Ecology - AG van Kleunen

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  • 22 March 2024: At the 2024 Nature Postive Universities webinar series, Mark presented several biodiversity uplift projects on our campus last year, see here for recorded webinar! 
  • 22 March 2024: Fu YM, van Kleunen M, Ma K & Liu YJ on 'The more microplastic types pollute the soil, the stronger the growth suppression of invasive alien and native plants' has been accepted for publication in Journal of Ecology. 
  • 05 March 2024:Previous visiting PhD student Shuya Fan has rejoined our lab as Postdoc starting from today! Welcome back!
  • 04 March 2024: Cheng C, Liu ZK, Zhang Q, Tian X, Ju RT, Li B, van Kleunen M, Chase J & Wu JH on 'Genotype diversity enhances invasion resistance of native plants via soil biotic feedbacks' has just been published in Ecology Letters. Starting from today, first author Cai Cheng will join our group as visiting PhD for an year. Welcome!
  • 27 February 2024: Davis AJS, Groom Q, Adriaens T, Vanderhoeven S, De Troch R, Oldoni D, Desmet P, Reyserhove L, Lens L and Strubbe D on 'Reproducible WiSDM: a workflow for reproducible invasive alien species risk maps under climate change scenarios using standardized open data' has just been published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • 26 February 2024: Dr. Peng Wang will join our group as visiting scholar for an year! Welcome to Konstanz!
  • 19 February 2024: Huang KL, De Long JR, Yan XB, Wang XY, Wang CL, Zhang YW, Zhang YY, Wang P, Du GZ, van Kleunen M & Guo H on 'Why are graminoid species more dominant? Trait-mediated plant-soil feedbacks shape community composition' has been accepted for publication in Ecology.
  • 14 February 2024: Guo K, Pyšek P, van Kleunen M, Kinlock NL, Lučanová M, Leitch IJ, Pierce S, Dawson W, Essl F, Kreft H, Lenzner B, Pergl J, Weigelt P & Guo WY on 'Plant invasion and naturalization are influenced by genome size, ecology and economic use globally' is now published in Nature Communications 
  • 14 February 2024: Neyret M, Le Provost G, Boesing AL, Schneider FD, Baulechner D, Bergmann J, de Vries FT, Fiore-Donno AM, Geisen S, Goldmann K, Merges A, Saifutdinov RA, Simons NK, Tobias JA, Zaitsev AS, Gossner MM, Jung K, Kandeler E, Krauss J, Penone C, Schloter M, Schulz S, Staab M, Wolter V, Apostolakis A, Birkhofer K, Boch S, Boeddinghaus RS, Bolliger R, Bonkowski M, Buscot F, Dumack K, Fischer M, Gan HY, Heinze J, Hölzel N, John K, Klaus VH, Kleinebecker T, Marhan S, Müller J, Renner SC, Rillig MC, Schenk NV, Schöning I, Schrumpf M, Seibold S, Socher S, Solly EF, Teuscher M, van Kleunen M, Wubet T & Manning P on 'A slow-fast trait continuum at the whole community level in relation to land-use intensification' is now published in Nature Communications
  • 08 February 2024: Robeck P, Essl F, van Kleunen M, Pyšek P, Pergl J, Weigelt P & Mesgaran MB on 'Invading plants remain undetected in a lag phase while they explore suitable climates' is now published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • 07 February 2024: Marc Stift gave a great habilitation lecture about plant-plant competition, and will soon be allowed to wear the title PD.
  • 07 February 2024: Omer A, Essl F, Dullinger S, Lenzner B, García-Rodríguez A, Moser D, Fristoe T, Dawson W, Weigelt P, Kreft H, Pergl J, Pyšek P, van Kleunen M & Wessely J on 'Invasion risk of the currently cultivated alien flora in Southern Africa is predicted to decline under climate change' has been accepted for publication in Ecography. 
  • 25 January 2024: Cheng C, Liu ZK, Zhang Q, Tian X, Ju RT, Li B, van Kleunen M, Chase J & Wu JH on 'Genotype diversity enhances invasion resistance of native plants via soil biotic feedbacks' has been accepted for publication in Ecology Letters.
  • 09 January 2024: Carrara L, Moi DA, Figueiredo BRS, van Kleunen M, pastorini LH, Romangnolo MB & Souza LA on 'Tolerance to drought and flooding events provides a competitive advantage for an invasive over a native plant species' has been accepted for publication in Freshwater Biology.
