Prof. Dr. Ansgar Kahmen

Hecht, Katharina, Kowalchuk, George A., Ford Denison, R., Kahmen, Ansgar, Xiong, Wu, Jousset, Alexandre, & Ravanbakhsh, Mohammadhossein. (2025). Deletion of ACC Deaminase in Symbionts Converts the Host Plant From Water Waster to Water Saver [Journal-article]. Plant, Cell and Environment, 48(3), 1919–1931. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.15265

Zahnd, Cedric, Zehnder, Miro, Arend, Matthias, Kahmen, Ansgar, & Hoch, Günter. (2024). Uniform carbon reserve dynamics along the vertical light gradient in mature tree crowns [Journal-article]. Tree Physiology, 44(13), 232–245. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpae005

Canarini, Alberto, Fuchslueger, Lucia, Schnecker, Jörg, Metze, Dennis, Nelson, Daniel B., Kahmen, Ansgar, Watzka, Margarete, Pötsch, Erich M., Schaumberger, Andreas, Bahn, Michael, & Richter, Andreas. (2024). Soil fungi remain active and invest in storage compounds during drought independent of future climate conditions [Journal-article]. Nature Communications, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54537-y

Domeignoz-Horta, Luiz A., Cappelli, Seraina L., Shrestha, Rashmi, Gerin, Stephanie, Lohila, Annalea K., Heinonsalo, Jussi, Nelson, Daniel B., Kahmen, Ansgar, Duan, Pengpeng, Sebag, David, Verrecchia, Eric, & Laine, Anna-Liisa. (2024). Plant diversity drives positive microbial associations in the rhizosphere enhancing carbon use efficiency in agricultural soils. Nature Communications, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52449-5

Gauthey, Alice, Kahmen, Ansgar, Limousin, Jean‐Marc, Vilagrosa, Alberto, Didion‐Gency, Margaux, Mas, Eugénie, Milano, Arianna, Tunas, Alex, & Grossiord, Charlotte. (2024). High heat tolerance, evaporative cooling, and stomatal decoupling regulate canopy temperature and their safety margins in three European oak species [Journal-article]. Global Change Biology, 30(8). https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17439

Morgner, Eva, Holloway‐Phillips, Meisha, Basler, David, Nelson, Daniel B., & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2024). Effects of increasing atmospheric CO2 on leaf water δ18O values are small and are attenuated in grasses and amplified in dicotyledonous herbs and legumes when transferred to cellulose δ18O values [Journal-article]. New Phytologist, 242(5), 1944–1956. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19713

Wang, Songwei, Hoch, Günter, Grun, Georges, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2024). Water loss after stomatal closure: Quantifying leaf minimum conductance and minimal water use in nine temperate European tree species during a severe drought [Journal-article]. Tree Physiology, 44(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpae027

Rohner, Nadja, Lepori, Selina, Loaiza, Viviana, Sebag, David, Verrecchia, Eric, Nelson, Daniel B., Kahmen, Ansgar, Niklaus, Pascal A., Laine, Anna-Liisa, & Domeignoz-Horta, Luiz A. (2024). Erosion of community complexity increases temperature-dependency of microbial respiration, but not growth, in short-term incubations [Journal-article]. Elementa, 12(1), 3221–3229. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2023.00100

Arend, Matthias, Hoch, Günter, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2024). Stem growth phenology, not canopy greening, constrains deciduous tree growth [Journal-article]. Tree Physiology, 44(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpad160

Treydte, Kerstin, Liu, Laibao, Padrón, Ryan S., Martínez-Sancho, Elisabet, Babst, Flurin, Frank, David C., Gessler, Arthur, Kahmen, Ansgar, Poulter, Benjamin, Seneviratne, Sonia I., Stegehuis, Annemiek I., Wilson, Rob, Andreu-Hayles, Laia, Bale, Roderick, Bednarz, Zdzislaw, Boettger, Tatjana, Berninger, Frank, Büntgen, Ulf, Daux, Valerie, et al. (2024). Recent human-induced atmospheric drying across Europe unprecedented in the last 400 years [Journal-article]. Nature Geoscience, 17(1), 58–65. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01335-8

Weber, Sören Eliot, Bascompte, Jordi, Kahmen, Ansgar, & Niklaus, Pascal A. (2024). Plant choice between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species results in increased plant P acquisition [Journal-article]. PLoS ONE, 19(1 January), e0292811. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292811

