Publications in the area of the research focus Forest Water Dynamics in Climate Change
| 2025 |
| Ebeling, P., Musolff, A., Kumar, R., Hartmann, A., Fleckenstein, J. H. (2025). Groundwater head responses to droughts across Germany. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 29, 2925–2950. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-29-2925-2025 |
| Eltner, A., Favis-Mortlock, D., Grothum, O., Neumann, M., Laburda, T., Kavka P. (2025). Using 3D observations with high spatio-temporal resolution to calibrate and evaluate a process-focused cellular automaton model of soil erosion by water. SOIL 11, 413–434. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-2648 |
| Grünwald, T., Wanner, L., Eichelmann, U., Hehn, M., Moderow, U., Prasse, H., Queck, R., Bernhofer, C., Mauder, M. (2025). Carbon fluxes controlled by land management and disturbances at a cluster of long-term ecosystem monitoring sites in Central Europe. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 369, 110533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110533 |
| International Tree Mortality Network, Senf, C., Esquivel‐Muelbert, A., Pugh, T.A., Anderegg, W.R., Anderson‐Teixeira, K.J., ..., van der Maaten, E. & van der Maaten‐Theunissen, M. (2025). Towards a global understanding of tree mortality. New Phytologist 245: 2377-2392. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20407 |
| Julich, S., Azekenova, A., Wordell-Dietrich, P., Schäfferling, R., Koller, A., Kniesel, B., Petrik, P., Fontenla-Razzetto, G., Zeh, L., Feger, K.-H., von Oheimb, G., Kalbitz, K. (2025) Theoretical and methodological framework for monitoring feedback mechanisms between soil moisture dynamics, soil organic matter and deadwood in forests. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, http://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.12008. |
| Kranz, J., Bauer, K., Pampanoni, V., Zhao, L., Marrs, C., Mauder, M., Poděbradská, M., van der Maaten-Theunissen, M., Yebra, M., Forkel, M. (2025). Assessing predictors for fuel moisture content in Central European forests. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 371, 110590. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110590 |
| Zamboni, P., Blümlein, M., Lenz, J., Goncaves, W., Marcato Jr., J., Wöhling, T., Eltner, A. (2025). Measuring water ponding time, location and connectivity on soil surfaces using time-lapse images and deep learning. Catena 254, 108919. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2025.108919 |
| Zamboni, P., Blanch, X., Marcato Jr., J., Goncalves, W., Eltner, A. (2025). Do we need to label large datasets for river water segmentation? Benchmark and stage estimation with minimum to non-labeled image time series. International Journal of Remote Sensing 46(7), 2719-2747. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2025.2457131 |
| 2024 |
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Beetz, K., Marrs, C., Busse, A., Poděbradská, M., Kinalczyk, D., Kranz, J., Forkel, M. (2024). Effects of bark beetle disturbance and fuel types on fire radiative power and burn severity in the Bohemian-Saxon Switzerland. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research, cpae024, https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpae024 |
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Blanch, X., Guinau, M., Eltner, A., Abellan, A. (2024): A cost-effective image-based system for 3D geomorphic monitoring: An application to rockfalls. Geomorphology, 449, 109065. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2024.109065 |
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Braziunas, K.H., Geres, L., Richter, T., ...Seibold, S., Seidl, R. (2024). Projected climate and canopy change lead to thermophilization and homogenization of forest floor vegetation in a hotspot of plant species richness. Global Change Biology 30(1), e17121. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17121 |
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Finckh, S., Carmona, E., Borchardt, D., ...Yang, S., Brack, W. (2024). Mapping chemical footprints of organic micropollutants in European streams. Environment International 183, 108371. DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2023.108371 |
| Jevšenak, J., Klisz, M., Mašek, J., Čada, V., Janda, P., Svoboda, M., Vostarek, O., Treml, V., van der Maaten, E., Popa, A., Popa, I., van der Maaten-Theunissen, M., …., Schuldt, B., … et al. (2024). Incorporating high-resolution climate, remote sensing and topographic data to map annual forest growth in central and eastern Europe. Science of the Total Environment 913, 169692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169692 |
