Dr. Dirk Karger

2021

62. Karger, D.N., Wilson, A.M., Mahony, C., Zimmermann, N.E., Jetz, W. (accepted) Global daily 1km land surface precipitation based on cloud cover-informed downscaling. Scientific Data.

61. Karger, D.N., Saladin, B., Wüest-Karparti, R.O., Graham, C.H., Zurell, D., Mo, L., Zimmermann, N.E. (preprint). Interannual climate variability data improves niche estimates in species distribution models. bioRxiv: doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.30.458152

60. Iosifescu Enescu, I., de Espona, L., Haas-Artho, D., Kurup Bucholz, R., Hanimann, D., Rüetschi, M., Karger, D.N., Plattner, G.-P., Hägeli, M., Ginzler, C., Zimmermann, N.E., Pellissier, L. (2021) Cloud Optimized Raster Encoding (CORE): A Web-Native Streamable Format for Large Environmental Time Series. Geomatics, doi.org/10.3390/geomatics1030021

59. Luza, A.L., Graham, C.H., Hartz, S.M., Karger, D.N. (2021) Functional redundancy of non-volant small mammals increases in human-modified habitats. Journal of Biogeography. doi.org/jbi.14264

58. Gooriah, L., Blowes, S., Saguois, A., Schrader, J., Karger, D.N., Kreft, H., Chase, J. (2021) Synthesis reveals that island species-area relationships emerge from processes beyond passive sampling. Global Ecology and Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13361

57. van Tiel, N., Lyu, L., Fopp, F., van den Hoogen, J., Karger, D.N., Zimmermann, N.E., Crowther, T.W., Pellissier, L. (preprint) Mapping tree species for restoration potential resilient to climate change. bioRxiv, doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.04.447113

56. Taylor, A., Zotz, G., Weigelt, P., Cai, L., Karger, D.N. & Kreft, H. (2021) Vascular epiphytes contribute disproportionately to global centres of plant diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography, doi.org/10.1111/geb.13411

55. Sabatini, F.M., Lenoir, J., Hattab, T., Arnst, E.A., Chytrý, M., Dengler, J., De Ruffray, P., Hennekens, S.M., Jandt, U., Jansen, F., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Kattge, J., Levesley, A., Pillar, V.D., Purschke, O., Sandel, B., Sultana, F., Aavik, T., Aćić, S., Acosta, A.T.R., Agrillo, E., Alvarez, M., Apostolova, I., Arfin Khan, M.A.S., Arroyo, L., Attorre, F., Aubin, I., Banerjee, A., Bauters, M., Bergeron,Y., Bergmeier, E., Biurrun, I., Bjorkman, A.D., Bonari, G., Bondareva, V., Brunet, J., Čarni, A., Casella, L., Cayuela, L., Černý, T., Chepinoga, V., Csiky, J., Ćušterevska, R., De Bie, E., Luis de Gasper, A., De Sanctis, M., Dimopoulos, P., Dolezal, J., Dziuba, T., Abd El-Rouf Mousa El-Sheikh, M., Enquist, B., Ewald, J., Fazayeli, F., Field, R., Finckh, M., Gachet, S., Galán-de-Mera, A., Garbolino, E., Gholizadeh, H., Giorgis, M., Golub, V., Greve Alsos, I., Grytnes, J.-A., Guerin, G.R., Gutiérrez, A.G., Haider, S., Hatim, M.Z., Hérault, B., Mendoza, G.H., Hölzel, N., Homeier, J., Hubau, W., Indreica, A., Janssen, J.A.M., Jedrzejek, B., 78, Jentsch, A., Jürgens, N., Kącki, Z., Kapfer, J., Karger, D.N., Kavgacı, A., Kearsley, E., Kessler, M., Khanina, L., Killeen, T., Korolyuk, A., Kreft, H., Kühl, H.S., Kuzemko, A., Landucci, F., Lengyel, A., Lens, F., Lingner, S.V., Liu, H., Lysenko, T., Mahecha1, M.D., Marcenò, C., Martynenko, V., Moeslund, J.E., Mendoza, A.M., Mucina, L., Müller, J.V., Munzinger, J., Naqinezhad, A., Noroozi, J., Nowak, A., Onyshchenko, V., Overbeck, G.E., Pärtel, M., Pauchard, A., Peet, R.K., Peñuelas, J., Pérez-Haase, A., Peterka, T., Petřík, P., Peyre, G., Phillips, O.L., Prokhorov, V., Rašomavičius, V., Revermann, R., Rivas-Torres, G., Rodwell, J.S., Ruprecht, E., Rūsiņa, S., Samimi, C., Schmidt, M., Schrodt, F., Shan, H., Shirokikh, P., Šibík, J., Šilc, U., Sklenář, P., Škvorc, Ž., Sparrow, B., Sperandii, M.G., Stančić, Z., Svenning, J.-C., Tang, Z., Tang, C.Q., Tsiripidis, I., Vanselow, K.A., Vásquez Martínez, R., Vassilev, K., Vélez-Martin, E., Venanzoni, R., Vibrans, A.C., Violle, C., Virtanen, R., von Wehrden, H., Wagner, V., Walker, D.A., Waller, D., Wang, H.-F., Wesche, K., Whitfeld, T.J.S., Willner, W., Wiser, S.K., Wohlgemuth, T., Yamalov, S., Zobel, M., Bruelheide, H. (2021) sPlotOpen – An environmentally-balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots. Global Ecology and Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13346

