Publications
Prof. Dr. Helmut Hillebrand
Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment (» Postal address)
Publications
The following List contains all the publications that were made during the DynaCom project.
- Bach W, Kreft H, Craven D, König C, Schrader J, Taylor A, Dawson W, Essl F, Lenzner B, Marx H, Meyer C, Pergl J, Pyšek P, van Kleunen M, Winter M, Weigelt P (2022). Phylogenetic composition of native island floras influences naturalized alien species richness. Ecography 2022. doi:10.1111/ecog.06227
- Balke T, Lõhmus K, Hillebrand H, Zielinski O, Haynert K, Meier D, Hodapp D, Minden V, Kleyer M (2017). Experimental salt marsh islands: A model system for novel metacommunity experiments. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 198, 288–298. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2017.09.021
- Bass J, Granse D, Hache I, Jensen K, Karius V, Minden V, Stock M, Suchrow S, Kleyer M (2022). Plant traits affect vertical accretion of salt marshes. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 276, 108010. doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2022.108010
- Bastidas-Urrutia AM, Biber MF, Böhning-Gaese K, Fritz SA, Kreft H, Tobias JA, Weigelt P, Hof C (2025). Species Traits and Island Biogeography: Wing Metrics Linked to Avian Dispersal Ability Predict Species Occurrence on Remote Islands Worldwide. Journal of Biogeography 52, 350–361. doi:10.1111/jbi.15038
- Bauer B, Berti E, Ryser R, Gauzens B, Hirt MR, Rosenbaum B, Digel C, Ott D, Scheu S, Brose U (2022). Biotic filtering by species’ interactions constrains food-web variability across spatial and abiotic gradients. Ecology Letters 25, 1225–1236. doi:10.1111/ele.13995
- Bauer B, Kleyer M, Albach DC, Blasius B, Brose U, Ferreira-Arruda T, Feudel U, Gerlach G, Hof C, Kreft H, Kuczynski L, Lõhmus K, Moorthi S, Scherber C, Scheu S, Zotz G, Hillebrand H (2021). Functional trait dimensions of trophic metacommunities. Ecography 44, 1486–1500. doi:10.1111/ecog.05869
- Bergen N, Krämer P, Romberg J, Wichels A, Gerlach G, Brinkhoff T (2022). Shell Disease Syndrome Is Associated with Reduced and Shifted Epibacterial Diversity on the Carapace of the Crustacean Cancer pagurus. Microbiology Spectrum 10, e0341922. doi:10.1128/spectrum.03419-22
- Biber MF, Voskamp A, Hof C (2022). Representation of the world’s biophysical conditions by the global protected area network. Conservation Biology 36, e13822. doi:10.1111/cobi.13822
- Busch M, Allen D, Marske K, Kuczynski L (2023). The only lasting truth is change: multiple dimensions of biodiversity show historical legacy effects in community assembly processes of freshwater fish. Oikos 2023. doi:10.1111/oik.09713
- Cai L, Kreft H, Denelle P, Taylor A, Craven D, Dawson W, Essl F, van Kleunen M, Pergl J, Pyšek P, Winter M, Cabezas FJ, Wagner V, Pelser PB, Wieringa JJ, Weigelt P (2024). Environmental filtering, not dispersal history, explains global patterns of phylogenetic turnover in seed plants at deep evolutionary timescales. Nature Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1038/s41559-024-02599-y
- Cai L, Kreft H, Taylor A, Schrader J, Dawson W, Essl F, van Kleunen M, Pergl J, Pyšek P, Winter M, Weigelt P (2023). Climatic stability and geological history shape global centers of neo- and paleoendemism in seed plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120, e2300981120. doi:10.1073/pnas.2300981120
- Choudhary A, Saha A, Krueger S, Finke C, Rosa E, Freund JA, Feudel U (2021). Weak-winner phase synchronization: A curious case of weak interactions. Physical Review Research 3, 023144. doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.023144
- Côte J, Kuczynski L, Grenouillet G (2022). Morphology reflects differently the various facets of species traits in stream fish. Freshwater Biology 67. doi:10.1111/fwb.13911
