Publications

2024:

Ivison, K., van Kleunen, M., Speed, J., …, Tielbörger, K., ... (2024). Non-Native, Non-Naturalised Plants Suffer Less Herbivory Than Native Plants Across European Botanical Gardens. Divers Distrib, e13938. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13938

Biancari, L., Aguiar, M.R., Eldridge, D.J., …, Tielbörger, K., … (2024). Drivers of woody dominance across global drylands. Sci. Adv. 10, eadn6007. 10.1126/sciadv.adn6007

van den Brink, L., Canessa, R., Liancourt, P., Neidhardt, H., Cavieres, L.A., Oelmann, Y., Bader, M.Y., Tielbörger, K. (2024). Increases and decreases in soil moisture in water-limited plant communities cause asymmetrical responses in biomass but not in diversity. Journal of Vegetation Science, 35, e13300. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.13300

Gross, N., Maestre, F.T., Liancourt, P., ... Tielbörger, K., ... (2024). Unforeseen plant phenotypic diversity in a dry and grazed world. Nature 632, 808–814. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07731-3

Amputu, V., Männer, F., Tielbörger, K., Knox, N. (2024). Spatio-temporal transferability of drone-based models to predict forage supply in drier rangelands. Remote Sensing 16, 1842. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16111842

Eldridge, D.J., ..., Canessa, R., ..., Liancourt, P., ...,Tielbörger, K., ..., van den Brink, L., ... (2024). Hotspots of biogeochemical activity linked to aridity and plant traits across global drylands. Nature Plants https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01670-7

Majekova, M., Springer, B., Ferenc, V., Gruntman, M., & Tielbörger, K. (2024). Leaf fluctuating asymmetry is not a reliable indicator of stress. Functional Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14564

Rauschkolb, R., Bucher, S.F., Hensen, I., ..., Tielbörger, K., ... (2024). Spatial variability in herbaceous plant phenology is mostly explained by variability in temperature but also by photoperiod and functional traits. International Journal of Biometeorology https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00484-024-02621-9

Yi, J., Wan, J., Tielbörger, K., Tao, Z., Siemann, E., Huang, W. (2024). Specialist reassociation and residence time modulate the evolution of defense in invasive plants: A meta-analysis. Ecology: e4253 https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.4253

Smith, M.D., Wilkins, K.D., Holdrege, M.C., ..., Tielbörger, K., ..., van den Brink, L., ... (2024). Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally. PNAS 121(4):e2309881120. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2309881120.

2023:

Weides, S.E., Hájek, T., Liancourt, P., Herberich, M.M., Kramp, R.E., Tomiolo, S., Pacheco-Riaño, L.C., Tielbörger, K., Májeková, M. (2023). Belowground niche partitioning is maintained under extreme drought. Ecology

Metz, J., Tielbörger, K. (2023). A drought year favored drier-adapted origins over local origins in a reciprocal transplant experiment along a rainfall gradient. Oikos, 2023, e09806. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.09806

Koch, F., Neutel, AM., Barnes, D.K.A., Tielbörger, K., Zarfl, C., Allhoff, K.T. (2023). Competitive hierarchies in bryozoan assemblages mitigate network instability by keeping short and long feedback loops weak. Communications Biology 6:690. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05060-1

Herberich, M., Gayler, S., Tielbörger, K. (2023). Environmental heterogeneity promotes coexistence among plant life-history strategies through stabilizing mechanisms in space and time. Basic and Applied Ecology 71: 45-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2023.05.001

Herberich, M., Schädle, J., Tielbörger, K. (2023). Plant community productivity and soil water are not resistant to extreme experimental drought in temperate grasslands but in the understory of temperate forests. Science of the Total Environment 891: 164625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164625

Amputu, V., Knox, N., Braun, A., Heshmati, S., Retzlaff, R., Röder, A., & Tielbörger, K. (2023). Unmanned aerial systems accurately map rangeland condition indicators in a dryland savannah. Ecological Informatics, 75, 102007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.102007

van den Brink, L., Canessa, R., Neidhardt, H., Knüver, T., Rios, R. S., Saldaña, A., Cavieres, L. A., Oelmann, Y., Bader, M. Y. and Tielbörger, K. (2023). No home-field advantage in litter decomposition from the desert to temperate forest. Functional Ecology, 37(5), 1315-1327. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14285

Koch, F., Tietjen, B., Tielbörger, K., & Allhoff, K. T. (2023). Livestock management promotes bush encroachment in savanna systems by altering plant–herbivore feedback. Oikos, 2023(3), e09462. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.09462

2022:

Braun, L., Kadmon, R., Tomiolo, S., Májeková, M., & Tielbörger, K. (2022). Is more less? A comprehensive experimental test of soil depth effects on grassland diversity. Oikos, 2022 (5), e08535. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.08535

Canessa, R., van den Brink, L., Berdugo, M. B., Hättenschwiler, S., Rios, R. S., Saldaña, A., Tielbörger, K., & Bader, M. Y. (2022). Trait functional diversity explains mixture effects on litter decomposition at the arid end of a climate gradient. Journal of Ecology, 110(9). https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13946

Gibson-Forty, E. V. J., Tielbörger, K., & Seifan, M. (2022). Equivocal evidence for a change in balance between selfing and pollinator-mediated reproduction in annual Brassicaceae growing along a rainfall gradient. Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 60(1), 196-207. https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.12637

Kramp, R. E., Liancourt, P., Herberich, M. M., Saul, L., Weides, S., Tielbörger, K., & Májeková, M. (2022). Functional traits and their plasticity shift from tolerant to avoidant under extreme drought. Ecology, 103(12), e3826. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3826

Krehl, A., Schöllkopf, U., Májeková, M., Tielbörger, K., & Tomiolo, S. (2022). Effects of plastic fragments on plant performance are mediated by soil properties and drought. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 17771. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22270-5

Kröel-Dulay, G., Mojzes, A., Szitár, K., Bahn, M., Batáry, P., Beier, C., Bilton, M., ..., Tielbörger, K., Tietema, A., . . . Peñuelas, J. (2022). Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought. Nature Ecology & Evolution 6, 540-545. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01685-3

Lembrechts, J. J., van den Hoogen, J., Aalto, J., ..., Canessa, R., ..., Herberich, M., ..., Tielbörger, K., ..., van den Brink, L., ..., Zyryanov, V. I., Nijs, I., & Lenoir, J. (2022) Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology, 28(9): 3110-3144. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16060

Maestre, F. T., Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Y., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Eldridge, D. J., Saiz, H., Berdugo, M., Gozalo, B., Ochoa, V., Guirado, E., García-Gómez, M., Valencia, E., Gaitán, J. J., Asensio, S., Mendoza, B. J., Plaza, C., Díaz-Martínez, P., Rey, A., Hu, H.-W., He, J.-Z., . . .Canessa, R., Liancourt, P., Tielbörger, K., Ruppert, J., van den Brink, L., ... Gross, N. (2022). Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands. Science, 378(6622), 915-920. https://doi.org/doi:10.1126/science.abq4062

Sporbert, M., Jakubka, D., Bucher, S. F., Hensen, I., Freiberg, M., Heubach, K., König, A., Nordt, B., Plos, C., Blinova, I., Bonn, A., Knickmann, B., Koubek, T., Linstädter, A., Mašková, T., Primack, R. B., Rosche, C., Shah, M. A., Stevens, A.-D., Tielbörger, K. . . Römermann, C. (2022). Functional traits influence patterns in vegetative and reproductive plant phenology – a multi-botanical garden study. New Phytologist, 235(6), 2199-2210. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18345

Verdú, M., Garrido, J. L., Alcántara, J. M., Montesinos-Navarro, A., Aguilar, S., Aizen, M. A., Al-Namazi, A. A., Alifriqui, M., Allen, D., Anderson-Teixeira, K. J., Armas, C., ...Tielbörger, K., ... Zamora, R. (2022). RecruitNet: A global database of plant recruitment networks. Ecology, 104(2), e3923. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3923

2021:

Canessa, R., Brink, L. v. d., Saldaña, A., Rios, R. S., Hättenschwiler, S., Mueller, C. W., Prater, I., Tielbörger, K., & Bader, M. Y. (2021). Relative effects of climate and litter traits on decomposition change with time, climate and trait variability. Journal of Ecology, 109(1), 447-458. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13516

Kurze, S., Engelbrecht, B.M., Bilton, M.C., Tielbörger, K., Cansino, L.A. (2021). Rethinking the plant economics spectrum for annuals - a multi-species study. Frontiers in Plant Science, Functional Plant Ecology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.640862

Kurze, S., Álvarez Cansino, L., Bilton, M.C., Bangerter, S., Prasse, R., Tielbörger, K., Engelbrecht, B.M.J. (2021). Evaluating grazing response strategies in winter annuals: A multi-trait approach. Journal of Ecology 109(8): 3074–3086. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13721

Kwon, T., Shibata, H., Kepfer-Rojas, ...Tielbörger, K., ..., Brink, L. v. d., ..., Canessa, R.,..., Kotroczó, Z., & Tóth, Z. (2021). Effects of Climate and Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on Early to Mid-Term Stage Litter Decomposition Across Biomes. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 4(90): 678480. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.678480

