German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
Halle-Jena-Leipzig
 

    Dr Nadja Rüger

    Scientific Employee
    Biodiversity Economics

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    since 2020:Scientific Employee, Biodiversity Economics group, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig  
    2017 – 2020:Junior Research Group Leader, “Computational Forest Ecology”, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig  
    2013 – 2020:Research Fellow (DFG “Eigene Stelle”), German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig  
    since 2012:Research Associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), Panama  
    2010 – 2012:Research Fellow (DFG “Eigene Stelle”), Department of Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity Research, Universität Leipzig  
    2008 – 2010:Scientific Employee, Department of Forest Biometrics and Systems Analysis, Technische Universität Dresden  
    2006 – 2008:PostDoc, Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Sciences – UFZ Leipzig  
    2006PhD in Applied Systems Science, Universität Osnabrück  
    2002Diploma in Applied Systems Science, Universität Osnabrück  

     

    Research focus

     

    • Forest ecology
    • Demographic rates and trade-offs in tropical tree species
    • Predictive forest modeling (PPA model)
    • Ecological-economic modeling of forest management

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    Publications before iDiv

     

     

    For a complete publication list see my ResearchID (http://www.researcherid.com/rid/J-6393-2015).

     

    Díaz, S., Kattge, J., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Wright, I. J., Lavorel, S., et al. including Rüger, N. 2016. The global spectrum of plant form and function. Nature 529: 167-71.

    Stephenson, N.L., A.J. Das, R. Condit, S.E. Russo, P.J. Baker, N.G. Beckman, D.A. Coomes, E.R. Lines, W.K. Morris, N. Rüger, et al. 2014. Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size. Nature507: 90–93.

    Rüger, N., C. Wirth, S.J. Wright, and R. Condit. 2012. Functional traits explain light and size response of growth rates in tropical tree species. Ecology93: 2626–2636.

    Rüger, N., and R. Condit. 2012. Testing metabolic theory with models of tree growth that include light competition. Functional Ecology26: 759–765.

    Rüger, N., U. Berger, S.P. Hubbell, G. Vieilledent, and R. Condit. 2011. Growth strategies of tropical tree species: disentangling light and size effects. PLoS ONE 6(9): e25330.

    Rüger, N., A. Huth, S.P. Hubbell, and R. Condit. 2011. Determinants of mortality across a tropical lowland rainforest community. Oikos120: 1047–1056.

    Rüger, N., A. Huth, S.P. Hubbell, and R. Condit. 2009. Response of recruitment to light availability across a tropical lowland rainforest community. Journal of Ecology97: 1360–1368.

    iDiv publications

     

    Grady, John M., Read, Quentin D., Record, Sydne, Rüger, Nadja, Zarnetske, Phoebe L., Dell, Anthony I., Hubbell, Stephen P., Michaletz, Sean T., Enquist, Brian J.

     (2024): Life history scaling in a tropical forest. Journal of Ecology
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    Ohse, Bettina, Compagnoni, Aldo, Farrior, Caroline E., McMahon, Sean M., Salguero-Gómez, Roberto, Rüger, Nadja, Knight, Tiffany M.

     (2023): Demographic synthesis for global tree species conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution
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    Holzmeyer, L., Hauenschild, Joswig, J. S., Kattge, J., Kraemer, G., Mahecha, M. D., Rüger, N., Schaepman, M. E., Schrodt, F., Schuman, M. C.F., Muellner-Riehl, A. N.

     (2023): Imputing missing data in plant traits: A guide to improve gap-filling. Global Ecology and Biogeography
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    Girard-Tercieux, C., Maréchaux, I., Clark, A. T., Clark, J. S., Courbaud, B., Fortunel, C., Guillemot, J., Künstler, G., le Maire, G., Pélissier, R., Rüger, N., Vieilledent, G.

     (2023): Rethinking the nature of intraspecific variability and its consequences on species coexistence. Ecology and Evolution
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    Rüger, Nadja, Schorn, Markus E., Kambach, Stephan, Chazdon, Robin L., Farrior, Caroline E., Meave, Jorge A., Muñoz, Rodrigo, van Breugel, Michiel, Amissah, Lucy, Bongers, Frans, Craven, Dylan, Hérault, Bruno, Jakovac, Catarina C., Norden, Natalia, Poorter, Lourens, van der Sande, Masha T., Wirth, Christian, Delgado, Diego, Dent, Daisy H., DeWalt, Saara J., Dupuy, Juan M., Finegan, Bryan, Hall, Jefferson S., Hernández-Stefanoni, José L., Lopez, Omar R.

     (2023): Successional shifts in tree demographic strategies in wet and dry Neotropical forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography
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    Kambach, S., Condit, R., Aguilar, S., Bruelheide, H., Bunyavejchewin, S., Chang-Yang, C.-H., Chen, Y.-Y., Chuyong, G., Davies, S. J., Ediriweera, S., Ewango, C. E. N., Fernando, E. S., Gunatilleke, N., Gunatilleke, S., Hubbell, S. P., Itoh, A., Kenfack, D., Kiratiprayoon, S., Lin, Y.-C., Makana, J.-R., Mohamad, M. B., Pongpattananurak, N., Pérez, R., Rodriguez, L. J. V., Sun, I.-F., Tan, S., Thomas, D., Thompson, J., Uriarte, M., Valencia, R., Wirth, C., Wright, S. J., Wu, S.-H., Yamakura, T., Yao, T. L., Zimmerman, J. and Rüger, N.

     (2022): Consistency of demographic trade-offs across 13 (sub)tropical forests. Journal of Ecology
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    Díaz, S., Kattge, J., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Wright, I. J., Lavorel, S., Dray, S., Reu, B., Kleyer, M., Wirth, C., Prentice, I. C., Garnier, E., Bönisch, G., Westoby, M., Poorter, H., Reich, P. B., Moles, A. T., Dickie, J., Zanne, A. E., Chave, J., Wright, S. J., Sheremetiev, S. N., Jactel, H., Baraloto, C., Cerabolini, B. E. L., Pierce, S., Shipley, B., Casanoves, F., Joswig, J. S., Günther, A., Falczuk, V., Rüger, N., Mahecha, M. D., Gorné, L. D., Amiaud, B., Atkin, O. K., Bahn, M., Baldocchi, D., Beckmann, M., Blonder, B., Bond, W., Bond-Lamberty, B., Brown, K., Burrascano, S., Byun, C., Campetella, G., Cavender-Bares, J., Chapin, F. S., Choat, B., Coomes, D. A., Cornwell, W. K., Craine, J., Craven, D., Dainese, M., de Araujo, A. C., de Vries, F. T., Domingues, T. F., Enquist, B. J., Fagúndez, J., Fang, J., Fernández-Méndez, F., Fernandez-Piedade, M. T., Ford, H., Forey, E., Freschet, G. T., Gachet, S., Gallagher, R., Green, W., Guerin, G. R., Gutiérrez, A. G., Harrison, S. P., Hattingh, W. N., He, T., Hickler, T., Higgins, S. I., Higuchi, P., Ilic, J., Jackson, R. B., Jalili, A., Jansen, S., Koike, F., König, C., Kraft, N., Kramer, K., Kreft, H., Kühn, I., Kurokawa, H., Lamb, E. G., Laughlin, D. C., Leishman, M., Lewis, S., Louault, F., Malhado, A. C. M., Manning, P., Meir, P., Mencuccini, M., Messier, J., Miller, R., Minden, V., Molofsky, J., Montgomery, R., Montserrat-Martí, G., Moretti, M., Müller, S., Niinemets, Ü., Ogaya, R., Öllerer, K., Onipchenko, V., Onoda, Y., Ozinga, W. A., Pausas, J. G., Peco, B., Penuelas, J., Pillar, V. D., Pladevall, C., Römermann, C., Sack, L., Salinas, N., Sandel, B., Sardans, J., Schamp, B., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schulze, E.-D., Schweingruber, F., Shiodera, S., Sosinski, Ê., Soudzilovskaia, N., Spasojevic, M. J., Swaine, E., Swenson, N., Tautenhahn, S., Thompson, K., Totte, A., Urrutia-Jalabert, R., Valladares, F., van Bodegom, P., Vasseur, F., Verheyen, K., Vile, D., Violle, C., von Holle, B., Weigelt, P., Weiher, E., Wiemann, M. C., Williams, M., Wright, J., Zotz, G.

     (2022): The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset. Scientific Data
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    Joswig, J. S., Wirth, C., Schuman, M. C., Kattge, J., Reu, B., Wright, I. J., Sippel, S. D., Rüger, N., Richter, R., Schaepman, M. E., van Bodegom, P. M., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Díaz, S., Hattingh, W. N., Kramer, K., Lens, F., Niinemets, Ü., Reich, P. B., Reichstein, M., Römermann, C., Schrodt, F., Anand, M., Bahn, M., Byun, C., Campetella, G., Cerabolini, B. E. L., Craine, J. M., Gonzalez-Melo, A., Gutiérrez, A. G., He, T., Higuchi, P., Jactel, H., Kraft, N. J. B., Minden, V., Onipchenko, V., Peñuelas, J., Pillar, V. D., Sosinski, Ê., Soudzilovskaia, N. A., Weiher, E. and Mahecha, M. D.