Kahmen, Ansgar, Nelson, Daniel B., De Vos, Jurriaan M., & Basler, David. (2023). Stable isotopes from herbarium specimens reveal physiological responses of plants to global change [Journal-article]. BAUHINIA – Zeitschrift Der Basler Botanischen Gesellschaft, 29, 121–122. https://doi.org/10.12685/bauhinia.1364

Holloway-Phillips, Meisha, Cernusak, Lucas A., Nelson, Daniel B., Lehmann, Marco M., Tcherkez, Guillaume, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2023). Covariation between oxygen and hydrogen stable isotopes declines along the path from xylem water to wood cellulose across an aridity gradient. New Phytologist, 240(5), 1758–1773. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19248

Schärer, Marie‐Louise, Lüscher, Andreas, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2023). Post‐drought compensatory growth in perennial grasslands is determined by legacy effects of the soil and not by plants [Journal-article]. New Phytologist, 240(6), 2265–2275. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19291

Helm, Juliane, Muhr, Jan, Hilman, Boaz, Kahmen, Ansgar, Schulze, Ernst-Detlef, Trumbore, Susan, Herrera-Ramírez, David, & Hartmann, Henrik. (2023). Carbon dynamics in long-term starving poplar trees—the importance of older carbohydrates and a shift to lipids during survival [Journal-article]. Tree Physiology, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpad135

Möhl, Patrick, Vorkauf, Maria, Kahmen, Ansgar, & Hiltbrunner, Erika. (2023). Recurrent summer drought affects biomass production and community composition independently of snowmelt manipulation in alpine grassland [Journal-article]. Journal of Ecology, 111(11), 2357–2375. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14180

Canarini, Alberto, Fuchslueger, Lucia, Schnecker, Jörg, Metze, Dennis, Nelson, Daniel B., Kahmen, Ansgar, Watzka, Margarete, Pötsch, Erich M., Schaumberger, Andreas, Bahn, Michael, & Richter, Andreas. (2023). Soil fungi remain active and invest in storage compounds during drought independent of future climate conditions [Posted-content]. In bioRxiv . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.23.563577

Dietrich, Lars, Kahmen, Ansgar, Hoch, Günter, & Körner, Christian. (2023). Reply to: The three-dimensional structure of wood enables horizontal water transport needed to conduct water around lesions [Journal-article]. Scientific Reports, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-41785-z

Baan, Jochem, Holloway-Phillips, Meisha, Nelson, Daniel B., & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2023). The metabolic sensitivity of hydrogen isotope fractionation differs between plant compounds. Phytochemistry, 207, 113563. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2022.113563

Baan, Jochem, Holloway-Phillips, Meisha, Nelson, Daniel B., & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2023). Species and biosynthetic effects cause uncorrelated variation in oxygen and hydrogen isotope compositions of plant organic compounds. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 352, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2023.04.013

Peters, Richard L., Steppe, Kathy, Pappas, Christoforos, Zweifel, Roman, Babst, Flurin, Dietrich, Lars, von Arx, Georg, Poyatos, Rafael, Fonti, Marina, Fonti, Patrick, Grossiord, Charlotte, Gharun, Mana, Buchmann, Nina, Steger, David N., & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2023). Daytime stomatal regulation in mature temperate trees prioritizes stem rehydration at night. New Phytologist, 239(2), 533–546. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18964

Zahnd, Cedric, Arend, Matthias, Kahmen, Ansgar, & Hoch, Gunter. (2023). Microclimatic gradients cause phenological variations within temperate tree canopies in autumn but not in spring. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 331, ARTN 109340. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2023.109340

Zweifel, Roman, Pappas, Christoforos, Peters, Richard L., Babst, Flurin, Balanzategui, Daniel, Basler, David, Bastos, Ana, Beloiu, Mirela, Buchmann, Nina, Bose, Arun K., Braun, Sabine, Damm, Alexander, D’Odorico, Petra, Eitel, Jan U. H., Etzold, Sophia, Fonti, Patrick, Rouholahnejad Freund, Elham, Gessler, Arthur, Haeni, Matthias, et al. (2023). Networking the forest infrastructure towards near real-time monitoring - A white paper. Science of the Total Environment, 872, 162167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162167

Arend, Matthias, Link, Roman Mathias, Zahnd, Cedric, Hoch, Günter, Schuldt, Bernhard, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2022). Lack of hydraulic recovery as cause of post-drought foliage reduction and canopy decline in European beech. New Phytologist, 234(4), 1195–1205. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18065

