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Schnabel, F., Beugnon, R., Yang, B., Richter, R., Eisenhauer, N., Huang, Y., Liu, X., Wirth, C., Cesarz, S., Fichtner, A., Perles-Garcia, M., Hähn, G., Härdtle, W., Kunz, M., Castro Izaguirre, N., Niklaus, P., von Oheimb, G., Schmid, B., Trogisch, S., Wendisch, M., Ma, K., Bruelheide, H. (2025). Tree Diversity Increases Forest Temperature Buffering via Enhancing Canopy Density and Structural Diversity. Ecology Letters 28 , e70096. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70096


Madaj, A., Huang, Y., Ebeling, A., Ertel, L., Gebler, A., Gleixner, G., Hines, J., Roscher, C., Weigelt, A., Albracht, C., Amyntas, A., Bassi, L., Asato, A., Bonkowski, M., Bröcher, M., Buscot, F., Giorgi, F., de Souza, Y., Doan, V., Durka, W., Heintz-Buschart, A., Hennecke, J., Lange, M., Berkum, P., Meyer, S., Krawczyk, S., Rai, A., Reitz, T., Ristok, C., Scheu, S., Schloter, M., Schulz, S., Solbach, M., Unsicker, S., Eisenhauer, N. (2025). JenaTron - An Experimental Approach to Study the Effects of Plant History and Soil History on Grassland Ecosystem Functioning. Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) .na.character , e67496. https://doi.org/10.3791/67496


De Giorgi, F., Durka, W., Huang, Y., Schmid, B., Roscher, C. (2025). Selection and Phenotypic Plasticity Shape Plant Performance in a Grassland Biodiversity Experiment. Ecology and Evolution 15 , e71117. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71117


Chen, C., Yan, G., Schmid, B., Li, Y., Bongers, F., Bruelheide, H., Huang, Y., Li, S., von Oheimb, G., Tang, T., Verheyen, K., Yang, B., Ma, K., Liu, X. (2025). Understory Shrub Diversity: Equally Vital as Overstory Tree Diversity to Promote Forest Productivity. National Science Review .na.character , nwaf093. https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwaf093


Beugnon, R., Eisenhauer, N., Lochner, A., Blechinger, M., Buhr, P., Cesarz, S., Farfan, M., Ferlian, O., Rompeltien Howard, A., Huang, Y., Kuhlmann, B., Lienicke, N., Mählmann, S., Nowka, A., Petereit, E., Ristok, C., Schädler, M., Schmid, J., Schulte, L., Seim, K., Thouvenot, L., Tremmel, R., Weber, L., Weitowitz, J., Yi, H., Sünnemann, M. (2025). Sustainable Land Use Enhances Soil Microbial Respiration Responses to Experimental Heat Stress. Global Change Biology 31 , e70214. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70214


Uwiragiye, Y., Wang, J., Huang, Y., Wu, L., Zhou, J., Zhang, Y., Chen, M., Jing, H., Qian, Y., Elrys, A., Cheng, Y., Cai, Z., Xu, M., Chang, S., Müller, C. (2024). Global Ecosystem Nitrogen Cycling Reciprocates Between Land-Use Conversion and Its Reversal. Global Change Biology 30 , e17537. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17537


Luo, S., Schmid, B., Hector, A., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Verheyen, K., Barsoum, N., Bauhus, J., Beyer, F., Bruelheide, H., Ferlian, O., Godbold, D., Hall, J., Hajek, P., Huang, Y., Hölscher, D., Kreft, H., Liu, X., Messier, C., Nock, C., Paquette, A., Parker, J., Parker, W., Paterno, G., Reich, P., Rewald, B., Sandén, H., Sinacore, K., Stefanski, A., Williams, L., Eisenhauer, N. (2024). Mycorrhizal Associations Modify Tree Diversity-productivity Relationships across Experimental Tree Plantations. New Phytologist 243 , 1205–1219. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19889


Liu, Q., Eisenhauer, N., Scheu, S., Angst, G., Bücker, M., Huang, Y., Meador, T., Schädler, M. (2024). Climate-Dependent Plant Responses to Earthworms in Two Land-Use Types. Oecologia 204 , 133–146. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-023-05493-9


