele, J., Westphal, C., Penone, C., Allan, E., Neyret, M., van der, P. F., Ayasse, M., Bardgett, RD., Birkhofer, K., Boch, S., Bonkowski, M., Buscot, F., Feldhaar, H., Gaulton, R., Goldmann, K., Gossner, MM., Klaus, VH., Kleinebecker, T., Krauss, J., Renner, S., Scherreiks, P., Sikorski, J., Baulechner, D., Blüthgen, N., Bolliger, R., Börschig, C., Busch, V., Chisté, M., Fiore-Donno, AM., Fischer, M., Arndt, H., Hölzel, N., John, K., Jung, K., Lange, M., Marzini, C., Overmann, J., Paŝalić, E., Perović, DJ., Prati, D., Schäfer, D., Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., Sonnemann, I., ISteffan-Dewenter, I., Tschapka, M., Türke, M., Vogt, J., Wehner, K., Weiner, C., Weisser, W., Wells, K., Werner, M., Wolters, V., Wubet, T., Wurst, S., Zaitsev, AS., & … Manning, P. (2021). Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity. Nature Communications, 12. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-23931-1.
• Těšitel, J., Tahadlová, M., Lepš, J., & Hölzel, N. (2021). Linking insect herbivory with plant traits: Phylogenetically structured trait syndromes matter. Journal of Vegetation Science, 32 (4). doi: 10.1111/jvs.13061.
• Oelmann, Y., Lange, M., Leimer, S., Roscher, C., Aburto, F., Alt, F., Bange, N., Berner, D., Boch, S., Boeddinghaus, RS., Buscot, F., Dassen, S., De Deyn, G., Eisenhauer, N., Gleixner, G., Goldmann, K., Hölzel, N., Jochum, M., Kandeler, E., Klaus, VH., Kleinebecker, T., Le Provost, G., Manning, P., Marhan, S., Prati, D., Schäfer, D., Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., Schurig, E., Wagg, C., Wubet, T., & … Wilcke, W. (2021). Above- and belowground biodiversity jointly tighten the P cycle in agricultural grasslands. Nature Communications, 12. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24714-4.
• Rupprecht, D., Hölzel, N., & Bucharova, A. (2021). Is there local adaptation in plant species to soil reaction? A lesson from a multispecies experiment. Restoration Ecology, 29 (5). doi: 10.1111/rec.13393.
• Heim, W., Chan, S., Hölzel, N., Ktitorov, P., Mischenko, A., & Kamp, J. (2021). East Asian buntings: Ongoing illegal trade and encouragingconservation responses. Conservation Science and Practice, 3 (6). doi: 10.1111/csp2.405.
• Freitag, M., Klaus, VH., Bolliger, R., Hamer, U., Kleinebecker, T., Prati, D., Schäfer, D., & Hölzel, N. (2021). Restoration of plant diversity in permanent grassland by seeding: Assessing the limiting factors along land-use gradients. Journal of Applied Ecology, 58 (8), 1681–1692. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13883.
• Heim, RJ., Heim, W., Darman, G., Heinken, T., Smirenski, SM., & Hölzel, N. (2021). Litter removal through fire – A key process for wetland vegetation and ecosystem dynamics. Science of the Total Environment, 755. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142659.
• Heim, RJ., Bucharova, A., Brodt, L., Kamp, J., Rieker, D., Soromotin, AV., Yurtaev, A., & Hölzel, N. (2021). Post-fire vegetation succession in the Siberian subarctic tundra over 45 years. Science of the Total Environment, 760. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143425.
• Freitag, M., Kamp, J., Dara, A., Kuemmerle, T., Sidorova, TV., Stirnemann, IA., Velbert, F., & Hölzel, N. (2021). Post-Soviet shifts in grazing and fire regimes changed the functional plant community composition on the Eurasian steppe. Global Change Biology, 27 (2), 388–401. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15411.
• Sabatini, Francesco Maria; Lenoir, Jonathan; Hattab, Tarek; Arnst, Elise Aimee; Chytrý, Milan; Dengler, Jürgen; De Ruffray, Patrice; Hennekens, Stephan M; Jandt, Ute; Jansen, Florian; Jiménez‐Alfaro, Borja; Kattge, Jens; Levesley, Aurora; Pillar, Valério D; Purschke, Oliver; Sandel, Brody; Sultana, Fahmida; Aavik, Tsipe; Aćić, Svetlana; Acosta, Alicia TR; Agrillo, Emiliano; Alvarez, Miguel; Apostolova, Iva; Arfin Khan, Mohammed AS; Arroyo, Luzmila; Attorre, Fabio; Aubin, Isabelle; Banerjee, Arindam; Bauters, Marijn; Bergeron, Yves; Bergmeier, Erwin; Biurrun, Idoia; Bjorkman, Anne D; Bonari, Gianmaria; Bondareva, Viktoria; Brunet, Jörg; Čarni, Andraž; Casella, Laura; Cayuela, Luis; Černý, Tomáš; Chepinoga, Victor; Csiky, János; Ćušterevska, Renata; De Bie, Els; De Gasper, André Luis; De Sanctis, Michele; Dimopoulos, Panayotis; Dolezal, Jiri; Dziuba, Tetiana; El‐Sheikh, Mohamed Abd El‐Rouf Mousa; Enquist, Brian; Ewald, Jörg; Fazayeli, Farideh; Field, Richard; Finckh, Manfred; Gachet,...Hölzel, Norbert;...Zobel, Martin; Bruelheide, Helge (2021). sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30 (9), 1740–1764. doi: 10.1111/geb.13346.