Cernusak, Lucas A., Barbeta, Adrià, Bush, Rosemary T., Eichstaedt Bögelein, Rebekka, Ferrio, Juan Pedro, Flanagan, Lawrence B., Gessler, Arthur, Martín-Gómez, Paula, Hirl, Regina T., Kahmen, Ansgar, Keitel, Claudia, Lai, Chun-Ta, Munksgaard, Niels C., Nelson, Daniel B., Ogée, Jérôme, Roden, John S., Schnyder, Hans, Voelker, Steven L., Wang, Lixin, et al. (2022). Do 2H and 18O in leaf water reflect environmental drivers differently? The New Phytologist, 235(1), 41–51. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18113

Cueni, Florian, Nelson, Daniel B., Lehmann, Marco M., Boner, Markus, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2022). Constraining parameter uncertainty for predicting oxygen and hydrogen isotope values in fruit. Journal of Experimental Botany, 73(14), 5016–5032. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erac180

Etzold, Sophia, Sterck, Frank, Bose, Arun K., Braun, Sabine, Buchmann, Nina, Eugster, Werner, Gessler, Arthur, Kahmen, Ansgar, Peters, Richard L., Vitasse, Yann, Walthert, Lorenz, Ziemińska, Kasia, & Zweifel, Roman. (2022). Number of growth days and not length of the growth period determines radial stem growth of temperate trees. Ecology Letters, 25(2), 427–439. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13933

Holloway-Phillips, Meisha, Baan, Jochem, Nelson, Daniel B., Lehmann, Marco M., Tcherkez, Guillaume, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2022). Species variation in the hydrogen isotope composition of leaf cellulose is mostly driven by isotopic variation in leaf sucrose. Plant, Cell and Environment, 45(9), 2636–2651. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.14362

Kahmen, Ansgar, Basler, David, Hoch, Günter, Link, Roman Mathias, Schuldt, Bernhard, Zahnd, Cedric, & Arend, Matthias. (2022). Root water uptake depth determines the hydraulic vulnerability of temperate European tree species during the extreme 2018 drought. Plant Biology, 24(7), 1224–1239. https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.13476

Leppä, Kersti, Tang, Yu, Ogée, Jérôme, Launiainen, Samuli, Kahmen, Ansgar, Kolari, Pasi, Sahlstedt, Elina, Saurer, Matthias, Schiestl-Aalto, Pauliina, & Rinne-Garmston, Katja T. (2022). Explicitly accounting for needle sugar pool size crucial for predicting intra‐seasonal dynamics of needle carbohydrates δ 18 O and δ 13 C. New Phytologist, 18227. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18227

McDowell, Nate G., Sapes, Gerard, Pivovaroff, Alexandria, Adams, Henry D., Allen, Craig D., Anderegg, William R. L., Arend, Matthias, Breshears, David D., Brodribb, Tim, Choat, Brendan, Cochard, Herve, De Caceres, Miquel, De Kauwe, Martin G., Grossiord, Charlotte, Hammond, William M., Hartmann, Henrik, Hoch, Günter, Kahmen, Ansgar, Klein, Tamir, et al. (2022). Mechanisms of woody-plant mortality under rising drought, CO2 and vapour pressure deficit. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 3(5), 294–308. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00272-1

Schaerer, Marie-Louise, Dietrich, Lars, Kundel, Dominika, Maeder, Paul, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2022). Reduced plant water use can explain higher soil moisture in organic compared to conventional farming systems. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, 332, ARTN 107915. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2022.107915

Arend, Matthias, Link, Roman M., Patthey, Rachel, Hoch, Günter, Schuldt, Bernhard, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2021). Rapid hydraulic collapse as cause of drought-induced mortality in conifers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(16), e2025251118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2025251118

Benettin, Paolo, Nehemy, Magali F., Cernusak, Lucas A., Kahmen, Ansgar, & McDonnell, Jeffrey J. (2021). On the use of leaf water to determine plant water source: A proof of concept. Hydrological Processes, 35(3), ARTN e14073. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14073

Cueni, Florian, Nelson, Daniel B., Boner, Markus, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2021). Using plant physiological stable oxygen isotope models to counter food fraud. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 17314. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96722-9

Cueni, Florian, Nelson, Daniel B., & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2021). Effects of phenotypic variability on the oxygen and hydrogen isotope compositions of grains in different winter wheat varieties. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/10256016.2021.2002855

