2025
- Ohlert, Timothy; Smith, Melinda D.; Collins, Scott L.; Knapp, Alan K.; Dukes, Jeffrey S.; Sala, Osvaldo; …Werner, Christiane; … et al. (2025). “Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity.” Science 390 (6770), S. 284–289. DOI: 10.1126/science.ads8144
- Radolinski, Jesse; Vremec, Matevz; Wachter, Herbert; Birk, Steffen; Brüggemann, Nicolas; Herndl, Markus; Kahmen, Ansgar; Nelson, Daniel B.; Kübert, Angelika; Schaumberger, Andreas; Stumpp, Christine; Tissink, Maud; Werner, Christiane & Bahn, Michael (2025). “Drought in a warmer, CO2-rich climate restricts grassland water use and soil water mixing.” Science, 387: 290-296. DOI: 10.1126/science.ado0734
- Bondaruk, Viviana F.; Xu, Chong; …; Werner, Christiane; et al. (2025). “Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition.” Nat Ecol Evol 9: 937–946. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02705-8
- Grosse-Stoltenberg, Andre; Werner, Christiane; Hellmann, Christine; Oldeland, Jens; Thiele Jan (2025). “Quantifying the spatial impact of an invasive Acacia on ecosystem functioning using remote sensing.” Ecological Indicators 170, 112928, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112928
- Stock, C., Dumberger, S., Kuehnhammer, K., Sulzer, M., Christen, A., Haberstroh, S., & Werner, C. (2025). “Continuous chlorophyll fluorescence measurements trace sudden cold spell effects on photosynthetic efficiency in a temperate mixed forest.” [preprint bioRxiv], 2025-11. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.18.688898
- Kreuzwieser, J., Lee, H., Köhler, A., Christen, A., Sulzer, M., Schack-Kirchner, H., Brzoson, J., Lang, F., Daber, L.E., Bechtold, R. and Werner, C. (2025). “Biotic and abiotic factors controlling terpenoid exchange from soil of a mixed temperate forest ecosystem.” Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 109991. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2025.109991
- Lee, H., Katlewski, S., Weber, P. C., Werner, C., & Kreuzwieser, J. (2025). “Soil Terpenoid Storage and Emissions Are Shaped by Litter Chemistry and Soil Depth.” https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-6747431/v1
- Lee, H., Stippich, T., Petersen, J., Meine, D., Brzoson, J., Sulzer, M., Dedden, L., Christen, A., Kattenborn, T., Werner, C. and Kreuzwieser, J. (2025). “Strong toluene and p-cymene emission from waterlogged hotspots of a temperate mixed-forest soil.” Egusphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-5426
- Keller, S., Kinzinger, L., Mach, J., Kühnhammer, K., Weiler, M., Orlowski, N., Werner, C. and Haberstroh, S. (2025). “Water stable isotopes reveal the ecohydrological importance of stemflow for mature and juvenile European beech.” bioRxiv, 2025-10. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.01.679712
- Kremer, L,. Pisek, J., Richter, R., Frey, J., Lusk, D., Werner, C., …, Kattenborn, T. (2025): “AngleCam V2: Predicting leaf inclination angles across taxa from daytime and nighttime photos.” Submitted to Methods in Ecology and Evolution. [preprint bioRxiv] DOI: 10.1101/2025.09.17.676742
- Tesch, J., Kühnhammer, K., Wagner, D., Christen, A., Dormann, C., Frey, J., Grote, R., Kattenborn, T., Sulzer, M., Wallrabe, U., Weiler, M., Werner, C., Baghbani, S., Brzozon, J., Comella, L. M., Dedden, L., Dumberger, S., Frey, Y., Gassilloud, M., Gerach, T., Göritz, A., Haberstroh, S., Klüppel, J., Kremer, L., Kreuzwieser, J., Lee, H., Maack, J., Müller, J., Prucker, O., Rajak, S. K., Rühe, J., Rupitsch, S. J., Schack-Kirchner, H., Scharinger, C., Shinde, U., Steinmann, T., Stock, C., and Strack, J. (2025). “The ECOSENSE forest: A distributed sensor and data management system for real-time monitoring of ecosystem processes and stresses.” EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-4979
