Publications

2022

Peter, S. (2022) What Determines Individual Demand for Ecosystem Services? Insights from a Social Science Study of Three German Regions. Nature and Culture 17(1):26-57. DOI: 10.3167/nc.2022.170102

2021

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

Peter, S., Le Provost, G., Mehring, M., Mueller, T., & Manning, P. (2021) Cultural worldviews consistently explain bundles of ecosystem service prioritisation across rural Germany. People and Nature 4(4):1-13. DOI:10.1002/pan3.10277

Liu D., Chang P.H. S, Power S. A., Bell J. N. B., Manning P. (2021) Changes in plant species abundance alter the multifunctionality and functional space of heathland ecosystems. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17667

Le Provost G., & 58 authors incl. Neyret M. & Manning, P. (2021). Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23931-1

Oelmann Y. & 32 authors incl. Le Provost G. and Manning P. (2021). Above-and belowground biodiversity jointly tighten the P cycle in agricultural grasslands. Nature communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24714-4

Simons N.K. & 28 other authors incl. Manning, P. (2021) National Forest Inventories capture the multifunctionality of managed forests in Germany. Forest Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40663-021-00280-5

Goddard, M.A. & 77 authors incl. Manning P. (2021) A global horizon scan of the future impacts of robotics and autonomous systems on urban ecosystems. Nature Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01358-z

Guerrero‐Ramírez, N.R. & 49 authors incl. Manning P. (2021). Global root traits (GRooT) database. Global Ecology and Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13179

Linders T., Schaffner U., Alamirew T., Allan E., Choge S.K., Eschen R., Shiferaw H. & Manning P. (2021) Stakeholder priorities determine the impact of an alien tree invasion on ecosystem multifunctionality. People and Nature https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10197

2020

Felipe-Lucia MR & 31 other authors including Manning P (2020) Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2020). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2016210117

Le Provost G, Badenhausser I. Violle C. et al. (2020) Grassland-to-crop conversion in agricultural landscapes has lasting impact on the trait diversity of bees. Landscape Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-020-01141-2

Peter S. (2020) Integrating Key Insights of Sociological Risk Theory into the Ecosystem Services Framework. Sustainability, 12, 6437; doi:10.3390/su12166437.

Guerrero-Ramirez N & 50 other authors including Manning P (2020) Global Root Traits Database (GRooT). Global Ecology and Biogeography. Accepted.

Manzanedo R & Manning P (2020) COVID-19: lessons for the climate change emergency. Science of the Total Environment. 703, 135573

Jochum M, Fischer M, Isbell F, Roscher C, van der Plas F, Boch S, Boenisch G, Buchmann N, Catford JA, Cavender-Bares J, Ebeling A, Eisenhauer N, Gleixner G, Hölzel N, Kattge J, Klaus VH, Kleinebecker T, Lange M, Le Provost G, Meyer ST, Molina-Venegas R, Mommer L, Oelmann Y, Penone C, Prati P, Reich PB, Rindisbacher A, Schäfer D, Scheu S, Schmid B, Tilman T, Tscharntke T, Vogel A, Wagg C, Weigelt A, Weisser WW, Wilcke W, Manning P (2020) The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic. Nature Ecology and Evolution. In press – release August 2020

Thomas H & 104 other authors including Manning, P (2020) Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome. Nature Communications. 11, 1-12

Washbourne CL, Goddard MA, Le Provost G, Manning DAC & Manning P (2020). Trade-offs and synergies in the ecosystem service demand of urban brownfield stakeholders. Ecosystem Services. 42, 101074

Le Provost G, Badenhausser I, Le Bagousse-Pinguet Y, Clough Y, Henckel L, Violle C, Bretagnolle V, Roncoroni M, Manning P, Gross N (2020) Land-use history impacts functional diversity across multiple trophic groups. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117, 1573-1576.

Kattge, J & 724 other authors including Manning P (2020) TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology. 26, 119-188.

Gallagher R & 58 other authors including Manning P (2020) Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life. Nature Ecology and Evolution 4, 294-303.