     (2021): Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation. Nature Ecology & Evolution
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    Poorter, L., Craven, D., Jakovac, C. C., Sande, M. T. v d, Amissah, L., Bongers, F., Chazdon, R. L., Farrior, C. E., Kambach, S., Meave, J. A., Muñoz, R., Norden, N., Rüger, N., Breugel, M. v, Zambrano, A. M. A., Amani, B., Andrade, J. L., Brancalion, P. H. S., Broadbent, E. N., Foresta, H. d, Dent, D. H., Derroire, G., DeWalt, S. J., Dupuy, J. M., Durán, S. M., Fantini, A. C., Finegan, B., Hernández-Jaramillo, A., Hernández-Stefanoni, J. L., Hietz, P., Junqueira, A. B., N’dja, J. K., Letcher, S. G., Lohbeck, M., López-Camacho, R., Martínez-Ramos, M., Melo, F. P. L., Mora, F., Müller, S. C., N’Guessan, A. E., Oberleitner, F., Ortiz-Malavassi, E., Pérez-García, E. A., Pinho, B. X., Piotto, D., Powers, J. S., Rodríguez-Buriticá, S., Rozendaal, D. M. A., Ruíz, J., Tabarelli, M., Teixeira, H. M., Sampaio, E. V. d S. B., Wal, H. v d, Villa, P. M., Fernandes, G. W., Santos, B. A., Aguilar-Cano, J., Almeida-Cortez, J. S. d, Alvarez-Davila, E., Arreola-Villa, F., Balvanera, P., Becknell, J. M., Cabral, G. A. L., Castellanos-Castro, C., Jong, B. H. J. d, Nieto, J. E., Espírito-Santo, M. M., Fandino, M. C., García, H., García-Villalobos, D., Hall, J. S., Idárraga, A., Jiménez-Montoya, J., Kennard, D., Marín-Spiotta, E., Mesquita, R., Nunes, Y. R. F., Ochoa-Gaona, S., Peña-Claros, M., Pérez-Cárdenas, N., Rodríguez-Velázquez, J., Villanueva, L. S., Schwartz, N. B., Steininger, M. K., Veloso, M. D. M., Vester, H. F. M., Vieira, I. C. G., Williamson, G. B., Zanini, K., Hérault, B.

     (2021): Multidimensional tropical forest recovery. Science
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    A. Compagnoni, S. Levin, D. Z. Childs, S. Harpole, M. Paniw, G. Römer, J. H. Burns, J. Che-Castaldo, N. Rüger, G. Kunstler, J. M. Bennett, C. R. Archer, O. R. Jones, R. Salguero-Gómez, T. M. Knight

     (2021): Herbaceous perennial plants with short generation time have stronger responses to climate anomalies than those with longer generation time. Nature Communications
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    G. Kunstler, A. Guyennon, S. Ratcliffe, N. Rüger, P. Ruiz-Benito, D. Z. Childs, J. Dahlgren, A. Lehtonen, W. Thuiller, C. Wirth, M. A. Zavala, R. Salguero-Gomez

     (2021): Demographic performance of European tree species at their hot and cold climatic edges. Journal of Ecology
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    M. S. Crawford, K. E. Barry, A. T. Clark, C. E. Farrior, J. Hines, E. Ladouceur, J. W. Lichstein, I. Maréchaux, F. May, A. S. Mori, B. Reineking, L. A. Turnbull, C. Wirth, N. Rüger

     (2021): The function-dominance correlation drives the direction and strength of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships. Ecology Letters
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    Kattge, J., ..., Bruelheide, H., ..., De Frutos, A.,..., Durka, W., ..., Erfmeier, A., ..., Jandt, U., ..., Klotz, S., ..., Kühn, I.,..., Römermann, C., ..., Roscher, C., ..., Rüger, N.,..., Wirth, C., Nutrient, N.

     (2020): TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology
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    Kunstler, G., A. Guyennon, S. Ratcliffe, N. Rüger, P. Ruiz-Benito, D. Z. Childs, J. Dahlgren, A. Lehtonen, W. Thuiller, C. Wirth, M. A. Zavala, R. Salguero-Gomez

     (2020): Demographic performance of European tree species at their hot and cold climatic edges. Journal of Ecology
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    Rüger, N., Condit, R., Dent, D. H., DeWalt, S. J., Hubbell, S. P., Lichstein, J. W., Lopez, O. R., Wirth, C., Farrior, C. E.

     (2020): Demographic trade-offs predict tropical forest dynamics. Science
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    Thomas, H. J. D., Bjorkman, A. D., Myers-Smith, I. H., Elmendorf, S. C., Kattge, J., ..., Rüger, N., ..., Eskelinen, A., ..., de Vries, F. T.

     (2020): Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome. Nature Communications
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    Thomas, H. J. D., Bjorkman, A. D., Myers-Smith, I. H., Elmendorf, S. C., Kattge, J., ..., Rüger, N., ..., Eskelinen, A., ... de Vries, F. T.

     (2020): Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome.. Nature Communications
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    Kupers, S. J., Engelbrecht, B. M. J., Hernández, A., Wright, S. J., Wirth, C., Rüger, N.

     (2019): Growth responses to soil water potential indirectly shape local species distributions of tropical forest seedlings. Journal of Ecology
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    Kupers, S. J., Wirth, C., Engelbrecht, B. M. J., Hernández, A., Condit, R., Wright, S. J., Rüger, N.

     (2019): Performance of tropical forest seedlings under shade and drought: an interspecific trade-off in demographic responses. Scientific Reports
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    Kupers, S. J., Wirth, C., Engelbrecht, B. M. J., Rüger, N.

     (2019): Dry season soil water potential maps of a 50 hectare tropical forest plot on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Scientific Data
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    Prevéy, J. S., Rixen, C., Rüger, N., Høye, T. T., Bjorkman, A. D., Myers-Smith, I. H., Elmendorf, S. C., Ashton, I. W., Cannone, N., Chisholm, C. L., et al.

     (2019): Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities. Nature Ecology & Evolution
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    Bjorkman, A. D., Myers-Smith, I. H., Elmendorf, S. C., Normand, S., Rüger, N., ...,  Kattge, J., ..., Eskelinen, A., et al.

     (2018): Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome. Nature
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    Kissling, W. D., Walls, R., Bowser, A., Jones, M. O., Kattge, J., Agosti, D., Amengual, J., Basset, A., van Bodegom, P. M., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Denny, E. G., Deudero, S., Egloff, W., Elmendorf, S. C., Alonso García, E., Jones, K. D., Jones, O. R., Lavorel, S., Lear, D., Navarro, L. M., Pawar, S., Pirzl, R., Rüger, N., et al.

     (2018): Towards global data products of Essential Biodiversity Variables on species traits. Nature Ecology & Evolution
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    Rüger, N., Comita, L. S., Condit, R., Purves, D., Rosenbaum, B., Visser, M. D., Joseph, W. S., Wirth, C.

     (2018): Beyond the fast–slow continuum: demographic dimensions structuring a tropical tree community. Ecology Letters
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    Prevéy, J., Vellend, M., Rüger, N., Hollister, R. D., Bjorkman, A. D., Myers-Smith, I. H., Elmendorf, S. C., Clark, K., Cooper, E. J., Elberling, B., et al.

     (2017): Greater temperature sensitivity of plant phenology at colder sites: implications for convergence across northern latitudes. Global Change Biology
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    Díaz, S., Kattge, J., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Wright, I. J., Lavorel, S., Dray, S., Reu, B., Kleyer, M., Wirth, C., Colin Prentice, I., Garnier, E., Bönisch, G., Westoby, M., Poorter, H., Reich, P. B., Moles, A. T., Dickie, J., Gillison, A. N., Zanne, A. E., Chave, J., Joseph Wright, S., Sheremet’ev, S. N., Jactel, H., Baraloto, C., Cerabolini, B., Pierce, S., Shipley, B., Kirkup, D., Casanoves, F., Joswig, J. S., Günther, A., Falczuk, V., Rüger, N., Mahecha, M. D., Gorné, L. D.

     (2016): The global spectrum of plant form and function. Nature
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    Holzwarth, F., Rüger, N., Wirth, C.

     (2015): Taking a closer look: disentangling effects of functional diversity on ecosystem functions with a trait-based model across hierarchy and time. Royal Society Open Science
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    Stephenson, N. L., Das, A. J., Condit, R., Russo, S. E., Baker, P. J., Beckman, N. G., Coomes, D. A., Lines, E. R., Morris, W. K., Rüger, N., et al.

     (2014): Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size. Nature
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    Grote, S., Condit, R., Hubbell, S., Wirth, C., Rüger, N.

     (2013): Response of Demographic Rates of Tropical Trees to Light Availability: Can Position-Based Competition Indices Replace Information from Canopy Census Data?. PLoS ONE
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