Guyer, Anouk, van Doan, Cong, Maurer, Corina, Machado, Ricardo A. R., Mateo, Pierre, Steinauer, Katja, Kesner, Lucie, Hoch, Günter, Kahmen, Ansgar, Erb, Matthias, & Robert, Christelle A. M. (2021). Climate Change Modulates Multitrophic Interactions Between Maize, A Root Herbivore, and Its Enemies. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 47(10-11), 889–906. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-021-01303-9

Hahn, Claudia, Luscher, Andreas, Ernst-Hasler, Sara, Suter, Matthias, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2021). Timing of drought in the growing season and strong legacy effects determine the annual productivity of temperate grasses in a changing climate. Biogeosciences, 18(2), 585–604. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-585-2021

Kahmen, Ansgar, Buser, Till, Hoch, Guenter, Grun, Georges, & Dietrich, Lars. (2021). Dynamic H-2 irrigation pulse labelling reveals rapid infiltration and mixing of precipitation in the soil and species-specific water uptake depths of trees in a temperate forest. Ecohydrology, 14(6), ARTN e2322. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2322

Ladd, S. Nemiah, Nelson, Daniel B., Bamberger, Ines, Daber, L. Erik, Kreuzwieser, Jürgen, Kahmen, Ansgar, & Werner, Christiane. (2021). Metabolic exchange between pathways for isoprenoid synthesis and implications for biosynthetic hydrogen isotope fractionation. The New Phytologist, 231(5), 1708–1719. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17510

Messerschmid, Thibaud F. E., Wehling, Judith, Bobon, Nadine, Kahmen, Ansgar, Klak, Cornelia, Los, Jessica A., Nelson, Daniel B., dos Santos, Patricia, de Vos, Jurriaan M., & Kadereit, Gudrun. (2021). Carbon isotope composition of plant photosynthetic tissues reflects a Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM) continuum in the majority of CAM lineages. Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics, 51, ARTN 125619. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2021.125619

Nelson, Daniel B., Basler, David, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2021). Precipitation isotope time series predictions from machine learning applied in Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(26), ARTN e2024107118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2024107118

Schönbeck, Leonie, Li, Mai-He, Lehmann, Marco M., Rigling, Andreas, Schaub, Marcus, Hoch, Günter, Kahmen, Ansgar, & Gessler, Arthur. (2021). Soil nutrient availability alters tree carbon allocation dynamics during drought. Tree Physiology, 41(5), 697–707. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpaa139

Singh, Devesh, Mathimaran, Natarajan, Sekar, Jegan, Vaiyapuri Ramalingam, Prabavathy, Perisamy, Yuvaraj, Raju, Kathiravan, Raj, Rengalakshmi, King, Israel Oliver, Nanjundegowda, Thimmegowda Matadadoddi, Baiyapalli Narayanswamy, Manjunatha, Nayakanahalli Chikkegowda, Bhavitha, Siddegowda, Savitha Matakere, Joseph Bagyaraj, Davis, Mäder, Paul, Boller, Thomas, & Kahmen, Ansgar *. (2021). Spatial Arrangement and Biofertilizers Enhance the Performance of Legume-Millet Intercropping System in Rainfed Areas of Southern India. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 5, 711284. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.711284

Vorkauf, Maria, Kahmen, Ansgar, Körner, Christian, & Hiltbrunner, Erika. (2021). Flowering phenology in alpine grassland strongly responds to shifts in snowmelt but weakly to summer drought. Alpine Botany, 131(1), 73–88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00035-021-00252-z

Vorkauf, Maria, Marty, Christoph, Kahmen, Ansgar, & Hiltbrunner, Erika. (2021). Past and future snowmelt trends in the Swiss Alps: the role of temperature and snowpack. Climatic Change, 165(3-4), 44. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03027-x

Zweifel, Roman, Etzold, Sophia, Basler, David, Bischoff, Reinhard, Braun, Sabine, Buchmann, Nina, Conedera, Marco, Fonti, Patrick, Gessler, Arthur, Haeni, Matthias, Hoch, Günter, Kahmen, Ansgar, Köchli, Roger, Maeder, Marcus, Nievergelt, Daniel, Peter, Martina, Peters, Richard L., Schaub, Marcus, Trotsiuk, Volodymyr, et al. (2021). TreeNet-The Biological Drought and Growth Indicator Network. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 4, 776905. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.776905