Jorat E, Goddard MA, Manning P, Lau HK, Ngeow S, Sohi SP & Manning DAC (2020) Carbonation of urban land – a passive CO2 removal process for cities. Science of the Total Environment. 703, 135573

Stotz, G. & 36 other authors including Manning P (2020) Not a melting pot: plant species aggregate in their non-native range. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29, 482-490.

Merges M, Bálint M, Schmitt I, Manning P, Neuschulz EL (2020) High throughput sequencing combined with null model tests reveals specific plant-fungi associations linked to seedling establishment and survival. Journal of Ecology, 108, 574-585.

2019

Manning. P. (2019) Piling on the Pressures to Ecosystems. Science, 366, 801.

Schneider FD, Jochum M, Le Provost G, Ostrowski A, Penone C, Fichtmüller D, Güntsch A, Gossner MM, König-Ries B, Manning P & Simons NK (2019) Towards an Ecological Trait-data Standard. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 2006-2019.

Vogel A, Manning P, Cadotte MW, Cowles J, Isbell F, Jousset ALC, Kimmel K, Meyer ST, Reich PB, Roscher C, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Tilman D, Weigelt A, Wright AJ, Eisenhauer N, Wagg C (2019) Lost in trait space: species-poor communities are inflexible in properties that drive ecosystem functioning. Advances in Ecological Research. 61, 91-131.

Manning P, Loos J, Barnes AD, Batáry P, Bianchi FJJA, Buchmann N, De Deyn GB, Ebeling A, Eisenhauer N, Fischer M, Fründ J, Grass I, Isselstein J, Jochum M, Klein AM, Klingenberg EOF, Landis DA, Lepš J, Lindborg R, Meyer ST, Temperton VM, Westphal C, Tscharntke T. (2019) Transferring biodiversity-ecosystem function research to the management of ‘real-world’ ecosystems. Advances in Ecological Research. 61, 323-356.

Boeddinghaus RS., Marhan S, Berner D, Boch S, Fischer M, Hölzel N, Kattge J, Klaus VH, Kleinebecker T, Oelmann Y, Prati D, Schäfer D, Schöning I, Schrumpf M, Sorkau E, Kandeler E. & Manning P (2019) Plant functional trait shifts explain concurrent changes in the structure and function of grassland soil microbial communities. Journal of Ecology. 107, 2197-2210.

Bruelheide H and 175 other authors including Manning P (2019) sPlot – a new tool for global vegetation analyses. Journal of Vegetation Science. 30, 161-186.

Penone C and 32 other authors including Manning P (2019) Specialisation and diversity of multiple trophic groups are promoted by different forest features. Ecology Letters. 22, 170-180.

2018

Felipe-Lucia MR, Soliveres S, Penone C, Manning P, van der Plas F, Boch S, Prati D, Ammer C, Schall P, Gossner MM, Bauhus J, Buscot F, Blaser S, Blüthgen N, de Frutos A, Ehbrecht M, Frank K, Goldmann K, Hänsel F, Jung K, Kahl T, Nauss T, Oelmann Y, Pena R, Polle A, Renner S, Schloter M, Schöning I, Schrumpf M, Schulze ED, Solly E, Sorkau E, Stempfhuber B, Tschapka M, Weisser W, Wubet T, Fischer M & Allan E (2018) Multiple forest attributes underpin the provision of multiple ecosystem services. Nature Communications, 9, 4839

Perring, M and 30 other authors including Manning P (2018) How nitrogen deposition affects forest understorey plant community change: towards understanding context dependency. Environmental Pollution. 242, 1787-1799.

van der Plas F, Allan E, Fischer M, Alt F, Arndt H, Binkenstein J, Blaser S, Blüthgen N, Böhm S, Hölzel N, Klaus VH, Kleinbecker T, Morris K, Oelmann Y, Prati D, Renner SC, Rillig MC, Schäfer M, Schloter M, Schmitt B, Schöning I, Schrumpf M, Solly E, Sorkau E, Steckel J, Steffan-Dewenter I, Stempfhuber B, Tschapka M, Weiner CN, Weisser WW, Werner M, Westphal C, Wilcke W, Manning P (2019) Towards the development of general rules describing landscape heterogeneity-multifunctionality relationships. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56, 168-179.