- Craven D, Weigelt P, Wolkis D, Kreft H (2021). Niche properties constrain occupancy but not abundance patterns of native and alien woody species across Hawaiian forests. Journal of Vegetation Science 32, e13025. doi:10.1111/jvs.13025
- Delavaux C, Weigelt P, Magnoli S, Kreft H, Crowther T, Bever J (2022). Nitrogen-fixing symbiotic bacteria act as a global filter for plant establishment on islands. Communications Biology 5, 1209. doi:10.1038/s42003-022-04133-x
- Denelle P, Weigelt P, Kreft H (2023). GIFT—An R package to access the Global Inventory of Floras and Traits. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14, 2738–2748. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.14213
- Dewenter J, Yong J, Schupp PJ, Lõhmus K, Kröncke I, Moorthi S, Pieck D, Kuczynski L, Rohde S (2023). Abundance, biomass and species richness of macrozoobenthos along an intertidal elevation gradient. Ecology and Evolution 13. doi:10.1002/ece3.10815
- Dyer A, Brose U, Berti E, Rosenbaum B, Hirt MR (2023a). The travel speeds of large animals are limited by their heat-dissipation capacities. PLoS Biology 21. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001820
- Dyer A, Ryser R, Brose U, Amyntas A, Bodnar N, Boy T, Franziska Bucher S, Cesarz S, Eisenhauer N, Gebler A, Hines J, Kyba CCM, Menz MHM, Rackwitz K, Shatwell T, Terlau JF, Hirt MR (2023b). Insect communities under skyglow: Diffuse night-time illuminance induces spatio-temporal shifts in movement and predation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 378. doi:10.1098/rstb.2022.0359
- Ferreira-Arruda T, Guerrero-Ramírez NR, Denelle P, Weigelt P, Kleyer M, Kreft H (2022). Island area and historical geomorphological dynamics shape multifaceted diversity of barrier island floras. Ecography 2022, e06238. doi:10.1111/ecog.06238
- Gerlach G, Kraemer P, Weist P, Eickelmann L, Kingsford MJ (2021). Impact of cyclones on hard coral and metapopulation structure, connectivity and genetic diversity of coral reef fish. Coral Reefs 40, 999–1011. doi:10.1007/s00338-021-02096-9
- Hammann L, Silliman B, Blasius B (2021). Optimal Planting Distance in a Simple Model of Habitat Restoration With an Allee Effect. Frontiers in Marine Science 7. doi:10.3389/fmars.2020.610412
- Hanz DM, Cutts V, Barajas-Barbosa MP, Algar A, Beierkuhnlein C, Collart F, Fernández-Palacios JM, Field R, Karger DN, Kienle DR, Kreft H, Patiño J, Schrodt F, Steinbauer MJ, Weigelt P, Irl SDH (2023). Effects of climate change on the distribution of plant species and plant functional strategies on the Canary Islands. Diversity and Distributions 29, 1157–1171. doi:10.1111/ddi.13750
- Hanz DM, Cutts V, Barajas-Barbosa MP, Algar AC, Beierkuhnlein C, Fernández-Palacios J-M, Field R, Kreft H, Steinbauer MJ, Weigelt P, Irl SDH (2022). Climatic and biogeographical drivers of functional diversity in the flora of the Canary Islands. Global Ecology and Biogeography 31, 1313–1331. doi:10.1111/geb.13507
- Häussler J, Ryser R, Brose U (2021). Invasive spread in meta-food-webs depends on landscape structure, fertilization and species characteristics. Oikos 130, 1257–1271. doi:10.1111/oik.07503
- Hillebrand H, Antonucci Di Carvalho J, Dajka J-C, Dürselen C-D, Kerimoglu O, Kuczynski L, Rönn L, Ryabov A (2022). Temporal declines in Wadden Sea phytoplankton cell volumes observed within and across species. Limnology and Oceanography 67, 468–481. doi:10.1002/lno.12005
- Hillebrand H, Donohue I, Harpole WS, Hodapp D, Kucera M, Lewandowska AM, Merder J, Montoya JM, Freund JA (2020). Thresholds for ecological responses to global change do not emerge from empirical data. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4, 1502–1509. doi:10.1038/s41559-020-1256-9
- Hillebrand H, Kuczynski L, Kunze C, Rillo MC, Dajka J-C (2023). Thresholds and tipping points are tempting but not necessarily suitable concepts to address anthropogenic biodiversity change—an intervention. Marine Biodiversity 53, 43. doi:10.1007/s12526-023-01342-3