Joseph, Jobin, Gao, Decai, Backes, Bernhard, Bloch, Corinne, Brunner, Ivano, Gleixner, Gerd, Haeni, Matthias, Hartmann, Henrik, Hoch, Günter, Hug, Christian, Kahmen, Ansgar, Lehmann, Marco M., Li, Mai-He, Luster, Jörg, Peter, Martina, Poll, Christian, Rigling, Andreas, Rissanen, Kaisa A., Ruehr, Nadine K., et al. (2020). Rhizosphere activity in an old-growth forest reacts rapidly to changes in soil moisture and shapes whole-tree carbon allocation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(40), 24885–24892. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2014084117

Lehmann, Marco M., Egli, Melanie, Brinkmann, Nadine, Werner, Roland A., Saurer, Matthias, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2020). Improving the extraction and purification of leaf and phloem sugars for oxygen isotope analyses. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry : RCM, 34(19), e8854. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.8854

Lehmann, Marco M., Goldsmith, Gregory R., Mirande-Ney, Cathleen, Weigt, Rosemarie B., Schoenbeck, Leonie, Kahmen, Ansgar, Gessler, Arthur, Siegwolf, Rolf T. W., & Saurer, Matthias. (2020). The O-18-signal transfer from water vapour to leaf water and assimilates varies among plant species and growth forms. Plant Cell and Environment, 43(2), 510–523. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.13682

Mathimaran, Natarajan, Jegan, Sekar, Thimmegowda, Matadadoddi Nanjundegowda, Prabavathy, Vaiyapuri Ramalingam, Yuvaraj, Perisamy, Kathiravan, Raju, Sivakumar, Mohanur Natesan, Manjunatha, Baiyapalli Narayanswamy, Bhavitha, Nayakanahalli Chikkegowda, Sathish, Ayyappa, Shashidhar, Gurudevarahalli Chikkathamegowda, Bagyaraj, Davis Joseph, Ashok, Ettigi Gurubasappa, Singh, Devesh, Kahmen, Ansgar, Boller, Thomas, & Maeder, Paul. (2020). Intercropping Transplanted Pigeon Pea With Finger Millet: Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria Boost Yield While Reducing Fertilizer Input. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 4, ARTN 88. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.00088

Schoenbeck, Leonie, Gessler, Arthur, Schaub, Marcus, Rigling, Andreas, Hoch, Guenter, Kahmen, Ansgar, & Li, Mai-He. (2020). Soil nutrients and lowered source:sink ratio mitigate effects of mild but not of extreme drought in trees. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 169, 103905. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2019.103905

Schuldt, Bernhard, Buras, Allan, Arend, Matthias, Vitasse, Yann, Beierkuhnlein, Carl, Damm, Alexander, Gharun, Mana, Grams, Thorsten E. E., Hauck, Markus, Hajek, Peter, Hartmann, Henrik, Hiltbrunner, Erika, Hoch, Guenter, Holloway-Phillips, Meisha, Koerner, Christian, Larysch, Elena, Luebbe, Torben, Nelson, Daniel B., Rammig, Anja, et al. (2020). A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests. Basic and Applied Ecology, 45, 86–103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2020.04.003

Singh, Devesh, Mathimaran, Natarajan, Boller, Thomas, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2020). Deep-rooted pigeon pea promotes the water relations and survival of shallow-rooted finger millet during drought-Despite strong competitive interactions at ambient water availability. Plos One, 15(2), e0228993. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228993

van der Veen, Iris, Peterse, Francien, Davenport, Jesse, Meese, Bernd, Bookhagen, Bodo, France-Lanord, Christian, Kahmen, Ansgar, Hassenruck-Gudipati, Hima J., Gajurel, Ananta, Strecker, Manfred R., & Sachse, Dirk. (2020). Validation and calibration of soil delta H-2 and brGDGTs along (E-W) and strike (N-S) of the Himalayan climatic gradient. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 290, 408–423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2020.09.014

Wohlgemuth, Lena, Osterwalder, Stefan, Joseph, Carl, Kahmen, Ansgar, Hoch, Günter, Alewell, Christine, & Jiskra, Martin. (2020). A bottom-up quantification of foliar mercury uptake fluxes across Europe. Biogeosciences, 17(24), 6441–6456. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-6441-2020

Ardenghi, Nicole, Mulch, Andreas, Koutsodendris, Andreas, Pross, Joerg, Kahmen, Ansgar, & Niedermeyer, Eva M. (2019). Temperature and moisture variability in the eastern Mediterranean region during Marine Isotope Stages 11-10 based on biomarker analysis of the Tenaghi Philippon peat deposit. Quaternary Science Reviews, 225, UNSP105977. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.105977