54. Laughlin, D., Mommer, L., Sabatini, F., Bruelheide, H., Kuyper, T., McCormack, M., Bergmann, J., Freschet, G., Guerrero-Ramirez, N., Iversen, C., Kattge, J., Meier, I., Poorter, H., Roumet, C., Semchenko, M., Sweeney, C., Valverde-Barrantes, O., van der Plas, F., van Ruijven, J., York, L., Aubin, I., Burge, O., Byun, C., Custerevska, R., Dengler, J., Forey, E., Guerin, G., Hérault, B., Jackson, R., Karger, D.N., Lenoir, J., Lysenko, T., Meir, P., Niinemets, Ü., Ozinga, W., Penuelas, J., Reich, P., Schmidt, M., Schrodt, F.,  Velázquez, E., Weigelt, A. (2021) Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs. Nature - Ecology and Evolution doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01471-7

53. Bose, A., Scherrer, D., Camarero, J.J., Ziche, D., Babst, F., Bigler, C., Bolte, A., Dorado-Liñán, I., Etzold, S., Fonti, P., Forrester, D.I., Gavinet, J., Gazol, A., González de Andrés, E., Karger, D.N., Lebourgeois, F., Levesque, M., Martínez-Sancho, E., Menzel, A., Neuwirth, B., Nicolas, M., Sanders, T., Scharnweber, T., Schroeder, J., Zweifel, R., Gessler, A., Rigling, A. (2021) Climate sensitivity and drought seasonality determine post-drought growth recovery of Quercus petraea and Quercus robur in Europe. Science of the Total Environmenthttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147222

52. Karger, D.N., Kessler, M., Lehnert, M., Jetz, W. (2021) Limited protection and ongoing loss of tropical cloud forest biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide. Nature -  Ecology and Evolutionhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01450-y

51. König, C., Wüest, R.O., Graham, C.H., Karger, D.N., Sattler, T., Zimmermann, N.E., Zurell, D. (2021) Spatial grain size affects species association patterns in joint species distribution models. Journal of Biogeographydoi.org/10.1111/jbi.14106

50. Cai, Q., Welk, E., Ji, C., Fang, W., Sabatini, F.M., Zhu, J., Tang, Z., Attorre, F., Antonio Campos, J., Čarni, A., Chytrý, M., Çoban, S., Dengler, J., Dolezal, J., Field, R., Frink, J.P., Gholizadeh, H., Indreica, A., Jandt, U., Karger, D.N., Lenoir, J., Peet, R.K., Pielech, R., De Sanctis, M., Schrodt, F., Svenning, J.-C., Tang, C.Q., Tsiripidis, I., Willner, W., Fang, J., Bruelheide, H. (2021) The relationship between niche breadth and range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide. Journal of Biogeography, 48 1240-1253 https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14074

49. Aros-Mualin, D., Noben, S., Karger, D.N., Carvajal-Hernández, C.I., Salazar, L., Hernández-Rojas, A., Kluge, J., Lehnert, M., Quandt, D., Kessler, M. (2021) Functional diversity in ferns is driven by species richness rather than by environmental constraints.Frontiers in Plant Science, 11:615723. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.615723