- Hillebrand H, Kunze C (2020). Meta-analysis on pulse disturbances reveals differences in functional and compositional recovery across ecosystems. Ecology Letters 23, 575–585. doi:10.1111/ele.13457
- Hodapp D, Armonies W, Dannheim J, Downing JA, Filstrup CT, Hillebrand H (2023). Individual species and site dynamics are the main drivers of spatial scaling of stability in aquatic communities. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11. doi:10.3389/fevo.2023.864534
- Hof C (2021). Towards more integration of physiology, dispersal and land-use change to understand the responses of species to climate change. The Journal of Experimental Biology 224, jeb238352. doi:10.1242/jeb.238352
- Kingsford MJ, Spiecker L, Gerlach GG (2024). Interactions between Oceanography and the Behaviour of Larval Reef Fish. In ‘Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs’. (CRC Press)
- König C, Weigelt P, Taylor A, Stein A, Dawson W, Essl F, Pergl J, Pyšek P, van Kleunen M, Winter M, Chatelain C, Wieringa JJ, Krestov P, Kreft H (2021). Source pools and disharmony of the world’s island floras. Ecography 44, 44–55. doi:10.1111/ecog.05174
- Kuczynski L, Bastidas Urrutia AM, Hillebrand H (2024). Functional diversity loss and taxonomic delays of European freshwater fish and North American breeding birds. Functional Ecology 38, n/a-n/a. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.14599
- Kuczynski L, Ontiveros VJ, Hillebrand H (2023). Biodiversity time series are biased towards increasing species richness in changing environments. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7, 994–1001. doi:10.1038/s41559-023-02078-w
- Li J, Luo M, Wang S, Gauzens B, Hirt MR, Rosenbaum B, Brose U (2023). A size-constrained feeding-niche model distinguishes predation patterns between aquatic and terrestrial food webs. Ecology Letters 26, 76–86. doi:10.1111/ele.14134
- Lõhmus K, Balke T, Kleyer M (2020). Spatial and temporal patterns of initial plant establishment in salt marsh communities. Journal of Vegetation Science 31, 1124–1134. doi:10.1111/jvs.12915
- Lukats D, Berghofer E, Stahl F, Schneider J, Pieck D, Idrees MM, Nolle L, Zielinski O (2021). Towards Concept Change Detection in Marine Ecosystems. doi:10.23919/OCEANS44145.2021.9706015
- Luo Y, Taylor A, Weigelt P, Guénard B, Economo EP, Nowak A, Inderjit, Kreft H (2023). Climate and ant diversity explain the global distribution of ant-plant mutualisms. Ecography 2023. doi:10.1111/ecog.06841
- Medeiros E, Feudel U, Zakharova A (2021). Asymmetry-induced order in multilayer networks. Physical Review E 104. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.104.024302
- Menegotto A, Rangel TF, Schrader J, Weigelt P, Kreft H (2020). A global test of the subsidized island biogeography hypothesis. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29, 320–330. doi:10.1111/geb.13032
- Mohammed M, Blasius B, Ryabov A (2022). Coexistence patterns and diversity in a trait-based metacommunity on an environmental gradient. Theoretical Ecology 15, 51–63. doi:10.1007/s12080-021-00526-6
- Ohnesorge A, John U, Kuczynski L, Neuhaus S, Beng K, Krock B, Laakmann S (2024). Roaming the Seas—Assessing Marine Invertebrate Biodiversity Along Salinity Gradients With Zooplankton and eDNA Metabarcoding. Environmental DNA 6. doi:10.1002/edn3.70037
- Ohnesorge A, John U, Taudien S, Neuhaus S, Kuczynski L, Laakmann S (2023). Capturing drifting species and molecules—Lessons learned from integrated approaches to assess marine metazoan diversity in highly dynamic waters. Environmental DNA 5, 1541–1556. doi:10.1002/edn3.478
- Pärtel M, Sabatini FM, Morueta-Holme N, Kreft H, Dengler J (2022). Macroecology of vegetation — Lessons learnt from the Virtual Special Issue. Journal of Vegetation Science 33. doi:10.1111/jvs.13121