  • 19 December 2023: Huifei Jin (visiting PhD student) & Han Jiang (4yr PhD student) have joined our group starting from this week! Welcome to Konstanz! 
  • 15 December 2023: Mark's public lecture on 'ecological impacts of global change' for Public Sustainability Week is now available for streaming from KIM. Visit here for full list of related presentations and lectures. 
  • 11 December 2023: Bi JW, Bossdorf O, Liao ZY, Richards C, Parepa M, Zhao WH, Berninger F, Zhao YJ, Liu ZK, Feng XY, Ju RT, Li B & Wu JH on 'Divergent geographic variation in above- versus belowground secondary metabolites of Reynoutria japonica' has been accepted for publication in Journal of Ecology.
  • 01 December 2023: Research highlight written by Benedikt Speißer 'Time matter: Why ecological effects of microplastics might change over time' is now published in Journal of Applied Ecology
  • 19 November 2023: Holmes R, Pelser P, Barcelona J, Tjitrosoedirdjo SS, Wahyuni I, van Kleunen M, Pyšek P, Essl F, Kreft H, Dawson W, Wijedasa L, Kortz A, Hejda M, Berrio JC, Siregar I & Williams M on 'Naturalizations have led to homogenization of the Malesian flora in the Anthropocene' has been accepted for publication in Journal of Biogeography. 
  • 1 November 2023: Mark has joined the UNU Sustainability Nexus Analytics, Informatics, and Data (AID) Programme on Biological Invasions
  • 24 October 2023: Schertler A, Lenzner B, Dullinger S, Moser D, Bufford JL, Ghelardini L, Santini A, Capinha C, Monteiro M, Reino L, Wingfield MJ, Seebens H, Thines M, Dawson W, van Kleunen M, Kreft H, Pergl P, Pyšek P, Weigelt P, Winter M & Essl F on 'Biogeography and global flows of 100 major alien fungal and fungal-like oomycete pathogens' has been accepted for publication in Journal of Biogeography. 
  • 23 October 2023: Speißer B & van Kleunen M on 'Plants forage for soil patches free of plastic pollution but cannot bag the profits' has been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports. 
  • 16 October 2023: Fan SY, Yang Q, Li SP, Fristoe TS, Cadotte MW, Essl F, Kreft H, Pergl J, Pyšek P, Weigelt P, Kartesz J, Nishino M, Wieringa JJ & van Kleunen M on 'A latitudinal gradient in Darwin’s naturalization conundrum at the global scale for vascular plants' has been published in Nature Communications.
  • 12 October 2023: Dong BC, Yang Q, Kinlock NL, Pouteau R, Pyšek P, Weigelt P, Yu FH & van Kleunen M on 'Naturalization of introduced plants is driven by life-form-dependent cultivation biases' has been accepted for publishing in  Diversity and Distribution.
  • 05 October 2023: Zhang Z, Yang Q, Fristoe TS, Dawson W, Essl F, Kreft H, Lenzner B, Pergl J, Pyšek P, Weigelt P, Winter M, Fuentes N, Kartesz JT, Nishino M & van Kleunen M on 'The poleward naturalization of intra-continental alien plants' has been published in Science Advances. Also see Press Release from Uni Konstanz here in English and in German. Press release in Chinese written by the first two authors is also avaialble.
  • 25 September 2023: Duo successfully defended her PhD. Congratulations!
  • 15 September 2023: The WhoIsNext project led by Mark is highlighted in a press release about the IPBES assessment on invasive alien species.
  • 14 September 2023: Chen D, van Kleunen M, Wang YJ & Yu FH on 'Invasive and native plants show different root responses to feedback-mediated soil heterogeneity' has been accepted for publication in Plant and Soil. 
  • 29 August 2023: Fristoe TS, Bleilevens J, Kinlock NL, Yang Q, Zhang ZJ, Dawson W, Essl F, Kreft H, Pergl J, Pyšek P, Weigelt P, Dufour-Dror JM, Sennikov A, Wasowicz P, Westergaard K & van Kleunen M on 'Evolutionary imbalance, climate and human history jointly shape the global biogeography of alien plants' has been published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. See also this issue's News & Views for relevant introduction. This paper has also received "Best Paper Award" in Summer Semestser 2023 from Dept. of Biology. Press release about this paper see here in German and in English by Uni of Konstanz, also available in Chinese by co-author Zhijie Zhang.
