2026

Albach DC, Reuss A, Mayland-Quellhorst E, Gonçalves DR (2026). Seasonal dynamics of root-associated fungal microbiomes in annual and perennial halophytes. Estuaries and Coasts 49, 7 
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-025-01610-4

Hillebrand H, Baums IB, Beng K-CC, Dajka J-C, Franke A, Hodapp D, Laakmann S, Levi S, McCarthy A, Neun S, Oestreicher A, Rädecker N, Sebuliba S, Smykala M, Striebel M, Tallon AK, Happe A (2026). Towards a broader perspective on marine biodiversity change. Marine Biodiversity 56, 1
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-025-01587-0

2025

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
https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15038

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 (2025). Environmental filtering, not dispersal history, explains global patterns of phylogenetic turnover in seed plants at deep evolutionary timescales. Nature Ecology and Evolution 9, 314–324
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02599-y

Guedán, ML, Smykala M, Käfer S, Mueller JS, Lohmus K, Pieck D, Engelen B, Gerlach G (2025). Seasonal and spatial dynamics of the microbiome of the polychaete Lanice conchilega in the Wadden Sea. Scientific Reports 15, 37731
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-25737-3 

Tebbe DA, Yong J, Smykala M, Kuczynski L, Guedán ML, Lõhmus K, Pieck D, Poehlein A, Schäfer H, Könneke M, Moorthi SD, Engelen B (2025). Microbial metacommunity of salt marshes rebuilds along an elevational gradient after initial disturbance. Scientific Reports 15, 27178
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-12995-4

2024

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
https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15038 

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 (2025). Environmental filtering, not dispersal history, explains global patterns of phylogenetic turnover in seed plants at deep evolutionary timescales. Nature Ecology & Evolution 9, 314–324
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02599-y

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) 
https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003320425-20

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
https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14599

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 
https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.70037

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
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51556-7

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 (2024). Islands are key for protecting the world’s plant endemism. Nature 634, 868–874
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08036-1

Valente D, Guseva K, Feudel U (2024). Lagrangian flow networks for passive dispersal: Tracers versus finite-size particles. Physical Review E 110, 025103
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.110.025103

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
https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14753

2023

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
https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.09713

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
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2300981120

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
https://doi.org/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
https://doi.org/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
https://doi.org/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
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0359

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
https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13750

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
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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
https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.864534

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
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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
https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14134

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
https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06841

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
https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.478

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
https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13729

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
https://doi.org/10.3354/meps14245

Schrader J, Wright IJ, Kreft H, Dixon K, Gallagher RV, Andrew SC, Weigelt P, Westoby M (2023). Trait filtering in island floras: A conceptual framework. Journal of Biogeography 51(9), 1596–1606
https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14703 

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
https://doi.org/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
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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
https://doi.org/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
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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
https://doi.org/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
https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16712

Wagner B, Kreft H, Nitschke CR, Schrader J (2023). Remotely sensed tree height and density explain global gliding vertebrate richness. Ecography 2023
https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06435

2022

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, e06227
https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06227

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
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2022.108010

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
https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13995

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
https://doi.org/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
https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13822

Côte J, Kuczynski L, Grenouillet G (2022). Morphology reflects differently the various facets of species traits in stream fish. Freshwater Biology 67
https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13911

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
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04133-x

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
https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06238

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
https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13507

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
https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12005

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
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12080-021-00526-6

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
https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13121

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
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-02039-0

Rinke M, Maraun M, Scheu S (2022b). Spatial and temporal variations in salt marsh microorganisms of the Wadden Sea. Ecology and Evolution 12
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8767

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
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2118156119

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
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101414