Mohiley, A., Laaser, T., Höreth, S., Clemens, S., Tielbörger, K., & Gruntman, M. (2021). Between the devil and the deep blue sea: herbivory induces foraging for and uptake of cadmium in a metal hyperaccumulating plant. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 228(1959). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1682

Segev, U., Tielbörger, K., Lubin, Y., & Kigel, J. (2021). Ant foraging strategies vary along a natural resource gradient. Oikos, 130(1), 66-78. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.07688

Sharma, H., Ehlers, T. A., Glotzbach, C., Schmid, M., & Tielbörger, K. (2021). Effect of rock uplift and Milankovitch timescale variations in precipitation and vegetation cover on catchment erosion rates. Earth Surface Dynamics, 9(4), 1045-1072. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-1045-2021

2020:

Canessa, R., Brink, L. v. d., Saldana, A., Rios, R., Hattenschwiler, S., Mueller, C., Prater, I., Tielbörger, K., & Bader, M. (2020). Relative effects of climate and litter traits on decomposition change with time, climate and trait variability. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ttdz08kwb

Lembrechts, J. J., Aalto, J., Ashcroft, M. B., ..., Canessa, R., ..., Tielbörger, K., Brink, L. v. d., et. al. (2020). SoilTemp: A global database of near‐surface temperature. Global Change Biology, 26, 6616-6629. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15123

Metz, J., Lampei, C., Bäumler, L., Bocherens, H., Dittberner, H., Henneberg, L., Meaux, J. d., & Tielbörger, K. (2020). Rapid adaptive evolution to drought in a subset of plant traits in a large‐scale climate change experiment. Ecology letters, 23(11), 1643-1653. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13596

Tomiolo, S., Bilton, M. C., & Tielbörger, K. (2020). Plant community stability results from shifts in species assemblages following whole community transplants across climates. Oikos, 129(1), 70-80. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.06536

Zhang, R., & Tielbörger, K. (2020). Density-dependence tips the change of plant–plant interactions under environmental stress. Nature Communications, 11, Article 2532 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16286-6

2019:

Mohiley, A., Tielboerger, K., Seifan, M., Gruntman, M. (2019). The role of biotic interactions in determining metal hyperaccumulation in plants. Functional Ecology, 34: 658-668. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13502

S. Tomiolo, M.C. Bilton and K.Tielbörger (2019). Plant community stabilitiy results from shifts in species assemblages following whole community transplants across climates. OIKOS https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/oik.06536

2018:

Zhang, R. & Tielbörger, K., 2018. Facilitation from an intraspecific perspective - stress tolerance determines facilitative effect and response in plants, New Phythologist. DOI: 10.1111/nph.15528

Radny, J., van der Putten, W.H., Tielbörger, K., Meyer, K.M., 2018. Influence of seed size on performance of non-native annual plant species in a novel community at two planting densities. Acta Oecologica 92: 131-137. DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2018.05.005

Bernhard, N., Moskowa, L.-M., ....van den Brink, L. ... Tielbörger, K., ... Wagner, D. and Kühn, P., 2018. Pedogenic and microbial interrelations to regional climate and local topography: New insights from a climate gradient (arid to humid) along the Coastal Cordillera of Chile. CATENA 170:335-355. DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2018.06.018

Oeser, R. A., Stroncik, N., Moskwa, L.-M., ... van den Brink, L. ... Tielbörger, K., Wagner, D. and von Blanckenburg, F. 2018. Chemistry and Microbiology of the Critical Zone along a steep climate and vegetation gradient in the Chilean Coastal Cordillera. CATENA 170:183-203. DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2018.06.002

Djukic, I., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Kappel Schmidt, I., Steenberg Larsen, K., Beier, C., Berg, B., Verheyend, K. and TeaComposition (a.o. van den Brink, L., & Tielbörger, K.) 2018. Early stage litter decomposition across biomes. Sci Tot Env 626: 1369-1394. DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.012

Shi, J., Macel, M., Tielbörger, K., & Verhoeven, K. J. Effects of admixture in native and invasive populations of Lythrum salicaria. Biological Invasions, 1-13. DOI: 10.1007/s10530-018-1707-2

Shi, J., Joshi, J., Tielbörger, K., Verhoeven, K. J., & Macel, M. (2018). Costs and benefits of admixture between foreign genotypes and local populations in the field. Ecology and Evolution, 8(7): 3675-3684. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3946

2017:

García-Camacho, R., Metz, J., Bilton, M.C., Tielbörger, K. 2017. Phylogenetic structure of annual plant communities along an aridity gradient. Interacting effects of habitat filtering and shifting plant–plant interactions. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences. DOI: 10.1080/07929978.2017.1288477

