M. M. Gossner

One to rule them all? Assessing the performance of sustainable forest management indicators against multitaxonomic data for biodiversity conservation

The paper evaluates Forest Europe biodiversity indicators against multitaxonomic data, finding no single indicator captures overall biodiversity, but combinations perform better.

Decomposing drivers in avian insectivory: large-scale effects of climate, habitat and bird diversity

The paper investigates how climate, habitat, and bird diversity influence avian insectivory across Europe, finding that bird predation is affected by climate and habitat independently of bird diversity.

A fast-slow trait continuum at the level of entire communities

The paper shows that slow and fast functional strategies manifest at the ecosystem level, driven by disturbance and resource availability in grassland communities.

Distance decay 2.0 - a global synthesis of taxonomic and functional turnover in ecological communities.

This paper synthesizes global taxonomic and functional distance decay patterns across 149 datasets, finding taxonomic decay is stronger than functional decay, with mid-latitude datasets showing the fastest taxonomic spatial decay.

Plant-invertebrate interactions across a forested retrogressive chronosequence

The paper examines how nutrient availability and predator abundance influence invertebrate herbivore biomass across a retrogressive forest chronosequence, revealing a shift from bottom-up to top-down control.

Blue and green food webs respond differently to elevation and land use

The paper compares structural and ecological differences between blue and green food webs across elevation and land use in Switzerland, finding divergent responses to environmental gradients.

The interaction of climate history and evolution impacts alpine biodiversity assembly differently in freshwater and on land

The paper examines how climate history and evolution shaped alpine biodiversity differently in freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems, finding distinct patterns of speciation linked to glacial refugia and adaptive radiation.

Search for top-down and bottom-up drivers of latitudinal trends in insect herbivory in oak trees in Europe

The paper investigates latitudinal trends in insect herbivory on oak trees in Europe, finding that climatic factors, not latitude, best predict herbivory and leaf chemistry variation.

Can school children support ecological research? Lessons from the ‘Oak bodyguard’ citizen science project

The paper evaluates schoolchildren's ability to collect ecological data through a citizen science project and finds their data require calibration but are comparable to untrained professionals.

Towards an Ecological Trait-data Standard

The paper proposes a standardized vocabulary and data structure for ecological trait data and provides an R-package to harmonize datasets from diverse sources.