  • 02 August 2023: Zeng JJ, Liu YJ & van Kleunen M on 'Widely naturalized species are not more promiscuous to different nitrogen forms, but benefit more from inorganic nitrogen' has been accepted for publishing in Biological Invasions. 
  • 01 August 2023: End of Summer Semester 2023 and we say good-bye to our research associate Trevor Fristoe, visiting scholar Marcel Dorken and internship student Mallory Decker. Wishing you all the best in the next stage of your career! 
  • 19 July 2023: Zhang X, van Kleunen M, Chang CL & Liu YJ on 'Soil microbes mediate the effects of resource variability on plant invasion' has been accepted for publication in Ecology. 
  • 18 July 2023: Cai L, Kreft H, Taylor A, Schrader J, Dawson W, Essl F, van Kleunen M, Pergl J, Pyšek P, Winter M & Weigelt P on 'Climatic stability and geological history shape global centers of neo- and paleoendemism in seed plants' has been published on PNAS 
  • 14 July 2023: Zhao ZH, Hui C, Peng S, Yi SG, Li ZH, Reddy GVP & van Kleunen M on 'The world’s 100 worst invasive alien insect species differ in their characteristics from related non-invasive species' has been accepted for publication in Journal of Applied Ecology.
  • 04 July 2023: Rittelmann-Woods E, Lachaise T & van Kleunen M on 'Negative effects of EPDM microplastic and cork granules on plant growth are mitigated by earthworms and likely caused by their structural properties' has been accepted for publishing in Science of The Total Environment (STOTEN). 
  • 17 June 2023: Pyšek P, Lučanová M, Dawson W, Essl F, Kreft H, Leitch IJ, Lenzner B, Meyerson L, Pergl J, van Kleunen M, Weigelt P, Winter M & Guo WY on 'Small genome size and variation in ploidy levels support the naturalization of vascular plants but constrain their invasive spread' has been accepted for publication in New Phytologist. 
  • 16 June 2023: Wilschut RA, Hume BCC, Mamonova E & van Kleunen M on 'Plant-soil feedback effects on conspecific and heterospecific successors of annual and perennial Central European grassland plants are correlated' is now published in Nature Plants
  • 16 June 2023: Li Y, Mamonova E, Köhler N, van Kleunen M & Stift M on 'Breakdown of self-incompatibility due to genetic interaction between a specific S-allele and an unlinked modifier' is now published in Nature Communications. See also Uni Konstanz Press Release 'Vom Fremd- zum Selbstbestäuber' here.
  • 05 June 2023: Pouteau R, van Kleunen M & Strasberg D on "Closely related aliens lead to greater extinction risk" has been accepted for publication in Biological Conservation.
  • 24 May 2023: Muñoz-Mas R, Essl F, van Kleunen M, Seebens H, Dawson W, Casal CMV & García-Berthou E on "Two centuries of spatial and temporal dynamics of freshwater fish introductions" has been accepted for publication in Global Ecology and Biogeography.
  • 11 May 2023: Strubbe D, Jiménez L, Barbosa AM, Davis AJS, Lens L & Rahbek C on 'Mechanistic models project bird invasions with accuracy' has been published in Nature Communications.
  • 2 May 2023: Prof. Marcel Dorken from Trent Uni. Canada is joining us for 3 months (May - July), welcome!
  • 28 April 2023: Freitag M, Hölzel N, Neuenkamp L, van der Plas F, Manning P, Abrahão A, Bergmann J, Boeddinghaus R, Bolliger R, Hamer U, Kandeler E, Kleinebecker T, Knorr KH, Marhan S, Neyret M, Prati D, Le Provost G, Bustamante H, van Kleunen M, Schäfer D & Klaus V on 'Increasing plant species richness by seeding has marginal effects on ecosystem functioning in agricultural grasslands' has been accepted for publication in Journal of Ecology. 
  • 17 April 2023: Liu DJ, Semenchuk P, Essl F, Lenzner B, Moser D, Blackburn TM, Cassey P, Biancolini D, Capinha C, Dawson W, Dyer EE, Guénard B, Economo EP, Kreft H, Pergl J, Pyšek P, van Kleunen M, Nentwig W, Rondinini C, Seebens H, Weigelt P, Winter M, Purvis A & Dullinger S on 'The impact of land use on non-native species incidence and number in local assemblages worldwide' has been published in Nature Communications.
  • 31 March 2023:  We say goodbye to our PhD student Tallulah Gundelach, she will start a new position in Berlin and continue with her thesis there. Wishing her all the best!
