Functional Plant Ecology

Sperandii, M. G., Bazzichetto, M., Götzenberger, L., Moretti, M. , Achury, R., Blüthgen, N. , Fischer, M., Hölzel, N., Klaus, V. H., Kleinebecker, T. Neff, F., Prati, D., Bolliger, R., Seibold, S., Simons, N. K., Staab, M., Weisser, W. W., de Bello, F., Gossner M. M., 2025: "Functional traits mediate the effect of land use on drivers of community stability within and across trophic levels." Science Advances 11(4): eadp6445.  

Hoenle, P.O., Schumacher, N.C., Fibich, P., Posman, A., Biul, M., Klimes, P., 2025: Competition for food and nesting resources in arboreal ant communities is higher in lowland than in mid-elevation rainforests. Myrmecological News 35: 73-87.  

Gracia, C., Lisner, A., Applová, M., Chondol, T., Dolejšek, V., Janíková, E., Karpate, Y., Konečná, M., Papatheodoulou, A., Pedrós, L., Švancárová, T., Lepš, J., & Segrestin, J. , 2025: Plant diversity loss has limited effects on below-ground biomass and traits but alters community short-term root production in a species-rich grassland. Journal of Ecology, 00, 1–10.  

Lepš, J. & Lisner, A., 2025: Resistance and Resilience of Species Composition: Thirty Years of Experimental Mismanagement and Subsequent Restoration in a Species Rich Meadow. Ecology and Evolution, 2025; 15:e70923  

Altmanová, N., Fibich, P., Doležal, J., ..., Altman J , 2025: Spatial heterogeneity of tree-growth responses to climate across temperate forests in Northeast Asia. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology: 110355.  

Pärtel, M., Tamme, R., Carmona, C. P., Riibak, K., Moora, M., … Janíková, E., Konečná, M., Lisner, A., … & Zobel, M., 2025: Global impoverishment of natural vegetation revealed by dark diversity. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08814-5  

Klára Klinkovská, Marta Gaia Sperandii, Ilona Knollová, Jiří Danihelka, Michal Hájek, Petra Hájková, Zdenka Hroudová, Martin Jiroušek, Jan Lepš, Jana Navrátilová, Tomáš Peterka, Petr Petřík, Karel Prach, Klára Řehounková, Jaroslav Rohel, Vojtěch Sobotka, Michal Vávra, Helge Bruelheide, Milan Chytrý, 2025: Half a Century of Temperate Non-Forest Vegetation Changes: No Net Loss in Species Richness, but Considerable Shifts in Taxonomic and Functional Composition. - Global Change Biology, 31:e70030.  

Košnar, J., Šmilauer, P., Šmilauerová, M., 2025: Arbuscular and fine root- endophytic mycorrhizal fungi forage differently for nutrients in a seminatural temperate grassland. Biology and Fertility of Soils 61: 773–790. doi: 10.1007/s00374-025-01891-8  

de Bello, F., Fischer, F. M., Puy, J., Shipley, B., Verdú, M., Götzenberger, L., Lavorel, S., Moretti, M., Wright, I. J., Berg, M. P., Carmona, C. P., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Dias, A. T. C., Gibb, H., Leps, J., Segrestin, J., Sobral, M., Zanne, A. E., & Garnier, E. , 2025: Raunkiæran shortfalls: Challenges and perspectives in trait‐based ecology. Ecological Monographs, 95(2), e70018.  

Segrestin, J., Lisner, A., Götzenberger, L., Hájek, T., Janíková, E., Jílková, V., Konečná, M., Švancárová, T., & Lepš, J. , 2025: Biodiversity loss disrupts seasonal carbon dynamics in a species‐rich temperate grassland. Ecology, 106(5), e70091.  