48. Salces-Castellano, A., Stankowski, S., Arribas, P., Patiño, J., Karger, D.N., Butli, R., Emerson, B. (2021) Long-term cloud forest response to climate warming revealed by insect speciation history. Evolution https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14111

47. Chauvier, Y., Thuiller, W., Brun, P., Lavergne, S., Descombes, P., Karger, D.N., Renaud, J.; Zimmermann, N.E. (2020) Influence of climate, soil and land cover on plant species distribution in the European Alps. Ecological Monographs https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1433

2020

46. Dauphin, B., Rellstab, C., Schmid, M., Zoller, S., Karger, D.N., Brodbeck, S., Guillaume, F., Gugerli, F. (2020)  Genomic vulnerability to rapid climate warming in a tree species with a long generation time.Global Change Biology http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15469

45. Descombes, P., Walthert, L., Baltensweiler, A., Meuli, R., Karger, D.N., Ginzler, C., Zurell, D., Zimmermann, N.E. (2020) Spatial modelling of ecological indicator values at high resolution improves predictions of plant distributions in complex landscapes. Ecography https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05117

44. Lethonen, S., Poczai, P., Sablok. G., Hyvönen, J., Karger, D.N., Flores, J. (2020) Exploring the phylogeny of marattialean ferns. Cladistics. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12419

43. Zhang, Z., Capinha, C., Karger, D.N., Turon, X., MacIsaac, H., Zhan, A. (2020) Impacts of climate change on geographical distributions of invasive ascidians. Marine Environmental Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2020.104993

42. Peyre, G. Lenoir, J., Karger, D.N., Gomez, M., Gonzales, A., Guisan, A. (2020) The fate of páramo plant assemblages in the sky islands of the northern Andes.Journal of Vegetation Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12898

41. Yannic, G., Hagen, O., Leugger, F, Karger, D.N., Pellissier, L. (2020) Harnessing paleo-environmental modeling and genetic data to predict intraspecific genetic structure. Evolutionary Applications. https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12986

40. Grünig, M., Mazzi, D., Calanca, P., Karger, D.N., Pellissier, L. (2020) Crop and forest pest metawebs shift towards increased linkage and suitability.Communications Biology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-0962-9

39. Guerra, C.G., Rosa, I.M.D., Eisenhauer, N, Valentini, E., Wolf, F., Filipponi, F., Karger, D.N., Nguyenxuan, A., Mathieu, J., Lavelle, P., Pereira, H. (2020) Global vulnerability of soil ecosystems to erosion. Landscape Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-020-00984-z

38. Taxböck, L., Karger, D.N., Kessler, M., Cantonati, M. (2020) Diatom species richness increases with elevation and habitat complexity in Swiss near-natural springs along elevational gradients. Water. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12020449

37. Kuppler, J., Albert, C.H., Ames, G.M., Armbruster, W.S., Boenisch, G., Boucher, F.C., Campbell, D.R., Carneiro L.T., Chacón-Madrigal, E., Enquist, B.J., Fonseca, C.R., Gómez, J.M., Guisan, A., Higuchi, P., Karger, D.N.,Kattge, J., Kleyer, M., Kraft, N.J.B., Larue-Kontic, A-A.C., Lázaro, A., Lechleitner, M., Loughnan, D., Minden, V., Niinements, Ü., Overbeck, G.E., Parachnowitsch, A.L., Perfectti, F., Pillar, V.D., Schellenberger Costa, D., Sletvold, N., Stang, M., Alves-dos-Santos, I., Streit, H., Wright, J., Zych, M. Junker, R.J. (2020) Global gradients in intraspecific variation in vegetative and floral traits are partially associated with climate and species richness Global Ecology and Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13077

36. Wei, C., Karger, D.N., Wilson A.M. (2020) Spatial Detection of Alpine Treeline Ecotones in the Western United States. Remote Sensing of Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111672

35. Karger, D.N., Schmatz, D., Detttling, D., Zimmermann, N.E. (2020) High resolution monthly precipitation and temperature timeseries for the period 2006-2100. Scientific Data. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00587-y