• Bergmeier, E., Meyer, S., Pape, F., Dierschke, H., Härdtle, W., Heinken, T., Hölzel, N., Remy, D., Schwabe, A., Tischew, S., & Schneider, S. (2021). Arable vegetation of calcareous soils (Caucalidion): Plant community of the year 2022 Ackerwildkraut-Vegetation der Kalkäcker (Caucalidion): Pflanzengesellschaft des Jahres 2022. Tuexenia, 41, 299–350. doi: 10.14471/2021.41.021.
• Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., Schäfer, D., Schäfer, M., Manning, P., Tschapka, M., Westphal, C., Fischer, M., Neyret, M., Hölzel, N., Allan, E., Kleinebecker, T., Klaus, V.H., Le Provost, G., Krauss, J., Schenk, N., Peter, S., van der, P. F., Simons, N.K., Börschig, C., Binkenstein, J., Prati, D., & … Jung, K. (2021). Assessing the impact of grassland management on landscape multifunctionality. Ecosystem Services, 52, Article 101366. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101366.

2020

• Dara, A., Baumann, M., Freitag, M., Hölzel, N., Hostert, P., Kamp, J., Müller, D., Prishchepov, AV., & Kuemmerle, T. (2020). Annual Landsat time series reveal post-Soviet changes in grazing pressure. Remote Sensing of Enviroment, 239, 111667. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.111667.
• Koshkina, A., Grigoryeva, I., Tokarsky, V., Urazaliyev, R., Kuemmerle, T., Hölzel, N., & Kamp, J. (2020). Marmots from space: assessing population size and habitat use of a burrowing mammal using publicly available satellite images. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 6, 153–167. doi: 10.1002/rse2.138.
• Kamp, J., Freitag, M., & Hölzel, N. (2020). Towards more meaningful scenarios of biodiversity responses to land-use change in Central Asia. Regional Environmental Change, 20 (75). doi: 10.1007/s10113-020-01666-x.
• Dara, A., Baumann, M., Hölzel, N., Hostert, P., Kamp, J., Müller, D., Ullrich, B., & Kuemmerle, T. (2020). Post-Soviet land-use change affected fire regimes on the Eurasian steppes. Ecosystems, 23, 943–956. doi: 10.1007/s10021-019-00447-w.
• Köhler, M., Elias, D., Hiller, G., Hölzel, N., & Tischew, S. (2020). Restoration of orchid-rich dry calcareous grasslands by rotational goat pasturing. Tuexenia, 40, 201–223. doi: 10.14471/2020.40.009.
• Baumann, M., Kamp, J., Pötzschner, F., Bleyhl, B., Dara, A., Hankerson, B., Prishchepov, AV., Schierhorn, F., Müller, D., Hölzel, N., Krämer, R., Urazaliyev, R., & Kuemmerle, T. (2020). Declining human pressure and opportunities for rewilding in the steppes of Eurasia. Diversity and Distribution, 26 (9), 1058–1070. doi: 10.1111/ddi.13110.
• Felipe-​Lucia, MR., Soliveres, S., Penone, C., Fischer, M., Ammer, C., Boch, S., Boeddinghaus, RS., Bonkowski, M., Buscot, F., Fiore-​Donno, AM., Frank, K., Goldmann, K., Gossner, MM., Hölzel, N., Jochum, M., Kandeler, E., Klaus, VH., Kleinebecker, T., Leimer, S., Manning, P., Oelmann, Y., Saiz, H., Schall, P., Schloter, M., Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., Solly, EF., Stempfhuber, B., Weiser, WW., Wilcke, W., Wubet, T., & … Allan, E. (2020). Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117 (45), 28140–28149. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2016210117.
• Jochum, M., Fischer, M., Isbell, F., Roscher, C., van der, P. F., Boch, S., Boenisch, G., Buchmann, N., Catford, J., Cavender-​Bares, J., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Gleixner, G., Hölzel, N., Kattge, J., Klaus, VH., Kleinebecker, T., Lange, M., Le Provost, G., Meyer, ST., Molina-​Venegas, R., Mommer, L., Oelmann, Y., Penone, C., Prati, D., Reich, PB., Rindisbacher, A., Schäfer, D., Scheu, S., Schmid, B., Tilman, D., Tscharntke, T., Vogel, A., Wagg, C., Weigelt, A., Weisser, WW., Wilcke, W., & … Manning, P. (2020). The results of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 4, 1485–1494. doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-1280-9.
• Heim, W., Heim, RJ., Beermann, I., Burkovskiy, OA., Gerasimov, Y., Ktitorov, P., Ozaki, K., Panov, I., Sander, MM., Sjöberg, S., Smirenski, SM., Thomas, A., Tøttrup, A., Tiunov, IM., Willemoes, M., Hölzel, N., Thorup, K., & Kamp, J. (2020). Using geolocator tracking data and ringing archives to validate citizen-science based seasonal predictions of bird distribution in a data-poor region. Global Ecology and Conservation, 24. doi: 10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01215.
• Pichon, NA., Cappelli, SL., Soliveres, S., Hölzel, N., Klaus, VH., Kleinebecker, T., & Allan, E. (2020). Decomposition disentangled: A test of the multiple mechanisms by which nitrogen enrichment alters litter decomposition. Functional Ecology, 34 (7), 1485–1496. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13560.