Craven D, Eisenhauer N, Pearse WD, Hautier Y, Roscher C, Isbell F, Bahn M , Beierkuhnlein, Bönisch G, Buchmann N, Byun C, Catford JA, Cerabolini BEL, Cornelissen JHC, Craine JM, De Luca E, Ebeling A, Griffin JN, Hector A, Hines J, Jentsch A, Kattge J, Kreyling J, Lanta V, Lemoine N, Meyer ST, Minden V, Onipchenko V, Polley HW, Reich PB, van Ruijven J, Schamp B, Smith MD, Soudzilovskaia NA, Tilman D, Weigelt A, Wilsey B, Manning P. (2018) Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity-stability relationship. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2, 1579–1587.

Bjorkman A et al. (128 other authors, including Manning P) (2018) Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome. Nature, 562, 57–62.

Thomas H et al. (88 other authors including Manning, P) (2018) Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size-related traits across the tundra biome. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28, 78-95.

Delgado-Baquerizo M, Fry E, Eldridge D, de Vries F, Manning P, Hamonts K, Kattge, J, Bönisch G, Singh B, Bardgett, RD (2018) Plant attributes explain the distribution of soil microbial communities in two contrasting regions of the globe. New Phytologist. 219, 574-587.

Manning P, van der Plas F, Soliveres S, Allan E, Maestre FT, Mace G, Whittingham MJ, Fischer M. (2018) Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2, 427-436.

van der Plas P and 70 other authors including Manning P (2018) Continental mapping of forest ecosystem functions reveals a high but unrealized potential for forest multifunctionality. Ecology Letters, 21, 31-42.

2017

Shipley B, Belluau, M, Kühn I, Soudzilovskaia NA, Bahn M, Penuelas J, Kattge J, Sack L, Cavender-Bares J, Ozinga WA, Blonder B, van Bodegom PM, Manning P, Hickler T, Sosinski E, Pillar VDP, Onipchenko V, Poschlod P (2017) Predicting habitat affinities of plant species using commonly measured functional traits. Journal of Vegetation Science, 28, 1082-1095.

Kidd J, Manning P, Simkin J, Peacock S, Stockdale E (2017) Impacts of 120 years of fertilizer addition on a temperate grassland ecosystem. PLoS One. e0174632.

Lee, M. A., Davis, A. P., Chagunda, M. G. G., and Manning, P. (2017) Forage quality declines with rising temperatures, with implications for livestock production and methane emissions. Biogeosciences, 14, 1403-1417*

*Covered extensively in the German speaking media in >110 media outlets including the largest national and regional newspapers: Bild, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Die Welt, Südendeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Sächsische Zeitung, television and radio including ZDF, Hessicher Rundfunk, YouFM, WDR5 Leonardo, and Deutschlandfunk (national public radio). Also covered in UK and American press and radio (e.g. Daily Mirror, UPI, BBC Radio 6).

van der Plas, F, van Klink R, Manning P, Olff H, Fischer M (2017) Sensitivity of functional diversity metrics to sampling intensity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8, 1072-180.

Manning, P. (2017) “Ecosystem Multifunctionality.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology. Ed. David Gibson. New York: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199830060-0170

2016

Soliveres S, van der Plas F, Manning P, Prati D, Gossner MM, Renner SC, Alt F, Arndt H, Baumgartner V, Binkenstein J, Birkhofer K, Blaser S, Blüthgen N, Boch S, Böhm S, Börschig C, Buscot F, Diekötter T, Heinze J, Hölzel N, Jung K, Klaus VH, Kleinebecker T, Klemmer S, Krauss J, Lange M, Morris EK, Müller J, Oelmann Y, Overmann J, Pašalić E, Rillig MC, Schaefer HM, Schloter M, Schmitt B, Schöning I, Schrumpf M, Sikorski J, Socher SA, Solly EF, Sonnemann I, Sorkau E, Steckel J, Steffan-Dewenter I, Stempfhuber B, Tschapka M, Türke M, Venter PC, Weiner CN, Weisser WW, Werner M, Westphal C, Wilcke W, Wolters V, Wubet T, Wurst S, Fischer M & Allan E. (2016) Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality. Nature, 536, 456–459.