34. Weigand, A, Abrahamczyk, S., Aubin,I., Bita-Nicolae, C., Bruelheide, H., Carvajal-Hernández, C., Cicuzza, D., Nascimento da Costa, L.E., Csiky, J., Dengler, J., de Gasper, A.L., Guerin, G.R., Haider, S., Hernandez, A.R., Jandt, U., Reyes-Chávez, J., Karger, D.N., Kay Khine, P., Kluge, J., Krömer, T., Lehnert, M., Lenoir, J., Moulatlet, G.M., Aros Mualin, D., Noben, S., Olivares, I., Quintanilla, L.G., Reich, P.B., Salazar, L., Silva-Mijangos, L., Tuomisto, H., Weigelt, P., Zuquim, G., Kreft, H. & Kessler, M. (2020) Global fern and lycophyte richness explained: How regional and local factros shape plot richness. Journal of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13782

33. Randin, C., Ashcroft, M., Bolliger, J., Cavender-Bares, J., Coops, N., Dullinger, S., Dirnboeck, T., Eckert, S., Ellis, E., Giuliani, G., Guisan, A., Jetz, W., Joost, S., Karger, D.N., Lembrechts, J., Lenoir, J., Luoto, M.-, Morin, X., Price, B., Rocchini, D., Schaepman, M., Verburg, P., Wilson, A.M., Woodcock, P., Yoccoz, N. (2020) Towards improved monitoring of terrestrial ecosystems in the Anthropocene through the closer integration of remotely sensed data into species distribution models.Remote Sensing of Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111626

32. Beck, H., Wood, E.F., McVicar, T., Zambrano-Bigiarini, M., Alvarez-Garreton, C., Baez-Villanueva, O., Sheffield, J., Karger, D.N. (2020) Bias correction of global high-resolution precipitation climatologies using streamflow observations from 9372 catchments. Journal of Climate.https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0332.1

31. Karger, D.N., Wüest, R.O., König, C., Sarmento-Cabral, J., Weigelt, P., Zimmermann, N.E., Linder, H.P. (2020) Disentangling the drivers of local species richness using probabilistic species pools. Journal of Biogeography.https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13763

30. Salces-Castellano, Antonia, Patiño, J., Alvares, N., Andújar, C., Arribas, P., Braojos-Ruiz, J.J., del Arco-Aquilar, M., Carcía-Olivares, V., Karger, D.N., López, H., Manolopoulou, I., Oromí, P., Pérez-Delgado, A.J., Peterman, W.E., Rijsdijk, K.F., Emerson, B.C. (2020). Climate drives community-wide divergence within species over a limited spatial scale: Evidence from an oceanic island. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13433

29. Wüest, R.O., Zimmermann, N.E., Zurell, D., Alexander, J., Fritz, S.A., Hof, C., Kreft, H., Normand, S., Sarmento Cabral, J., Szekely, E., Thuiller., W., Wikelski, M., Karger. D.N. (2020) Macroecology in the age of big data – where to go from here? Journal of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13633

2019

28. Wüest, R.O., Boucher, F.C., Bouchenak-Khelladi, Y., Karger, D.N., Linder, H.P. (2019) Dissecting biodiversity in a global hotspot: uneven dynamics of immigration and diversification within the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa. Journal of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13625

27. Thuiller, W., Guéguen, M., Renaud, J., Karger, D.N., Zimmermann, N.E. (2019) Uncertainty in ensembles of global biodiversity scenarios. Nature Communications.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09519-w

26. Khine, P.K., Kluge, J., Kessler, M., Miehe, G., Karger, D.N. (2019) Latitude-independent, continent-wide consistency in climate-richness relationships in Asian ferns and lycophytes, Journal of Biogeography. doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13558

25. Karger, D.N., Kessler, M., Conrad, O., Weigelt, P., Kreft, H., König, C., Zimmermann, N.E. (2019) Why treelines are lower on islands - climatic and biotic effects hold the answer. Global Ecology and Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12897