2019

• Tischer, A., Sehl, L., Meyer, UN., Kleinebecker, T., Klaus, VH., & Hamer, U. (2019). Land-use intensity shapes kinetics of extracellular enzymes in rhizosphere soil of agricultural grassland plant species. SOIL, 437, 215–239. doi: 10.1007/s11104-019-03970-w.
• Vogt, J., Klaus, VH., Both, S., Fürstenau, C., Gockel, S., Gossner, MM., Heinze, J., Hemp, A., Hölzel, N., Jung, K., Kleinebecker, T., Lauterbach, R., Lorenzen, K., Ostrowski, A., Otto, N., Prati, D., Renner, S., Schumacher, U., Seibold, S., Simons, N., Steitz, I., Teuscher, M., Thiele, J., Weithmann, S., Wells, K., Wiesner, K., Ayasse, M., Blüthgen, N., Fischer, M., & … Weisser, WW. (2019). Eleven years’ data of grassland management in Germany. Biodiversity Data Journal, 7, e36387. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.7.e36387.
• Schäfer, D., Klaus, VH., Kleinebecker, T., Boeddinghaus, R., Hinderling, J., Kandeler, E., Marhan, S., Nowak, S., Sonnemann, I., Wurst, S., Fischer, M., Hölzel, N., Hamer, U., & Prati, D. (2019). Recovery of ecosystem functions after experimental disturbance in 73 grasslands differing in land-use intensity, plant species richness and community composition. Journal of Ecology, 107 (6), 2635–2649. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13211.
• Palpurina, S., Chytrı, M., Hölzel, N., Tichý, L., Wagner, V., Horsák, M., Axmanová, I., Hajek, M., Hájková, P., Freitag, M., Lososová, Z., Mathar, W., Tzonev, R., Danihelka, J., & Dřevojan, P. (2019). The type of nutrient limitation affects the plant species richness–productivity relationship: evidence from dry grasslands across Eurasia. Journal of Ecology, 107, 1038–1050. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13084.
• Heim, RJ., Hölzel, N., Heinken, T., Kamp, J., Thomas, A., Darban, GF., Smirenski, SM., & Heim, W. (2019). Post-burn and long-term fire effects on plants and birds in floodplain wetlands in the Russian Far East. Biodiversity and Conservation, 28, 1611–1628. doi: 10.1007/s10531-019-01746-3.
• Dittberner, H., Becker, C., Jiao, WB., Schneeberger, K., Hölzel, N., Tellier, A., & de Meaux, J. (2019). Strengths and potential pitfalls of hay-transfer for ecological restoration revealed by RAD-seq analysis in two floodplain Arabis species. Molecular Ecology, 28 (17), 3887–3091. doi: 10.1111/mec.15194.
• Schwabe, A., Tischew, S., Bergmeier, E., Grave, E., Härdtle, W., Heinken, T., Hölzel, N., Peppler-Lisbach, C., Remy, D., & Dierschke, H. (2019). Plant Community of the Year 2020: Mat grassland (Nardus stricta grassland). Tuexenia, 39, 289–308. doi: 10.14471/2019.39.017.
• Midolo, G., De Frenne, P., Hölzel, N., & Wellstein, C. (2019). Global patterns of intraspecific leaf trait responses to elevation. Global Change Biology, 25, 2485–2498. doi: 10.1111/gcb.14646.
• Busch, V., Klaus, VH., Schäfer, D., Prati, D., Boch, S., Müller, J., Chisté, M., Mody, K., Blüthgen, N., Fischer, M., Hölzel, N., & Kleinebecker, T. (2019). Will I stay or will I go? Plant species specific response and tolerance to high land-use intensity in temperate grassland ecosystems. Journal of Vegetation Science, 30, 674–686. doi: 10.1111/jvs.12749.
• Bruelheide H, D. J., Jiménez-Alfaro B, P. O., Hennekens S, C. M., Pillar V, J. F., Kattge J, S. B., Aubin I, B. I., Field R, H. S., Jandt U, L. J., Peet R, P. G., Sabatini F, S. M., Schrodt F, W. M., Aćić S, A. E., Alvarez M, A. D., Angelini P, A. I., Arfin Khan M, A. E., Attorre F, B. C., Beckmann M, B. C., Bergeron Y, B. E., Bjorkman A, B. V., Borchardt P, B.-D. Z., Boyle B, B. A., Brisse H, B. C., Cabido M, C. L., Cayuela L, Č. T., Chepinoga V, C. J., Curran M, C. R., Dajić Stevanović Z, De. B., de Ruffray P, De. S., Dimopoulos P, D. S., Ejrnaes R, El. S., Enquist B, E. J., Fagundez J, F. M., Font X, F. E., Fotiadis G, d. G., Golub, G. A., Hatim MZ, He. T., Higuchi P, M. D., Hölzel N, H. J., Indreica A, I. G., Jansen S, J. J., Jedrzejek B, J. M., Jürgens N, K. Z., Kavgacı A, K. E., Kessler M, K. I., Kolomiychuk V, K. A., Kozhevnikova M, K. Ł., Krstonošić D, K. H., Kühn I, K. A., Küzmič F, L. F., Lee M, L. A., Li CF, L. H., Lopez Gonzalez G, L. T., Macanović A, M. P., Manning P, M. C., Martynenko V, M. M., Minden V, M. J., Moretti M, M. JV., Munzinger J, N. U., Nobis M, N. J., Nowak A, O. V., Overbeck G, O. W., Pauchard A, P. H., Penuelas J, P.-H. A., Peterka T, P. P., Phillips O, P. V., Rašomavičius V, R. R., Rodwell J, R. E., Rūsina S, S. C., Schaminée J, S. U., Šibik J, Š. U., Škvorc Z, S. A., Sop T, S. D., Sparrow B, S. JC., Swacha G, T. Z., Tsiripidis I, T. PD., Ugurlu E, U. D., Valachovič M, V. KA., Vashenyak Y, V. K., Vélez-Martin E, V. R., Vibrans AC, V. C., Virtanen R, v. W., Wagner V, W. DA., Wana D, W. E., Wesche K, W. T., Willner W, W. S., Wohlgemuth T, Y. S., & … Zizka G, Z. A. (2019). sPlot – a new tool for global vegetation analyses. Journal of Vegetation Science, 30, 161–186. doi: 10.1111/jvs.12710.
