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Vegetation ecology, Macroecology, Grassland ecology, Ecoinformatics, Vegetation classification, Experimental ecology, Conservation biology, Restauration ecology, Vascular plants, Bryophytes, Lichens
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Employment (7)

Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW): Wädenswil, Zurich, CH

2017-09-01 to present | Professor and Head of the Vegetation Ecology Research Group (Life Sciences and Facility Management)
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Jürgen Dengler

German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research: Leipzig, DE

2017-05-01 to 2017-06-30 | Postdoc (Coordinator of the DFG project sMon - Analysing trends in German species data)
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Jürgen Dengler

University of Bayreuth: Bayreuth, Bavaria, DE

2015-04-01 to 2017-03-31 | Interim Professor of Plant Ecology (Biology)
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Jürgen Dengler

German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research: Leipzig, DE

2013-06-01 to 2015-03-31 | Postdoc (Coordinator of the DFG project sPlot - Plant trait-environment relatinships across the world's biomes) (sDiv - Synthesis Centre)
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Jürgen Dengler

University of Bayreuth: Bayreuth, Bayern, DE

2013-03 to 2015-02 | Postdoc (Coordinator of the BioDivERsA project SIGNAL - European gradients of resilience in the face of climate extremes) (Professorship of Disturbance Ecology)
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Jürgen Dengler

Universität Hamburg: Hamburg, Hamburg, DE

2007-10 to 2011-10 | Lecturer (Institute of Botany)
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Jürgen Dengler

Leuphana Universität Lüneburg: Luneburg, Niedersachsen, DE

1998-10 to 2006-12 | Research associate (Faculty of Environmental Sciences)
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Jürgen Dengler

Education and qualifications (4)

Universität Hamburg: Hamburg, Hamburg, DE

2007-10-01 to 2012-04-24 | Habilitation in Vegetation Ecology and Macroecology (Department of Biology)
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Jürgen Dengler

Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel: Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, DE

1994-10-01 to 2003-02-19 | PhD in Ecology (summa cum laude) (Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences)
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Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel: Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, DE

1991-04-01 to 1994-06-17 | Diplom in Biology (with distinction) (Institute of Botany)
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Jürgen Dengler

University of Bayreuth: Bayreuth, Bayern, DE

1988-10-01 to 1991-03-31 | Vordiplom in Biology (Department of Biology)
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Jürgen Dengler

Professional activities (1)

University of Bayreuth: Bayreuth, Bayern, DE

Privatdozent (Department of Biology)
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Jürgen Dengler

Funding (7)

Patterns and drivers of epochal changes in grassland biodiversity in Switzerland: The Square Foot Project

2021-01 to 2024-12 | Grant
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Bern, CH)
GRANT_NUMBER: 310030_197641 / 1
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Jürgen Dengler

Floristic and vegetation ecological analyses of the green roofs of the Seewasserwerk Moos, Wollishofen, Zurich: assessment of the current state and basis for future monitoring

2019-06 to 2019-12 | Contract
Grün Stadt Zürich, City of Zurich (Zurich, CH)
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Jürgen Dengler

Reestablishment of reedbed vegetation at the shore of Lake Zug

2019-02 to 2021-12 | Contract
Tiefbauamt, Canton of Zug (Zug, CH)
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Jürgen Dengler

Overview and valorisation of vegetation-plot data in the Nature Parcs of Switzerland

2018-09 to 2020-11 | Grant
Kommission Pärkeforschung, SCNAT (Bern, CH)
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Jürgen Dengler

Valorisation of Swiss vegetation-plot data in national and international re-search

2018-07 to 2019-12 | Grant
Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Wädenswil, CH)
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Jürgen Dengler

International expert workshop „Scale-dependent phytodiversity patterns of Palaearctic grasslands“

2017-03 to 2017-03 | Grant
Bayerische Forschungsallianz (Munich, DE)
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BayIntAn_UBT_2017_58