2018

24. Bruelheide, H., Dengler, J., Purschke, O., Lenoir, J., Jiménez-Alfaro, B., Hennekens, S.M., Botta-Dukát, Z., Chytrý, M., Field, R., Jansen, F., Kattge, J., Pillar, V.D., Schrodt, F., Mahecha, M.D., Peet, R.K., Sandel, B., van Bodegom, P., Altman, J., Alvarez Davila, E., Arfin Khan, M.A.S., Attorre, F., Aubin, I., Baraloto, C., Barroso, J.G., Bauters, M., Bergmeier, E., Biurrun, I., Bjorkman, A.D., Blonder, B., Čarni, A., Cayuela, L., Černý, T., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Craven, D., Dainese, M., Derroire, G., De Sanctis, M., Díaz, S., Doležal, J., Farfan-Rios, W., Feldpausch, T.R., Fenton, N.J., Garnier, E., Guerin, G.R., Gutiérrez, A.G., Haider, S., Hattab, T., Henry, G., Hérault, B., Higuchi, P., Hölzel, N., Homeier, J., Jentsch, A., Jürgens, N., Kącki, Z., Karger, D.N., Kessler, M., Kleyer, M., Knollová, I., Korolyuk, A.Y., Kühn, I., Laughlin, D.C., Lens, F., Loos, J., Louault, F., Lyubenova, M.I., Malhi, Y., Marcenò, C., Mencuccini, M., Müller, J.V., Munzinger, J., Myers-Smith, I.H., Neill, D.A., Niinemets, Ü., Orwin, K.H., Ozinga, W.A., Penuelas, J., Pérez-Haase, A., Petřík, P., Phillips, O.L., Pärtel, M., Reich, P.B., Römermann, C., Rodrigues, A.V., Sabatini, F.M., Sardans, J., Schmidt, M., Seidler, G., Silva Espejo, J.E., Silveira, M., Smyth, A., Sporbert, M., Svenning, J.-C., Tang, Z., Thomas, R., Tsiripidis, I., Vassilev, K., Violle, C., Virtanen, R., Weiher, E., Welk, E., Wesche, K., Winter, M., Wirth, C., Jandt, U. (2018) Global trait environment relationships. Nature - Ecology and Evolution, 1906-1917, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0699-8

23. Bjorkman, A.D., Myers-Smith, I., Elmendorf, S., Normand, S., Rüger, N., Beck, P.S.A., Blach-Overgaard, A., Blok, D., Cornelissen, J.H.C, Forbes, B.C., Georges, D., Goetz, S., Guay, K., Henry, G.H.R., HilleRisLambers, J., Hollister, R., Karger, D.N., Kattge, J., Prevéy, J.S., Rixen, C., Schaepman-Strub, G., Thomas, H., Vellend, M., Wilmking, M., Wipf, S., Carbognani, M., Hermanutz, L., Levesque, E., Molau, U., Petraglia, A., Soudzilovskaia, N.A., Spasojevic, M., Tomaselli, M., Vowles, T., Alatalo, J., Alexander, H., Anadon-Rosell, A., Angers-Blondin, S., Beest, M.T., Berner, L., Björk, R.G., Buchwal, A., Buras, A., Christie, K., Collier, L.S., Cooper, E.J., Dullinger, S., Elberling, B.O., Eskelinen, A., Frei, E.R., Garcia, M.I., Grau, O., Grogan, P., Hallinger, M., Harper, K., Heijmans, M., Hudson, J., Hülber, K., Iversen, C.M., Jaroszynska, F., Johnstone, J., Jorgensen, R.H., Kaarlejärvi, E., Klady, R., Kuleza, S., Kulonen, A., Lamarque, L.J., Lantz, T., Lavalle, A., Little, C.J., Speed, J.D.M., Michelsen, A., Milbau, A., Nabe-Nielsen, J., Nielsen, S.S., Ninot, J.M., Oberbauer, S., Olofsson, J., Onipchenko, F.G., Rumpf, S.B., Semenchuk, P., Shetti, R., Street, L., Suding, K., Tape, K., Trant, A., Treier, U., Tremblay, J.-P., Tremblay, M., Venn, S., Weijers, S., Zamin, T., Boulanger-Lapointe, N., Gould, W.A., Hik, D., Hofgaard, A., Jonsdottir, I.S., Jorgenson, J., Klein, J., Magnusson, B., Tweedie, C., Wookey, P.A., Bahn, M., Blonder, B., van Bodegom, P., Bond-Lamberty, B., Campetella, G., Cerabolini, B.E.L., Chapin F.S.III, Cornwell, W., Craine, J., Dainese, M., de Vries, F.T., Diaz, S., Enquist, B.J., Green, W., Manning, P., Milla, R., Niinemets, Ü., Onoda, Y., Ordonez, J., Ozinga, W.A., Penuelas, J., Poorter, H., Poschlod, P., Reich, P., Sandel, B., Schamp, B., Sheremetev, S., Weiher, E. (2018) Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome. Nature 562, 57–62, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0563-7

22. Olivares, I., Karger, D.N., Kessler, M. (2018) Accessing Species Saturation: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges. Biological Reviews 93, 1874-1890, doi.org/10.1111/brv.12424