Li, Y., Schuldt, A., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Huang, Y., Albert, G., Albracht, C., Amyntas, A., Bonkowski, M., Bruelheide, H., Bröcher, M., Chesters, D., Chen, J., Chen, Y., Chen, J., Ciobanu, M., Deng, X., Fornoff, F., Gleixner, G., Guo, L., Guo, P., Heintz-Buschart, A., Klein, A., Lange, M., Li, S., Li, Q., Li, Y., Luo, A., Meyer, S., von Oheimb, G., Rutten, G., Scholten, T., Solbach, M., Staab, M., Wang, M., Zhang, N., Zhu, C., Schmid, B., Ma, K., Liu, X. (2024). Plant Diversity Enhances Ecosystem Multifunctionality via Multitrophic Diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution 8 , 2037–2047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02517-2


Huang, Y., Stein, G., Kolle, O., Kübler, K., Schulze, E., Dong, H., Eichenberg, D., Gleixner, G., Hildebrandt, A., Lange, M., Roscher, C., Schielzeth, H., Schmid, B., Weigelt, A., Weisser, W., Shadaydeh, M., Denzler, J., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N. (2024). Enhanced Stability of Grassland Soil Temperature by Plant Diversity. Nature Geoscience 17 , 44–50. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01338-5


Eisenhauer, N., Mueller, K., Ebeling, A., Gleixner, G., Huang, Y., Madaj, A., Roscher, C., Weigelt, A., Bahn, M., Bonkowski, M., Brose, U., Cesarz, S., Feilhauer, H., Guimaraes-Steinicke, C., Heintz-Buschart, A., Hines, J., Lange, M., Meyer, S., Mohanbabu, N., Mommer, L., Neuhauser, S., Oelmann, Y., Rahmanian, S., Sasaki, T., Scheu, S., Schielzeth, H., Schmid, B., Schloter, M., Schulz, S., Unsicker, S., Vogel, C., Weisser, W., Isbell, F. (2024). The Multiple-Mechanisms Hypothesis of Biodiversity–Stability Relationships. Basic and Applied Ecology 79 , 153–166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2024.07.004


Dietrich, P., Ebeling, A., Meyer, S., Asato, A., Bröcher, M., Gleixner, G., Huang, Y., Roscher, C., Schmid, B., Vogel, A., Eisenhauer, N. (2024). Plant Diversity and Community Age Stabilize Ecosystem Multifunctionality. Global Change Biology 30 , e17225. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17225


de Souza, Y., Schloter, M., Weisser, W., Huang, Y., Schulz, S. (2024). The Seeds of Plantago Lanceolata Comprise a Stable Core Microbiome along a Plant Richness Gradient. Environmental Microbiome 19 , 11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-024-00552-x


de~Souza, Y., Siani, R., Albracht, C., Huang, Y., Eisenhauer, N., Vogel, A., Wagg, C., Schloter, M., Schulz, S. (2024). The Effect of Successive Summer Drought Periods on Bacterial Diversity along a Plant Species Richness Gradient. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 100 , fiae096. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiae096


Bönisch, E., Blagodatskaya, E., Dirzo, R., Ferlian, O., Fichtner, A., Huang, Y., Leonard, S., Maestre, F., von Oheimb, G., Ray, T., Eisenhauer, N. (2024). Mycorrhizal Type and Tree Diversity Affect Foliar Elemental Pools and Stoichiometry. New Phytologist 242 , 1614–1629. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19732


Huang, Y., Stein, G., Kolle, O., Kuebler, K., Schulze, E., Dong, H., Eichenberg, D., Gleixner, G., Hildebrandt, A., Lange, M., Roscher, C., Schielzeth, H., Schmid, B., Weigelt, A., Weisser, W., Shadaydeh, M., Denzler, J., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N. (2023). Plant Diversity Stabilizes Soil Temperature. .na.character .na.character , 2023.03.13.532451. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.13.532451


