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Professor FRANZISKA SCHRODT's Outputs (44)

Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs (2021)
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Laughlin, D. C., Mommer, L., Sabatini, F. M., Bruelheide, H., Kuyper, T. W., McCormack, M. L., Bergmann, J., Freschet, G. T., Guerrero-Ramírez, N. R., Iversen, C. M., Kattge, J., Meier, I. C., Poorter, H., Roumet, C., Semchenko, M., Sweeney, C. J., Valverde-Barrantes, O. J., van der Plas, F., van Ruijven, J., York, L. M., …Weigelt, A. (2021). Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 5(8), 1123-1134. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01471-7

Ecological theory is built on trade-offs, where trait differences among species evolved as adaptations to different environments. Trade-offs are often assumed to be bidirectional, where opposite ends of a gradient in trait values confer advantages in... Read More about Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs.

The relationship between niche breadth and range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide (2021)
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Cai, Q., Welk, E., Ji, C., Fang, W., Sabatini, F. M., Zhu, J., Zhu, J., Tang, Z., Attorre, F., Campos, J. A., Čarni, A., Chytrý, M., Çoban, S., Dengler, J., Dolezal, J., Field, R., Frink, J. P., Gholizadeh, H., Indreica, A., Jandt, U., …Bruelheide, H. (2021). The relationship between niche breadth and range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide. Journal of Biogeography, 48(5), 1240-1253. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14074

Aim: This work explores whether the commonly observed positive range size–niche breadth relationship exists for Fagus, one of the most dominant and widespread broad-leaved deciduous tree genera in temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere. Additio... Read More about The relationship between niche breadth and range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide.

Linking the Remote Sensing of Geodiversity and Traits Relevant to Biodiversity—Part II: Geomorphology, Terrain and Surfaces (2020)
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Lausch, A., Schaepman, M. E., Skidmore, A. K., Truckenbrodt, S. C., Hacker, J. M., Baade, J., Bannehr, L., Borg, E., Bumberger, J., Dietrich, P., Gläßer, C., Haase, D., Heurich, M., Jagdhuber, T., Jany, S., Krönert, R., Möller, M., Mollenhauer, H., Montzka, C., Pause, M., …Thiel, C. (2020). Linking the Remote Sensing of Geodiversity and Traits Relevant to Biodiversity—Part II: Geomorphology, Terrain and Surfaces. Remote Sensing, 12(22), Article 3690. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12223690

The status, changes, and disturbances in geomorphological regimes can be regarded as controlling and regulating factors for biodiversity. Therefore, monitoring geomorphology at local, regional, and global scales is not only necessary to conserve geod... Read More about Linking the Remote Sensing of Geodiversity and Traits Relevant to Biodiversity—Part II: Geomorphology, Terrain and Surfaces.

Leaf reflectance spectra capture the evolutionary history of seed plants (2020)
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Meireles, J. E., Cavender-Bares, J., Townsend, P. A., Ustin, S., Gamon, J. A., Schweiger, A. K., Schaepman, M. E., Asner, G. P., Martin, R. E., Singh, A., Schrodt, F., Chlus, A., & O'Meara, B. C. (2020). Leaf reflectance spectra capture the evolutionary history of seed plants. New Phytologist, 228(2), 485-493. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16771

Leaf reflectance spectra have been increasingly used to assess plant diversity. However, we do not yet understand how spectra vary across the tree of life or how the evolution of leaf traits affects the differentiation of spectra among species and li... Read More about Leaf reflectance spectra capture the evolutionary history of seed plants.

TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access (2019)
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Kattge, J., Bönisch, G., Díaz, S., Lavorel, S., Prentice, I. C., Leadley, P., Tautenhahn, S., Werner, G. D. A., Aakala, T., Abedi, M., Acosta, A. T. R., Adamidis, G. C., Adamson, K., Aiba, M., Albert, C. H., Alcántara, J. M., Alcázar C, C., Aleixo, I., Ali, H., Amiaud, B., …The Nutrient Network. (2020). TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology, 26(1), 119-188. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14904

© 2019 The Authors. Global Change Biology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Plant traits—the morphological, anatomical, physiological, biochemical and phenological characteristics of plants—determine how plants respond to environmental factors, af... Read More about TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access.

Linking Remote Sensing and Geodiversity and their Traits Relevant to Biodiversity – Part I: Soil Characteristics (2019)
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Lausch, A., Baade, J., Bannehr, L., Borg, E., Bumberger, J., Chabrilliat, S., Dietrich, P., Gerighausen, H., Glässer, C., Hacker, J. M., Haase, D., Jagdhuber, T., Jany, S., Jung, A., Karnieli, A., Kraemer, R., Makki, M., Mielke, C., Möller, M., Montzka, C., …Schaepman, M. E. (2019). Linking Remote Sensing and Geodiversity and their Traits Relevant to Biodiversity – Part I: Soil Characteristics. Remote Sensing, 11(20), 1-51. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11202356

In the face of rapid global change it is imperative to preserve geodiversity for the overall conservation of biodiversity. Geodiversity is important for understanding complex biogeochemical and physical processes and is directly and indirectly linked... Read More about Linking Remote Sensing and Geodiversity and their Traits Relevant to Biodiversity – Part I: Soil Characteristics.