• Boeddinghaus, R., Marhan, S., Berner, D., Boch, S., Fischer, M., Hoelzel, N., Kattge, J., Klaus, VH., Kleinebecker, T., Oelmann, Y., Prati, D., Schäfer, D., Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., Sorkau, E., Kandeler, E., & Manning, P. (2019). Plant functional trait shifts explain concurrent changes in the structure and function of grassland soil microbial communities. Journal of Ecology, 107, 2197–2210. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13182.
• van der, P. F., Allan, E., Fischer, M., Alt, F., Arndt, H., Binkenstein, J., Blaser, S., Blüthgen, N., Böhm, S., Hölzel, N., Klaus, V. HK., Kleinbecker, T., Morris, EK., Oelmann, Y., Prati, D., Renner, S., Rillig, MC., Schaefer, HM., Schloter, M., Schmitt, B., Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., Solly, E., Sorkau, E., Steckel, J., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Stempfhuber, B., Tschapka, M., Weiner, CN., Weisser, WW., Werner, M., Westphal, C., Wilcke, W., & … Manning, P. (2019). Towards the development of general rules describing landscape heterogeneity-multifunctionality relationships. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56, 168–179. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13260.
• Bucharova, A., Bossdorf, O., Hölzel, N., Kollmann, J., Prasse, R., & Durka, W. (2019). Mix and match: regional admixture provenancing strikes a balance among different seed-sourcing strategies for ecological restoration. Conservation Genetics, 20, 7–17. doi: 10.1007/s10592-018-1067-6.
• Vogt, J., Klaus, VH., Both, S., Fürstenau, C., Gockel, S., Gossner, MM., Heinze, J., Hemp, A., Hölzel, N., Jung, K., Kleinebecker, T., Lauterbach, R., Lorenzen, K., Ostrowski, A., Otto, N., Prati, D., Renner, S., Schumacher, U., Seibold, S., Simons, N., Steitz, I., Teuscher, M., Thiele, J., Weithmann, S., Wells, K., Wiesner, K., Ayasse, M., Blüthgen, N., Fischer, M., & … Weisser, WW. (2019). Eleven years' data of grassland management in Germany. Biodiversity Data Journal, 7, 1–38. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.7.E36387.
• Heinken, T., Härdtle, W., Peppler-Lisbach, C., Hölzel, N., Dierschke, H., Remy, D., Schwabe, A., Tischew, S., Bergmeier, E., & Garve, E. (2019). Plant Community of the Year 2020: Mat grassland (Nardus striata grassland) Pflanzengesellschaft des Jahres 2020: Borstgrasrasen. Tuexenia, 39, 287–308. doi: 10.14471/2019.39.017.
• Heim R.J.; Hölzel N.; Heinken T.; Kamp J.; Thomas A.; Darman G.F.; Smirenski S.M.; Heim W. (2019). Post-burn and long-term fire effects on plants and birds in floodplain wetlands of the Russian Far East. Biodiversity and Conservation, 28, 1611–1628. doi: 10.1007/s10531-019-01746-3.
• van der Plas F.; Allan E.; Fischer M.; Alt F.; Arndt H.; Binkenstein J.; Blaser S.; Blüthgen N.; Böhm S.; Hölzel N.; Klaus V.H.; Kleinebecker T.; Morris K.; Oelmann Y.; Prati D.; Renner S.C.; Rillig M.C.; Schaefer H.M.; Schloter M.; Schmitt B.; Schöning I.; Schrumpf M.; Solly E.F.; Sorkau E.; Steckel J.; Steffan-Dewenter I.; Stempfhuber B.; Tschapka M.; Weiner C.N.; Weisser W.W.; Werner M.; Westphal C.; Wilcke W.; Manning P.; van der Plas F.; Manning P. (2019). Towards the development of general rules describing landscape heterogeneity–multifunctionality relationships. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56 (1), 168–179. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13260.
• Busch V.; Klaus V.H.; Schäfer D.; Prati D. Boch S.; Müller J.; Chisté M.; Mody K.; Blüthgen N.; Fischer M.; Hölzel N.; Kleinebecker T.; (2019). Will I stay or will I go? Plant species-specific response and tolerance to high land-use intensity in temperate grassland ecosystems. Journal of Vegetation Science, 30 (4), 674–686. doi: 10.1111/jvs.12749.

