Listed are articles published by group members while at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt. For all publications by specific group members, see individual group member pages.

Peer-reviewed publications

Thoma AE, Lekberg Y, Nagy DU, Sheng M, Welk E, Rosche C (2025) Progress and future directions of biogeographical comparisons of plant–fungal interactions in invasion contexts. New Phytologist. Link

Sacristán-Bajo S, Lara-Romero C, García-Fernández A, Prieto-Benítez S, Morente-López J, Rubio Teso ML, Torres E, Iriondo JM (2025). Assisted gene flow management to climate change in the annual legume Lupinus angustifolius L.: from phenotype to genotype. Evolutionary Applications. Link 

Orihuela-Rivero R, Morente-López J, Reyes-Betancort JA, Schaefer H, Valido A, Menezes de Sequeira M, Romeiras MM, Góis-Marques CA, Salas-Pascual M, Vanderpoorten A, Fernández-Palacios JM, Patiño J (2025). Geographic and biological drivers shape Anthropogenic extinctions in the Macaronesian vascular flora. Global Change Biology. 31(2), e70072. Link 

Lanuza JB, Knight TM, Montes-Perez N, Glenny W, … Morente-López J, … Bartomeus I (2025). EuPPollNet: A European database of plant-pollinator networks. Global Ecology and Biogeography.  34(2), e70000. Link

Runnel K, Tedersoo L, Krah F - S, Piepenbring M, Scheepens JF, Hollert H, Johann S, Meyer N, Bässler C (2025) Toward harnessing biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships in fungi. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, accepted. Link

Møller C, De Frenne P, March-Salas M, Scheepens JF (2024). Local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity in two forest understory herbs in response to forest management intensity. AoB Plants, plae061. Link

Karitter P, Corvers E, Karrenbauer M, March-Salas M, Stojanova B, Ensslin A, Rauschkolb R, Godefroid S, Scheepens JF (2024). Evolution of competitive ability and the response to nutrient availability: a resurrection study with the calcareous grassland herb, Leontodon hispidus. Oecologia, accepted.

Morales-Armijo F, Sobrevilla-Covarrubias A, Estrada-Castillón E, Escudero A, Scheepens JF, Lorite J, March-Salas M (2024). Climbing route development affects cliff vascular plants more than subsequent climbing: A guide to evidence-based conservation management to regulate climbing. Journal of Applied Ecology. 61:11.2679-2689. Link

Przybylska MS, Violle C, Vile D, Scheepens JF, Munoz F, Tenllado A, Vinyeta M, Le Roux X, & Vasseur F (2024) Can plants build their niche through modulation of soil microbial activites linked with nitrogen cycling? A test with Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytologist, 243:2.620-635. Link

Karitter P, March-Salas M, Ensslin A, Rauschkolb R, Godefroid S, & Scheepens JF (2024). Combining the resurrection approach with transplant experiments to investigate adaptation of plant populations to environmental change. Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics, 62, 125773. Link

March-Salas M, Lorite J, Bossdorf O, & Scheepens JF (2023). Cliffs as priority ecosystems. Conservation Biology, e14166. Link

Springer K, Coquery T, Holland V, Fitze, PS, Scheepens JF, & March-Salas M (2023). Precipitation predictability drives evolution of drought tolerance in the common poppy, Papaver rhoeas. Functional Ecology. Link

Møller C, De Frenne P, March-Salas M; Vanneste T, Verheyen K & Scheepens JF (2023). Forest management drives evolution of understorey herbs. Forest Ecology and Management, 548, 121390. Link

March-Salas M; Morales-Armijo F; Hernández-Agüero JA; Estrada-Castillón E; Sobrevilla-Covarrubias A; Arévalo JR; Scheepens JF & Lorite J (2023). Rock climbing affects cliff-plant communities by reducing species diversity and altering species coexistence patterns. Biodiversity and Conservation 31:1617-1638. Link

Møller C, March-Salas M, Kuppler J, De Frenne P, Scheepens JF (2023) Intra-individual variation in Galium odoratum is affected by experimental drought and shading. Annals of Botany 131(3):411-412. Link

Sylvester et al. [+44 authors] (2023) Better integration of chemical pollution research will further our understanding of biodiversity loss. Nature Ecology and Evolution. accepted.