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Jürgen Dengler

sPlot III: Plant trait-environment relationships, biodiversity and invasion patterns across the world's biomes

2016-10 to 2016-10 | Grant
Synthesis Centre, iDiv (financed via DFG) (Leipzig, DE)
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Jürgen Dengler

Works (50 of 170)

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Advancing vegetation classification of grassland ecosystems across Asia: current status and way forward

Vegetation Classification and Survey
2025-04-14 | Journal article
Contributors: Alireza Naqinezhad; Idoia Biurrun; Victor Chepinoga; Jürgen Dengler; Arkadiusz Nowak
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Mean ecological indicator values: use EIVE but no cover-weighting

Vegetation Classification and Survey
2025-03-26 | Journal article
Contributors: Grzegorz Ostrowski; Severin Aicher; Agnieszka Mankiewicz; Olha Chusova; Iwona Dembicz; Stefan Widmer; Jürgen Dengler
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Vegetation Classification and Survey: five years and looking ahead

Vegetation Classification and Survey
2025-02-18 | Journal article
Contributors: Idoia Biurrun; Jürgen Dengler; Wolfgang Willner
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African vegetation studies: introduction to a Special Collection

Vegetation Classification and Survey
2024-12-23 | Journal article
Contributors: Reginald T. Guuroh; Leslie R. Brown; Miguel Alvarez; Manfred Finckh; Ute Schmiedel; Gaolathe Tsheboeng; Jürgen Dengler
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Vegetation of the southern slopes of Mt. Damavand, Iran: a comprehensive phytosociological classification

Vegetation Classification and Survey
2024-12-23 | Journal article
Contributors: Amir Talebi; Denys Vynokurov; Farideh Attar; Jürgen Dengler; Alireza Naqinezhad
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Determinants of citation impact

Vegetation Classification and Survey
2024-08-23 | Journal article
Contributors: Jürgen Dengler
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Proposal (39) to conserve the name Koelerietalia splendentis Horvatić 1973 as a nomen conservandum

Vegetation Classification and Survey
2024-08-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Jürgen Dengler; Kiril Vassilev; Erwin Bergmeier
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Сircinaria ucrainica sp. nov., a new species from sand dunes of the Lower Dnipro valley (Ukraine)

The Lichenologist
2024-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Alexander Khodosovtsev; Valerii Darmostuk; Iwona Dembicz; Jürgen Dengler; Ivan Moysiyenko; Anna Kuzemko
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Climate regulation processes are linked to the functional composition of plant communities in European forests, shrublands, and grasslands

Global Change Biology
2024-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Stephan Kambach; Fabio Attorre; Irena Axmanová; Ariel Bergamini; Idoia Biurrun; Gianmaria Bonari; Maria Laura Carranza; Alessandro Chiarucci; Milan Chytrý; Jürgen Dengler et al.
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Vegetation Classification and Survey is performing well

Vegetation Classification and Survey
2024-01-19 | Journal article
Contributors: Jürgen Dengler; Idoia Biurrun; Florian Jansen; Wolfgang Willner
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Priorities in journal selection for authors, reviewers, editors, librarians and science funders

Vegetation Classification and Survey
2023-10-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Jürgen Dengler
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The Historic Square Foot Dataset – Outstanding small‐scale richness in Swiss grasslands around the year 1900

Journal of Vegetation Science
2023-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Susanne Riedel; Stefan Widmer; Manuel Babbi; Serge Buholzer; Andreas Grünig; Felix Herzog; Nina Richner; Jürgen Dengler
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Should we estimate plant cover in percent or on ordinal scales?

