Publications

Uhl, B., P. Schall & C. Bässler (2024): Achieving structural heterogeneity and high multi-taxon biodiversity in managed forest ecosystems: a European review. Biodiversity and Conservation, 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10531-024-02878-x Link

Berger, J.L., M. Staab, M. Hartlieb, N.K. Simons, K. Wells, M.M. Gossner, J. Vogt, R. Achury, S. Seibold, A. Hemp, W.W. Weisser, N. Blüthgen (2024): The day after mowing: time and type of mowing influence grassland arthropods. Ecological Applications. e3022. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.3022  Link

Special Feature „Insect decline“ in Biology Letters edited together with Dr. Florian Menzel and Prof. Dr. Martin Gossner 

Neyret M., G. Le Provost, A.L. Boesing, F.D. Schneider, D. Baulechner, J. Bergmann, F. de Vries, A.M. Fiore-Donno, S. Geisen, K. Goldmann, A. Merges, R.A. Saifutdinov, N.K. Simons, J.A. Tobias, A.S. Zaitsev, M.M. Gossner, K.Jung, E. Kandeler, J. Krauss, C. Penone, M. Schloter, S. Schulz, M. Staab, V. Wolters, A. Apostolakis, K. Birkhofer, S. Boch, R.S. Boeddinghaus, R. Bolliger, M. Bonkowski, F. Buscot, K. Dumack, M. Fischer, H.Y. Gan, J.Heinze, N. Hölzel, K. John, V.H. Klaus, T. Kleinebecker, S.Marhan, J. Müller, S.C. Renner, M. Rillig, N.V. Schenk, I. Schöning, M.Schrumpf, S. Seibold, S. Socher, E.F. Solly, M. Teuscher, M. van Kleunen, T. Wubet & P. Manning (2023): A fast-slow trait continuum at the level of entire communities. bioRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.12.548516 Link

Staab M., M.M. Gossner, N.K. Simons, R. Achury, D. Ambarli, S. Bae, P. Schall, W.W. Weisser & N. Blüthgen (2023): Insect decline in forests depends on species’ traits and may be mitigated by management. Communications Biology. 6:338 doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04690-9 Link

​Gossner, M.M., F. Menzel & N.K. Simons (2023): Less overall, but more of the same: drivers of insect population trends lead to community homogenization. Biology Letters. 19:20230007 doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0007 Link

​Wehner, K., M. Brandt, A. Hilpert, N.K. Simons & N. Blüthgen (2023): Little evidence for land-use filters on intraspecific trait variation in three arthropod groups. Web Ecology. 23(1):35–49. doi.org/10.5194/we-23-35-2023 Link

​Scherreiks P., M.M. Gossner, D. Ambarlı, M. Ayasse, N. Blüthgen, M. Fischer, V.H. Klaus, T. Kleinebecker, F. Neff, D. Prati, S. Seibold, N.K. Simons, W.W. Weisser, K. Wells, C. Westphal & J. Thiele (2022): Present and historical landscape structure shapes current species richness in Central European grasslands. Landscape Ecology. 37 (745-762). doi.org/10.1007/s10980-021-01392-7 Link

​Neyret M., M. Fischer, E. Allan, N. Hölzel, V.H. Klaus, T. Kleinebecker, J. Krauss, G. Le Provost, S. Peter, N. Schenk, N.K. Simons, F. van der Plas, J. Binkenstein, C. Börschig, K. Jung, D. Prati, M. Schäfer, D. Schäfer, I. Schöning, M. Schrumpf, M. Tschapka, C. Westphal & P. Manning (2021): Assessing the impact of grassland management on landscape multifunctionality. Ecosystem Services. 52:101366. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101366 First published under bioRxiv. 208199. doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.17.208199 Link

​Wehner, K., N.K. Simons, N. Blüthgen & M. Heethoff (2021): Drought, windthrow and forest operations strongly affect oribatid mite communities in different microhabitats. Global Ecology and Conservation 30:e01757. doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01757 Link

Neff, F., M. Brändle, D. Ambarlı, C. Ammer, J. Bauhus, S. Boch, N. Hölzel, V.H. Klaus, T. Kleinebecker, D. Prati, P. Schall, D. Schäfer, E.-D. Schulze, S. Seibold, N.K. Simons, W.W. Weisser, L. Pellissier & M.M. Gossner (2021): Changes in plant-herbivore network structure and robustness along land-use intensity gradients in grasslands and forests. Science Advances 7(20):eabf3985. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abf3985 Link

​Wehner, K., R. Schuster, N.K. Simons, R.A. Norton, N. Blüthgen & M. Heethoff (2021): How land-use intensity affects sexual and parthenogenetic oribatid mites in temperate forests and grasslands in Germany. Experimental & Applied Acarology (online first). doi:10.1007/s10493-020-00586-z Link

​Wehner, K., C. Renker, N.K. Simons, W.W. Weisser & N. Blüthgen (2021): Narrow environmental niches predict land-use responses and vulnerability of land snail assemblages. BMC Ecology & Evolution 21(15). doi:10.1186/s12862-020-01741-1 Link