- Daber, L.E.; Kreuzwieser, J.; Meischner, M., Williams, J.; Werner, C. (2025). „Chiral monoterpene dynamics of shoots and roots of Norway spruce in response to drought.“ [preprint], https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.02.651829
- Daber, L.E., Nolte, P., Kreuzwieser, J., Meischner, M., Williams, J., & Werner, C. (2025). „Position-Specific Isotope Labelling Gives New Insights into Chiral Monoterpene Synthesis of Norway Spruce (Picea Abies L.).“ Environmental and Experimental Botany 238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2025.106238
- Werner, C., Bahn, M., Grams, T.E.E., Grossiord, C., Haberstroh, S., Lenczner, G., Tuia, D. and Vallicrosa, H. (2025), Impact of emerging compound droughts on forests: A water supply and demand perspective. Plant Biol J. https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.70080
- Meischner, M., S. Haberstroh, J. Kreuzwieser, et al. 2025. “ Localized Response of De Novo Terpenoid Emissions Through the Jasmonate Signaling Cascade in Two Main European Tree Species.” Physiologia Plantarum 177, no. 4: e70432. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.70432
- Kinzinger, L., Haberstroh, S., Mach, J., Weiler, M., Orlowski, N. and Werner, C. (2025), Continuous In-Situ Water Stable Isotopes Reveal Rapid Changes in Root Water Uptake by Fagus sylvatica During Severe Drought. Plant, Cell & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.70055
- Dumberger, S., Kinzinger, L., Weiler, M., Werner, C. and Haberstroh, S. (2025), Dynamic Shifts in Radial Sap Flow of Two Temperate Tree Species in Response to the Dry Summer 2022. Ecohydrology, 18: e70054. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.70054
- Haberstroh, S., Christen, A., Sulzer, M., Scarpa, F. and Werner, C. (2025), Recurrent hot droughts cause persistent legacy effects in a temperate Scots Pine forest. Plant Biol J. https://doi.org/10.1111/plb.70066
- Haberstroh, S.; Scarpa, F.; Seeger, S.; Christen, A.; Werner, C. (2025) Continuous Stem Water Potential Measurements of a Diffuse-Porous Tree Species Offer New Insights Into Tree Water Relations. Ecohydrology 18, e2761. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2761
2024
- Werner, Christiane; Wallrabe, Ulrike; Christen, Andreas; Comella, Laura; Dormann, Carsten; Göritz, Anna; Grote, Rüdiger; Haberstroh, Simon; Jouda, Mazin; Kiese, Ralf; Koch, Barbara; Korvink, Jan; Kreuzwieser, Jürgen; Lang, Friederike; Müller, Julian; Prucker, Oswald; Reiterer, Alexander; Rühe, Jürgen; Rupitsch, Stefan J.; Schack-Kirchner, Helmer; Schmitt, Katrin; Stobbe, Nina; Weiler, Markus; Woias, Peter; Wöllenstein, Jürgen (2024). ECOSENSE – Multi-scale quantification and modelling of spatio-temporal dynamics of ecosystem processes by smart autonomous sensor networks. Research Ideas and Outcomes 10: e129357. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e129357
- Meischner, Mirjam; Dumberger, Stefanie; Daber, Lars Erik; Haberstroh, Simon; Kreuzwieser, Jürgen; Schnitzler, Jörg-Peter; Werner, Christiane (2024). Jasmonic acid and heat stress induce high leaf VOCs fluxes in Picea abies aboveground but not belowground. Tree Physiology, tpae059. DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpae059
- Haberstroh, Simon; Kübert, Angelika; Werner, Christiane (2024). Two common pitfalls in the analysis of water stable isotopologues with cryogenic vacuum extraction and cavity ring-down spectroscopy. Analytical Science Advances, 5, e202300053. DOI: 10.1002/ansa.202300053