Opinion: To advance sustainable stewardship, we must document not only biodiversity but geodiversity (2019)
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Schrodt, F., Bailey, J. J., Kissling, W. D., Rijsdijk, K. F., Seijmonsbergen, A. C., van Ree, D., Hjort, J., Lawley, R. S., Williams, C. N., Anderson, M. G., Beier, P., van Beukering, P., Boyd, D. S., Brilha, J., Carcavilla, L., Dahlin, K. M., Gill, J. C., Gordon, J. E., Gray, M., Grundy, M., …Field, R. (2019). Opinion: To advance sustainable stewardship, we must document not only biodiversity but geodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(33), 16155-16158. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1911799116

Challenges and opportunities for biogeography-What can we still learn from von Humboldt? (2019)
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Schrodt, F., Santos, M. J., Bailey, J. J., & Field, R. (2019). Challenges and opportunities for biogeography-What can we still learn from von Humboldt?. Journal of Biogeography, 46(8), 1631-1642. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13616

Alexander von Humboldt was arguably the most influential scientist of his day. Although his fame has since lessened relative to some of his contemporaries, we argue that his influence remains strong-mainly because his approach to science inspired oth... Read More about Challenges and opportunities for biogeography-What can we still learn from von Humboldt?.

Leaf economics and plant hydraulics drive leaf/wood area ratios (2019)
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Mencuccini, M., Rosas, T., Rowland, L., Choat, B., Cornelissen, H., Jansen, S., Kramer, K., Lapenis, A., Manzoni, S., Niinemets, Ü., Reich, P., Schrodt, F., Soudzilovskaia, N., & Martínez-Vilalta, J. (2019). Leaf economics and plant hydraulics drive leaf/wood area ratios. New Phytologist, 224(4), 1544-1556. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15998

Biomass and area ratios between leaves, stems and roots regulate many physiological and ecological processes. The Huber value Hv (sapwood area/leaf area ratio) is central to plant water balance and drought responses. However, its coordination with ke... Read More about Leaf economics and plant hydraulics drive leaf/wood area ratios.

sPlot : a new tool for global vegetation analyses (2019)
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Bruelheide, H., Dengler, J., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Purschke, O., Hennekens, S. M., Chytrý, M., Pillar, V. D., Jansen, F., Kattge, J., Sandel, B., Aubin, I., Biurrun, I., Field, R., Haider, S., Jandt, U., Lenoir, J., Peet, R. K., Peyre, G., Sabatini, F. M., Schmidt, M., …and other 116 authors. (2019). sPlot : a new tool for global vegetation analyses. Journal of Vegetation Science, 30(2), 161-186. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12710

Questions: Vegetation-plot records provide information on presence and cover or abundance of plants co-occurring in the same community. Vegetation-plot data are spread across research groups, environmental agencies and biodiversity research centers,... Read More about sPlot : a new tool for global vegetation analyses.

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities (2018)
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Hölzel, N., Sporbert, M., Guerin, G. R., Jentsch, A., Neill, D. A., Korolyuk, A. Y., Arfin Khan, M. A. S., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Alvarez-Dávila, E., Henry, G., Myers-Smith, I. H., Munzinger, J., Marcenò, C., Kühn, I., Laughlin, D. C., Lens, F., Loos, J., Orwin, K. H., Louault, F., Lyubenova, M. I., …Knollová, I. (2018). Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2(12), 1906-1917. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0699-8

Plant functional traits directly affect ecosystem functions. At the species level, trait combinations depend on trade-offs representing different ecological strategies, but at the community level trait combinations are expected to be decoupled from t... Read More about Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities.

Satellite remote sensing of ecosystem functions: opportunities, challenges and way forward (2017)
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Pettorelli, N., Schulte to Bühne, H., Tulloch, A., Dubois, G., Macinnis-Ng, C., Queirós, A. M., Keith, D. A., Wegmann, M., Schrodt, F., Stellmes, M., Sonnenschein, R., Geller, G. N., Roy, S., Somers, B., Murray, N., Bland, L., Geijzendorffer, I., Kerr, J. T., Broszeit, S., Leitão, P. J., …Nicholson, E. (2018). Satellite remote sensing of ecosystem functions: opportunities, challenges and way forward. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 4(2), 71-93. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.59

Societal, economic and scientific interests in knowing where biodiversity is, how it is faring and what can be done to efficiently mitigate further biodiversity loss and the associated loss of ecosystem services are at an all‐time high. So far, howev... Read More about Satellite remote sensing of ecosystem functions: opportunities, challenges and way forward.

Monitoring plant functional diversity from space (2016)
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Jetz, W., Cavender-Bares, J., Pavlick, R., Schimel, D., Davis, F. W., Asner, G. P., Guralnick, R., Kattge, J., Latimer, A. M., Moorcroft, P., Schaepman, M. E., Schildhauer, M. P., Schneider, F. D., Schrodt, F., Stahl, U., & Ustin, S. L. (2016). Monitoring plant functional diversity from space. Nature Plants, 2(3), Article 16039. https://doi.org/10.1038/NPLANTS.2016.24

The world’s ecosystems are losing biodiversity fast. A satellite mission designed to track changes in plant functional diversity around the globe could deepen our understanding of the pace and consequences of this change and how to manage it.

