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Publications

2026

  1. Brunken H, Braubach L, Engel T, Grobe P, Pfaff C-T, Rach B, Vatterrott H-R, Friedrichs-Manthey M (2026) The „GfI-Fischartenatlas“ of the German Ichthyological Society (GfI) – A compilation of validated fish species occurrence records. Biodiversity Data Journal 14: e201405. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.14.e201405
  2. Gemeinholzer, B., Bonn, A., Ebert, B., Fischer, S., Güntsch, A., Holetschek, J., … & de Boer, H. J. (2026). Experiences from national biodiversity data infrastructures in Europe: advancing data integration and community engagement. BioScience, 76(7), 635-649. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biag032
  3. Schütz, R., Friedrichs-Manthey, M., Macher, T. H., Beermann, A. J., Arle, J., Koschorreck, J., & Leese, F. (2025). Unraveling long-term trends and drivers of fish biodiversity change using environmental DNA metabarcoding of archived samples. bioRxiv, 2025-12. https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.23.696188

2025

  1. Chowdhury S, Bowler DE,  Boutaud E, Bleich O,  Bruelheide H,  Buse J,  Engel Th,  Gebert J,  Grescho V,  Gürlich V,  Harry I,  Jansen F,  Klenke RA, van Klink R,  Winter M,  Bonn A (2025): Widespread Decline of Ground Beetles in Germany. Diversity and Distributions 31 (11): e70112. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.70112
  2. Henle K, Klenke RA, Barth MB, Grimm-Seyfarth A, Bowler DE (2025) Challenges and opportunities for assessing trends of amphibians with heterogeneous data – a call for better metadata reporting. Nature Conservation 58: 31-60. https://doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.58.137848
  3. Lüttgert L, Heisterkamp S, Jansen F, Kaufmann R, Kellner S, Klenke RA, Lütt S, Seidler G, Wedler A, Wörmann R, Bruelheide H (2025): Loss of Characteristic Species of Open Habitats across Germany Detected by Repeated Mapping of Protected Habitats. Biological Conservation 311 (November): 111410. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111410
  4. Engel T, Brenz Y, Geyer H, Holetschek J, Bonn A, Balthasar C, Bengsch S, Clément RJG, Dietzen C, Dlouhy C, Esser J, Griesbaum F, Haag M, Hauth KS, Jarling R, Kahlert S, Kenntner N, Krebühl J, Kruse J, Lischke S, Lücking R, Mayer LR, Müller S, Nogatz T, Ochse M, Ogan S, von Oheimb KCM, von Oheimb PV, Öhm GAA, Pacher K, Pfeifer MA, Reutter C, Röller O, Rothe F, Scheydt NSN, Schmitz O, Schmitz D, Wagner N, Willerding U, Willigalla C, Zimmermann SS, Friedrichs-Manthey M. Quality-checked species records from the German citizen science platform ArtenFinder. Biodivers Data J. 2025 Jul 28;13:e150687. 10.3897/BDJ.13.e150687

2024

  1. Friedrichs-Manthey M, Bowler DE, Freyhof J (2024): Freshwater Fish in Mid and Northern German Rivers – Long-Term Trends and Associated Species Traits. Science of The Total Environment 957 (December): 177759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177759.
  2. Chowdhury S, Fuller RA, Ahmed S, Alam S, Callaghan CT, Das P, Correia RA, Di Marco MD, Di Minin ED, Jarić I, Labi MM, Ladle RJ, Rokonuzzaman M, Roll U, Sbragaglia V, Siddika A, Bonn A (2024): Using social media records to inform conservation planning. Conservation Biology, 38, e14161. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14161
  3. Lüttgert L, Jansen F, Kaufmann R, Seidler G, Wedler A, Bruelheide H (2024): Linking trends of habitat types and plant species using repeated habitat mapping data. Applied Vegetation Science, 27, e12799. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12799
  4. Friedrichs-Manthey, M., Langhans, S. D., Borgwardt, F., Hein, T., Kling, H., Stanzel, P., Jähnig, S. C., & Domisch, S. (2024). Three hundred years of past and future changes for native fish species in the upper Danube River Basin—Historical flow alterations versus future climate change. Diversity and Distributions, 30, e13808. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13808

2023

  1. Haase, P., Bowler, D.E., Baker, N.J., Bonada, N., Domisch, S., Garcia Marquez, J.R., Heino, J., Hering, D., Jähnig, S.C., Schmidt-Kloiber, A., Stubbington, R., Altermatt, F., Álvarez-Cabria, M., Amatulli, G., Angeler, D.G., Archambaud-Suard, G., Jorrín, I.A., Aspin, T., Azpiroz, I., Bañares, I., Ortiz, J.B., Bodin, C.L., Bonacina, L., Bottarin, R., Cañedo-Argüelles, M., Csabai, Z., Datry, T., de Eyto E., Dohet, A., Dörflinger, G., Drohan, E., Eikland, K.A., England, J., Eriksen, T.E., Evtimova, V., Feio, M.J., Ferréol, M., Floury, M., Forcellini, M., Forio, M.A.E., Fornaroli, R., Friberg, N., Fruget, J.-F., Georgieva, G., Goethals, P., Graça, M.A.S., Graf, W., House, A., Huttunen, K-L., Jensen, T.C., Johnson, R.K., Jones, J.I., Kiesel, J., Kuglerová, L., Larrañaga, A., Leitner, P., L’Hoste, L., Lizée, M.-H., Lorenz, A.W., Maire, A., Arnaiz, J.A.M., McKie, B.G., Millán, A., Monteith, D., Muotka, T., Murphy, J.F., Ozolins, D., Paavola, R., Paril, P., Peñas, F.J., Pilotto, F., Polášek, M., Rasmussen, J.J., Rubio, M., Sánchez-Fernández, D., Sandin, L., Schäfer, R.B., Scotti, A., Shen, L.Q., Skuja, A., Stoll, S., Straka, M., Timm, H., Tyufekchieva, V.G., Tziortzis, I., Uzunov, Y., van der Lee, G.H., Vannevel, R., Varadinova, E., Várbíró, G., Velle, G., Verdonschot, P.F.M., Verdonschot, R.C.M., Vidinova, Y., Wiberg-Larsen, P. & Welti, E.A.R. (2023) The recovery of European freshwater biodiversity has come to a halt. Nature, 620,  doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06400-1
  2. Amano, T., Ramírez-Castañeda, V., Berdejo-Espinola, V., Borokini, I., Chowdhury, S., Golivets, M., González-Trujillo, J.D., Montaño-Centellas, F., Paudel, K., White, R., Veríssimo, D. (2023), The cost of being a non-native English speaker in science. PLoS Biology, 21(7), e3002184. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002184.
  3. Bolte, L., Goudarzi, F., Klenke, R., Steinfartz, S., Grimm-Seyfarth, A., Henle K. (2023), Habitat connectivity supports the local abundance of fire salamanders (Salamandra salamandra) but also the spread of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans. Landsc Ecol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01636-8
  4. Chowdhury, S., Fuller, R.A., Rokonuzzaman, M., Alam, S., Das, P., Siddika, A., Ahmed, S., Labi, M.M., Chowdhury, S.U., Mukul, S.A., Böhm, M., Hanson, J.O. (2023), Priorities for expanding the protected area system in Bangladesh. One Earth [in press; preprint].
  5. Chowdhury, S., Fuller, R., Ahmed, S., Alam, S., Callaghan, C., Das, P., Correia R., Di Marco, M., Di Minin, E., Jarić, I., Labi, M.M., Ladle, R., Rokonuzzaman, M., Roll, U., Sbragaglia, V., Siddika, A., Bonn, A. (2023), Social media records hold valuable information for conservation planning. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14161.
  6. Chowdhury, S., Zalucki, M.P., Hanson, J.O., Tiatragul, S., Green, D., Watson, J.E.M., Fuller, R.A. (2023), Three quarters of insect species are insufficiently represented by protected areas. One Earth, 6, 139-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.12.003
  7. Chowdhury, S. (2023), Threatened species could be more vulnerable to climate change in tropical countries. Science of the Total Environment, 858(2), 159989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159989
  8. Engel, T., Chowdhury, S., Friedrichs-Manthey, M., von Gönner, J., Herrmann, T., Klenke, R., Sheard, J.K., Peters, B., Bonn, A. (2023), Digitalisierung in Citizen Science und Naturschutz – Anwendungsbeispiele aus der Praxis. Natur und Landschaft 6/7. https://doi.org/10.17433/6.2023.50154135.319-329
  9. Nolde-Lopez, B., Bundus. J., Arenas-Castro, H., Román, D., Chowdhury, S., Amano, T., Berdejo-Espinola, V., Wadgymar, S.M. (2023), Linguistic Equity in Organismal Biology: What Can Journals Do Better? Integrative Organismal Biology, 5(1), obad003. doi.org/10.1093/iob/obad003

2022

  1. Bowler, D.E., Callaghan, C.T., Bhandari, N., Henle, K., Benjamin Barth, M., Koppitz, C., Klenke, R., Winter, M., Jansen, F., Bruelheide, H. and Bonn, A. (2022), Temporal trends in the spatial bias of species occurrence records. Ecography 2022: e06219. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06219
  2. Bowler, D.E., Bhandari, N., Repke, L., Beuthner, Ch., Callaghan C.T., Eichenberg, D., Henle, K., Klenke, R., Richter, A., Jansen, F., Bruelheide, H., Bonn, A.  (2022): Decision-making of citizen scientists when recording species observations. Sci Rep12: 11069 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15218-2
  3. Bruelheide H., Jansen F., Jandt U., Klenke R, Sperle Th., Grescho V., Bonn A., Winter M. (2022): Mindestanforderungen an ein Monitoring von Gefäßpflanzenarten auf den bundesweit repräsentativen Stichprobenflächen. Natur und Landschaft 97(6): 289-298. https://doi.org/10.19217/NuL2022-06-03
  4. Callaghan, C.T., Bowler, D.E., Blowes, S.A., Chase, J., Lyons, M.B., Pereira, H.M. (2022): Quantifying Effort Needed to Estimate Species Diversity from Citizen Science Data. Ecosphere 13(4): e3966. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3966
  5. Jandt, U., H. Bruelheide, F. Jansen, A. Bonn, V. Grescho, R. A. Klenke, F. M. Sabatini, M. Bernhardt-Römermann, V. Blüml, J. Dengler, M. Diekmann, I. Doerfler, U. Döring, S. Dullinger, S. Haider, T. Heinken, P. Horchler, G. Kuhn, M. Lindner, K. Metze, N. Müller, T. Naaf, C. Peppler-Lisbach, P. Poschlod, C. Roscher, G. Rosenthal, S. B. Rumpf, W. Schmidt, J. Schrautzer, A. Schwabe, P. Schwartze, T. Sperle, N. Stanik, C. Storm, W. Voigt, U. Wegener, K. Wesche, B. Wittig, Wulf, M. (2022): More losses than gains during one century of plant biodiversity change in Germany. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05320-w.
  6. Jandt, U., H. Bruelheide, C. Berg, M. Bernhardt-Römermann, V. Blüml, F. Bode, J. Dengler, M. Diekmann, H. Dierschke, I. Doerfler, U. Döring, S. Dullinger, W. Härdtle, S. Haider, T. Heinken, P. Horchler, F. Jansen, T. Kudernatsch, G. Kuhn, M. Lindner, S. Matesanz, K. Metze, S. Meyer, F. Müller, N. Müller, T. Naaf, C. Peppler-Lisbach, P. Poschlod, C. Roscher, G. Rosenthal, S. B. Rumpf, W. Schmidt, J. Schrautzer, A. Schwabe, P. Schwartze, T. Sperle, N. Stanik, H.-G. Stroh, C. Storm, W. Voigt, A. von Heßberg, G. von Oheimb, E.-R. Wagner, U. Wegener, K. Wesche, B. Wittig, Wulf, M. (2022): ReSurveyGermany: Vegetation-plot time-series over the past hundred years in Germany. Scientific Data9:631. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01688-6.
  7. Lüttgert, L., Heisterkamp, S., Jansen, F., Klenke, R., Kreft, K.-A., Seidler, G., Bruelheide, H. (2022): Repeated Habitat Mapping Data Reveal Gains and Losses of Plant Species. Ecosphere13(10): e4244. doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4244
  8. van Klink, R., August, T., Bas, Y., Bodesheim, P., Bonn, A., Fossøy, F., Høye, T. T., Jongejans, E., Menz, M. H. M., Miraldo, A., Roslin, T., Roy, H. E., Ruczyński, I., Schigel, D., Schäffler, L., Sheard, J. K., Svenningsen, C., Tschan, G. F., Wäldchen, J., Zizka, V. M. A., Åström, J., Bowler, D. E. (2022): Emerging technologies revolutionise insect ecology and monitoring. Trends in Ecology & Evolution37:872-885. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2022.06.001

2021

  1. Bowler, D.E., Richter, R.L., Eskildsen, D., Kamp, J., Moshøj, C.M., Reif, J., Strebel, N., Trautmann, S., Voříšek, P. (2021): Geographic variation in the population trends of common breeding birds across central Europe. Basic and Applied Ecology56: 72-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2021.07.004
  2. Bowler, D.E., Eichenberg, D., Conze, K.J., Suhling, F., Baumann, K., Benken, T., Bönsel, A., Bittner, T., Drews, A., Günther, A., Isaac, N.J.B., Petzold, F., Seyring, M., Spengler, T., Trockur, B., Willigalla, C., Bruelheide, H., Jansen, F., Bonn, A. (2021): Winners and losers over 35 years of dragonfly and damselfly distributional change in Germany. Diversity & Distributions 27: 1353–1366. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13274
  3. Bruelheide, H., Jansen, F., Jandt, U., Bernhardt-Römermann, M., Bonn, A., Bowler, D., Dengler, J., Eichenberg, D., Grescho, V., Kellner, S., Klenke, R.A., Lütt, S., Lüttgert, L., Sabatini, F.M. & Wesche, K. (2021): A checklist for using Beals’ index with incomplete floristic monitoring data. Diversity and Distributions 27: 1328-1333 https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13277
  4. Callaghan, C.T., Bowler, D.E., Pereira, H.M. (2021): Thermal flexibility and a generalist life history promote urban affinity in butterflies. Global Change Biology 27: 3532-3546. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15670
  5. Sperle, T. & Bruelheide, H. (2021): Climate change aggravates bog species extinctions in the Black Forest (Germany). Diversity and Distributions 27: 282-295. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13184

2020

  1. Bruelheide, H., Jansen, F., Jandt, U., Bernhardt-Römermann, M., Bonn, A., Bowler, D., Dengler, J., Eichenberg, D., Grescho, V., Harter, D., Jugelt, M., Kellner, S., Ludwig, M., Wesche, K., Lütt, S. (2020): Using incomplete floristic monitoring data from habitat mapping programmes to detect species trends. Diversity and Distributions26: 782–794. https://doi.org/10.1111/DDI.13058
  2. Eichenberg, D., Bowler D. E., Bonn A., Bruelheide H., Grescho V., Harter D., Jandt U., May R., Winter M., Jansen F. (2020): Widespread decline in Central European plant diversity across six decades; Global Change Biology 27: 1097-1110. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15447
  3. Eichenberg, D., Bernhard-Römermann, M., Bowler, D., Bruelheide, H., Conze, K.-J., Dauber, J., Dengler, J., Engels, D., Fartmann, T., Frank, D., Geske, C., Grescho, V., Harter, D., Henle, K., Hofmann, S., Jandt, U., Jansen, F., Kamp, J., Kautzner, A., König-Ries, B., Krämer, R., Krüss, A., Kühl, H., Ludwig, M., Lueg, H., May, R., Musche, M., Oppitz, A., Ronnenberg, K., Schacherer, A., Schäffer, L., Schiffers, K., Schulte, U., Schwarz, J., Sperle, T., Stab, S., Stöck, M., Theves, F., Trockur, B., Wesche, K., Wessel, M., Winter, M., Wirth, C. & Bonn, A. (2020): Langfristige  Biodiversitätsveränderungen in Deutschland erkennen – Mit Hilfe der Vergangenheit in die Zukunft schauen. Natur und Landschaft 11: 479–491. https://www.natur-und-landschaft.de/de/news/langfristige-biodiversitatsveranderungen-in-deutschland-erkennen-1565
  4. Jansen, F, Bonn, A, Bowler, DE, Bruelheide, H, Eichenberg, D. (2020): Moderately common plants show highest relative losses. Conservation Letters13: e12674. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12674
  5. Kühl, H.S., Bowler, D.E., Bruelheide, H., Dauber, J., Eichenberg, D., Eisenhauer, N., Fernandez, N., Guerra, C., Henle, K., Herbinger, I., Isaac, N.J.B., Jansen, F., König-Ries, B., Kühn, I., Nilsen, E.B., Pe’er, G., Richter, A., Schulte, R., Settele, J., van Dam, N., Voigt, M., Wägele, J.W., Wirth, C., Bonn, A. (2020): Effective biodiversity monitoring needs a culture of integration. – One Earth3: 462-474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2020.09.010
  6. Lin, Y-P, Schmeller, D.S., Ding. T-S., Wang, Y-C., Lien, W-Y., Henle, K., Klenke, R. (2020): A GIS-based policy support tool to determine national responsibilities and priorities for biodiversity conservation. PLOS ONE 15(12): e0243135. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243135