Craven D, IsbellF, ManningP, ConnollyJ, BruelheideH, EbelingA, Christiane RoscherC, van RuijvenJ, WeigeltA, Brian WilseyB, BeierkuhnleinC, de LucaE, GriffinJN, HautierY, HectorA, Jentsch A, KreylingJ, LantaV, LoreauM, MeyerST, MoriAS, NaeemS, PalmborgC, PolleyHW, ReichPB, SchmidB, SiebenkäsA, SeabloomE, Thakur MP, TilmanD, VogelA, Eisenhauer N (2016) Plant diversity effects on grassland productivity are robust to both nutrient enrichment and drought. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B 371, 20150277.

Soliveres S, Manning P, Prati D, Gossner MM, Alt F, Arndt H, Baumgartner V, Binkenstein J, Birkhofer K, Blaser S, Blüthgen N, Boch S , Böhm S, Börschig C, Buscot F , Diekötter T, Heinze J, Hölzel N, Jung K, Klaus VH, Klein AM, Kleinebecker T, Klemmer S, Krauss J, Lange M, Morris EK, Müller J, Oelmann Y, Overmann J, Pašalić E, Renner SC, Rillig MC, Schaefer HM, Schloter M, Schmitt B, Schöning I, Schrumpf M, Sikorski J, Socher SA, Solly EF, Sonnemann I, Sorkau E, Steckel J, Steffen-Dewenter I, Stempfhuber B, Tschapka M, Türke M, Venter P, Weiner N, Weisser WW, Werner M, Westphal C, Wilcke W, Wolters V, Wubet T, Wurst S, Fischer M, Allan E (2016). Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B, 371, 20150269.

van der Plas F, Manning P, Allan E, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Verheyen K, Wirth C, Zavala MA, Hector A, Ampoorter E, Baeten L, Barbaro L, Bauhus J, Benavides R, Benneter A, Berthold F, Bonal D, Bouriaud O, Bruelheide H, Bussotti F, Carnol M, Castagneyrol B, Charbonnier Y, Coomes D, Coppi A, Bastias CC, Dawud SM, De Wandeler H, Domisch T, Finér L, Gessler A, Granier A, Grossiord C, Guyot V, Hättenschwiler S, Jactel H, Jaroszewicz B, Joly FX, Jucker T, Koricheva J, Milligan H, Müller S, Muys B, Nguyen D, Pollastrini M, Raulund-Rasmussen R, Selvi F, Stenlid J, Valladares F, Vesterdal L, Zielínski D, Fischer M. (2016) ‘Jack-of-all-trades’ effects drive biodiversity-ecosystem multifunctionality relationships. Nature Communications, 7, 11109.

van der Plas F, Manning P, Soliveres S, Allan E, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Verheyen K, Wirth C, Zavala MA, , Ampoorter E, Baeten L, Barbaro L, Bauhus J, Benavides R, Benneter A, Berthold F, Bonal D, Bouriaud O, Bruelheide H, Bussotti F, Carnol M, Castagneyrol B, Charbonnier Y, Coomes D, Coppi A, Bastias CC, Dawud SM, De Wandeler H, Domisch T, Finér L, Gessler A, Granier A, Grossiord C, Guyot V, Hättenschwiler S, Jactel H, Jaroszewicz B, Joly FX, Jucker T, Koricheva J, Milligan H, Müller S, Muys B, Nguyen D, Pollastrini M, Raulund-Rasmussen R, Selvi F, Stenlid J, Valladares F, Vesterdal L, Zielínski D, Fischer M (2016) Biotic homogenization can decrease landscape-scale forest multifunctionality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113, 3557-3562.

Pither J, Fraser LH, Jentsch A, Sternberg M, Zobel M., Cahill J, Beierkuhnlein C, Bartha S, Bennett JA, Boldgiv B, Brown LR, Marcelo Cabido M, Campetella G, Cameron N, Carlyle CN, Chelli S, Csergő AM, Diaz S, Enrico, L., Ensing,D., Fidelis, A., Garris, HW., Henry,H.A.L., Höhn, M., Klironomos,J., Koorem,K., Lawrence-Lodge R, Manning P, Mitchell RJ, Moora M, Pillar VD, Stotz GC, Sugiyama S, Szentes Sz, Tungalag R, Undrakhbold S, Wellstein C, Zupo T (2016) Response to Comment on “Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness” Science 351: 357-b.