Tomiolo, S., Metz, J., Blackwood, C.B., Djendouci, K., Henneberg, L., Müller, C., Tielbörger, K. 2017. Short-term drought and long-term climate legacy affect production of chemical defenses among plant ecotypes. Environmental and Experimental Botany 141: 124-131. DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2017.07.009

Macel, M., Dostalek, T., Esch, S., Bucharová, A., van Dam, N.M., Tielbörger, K., Verhoeven, K.J.F., Münzbergová, Z. 2017. Evolutionary responses to climate change in a range expanding plant. Oecologia 184: 543-554. DOI: 10.1007/s00442-017-3864-x

Gruntman, M., Groß, D., Májeková, M., Tielbörger, K. 2017. Decision-making in plants under competition. Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-02147-2

Liu, D., Peñuelas, J., Ogaya, R., Estiarte, M., Tielbörger, K., Slowik, F., Yang, X. and Bilton, M.C. 2017. Species selection under long-term experimental warming and drought explained by climatic distributions. New Phytologist. DOI: 10.1111/nph.14925

Lampei, C., Metz, J. and Tielbörger, K. (2017), Clinal population divergence in an adaptive parental environmental effect that adjusts seed banking. New Phytologist. DOI: 10.1111/nph.14436

2016:

Gruntman M, Anders C, Mohiley A, Laaser T, Clemens S, Höreth S, Tielbörger K. 2016: Clonal integration and heavy-metal stress: responses of plants with contrasting evolutionary backgrounds. Evolutionary Ecology. DOI: 10.1007/s10682-016-9840-9

Gruntman M, Segev U, Gaetan G, Tielbörger K. 2016: Evolution of plant defences along an invasion chronosequence: defence is lost due to enemy release- but not forever. Journal of Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12660

Estiarte M, Vicca S, Peñuelas J, Bahn M, Beier C, Emmett B, Fay PA, Hanson PJ, Hasibeder R, Kigel J, Kröel-Dulay G, Larsen KS, Lellei-Kovács E, Limousin JM, Ogaya R, Ourcival JM, Reinsch S, Sala OE, Schmidt IK, Sternberg M, Tielbörger K, Tietema A, Janssens IA. 2016: Few multi-year precipitation-reduction experiments find a shift in the productivity-precipitation relationship. Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13269

Bilton M.C., Metz J. & Tielbörger, K. 2016: Climatic niche groups: A novel application of a common assumption predicting plant community response to climate change. Perspect. Plant Ecol. Evol. Syst. DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2016.02.006

Metz, J., Tielbörger, K. 2016: Spatial and temporal aridity gradients provide poor proxies for plant-plant interactions under climate change: a large-scale experiment. Functional Ecology 30: 20-29. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12599

Gruntman, M., Zieger, S. & Tielbörger, K. 2016: Invasive success and the evolution of enhanced weaponry. Oikos. DOI: 10.5061/dryad.v8m1p

2015:

Rysavy A, Seifan M, Sternberg M, Tielbörger K. 2015: Neighbour effects on shrub seedling establishment override climate change impacts in a Mediterranean community. Journal of Vegetation Science. DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12359.

Tomiolo S, van der Putten W, Tielbörger K. 2015: Separating the role of biotic interactions and climate in determining adaptive response of plants to climate change. Ecology 96: 1298 -1308

Hänel S, Tielbörger K. 2015: Phenotypic response of plants to simulated climate change in a long-term rain manipulation experiment - a multi-species study. Oecologia 177: 1015-1024.

Metz, J, van Oppen, J, Tielbörger, K. 2015: Parental environmental effects due to contrasting watering adapt competitive ability, but not drought tolerance, in offspring of a semi-arid annual Brassicaceae. Journal of Ecology 103: 990-997.

Segev, U, Kigel J, Lubin Y, Tielbörger K. 2015: Ant abundance along a productivity gradient: addressing two conflicting hypotheses. PLoS One 10: e0131314.

Gruntman, M, Zieger S, Tielbörger K. 2015: Invasive success and the evolution of enhanced weaponry. Oikos. DOI: 10.1111/oik.02109.

Metz, J, Tielbörger K. 2015: Spatial and temporal aridity gradients provide poor proxies for plant-plant interactions under climate change: a large-scale experiment. Functional Ecology 30: 20-29.

2014:

Gruntman, M., Pehl, K., Joshi, S. & Tielbörger, K. 2014: Competitive dominance of the invasive plant Impatiens glandulifera: using competitive effect and response with a vigorous neighbour. Biological Invasions 16: 141-151.

Huberty, M., Tielbörger, K., Harvey, J.A., Müller, C. & Macel, M. 2014: Chemical defenses (Glucosinolates) of native and invasive populations of the range expanding invasive plant Rorippa austriaca. Journal of Chemical Ecology 40: 363-370.

Joshi S, Gruntman M, Bilton M, Seifan M and Tielbörger K. 2014: A comprehensive test of evolutionarily increased competitive ability in a highly invasive plant species. Annals of Botany, 114: 1761-1768.

Metz, J., Ribbers, K., Tielbörger, K., & Müller, C. 2014: Long- and medium-term effects of aridity on the chemical defence of a widespread Brassicaceae in the Mediterranean. Environmental and Experimental Botany 105C: 39-45. DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2014.04.007.

Rysavy A, Seifan M, Sternberg M, Tielbörger K. 2014: Shrub seedling survival under climate change - Comparing natural and experimental rainfall gradients. Journal of Arid Environments 111, 14-21.

Segev, U., Tielbörger, K., Kigel, J., Lubin, Y. 2014: Consequences of climate and body size on the foraging performance of seed-eating ants. Ecological Entomology DOI: 10.1111/een.12115.

Seifan, M., Hoch, E.-M., Hanoteaux, S., Tielbörger, K. 2014:, The outcome of shared pollination services is affected by the density and spatial pattern of an attractive neighbour. Journal of Ecology, 102: 953–962.

Tielbörger, K., Bilton, M.C., Metz, J., Kigel, J., Holzapfel, C., Lebrija-Trejos, E., Konsens, I., Parag, H.A., Sternberg, M. 2014: Middle-Eastern plant communities tolerate 9 years of drought in a multi-site climate manipulation experiment. Nature Communications 5, doi:10.1038/ncomms6102.

2013:

Jeltsch F, Blaum N, Brose U, Chipperfield JD, Clough Y, Farwig N, Geissler K, Graham CH, Grimm V, Hickler T, Huth A, May F, Meyer KM, Pagel J, Reineking B, Rillig MC, Shea K, Schurr FM, Schröder B, Tielbörger K, Weiss L, Wiegand K, Wiegand T, Wirth C, Zurell D 2013: How can we bring together empiricists and modellers in functional biodiversity research? Basic and Applied Ecology 14: 93-101.

Seifan M, Seifan T, Schiffers K, Jeltsch F, Tielbörger K. 2013: Beyond the competition-colonization tradeoff - linking multiple trait response to disturbance characteristics. The American Naturalist 181: 151-160.

Tielbörger K, Salguero-Gomez R. 2013: Some like it hot: Are desert plants indifferent to climate change? Progress in Botany 75: 377-400.

Hanoteaux S, Tielbörger K, Seifan M. 2013:, Effects of spatial patterns on the pollination success of a less attractive species. Oikos, 122: 867–880. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20801.x.

Qu HC, Seifan T, Tielbörger K, Seifan M. 2013: A spatially explicit agent-based simulation platform for investigating effects of shared pollination service on ecological communities. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory 37: 107-104.

2012:

Ariza C, Tielbörger K. 2012: Biomass explains the intensity of facilitative - not competitive - interactions: three intraspecific tests with annuals. Web Ecology 12: 49-55.

Salguero-Gomez, R. Siewert, W., Casper, B. & Tielbörger, K. 2012: A demographic approach to study effects of climate change in desert plants. Royal Society B 367: 3100-3114.

Tielbörger, K., Lampei, C. & Petrů, M. 2012: Bet-hedging germination of annual plants: an empirical test of the theoretical foundations. Oikos 121: 1860–1868.

Joshi, S. & Tielbörger, K. 2012: Response to enemies in the invasive plant Lythrum salicaria is genetically determined. Annals of Botany (doi:10.1093/aob/mcs076).

Wantzen, K.M., Couto, E.G., Mund, E.E., Amorim, R.S.S., Siqueira, A., Tielbörger K. & Seifan, M. 2012: Soil carbon stocks in stream-valley ecosystems in the Brazilian Cerrado agroscape. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 151: 70-79.

Liancourt, P., Choler, P., Gross, N., Thibert-Plante, X. & Tielbörger, K. 2012: How facilitation may interfere with ecological speciation. International Journal of Ecology. Article ID: 725487.

2011:

Seifan M., Seifan, T., Jeltsch, F. & Tielbörger, K. 2011: Combined disturbances and the role of their spatial and temporal properties in shaping community structure. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics (PPEES). Doi:10.1016/j.ppees.2011.11003

Claus, C. & Tielbörger, K. 2011: Ten years successful research on climate change in the Jordan basin. Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung H6: 328-333.