21. Klinge, M., Dulamsuren, C., Erasmi, S., Degener, J., Karger, D.N., Hauck, M. (2018) Climate effects on the vitality of boreal forests at the treeline in different ecozones of Mongolia.Biogeosciences.15, 1319-1333, doi.org/10.5194/bg-2017-220

20. Chen, C.W., Rothfels, C., Mustapeng, A., Gubilil, M., Karger, D.N., Kessler, M., Huang, Y. (2018) End of an enigma: Aenigmopteris belongs in Tectaria (Tectariaceae: Polipodiopsida). Journal of Plant Research.doi.org/10.1007/s10265-017-0966-9.

2017

19. Karger, D.N., Conrad, O., Böhner, J., Kawohl, T., Kreft, H., Soria-Auza, R.W., Zimmermann, N.E., Linder, P., Kessler, M. (2017). Climatologies at high resolution for the Earth land surface areas. Scientific Data. 4 170122. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.122

18. Schneider, H., Liu, H., Chang, Y., Ohlsen, D., Perrie, L., Shepherd, L., Kessler, M., Karger, D.N., Hennequin, S., Marquardt, J., Russerl, S., Ansell, S., Lu, N.T., Kamau, P. , Pineiro, J.L., Regaldo, L., Heinrichs, J., Ebihara, A., Smith, A.R., Gibby, M. (2017) Neo- and Paleopolyploidy contribute to the species diversity of Asplenium - the most species rich genus of ferns. Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 55, 353-364, doi.org/10.1111/jse.12271

17. Lehtonen, S., Silvestro, D., Karger, D.N., Scotese, C., Tuomisto, H., Kessler, M., Peña, C., Wahlberg, N., Antonelli, A. (2017) Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns.Scientific Reports.4831, doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05263-7.

16. De la Harpe, M., Paris, M., Karger, D.N., Rolland, J. Kessler, M., Salamin, N., Lexer, C., (2017) Molecular ecology studies of species radiations: current research gaps, opportunities, and challenges.Molecular Ecology. 26, 2608-2622, doi.org/10.1111/mec.14110

15. Abrahamczyk, S., Kessler, M., Hanley, D., Karger, D.N., Müller, M.P.J., Knauer, A.C., Keller, F., Schwerdtfeger; M., Humphreys, A.M. (2017) Pollinator adaptation and the evolution of floral nectar sugar composition.Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 30, 112-127, doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12991

2016

14. Karger, D.N. (2016) Recent advances in probabilistic species pool delineations. Frontiers of Biogeography 8, e300545, doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG30545

13. Kessler, M., Karger, D.N., Kluge, J. (2016). Elevational diversity patterns as an example for evolutionary and ecological dynamics in ferns and lycophytes. Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 54, 617-625, doi.org/10.1111/jse.12218

12. Karger, D.N., Cord, A.F., Kessler, M., Kreft, H., Kühn, I., Pompe, S., Sandel, B., Sarmento Cabral, J., Smith, A.B., Svenning, J.-C., Tuomisto, H., Weigelt, P., Wesche, K. (2016) Delineating probabilistic species pools in ecology and biogeography. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 25, 489-501, doi.org/10.1111/geb.12422

2015

11. Weigelt, P., Kissling, D.W., Kisel, Y., Fritz, S.A., Karger, D.N., Kessler, M., Lehtonen, S., Svenning, J.-S., Kreft, H. (2015) Global Patterns and Drivers of Phylogenetic Structure in Island Floras, Scientific Reports. 5, 12213, doi.org/10.1038/srep12213

10. Lehnert, M., Coritico, F., Darnaedi, D., Hidayat, A., Kluge, J., Karger, D.N., Kessler, M. (2015) Validation of a New Combination in the Genus Alsophila (Cyatheaceae-Polypodiopsida) Systematic Botany. 40, 386-386, doi.org/10.1600/036364415X688394

9. Karger, D.N., Tuomisto, H., Amoroso, V.B., Darnaedi, D., Hidayat, A., Abrahamczyk, S., Kluge, J., Lehnert, M., Kessler, M. (2015) The importance of species pool size for community composition. Ecography. 38, 1243-1253, doi.org/10.1111/ecog.01322