2018

• Klaus, VH., Schäfer, D., Prati, D., Busch, V., Hamer, U., Hoever, CJ., Kleinebecker, T., Mertens, D., Fischer, M., & Hölzel, N. (2018). Effects of mowing, grazing and fertilization on soil seed banks in temperate grasslands in Central Europe. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 256, 211–217. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2017.11.008.
• Djukic, I., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Schmidt, IK., Larsen, KS., Beier, C., Berg, B., Verheyend, K., TeaComposition, (. o., Hölzel, N., Klaus, VH., & Kleinebecker, T. (2018). Early stage litter decomposition across biomes. Science of the Total Environment, 628-629, 1369–1394. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.012.
• Heer, N., Klimmek, F., Zwahlen, C., Fischer, M., Hölzel, N., Klaus, VH., Kleinebecker, T., Prati, D., & Boch, S. (2018). Hemiparasite-density effects on grassland plant diversity, composition and biomass. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 32, 22–29. doi: 10.1016/j.ppees.2018.01.004.
• Leimer, S., Bischoff, S., Boch, S., Busch, V., Escher, P., Fischer, M., Hänsel, F., Hölzel, N., Kerber, K., VH, K., Kleinebecker, T., Michalzik, B., Nauss, T., Schäfer, D., Schöning, I., Schwarz, MT., Siemens, J., Thieme, L., Wöllauer, S., & Wilcke, W. (2018). Does plant diversity affect the water balance of established grassland systems? Ecohydrology, 11 (4), e1945. doi: 10.1002/eco.1945.
• Busch, V., Klaus, V., Klaus, V., Penone, C., Schäfer, D., Boch, S., Boch, S., Prati, D., Müller, J., Socher, S., Niinemets, Ü., Peñuelas, J., Peñuelas, J., Hölzel, N., Fischer, M., & Kleinebecker, T. (2018). Nutrient stoichiometry and land use rather than species richness determine plant functional diversity. Ecology and Evolution, 8 (1), 601–616. doi: 10.1002/ece3.3609.
• VH, K., T, K., V, B., M, F., Hölzel, S, N., D, P., D, S., I, S., M, S., & U, H. (2018). Land use intensity, rather than plant species richness, affects the leaching risk of multiple nutrients from permanent grasslands. Global Change Biology, 24 (7), 2828–2840. doi: 10.1111/gcb.14123.
• Nguyen, H., Hölzel, N., Völker, A., & Kamp, J. (2018). Patterns and Determinants of Post-Soviet Cropland Abandonment in the Western Siberian Grain Belt. Remote Sensing, 10 (12), 1973. doi: 10.3390/rs10121973.
• Bruelheide, H., Dengler, J., Purschke, O., Lenoir, J., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Hennekens, SM., Botta-Dukát, Z., Chytrý, M., Field, R., Jansen, F., Kattge, J., Pillar, VD., Schrodt, F., Mahecha, MD., Peet, RK., Sandel, B., van Bodegom, P., Altman, J., Alvarez, D. E., Arfin, K. M AS., Attorre, F., Aubin, I., Baraloto, C., Barroso, JG., Bauters, M., Bergmeier, E., Biurrun, I., Bjorkman, AD., Blonder, B., Čarni, A., Cayuela, L., Černý, T., Cornelissen, J. HC., Craven, D., Dainese, M., Derroire, G., De Sanctis, M., Díaz, S., Doležal, J., Farfan-Rios, W., Feldpausch, TR., Fenton, NJ., Garnier, E., Guerin, GR., Gutiérrez, AG., Haider, S., Hattab, T., Henry, G., Hérault, B., Higuchi, P., Hölzel, N., Homeier, J., Jentsch, A., Jürgens, N., Kącki, Z., Karger, DN., Kessler, M., Kleyer, M., Knollová, I., Korolyuk, AY., Kühn, I., Laughlin, DC., Lens, F., Loos, J., Louault, F., Lyubenova, MI., Malhi, Y., Marcenò, C., Mencuccini, M., Müller, JV., Munzinger, J., Myers-Smith, IH., Neill, DA., Niinemets, Ü., Orwin, KH., Ozinga, WA., Penuelas, J., Pérez-Haase, A., Petřík, P., Phillips, OL., Pärtel, M., Reich, PB., Römermann, C., Rodrigues, AV., Sabatini, FM., Sardans, J., Schmidt, M., Seidler, G., Silva, E. JE., Silveira, M., Smyth, A., Sporbert, M., Svenning, J., Tang, Z., Thomas, R., Tsiripidis, I., Vassilev, K., Violle, C., Virtanen, R., Weiher, E., Welk, E., Wesche, K., Winter, M., Wirth, C., & … Jandt, U. (2018). Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2, 1907–1918. doi: 10.1038/s41559-018-0699-8.
• Dara, A., Baumann, M., Kuemmerle, T., Pflugmacher, D., Rabe, A., Griffiths, P., Hölzel, N., Kamp, J., Freitag, M., & Hostert, P. (2018). Mapping the timing of cropland abandonment and recultivation in northern Kazakhstan using annual Landsat time series. Remote Sensing of Enviroment, 213, 49–60. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.05.005.
• Kleinebecker, T., Busch, V., Hölzel, N., Hamer, U., Schäfer, D., Prati, D., Fischer, M., Hemp, A., Lauterbach, R., & Klaus, VH. (2018). And the winner is … ! A test of simple predictors of plant species richness in agricultural grasslands. Ecological Indicators, 87, 296–301. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.12.031.