Edaphic, structural and physiological contrasts across Amazon Basin forest–savanna ecotones suggest a role for potassium as a key modulator of tropical woody vegetation structure and function (2015)
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Lloyd, J., Domingues, T. F., Schrodt, F., Ishida, F. Y., Feldpausch, T. R., Saiz, G., Quesada, C. A., Schwarz, M., Torello-Raventos, M., Gilpin, M., Marimon, B. S., Marimon-Junior, B. H., Ratter, J. A., Grace, J., Nardoto, G. B., Veenendaal, E., Arroyo, L., Villarroel, D., Killeen, T. J., Steininger, M., & Phillips, O. L. (2015). Edaphic, structural and physiological contrasts across Amazon Basin forest–savanna ecotones suggest a role for potassium as a key modulator of tropical woody vegetation structure and function. Biogeosciences, 12(22), 6529-6571. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-6529-2015

Sampling along a precipitation gradient in tropical South America extending from ca. 0.8 to 2.0 m a−1, savanna soils had consistently lower exchangeable cation concentrations and higher C / N ratios than nearby forest plots. These soil differences we... Read More about Edaphic, structural and physiological contrasts across Amazon Basin forest–savanna ecotones suggest a role for potassium as a key modulator of tropical woody vegetation structure and function.

BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography: Gap-filling in trait databases (2015)
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Schrodt, F., Kattge, J., Shan, H., Fazayeli, F., Joswig, J., Banerjee, A., Reichstein, M., Bönisch, G., Diaz, S., Dickie, J., Gillison, A., Karpatne, A., Lavorel, S., Leadley, P., Wirth, C. B., Wright, I. J., Wright, S. J., & Reich, P. B. (2015). BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography: Gap-filling in trait databases. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24(12), 1510-1521. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12335

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Functional traits of organisms are key to understanding and predicting biodiversity and ecological change, which motivates continuous collection of traits and their integration into global databases. Such trait matrices are inherently sparse,... Read More about BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography: Gap-filling in trait databases.

BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography (2015)
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Schrodt Williams, F., Kattge, J., Shan, H., Fazayeli, F., Joswig, J., Banerjee, A., Reichstein, M., Bönisch, G., Díaz, S., Dickie, J., Gillison, A., Karpatne, A., Lavorel, S., Leadley, P., Wirth, C. B., Wright, I. J., Wright, S. J., & Reich, P. B. (2015). BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 24(12), 1510-1521. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12335

& Sons Ltd. Aim: Functional traits of organisms are key to understanding and predicting biodiversity and ecological change, which motivates continuous collection of traits and their integration into global databases. Such trait matrices are inherent... Read More about BHPMF - a hierarchical Bayesian approach to gap-filling and trait prediction for macroecology and functional biogeography.

Structural, physiognomic and above-ground biomass variation in savanna–forest transition zones on three continents – how different are co-occurring savanna and forest formations? (2015)
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Veenendaal, E. M., Torello-Raventos, M., Feldpausch, T. R., Domingues, T. F., Gerard, F., Schrodt, F., Saiz, G., Quesada, C. A., Djagbletey, G., Ford, A., Kemp, J., Marimon, B. S., Marimon-Junior, B. H., Lenza, E., Ratter, J. A., Maracahipes, L., Sasaki, D., Sonké, B., Zapfack, L., Villarroel, D., …Lloyd, J. (2015). Structural, physiognomic and above-ground biomass variation in savanna–forest transition zones on three continents – how different are co-occurring savanna and forest formations?. Biogeosciences, 12(10), 2927-2951. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-2927-2015

Through interpretations of remote-sensing data and/or theoretical propositions, the idea that forest and savanna represent "alternative stable states" is gaining increasing acceptance. Filling an observational gap, we present detailed stratified flor... Read More about Structural, physiognomic and above-ground biomass variation in savanna–forest transition zones on three continents – how different are co-occurring savanna and forest formations?.

Biome-specific effects of nitrogen and phosphorus on the photosynthetic characteristics of trees at a forest-savanna boundary in Cameroon (2015)
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Ferreira Domingues, T., Ishida, F. Y., Feldpausch, T. R., Grace, J., Meir, P., Saiz, G., Sene, O., Schrodt, F., Sonké, B., Taedoumg, H., Veenendaal, E. M., Lewis, S., & Lloyd, J. (2015). Biome-specific effects of nitrogen and phosphorus on the photosynthetic characteristics of trees at a forest-savanna boundary in Cameroon. Oecologia, 178(3), 659-672. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-015-3250-5

Photosynthesis/nutrient relationships of proximally growing forest and savanna trees were determined in an ecotonal region of Cameroon (Africa). Although area-based foliar N concentrations were typically lower for savanna trees, there was no differen... Read More about Biome-specific effects of nitrogen and phosphorus on the photosynthetic characteristics of trees at a forest-savanna boundary in Cameroon.