- Kinzinger, L., Mach, J., Haberstroh, S., Schindler, Z., Frey, J., Dubbert, M., Seeger, S., Seifert, T., Weiler, M., Orlowski, N., Werner, C. (2024). Interaction between beech and spruce trees in temperate forest ecosystem affects water use, root water uptake pattern and canopy structure. Tree Physiology, 44, tpad144. DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpad144
- Huang, J.; Ladd, S.N.; Ingrisch, J.; Kübert, A.; Meredith, L.K.; van Haren, J.; Bamberger, I.; Daber, E.; Kühnhammer, K.; Bailey, K.; Hu, J.; Fudyma, J.; Shi, L.; Dippold, M.; Meeran, K.; Miller, L.; O’Brien, M.; Yang, H.; Herrera-Ramírez, D.; Hartmann, H.; Trumbore, S.; Bahn, M. & Lehmann, M.M. (2024). The mobilization and transport of newly fixed carbon are driven by plant water use in an experimental rainforest under drought. Journal of Experimental Botany, erae030. DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erae030
2023
- Pugliese, Giovanni; Ingrisch, Johannes; Meredith, Laura K.; Pfannerstill, Eva Y.; Klüpfel, Thomas; Meeran, Kathiravan; Byron, Joseph; Purser, Gemma; Gil-Loaiza, Juliana; van Haren, Joost; Dontsova, Katerina; Kreuzwieser, Jürgen; Ladd, S. Nemiah; Werner, Christiane; Williams, Jonathan (2023). Effects of drought and recovery on soil volatile organic compound fluxes in an experimental rainforest. Nature Communications, 14(1), 5064. DOI: 1038/s41467-023-40661-8
- Honeker, Linnea K; Pugliese, Giovanni; Ingrisch, Johannes; Fudyma, Jane; Gil-Loaiza, Juliana; Carpenter, Elizabeth; Singer, Esther; Hildebrand, Gina; Shi, Lingling; Hoyt, David W.; Krechmer, Jordan E.; Claflin, Megan; Ayala-Ortiz, Christian; Freire-Zapata, Viviana; Pfannerstill, Eva Y.; Daber, L. Erik; Meeran, Kathiravan; Dippold, Michaela A.; Kreuzwieser, Jürgen; Williams, Jonathan; Ladd, S. Nemiah; Werner, Christiane; Tfaily, Malak M.; Meredith, Laura K. (2023). Drought re-routes soil microbial carbon metabolism towards emission of volatile metabolites in an artificial tropical rainforest. Nature Microbiology, 8(8), 1480–1494. DOI: 10.1038/s41564-023-01432-9
- Frey, Yasmina; Haberstroh, Simon; Meischner, Mirjam; Werner, Christiane; Wallrabe, Ulrike (2023). A minituarized leaf cuvette for volatile organic compound measurement on broad leaves. Transducers 2023 (Kyoto, Japan), 1555-1558.
- Kühnhammer, K.; van Haren, J.; Kübert, A.; Bailey, K.; Dubbert, M.; Hu, J.; Ladd, S.N.; Meredith, L.K.; Werner, C. & Beyer, M. (2023). Deep roots mitigate drought impacts on tropical trees despite limited quantitative contribution to transpiration. Science of the Total Environment 893, 164763. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164763
- Kübert, A.; Dubbert, M.; Bamberger, I.; Kühnhammer, K.; Beyer, M.; van Haren, J.; Hu, J.; Meredith, L.K.; Nemiah Ladd, S. and Werner, C. (2023). Tracing plant source water dynamics during drought by continuous transpiration measurements: An in‐situ stable isotope approach. Plant, Cell & Environment, 46(1), 133-149. DOI: 10.1111/pce.14475
2022
- Byron, Joseph; Kreuzwieser, Jürgen; Purser, Gemma; van Haren, Joost; Ladd, S. Nemiah; Meredith, Laura K.; Werner, Christiane; Williams, Jonathan (2022). Chiral monoterpenes reveal forest emission mechanisms and drought responses. Nature, 609(7026), 307–312. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05020-5
- Haberstroh, Simon; Werner, Christiane (2022). The role of species interactions for forest resilience to drought. Plant Biology, 24(7), 1098-1107. DOI: 10.1111/plb.13415
- Honeker, L. K., Hildebrand, G. A., Fudyma, J. D., Daber, L. E., Hoyt, D., Flowers, S. E., … & Tfaily, M. M. (2022). Elucidating Drought-Tolerance Mechanisms in Plant Roots through 1H NMR Metabolomics in Parallel with MALDI-MS, and NanoSIMS Imaging Techniques. Environmental Science & Technology. DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c06772
- Meischner, M., Haberstroh, S., Daber, L. E., Kreuzwieser, J., Caldeira, M. C., Schnitzler, J. P., & Werner, C. (2022). Soil VOC emissions of a Mediterranean woodland are sensitive to shrub invasion. Plant Biology, 24(6), 967-978. DOI: 10.1111/plb.13445
- Haberstroh S., Werner C., Grün M., Kreuzwieser J., Seifert T., Schindler D., Christen A. (2022). Central European 2018 hot drought shifts Scots Pine forest to its tipping point. Plant Biology, 24, 1186-1197. doi:10.1111/plb.13455
- Haberstroh S., Lobo-do-Vale R., Caldeira M.C., Dubbert M., Cuntz M. and Werner C. (2022). Plant invasion modifies isohydricity in Mediterranean tree species. Functional Ecology, 36, 2384-2398. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.14126
2021
- Ladd, S. N., Nelson, D. B., Bamberger, I., Daber, L. E., Kreuzwieser, J., Kahmen, A., & Werner, C. (2021). Metabolic exchange between pathways for isoprenoid synthesis and implications for biosynthetic hydrogen isotope fractionation. New Phytologist, 231(5), 1708-1719. DOI: 10.1111/nph.17510
- Werner, Christiane; Meredith, Laura K.; Ladd, S. Nemiah; Ingrisch, Johannes; Kübert, Angelika; van Haren, Joost; Bahn, Michael; Bailey, Kinzie; Bamberger, Ines; Beyer, Matthias; Blomdahl, Daniel; Byron, Joseph; Daber, Erik; Deleeuw, Jason; Dippold, Michaela; Fudyma, Jane; Gil-Loaiza, Juliana; Honeker, Linnea K.; Hu, Jia; Huang, Jianbei; Klüpfel, Thomas; Krechmer, Jordan; Kreuzwieser, Jürgen; Kühnhammer, Kathrin; Lehmann, Marco M.; Meeran, Kathiravan; Misztal, Pawel K.; Ng, Wei-Ren; Pfannerstill, Eva; Pugliese, Giovanni; Purser, Gemma; Roscioli, Joseph; Shi, Lingling; Tfaily, Malak; Williams, Jonathan (2021). Ecosystem fluxes during drought and recovery in an experimental forest. Science, 374(6574), 1514-1518. DOI: 10.1126/science.abj6789
- Haberstroh S., Caldeira M.C., Lobo-do-Vale R., Martins J.I., Moemken J., Pinto J.G. and Werner C. (2021). Non-linear plant-plant interactions modulate impact of extreme drought and recovery on a Mediterranean ecosystem. New Phytologist, 231, 1784–1797. doi:10.1111/nph.1752
- Kreuzwieser J., Meischner M., Grün M., Yáñez-Serrano A.M., Fasbender L., Werner C. (2021). Drought affects carbon partitioning into volatile organic compound (VOC) biosynthesis in Scots pine needles. New Phytologist. doi.org/10.1111/nph.17736
2020
- Werner, Christiane; Fasbender, Lukas; Romek, Katarzyna M.; Yáñez-Serrano, Ana Maria; Kreuzwieser, Jürgen; (2020). Heat waves change plant carbon allocation among primary and secondary metabolism altering CO2 assimilation, respiration, and VOC emissions. Frontiers in plant science, 11, 1242. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.01242
- Schuldt, Bernhard; Buras, Allan; Arend, Matthias; Vitasse, Yann; Beierkuhnlein, Carl; Damm, Alexander; Gharun, Mana; Grams, Thorsten E. E.; Hauck, Markus; Hajek, Peter; Hartmann, Henrik; Hilbrunner, Erika; Hoch, Günter; Holloway-Phillips, Meisha; Körner, Christian; Larysch, Elena; Lübbe, Torben; Nelson, Daniel B.; Rammig, Anja; Rigling, Andreas; Rose, Laura; Ruehr, Nadine K.; Schumann, Katja; Weiser, Frank; Werner, Christiane; Wohlgemuth, Thomas; Zang, Christian S.; Kahmen, Ansgar (2020). A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests. Basic and Applied Ecology, 45, 86-103. DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2020.04.003
- Beyer, M.; Kühnhammer, K.; Dubbert, M. (2020). In situ measurements of soil and plant water isotopes: a review of approaches, practical considerations and a vision for the future. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 4413–4440. DOI: 10.5194/hess-24-4413-2020
- Marshall, J.D.; Cuntz, M.; Beyer, M.; Dubbert, M.; Kühnhammer, K. (2020). Borehole Equilibration: Testing a new method to monitor the isotopic composition of tree xylem water in situ. Front. Plant Sci. 11:358. DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00358
2019
- Dubbert, Maren; Werner, Christiane (2019). Water fluxes mediated by vegetation: Emerging insights at the soil and atmosphere interfaces. New Phytologist, 221(4), 1754–1763. DOI: 10.1111/nph.15547
- Haberstroh S., Kreuzwieser J., Boeddeker H., Eiblmeier M., Gutte H., Lobo-do-Vale R., Caldeira M.C. and Werner C. (2019). Natural carbon isotope composition distinguishes compound groups of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOC) in two Mediterranean woody species. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2, 55. doi:10.3389/ffgc.2019.00055
- Kühnhammer, K.; Kübert, A.; Brüggemann, N.; Deseano Diaz, P.; van Dusschoten, D.; Javaux, M.; Merz, S.; Vereecken, H.; Dubbert, M.; Rothfuss, Y. (2019). Investigating the root plasticity response of Centaurea jacea to soil water availability changes from isotopic analysis. New Phytologist. DOI: 10.1111/nph.16352
2018
- Craine, Joseph M.; Elmore, Aandrew J.; Wang, Lixin; Aranibar, Julieta; Bauters, Marijn; Boeckx, Pascal; Crowley, Brooke E.; Dawes, Melissa A.; Delzon, Sylvain; Fajardo, Alex; Fang, Yunting; Fujiyoshi, Lei; Gray, Alan; Guerrieri, Rossella; Gundale, Michael J.; Hawke, David J.; Hietz, Peter; Jonard, Mathieu; Kearsley, Elizabeth; Kenzo, Tanaka; Makarov, Mikhail; Marañón-Jiménez, Sara; McGlynn, Terrence P.; McNeil, Brenden E.; Mosher, Stella G.; Nelson, David M.; Peri, Pablo L.; Roggy, Jean Christophe;
- Sanders-DeMott, Rebecca; Song, Minghua; Szpak, Paul; Templer, Pamela H.; Van der Colff, Dewidine; Werner, Christiane; Xu, Xingliang; Yang, Yang; Yu, Guirui; Zmudczyńska-Skarbek, Katarzyna (2018). Isotopic evidence for oligotrophication of terrestrial ecosystems. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2(11), 1735-1744. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0694-0
- Große-Stoltenberg, André; Hellmann, Christine; Thiele, Jan; Werner, Christiane; Oldeland, Jens (2018). Early detection of GPP-related regime shifts after plant invasion by integrating imaging spectroscopy with airborne LiDAR. Remote Sensing of Environment, 209, 780–792. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.02.038
- Haberstroh S., Kreuzwieser J., Lobo-do-Vale R., Caldeira M.C., Dubbert M. and Werner C. (2018). Terpenoid emissions of two Mediterranean woody species in response to drought stress. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9, 1071. doi:10.3389/fpls.2018.01071
2017
- Hellmann, Christine; Große-Stoltenberg, André; Thiele, Jan; Oldeland, Jens; Werner, Christiane (2017). Heterogeneous environments shape invader impacts: integrating environmental, structural and functional effects by isoscapes and remote sensing. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 4118. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-04480-4
- Poppinga, S., Daber, L.E., Westermeier, A.S. et al. (2017). Biomechanical analysis of prey capture in the carnivorous Southern bladderwort (Utricularia australis). Sci Rep 7, 1776. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01954-3
2016
- Werner, Christiane; Dubbert, Maren (2016). Resolving rapid dynamics of soil–plant–atmosphere interactions. New Phytologist, Commentary, 210(3), 767–769.