​N.K. Simons, M.R. Felipe-Lucia, P. Schall, C. Ammer, J. Bauhus, N. Blüthgen, S. Boch, F. Buscot, M. Fischer, K. Goldmann, M.M. Gossner, F. Hänsel, K. Jung, P. Manning, T. Nauss, Y. Oelmann, R. Pena, A. Polle, S.C. Renner, M. Schloter, I. Schöning, E.-D. Schulze, E.F. Solly, E. Sorkau, B. Stempfhuber, T. Wubet, J. Müller, S. Seibold, W.W. Weisser (2021): National Forest Inventories capture the multifunctionality of managed forests in Germany. Forest Ecosystems 8(5). doi:10.1186/s40663-021-00280-5 Link

​Seibold, S., T. Hothorn, M.M. Gossner, N.K. Simons, N. Blüthgen, J. Müller, D. Ambarlı, C. Ammer, J. Bauhus, M. Fischer, J.C. Habel, C. Penone, P. Schall, E.‐D. Schulze, W.W. Weisser (2021): ​Insights from regional and short‐term biodiversity monitoring datasets are valuable: a reply to Daskalova et al. 2021. Insect Conservation and Diversity doi.org/10.1111/icad.12467 Link

Ambarlı, D., N.K. Simons, K. Wehner, W. Kämper, M.M. Gossner, T. Nauss, F. Neff, S. Seibold, W.W. Weisser & N. Blüthgen (2020): ​Animal-mediated ecosystem process rates in forests and grasslands are affected by climatic conditions and land-use intensity. Ecosystems doi.org/10.1007/s10021-020-00530-7 Link

​Heidrich, L., S. Bae, S. Levick, S. Seibold, W. Weisser, P. Krzystek, P. Magdon, T. Nauss, P. Schall, A. Serebryanyk, S. Wöllauer, C. Ammer, C. Bässler, I. Doerfler, M- Fischer, M. M. Gossner, M. Heurich, T. Hothorn, K. Jung, H. Kreft, E.-D. Schulze,  N.K. Simons, S. Thorn & J. Müller (2020): Heterogeneity–diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests. Nature Ecology & Evolution. doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1245-z Link

​Mody, K., D. Lerch, A.-K. Müller, N.K. Simons, N. Blüthgen & M. Harnisch (2020): Flower power in the city: Replacing roadside shrubs by wildflower meadows increases insect numbers and reduces maintenance costs. PLOS ONE 15(6): e0234327. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0234327 Link

Seibold, S., M.M. Gossner, N.K. Simons, N. Blüthgen, J. Müller, D. Ambarli, C. Ammer, J. Bauhus, M. Fischer, J.C. Habel, K.E. Linsenmair, T. Nauss, C. Penone, D. Prati, P. Schall, E.-D. Schulze, J. Vogt, S. Wöllauer & W.W. Weisser (2019): Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers. Nature. 574:671–674. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1684-3 Link

Vogt, J., V.H. Klaus, S. Both, C. Fürstenau, S. Gockel, M. M. Gossner, J. Heinze, A. Hemp, N. Hölzel, K. Jung, K. Till, R. Lauterbach, K. Lorenzen, A. Ostrowski, N. Otto, D. Prati, S. Renner, U. Schumacher, S. Seibold, N.K. Simons, I. Steitz, M. Teuscher, J. Thiele, S. Weithmann, K. Wells, K. Wiesner, M. Ayasse, N. Blüthgen, M. Fischer, W.W. Weisser (2019): Eleven years’ data of grassland management data in Germany. Biodiversity Data Journal. 7: e36387. doi:10.3897/BDJ.7.e36387 Link

Hotes, S., J. Hagge, F. Härtl, P. Sacher, N.K. Simons (2019): Biodiversitätsstrategien in Wäldern: Das BioHolz-Projekt. AFZ-DerWald. 16:16-20. 

​Schneider F.D., M. Jochum, G. Le Provost, A. Ostrowski, C. Penone, D. Fichtmüller, A. Güntsch, M.M. Gossner, B. König-Ries, P. Manning & N.K. Simons (2019): Towards an ecological trait‐data standard. Methods in Ecololgy & Evolution. 00:1-14. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13288 Link

​Neff, F., N. Blüthgen, M.N. Chisté, N.K. Simons, J. Steckel, W.W. Weisser, C. Westphal. L. Pellissier, M.M. Gossner (2019): Cross-scale effects of land use on the functional composition of herbivorous insect communities. Landscape Ecology. doi:10.1007/s10980-019-00872-1 Link

Wehner, K., C. Renker, A. Brückner, N.K. Simons, W.W. Weisser, N. Blüthgen (2019): Land‐use in Europe affects land snail assemblages directly and indirectly by modulating abiotic and biotic drivers. Ecosphere. doi:10.1002/ecs2.2726 Link

​Heinze J., N.K. Simons, S. Seibold, A. Wacker, G. Weithoff, M.M. Gossner, D. Prati, T.M. Bezemer & J. Joshi (2019): The relative importance of plant-soil feedbacks for plant-species performance increases with decreasing intensity of herbivory. Oecologia. 190(3):651–664. doi:10.1007/s00442-019-04442-9 Link