| Klesse, S., Peters, R., Alfaro-Sanchez, R., ..., van der Maaten, E., van der Maaten-Theunissen, M., Vannoppen, A., Vasickova, I., von Arx, G., Wilmking, M., Weigel, R., Zlatanov, T., Zang, C. & Buras, A. (2024). No future growth enhancement expected at the northern edge for European beech due to continued water limitation. Global Change Biology 30: e17546. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17546 |
| Krüger, R., Karrasch, P., Eltner, A. (2024). Calibrating low-cost rain gauge sensors for their applications in Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructures to densify environmental monitoring networks. Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods & Data Systems 13, 163–176. https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-13-163-2024 |
| Leifsson, C., Buras, A., Klesse, S., Baittinger, C., Bat-Enerel, B., Battipaglia, G., Biondi, F., Stajić, B., Budeanu, M., Čada, V., Camarero, J.J., Cavin, L., Claessens, H., Čufar, K., de Luis, M., Dorado-Liñán, I., Dulamsuren, C., Garamszegi, B., Grabner, M. Hacket-Pain, A., Hansen, J.K., Hartl, C., Huang, W., Janda, P., Jump, A.S., Kazimirović, M., Knutzen, F., Kreyling, J., Land, A., Latte, N., Lebourgeois, F., Leuschner, C., Longares, L.A., del Castillo, E.M., Menzel, A., Motta, R., Muffler-Weigel, L., Nola, P., Panayatov, M., Petritan, A.M., Petritan, I.C., Popa, I., Roibu, C.C., Rubio-Cuadrado, Á., Rydval, M., Scharnweber, T., Svoboda, M., Toromani, E., Trotsiuk, V., van der Maaten-Theunissen, M., van der Maaten, E., Weigel, R., Wilmking, M., Zlatanov, T., Rammig, A. & Zang, C. (2024). Identifying drivers of non-stationary climate-growth relationships of European beech. Science of the Total Environment: 173321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173321 |
| Liu, X., Neigh, C.S.R., Pardini, M., Forkel, M. (2024). Estimating forest height and above-ground biomass in tropical forests using P-band TomoSAR and GEDI observations. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 45, Issue 9. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2024.2343134 |
| Manfreda, S., Miglino, D., Saddi, K. C., Jomaa, S., Eltner, A., Perks, M., Pena, S., Bogaard, T., van Emmerik, T., Mariani, S., Maddock, I., Tauro, F., Grimaldi, S., Zeng, Y., Gonçalves, G., Strelnikova, D., Bussettini, M., Marchetti, G., lastoria, B, Su, Z., Rode, M. (2024): Advancing hydrological monitoring using image-based techniques: challenges and opportunities. Hydrological Sciences Journal. http://dx.doi.org/10.31223/X50M5H |
| Nakulopa, F., Bärlund, I., Borchardt, D. (2024). How a reservoir modulates downstream water quality under declining upstream loading and progressing climate change. Science of the Total Environment, 912, 169460. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169460 |
| Popa, A., van der Maaten, E., Popa, I., van der Maaten-Theunissen, M. (2024). Early warning signals indicate climate change-induced stress in Norway spruce in the Eastern Carpathians. Science of the Total Environment 912, 169167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169167 |
| Ramos, R.L., Shirdast, S., Aliaskari, M., ...Lerch, A., Schäfer, A.I. (2024). Nitrogen compounds removal from brackish water by electrodialysis at fixed electric potential and dynamic current density operations. Water Research 250, 121016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2023.121016 |
| Robinson, D.G., Ammer, C., Polle, A., ...Wagner, S., Henriksson, N., Näsholm, T. (2024). Mother trees, altruistic fungi, and the perils of plant personification. Trends in Plant Science 29(1), 20–31. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2023.08.010 |
| Wolff, F., Lotsari, E., Spieler, D., Elias, M., Eltner, A. (2024). Enhancement of two-dimensional hydrodynamic modelling based on UAV- flow velocity. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 49(9), 2736-2750. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.5853 |
| 2023 |
| Bevacqua, E., Suarez-Gutierrez, L., Jézéquel, A., Lehner, F., Vrac, M., Yiou, P. and Zscheischler, J. (2023). Advancing research on compound weather and climate events via large ensemble model simulations. Nature Communications 14(1), 2145. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37847-5 |
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Fu, J., Jian, Y., Wang, X., Li, L., Ciais, P., Zscheischler, J., Wang, Y., Tang, Y., Müller, C., Webber, H., Yang, B., Wu, Y., Wang, Q., Cui, X., Huang, W., Liu, Y., Zhao, P., Piao, S. and Zhou, F. (2023). Extreme rainfall reduces one-twelfth of China’s rice yield over the last two decades. Nature Food 4, 416–426. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00753-6 |
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García-García, A., Cuesta-Valero, F.J., Miralles, D.G. Mahecha, M. D., Quaas, J., Reichstein, M., Zscheischler, J. and Peng, J. (2023). Soil heat extremes can outpace air temperature extremes. Nat. Clim. Chang. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01812-3 |