  • 21 March 2023: Nature Positive action day! Planting new native species at the north side of ZT building. Here to Instagram-Reel to see the Before & After.  
  • 8 March 2023: we say goodbye to our visiting PhD student Shuya and wish her all the best to finishing remaining study! 
  • 27 February 2023: Photo illustrations of paper 'Cultivated alien plants with high invasion potential are more likely to be traded online in China' has been published in The Bulletin of ESA Also see original paper by Dong R, Dong BC, Fu QY, Yang Q, Dai ZC, Luo FL, Gao JQ, Yu FH & van Kleunen M.  
  • 21 February 2023: Xiaoqi Zhang has joined us as Postdoc. Welcome to the group!
  • 10 February 2023: The EDENE project has officially started this month! This project examines the interactions between endemic trees at risk of extinction and co-occurring invasive alien plants, and Prof. van Kleunen is a member of the research team. See EDENE website for more information. 
  • 10 February 2023: Check out  "Behind the Paper" story by Speißer, Wilschut & van Kleunen in the Ecology & Evolution Community of Nature Portfolio, regarding their work on 'Number of simultaneously acting global change factors affects composition, diversity and productivity of grassland plant communities' original paper here
  • 01 February 2023: Petren H, Thosteman H, Stift M, Torang P, Agren J & Friberg M on 'Differences in mating system and predicted parental conflict affect postzygotic reproductive isolation in a flowering plant' has been accepted for publication in Evolution.
  • 01 February 2023: New member of the group: Amy Davis as Databank Manager. Welcome!!
  • 01 January 2023: Happy New Year!!! Wishing everyone a great start into 2023! In the new year, we say good-bye to Judy and wish her all the best in University of Kassel!
  • 22 December 2022Fristoe TS, Vilela B, Brown JH & Botero C on 'Abundant-core thinking clarifies exceptions to the abundant-center distribution pattern' has been publsihed in Ecography. See also University of Konstanz Press Release
  • 19 December 2022Speißer B, Wilschut RA & van Kleunen M on 'Number of simultaneously acting global change factors affects composition, diversity and productivity of grassland plant communities' has been published in Nature Communications. See also University of Konstanz Press Release
  • 15 December 2022: Dong R, Dong BC, Fu QY, Yang Q, Dai ZC, Luo FL, Gao JQ, Yu FH & van Kleunen M on 'Cultivated alien plants with high invasion potential are more likely to be traded online in China' has been accepted for publication in Ecological Applications. 
  • 09 December 2022: The Nature Positive University network has been launched at COP15 in Montreal, and the University of Konstanz has made the Nature Positive Universities pledge. See launching video here.
  • 05 December 2022: Shi Xiong has joined us as a PhD student. Welcome to the group!
  • 04 December 2022: Holmes R, Pelser P, Barcelona J, Tjitrosoedirdjo SS, Wahyuni I, van Kleunen M, Pyšek P, Essl F, Kreft H, Dawson W, Wijedasa L, Kortz A, Hejda M, Berrio JC, Siregar I & Williams M on 'The naturalized vascular flora of Malesia' has been accepted for publication in Biological Invasion. 
  • 30 November 2022Fristoe TS, Vilela B, Brown JH & Botero C on 'Abundant-core thinking clarifies exceptions to the abundant-center distribution pattern' has been accepted for publication in Ecography.
  • 16 November 2022:  Cai L, Kreft H, Taylor A, Denelle P, Schrader J, Essl F, van Kleunen M, pergl J, Pyšek P, Stein A, Winter M, Barcelona JF, Fuentes N, Inderjit I, Karger D, Kartesz J, Kuprijanov A, Nishino M, Nickrent D, Nowak A, Patzelt A, Pelser P, Singh P, Wieringa J & Weigelt P on 'Global models and predictions of plant diversity based on advanced machine learning techniques' is now published in New Phytologist, also see University of Göttingen Press Release
  • 07 November 2022: Yuan Y, Lin XR, Chen G, van Kleunen M & Li JM on 'Parasitic plants indirectly regulate decomposition of soil organic matter' has been accepted for publication in Functional Ecology. 
  • 24 October 2022: March-Salas M, Scheepens JF, van Kleunen M & Fitze PS on ‘Precipitation predictability affects intra- and trans-generational plasticity and causes differential selection on root traits of Papaver rhoeas’ has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Plant Science.