​Penone C., E. Allan, S. Soliveres, M.R. Felipe‐Lucia, M.M. Gossner, S. Seibold, N.K. Simons, P. Schall, F. van der Plas, P. Manning, R.D. Manzanedo, S. Boch, D. Prati, C. Ammer, J. Bauhus, F. Buscot, M. Ehbrecht, K. Goldmann, K. Jung, J. Müller, J.C. Müller, R. Pena, A. Polle, S.C. Renner, L. Ruess, I. Schönig, M. Schrumpf, E.F. Solly M. Tschapka, W.W. Weisser, T. Wubet, M. Fischer (2019): Specialisation and diversity of multiple trophic groups are promoted by different forest features. Ecology Letters. 22:170-180. doi:10.1111/ele.13782 Link

​[2018]

Schneider F.D., M. Jochum, G. Le Provost, A. Ostrowski, C. Penone, D. Fichtmüller, A. Güntsch, M.M. Gossner, B. König-Ries, P. Manning & N.K. Simons (2018): Towards an Ecological Trait-data Standard. bioRxiv 328302. doi:10.1101/328302 Link

​[2017]

Ebeling A., J. Hines, L.R. Hertzog, M. Lange, S.T. Meyer, N.K. Simons & W.W. Weisser. (2017): Plant diversity effects on arthropods and arthropod-dependent ecosystem functions in a biodiversity experiment. Basic and Applied Ecology. 26:50-63. doi:10.1016/j.baae.2017.09.014 Link

Simons N.K. & W.W. Weisser(2017): Agricultural intensification without biodiversity loss is possible in grassland landscapes. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1:1136-1145. doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0227-2 Link

Simons N.K., T. Lewinsohn, N. Blüthgen, F. Buscot, S. Boch, R. Daniel, M.M. Gossner, K. Jung, K. Kaiser, J. Müller, D. Prati, S.C. Renner, S.A. Socher, I. Sonnemann, C.N. Weiner, M. Werner, T. Wubet, S. Wurst & W.W. Weisser (2017): Contrasting effects of grassland management modes on species-abundance distributions of multiple groups. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 237:143-153. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2016.12.022 Link

​[2016]

Chisté M.N., K. Mody, M.M. Gossner, N.K. Simons, G. Köhler, W.W. Weisser & N. Blüthgen (2016): Losers, winners, and opportunists: How grassland land-use intensity affects orthopteran communities. Ecosphere 7:e01545. doi:10.1002/ecs2.1545 Link

Simons N.K., W.W. Weisser & M.M. Gossner(2016): Multi-taxa approach shows consistent shifts in arthropod functional traits along grassland land-use intensity gradient. Ecology 97(3):754-764. doi:10.1890/15-0616.1 Link

Blüthgen N., N.K. Simons, K. Jung, D. Prati, S.C. Renner, S. Boch, M. Fischer, N. Hölzel, V.H. Klaus, T. Kleinebecker, M. Tschapka, W.W. Weisser & M.M. Gossner. (2016): Land use imperils plant and animal community stability through changes in asynchrony ratherthan diversity. Nature Communications 7:10697. doi:10.1038/ncomms10697 Link

​[2015]

Gámez-Virués S., D.J. Perovic, M.M. Gossner, C. Borschig, N. Blüthgen, H. de Jong, N.K. Simons, A.-M. Klein, J. Krauss, G. Maier, C. Scherber, J. Steckel, C. Rothenwöhrer, I. Steffan-Dewenter, C.N. Weiner, W.W. Weisser, M. Werner, T. Tscharntke & C. Westphal (2015): Landscape simplification filters species traits and drives biotic homogenization. Nature Communications 6:8568. doi:10.1038/ncomms9568 Link

Gossner M.M., N.K. Simons, R. Achtziger, T. Blick, W.H.O. Dorow, F. Dziock, F. Köhler, W. Rabitsch & W.W. Weisser (2015): A summary of eight traits of Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Orthoptera and Araneae, occurring in grasslands in Germany. Scientific Data 2:150013. doi:10.1038/sdata.2015.13 Link

Gossner M.M., N.K. Simons, L. Höck L & W.W. Weisser(2015): Morphometric measures of Heteroptera sampled in grasslands across three regions of Germany: Ecological Archives E096-102. Ecology 96(4):1154. doi:10.1890/14-2159.1 Link

Simons N.K., M.M. Gossner, T.M. Lewinsohn, M. Lange, M. Türke & W.W. Weisser(2015): Effects of land-use intensity on arthropod species abundance distributions in grasslands. Journal of Animal Ecology 84:143–154. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12278 Link

​[2014]

Simons N.K., M.M. Gossner, T.M. Lewinsohn, S. Boch, M. Lange, J. Müller, E. Pašalic, S.A. Socher, M. Türke, M. Fischer & W. W. Weisser(2014): Resource-mediated indirect effects of grassland management on arthropod diversity. PLoS ONE 9(9):e107033. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0107033 Link