Rauschkolb R, Durka W, Godefroid S, Dixon L, Bossdorf O, Ensslin A, Scheepens JF (2023) Recent evolution of flowering time across multiple European plant species correlates with changes in aridity. Oecologia. (Highlighted as student research) Link

Przybylska MS, Violle C, Vile D, Scheepens JF, Lacombe B, Roux X, Perrier L, Sales-Mabily L, Laumond M, Vinyeta M, Moulin P, Beurier G, Rouan L, Cornet D, Vasseur F (2023). AraDiv: a dataset of functional traits and leaf hyperspectral reflectance of Arabidopsis thaliana. Scientific Data. accepted.

March-Salas, M; Scheepens JF; van Kleunen, M; & Fitze, PF (2022). Precipitation predictability affects intra- and trans-generational plasticity and causes differential selection on root traits of Papaver rhoeas. Frontiers in Plant Science 13:998169. Link

Estrada-Castillón, E; Villarreal-Quintanilla, JÁ; Cuéllar-Rodríguez, LG; March-Salas, M; Encina-Domínguez, JA; Himmeslbach, W; ... & Gutiérrez-Santillán, T (2022). Ethnobotany in Iturbide, Nuevo León: The Traditional Knowledge on Plants Used in the Semiarid Mountains of Northeastern Mexico. Sustainability 14(19): 12751. Link

Krah FS, & March-Salas M. (2022). eDNA metabarcoding reveals high soil fungal diversity and variation in community composition among Spanish cliffs. Ecology and Evolution, 12, e9594. Link

Galanti D, Ramos-Cruz D, Nunn A, Rodríguez-Arévalo I, Scheepens JF, Becker C, Bossdorf O (2022) Genetic and environmental drivers of large-scale epigenetic variation in Thlaspi arvense. PLOS Genetics 18(10): e1010452. Link

Rauschkolb R, Li Z, Godefroid S, Dixon L, Durka W, Májeková M, Bossdorf O, Ensslin A, Scheepens JF (2022) Evolution of plant drought strategies and herbivore tolerance after two decades of climate change. New Phytologist 235(2):773-785. Link

Santangelo JS, Ness RW, Cohan B, Fitzpatrick CR, Innes SG, Koch S, Miles LS, Munim S, Peres-Neto PR, Kirschbaum A, Scheepens JF, Johnson MTJ [+276 authors] (2022) Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover. Science 375: 6586. 1275-1281. Link

Willems FM, Scheepens JF, Bossdorf O (2022) Forest wildflowers bloom earlier as Europe warms: Lessons from herbaria and spatial modeling. New Phytologist 235: 52-65. Link

Freimuth F, Bossdorf O, Scheepens JF, Willems FM (2022) Climate warming changes synchrony of plants and pollinators. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289:20212142. Link

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, 2022. Link

Rauschkolb R, Henres L, Lou C, Godefroid S, Dixon L, Durka W, Bossdorf O, Ensslin A, Scheepens JF (2021) Historical comparisons show evolutionary changes in drought responses in European plant species after two decades of climate change. Basic and Applied Ecology 58: 26-38. Link

Deng Y, Bossdorf O, Scheepens JF (2021) Transgenerational effects of temperature fluctuations in Arabidopsis thaliana. AoB Plants 13: 6. plab064. Link

deCastro-Arrazola I, March-Salas M, Lorite J (2021). Assessment of the potential risk of rock-climbing for cliff plant species and natural protected areas of Spain. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 13:998169. Link

