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. (accepted) Macroecology in the age of big data – where to go from here? Journal of Biogeography
Wüest, R.O., Boucher, F.C., Bouchenak-Khelladi, Y., Karger, D.N., Linder, H.P. (accepted) Dissecting biodiversity in a global hotspot: uneven dynamics of immigration and diversification within the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa. Journal of Biogeography
Thuiller, W., Guéguen, M., Renaud, J., Karger, D.N., Zimmermann, N.E. (2019) Uncertainty in ensembles of global biodiversity scenarios. Nature Communications. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09519-w
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
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. doi.org/10.1111/geb.12897
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 2, 1906-1917, doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0699-8
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, doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0563-7
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
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
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.
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. doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.122
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
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.
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
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
Karger, D.N. (2016) Recent advances in probabilistic species pool delineations. Frontiers of Biogeography 8, e300545, doi.org/10.21425/F5FBG30545
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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
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, doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39237-0