Fry E, Manning P, Macdonald C Hasegawa S,De Palma A, Power SA_, SinghBK. (2016) Shifts in microbial communities do not explain the response of grassland ecosystem function to plant functional composition and rainfall change. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 92, 199-210.

2015

Isbell F, Craven D, Connolly J, Loreau M, Schmid B, Beierkuhnlein C, Bezemer TM, Bonin C, Bruelheide H, de Luca E, Ebeling A, Griffin J, Guo Q, Hautier Y, Hector A, Jentsch A Kreyling J, Lanta V, Manning P, Meyer ST, Mori AS, Naeem S, Niklaus PA, Polley HW, Reich PB, Roscher C, Seabloom EW, Smith MD, Thakur MP, Tilman D, Tracy BF,van der Putten WH, van Ruijven J, Weigelt A,Weisser WW, Wilsey B, Eisenhauer N (2015) Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes. Nature, 526, 574-577.

Thakur MP, Milcu A, Manning P, Niklaus PA, Roscher C, Power S, Reich PB, Scheu S, Tilman D, Ai F, Guo H, Ji R, Pierce S, Ramirez NG, Richter AN, Steinauer K, Strecker T, Vogel A, Eisenhauer N (2015) Plant diversity drives soil microbial biomass carbon in grasslands irrespective of global environmental change factors. Global Change Biology, 21, 4076-4085.

ManningP, De VriesFT, TallowinJRB, Smith R, MortimerSR, PilgrimES, HarrisonKA, HobbsPJ, QuirkH_, ShipleyB, CornelissenJHC, KattgeJ, Bönisch G, Wirth C & BardgettRD.(2015) National scale grassland soil carbon stocks are predicted from simple measures of climate, soil and plant traits. Journal of Applied Ecology, 52, 1188-1196.

Fraser L (& 61 other authors including Manning, P) (2015) Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness. Science, 349, 302-305.

Allan E, Manning P, Alt F, Binkenstein J, Blaser S, Blüthgen N, Böhm S, Grassein F, Hölzel N, Klaus VH, Kleinebecker T, Morris TEK, Oelmann Y, Prati D, Renner SC, Rillig, MC, Schaefer M, Schloter M, Schmitt B, Schöning I, Schrumpf M, Solly E, Sorkau E, Steckel J, Steffen-Dewenter I, Stempfhuber B, Tschapka M, Weiner CN, Weisser WW, Werner M, Westphal C, Wilcke W, Fischer M (2015) Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition. Ecology Letters, 18, 834-843.

Soliveres, S, Maestre FT, Ulrich W, Manning P, Boch S, Bowker MA, Prati D, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Quero JL, Schöning I, Gallardo A, Weisser W, Müller J, Socher SA, Garcia-Gomez G, Ochoa V, Schulze ED, Fischer M, Allan, M (2015) Intransitive competition is widespread in plant communities and maintains their species richness. Ecology Letters, 18, 790-798.

Manning P, Taylor G, Hanley M. (2015) Bioenergy, Food Security and Biodiversity - An Unlikely Alliance? GCB Bioenergy, 7, 570-576.

Manning P, Gossner MM, Bossdorf O, Allan E, Zhang, Y, Prati D, Blüthgen N, Boch S, Böhm S Börschig C, Hölzel N, Jung K, Klaus VH, Klein AM, Kleinbecker T, Krauss J, Lange M, Müller J, Pašalić E, Socher SA, Tschapka M, Türke M., Weiner C, Werner M, Gockel S, Hemp A, Renner SC, Wells K, Buscot F, Kalko EKV, Linsenmair KE,. Weisser WW, Fischer M (2015) Grassland management intensification weakens the association between the biodiversity of multiple plant and animal taxa. Ecology, 96,1492–1501.