  • 17 October 2022: Lenzner B et al (inc. Yang Q & van Kleunen M ) on 'Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism' has been published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. See also University of Konstanz press release
  • 14 October 2022: Zhang ZJ, Liu YJ, Hardrath A, Jin HF & van Kleunen M on 'Increases in multiple resources promote competitive ability of naturalized non-native plants' has been accepted for publication in Communications Biology.
  • 07 October 2022: Yuan L, Li JM & van Kleunen M on 'Competition induces negative conspecific allelopathic effects on seedling recruitment' has been accepted for publication in Annals of Botany.
  • 04 October 2022: Rashmi Paudel has joined us as a PhD student. Welcome to the group!
  • 30 September 2022: Cai et al. on 'Global models and predictions of plant diversity based on advanced machine learning techniques' has been accepted for publication in New Phytologist.
  • 15 September 2022: Kinlock et al. on 'An ecological and evolutionary perspective of the historical United States nursery flora' has been accepted for publication in Plants, People, Planet.
  • 29 August 2022: Kailing Huang has joined us as a PhD student. Welcome to the group!
  • 22 August 2022: Cai et al. on 'Implications of climate change for environmental niche overlap between five Cuscuta pest species and their two main Leguminosae host crop species' has been published in Weed Science. 
  • 11 August 2022: Omer et al. on 'The role of phylogenetic relatatedness on alien plant success depends on the stage of invasion' has been published in Nature Plants.
  • 29 July 2022: We say goodbye to Rutger and wish him all the best!
  • 29 July 2022: Razanajatovo et al. on 'Floral visitation to alien plants is non-linearly related to their phylogenetic and floral similarity to native plants' has been accepted for publication in Funtional Ecology.
  • 15 July 2022: Guo et al. on 'ruderals naturalize, competitors invade: varying roles of plant adaptive strategies along the invasion continuum' has been accepted for publication in Functional Ecology.
  • 15 July 2022: Fang-Wei Lin has joined us as the new secretary. Welcome to the group!
  • 6 July 2022: Bach et al. on phylogenetic composition of native island floras influences naturalized alien species richness has been accepted for publication in Ecography.
  • 23 June 2022: Adam et al.'s call for integrating future patterns of biodiversity into European conservation policy has been accepted for publication in Conservation Letters.
  • 23 May 2022: Apostooakis et al. on direct and plant community mediated effects of management intensity on annual nutrient leaching risk in temperate grasslands has been accepted for publication in Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems.
  • 19 May 2022: We have an open part-time postdoc/database-manager position, and are looking for excellent candidates with an interest in the macro-ecology of plant invasions. See, the advertisement here
  • 7 May 2022: We have an open PhD position, and are looking for excellent candidates with an interest in the macro-ecology of plant invasions. See, the advertisement here
  • 7 May 2022: We are looking for a new secretary to join our group. See the advertisement here.
  • 30 April 2022: Chen D & van Kleunen M (2022) Invasional meltdown mediated by plant-soil feedbacks may depend on community diversity. New Phytologist accepted.
  • 27 April 2022: We say goodbye to Karo, Ali and Zihua, and wish them all the best!
  • 1 April 2022: Christa has left the group and is now working in the linguistics department
  • 1 April 2022: Chen D & van Kleunen M (2022) Competitive effects of plant invaders on and their responses to native species assemblages change over time. Neobiota, accepted.
  • 1 April 2022: Shuya Fan has joined us as a PhD student. Welcome to the group!
  • Jacqueline has handed in her Master thesis. Congratulations!
  • 15 March 2022Ali has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
  • 9 March 2022: Weihan Zhao has now started his PhD in our group
  • 21 February 2022Kinlock NL, Dehnen-Schmutz K, Essl F, Pergl J, Pyšek P, Kreft H, Weigelt P, Yang Q & van Kleunen M (2022) Introduction history mediates naturalization and invasiveness of cultivated plants. Global Ecology and Biogeography accepted.
  • 21 February 2022: Buchenau N, van Kleunen M & Wilschut RA (2022) Direct and legacy-mediated drought effects on plant performance are species-specific and depend on soil community composition. Oikos accepted.
  • 10 February 2022: Ibrahim A, Höckendorff S, Schleheck D, Epp L, van Kleunen M & Meyer A (2022) Vegetation changes over the last centuries in the Lower Lake Constance region reconstructed from sediment-core environmental DNA. Environmental DNA, accepted.
  • 10 February 2022: We are offering a 50% secretarial position in the Ecology Group. See the job advertisement here.