Souto-Vilarós, D., Basset, Y., Blažek, P., Laird-Hopkins, B., Segar, S. T., Navarro-Valencia, E., Zamora, A. C., Campusano, Y., Čtvrtečka, R., Savage, A. F., Pere,z F., Lopez, Y., Bobadilla, R., Ramírez Silva, J. A., & Lamarre, G. P. A. , 2024: Illuminating arthropod diversity in a tropical forest: Assessing biodiversity by automatic light trapping and DNA metabarcoding. Environmental DNA 6: e540.  

Alida A. Hábenczyus, Iva Weiterová, Kacper Foremnik, Aljaž Jakob, Siddharth Khopkar, Agnishikhe Kumar, Anamaria Lazăr, Bruno Paganeli, Kenz Raouf Samraoui, Jeni Sidwell, Jan Hrček, Jan Lepš, Jules Segrestin, 2024: Long-term effects of meadow management on seed bank diversity and composition. Journal of Vegetation Science, 35,e13282  

Bezděčková, K., Bezděčka, P., Fibich, P., Klimeš, P., 2024: Different feeding preferences for macronutrients across seasons and sites indicate temporal and spatial nutrient limitation in the black bog ant. Oecologia  

Bazzichetto, M., Sperandii, M.G., Penone, C., Keil, P., Allan, E., Lepš, J., Prati, D., Fischer, M., Bolliger, R., Gossner, M. and de Bello, F., , 2024: Biodiversity promotes resistance but dominant species shape recovery of grasslands under extreme drought. Journal of Ecology  

Lisner, A., Segrestin, J., Konečná, M., Blažek, P., Janíková, E., Applová, M., Švancárová, T., & Lepš, J., 2024: Why are plant communities stable? Disentangling the role of dominance, asynchrony and averaging effect following realistic species loss scenario. Journal of Ecology. http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14364  

Knollová, I., Chytrý, M., Bruelheide, H., ... de Bello, F., .. Dolezal, J., ... Lepš, J., ... Mudrák, O... Prach, K., .. Šmilauer, P., Šmilauerová M. .... , 2024: ReSurveyEurope: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe. - Journal of Vegetation Science,  

Dolezal, J., Fibich, P., Altman, J., Takahashi, K., Hara, T., 2024: Diversity effects and compensatory dynamics drive productivity and stability in temperate old-growth forests. Journal of Ecology  

Pan, X., Ferris, N.D., Applová, M., Gresse, J., Iamba, K.S., Khum, W., Švancárová, T. Wipulasena, A. Y. Ayesh Piyar, Hrcek, J., Lepš, J. , 2024: The convex relationship between plant cover and biomass: Implications for assessing species and community properties. Journal of Vegetation Science, 35, e13288.  

Sohar, K., Altman, J., Kopecký, M., Pejcha, V., Rai, S., Fibich, P., Dolezal, J., 2024: Elevational variations in climate warming impacts on West Himalayan fir growth. Climate Dynamics  

Lipoma, L., Kambach, S., Díaz, S., Sabatini, F. M., Damasceno, G., Kattge, J., Wirth, C., Abella, S.R., Beierkuhnlein, C., Belote, T. R., Bernhardt-Römermann, M., Craven, D., Dolezal, J., Eisenhauer, N., Isbell, F., Jentsch, A., Kreyling, J., Lanta, V., Le Stradic, S., Leps, J., … Bruelheide, H. , 2024: No general support for functional diversity enhancing resilience across terrestrial plant communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 00, e13895.  

Albert, Á.-J., Götzenberger, L., Jongepierová, I., Konečná, M., Lőkkösné-Kelbert, B., Májeková, M., Mudrák, O., Klimešová, J., 2021: Restoration of ecosystem functions: Seed production in restored and ancient grasslands  

Valencia, E., de Bello, F., Galland, T., ... Götzenberger, L. , 2020: Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  

E‐Vojtkó, A, de Bello, F, Durka, W, Kühn, I, Götzenberger, L. , 2020: Leaf trait records of vascular plant species in the Pannonian flora with special focus on endemics and rarities. Folia Geobotanica