Bello, Jordan, Hasselquist, Niles J., Vallet, Patrick, Kahmen, Ansgar, Perot, Thomas, & Korboulewsky, Nathalie. (2019). Complementary water uptake depth of Quercus petraea and Pinus sylvestris in mixed stands during an extreme drought. Plant and Soil, 437(1-2), 93–115. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-019-03951-z

Brinkmann, Nadine, Eugster, Werner, Buchmann, Nina, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2019). Species-specific differences in water uptake depth of mature temperate trees vary with water availability in the soil. Plant Biology (Stuttgart, Germany), 21(1), 71–81. https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.12907

Cormier, M. -A., Werner, R. A., Leuenberger, M. C., & Kahmen, A. (2019). H-2-enrichment of cellulose and n-alkanes in heterotrophic plants. Oecologia, 189(2), 365–373. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-019-04338-8

Dietrich, Lars, Delzon, Sylvain, Hoch, Guenter, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2019). No role for xylem embolism or carbohydrate shortage in temperate trees during the severe 2015 drought. Journal of Ecology, 107(1), 334–349. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13051

Dietrich, Lars, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2019). Water relations of drought-stressed temperate trees benefit from short drought-intermitting rainfall events. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 265, 70–77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.11.012

Fataar, Shakira, Kahmen, Ansgar, & Luka, Henryk. (2019). Innate and learned olfactory attraction to flowering plants by the parasitoid Cotesia rubecula (Marshall, 1885) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): Potential impacts on conservation biological control. Biological Control, 132, 16–22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2019.01.009

Hiltbrunner, Erika, Körner, Christian, Meier, Reto, Braun, Sabine, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2019). Data do not support large-scale oligotrophication of terrestrial ecosystems. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3(9), 1285–1286. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0948-5

Parepa, Madalin, Kahmen, Ansgar, Werner, Roland A., Fischer, Markus, & Bossdorf, Oliver. (2019). Invasive knotweed has greater nitrogen-use efficiency than native plants: evidence from a N-15 pulse-chasing experiment. Oecologia, 191(2), 389–396. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-019-04490-1

Peters, Richard L., Speich, Matthias, Pappas, Christoforos, Kahmen, Ansgar, von Arx, Georg, Graf Pannatier, Elisabeth, Steppe, Kathy, Treydte, Kerstin, Stritih, Ana, & Fonti, Patrick. (2019). Contrasting stomatal sensitivity to temperature and soil drought in mature alpine conifers. Plant, Cell and Environment, 42(5), 1674–1689. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.13500

Singh, Devesh, Mathimaran, Natarajan, Boller, Thomas, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2019). Bioirrigation: a common mycorrhizal network facilitates the water transfer from deep-rooted pigeon pea to shallow-rooted finger millet under drought. Plant and Soil, 440(1-2), 277–292. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-019-04082-1

Brinkmann, Nadine, Seeger, Stefan, Weiler, Markus, Buchmann, Nina, Eugster, Werner, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2018). Employing stable isotopes to determine the residence times of soil water and the temporal origin of water taken up by Fagus sylvatica and Picea abies in a temperate forest. The New Phytologist, 219(4), 1300–1313. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15255

Burri, Susanne, Niklaus, Pascal A., Grassow, Karin, Buchmann, Nina, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2018). Effects of plant productivity and species richness on the drought response of soil respiration in temperate grasslands. PloS One, 13(12), e0209031. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209031

Cormier, Marc-André, Werner, Roland A., Sauer, Peter E., Gröcke, Darren R., Leuenberger, Markus C., Wieloch, Thomas, Schleucher, Jürgen, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2018). 2H-fractionations during the biosynthesis of carbohydrates and lipids imprint a metabolic signal on the δ2 H values of plant organic compounds. The New Phytologist, 218(2), 479–491. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15016

Dietrich, Lars, Hoch, Günter, Kahmen, Ansgar, & Körner, Christian. (2018). Losing half the conductive area hardly impacts the water status of mature trees. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 15006. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-33465-0

Dietrich, Lars, Zweifel, Roman, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2018). Daily stem diameter variations can predict the canopy water status of mature temperate trees. Tree Physiology, 38(7), 941–952. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpy023

Nelson, Daniel B., Ladd, S. Nemiah, Schubert, Carsten J., & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2018). Rapid atmospheric transport and large-scale deposition of recently synthesized plant waxes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 222, 599–617. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.11.018

Peters, Richard L., Fonti, Patrick, Frank, David C., Poyatos, Rafael, Pappas, Christoforos, Kahmen, Ansgar, Carraro, Vinicio, Prendin, Angela Luisa, Schneider, Loïc, Baltzer, Jennifer L., Baron-Gafford, Greg A., Dietrich, Lars, Heinrich, Ingo, Minor, Rebecca L., Sonnentag, Oliver, Matheny, Ashley M., Wightman, Maxwell G., & Steppe, Kathy. (2018). Quantification of uncertainties in conifer sap flow measured with the thermal dissipation method. The New Phytologist, 219(4), 1283–1299. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15241

Saharan, Krishna, Schutz, Lukas, Kahmen, Ansgar, Wiemken, Andres, Boller, Thomas, & Mathimaran, Natarajan. (2018). Finger Millet Growth and Nutrient Uptake Is Improved in Intercropping With Pigeon Pea Through “Biofertilization” and “Bioirrigation” Mediated by Arbuscular Mycorrhizal-Fungi and Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 6, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2018.00046

Bögelein, Rebekka, Thomas, Frank M., & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2017). Leaf water (18) O and (2) H enrichment along vertical canopy profiles in a broadleaved and a conifer forest tree. Plant, Cell and Environment, 40(7), 1086–1103. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12895

Gamarra, Bruno, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2017). Low secondary leaf wax n-alkane synthesis on fully mature leaves of C3 grasses grown at controlled environmental conditions and variable humidity. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 31(2), 218–226. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.7770

Lehmann, Marco M., Gamarra, Bruno, Kahmen, Ansgar, Siegwolf, Rolf T. W., & Saurer, Matthias. (2017). Oxygen isotope fractionations across individual leaf carbohydrates in grass and tree species. Plant, Cell and Environment, 40(8), 1658–1670. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12974

Munksgaard, N. C., Cheesman, A. W., English, N. B., Zwart, C., Kahmen, A., & Cernusak, L. A. (2017). Identifying drivers of leaf water and cellulose stable isotope enrichment in Eucalyptus in northern Australia. Oecologia, 183(1), 31–43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-016-3761-8

Nelson, Daniel, Knohl, Alexander, Sachse, Dirk, Schefusse, Enno, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2017). Sources and abundances of leaf waxes in aerosols in central Europe. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 198, 299–314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2016.11.018

Newberry, Sarah L., Prechsl, Ulrich E., Pace, Matthew, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2017). Tightly bound soil water introduces isotopic memory effects on mobile and extractable soil water pools. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, 53(4), 368–381. https://doi.org/10.1080/10256016.2017.1302446

Newberry, S. L., Nelson, D. B., & Kahmen, A. (2017). Cryogenic vacuum artifacts do not affect plant water-uptake studies using stable isotope analysis. Ecohydrology, 10(8), 10. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.1892

Rach, O., Engels, S., Kahmen, A., Brauer, A., Martin-Puertas, C., van Geel, B., & Sachse, D. (2017). Hydrological and ecological changes in western Europe between 3200 and 2000 years BP derived from lipid biomarker delta D values in lake Meerfelder Maar sediments. Quaternary Science Reviews, 172, 44–54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.07.019

Rach, Oliver, Kahmen, Ansgar, Brauer, Achim, & Sachse, Dirk. (2017). A dual-biomarker approach for quantification of changes in relative humidity from sedimentary lipid D/H ratios. Climate of the Past, 13(7), 741–757. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-741-2017

Symanczik, Sarah, Gisler, Michelle, Thonar, Cécile, Schlaeppi, Klaus, Van der Heijden, Marcel, Kahmen, Ansgar, Boller, Thomas, & Mäder, Paul. (2017). Application of Mycorrhiza and Soil from a Permaculture System Improved Phosphorus Acquisition in Naranjilla. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8, 1263. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.01263

Brinkmann, Nadine, Eugster, Werner, Zweifel, Roman, Buchmann, Nina, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2016). Temperate tree species show identical response in tree water deficit but different sensitivities in sap flow to summer soil drying. Tree Physiology, 36(12), 1508–1519. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpw062

Cernusak, L. A., Barbour, M. M., Cheesman, A. W., English, N. B., Field, T. S., Helliker, B. R., Holloway-Phillips, M. M., Holtum, J. A. M., Kahmen, Ansgar, McInerney, F. A., Munksgaard, N. C., Simonin, K. A., Song, X., Stuart-Williams, H., West, J. B., & Farquhar, G. D. (2016). Stable isotopes in leaf water of terrestrial plants. Plant, Cell and Environment, 39(5), 102–1087. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12703