Hoff, H., Bonzi, C., Joyce, B. & Tielbörger, K. 2011: A water resources planning tool for the Jordan River basin. Water 3: 718-736.

Liancourt, P. & Tielbörger, K. 2011: Ecotypic differentiation determines the outcome of positive interactions in a dryland annual plant species. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics (PPEES) 13: 259-264.

Eberhart, A. & Tielbörger, K. 2011: Maternal fecundity does not affect offspring germination – an empirical test of the sibling competition hypothesis. Journal of Arid Environments 76: 23-29.

Ariza, C. & Tielbörger, K. 2011: An evolutionary approach to studying the relative importance of plant-plant ‎interactions along environmental gradients. Functional Ecology 25: 932-942.

Schiffers, K., Tielbörger, K., Tietjen, B. & Jeltsch, F. 2011: Root plasticity buffers competition among plants - theory meets experimental data. Ecology 92: 610-620.

2010:

Tschöpe, O. & Tielbörger, K., Burkart, M., Wallschläger, D. 2010: Management of open habitats by wild ungulate grazing. A case study in North-Eastern Germany. Applied Vegetation Science 14: 200-209.

Seifan M., Schloz-Murer, D., Seifan, T. & Tielbörger, K. 2010: Contribution of molehill disturbances to grassland community composition along a productivity gradient. Acta Oecologica 36: 569-577.

Tielbörger, K., Fleischner, A., Menzel, L., Metz, J. & Sternberg, M. 2010: The aesthetics of water and land - a promising concept for managing scarce water resources under climate change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 368: 5323-5337.

Seifan M., Tielbörger K. & Kadmon, R. 2010: Direct and indirect interactions among plants explain counterintuitive positive drought effects on an eastern Mediterranean shrub species. Oikos 119:1601-1609.

Malkinson, D. & Tielbörger, K. 2010: What does the stress-gradient hypothesis predict? Resolving the discrepancies. Oikos 119: 1546–1552.

Siewert, W. & Tielbörger, K. 2010: The dispersal dormancy trade-off in annual plants: putting model predictions to the test. American Naturalist 176: 590-600.

Lampei, C. & Tielbörger, K. 2010: Evolvability of between-year seed dormancy in populations along an aridity gradient. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 100: 924-934.

Tielbörger, K. & Petrů, M. 2010: An experimental test for effects of the maternal environment on delayed germination. Journal of Ecology 98, 1216–1223.

Tschöpe, O. & Tielbörger, K. 2010: The role of successional stage and small-scale disturbance for the establishment of the pioneer grass Corynephorus canescens. Applied Vegetation Science 13: 326-335.

Metz, J., Liancourt, P., Kigel, J., Harel, D., Sternberg, M., Tielbörger, K. 2010: Plant survival in relation to seed size along environmental gradients: A long-term study from semi-arid and Mediterranean annual plant communities. Journal of Ecology 98: 697-704.

Schiffers, K., Tielbörger, K. & Jeltsch, F. 2010: Changing importance of key factors driving secondary succession. Journal of Vegetation Science 21: 500-506.

Seifan M., Seifan, T., Ariza, C.& Tielbörger, K. 2010: Facilitating an importance index. Journal of Ecology 98: 356-361.

2009:

Liancourt, P. , Tielbörger, K., Bangerter, S. & Prasse, R. 2009: Components of competitive ability in the LHS model. Implication on coexistence for twelve co-occurring Mediterranean grasses. Basic and Applied Ecology 10: 707-714.

Moloney, K., Holzapfel, C., Tielbörger, K., Jeltsch, F. & Schurr, F. 2009: Rethinking the common garden in invasion research. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics (PPEES) 11: 311-320.

Liancourt, P. & Tielbörger, K. 2009: Competition and a short growing season lead to ecotypic differentiation at the two extremes of the ecological range. Functional Ecology 23: 397-404.

Tielbörger, K. & Prasse, R. 2009: Do seeds sense each other? Testing for density-dependent germination in desert perennial plants. Oikos 118: 792-800.

2007-2008:

Brooker, R.B., Maestre, F.T, Callaway, R.M., Lortie, C.L., Cabieres, L.A., Kunstler, G., Liancourt, P., Tielbörger, K., Travis, J.M.J., Anthelme, F., Armas, C., Coll, L., Crocket, E., Delzon, S., Forey, E., Kikvidze, Z., Olofsson, J., Pugnaire, F., Quiroz, C.L. , Saccone, P., Schiffers, K., Seifan, M., Touzard, B. & Michalet, R. 2008: Facilitation in plant communities: the past, the present and the future. Journal of Ecology 96: 18-34.

Petrů, M. & Tielbörger, K. 2008: Germination strategies of annual plants under changing climatic conditions: teasing apart local and regional effects. Oecologia 155: 717-728.