Vegetation Classification and Survey
2023-07-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Jürgen Dengler; Iwona Dembicz
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Functional trait trade-offs define plant population stability across different biomes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2023-06-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Luisa Conti; Enrique Valencia; Thomas Galland; Lars Götzenberger; Jan Lepš; Anna E-Vojtkó; Carlos P. Carmona; Maria Májeková; Jiří Danihelka; Jürgen Dengler et al.
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Proposal (31) to conserve the name Brachypodietalia pinnati Korneck 1974 as a nomen conservandum with a conserved type

Vegetation Classification and Survey
2023-04-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Jürgen Dengler; Wolfgang Willner
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Biodiversity surveys of grassland and coastal habitats in 2021 as a documentation of pre-war status in southern Ukraine

Biodiversity Data Journal
2023-03-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Nadiia Skobel; Dariia Borovyk; Denys Vynokurov; Ivan Moysiyenko; Andriy Babytskiy; Iryna Bednarska; Olesia Bezsmertna; Olha Chusova; Polina Dayneko; Jürgen Dengler et al.
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Disturbance indicator values for European plants

Global Ecology and Biogeography
2023-01 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 1466-822X
Part of ISSN: 1466-8238
Contributors: Gabriele Midolo; Tomas Herben; Irena Axmanová; Corrado Marcenò; Dr. Ricarda Pätsch; Helge Bruelheide; Dirk Nikolaus Karger; Svetlana Aćić; Ariel Bergamini; Erwin Bergmeier et al.
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Jürgen Dengler

Effects of grazing versus mowing on the vegetation of wet grasslands in the northern Pre‐Alps, Switzerland

Applied Vegetation Science
2023-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Pascal Reutimann; Regula Billeter; Jürgen Dengler
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Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species

Journal of Vegetation Science
2023-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Lubomír Tichý; Irena Axmanová; Jürgen Dengler; Riccardo Guarino; Florian Jansen; Gabriele Midolo; Michael P. Nobis; Koenraad Van Meerbeek; Svetlana Aćić; Fabio Attorre et al.
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Vegetation Classification and Survey in the third year

Vegetation Classification and Survey
2023-01-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Jürgen Dengler; Idoia Biurrun; Florian Jansen; Wolfgang Willner
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Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0

Vegetation Classification and Survey
2023-01-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Jürgen Dengler; Florian Jansen; Olha Chusova; Elisabeth Hüllbusch; Michael P. Nobis; Koenraad Van Meerbeek; Irena Axmanová; Hans Henrik Bruun; Milan Chytrý; Riccardo Guarino et al.
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Plasticity of plant silicon and nitrogen concentrations in response to water regimes varies across temperate grassland species

Functional Ecology
2022-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Marius Klotz; Jörg Schaller; Heike Feldhaar; Jürgen Dengler; Gerhard Gebauer; Gregor Aas; Anita Weissflog; Bettina M. J. Engelbrecht
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More losses than gains during one century of plant biodiversity change in Germany

Nature
2022-11-17 | Journal article
Contributors: Ute Jandt; Helge Bruelheide; Florian Jansen; Aletta Bonn; Volker Grescho; Reinhard A. Klenke; Francesco Maria Sabatini; Markus Bernhardt-Römermann; Volker Blüml; Jürgen Dengler et al.
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ReSurveyGermany: Vegetation-plot time-series over the past hundred years in Germany

Scientific Data
2022-10-19 | Journal article
Contributors: Ute Jandt; Helge Bruelheide; Christian Berg; Markus Bernhardt-Römermann; Volker Blüml; Frank Bode; Jürgen Dengler; Martin Diekmann; Hartmut Dierschke; Inken Doerfler et al.
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Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

Nature Communications
2022-09-01 | Journal article | Author
Part of ISSN: 2041-1723
Contributors: FRANCESCO MARIA SABATINI; Borja Jiménez-Alfaro; Ute Jandt; Milan Chytrý; Richard Field; Michael Kessler; Jonathan Lenoir; Franziska Schrodt; Susan Wiser; Prof Dr Mohammed A. S. Arfin-Khan et al.
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Classification of grasslands and other open vegetation types in the Palaearctic – Introduction to the Special Collection