Eisenhauer, N., Ochoa-Hueso, R., Huang, Y., Barry, K., Gebler, A., Guerra, C., Hines, J., Jochum, M., Andraczek, K., Bucher, S., Buscot, F., Ciobanu, M., Chen, H., Junker, R., Lange, M., Lehmann, A., Rillig, M., Römermann, C., Ulrich, J., Weigelt, A., Schmidt, A., Türke, M. (2023). Ecosystem Consequences of Invertebrate Decline. Current Biology 33 , 4538–4547. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.09.012


Dietrich, P., Ferlian, O., Huang, Y., Luo, S., Quosh, J., Eisenhauer, N. (2023). Tree Diversity Effects on Productivity Depend on Mycorrhizae and Life Strategies in a Temperate Forest Experiment. Ecology 104 , e3896. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3896


Deng, M., Hu, S., Guo, L., Jiang, L., Huang, Y., Schmid, B., Liu, C., Chang, P., Li, S., Liu, X., Ma, K., Liu, L. (2023). Tree Mycorrhizal Association Types Control Biodiversity-Productivity Relationship in a Subtropical Forest. Science Advances 9 , eadd4468. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add4468


Svenningsen, C., Bowler, D., Hecker, S., Bladt, J., Grescho, V., van Dam, N., Dauber, J., Eichenberg, D., Ejrn\aes, R., Fl\ojgaard, C., Frenzel, M., Fr\oslev, T., Hansen, A., Heilmann-Clausen, J., Huang, Y., Larsen, J., Menger, J., Nayan, N., Pedersen, L., Richter, A., Dunn, R., T\ottrup, A., Bonn, A. (2022). Flying Insect Biomass Is Negatively Associated with Urban Cover in Surrounding Landscapes. Diversity and Distributions 28 , 1242–1254. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13532


Liu, X., Huang, Y., Chen, L., Li, S., Bongers, F., Castro-Izaguirre, N., Liang, Y., Yang, B., Chen, Y., Schnabel, F., Tang, T., Xue, Y., Trogisch, S., Staab, M., Bruelheide, H., Schmid, B., Ma, K. (2022). Species Richness, Functional Traits and Climate Interactively Affect Tree Survival in a Large Forest Biodiversity Experiment. Journal of Ecology 110 , 2522–2531. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13970


Huang, Y., Schuldt, A., Hönig, L., Yang, B., Liu, X., Bruelheide, H., Ma, K., Schmid, B., Niklaus, P. (2022). Effects of Enemy Exclusion on Biodiversity–Productivity Relationships in a Subtropical Forest Experiment. Journal of Ecology 110 , 2167–2178. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13940


Chen, Y., Huang, Y., Niklaus, P., Castro-Izaguirre, N., Clark, A., Bruelheide, H., Ma, K., Schmid, B. (2020). Directed Species Loss Reduces Community Productivity in a Subtropical Forest Biodiversity Experiment. Nature Ecology & Evolution 4 , 550–559. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1127-4


Bruelheide, H., Chen, Y., Huang, Y., Ma, K., Niklaus, P., Schmid, B. (2019). Response to Comment on ``Impacts of Species Richness on Productivity in a Large-Scale Subtropical Forest Experiment''. Science 363 , eaav9863. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aav9863


Liu, X., Trogisch, S., He, J., Niklaus, P., Bruelheide, H., Tang, Z., Erfmeier, A., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Pietsch, K., Yang, B. (2018). Tree Species Richness Increases Ecosystem Carbon Storage in Subtropical Forests. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285 , 20181240.