Schiffers, K., Schurr, , F.M., Tielbörger, K., Urbach, C., Moloney, K., & Jeltsch, F. 2008: Analysing heterogeneous point patterns: a case study and field guide for ecologists. Ecography 31: 454-555.

Köchy, M. & Tielbörger, K. 2007: Hydrothermal time model of germination: Parameters for 36 Mediterranean annual species based on a simplified approach. Basic and Applied Ecology 8: 171-182.

2006:

Hoff, H., Küchmeister, H. & Tielbörger, K. 2006: The GLOWA Jordan River Project - Integrated Research for Sustainable Water Management. IWA Water Environment Management Series 10: 73-80.

Holzapfel, C., Tielbörger, K., Parag, H.A., Kigel, J. & Sternberg, M.2006: Annual plant-shrub interactions along an aridity gradient. Basic and Applied Ecology 7: 268-279.

Petrů, M., Tielbörger, K., Belkin, R., Sternberg, M. & Jeltsch, F. 2006: Life history variation of an annual plant under two opposing selective forces along a steep climatic gradient. Ecography 29: 66-74.

Schiffers, K. & Tielbörger, K. 2006: Ontogenetic shifts in interactions among annual plants. Journal of Ecology 94: 336-341.

Valleriani, A. & Tielbörger, K. 2006: Effect of age on germination of dormant seeds. Theoretical Population Biology 70: 1-9.

Tielbörger, K. & Valleriani, A. 2006: Can seeds predict their future? Germination strategies of density-regulated desert annuals. Oikos 113: 384 (corrigenda).

2005 and before:

Brose, U. & Tielbörger, K. 2005: Subtle differences in environmental stress along a flooding gradient affect the importance of interspecific competition in an annual plant community. Plant Ecology 178: 51-59.

Hoff, H., Tielbörger, K. & Küchmeister, H. 2005: Das GLOWA Jordan River Projekt- Integrierte Forschung für nachhaltiges Wassermanagement. Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung 49: 24-28.

Tielbörger, K. & Valleriani, A. 2005: Can seeds predict their future? Germination strategies of density-regulated desert annuals. Oikos 111: 235-244.

Tews, J., Brose, U., Grimm, V., Tielbörger, K., Wichmann, M., Schwager, M. & Jeltsch, F. 2004: Animal species diversity driven by habitat heterogeneity / diversity: the importance of keystone structures. Journal of Biogeography 31: 79-92.

Deutschewitz, K., Tielbörger, K. & Lausch, A. 2003: Erklärt strukturelle Diversität der Landschaft das Verbreitungsmuster von Neophyten? Nova Acta Leopoldina 328: 321-324.

Tschöpe, O., Burkart, M. & Tielbörger, K. 2002: Habitat management in former military training areas by means of megaherbivores. Aktuelle Reihe BTU Cottbus 8: 21-31.

Tielbörger, K. & Kadmon, R. 2000: Indirect effects in a desert plant community: is competition among annuals more intense under shrub canopies? Plant Ecology 150: 53-63.

Tielbörger, K. & Kadmon, R. 2000: Temporal environmental variation tips the balance between facilitation and interference in desert plants. Ecology 81: 1544-1553.

Kadmon, R. & Tielbörger, K. 1999: Testing for source-sink population dynamics: an experimental approach exemplified with desert annuals. Oikos 86: 417-429.

Beyer, L., Tielbörger, K., Blume, H.P., Pfeisterer, U., Pingpank, K. & Podlech, D. 1998: Geo-ecological soil features and the vegetation pattern of an arid dune area in the Northern Negev, Israel. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Sciences 161: 347-356.

Tielbörger, K. & Kadmon, R. 1997: Relationships between shrubs and annual communities in a sandy desert ecosystem: A three-year study. Plant Ecology 130: 191-201.

Tielbörger, K. 1997: The vegetation of linear desert dunes in the north-western Negev, Israel. Flora 192: 261-278.

Tielbörger, K. & Kadmon, R. 1996: The effect of shrubs on community structure of annual plants in a sandy desert ecosystem. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 25: 59-64.

Tielbörger, K. & Kadmon, R. 1995: Effect of shrubs on emergence, survival and fecundity of four coexisting annual species in a sandy desert ecosystem. Ecoscience 2: 141-147.

Book chapters (peer-reviewed)/others

Tielbörger K, Claus C, Schloz D, Twite R, Al-Karablieh E, Salman A, Jayyousi A, Alpert P. 2016: Sustainable Water and Land Management under Global Change – The GLOWA Jordan River Project. Pp 721-747 In: Borchardt D et al. (eds.): Integrated Water Resources Management: Concept, Research and Implementation. Springer (Berlin-Heidelberg).

