ZOHNER LAB

Biodiversity

Cheng et al. 2026. Species diversity advances autumn senescence via enhanced belowground carbon allocation in semi-arid grasslands. Commun Earth Environ.
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Bai et al. 2025. Contrasting responses of flowering phenology in C3 and C4 plants shape grassland community structure under global change. Ecology. 106.

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Han et al. 2025. Fungal diversity as a key driver of soil multifunctionality along a European latitudinal gradient. Geoderma. 464.
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Runge et al. 2025. Climate vulnerability of Earth’s terrestrial biomes. Scientific Reports. 15.

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Wu et al. 2025. Tree species composition governs urban phenological responses to warming. Nature Communications. 16.
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Shen et al. 2024. Biodiversity buffers the response of spring leaf unfolding to climate warming. Nature Climate Change. 14, 863–868.
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Ma et al. 2023. The global biogeography of tree leaf form and habit. Nature Plants. 9, 1795–1809.

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Delavaux et al. 2023. Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions. Nature. 621, 773–781.
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Renner & Zohner 2020. Further analysis of 1532 deciduous woody species from North America, Europe, and Asia supports continental scale differences in red autumn coloration. New Phytologist. 228, 814–815.
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Zohner et al.  2017. Spring predictability explains different leaf-out strategies in the woody floras of North America, Europe, and East Asia. Ecology Letters 20, 452–460.


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Zohner & Renner 2017. Innately shorter vegetation periods in North American species explain native–non-native phenological assymetries. Nature Ecology and Evolution 1, 1655-1660.

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Muffler et al.  2016. Distribution ranges and spring phenology explain late frost sensitivity of 170 woody plants from the Northern hemisphere. Global Ecology and Biogeography 25, 1061–1071.

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Zohner et al. 2016. Day length unlikely to constrain climate-driven shifts in leaf-out times of northern woody plants. Nature Climate Change 6, 1120–1123.


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