| Gu, L., Yin, J., Gentine, P., Wang, H.M., Slater, L.J., Sullivan, S.C., Chen, J., Zscheischler, J. and Guo, S. (2023). Large anomalies in future extreme precipitation sensitivity driven by atmospheric dynamics. Nature Communications 14 (1), 3197. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39039-7 |
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Huggins, X., Gleeson, T., Serrano, D., Zipper, S., Jehn, F., Rohde, M. M., Abell, R. Vigerstol, K. and Hartmann, A. (2023). Overlooked risks and opportunities in groundwatersheds of the world’s protected areas. Nature Sustainability 6: 855–864. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01086-9 |
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Isasa, E., Link, R.M., Jansen, S., Tezeh, F.R., Kaack, L., Sarmento Cabral, J. and Schuldt, B. (2023). Addressing controversies in the xylem embolism resistance – vessel diameter relationship. New Phytologist 238: 283-296. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18731 |
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Kriegel, P., Vogel, S., Angeleri, R., Borken, W., Bussler, H., Bouget, C., Brin, A., Cocciufa, C., Feldmann, B., Gossner, M.M., Haeler, E., Hagge, J., Hardersen, S., Hartmann, H., Hjältén, J., Kotowska, M.M., Lachat, T., Larrieu, L., Leverkus, A.B., Mitesser, O., Müller, J., Obermaier, E., Parisi, F., Pelz, S., Schuldt, B., Seibold, S., Stengel, E., Sverdrup-Thygeson, A., Weisser, W. and Thorn, S. (2023). Ambient and substrate energy influence decomposer community diversity differentially across trophic levels. Ecology Letters 7: 1157-1173. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14227 |
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Li, W., Pacheco-Labrador, J., Migliavacca, M., Miralles, D., Hoek van Dijke, A., Reichstein, M., Forkel, M., Zhang, W., Frankenberg, C., Panwar, A., Zhang, Q., Weber, U., Gentine, P., and Orth, R. (2023). Widespread and complex drought effects on vegetation physiology inferred from space. Nature Communications, 14, 4640. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40226-9 |
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Li, X., Piao, S., Huntingford, C., Peñuelas, J., Yang, H., Xu, H., Chen, A., Friedlingstein, P., Keenan, T. F., Sitch, S., Wang, X., Zscheischler, J. and Mahecha, M. D. (2023). Global variations in critical drought thresholds that impact vegetation. Natl Sci Rev. 10(5): nwad049. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwad049 |
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Mukherjee, S., Mishra, A.K., Zscheischler, J. and Entekhabi, D. (2023). Interaction between dry and hot extremes at a global scale using a cascade modeling framework. Nature Communications 14(1), 277. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35748-7 |
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Müller, J., Hothorn, T., Yuan, Y., Seibold, S., Mitesser, O., Rothacher, J., Freund, J., Wild, C., Wolz, M. & Menzel, A. (2023). Weather explains the decline and rise of insect biomass over 34 years. Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06402-z |
| Müller, J., Mitesser, O., Cadotte, M.W., van der Plas, F., Mori, A., Ammer, C., Chao, A., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Petr Baldrian, M., Bässler, C., Biedermann, P., Cesarz, S., Claßen, A., Delory, B.M., Feldhaar, H., Fichtner, A., Hothorn, T., Kuenzer, C., Peters, M.K., Pierick, K., Schmitt, T., Schuldt, B., Seidel, D., Six, D., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Thorn, S., von Oheimb, G., Wegmann, M., Weisser, W.W. and Eisenhauer, N. (2023). Enhancing the structural diversity between forest patches - a concept and real-world experiment to study biodiversity, multifunctionality and forest resilience across spatial scales. Global Change Biology 29: 1437-1450. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16564 |
| Ryabov, A., Berger, U., Blasius, B. and Meyer, B. (2023). Driving forces of Antarctic krill abundance. Sciences Advances, accepted. |
| 2022 |
| Arend, M., Link, R.M., Zahnd, C., Hoch, G., Schuldt, B. and Kahmen, A. (2022). Lack of hydraulic recovery as cause of post-drought foliage reduction and canopy deterioration in European beech. New Phytologist 234: 1195-1205. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18065 |
| Bevacqua, E., Zappa, G., Lehner, F. and Zscheischler, J. (2022). Precipitation trends determine future occurrences of compound hot–dry events. Nature Climate Change 12, 350–355 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01309-5 |
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Hajek, P., Link, R.M., Nock, C., Bauhus, J., Gebauer, T., Gessler, A., Kovach, K., Messier, C., Paquette, A., Saurer, M., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Rose, L. and Schuldt, B. (2022). Mutually inclusive mechanisms of drought-induced tree mortality. Global Change Biology 28: 3365-3378. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16146 |