Onigkeit J, Simon K-H, Alcamo J, Tielbörger K. 2016: Participatory scenario development as a method to integrate science and IWRM – lessons learnt from a case study in the Jordan River region. Pp 269-301 In: Borchardt D et al. (eds.): Integrated Water Resources Management: Concept, Research and Implementation. Springer (Berlin-Heidelberg).

Bonzi C, Onigkeit J, Hoff H, Joyce B, Tielbörger K. 2016: Analysing stakeholder driven scenarios with a transboundary water planning tool for IWRM in the Jordan River basin. Pp 413-433 In: Borchardt D et al. (eds.): Integrated Water Resources Management: Concept, Research and Implementation. Springer (Berlin-Heidelberg).

Tielbörger K. 2015: Mit Wissenschaft Grenzen überwinden- Die Wasserkrise im Nahen Osten. Pages 55-75 in: Triebskorn R, Wertheimer J (eds.): Wasser als Quelle des Lebens. Springer (Berlin-Heidelberg).

Sternberg, M., Holzapfel, C., Tielbörger, K., Pariente, S., Kigel, J., Lavee, H., Fleischner, A., Jeltsch, F. & Köchy, M. 2011: The use and misuse of climatic gradients for evaluating climate impact on dryland ecosystems - an example for the solution of conceptual problems. Pages 361-374 in: Blanco, J. & Kheradmand, H. (eds.): Climate Change- Geophysical Foundations and Ecological Effects. InTech, Rijeka (Croatia).

Drechsler, C. & Tielbörger, K. 2008: The GLOWA Jordan River project: Integrated research for sustainable water management. Mountain Research and Development 27: 274-275.

Tielbörger, K. 2008: To be or not to be- Zur Notwendigkeit von Evolution unter Globalem Wandel. Pages 187-209 in: Betz, O. & Köhler, H. R. (Eds.): Die Evolution des Lebendigen, Attempto-Verlag Tübingen

Tielbörger, K., Prasse, R. & Bornkamm, R. 2008: The vegetation of the Nizzana sand dunes. Pages 105-124 in: Breckle, S. and Yair, A. (eds.): Sand Dune Ecosystems: Structure and processes in the linear dune system of Nizzana/ Sinai-Negev-Sandfield. Ecological Studies. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg.

Tielbörger, K., Prasse, R. & Leschner, H. 2008: The flora of the Nizzana sand dunes. Pages 93-104 in: Breckle, S. and Yair, A. (eds.): Sand Dune Ecosystems: Structure and processes in the linear dune system of Nizzana/ Sinai-Negev-Sandfield. Ecological Studies. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg.

Tielbörger, K., & Kadmon, R. 2008: Interactions between shrubs and annual plants. Pages 385-400 in: Breckle, S. & Yair, A. (eds.): Sand Dune Ecosystems: Structure and processes in the linear dune system of Nizzana/Sinai-Negev-Sandfield. Ecological Studies . Springer Verlag, Heidelberg.

Badeck, F.W. & Tielbörger, K. 2005: Global Change Ecology (Symposium summary). Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft für Ökologie 35: 278-279.

Prasse, R. & Tielbörger, K. 2005: Global climate change induced changes in land-use strategies and its impact on vascular plant biodiversity on arable land in Palestine. In: Biodiversität und Klima - Vernetzung der Akteure in Deutschland. BFN-Skripten 131: 46-49.

Tielbörger, K. 2005: Scenarios and forecasts as decision-making tools - possibilities and limits. pp 60-61 in: Beck, E., Berendsohn, W.G., Boutros, M., Denich, M., Henle, K., Jürgens, N., Kirk, M. & Wolters, V. (Eds.): Sustainable use and conservation of biological diversity - A challenge for society. PT-DLR Environmental Research and Technology, Bonn.

Tielbörger, K., Kadmon, R., Müller, M. & Jeltsch, F. 2000: Populationsdynamische Funktionen von Ausbreitung und Dormanz. Brandenburgische Umwelt Berichte (BUB) 8: 114-115.

Tielbörger, K., Kadmon, R., Müller, M. & Jeltsch, F. 2000: Raum-zeitliche Populationsdynamik von einjährigen Wüstenpflanzen. Brandenburgische Umwelt Berichte (BUB) 8: 116-117.

Tielbörger, K., Prasse, R., Bornkamm, R., Kadmon, R. & Tsoar, H. 2002: Sukzessionsprozesse in einem Sanddünengebiet nach Ausschluß von Beweidung. Brandenburgische Umwelt Berichte (BUB) 8: 112-113.