  • 10 February 2022: Wei GW & van Kleunen M (2022) Soil heterogeneity tends to promote growth of naturalized aliens when competing with native plant communities was accepted by Journal of Ecology.
  • 02 February 2022: Lachaise T, Bergmann J, Hoelzel N, Klaus V, Kleinebecker T, Rillig MC & van Kleunen M (2022) Soil conditions drive belowground trait space in temperate agricultural grasslands was accepted by Journal of Ecology.
  • 31 January 2022: Li Y, Gao Y,  van Kleunen M and Liu Y (2022) Herbivory may mediate the effects of nutrients on the dominance of alien plants. Functional ecology, accepted manuscript.
  • 31 January 2022: We say goodbye to Qiang and Yanran, who have left our group. Qiang is starting his new job in February at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig.
  • 24 January 2022: Hancock S, Essl F, Kraak MJ, Dawson W, Kreft H, Pysek P, Pergl J, van Kleunen M, Weigelt P, Winter M, Gartner G, Lenzner B (2022) Introducing the Combined Atlas Framework for large-scale web-based data visualization - The GloNAF Atlas of Plant Invasion has been accepted in "Methods in Ecology and Evolution".
  • 11 January 2022: Liu MC, Dong TF, Feng WW, Qu B, Kong DL, van Kleunen M, Feng YL (2022) Leaf trait differences between 97 pairs of invasive and native plants across China: effects of identities of both the invasive and native species. NeoBiota 71: 1-22. (DOI: 10.3897/neobiota.71.71385)
  • 15 December 2021: Yang, Q., Weigelt, P., Fristoe, T.S., Zhang, Z., Kreft, H. Stein, A., Seebens, H., Dawson, W., Essl, F., König, C., Lenzner, B., Pergl, J., Pouteau, R., Pyšek, P., Winter, M., Ebel, A.L., Fuentes, N., Giehl, E.L.H., Kartesz, J., Krestov, P., Kukk, T., Nishino, M., Kupriyanov, A., Villaseñor, J.L., Wieringa, J.J., Zeddam, A., Zykova, E., van Kleunen, M. The global loss of floristic uniqueness. Nature Communications 12, 7290 (2021). www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27603-y.

    See also Universität Konstanz press release: www.uni-konstanz.de/en/university/news-and-media/current-announcements/press-releases/press-releases-in-detail/floren-verlieren-weltweit-an-einzigartigkeit/

  • 06 December 2021: Patzelt A, Pyšek P, Pergl J & van Kleunen M (2021) Alien flora of Oman: invasion status, taxonomic composition, habitats, origin, and pathways of introduction. Biological Invasions accepted
  • 08 November 2021: Tinah V. Martin, Hanitra Rakotonirina, Veronarindra Ramananjato, Lalao A. Ravaoarinorotsihoarana, Onja H. Razafindratsima, Mialy Razanajatovo, Ny Riavo G. Voarintsoa (alphabetical order). "Assessing the challenges and initiatives to increase women’s integration into science in Madagascar" was accepted by Madagascar Conservation & Development.
  • 27 October 2021: Yuan L, Li J & van Kleunen M (2021) Diversity of resident plant communities could weaken their allelopathic resistance
    against alien and native invaders. Biological Invasions accepted.
  • 25 October 2021: March-Salas M, van Kleunen M & Fitze PS (2021) Effects of intrinsic precipitation-predictability on root traits, allocation strategies, and the selective regimes acting on them. Oikos, accepted.
  • 14 October 2021: Rodger JG, Bennett JM, Razanajatovo M, Knight TM, van Kleunen M, Ashman T-L, Steets JA, Hui C, Arceo-Gómez G, Burd M, Burkle LA, Burns JH, Durka W, Freitas L, Kemp JE, Li J, Pauw A, Vamosi JC, Wolowski M, Xia J, Ellis AG (2021) Widespread vulnerability of plant seed production to pollinator declines. Science Advances 7:eabd3524. (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd3524) has been published. See also Universität Konstanz press release.
  • 06 October 2021: Pouteau R, Brunel C, Dawson W, Essl F, Kreft H, Lenzner B, Meyer C, Pergl J, Pyšek P, Seebens H, Weigelt P, Winter M & van Kleunen M (2021) Environmental and socioeconomic correlates of extinction risk in endemic species. Diversity and Distributions accepted.
  • 06 October 2021: Tom has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!!!