8. Mathieu, G., Vergara-Rodrigues, D., Krömer, T., Karger, D.N. (2015) Peperomia (Piperaceae) novelties from Veracruz State, Mexico. Phytotaxa. 205, 268-276, doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.205.4.6

2014 and before

7. Karger, D.N., Weigelt, P., Amoroso, V.B., Darnaedi, D., Hidayat, A., Kreft, H., Kessler, M. (2014) Island biogeography from regional to local scales: evidence for a spatially scaled echo pattern of fern diversity in the Southeast Asian archipelago. Journal of Biogeography. 41, 250-260, doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12209

6. Lehnert, M., Coritico, F., Darnaedi, D., Hidayat, A., Kluge, J., Karger, D.N., Kessler, M. (2013) Taxonomic and ecological notes on the Alsophila hornei complex (Cyatheaceae-Polypodiopsida), with the description of the new species A. phlebodes from New Guinea. Systematic Botany. 38, 875-886, doi.org/10.1600/036364413X674788

5. Karger, D.N., Abrahamczyk, S., Kessler, M. (2013) Abundance and species richness of hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in the fragmented landscape of Santa Cruz (Bolivia). Ecología en Bolivia. 48, 46-51, doi.org/10.5167/uzh-90801

4. Karger, D.N., Lehtonen, S., Amoroso, V.B., Kessler, M. (2012), A new species of Lindsaea (Lindsaeaceae, Polypodiopsida) from Mt. Hamiguitan, Mindanao, Philippines.Phytotaxa.56, 15-20, doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.56.1.4

3. Karger, D.N., Kluge, J., Abrahamczyk, S., Salazar, L., Homeier, J., Amoroso, V.B., Lehnert, M., Kessler, M. (2012) Bryophyte cover on trees as proxy for relative air humidity in the tropics.Ecological Indicators. 20, 277-281, doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2012.02.026

2. Karger, D.N., Kluge, J., Krömer, T., Hemp, A., Lehnert, M., Kessler, M. (2011) The effect of area on local and regional elevational patterns of species richness. Journal of Biogeography.38, 1177-1185, doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2010.02468.x

1. Will, B., Krömer, T., Kessler, M., Karger, D.N. & H.E. Luther. (2009). Three new species and two new records of Greigia Regel (Bromeliaceae) from Bolivia.Selbyana. 30, 91-100, jstor.org/stable/41760352

Book chapter:

2. Kessler, M., Krömer, T., Kluge, J., Karger, D.N., Acebey, A., Hemp, A., Herzog, S.K., and Lehnert, M.(2009) Elevational gradients of species richness derived from local field surveys versus 'mining' of archive data. In: Eva M Spehn & Christian Körner (eds.) Data mining for global trends in mountain biodiversity. CRC Press/Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton, doi.org/10.1201/9781420083705

1. Karger, D.N., Kluge, J. & Kessler, M. (2016). Comparing species richness patterns of epiphytic and terrestrial ferns along elevational and latitudinal gradients. in Zotz. G. (ed.) Plants on Plants - The Biology of Vascular Epiphytes. Springer, Berlin, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39237-0

Datasets:

1. Karger, D.N., Dabaghchian, B., Lange, S., Thuiller, W., Zimmermann, N.E., Graham, C.H. (2020). High resolution climate data for Europe. EnviDat.http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.16904/envidat.150

2. Karger, D.N., Schmatz, D., Dettling, G., Zimmermann, N.E. (2019). High resolution monthly precipitation and temperature timeseries for the period 2006-2100. EnviDat.http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.16904/envidat.124

3. Karger D.N., Conrad, O., Böhner, J., Kawohl, T., Kreft, H., Soria-Auza, R.W., Zimmermann, N.E,, Linder, H.P., Kessler, M.. Data from: Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas. Dryad Digital Repository.http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.5061/dryad.kd1d4

4. Karger, D.N., Conrad, O., Böhner, J., Kawohl, T., Kreft, H., Soria-Auza, R.W., Zimmermann, N.E., Linder, P., Kessler, M. (2016) CHELSA climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas (Version 1.1). World Data Center for Climate.http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1594/WDCC/CHELSA_v1_1

5. Karger, D.N., Conrad, O., Böhner, J., Kawohl, T., Kreft, H., Soria-Auza, R.W., Zimmermann, N.E., Linder, P., Kessler, M. (2016) CHELSA climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas (Version 1.0). World Data Center for Climate.http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1594/WDCC/CHELSA_v1