- Rault C, Leprieur F, Barbaro L, Kreft H, Mouquet N, Papaïx J, Şekercioğlu ÇH, Violle C, Barnagaud J-Y (2023). Trait-environment associations diverge between native and alien breeding bird assemblages on the world’s oceanic islands. Global Ecology and Biogeography 32, 1773–1789. doi:10.1111/geb.13729
- Reis Gonçalves D, Pena R, Zotz G, Albach D (2021). Effects of fungal inoculation on the growth of Salicornia (Amaranthaceae) under different salinity conditions. Symbiosis 84. doi:10.1007/s13199-021-00783-3
- Rinke M, Bendisch PM, Maraun M, Scheu S (2022a). Trophic structure and origin of resources of soil macrofauna in the salt marsh of the Wadden Sea: a stable isotope (15N, 13C) study. BMC Ecology and Evolution 22. doi:10.1186/s12862-022-02039-0
- Rinke M, Lõhmus K, Pieck D, Maraun M, Scheu S (2023). Channelling of basal resources and use of allochthonous marine carbon by soil arthropods of the Wadden Sea salt marsh. Marine Ecology Progress Series 706, 57–71. doi:10.3354/meps14245
- Rinke M, Maraun M, Scheu S (2022b). Spatial and temporal variations in salt marsh microorganisms of the Wadden Sea. Ecology and Evolution 12. doi:10.1002/ece3.8767
- Roeble L, van Benthem KJ, Weigelt P, Kreft H, Knope ML, Mandel JR, Vargas P, Etienne RS, Valente L (2024). Island biogeography of the megadiverse plant family Asteraceae. Nature Communications 15, 7276. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-51556-7
- Ryabov A, Blasius B, Hillebrand H, Olenina I, Gross T (2022). Estimation of functional diversity and species traits from ecological monitoring data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2118156119
- Ryser R, Hirt MR, Häussler J, Gravel D, Brose U (2021). Landscape heterogeneity buffers biodiversity of simulated meta-food-webs under global change through rescue and drainage effects. Nature Communications 12. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-24877-0
- Schibalski A, Kleyer M, Maier M, Schröder B (2022). Spatiotemporally explicit prediction of future ecosystem service provisioning in response to climate change, sea level rise, and adaptation strategies. Ecosystem Services 54, 101414. doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101414
- Schleuning M, Neuschulz EL, Albrecht J, Bender I, Bowler D, Dehling M, Fritz S, Hof C, Mueller T, Nowak L, Sorensen M, Böhning-Gaese K, Kissling W (2020). Trait-Based Assessments of Climate-Change Impacts on Interacting Species. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 35. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2019.12.010
- Schrader J, Weigelt P, Cai L, Westoby M, Fernández-Palacios JM, Cabezas FJ, Plunkett GM, Ranker TA, Triantis KA, Trigas P, Kubota Y, Kreft H, Schrader J, Weigelt P, Cai L, Westoby M, Fernández-Palacios JM, Cabezas FJ, Plunkett GM, Ranker TA, Triantis KA, Trigas P, Kubota Y, Kreft H (2024a). Islands are key for protecting the world’s plant endemism. Nature 634, 868–874. doi:10.1038/S41586-024-08036-1
- Schrader J, Westoby M, Wright IJ, Kreft H (2021a). Disentangling direct and indirect effects of island area on plant functional trait distributions. Journal of Biogeography 48, 2098–2110. doi:10.1111/jbi.14138
- Schrader J, Wright IJ, Kreft H, Dixon K, Gallagher RV, Andrew SC, Weigelt P, Westoby M (2024b). Trait filtering in island floras: A conceptual framework. Journal of Biogeography 51, 1596–1606. doi:10.1111/jbi.14703
- Schrader J, Wright IJ, Kreft H, Weigelt P, Andrew SC, Abbott I, Westoby M (2023). ETIB-T: An Equilibrium Theory of Island Biogeography for plant traits. Journal of Biogeography 50, 223–234. doi:10.1111/jbi.14526
- Schrader J, Wright IJ, Kreft H, Westoby M (2021b). A roadmap to plant functional island biogeography. Biological Reviews 96, 2851–2870. doi:10.1111/brv.12782