Huang, Y., Ma, K., Niklaus, P., Schmid, B. (2018). Leaf-Litter Overyielding in a Forest Biodiversity Experiment in Subtropical China. Forest Ecosystems 5 , 38. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40663-018-0157-8


Huang, Y., Chen, Y., Castro-Izaguirre, N., Baruffol, M., Brezzi, M., Lang, A., Li, Y., Härdtle, W., von Oheimb, G., Yang, X., Liu, X., Pei, K., Both, S., Yang, B., Eichenberg, D., Assmann, T., Bauhus, J., Behrens, T., Buscot, F., Chen, X., Chesters, D., Ding, B., Durka, W., Erfmeier, A., Fang, J., Fischer, M., Guo, L., Guo, D., Gutknecht, J., He, J., He, C., Hector, A., Hönig, L., Hu, R., Klein, A., Kühn, P., Liang, Y., Li, S., Michalski, S., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T., Schuldt, A., Shi, X., Tan, M., Tang, Z., Trogisch, S., Wang, Z., Welk, E., Wirth, C., Wubet, T., Xiang, W., Yu, M., Yu, X., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, N., Zhou, H., Zhu, C., Zhu, L., Bruelheide, H., Ma, K., Niklaus, P., Schmid, B. (2018). Impacts of Species Richness on Productivity in a Large-Scale Subtropical Forest Experiment. Science 362 , 80–83. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat6405


Wang, C., Ma, Y., Trogisch, S., Huang, Y., Geng, Y., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., He, J. (2017). Soil Respiration Is Driven by Fine Root Biomass along a Forest Chronosequence in Subtropical China. Journal of Plant Ecology 10 , 36–46. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtw044


Trogisch, S., Schuldt, A., Bauhus, J., Blum, J., Both, S., Buscot, F., Castro-Izaguirre, N., Chesters, D., Durka, W., Eichenberg, D., Erfmeier, A., Fischer, M., Geißler, C., Germany, M., Goebes, P., Gutknecht, J., Hahn, C., Haider, S., Härdtle, W., He, J., Hector, A., Hönig, L., Huang, Y., Klein, A., Kühn, P., Kunz, M., Leppert, K., Li, Y., Liu, X., Niklaus, P., Pei, Z., Pietsch, K., Prinz, R., Proß, T., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schmidt, K., Scholten, T., Seitz, S., Song, Z., Staab, M., von Oheimb, G., Weißbecker, C., Welk, E., Wirth, C., Wubet, T., Yang, B., Yang, X., Zhu, C., Schmid, B., Ma, K., Bruelheide, H. (2017). Toward a Methodical Framework for Comprehensively Assessing Forest Multifunctionality. Ecology and Evolution 7 , 10652–10674. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3488


Huang, Y., Ma, Y., Zhao, K., Niklaus, P., Schmid, B., He, J. (2017). Positive Effects of Tree Species Diversity on Litterfall Quantity and Quality along a Secondary Successional Chronosequence in a Subtropical Forest. Journal of Plant Ecology 10 , 28–35. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtw115


Bu, W., Schmid, B., Liu, X., Li, Y., Härdtle, W., von Oheimb, G., Liang, Y., Sun, Z., Huang, Y., Bruelheide, H., Ma, K. (2017). Interspecific and Intraspecific Variation in Specific Root Length Drives Aboveground Biodiversity Effects in Young Experimental Forest Stands. Journal of Plant Ecology 10 , 158–169. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtw096


Mi, Z., Huang, Y., Gan, H., Zhou, W., Flynn, D., He, J. (2015). Leaf P Increase Outpaces Leaf N in an Inner Mongolia Grassland over 27 Years. Biology Letters 11 , 20140981. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0981


Eichenberg, D., Trogisch, S., Huang, Y., He, J., Bruelheide, H. (2015). Shifts in Community Leaf Functional Traits Are Related to Litter Decomposition along a Secondary Forest Succession Series in Subtropical China. Journal of Plant Ecology 8 , 401–410. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtu021


Huang, Y., Olbrecht, L., Yang, X., He, J. (2014). Effects of Nutrient Additions on the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Colonization in the Alpine Meadow on the Tibetan Plateau. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Pekinensis 50 , 911–918. https://doi.org/10.13209/j.0479-8023.2014.074


Ma, Y., Geng, Y., Huang, Y., Shi, Y., Niklaus, P., Schmid, B., He, J. (2013). Effect of Clear-Cutting Silviculture on Soil Respiration in a Subtropical Forest of China. Journal of Plant Ecology 6 , 335–348. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtt038