Kretz, Lena, Schnabel, Florian, Richter, Ronny, Raabgrund, Anika, Kattge, Jens, Andraczek, Karl, Kahl, Anja, Künne, Tom, Wirth, Christian (2026): Functional traits explain growth response to successive hotter droughts across a wide set of common and future tree species in Europe. Plant Biology

Bönisch, Elisabeth, Eisenhauer, Nico, Bassi, Leonardo, Auge, Harald, Friedlein, Helen, Gleixner, Gerd, Weller, Laura-Fiona, Guerrero-Ramírez, Nathaly, Reitz, Thomas, Richter, Ronny, Schädler, Martin, Hines, Jes (2025): Resource inequality limits transfer of nutrients from soils to plants in experimental grassland. Oikos

Sachsenmaier, Lena, Schnabel, Florian, Tezeh, Fon R., Castro Sánchez-Bermejo, Pablo, Eisenhauer, Nico, Ferlian, Olga, Haider, Sylvia, Richter, Ronny, Paligi, Sharath S., Schuldt, Bernhard, Wirth, Christian (2025): Hydro-Functional Traits and Their Dissimilarity to the Neighbourhood Buffer Tree Growth Against the 2018–2020 Central European Drought. Global Change Biology

Bassi, Leonardo, Hennecke, Justus, Albracht, Cynthia, Solbach, Marcel Dominik, Rai, Akanksha, Pinheiro Alves de Souza, Yuri, Fox, Aaron, Zeng, Ming, Döll, Stefanie, Doan, Van Cong, Richter, Ronny, Kahl, Anja, Von Sivers, Lea, Winkler, Luise, Eisenhauer, Nico, Meyer, Sebastian T., van Dam, Nicole M., Weigelt, Alexandra (2025): Plant species richness promotes the decoupling of leaf and root defence traits while species-specific responses in physical and chemical defences are rare. New Phytologist

Schnabel, Florian, Beugnon, Rémy, Yang, Bo, Richter, Ronny, Eisenhauer, Nico, Huang, Yuanyuan, Liu, Xiaojuan, Wirth, Christian, Cesarz, Simone, Fichtner, Andreas, Perles-Garcia, Maria D., Hähn, Georg J. A., Härdtle, Werner, Kunz, Matthias, Castro Izaguirre, Nadia C., Niklaus, Pascal A., von Oheimb, Goddert, Schmid, Bernhard, Trogisch, Stefan, Wendisch, Manfred, Ma, Keping, Bruelheide, Helge (2025): Tree Diversity Increases Forest Temperature Buffering via Enhancing Canopy Density and Structural Diversity. Ecology Letters

Sanaei, Anvar, van der Plas, Fons, Chen, Hongmei, Davids, Sophie, Eckhardt, Susanne, Hennecke, Justus, Kahl, Anja, Möller, Yasmin, Richter, Ronny, Schütze, Jana, Wirth, Christian, Weigelt, Alexandra (2025): Tree growth is better explained by absorptive fine root traits than by transport fine root traits. Communications Biology

Sachsenmaier, Lena, Schnabel, Florian, Dietrich, Peter, Eisenhauer, Nico, Ferlian, Olga, Quosh, Julius, Richter, Ronny, Wirth, Christian (2024): Forest growth resistance and resilience to the 2018–2020 drought depend on tree diversity and mycorrhizal type. Journal of Ecology

Sinclair, James S., Buchner, Dominik, Gessner, Mark O., Müller, Jörg, Pauls, Steffen U., Stoll, Stefan, Welti, Ellen A. R., Bässler, Claus, Buse, Jörn, Dziock, Frank, Enss, Julian, Hörren, Thomas, Künast, Robert, Li, Yuanheng, Marten, Andreas, Morkel, Carsten, Richter, Ronny, Seibold, Sebastian, Sorg, Martin, Twietmeyer, Sönke, Weis, Dirk, Weisser, Wolfgang, Wiggering, Benedikt, Wilmking, Martin, Zotz, Gerhard, Frenzel, Mark, Leese, Florian, Haase, Peter (2024): Effects of land cover and protected areas on flying insect diversity. Conservation Biology

Langer, Lars, Burghardt, Manuel, Borgards, Roland, Richter, Ronny, Wirth, Christian (2024): The relation between biodiversity in literature and social and spatial situation of authors: Reflections on the nature–culture entanglement. People and Nature

Kattenborn, Teja, Richter, Ronny, Guimarães-Steinicke, Claudia, Feilhauer, Hannes, Wirth, Christian (2022): AngleCam: Predicting the temporal variation of leaf angle distributions from image series with deep learning. Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Richter, Ronny, Ballasus, Helen, Engelmann, Rolf A., Zielhofer, Christoph, Sanaei, Anvar, Wirth, Christian (2022): Tree species matter for forest microclimate regulation during the drought year 2018: disentangling environmental drivers and biotic drivers. Scientific Reports