Noriega JA, March-Salas M, Castillo S, García-Q H, Hortal J, Santos AMC (2021). Human perturbations reduce dung beetle diversity and dung removal ecosystem function. Biotropica 53: 753-766. Link

Muola A, Scheepens JF, Laukkanen L, Kalske A, Mutikainen P, Leimu R (2021) Strong gene flow explains lack of mating system variation in the perennial herb, Vincetoxicum hirundinaria, in a fragmented landscape. Nordic Journal of Botany 39: e03008. 1-13. Link

Kirschbaum A, Bossdorf O, Scheepens JF (2021) Variation in regrowth ability in relation to land-use intensity in three common grassland herbs. Journal of Plant Ecology 14: 438-450. Link

Willems FM, Scheepens JF, Ammer C, Block S, Bucharova A, Schall P, Sehrt M, Bossdorf O (2021) Spring understory herbs flower later in intensively managed forests. Ecological Applications 31(5):e02332. Link

Non-peer-reviewed

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Preprints

Karitter P, Covers E, Karrenbauer, M, March-Salas M, Stojanova B, Ensslin A., Rauschkolb R, Godefroid S, & Scheepens JF (2023). Evolution of competitive ability and the response to nutrient availability: a resurrection study with the calcareous grassland herb, Leontodon hispidus. EcoEvorxiv (under review in New Phytologist). Link

Karitter P, March-Salas M, Ensslin A, Rauschkolb R, Godefroid S, & Scheepens JF (2023). Combining the resurrection approach with transplant experiments to investigate adaptation of plant populations to environmental change. EcoEvorxiv (under review in Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics). Link

Møller C; March-Salas M; De Frenne P & Scheepens JF (2023). Forest understorey herbs show little evidence of genetic adaptation but strong plastic responses to forest management intensities. EcoEvorxiv (under review in J. Ecology).

Czech L; Peng Y; Spence JP; Lang PL; Bellagio T; Hildebrandt J; ...; March-Salas M; … & Exposito-Alonso M (2023). Monitoring rapid evolution of plant populations at scale with Pool-Sequencing. bioRxiv (under review in eLife). Link

Bucharova A, Bossdorf O, Scheepens JF, & Salguero-Gómez R (2023). Sustainable seed harvesting in wild plant populations. bioRxiv. Link

Galanti D, Ramos-Cruz D, Nunn A, Rodríguez-Arévalo I, Scheepens JF, Becker C, Bossdorf O (2022) Genetic and environmental drivers of large-scale epigenetic variation in Thlaspi arvense. bioRxiv. Link

Czech L, Peng Y, Spence JP, Lang PLM, Bellagio T, Hildebrandt J, Fritschi K, Schwab R, Rowan BA, GrENE-net consortium, Weigel D, Scheepens JF, Vasseur F, Exposito-Alonso M (2022) Monitoring rapid evolution of plant populations at scale with Pool-Sequencing. bioRxiv. Link

Kirschbaum A, Hoch G, Bossdorf O, Scheepens JF (2021) Genetic variation in non-structural carbohydrates in Plantago lanceolata is related to mowing intensity but not to regrowth ability. EcoEvoRxiv. Link

Willems FM,  Scheepens JF, Bossdorf O (2021) Forest wildflowers bloom earlier as Europe warms – but not everywhere equally. bioRxiv. Link

Freimuth J, Bossdorf O, Scheepens JF,  Willems FM (2021) Climate warming changes synchrony of plants and pollinators in Germany. bioRxiv.

Deng Y, Bossdorf O, Scheepens JF (2020) Transgenerational effects of temperature fluctuations in Arabidopsis thaliana. EcoEvoRxiv. Link

Rauschkolb R, Henres L, Lou C, Godefroid S, Dixon L, Bossdorf O, Ensslin A, Scheepens JF (2020) Resurrection approach shows evolutionary changes in drought responses in European plant species after two decades of climate change. EcoEvoRxiv. Link

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