• Elias, D., Hölzel, N., & Tischew, S. (2018). Goat paddock grazing improves the conservation status of shrub-encroached dry grasslands. Tuexenia, 38, 215–233. doi: 10.14471/2018.38.017.
• Elias, D., Hölzel, N., & Tischew, S. (2018). Positive effects of goat pasturing on the threatened spring geophyte Gagea bohemica in formerly abandoned dry grasslands. Flora, 249, 53–59. doi: 10.1016/j.flora.2018.09.008.
• Kamp, J., Reinhard, A., Frenzel, M., Kämpfer, S., Trappe, J., & Hölzel, N. (2018). Farmland bird responses to land abandonment in Western Siberia. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 268, 61–69. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2018.09.009.
• Tischew, S., Dierschke, H., Schwabe, A., Garve, E., Heinken, T., Hölzel, N., Bergmeier, E., Remy, D., & Härdtle, W. (2018). Plant Community of the Year 2019: Oatgras Meadow. Tuexenia, 38, 287–295. doi: 10.14471/2018.38.011.
• Klaus, VH., Hoever, CJ., Fischer, M., Hamer, U., Kleinebecker, T., Mertens, D., Schäfer, D., Prati, D., & Hölzel, N. (2018). Contribution of the soil seed bank to the restoration of agricultural grasslands by experimental sward disturbance. Restoration Ecology, 26 (S2), 114–122. doi: 10.1111/rec.12626.
• Kleinebecker, T., Busch, V., Hölzel, N., Hamer, U., Schäfer, D., Prati, D., Fischer, M., Hemp, A., Lauterbach, R., & Klaus, VH. (2018). And the winner is …. ! A test of simple predictors of plant species richness in agricultural grasslands. Ecological Indicators, 87, 296–301. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.12.031.
• Ivanova L.; Yudina P.; Ronzhina D.; Ivanov L.; Hölzel N. (2018). Quantitative mesophyll parameters rather than whole-leaf traits predict response of C3 steppe plants to aridity. New Phytologist, 217 (2), 558–570. doi: 10.1111/nph.14840.
• Ivanova, L., Yudina, P., Ronzhina, D., Ivanov, L., & Hölzel, N. (2018). Quantitative mesophyll parameters rather than whole-leaf traits predict response of C3 steppe plants to aridity. New Phytologist, 217 (2), 558–570. doi: 10.1111/nph.14840.

2017

• Klaus, VH., Schäfer, D., Kleinebecker, T., Fischer, M., Prati, D., & Hölzel, N. (2017). Enriching plant diversity in grasslands by large-scale experimental sward disturbance and seed addition along gradients of land-use intensity. Journal of Plant Ecology, 10 (4), 581–591. doi: 10.1093/jpe/rtw062.
• Velbert, F., Kleinebecker, T., Mudrák, O., Schwartze, P., & Hölzel, N. (2017). Time lags in functional response to management regimes – evidence from a 26-year field experiment in wet meadows. Journal of Vegetation Science, 28 (2), 313–324. doi: 10.1111/jvs.12497.
• Wertebach, T., Hölzel, N., Kämpf, I., Yurtaev, A., Tupitsin, S., Kiehl, K., Kamp, J., & Kleinebecker, T. (2017). Soil carbon sequestration due to post-Soviet cropland abandonment: estimates from a large-scale soil organic carbon field inventory. Global Change Biology, 23 (9), 3729–3741. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13650.
• Palpurina, S., Wagner, V., von Wehrden, H., Hájek, M., Horsák, M., Brinkert, A., Hölzel, N., Wesche, K., Kamp, J., Hájková, P., Danihelka, J., Lustyk, P., Merunková, K., Preislerová, Z., Kočí, M., Kubešová, S., Cherosov, M., Ermakov, N., German, D., Gogoleva, P., Lashchinsky, N., Martynenko, V., & … Chytrý, M. (2017). The relationship between plant species richness and soil pH vanishes with increasing aridity across Eurasian dry grasslands. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 26 (4), 425–434. doi: 10.1111/geb.12549.
• Wagner, V., Chytrý, M., Zelený, D., von Wehrden, H., Brinkert, A., Danihelka, J., Hölzel, N., Jansen, F., Kamp, J., Lustyk, P., Merunková, K., Palpurina, S., Preislerová, Z., & Wesche, K. (2017). Regional differences in soil pH niche among dry grassland plants in Eurasia. Oikos, 126 (5), 660–670. doi: 10.1111/oik.03369.
• Durka, W., Michalski, S., Berendzen, K., Bossdorf, O., Bucharova, A., Hermann, J., Hölzel, N., & Kollmann, J. (2017). Genetic differentiation within multiple common grassland plants supports seed transfer zones for ecological restoration. Journal of Applied Ecology, 54 (1), 116–126. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12636.
• Bucharova, A., Michalski, S., Hermann, J., Heveling, K., Durka, W., Hölzel, N., Kollmann, J., & Bossdorf, O. (2017). Genetic differentiation and regional adaptation among seed origins used for grassland restoration: Lessons from a multispecies transplant experiment. Journal of Applied Ecology, 54 (1), 127–136. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12645.