Joswig, Julia S., Wirth, Christian, Schuman, Meredith C., Kattge, Jens, Reu, Björn, Wright, Ian J., Sippel, Sebastian D., Rüger, Nadja, Richter, Ronny, Schaepman, Michael E., van Bodegom, Peter M., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Díaz, Sandra, Hattingh, Wesley N., Kramer, Koen, Lens, Frederic, Niinemets, Ülo, Reich, Peter B., Reichstein, Markus, Römermann, Christine, Schrodt, Franziska, Anand, Madhur, Bahn, Michael, Byun, Chaeho, Campetella, Giandiego, Cerabolini, Bruno E. L., Craine, Joseph M., Gonzalez-Melo, Andres, Gutiérrez, Alvaro G., He, Tianhua, Higuchi, Pedro, Jactel, Hervé, Kraft, Nathan J. B., Minden, Vanessa, Onipchenko, Vladimir, Peñuelas, Josep, Pillar, Valério D., Sosinski, Ênio, Soudzilovskaia, Nadejda A., Weiher, Evan, Mahecha, Miguel D. (2022): Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation. Nature Ecology & Evolution

Herrmann, Martina, Geesink, Patricia, Richter, Ronny, Küsel, Kirsten (2021): Canopy Position Has a Stronger Effect than Tree Species Identity on Phyllosphere Bacterial Diversity in a Floodplain Hardwood Forest. Microbial Ecology

Richter, Ronny, Hutengs, Christopher, Wirth, Christian, Bannehr, Lutz, Vohland, Michael (2021): Detecting Tree Species Effects on Forest Canopy Temperatures with Thermal Remote Sensing: The Role of Spatial Resolution. Remote Sensing

Welti, Ellen A. R., Zajicek, Petr, Frenzel, Mark, Ayasse, Manfred, Bornholdt, Tim, Buse, Jörn, Classen, Alice, Dziock, Frank, Engelmann, Rolf A., Englmeier, Jana, Fellendorf, Martin, Förschler, Marc I., Fricke, Ute, Ganuza, Cristina, Hippke, Mathias, Hoenselaar, Günter, Kaus-Thiel, Andrea, Kerner, Janika, Kilian, Daniela, Mandery, Klaus, Marten, Andreas, Monaghan, Michael T., Morkel, Carsten, Müller, Jörg, Puffpaff, Stephanie, Redlich, Sarah, Richter, Ronny, Rojas-Botero, Sandra, Scharnweber, Tobias, Scheiffarth, Gregor, Yáñez, Paul Schmidt, Schumann, Rhena, Seibold, Sebastian, Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf, Stoll, Stefan, Tobisch, Cynthia, Twietmeyer, Sönke, Uhler, Johannes, Vogt, Juliane, Weis, Dirk, Weisser, Wolfgang W., Wilmking, Martin, Haase, Peter (2021): Temperature drives variation in flying insect biomass across a German malaise trap network. Insect Conservation and Diversity

Wirth, Christian, Engelmann, Rolf A., Haack, Nora, Hartmann, Henrik, Richter, Ronny, Schnabel, Florian, Scholz, Mathias, Seele-Dilbat, Carolin (2021): Naturschutz und Klimawandel im Leipziger Auwald: Ein Biodiversitätshotspot an der Belastungsgrenze. Biologie in unserer Zeit

Ma, X. L., Migliavacca, M., Wirth, Christian, Bohn, F. J., Huth, A., Richter, Ronny, Mahecha, Miguel D. (2020): Monitoring Plant Functional Diversity Using the Reflectance and Echo from Space. Remote Sensing

Volf, Martin, Weinhold, Alexander, Seifert, Carlo L., Holicová, Tereza, Uthe, Henriette, Alander, Erika, Richter, Ronny, Salminen, Juha-Pekka, Wirth, Christian, van Dam, Nicole M. (2020): Branch-Localized Induction Promotes Efficacy of Volatile Defences and Herbivore Predation in Trees. Journal of Chemical Ecology

De Torres, F. N., Richter, Ronny, Vohland, M. (2019): A multisensoral approach for high-resolution land cover and pasture degradation mapping in the humid tropics: A case study of the fragmented landscape of Rio de Janeiro. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Elle, Oliver, Richter, Ronny, Vohland, Michael, Weigelt, Alexandra (2019): Fine root lignin content is well predictable with near-infrared spectroscopy. Scientific Reports

Ma, Xuanlong, Mahecha, Miguel D., Migliavacca, Mirco, van der Plas, Fons, Benavides, Raquel, Ratcliffe, Sophia, Kattge, Jens, Richter, Ronny, Musavi, Talie, Baeten, Lander, Barnoaiea, Ionut, Bohn, Friedrich J., Bouriaud, Olivier, Bussotti, Filippo, Coppi, Andrea, Domisch, Timo, Huth, Andreas, Jaroszewicz, Bogdan, Joswig, Julia, Pabon-Moreno, Daniel E., Papale, Dario, Selvi, Federico, Laurin, Gaia Vaglio, Valladares, Fernando, Reichstein, Markus, Wirth, Christian (2019): Inferring plant functional diversity from space: the potential of Sentinel-2. Remote Sensing of Environment

Naegeli de Torres, Friederike, Richter, Ronny, Cardoso Fidalgo, Elaine Cristina (2019): Multicriteria Site Prioritization for Land Rehabilitation in the Guapi-Macacu Watershed, Rio de Janeiro. In: Nehren, Udo, Schlϋter, Sabine, Raedig, Claudia, Sattler, Dietmar, Hissa, Helga (Eds.) Strategies and Tools for a Sustainable Rural Rio de Janeiro. Springer, Cham

Richter, Ronny, Heim, Arend, Heim, Wieland, Kamp, Johannes, Vohland, Michael (2019): Combining Multiband Remote Sensing and Hierarchical Distance Sampling to Establish Drivers of Bird Abundance. Remote Sensing