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Li, W., Migliavacca, M., Forkel, M., Denissen, J. M. C., Reichstein, M., Yang, H., Duveiller, G., Weber, U., and Orth, R. (2022). Widespread increasing vegetation sensitivity to soil moisture. Nature Communications, 13, 3959. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31667-9 |
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Mahnken, M., Cailleret, M., Collalti, A., Trotta, C., Biondo, C., D’Andrea, E., Dalmonech, D., Marano, G., Mäkelä, A., Minunno, F., Peltoniemi, M., Trotsiuk, V., Nadal-Sala, D., Sabaté, S., Vallet, P., Aussenac, R., Cameron, D.R., Bohn, F.J., Grote, R., Augustynczik, A.L.D., Yousefpour, R., Huber, N., Bugmann, H., Merganicova, K., Merganic, J., Valent, P., Lasch-Born, P., Hartig, F., Vega del Valle, I.D., Volkholz, J., Gutsch, M., Matteucci, G., Krejza, J., Ibrom, A., Meesenburg, H., Rötzer, T., van der Maaten-Theunissen, M., van der Maaten, E. and Reyer, C.P.O. (2022). Accuracy, realism and general applicability of European forest models. Global Change Biology 28: 6921-6943. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16384 |
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Maurischat, P., Lehnert, L. W., Zerres, V. H. D., Tran, T. V., Kalbitz, K., Rinnan, Å., Li, X. G., Dorji, T. and Guggenberger, G. (2022). The glacial–terrestrial–fluvial pathway: A multiparametrical analysis of spatiotemporal dissolved organic matter variation in three catchments of Lake Nam Co, Tibetan Plateau. The Science of The Total Environment 838(Pt 4):156542. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.156542 |
| 2021 |
| Arend, M., Link, R.M., Patthey, R., Hoch, G., Schuldt, B. and Kahmen, A. (2021) Rapid hydraulic collapse as cause of drought-induced mortality in conifers. PNAS 118: e2025251118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2025251118 |
| Bettermann, A., Zethof, J.H.T., Babin, D., Cammeraat, E.L.H., Solé-Benet, A., Lázaro, R., Luna, L., Nesme, J., Sørensen, S.J., Kalbitz, K., Smalla, K. and Vogel, C. (2021). Importance of microbial communities at the root-soil interface for extracellular polymeric substances and soil aggregation in semiarid grasslands. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 159, 108301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108301 |
| Bongers, F.J., Schmid, B., Bruelheide, H., Bongers, F., Li, S., von Oheimb, G., Li, Y., Cheng, A., Ma, K. and Liu, X. (2021). Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5: 1594–1603. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34737435/. |
| Fuchs, S., Leuschner, C., Link, R.M. and Schuldt, B. (2021). Hydraulic variability of three broadleaved temperate tree species along a precipitation gradient in Central Germany. New Phytologist 231: 1387-1400. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17448 |
| Kaack, L., Weber, M., Isasa, E., Karimi, Z., Li, S., Pereira, L., Trabi, C., Zhang, Y., Schenk, H.J., Schuldt, B., Schmidt, V. and Jansen, S, (2021). Pore constrictions in intervessel pit membranes reduce the risk of embolism spreading in angiosperm xylem. New Phytologist 230: 1829-1843. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17282 |
| Poyatos, R., Granda, V., Flo, V., Adams, M.A., Adorján, B., Aguadé, D., ...... , Schuldt, B., ..., and Martínez-Vilalta, J. (2021). Global transpiration data from sap flow measurements: the SAPFLUXNET database Journal. Earth System Science Data 13: 2607-2649. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2607-2021 |
| Schnabel, F., Liu, X., Kunz, M., Barry, K.E., Bongers, F.J., Bruelheide, H., Fichtner, A., Härdtle, W., Li, S., Pfaff, C.T., Schmid, B., Schwarz, J.A., Tang, Z., Yang, B., Bauhus, J., von Oheimb, G., Ma, K. and Wirth, C. (2021). Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment. Science Advances 7: eabk 1643. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abk1643 |
| 2020 |
| Feldbauer, J., Kneis, D., Hegewald, T., Berendonk, T.U. and Petzoldt, T. (2020). Managing climate change in drinking water reservoirs: potentials and limitations of dynamic withdrawal strategies. Environmental Sciences Europe 32, 48. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12302-020-00324-7 |
| García-Jaramillo, M., Trippe, K.M., Helmus, R., Knicker, H.E., Cox, L., Hermosín, M.C., Parsons, J.R., Kalbitz, K. (2020). An examination of the role of biochar and biochar water-extractable substances on the sorption of ionizable herbicides in rice paddy soils. Science of the Total Environment 706, 135682. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.135682 |
| Kattge, J., Bönisch, G., Díaz, S., Lavorel, S., Prentice, I.C., Leadley, P., Tautenhahn, S., Werner, G., ... , Schuldt B, ... , Christian Wirth (2020). TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology 26: 119-188. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14904 |