• Bucharova, A., Durka, W., Hölzel, N., Kollmann, J., Michalski, S., & Bossdorf, O. (2017). Are local plants the best for ecosystem restoration? It depends on how you analyze the data. Ecology and Evolution, 7 (24), 10683–10689. doi: 10.1002/ece3.3585.
• Gilhaus, K., Boch, S., Fischer, M., Hölzel, N., Kleinebecker, T., Prati, D., Rupprecht, D., Schmitt, B., & Klaus, V. (2017). Grassland management in Germany: Effects on plant diversity and vegetation composition. Tuexenia, 37 (1), 379–397. doi: 10.14471/2017.37.010.
• Wolff, C., Gilhaus, K., Hölzel, N., & Schneider, S. (2017). Status and restoration potential of heathlands and sand grasslands in the southwest of Luxembourg. Tuexenia, 37 (1), 179–200. doi: 10.14471/2017.37.007.
• Griewald, Y., Clemens, G., Kamp, J., Gladun, E., Hölzel, N., & von Dressler, H. (2017). Developing land use scenarios for stakeholder participation in Russia. Land Use Policy, 68 (null), 264–276. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.07.049.

2016

• Wertebach, T.-M., Knorr, K.-H., Lordieck, M., Tretiakov, N., Blodau, C., Hölzel, N., & Kleinebecker, T. (2016). Relationships between Vegetation Succession, Pore Water Chemistry and CH4 and CO2 Production in a Transitional Mire of Western Siberia (Tyumen Oblast). Wetlands, 36 (5), 863–874. doi: 10.1007/s13157-016-0798-8.
• Soliveres, S., Manning, P., Prati, D., Gossner, MM., Alt, F., Arndt, H., Baumgartner, V., Binkenstein, J., Birkhofer, K., Blaser, S., Blüthgen, N., Boch, S., Böhm, S., Börschig, C., Buscot, F., Diekötter, T., Heinze, J., Hölzel, N., Jung, K., Klaus, VH., Klein, A.-M., Kleinebecker, T., Klemmer, S., Krauss, J., Lange, M., Morris, EK., Müller, J., Oelmann, Y., Overmann, J., Pašalić, E., Renner, SC., Rillig, MC., Schaefer, HM., Schloter, M., Schmitt, B., Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., Sikorski, J., Socher, SA., Solly, EF., Sonnemann, I., Sorkau, E., Steckel, J., Steffen-Dewenter, I., Stempfhuber, B., Tschapka, M., Türke, M., Venter, P., Weiner, CN., Weisser, WW., Werner, M., Westphal, C., Wilcke, W., Wolters, V., Wubet, T., Wurst, S., Fischer, M., & … Allan, E. (2016). Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371 (1694), 20150269. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0269.
• Kämpf, I., Hölzel, N., & Kiehl, K. (2016). Arable weed communities in the south of Western Siberia – impoverished species pools constrain diversity despite low land-use intensity. Tuexenia, 36, 249–270. doi: 10.14471/2016.36.012.
• Hölzel, N., Hickler, T., Kutzbach, L., Joosten, H., van Huissteden, J., & Hiederer, R. (2016). Environmental Impacts - Terrestrial Ecosystems. in Quante, M., & Colijn, F. (ed.), Regional Climate StudiesNorth Sea Region Climate Change Assessment (pp. 341–372). unbekannt / n.a. / unknown. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-39745-0_11.
• Gilhaus, K., & Hölzel, N. (2016). Seasonal variations of fodder quality and availability as constraints for stocking rates in year-round grazing schemes. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 234, 5–15. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2016.03.013.
• Soliveres, S., van der, P. F., Manning, P., Prati, D., Gossner, MM., Renner, SC., Alt, F., Arndt, H., Baumgartner, V., Binkenstein, J., Birkhofer, K., Blaser, S., Blüthgen, N., Boch, S., Böhm, S., Börschig, C., Buscot, F., Diekötter, T., Heinze, J., Hölzel, N., Jung, K., Klaus, VH., Kleinebecker, T., Klemmer, S., Krauss, J., Lange, M., Morris, EK., Müller, J., Oelmann, Y., Overmann, J., Pašalić, E., Rillig, MC., Schaefer, HM., Schloter, M., Schmitt, B., Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., Sikorski, J., Socher, SA., Solly, EF., Sonnemann, I., Sorkau, E., Steckel, J., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Stempfhuber, B., Tschapka, M., Türke, M., Venter, P., Weiner, CN., Weisser, WW., Werner, M., Westphal, C., Wilcke, W., Wolters, V., Wubet, T., Wurst, S., Fischer, M., & … Allan, E. (2016). Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality. Nature, 536, 456–459. doi: 10.1038/nature19092.
• Bucharova, A., Durka, W., Hermann, J., Hölzel, N., Michalski, S., Kollmann, J., & Bossdorf, O. (2016). Plants adapted to warmer climate do not outperform regional plants during a natural heat wave. Ecology and Evolution, 6 (12), 4160–4165. doi: 10.1002/ece3.2183.
• Kämpf, I., Hölzel, N., Störrle, M., Broll, G., & Kiehl, K. (2016). Potential of temperate agricultural soils for carbon sequestration: A meta-analysis of land-use effects. Biodiversity and Conservation, 566-567 (null), 428–435. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.05.067.
• Gilhaus, K. F., & Kunze, S. H. (2016). High fodder value and feeding likelihood favour endozoochorous plant dispersal. Journal of Vegetation Science, 28 (2), 357–367. doi: 10.1111/jvs.12481.