Vegetation Classification and Survey
2022-07-22 | Journal article
Contributors: Arkadiusz Nowak; Idoia Biurrun; Monika Janišová; Jürgen Dengler
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Functional traits trade-offs define plant population stability worldwide

2022-06-27 | Preprint
Contributors: Luisa Conti; Enrique Valencia; Thomas Galland; Lars Götzenberger; Jan Lepš; Anna E-Vojtkó; Carlos P. Carmona; Maria Májeková; Jiří Danihelka; Jürgen Dengler et al.
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The effect of niche filtering on plant species abundance in temperate grassland communities

Functional Ecology
2022-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Josep Padullés Cubino; Irena Axmanová; Zdeňka Lososová; Martin Večeřa; Ariel Bergamini; Helge Bruelheide; Jürgen Dengler; Ute Jandt; Florian Jansen; Ricarda Pätsch et al.
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Macroecology of vegetation — Lessons learnt from the Virtual Special Issue

Journal of Vegetation Science
2022-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Meelis Pärtel; Francesco Maria Sabatini; Naia Morueta‐Holme; Holger Kreft; Jürgen Dengler
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Vegetation Classification and Survey: development and diversification

Vegetation Classification and Survey
2022-01-26 | Journal article
Contributors: Jürgen Dengler; Idoia Biurrun; Florian Jansen; Wolfgang Willner
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Fine-grain beta diversity in Palaearctic open vegetation: variability within and between biomes and vegetation types

Vegetation Classification and Survey
2021-12-30 | Journal article
Contributors: Iwona Dembicz; Jürgen Dengler; François Gillet; Thomas J. Matthews; Manuel J. Steinbauer; Sándor Bartha; Juan Antonio Campos; Pieter De Frenne; Jiri Dolezal; Itziar García-Mijangos et al.
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Fine-grain beta diversity in Palaearctic open vegetation: variability within and between biomes and vegetation types

Vegetation Classification and Survey
2021-12-30 | Journal article
Contributors: Iwona Dembicz; Jürgen Dengler; François Gillet; Thomas J. Matthews; Manuel J. Steinbauer; Sándor Bartha; Juan Antonio Campos; Pieter De Frenne; Jiri Dolezal; Itziar García-Mijangos et al.
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Regional typology of spring vegetation in Parc Ela (Grisons, Switzerland)

Vegetation Classification and Survey
2021-12-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Hallie Seiler; Daniel Küry; Regula Billeter; Jürgen Dengler
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sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open‐access, global dataset of vegetation plots

Global Ecology and Biogeography
2021-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Francesco Maria Sabatini; Jonathan Lenoir; Tarek Hattab; Elise Aimee Arnst; Milan Chytrý; Jürgen Dengler; Patrice De Ruffray; Stephan M. Hennekens; Ute Jandt; Florian Jansen et al.
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A checklist for using Beals’ index with incomplete floristic monitoring data

Diversity and Distributions
2021-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Helge Bruelheide; Florian Jansen; Ute Jandt; Markus Bernhardt‐Römermann; Aletta Bonn; Diana Bowler; Jürgen Dengler; David Eichenberg; Volker Grescho; Simon Kellner et al.
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Mind the gaps: Comparison of representative vs opportunistic assessment of tree regeneration in Central European beech forests

Forest Ecology and Management
2021-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Daniel Scherrer; Fabien Hiltebrand; Jürgen Dengler; Thomas Wohlgemuth
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Fine‐grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation

Journal of Vegetation Science
2021-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Iwona Dembicz; Jürgen Dengler; Manuel J. Steinbauer; Thomas J. Matthews; Sándor Bartha; Sabina Burrascano; Alessandro Chiarucci; Goffredo Filibeck; François Gillet; Monika Janišová et al.
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Plant functional and taxonomic diversity in European grasslands along climatic gradients