- Smit KP, Bernard ATF, Sink KJ, Dyer A, Lombard AT (2023). Identifying suitable indicators to measure ecological condition of rocky reef ecosystems in South Africa. Ecological Indicators 154. doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110696
- Steinigeweg CS, Paul M, Kleyer M, Schröder B (2023). Conquering New Frontiers: The Effect of Vegetation Establishment and Environmental Interactions on the Expansion of Tidal Marsh Systems. Estuaries and Coasts 46, 1515–1535. doi:10.1007/s12237-023-01220-y
- Stewart P, Voskamp A, Santini L, Biber M, Devenish A, Hof C, Willis S, Tobias J (2022). Global impacts of climate change on avian functional diversity. Ecology Letters 25, 673–685. doi:10.1111/ele.13830
- Taylor A, Keppel G, Weigelt P, Zotz G, Kreft H (2021). Functional traits are key to understanding orchid diversity on islands. Ecography 44, 703–714. doi:10.1111/ecog.05410
- Taylor A, Weigelt P, Denelle P, Cai L, Kreft H (2023). The contribution of plant life and growth forms to global gradients of vascular plant diversity. New Phytologist 240, 1548–1560. doi:10.1111/nph.19011
- Tebbe DA, Gruender C, Dlugosch L, Lõhmus K, Rolfes S, Könneke M, Chen Y, Engelen B, Schäfer H (2023). Microbial drivers of DMSO reduction and DMS-dependent methanogenesis in saltmarsh sediments. The ISME Journal 17, 2340–2351. doi:10.1038/s41396-023-01539-1
- Terlau JF, Brose U, Boy T, Pawar S, Pinsky M, Hirt MR (2023a). Predicting movement speed of beetles from body size and temperature. Movement Ecology 11. doi:10.1186/s40462-023-00389-y
- Terlau JF, Brose U, Eisenhauer N, Amyntas A, Boy T, Dyer A, Gebler A, Hof C, Liu T, Scherber C, Schlägel UE, Schmidt A, Hirt MR (2023b). Microhabitat conditions remedy heat stress effects on insect activity. Global Change Biology 29, 3747–3758. doi:10.1111/gcb.16712
- Tordoni E, Bacaro G, Weigelt P, Cameletti M, Janssen JAM, Acosta ATR, Bagella S, Filigheddu R, Bergmeier E, Buckley HL, Ciccarelli D, Forey E, Hennekens SM, Lubke RA, Mahdavi P, Peet RK, Peinado M, Sciandrello S, Kreft H (2021). Disentangling native and alien plant diversity in coastal sand dune ecosystems worldwide. Journal of Vegetation Science 32. doi:10.1111/jvs.12961
- Valente D, Guseva K, Feudel U (2024). Lagrangian flow networks for passive dispersal: Tracers versus finite-size particles. Physical Review E 110, 025103. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.110.025103
- Wagner B, Kreft H, Nitschke CR, Schrader J (2023). Remotely sensed tree height and density explain global gliding vertebrate richness. Ecography 2023. doi:10.1111/ecog.06435
- Walentowitz A, Ferreira-Arruda T, Irl SDH, Kreft H, Beierkuhnlein C (2024). Disentangling natural and anthropogenic drivers of native and non-native plant diversity on North Sea islands. Journal of Biogeography 51, 337–349. doi:10.1111/jbi.14753
- Yong J, Moick M, Dewenter J, Hillebrand H, Kröncke I, Lõhmus K, Pieck D, Rohde S, Moorthi S (2022). Spatial and temporal patterns of microphytobenthos communities along the marine-terrestrial boundary in the German Wadden Sea. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10. doi:10.3389/fevo.2022.956092
- Zielinski O, Pieck D, Schulz J, Thölen C, Wollschläger J, Albinus M, Badewien TH, Braun A, Engelen B, Feenders C, Fock S, Lehners C, Lõhmus K, Lübben A, Massmann G, Meyerjürgens J, Nicolai H, Pollmann T, Schwalfenberg K, Stone J, Waska H, Winkler H (2022). The Spiekeroog Coastal Observatory: A Scientific Infrastructure at the Land-Sea Transition Zone (Southern North Sea). Frontiers in Marine Science 8. doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.754905
- Zizka A, Onstein RE, Rozzi R, Weigelt P, Kreft H, Steinbauer MJ, Bruelheide H, Lens F (2022). The evolution of insular woodiness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119, e2208629119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2208629119