• Török, P., Hölzel, N., van Diggelen, R., & Tischew, S. (2016). Grazing in European open landscapes: How to reconcile sustainable land management and biodiversity conservation? Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 234 (null), 1–4. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2016.06.012.
• Kämpf, I., Mathar, W., Kuzmin, I., Hölzel, N., & Kiehl, K. (2016). Post-Soviet recovery of grassland vegetation on abandoned fields in the forest steppe zone of Western Siberia. Biodiversity and Conservation, 25 (12), 2563–2580. doi: 10.1007/s10531-016-1078-x.
• Mathar, W., Kämpf, I., Kleinebecker, T., Kuzmin, I., Tolstikov, A., Tupitsin, S., & Hölzel, N. (2016). Floristic diversity of meadow steppes in the Western Siberian Plain: effects of abiotic site conditions, management and landscape structure. Biodiversity and Conservation, 25 (12), 2361–2379. doi: 10.1007/s10531-015-1023-4.
• Weking, S., Kämpf, I., Mathar, W., & Hölzel, N. (2016). Effects of land use and landscape patterns on Orthoptera communities in the Western Siberian forest steppe. Biodiversity and Conservation, 25 (12), 2341–2359. doi: 10.1007/s10531-016-1107-9.
• Blüthgen, N., Simons, N., Jung, K., Prati, D., Renner, S., Boch, S., Fischer, M., Hölzel, N., Klaus, V., Kleinebecker, T., Tschapka, M., Weisser, W., & Gossner, M. (2016). Land use imperils plant and animal community stability through changes in asynchrony rather than diversity. Nature Communications, 7, 10697. doi: 10.1038/ncomms10697.
• Boch, S., Allan, E., Birkhofer, K., Blüthgen, N., Christ-Breulmann, S., Diekoetter, T., Dormann, CF., Gossner, MM., Hallmann, C., Hemp, A., Hölzel, N., Jung, K., Klaus, VH., Klein, A.-M., Kleinebecker, T., Lange, M., Müller, J., Nacke, H., Prati, D., Renner, SC., Rothenwöhrer, C., Schall, P., Schulze, E.-D., Socher, SA., Tscharntke, T., Türke, M., Weiner, CN., Weisser, WW., Westphal, C., Wolters, V., Wubet, T., & … Fischer, M. (2016). Extensive und jährlich wechselnde Nutzungsintensität fördert den Artenreichtum im Grünland. ANLiegen Natur, 38(1).
• Klaus, V., Boch, S., Boeddinghaus, R., Hölzel, N., Kandeler, E., Marhan, S., Oelmann, Y., Prati, D., Regan, K., Schmitt, B., Sorkau, E., & Kleinebecker, T. (2016). Temporal and small-scale spatial variation in grassland productivity, biomass quality, and nutrient limitation. Plant Ecology, 217 (7), 843–856. doi: 10.1007/s11258-016-0607-8.
• Klaus, V., Hölzel, N., Prati, D., Schmitt, B., Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., Solly, E., Hänsel, F., Fischer, M., & Kleinebecker, T. (2016). Plant diversity moderates drought stress in grasslands: Implications from a large real-world study on 13C natural abundances. Science of the Total Environment, 566-567, 215–222. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.05.008.
• Rupprecht, D., Gilhaus, K., & Hölzel, N. (2016). Effects of year-round grazing on the vegetation of nutrient-poor grass- and heathlands - evidence from a large-scale survey. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 234, 16–22. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2016.02.015.
• Fleischer, E., Khashimov, I., Hölzel, N., & Klemm, O. (2016). Carbon exchange fluxes over peatlands in Western Siberia: Possible feedback between land-use change and climate change. Science of the Total Environment, 545-546, 424–433. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.12.073.
• Kämpf, I., Hölzel, N., & Kiehl, K. (2016). Arable weed communities in the south of Western Siberia - impoverished species pools constrain diversity despite low land-use intensity. Tuexenia, 36, 249–270. doi: 10.14471/2016.36.012.
• Rupprecht D.; Gilhaus K.; Hölzel N. (2016). Effects of year-round grazing on the vegetation of nutrient-poor grass- and heathlands—Evidence from a large-scale survey. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 234, 16–22. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2016.02.015.
• Fischer, M., Hänsel, F., Kleinebecker, T., Klaus, V.H., Hölzel, N., Prati, D., Schmitt, B., Schöning, I., Schrumpf, M., & Solly, E.F. (2016). Plant diversity moderates drought stress in grasslands: Implications from a large real-world study on 13C natural abundances. Science of the Total Environment, 566-567, 215–222. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.05.008.
• Wertebach, T.M., Knorr, K.H., Lordieck, M., Tretiakov, N., Blodau, C., Hölzel, N., & Kleinebecker, T. (2016). Relationships between Vegetation Succession, Pore Water Chemistry and CH4 and CO2 Production in a Transitional Mire of Western Siberia (Tyumen Oblast). Wetlands, 36 (5), 863–874. doi: 10.1007/s13157-016-0798-8.
• Brinkert, A., Hölzel, N., Sidorova, T., & Kamp, J. (2016). Spontaneous steppe restoration on abandoned cropland in Kazakhstan: grazing affects successional pathways. Biodiversity and Conservation, 25 (12), 2543–2561. doi: 10.1007/s10531-015-1020-7.