Journal of Vegetation Science
2021-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Coline C. F. Boonman; Luca Santini; Bjorn J. M. Robroek; Selwyn Hoeks; Steven Kelderman; Jürgen Dengler; Ariel Bergamini; Idoia Biurrun; Maria Laura Carranza; Bruno E. L. Cerabolini et al.
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Neophyte invasions in European grasslands

Journal of Vegetation Science
2021-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Irena Axmanová; Veronika Kalusová; Jiří Danihelka; Jürgen Dengler; Jan Pergl; Petr Pyšek; Martin Večeřa; Fabio Attorre; Idoia Biurrun; Steffen Boch et al.
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Scale‐dependent patterns and drivers of plant diversity in steppe grasslands of the Central Alborz Mts., Iran

Journal of Vegetation Science
2021-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Amir Talebi; Farideh Attar; Alireza Naqinezhad; Iwona Dembicz; Jürgen Dengler; Zaal Kikvidze
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Vegetation Classification and Survey: the first year

Vegetation Classification and Survey
2021-02-17 | Journal article
Contributors: Wolfgang Willner; Idoia Biurrun; Jürgen Dengler; Florian Jansen
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Drivers of plant diversity in Bulgarian dry grasslands vary across spatial scales and functional‐taxonomic groups

Journal of Vegetation Science
2021-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Iwona Dembicz; Nikolay Velev; Steffen Boch; Monika Janišová; Salza Palpurina; Hristo Pedashenko; Kiril Vassilev; Jürgen Dengler; Hans Henrik Bruun
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Steppe islands in a sea of fields: Where island biogeography meets the reality of a severely transformed landscape

Journal of Vegetation Science
2021-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Iwona Dembicz; Ivan I Moysiyenko; Łukasz Kozub; Jürgen Dengler; Maryna Zakharova; Barbara Sudnik‐Wójcikowska; Richard Michalet
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Evaluating the ecological realism of plant species distribution models with ecological indicator values

Ecography
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85074324965

Contributors: Hellegers, M.; Ozinga, W.A.; Hinsberg, A.; Huijbregts, M.A.J.; Hennekens, S.M.; Schaminée, J.H.J.; Dengler, J.; Schipper, A.M.
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Global fern and lycophyte richness explained: How regional and local factors shape plot richness

Journal of Biogeography
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85077896250

Contributors: Weigand, A.; Abrahamczyk, S.; Aubin, I.; Bita-Nicolae, C.; Bruelheide, H.; I. Carvajal-Hernández, C.; Cicuzza, D.; Nascimento da Costa, L.E.; Csiky, J.; Dengler, J. et al.
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Grasslands of Northern Europe and the Baltic States

Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences
2020 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9780124095489
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Jürgen Dengler

Grasslands of the Palaearctic Biogeographic Realm: Introduction and Synthesis

Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences
2020 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9780124095489
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Jürgen Dengler

Similar factors underlie tree abundance in forests in native and alien ranges

Global Ecology and Biogeography
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85075762707

Contributors: van der Sande, M.T.; Bruelheide, H.; Dawson, W.; Dengler, J.; Essl, F.; Field, R.; Haider, S.; van Kleunen, M.; Kreft, H.; Pagel, J. et al.
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Species–area relationships in continuous vegetation: Evidence from Palaearctic grasslands

Journal of Biogeography
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85073966067

Contributors: Dengler, J.; Matthews, T.J.; Steinbauer, M.J.; Wolfrum, S.; Boch, S.; Chiarucci, A.; Conradi, T.; Dembicz, I.; Marcenò, C.; García-Mijangos, I. et al.
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The whole and its parts: why and how to disentangle plant communities and synusiae in vegetation classification

Applied Vegetation Science
2020 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85076408757

Contributors: Berg, C.; Ewald, J.; Hobohm, C.; Dengler, J.
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Peer review (2 reviews for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for Alpine botany (2)