N. Eisenhauer

Forest growth resistance and resilience to the 2018-2020 drought depend on tree diversity and mycorrhizal type

This study examines how tree diversity and mycorrhizal associations affect forest growth resistance and resilience during extreme drought, finding that mixed mycorrhizal types enhance drought tolerance.

Local nutrient addition drives plant biodiversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands

This study shows nutrient addition reduces plant diversity at local and larger scales equally, without causing biotic homogenization in global grasslands.

Plant species richness and the root economics space drive soil fungal communities

The paper shows that plant species richness and root economics space axes influence soil fungal community composition in a grassland experiment.

Common soil history is more important than plant history for arbuscular mycorrhizal community assembly in an experimental grassland diversity gradient

The study shows that soil history has a greater impact than plant history on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal community assembly in a grassland diversity experiment.

Body size is a better predictor of intra- than interspecific variation of animal stoichiometry across realms

The paper analyzes animal stoichiometry across species and body sizes, finding body size better predicts intraspecific than interspecific variation in elemental content.

Mycorrhizal fungi modulate tree diversity effects on nutrient dynamics

The paper examines how tree species diversity and mycorrhizal associations affect nutrient dynamics in forest ecosystems, finding that mycorrhizal strategies mediate diversity effects on nutrient storage.

Soil health increases primary productivity across Europe

This study links soil health to primary productivity across Europe's woodlands, grasslands, and croplands, showing higher soil health in woodlands and positive associations with productivity in croplands and grasslands.

Improving forest ecosystem functions by optimizing tree species spatial arrangement

The paper shows that increasing tree species spatial heterogeneity in forests improves litter decomposition and nitrogen cycling by 45%.

Tree diversity increases forest temperature buffering

This study shows that higher tree species diversity enhances forest temperature buffering across multiple time scales, mediated by canopy density and structural diversity.

Multidimensional responses of ecological stability to eutrophication in grasslands

This study quantifies how nutrient addition affects ecological stability facets in grasslands, finding reduced resistance in species richness and community composition but not biomass.

Tree diversity increases productivity through enhancing structural complexity across mycorrhizal types

The paper shows that tree species diversity increases productivity by enhancing structural complexity in temperate forests, regardless of mycorrhizal type.

Effects of recurrent summer droughts on arbuscular mycorrhizal and total fungal communities in experimental grasslands differing in plant diversity and community composition

This study examines how recurrent summer droughts affect soil fungal communities in grasslands with varying plant diversity and composition, finding no buffering effect of diversity and highlighting the role of plant functional groups.

Plant diversity stabilizes soil temperature

This study shows plant diversity stabilizes soil temperature by increasing organic carbon and leaf area index, with effects strengthening over time and under extreme conditions.

Widespread reductions in body size are paired with stable assemblage biomass.

The paper assesses body size changes across six taxon groups and finds that decreases in body size are paired with stable assemblage biomass due to compensatory abundance increases.

Sustainable land management enhances ecological and economic multifunctionality under ambient and future climate

This study shows sustainable land management improves ecological and economic multifunctionality in agroecosystems, even under future climate conditions.

Changes in biodiversity impact atmospheric chemistry and climate through plant volatiles and particles

The paper examines how changes in biodiversity affect plant volatile organic compound emissions and secondary organic aerosol formation, finding reduced BVOCs with higher biodiversity but mixed BSOA results.

The global distribution and environmental drivers of the soil antibiotic resistome

This study maps the global distribution of antibiotic resistance genes in soils and identifies key environmental drivers influencing their prevalence.

Global environmental drivers of local abundance-mass scaling in soil animal communities

The paper examines how climatic and edaphic factors influence body mass-abundance scaling in soil animal communities across four countries.

Tree diversity effects on productivity depend on mycorrhizae and life strategies in a temperate forest experiment

The paper examines how tree diversity affects productivity in a temperate forest, finding that mycorrhizal types (AM and EM) influence biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships differently.

Higher aboveground carbon stocks in mixed-species planted forests than monocultures - a meta-analysis

This study finds mixed-species planted forests store more aboveground carbon than monocultures, with higher carbon stocks in more diverse mixtures.

Global monitoring of soil animal communities using a common methodology

The paper introduces a global collaborative network to standardize soil animal community monitoring and food web analysis across diverse ecosystems.

Aboveground impacts of a belowground invader: how invasive earthworms alter aboveground arthropod communities in a northern North American forest

This study shows invasive earthworms reduce aboveground arthropod abundance, biomass, and species richness in a Canadian forest, with cascading effects across trophic levels.

Diversity-induced plant history and soil history effects modulate plant responses to global change

The paper investigates how plant and soil history affect plant responses to global change by testing offspring from different diversity communities under various environmental conditions.

Distinct effects of host and neighbour tree identity on arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal fungi along a tree diversity gradient

The paper examines how tree diversity and mycorrhizal type affect arbuscular (AMF) and ectomycorrhizal fungal (EMF) communities in a tree experiment.

Co-occurrence history increases ecosystem temporal stability and recovery from a flood in experimental plant communities

The paper shows that plant communities with a history of co-occurrence are more stable and recover better from flooding than naive communities, even at low diversity.

The archives are half-empty: a field-wide assessment of the availability of microbial community sequencing data

The paper assesses the availability and reusability of 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing data from microbiology journals, finding that only 34% of datasets are potentially reusable.

Biodiversity mediates the effects of stressors but not nutrients on litter decomposition

The paper shows that biodiversity loss from stressors reduces litter decomposition, but nutrient enrichment does not, based on a meta-analysis of 660 observations.

Modeling How Community Assembly Alters the Functioning of Ecosystems

The paper evaluates how community assembly affects ecosystem productivity using two approaches and applies them to experimental data, finding resource competition and facilitation by nitrogen fixing plants as likely explanations.

Biotic and abiotic drivers of soil microbial functions across tree diversity experiments

This study examines how tree diversity and environmental factors influence soil microbial functions across global experiments, finding that abiotic factors like soil water content are more significant than tree diversity in the short term.

Climate change and intensive land use reduce soil animal biomass through dissimilar pathways

This study shows climate change and intensive land use reduce soil animal biomass through different pathways: climate change reduces body size, while land use decreases population size.