Gamarra, Bruno, Sachse, D., & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2016). Effects of leaf water evaporative 2H-enrichment and biosynthetic fractionation on leaf wax n-alkane δ2H values in C3 and C4 grasses. Plant, Cell and Environment, 39(11), 2390–2403. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12789

Craine, Joseph M., Elmore, Andrew J., Wang, Lixin, Augusto, Laurent, Baisden, W. Troy, Brookshire, E. N. J., Cramer, Michael D., Hasselquist, Niles J., Hobbie, Erik A., Kahmen, Ansgar, Koba, Keisuke, Kranabetter, J. Marty, Mack, Michelle C., Marin-Spiotta, Erika, Mayor, Jordan R., McLauchlan, Kendra K., Michelsen, Anders, Nardoto, Gabriela B., Oliveira, Rafael S., et al. (2015). Convergence of soil nitrogen isotopes across global climate gradients. Scientific Reports, 5, 8280. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep08280

Gamarra, Bruno, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2015). Concentrations and δ(2)H values of cuticular n-alkanes vary significantly among plant organs, species and habitats in grasses from an alpine and a temperate European grassland. Oecologia, 178(4), 98–981. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-015-3278-6

Newberry, Sarah L., Kahmen, Ansgar, Dennis, Paul, & Grant, Alastair. (2015). n-Alkane biosynthetic hydrogen isotope fractionation is not constant throughout the growing season in the riparian tree Salix viminalis. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 165, 75–85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2015.05.001

Prechsl, Ulrich E., Burri, Susanne, Gilgen, Anna K., Kahmen, Ansgar, & Buchmann, Nina. (2015). No shift to a deeper water uptake depth in response to summer drought of two lowland and sub-alpine C₃-grasslands in Switzerland. Oecologia, 177(1), 97–111. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-014-3092-6

Roden, John, Kahmen, Ansgar, Buchmann, Nina, & Siegwolf, Rolf. (2015). The enigma of effective path length for (18) O enrichment in leaf water of conifers. Plant, Cell & Environment, 38(12), 2551–2565. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12568

Sachse, Dirk, Dawson, Todd E., & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2015). Seasonal variation of leaf wax n-alkane production and δ(2)H values from the evergreen oak tree, Quercus agrifolia. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, 51(1), 42–124. https://doi.org/10.1080/10256016.2015.1011636

Tuthorn, Mario, Zechner, Rudolf, Ruppenthal, Marc, Oelmann, Yvonne, Kahmen, Ansgar, del Valle , H. F., Eglinton, T., & Rozanski, K. (2015). Coupling δ2H and δ18O biomarker results yields information on relative humidity and isotopic composition of precipitation - a climate transect validation study. Biogeosciences, 12(12), 3913–3924. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-3913-2015

Crausbay, S., Genderjahn, S., Hotchkiss, S., Sachse, D., Kahmen, Ansgar, & Arndt, S. K. (2014). Vegetation Dynamics at the Upper Reaches of a Tropical Montane Forest are Driven by Disturbance Over the Past 7300 Years. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 46(4), 787–799. https://doi.org/10.1657/1938-4246-46.4.787

Prechsl, Ulrich E, Gilgen, Anna K, Kahmen, Ansgar, & Buchmann, Nina. (2014). Reliability and quality of water isotope data collected with a low-budget rain collector. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 28(8), 85–879. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.6852

Vicca, S., Bahn, M., Estiarte, M., van Loon, E. E., Vargas, R., Alberti, G., Ambus, P., Arain, M. A., Beier, C., Bentley, L. P., Borken, W., Buchmann, N., Collins, S. L., de Dato, G., Dukes, J. S., Escolar, C., Fay, P., Guidolotti, G., Hanson, P. J., et al. (2014). Can current moisture responses predict soil CO2 efflux under altered precipitation regimes? : a synthesis of manipulation experiments. Biogeosciences, 11(11), 2991–3013. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-2991-2014

Cernusak, Lucas, & Kahmen, Ansgar. (2013). The multifaceted relationship between leaf water 18O enrichment and transpiration rate. Plant, Cell and Environment, 36(7), 1239–1241. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12081

Hoffmann, Bernd, Kahmen, Ansgar, Cernusak, Lucas A., Arndt, Stefan K., & Sachse, Dirk. (2013). Abundance and distribution of leaf wax n-alkanes in leaves of Acacia and Eucalyptus trees along a strong humidity gradient in northern Australia. Organic Geochemistry, 62, 62–67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.07.003