Prof. Dr. Arthur Gessler
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Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Zürcherstrasse 111
8903 Birmensdorf
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Birmensdorf Bi HL D 26
Understanding the processes that drive and regulate forest growth, biogeochemical cycles, biotic interactions and biodiversity-ecosystem functioning at different scales is of central importance to our work. Only with this understanding we can assess and predict shifts in the function of ecosystems and landscapes subjected to fundamental changes in the prevailing environmental conditions (i.e. climate and land use).
EDUCATION/TRAINING
| Institution and Location | Degree | Year(s) | Field of Study |
| University of Freiburg University of Freiburg University of Freiburg | Diplom Dr. rer. nat PD (habil) | 1994 1998 2004 | Biology Tree Physiology Tree Physiology |
POSITIONS: Employment /Experience
| 1994-1999
| Postgraduate student/research assistant at the University of Freiburg (Institute of Forest Botany and Tree Physiology), Germany |
| 1999-2002 | Postdoctoral Fellow and Group leader at the University of Freiburg (Institute of Forest Botany and Tree Physiology), Germany |
| 2002-2005 | Research fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft at the University of Freiburg, Germany |
| 2002-2003 | Visiting Fellow at the at the School of Forest and Ecosystem Science of the University of Melbourne, Austrlia |
| 2005 | Senior Research Fellow at the School of Forest and Ecosystem Science of the University of Melbourne, Australia |
| 2005-2006 | Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Biological Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
| 2006 | Research Fellow at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique in Nancy/Champenoux, France |
| 2006-2009 | Head of the Core Facility Metabolomics at the Centre for Biosystem Analysis (ZBSA) of the University of Freiburg, Germany |
| 2009-2014 | Head of the Institute for Landscape Biogeochemistry at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) and Professor for Landscape Biogeochemistry at the Humboldt University at Berlin |
| Since 2014 | Research Program and Group Leader at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL |
Five selected Publications:
(a full publication list can be found at: www.arthur-gessler.de)
Hommel R, Siegwolf R., Saurer M, Farquhar GD, Kayler Z, Ferrio JP, Gessler A. 2014. Drought response of mesophyll conductance in forest understory species - Impacts on water use efficiency and interactions with leaf water movement. Physiologia Plantarum online.
Gessler A, Brandes E, Keitel C, Boda S, Kayler ZE, Granier A, Barbour M, Farquhar GD, Treydte K. 2013. The oxygen isotope enrichment of leaf-exported assimilates - does it always reflect lamina leaf water enrichment? New Phytologist 200: 144-157.
Offermann C, Ferrio JP, Holst J, Grote R, Siegwolf R, Kayler Z, Gessler A. 2011. The long way down – Are carbon and oxygen isotope signals in the tree ring uncoupled from canopy physiological processes? Tree Physiology 31: 1088-1102.
Wingate L, Ogée J, Burlett R, Bosc A, Devaux M, Grace J, Loustau D, Gessler A. 2010 Photosynthetic carbon isotope discrimination and its relationship to the carbon isotope signals of stem, soil and ecosystem respiration. New Phytologist, 188: 576–589.
Gessler A, Tcherkez G, Karyanto O, Keitel C, Ferrio JP, Ghashghaie J, Farquhar GD. 2009. On the metabolic origin of the carbon isotope composition of CO2 evolved from darkened light-acclimated leaves in Ricinus communis. New Phytologist 181: 374–386
FURTHER INFORMATION
Projects
Publications WSL
Scientific publication article peer reviewed
Liu, J.; Jiang, Z.; Schaub, M.; Gessler, A.; Ni, Y.; Xiao, W.; Li, M., 2019: No ontogenetic shifts in C-, N- and P-allocation for two distinct tree species along elevational gradients in the Swiss Alps. Forests, 10, 5: 394 (12 pp.). doi: 10.3390/f10050394
Lehmann, M.M.; Ghiasi, S.; George, G.M.; Cormier, M.; Gessler, A.; Saurer, M.; Werner, R.A., 2019: Influence of starch deficiency on photosynthetic and post-photosynthetic carbon isotope fractionations. Journal of Experimental Botany, 70, 6: 1829-1841. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erz045
Gessler, A., 2019: Coordinating supply and demand: plant carbon allocation strategy ensuring survival in the long run. New Phytologist, 222, 1: 5-7. doi: 10.1111/nph.15583
Joseph, J.; Külls, C.; Arend, M.; Schaub, M.; Hagedorn, F.; Gessler, A.; Weiler, M., 2019: Application of a laser-based spectrometer for continuous in situ measurements of stable isotopes of soil CO2 in calcareous and acidic soils. Soil, 5, 1: 49-62. doi: 10.5194/soil-5-49-2019
Roscher, C.; Karlowsky, S.; Milcu, A.; Gessler, A.; Bachmann, D.; Jesch, A.; Lange, M.; Mellado-Vázquez, P.; Strecker, T.; Landais, D.; Ravel, O.; Buchmann, N.; Roy, J.; Gleixner, G., 2019: Functional composition has stronger impact than species richness on carbon gain and allocation in experimental grasslands. PLoS One, 14, 1: e0204715 (22 pp.). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0204715
Kälin, U.; Lang, N.; Hug, C.; Gessler, A.; Wegner, J.D., 2019: Defoliation estimation of forest trees from ground-level images. Remote Sensing of Environment, 223: 143-153. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.12.021
Milcu, A.; Puga-Freitas, R.; Ellison, A.M.; Blouin, M.; Scheu, S.; Freschet, G.T.; Rose, L.; Barot, S.; Cesarz, S.; Eisenhauer, N.; Girin, T.; Assandri, D.; Bonkowski, M.; Buchmann, N.; Butenschoen, O.; Devidal, S.; Gleixner, G.; Gessler, A.; Gigon, A.; ... Roy, J., 2018: Genotypic variability enhances the reproducibility of an ecological study. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2, 2: 279-287. doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0434-x
Baeten, L.; Bruelheide, H.; Van der Plas, F.; Kambach, S.; Ratcliffe, S.; Jucker, T.; Allan, E.; Ampoorter, E.; Barbaro, L.; Bastias, C.C.; Bauhus, J.; Benavides, R.; Bonal, D.; Bouriaud, O.; Bussotti, F.; Carnol, M.; Castagneyrol, B.; Charbonnier, Y.; Chećko, E.; ... Scherer-Lorenzen, M., 2018: Identifying the tree species compositions that maximize ecosystem functioning in European forests. Journal of Applied Ecology, doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13308
Weber, R.; Gessler, A.; Hoch, G., 2018: High carbon storage in carbon-limited trees. New Phytologist, doi: 10.1111/nph.15599
Lanza, G.; Stang, A.; Kern, J.; Wirth, S.; Gessler, A., 2018: Degradability of raw and post-processed chars in a two-year field experiment. Science of the Total Environment, 628-629: 1600-1608. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.02.164
Resco de Dios, V.; Gessler, A., 2018: Circadian regulation of photosynthesis and transpiration from genes to ecosystems. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 152: 37-48. doi: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2017.09.010
Bussotti, F.; Pollastrini, M.; Gessler, A.; Luo, Z., 2018: Experiments with trees: from seedlings to ecosystems. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 152: 1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2018.04.012
Kiorapostolou, N.; Galiano-Pérez, L.; Von Arx, G.; Gessler, A.; Petit, G., 2018: Structural and anatomical responses of Pinus sylvestris and Tilia platyphyllos seedlings exposed to water shortage. Trees: Structure and Function, 32, 5: 1211-1218. doi: 10.1007/s00468-018-1703-2
Gessler, A.; Reed, S.C.; Borrego, I.; Collins, A.D.; Dickman, L.T.; Ryan, M.; Schönbeck, L.; Sevanto, S.; Vilagrosa, A.; McDowell, N.G., 2018: Reductions in tree performance during hotter droughts are mitigated by shifts in nitrogen cycling. Plant, Cell and Environment, 41, 11: 2627-2637. doi: 10.1111/pce.13389
Nussbaumer, A.; Waldner, P.; Apuhtin, V.; Aytar, F.; Benham, S.; Bussotti, F.; Eichhorn, J.; Eickenscheidt, N.; Fabianek, P.; Falkenried, L.; Leca, S.; Lindgren, M.; Manzano Serrano, M.J.; Neagu, S.; Nevalainen, S.; Pajtik, J.; Potočić, N.; Rautio, P.; Sioen, G.; ... Gessler, A., 2018: Impact of weather cues and resource dynamics on mast occurrence in the main forest tree species in Europe. Forest Ecology and Management, 429: 336-350. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2018.07.011
He, P.; Fontana, S.; Sui, X.; Gessler, A.; Schaub, M.; Rigling, A.; Jiang, Y.; Li, M., 2018: Scale dependent responses of pine reproductive traits to experimental and natural precipitation gradients. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 156: 62-73. doi: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2018.08.028
Van der Plas, F.; Ratcliffe, S.; Ruiz-Benito, P.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Verheyen, K.; Wirth, C.; Zavala, M.A.; Ampoorter, E.; Baeten, L.; Barbaro, L.; Bastias, C.C.; Bauhus, J.; Benavides, R.; Benneter, A.; Bonal, D.; Bouriaud, O.; Bruelheide, H.; Bussotti, F.; Carnol, M.; ... Allan, E., 2018: Continental mapping of forest ecosystem functions reveals a high but unrealised potential for forest multifunctionality. Ecology Letters, 21, 1: 31-42. doi: 10.1111/ele.12868
Felsmann, K.; Baudis, M.; Kayler, Z.E.; Puhlmann, H.; Ulrich, A.; Gessler, A., 2018: Responses of the structure and function of the understory plant communities to precipitation reduction across forest ecosystems in Germany. Annals of Forest Science, 75, 1: 3 (18 pp.). doi: 10.1007/s13595-017-0681-7
Schönbeck, L.; Gessler, A.; Hoch, G.; McDowell, N.G.; Rigling, A.; Schaub, M.; Li, M., 2018: Homeostatic levels of nonstructural carbohydrates after 13 yr of drought and irrigation in Pinus sylvestris. New Phytologist, 219, 4: 1314-1324. doi: 10.1111/nph.15224
Jesch, A.; Barry, K.E.; Ravenek, J.M.; Bachmann, D.; Strecker, T.; Weigelt, A.; Buchmann, N.; De Kroon, H.; Gessler, A.; Mommer, L.; Roscher, C.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M., 2018: Below-ground resource partitioning alone cannot explain the biodiversity–ecosystem function relationship: a field test using multiple tracers. Journal of Ecology, 106, 5: 2002-2008. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12947
Gessler, A.; Cailleret, M.; Joseph, J.; Schönbeck, L.; Schaub, M.; Lehmann, M.; Treydte, K.; Rigling, A.; Timofeeva, G.; Saurer, M., 2018: Drought induced tree mortality - a tree-ring isotope based conceptual model to assess mechanisms and predispositions. New Phytologist, 219, 2: 485-490. doi: 10.1111/nph.15154
Cailleret, M.; Ferretti, M.; Gessler, A.; Rigling, A.; Schaub, M., 2018: Ozone effects on European forest growth - towards an integrative approach. Journal of Ecology, 106, 4: 1377-1389. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12941
Rebetez, M.; Von Arx, G.; Gessler, A.; Pannatier, E.G.; Innes, J.L.; Jakob, P.; Jetel, M.; Kube, M.; Nötzli, M.; Schaub, M.; Schmitt, M.; Sutter, F.; Thimonier, A.; Waldner, P.; Haeni, M., 2018: Meteorological data series from Swiss long-term forest ecosystem research plots since 1997. Annals of Forest Science, 75, 2: 41 (7 pp.). doi: 10.1007/s13595-018-0709-7
Engelhardt, I.C.; Welty, A.; Blazewicz, S.J.; Bru, D.; Rouard, N.; Breuil, M.; Gessler, A.; Galiano, L.; Miranda, J.C.; Spor, A.; Barnard, R.L., 2018: Depth matters: Effects of precipitation regime on soil microbial activity upon rewetting of a plant-soil system. ISME Journal, 12, 4: 1061-1071. doi: 10.1038/s41396-018-0079-z
Du, B.; Kreuzwieser, J.; Dannenmann, M.; Junker, L.V.; Kleiber, A.; Hess, M.; Jansen, K.; Eiblmeier, M.; Gessler, A.; Kohnle, U.; Ensminger, I.; Rennenberg, H.; Wildhagen, H., 2018: Foliar nitrogen metabolism of adult Douglas-fir trees is affected by soil water availability and varies little among provenances. PLoS One, 13, 3: e0194684 (24 pp.). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0194684
Wieloch, T.; Ehlers, I.; Yu, J.; Frank, D.; Grabner, M.; Gessler, A.; Schleucher, J., 2018: Intramolecular 13C analysis of tree rings provides multiple plant ecophysiology signals covering decades. Scientific Reports, 8, 1: 5048 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-23422-2
Hartmann, H.; Moura, C.F.; Anderegg, W.R.L.; Ruehr, N.K.; Salmon, Y.; Allen, C.D.; Arndt, S.K.; Breshears, D.D.; Davi, H.; Galbraith, D.; Ruthrof, K.X.; Wunder, J.; Adams, H.D.; Bloemen, J.; Cailleret, M.; Cobb, R.; Gessler, A.; Grams, T.E.E.; Jansen, S.; ... O'Brien, M., 2018: Research frontiers for improving our understanding of drought-induced tree and forest mortality. New Phytologist, 218, 1: 15-28. doi: 10.1111/nph.15048
Lehmann, M.M.; Goldsmith, G.T.; Schmid, L.; Gessler, A.; Saurer, M.; Siegwolf, R.T.W., 2018: The effect of 18O-labelled water vapour on the oxygen isotope ratio of water and assimilates in plants at high humidity. New Phytologist, 217, 1: 105-116. doi: 10.1111/nph.14788
Kayler, Z.E.; Badrian, M.; Frackowski, A.; Rieckh, H.; Nitzsche, K.N.; Kalettka, T.; Merz, C.; Gessler, A., 2018: Ephemeral kettle hole water and sediment temporal and spatial dynamics within an agricultural catchment. Ecohydrology, 11, 2: e1929 (11 pp.). doi: 10.1002/eco.1929
Zhou, Y.; Zhang, B.; Stuart-Williams, H.; Grice, K.; Hocart, C.H.; Gessler, A.; Kayler, Z.E.; Farquhar, G.D., 2018: On the contributions of photorespiration and compartmentation to the contrasting intramolecular 2H profiles of C3 and C4 plant sugars. Phytochemistry, 145: 197-206. doi: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2017.11.004
Guderle, M.; Bachmann, D.; Milcu, A.; Gockele, A.; Bechmann, M.; Fischer, C.; Roscher, C.; Landais, D.; Ravel, O.; Devidal, S.; Roy, J.; Gessler, A.; Buchmann, N.; Weigelt, A.; Hildebrandt, A., 2018: Dynamic niche partitioning in root water uptake facilitates efficient water use in more diverse grassland plant communities. Functional Ecology, 32: 214-227. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12948
Oram, N.J.; Ravenek, J.M.; Barry, K.E.; Weigelt, A.; Chen, H.; Gessler, A.; Gockele, A.; De Kroon, H.; Van der Paauw, J.W.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Smit-Tiekstra, A.; Van Ruijven, J.; Mommer, L., 2018: Below-ground complementarity effects in a grassland biodiversity experiment are related to deep-rooting species. Journal of Ecology, 106, 1: 265-277. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12877
Adams, H.D.; Zeppel, M.J.B.; Anderegg, W.R.L.; Hartmann, H.; Landhäusser, S.M.; Tissue, D.T.; Huxman, T.E.; Hudson, P.J.; Franz, T.E.; Allen, C.D.; Anderegg, L.D.L.; Barron-Gafford, G.A.; Beerling, D.J.; Breshears, D.D.; Brodribb, T.J.; Bugmann, H.; Cobb, R.C.; Collins, A.D.; Dickman, L.T.; ... McDowell, N.G., 2017: A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1, 9: 1285-1291. doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0248-x
Chen, H.; Oram, N.J.; Barry, K.E.; Mommer, L.; Van Ruijven, J.; De Kroon, H.; Ebeling, A.; Eisenhauer, N.; Fischer, C.; Gleixner, G.; Gessler, A.; González Macé, O.; Hacker, N.; Hildebrandt, A.; Lange, M.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Scheu, S.; Oelmann, Y.; Wagg, C.; ... Weigelt, A., 2017: Root chemistry and soil fauna, but not soil abiotic conditions explain the effects of plant diversity on root decomposition. Oecologia, 185, 3: 499-511. doi: 10.1007/s00442-017-3962-9
Kleiber, A.; Duan, Q.; Jansen, K.; Junker, L.V.; Kammerer, B.; Rennenberg, H.; Ensminger, I.; Gessler, A.; Kreuzwieser, J., 2017: Drought effects on root and needle terpenoid content of a coastal and an interior Douglas fir provenance. Tree Physiology, 37, 12: 1648-1658. doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpx113
Weisser, W.W.; Roscher, C.; Meyer, S.T.; Ebeling, A.; Luo, G.; Allan, E.; Bessler, H.; Barnard, R.L.; Buchmann, N.; Buscot, F.; Engels, C.; Fischer, C.; Fischer, M.; Gessler, A.; Gleixner, G.; Halle, S.; Hildebrandt, A.; Hillebrand, H.; De Kroon, H.; ... Eisenhauer, N., 2017: Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: patterns, mechanisms, and open questions. Basic and Applied Ecology, 23: 1-73. doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2017.06.002
Jucker, T.; Grossiord, C.; Bonal, D.; Bouriaud, O.; Gessler, A.; Coomes, D.A., 2017: Detecting the fingerprint of drought across Europe’s forests: do carbon isotope ratios and stem growth rates tell similar stories?. Forest Ecosystems, 4, 1: 24 (11 pp.). doi: 10.1186/s40663-017-0111-1
Von Arx, G.; Arzac, A.; Fonti, P.; Frank, D.; Zweifel, R.; Rigling, A.; Galiano, L.; Gessler, A.; Olano, J.M., 2017: Responses of sapwood ray parenchyma and non-structural carbohydrates of Pinus sylvestris to drought and long-term irrigation. Functional Ecology, 31, 7: 1371-1382. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12860
Chen, H.; Mommer, L.; Van Ruijven, J.; De Kroon, H.; Fischer, C.; Gessler, A.; Hildebrandt, A.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Wirth, C.; Weigelt, A., 2017: Plant species richness negatively affects root decomposition in grasslands. Journal of Ecology, 105, 1: 209-218. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12650
Milcu, A.; Gessler, A.; Roscher, C.; Rose, L.; Kayler, Z.; Bachmann, D.; Pirhofer-Walzl, K.; Zavadlav, S.; Galiano, L.; Buchmann, T.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Roy, J., 2017: Top canopy nitrogen allocation linked to increased grassland carbon uptake in stands of varying species richness. Scientific Reports, 7, 1: 8392 (11 pp.). doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-08819-9
Ratcliffe, S.; Wirth, C.; Jucker, T.; Van der Plas, F.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Verheyen, K.; Allan, E.; Benavides, R.; Bruelheide, H.; Ohse, B.; Paquette, A.; Ampoorter, E.; Bastias, C.C.; Bauhus, J.; Bonal, D.; Bouriaud, O.; Bussotti, F.; Carnol, M.; Castagneyrol, B.; ... Baeten, L., 2017: Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context. Ecology Letters, 20, 11: 1414-1426. doi: 10.1111/ele.12849
Nitzsche, K.N.; Kaiser, M.; Premke, K.; Gessler, A.; Ellerbrock, R.H.; Hoffmann, C.; Kleeberg, A.; Kayler, Z.E., 2017: Organic matter distribution and retention along transects from hilltop to kettle hole within an agricultural landscape. Biogeochemistry, 136, 1: 47-70. doi: 10.1007/s10533-017-0380-3
García-Plazaola, J.I.; Fernández-Marín, B.; Ferrio, J.P.; Alday, J.G.; Hoch, G.; Landais, D.; Milcu, A.; Tissue, D.T.; Voltas, J.; Gessler, A.; Roy, J.; Resco de Dios, V., 2017: Endogenous circadian rhythms in pigment composition induce changes in photochemical efficiency in plant canopies. Plant, Cell and Environment, 40, 7: 1153-1162. doi: 10.1111/pce.12909
Galiano, L.; Timofeeva, G.; Saurer, M.; Siegwolf, R.; Martínez-Vilalta, J.; Hommel, R.; Gessler, A., 2017: The fate of recently fixed carbon after drought release: towards unravelling C storage regulation in Tilia platyphyllos and Pinus sylvestris. Plant, Cell and Environment, 40, 9: 1711-1724. doi: 10.1111/pce.12972
Haeni, M.; Zweifel, R.; Eugster, W.; Gessler, A.; Zielis, S.; Bernhofer, C.; Carrara, A.; Grünwald, T.; Havránková, K.; Heinesch, B.; Herbst, M.; Ibrom, A.; Knohl, A.; Lagergren, F.; Law, B.E.; Marek, M.; Matteucci, G.; McCaughey, J.H.; Minerbi, S.; ... Buchmann, N., 2017: Winter respiratory C losses provide explanatory power for net ecosystem productivity. Journal of Geophysical Research G: Biogeosciences, 122, 1: 243-260. doi: 10.1002/2016JG003455
Simon, J.; Dannenmann, M.; Pena, R.; Gessler, A.; Rennenberg, H., 2017: Nitrogen nutrition of beech forests in a changing climate: importance of plant-soil-microbe water, carbon, and nitrogen interactions. Plant and Soil, 418, 1-2: 89-114. doi: 10.1007/s11104-017-3293-y
Thoms, R.; Köhler, M.; Gessler, A.; Gleixner, G., 2017: Above and below ground carbohydrate allocation differs between ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) and beech (Fagus sylvatica L.). PLoS One, 12, 9: e0184247 (16 pp.). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0184247
Feichtinger, L.M.; Siegwolf, R.T.W.; Gessler, A.; Buchmann, N.; Lévesque, M.; Rigling, A., 2017: Plasticity in gas-exchange physiology of mature Scots pine and European larch drive short- and long-term adjustments to changes in water availability. Plant, Cell and Environment, 40, 9: 1972-1983. doi: 10.1111/pce.13008
Li, R.; Yang, Q.; Zhang, W.; Zheng, W.; Chi, Y.; Xu, M.; Fang, Y.; Gessler, A.; Li, M.; Wang, S., 2017: Thinning effect on photosynthesis depends on needle ages in a Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) plantation. Science of the Total Environment, 580: 900-906. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.12.036
Liu, J.; Arend, M.; Yang, W.; Schaub, M.; Ni, Y.; Gessler, A.; Jiang, Z.; Rigling, A.; Li, M., 2017: Effects of drought on leaf carbon source and growth of European beech are modulated by soil type. Scientific Reports, 7: 42462 (9 pp.). doi: 10.1038/srep42462
Gessler, A.; Roy, J.; Kayler, Z.; Ferrio, J.P.; Alday, J.G.; Bahn, M.; Del Castillo, J.; Devidal, S.; García-Muñoz, S.; Landais, D.; Martín-Gomez, P.; Milcu, A.; Piel, C.; Pirhofer-Walzl, K.; Galiano, L.; Schaub, M.; Haeni, M.; Ravel, O.; Salekin, S.; ... Resco de Dios, V., 2017: Night and day – circadian regulation of night-time dark respiration and light-enhanced dark respiration in plant leaves and canopies. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 137: 14-25. doi: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2017.01.014
Pollastrini, M.; Nogales, A.G.; Benavides, R.; Bonal, D.; Finer, L.; Fotelli, M.; Gessler, A.; Grossiord, C.; Radoglou, K.; Strasser, R.J.; Bussotti, F., 2017: Tree diversity affects chlorophyll a fluorescence and other leaf traits of tree species in a boreal forest. Tree Physiology, 37, 2: 199-208. doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpw132
Resco de Dios, V.; Gessler, A.; Ferrio, J.P.; Alday, J.G.; Bahn, M.; Del Castillo, J.; Devidal, S.; García-Muñoz, S.; Kayler, Z.; Landais, D.; Martín-Gómez, P.; Milcu, A.; Piel, C.; Pirhofer-Walzl, K.; Ravel, O.; Salekin, S.; Tissue, D.T.; Tjoelker, M.G.; Voltas, J.; Roy, J., 2017: Circadian rhythms regulate the environmental responses of net CO2 exchange in bean and cotton canopies. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 239: 185-191. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.03.014
Nitzsche, K.N.; Kalettka, T.; Premke, K.; Lischeid, G.; Gessler, A.; Kayler, Z.E., 2017: Land-use and hydroperiod affect kettle hole sediment carbon and nitrogen biogeochemistry. Science of the Total Environment, 574: 46-56. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.09.003
Kayler, Z.; Keitel, C.; Jansen, K.; Gessler, A., 2017: Experimental evidence of two mechanisms coupling leaf-level C assimilation to rhizosphere CO2 release. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 135: 21-26. doi: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2016.12.002
Junker, L.V.; Kleiber, A.; Jansen, K.; Wildhagen, H.; Hess, M.; Kayler, Z.; Kammerer, B.; Schnitzler, J.; Kreuzwieser, J.; Gessler, A.; Ensminger, I., 2017: Variation in short-term and long-term responses of photosynthesis and isoprenoid-mediated photoprotection to soil water availability in four douglas-fir provenances. Scientific Reports, 7: 40145 (16 pp.). doi: 10.1038/srep40145
Gessler, A.; Schaub, M.; McDowell, N.G., 2017: The role of nutrients in drought-induced tree mortality and recovery. New Phytologist, 214, 2: 513-520. doi: 10.1111/nph.14340
Premke, K.; Attermeyer, K.; Augustin, J.; Cabezas, A.; Casper, P.; Deumlich, D.; Gelbrecht, J.; Gerke, H.H.; Gessler, A.; Grossart, H.; Hilt, S.; Hupfer, M.; Kalettka, T.; Kayler, Z.; Lischeid, G.; Sommer, M.; Zak, D., 2016: The importance of landscape diversity for carbon fluxes at the landscape level: small-scale heterogeneity matters. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 3, 4: 601-617. doi: 10.1002/wat2.1147
Forrester, D.I.; Bonal, D.; Dawud, S.; Gessler, A.; Granier, A.; Pollastrini, M.; Grossiord, C., 2016: Drought responses by individual tree species are not often correlated with tree species diversity in European forests. Journal of Applied Ecology, 53, 6: 1725-1734. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12745
Weise, L.; Ulrich, A.; Moreano, M.; Gessler, A.; Kayler, Z.E.; Steger, K.; Zeller, B.; Rudolph, K.; Knezevic-Jaric, J.; Premke, K., 2016: Water level changes affect carbon turnover and microbial community composition in lake sediments. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 92, 5: fiw035 (14 pp.). doi: 10.1093/femsec/fiw035
Von Rein, I.; Gessler, A.; Premke, K.; Keitel, C.; Ulrich, A.; Kayler, Z.E., 2016: Forest understory plant and soil microbial response to an experimentally induced drought and heat-pulse event: the importance of maintaining the continuum. Global Change Biology, 22, 8: 2861-2874. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13270
Von Rein, I.; Kayler, Z.E.; Premke, K.; Gessler, A., 2016: Desiccation of sediments affects assimilate transport within aquatic plants and carbon transfer to microorganisms. Plant Biology, 18, 6: 947-961. doi: 10.1111/plb.12486
Van der Plas, F.; Manning, P.; Allan, E.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Verheyen, K.; Wirth, C.; Zavala, M.A.; Hector, A.; Ampoorter, E.; Baeten, L.; Barbaro, L.; Bauhus, J.; Benavides, R.; Benneter, A.; Berthold, F.; Bonal, D.; Bouriaud, O.; Bruelheide, H.; Bussotti, F.; ... Fischer, M., 2016: Jack-of-all-trades effects drive biodiversity-ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in European forests. Nature Communications, 7: 11109 (11 pp.). doi: 10.1038/ncomms11109
Van der Plas, F.; Manning, P.; Soliveres, S.; Allan, E.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Verheyen, K.; Wirth, C.; Zavala, M.A.; Ampoorter, E.; Baeten, L.; Barbaro, L.; Bauhus, J.; Benavides, R.; Benneter, A.; Bonal, D.; Bouriaud, O.; Bruelheide, H.; Bussottti, F.; Carnol, M.; ... Fischer, M., 2016: Biotic homogenization can decrease landscape-scale forest multifunctionality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America PNAS, 113, 13: 3557-3562. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1517903113
Zhou, Y.; Grice, K.; Stuart-Williams, H.; Hocart, C.H.; Gessler, A.; Farquhar, G.D., 2016: Hydrogen isotopic differences between C3 and C4 land plant lipids: consequences of compartmentation in C4 photosynthetic chemistry and C3 photorespiration. Plant, Cell and Environment, 39, 12: 2676-2690. doi: 10.1111/pce.12821
Yan, C.; Gessler, A.; Rigling, A.; Dobbertin, M.; Han, X.; Li, M., 2016: Effects of mistletoe removal on growth, N and C reserves, and carbon and oxygen isotope composition in Scots pine hosts. Tree Physiology, 36, 5: 562-575. doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpw024
Volkmann, T.H.M.; Haberer, K.; Gessler, A.; Weiler, M., 2016: High-resolution isotope measurements resolve rapid ecohydrological dynamics at the soil–plant interface. New Phytologist, 210, 3: 839-849. doi: 10.1111/nph.13868
Volkmann, T.H.M.; Kühnhammer, K.; Herbstritt, B.; Gessler, A.; Weiler, M., 2016: A method for in situ monitoring of the isotope composition of tree xylem water using laser spectroscopy. Plant, Cell and Environment, 39, 9: 2055-2063. doi: 10.1111/pce.12725
Pollastrini, M.; Feducci, M.; Bonal, D.; Fotelli, M.; Gessler, A.; Grossiord, C.; Guyot, V.; Jactel, H.; Nguyen, D.; Radoglou, K.; Bussotti, F., 2016: Physiological significance of forest tree defoliation: results from a survey in a mixed forest in Tuscany (central Italy). Forest Ecology and Management, 361: 170-178. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2015.11.018
Resco de Dios, V.; Gessler, A.; Ferrio, J.P.; Alday, J.G.; Bahn, M.; Del Castillo, J.; Devidal, S.; García-Muñoz, S.; Kayler, Z.; Landais, D.; Martín-Gómez, P.; Milcu, A.; Piel, C.; Pirhofer-Walzl, K.; Ravel, O.; Salekin, S.; Tissue, D.T.; Tjoelker, M.G.; Voltas, J.; Roy, J., 2016: Circadian rhythms have significant effects on leaf-to-canopy scale gas exchange under field conditions. GigaScience, 5, 1: 43 (10 pp.). doi: 10.1186/s13742-016-0149-y
Nussbaumer, A.; Waldner, P.; Etzold, S.; Gessler, A.; Benham, S.; Thomsen, I.M.; Jørgensen, B.B.; Timmermann, V.; Verstraeten, A.; Sioen, G.; Rautio, P.; Ukonmaanaho, L.; Skudnik, M.; Apuhtin, V.; Braun, S.; Wauer, A., 2016: Patterns of mast fruiting of common beech, sessile and common oak, Norway spruce and Scots pine in Central and Northern Europe. Forest Ecology and Management, 363: 237-251. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2015.12.033
Nitzsche, K.N.; Verch, G.; Premke, K.; Gessler, A.; Kayler, Z.E., 2016: Visualizing land-use and management complexity within biogeochemical cycles of an agricultural landscape. Ecosphere, 7, 5: 01282 (16 pp.). doi: 10.1002/ecs2.1282
Milcu, A.; Eugster, W.; Bachmann, D.; Guderle, M.; Roscher, C.; Gockele, A.; Landais, D.; Ravel, O.; Gessler, A.; Lange, M.; Ebeling, A.; Weisser, W.W.; Roy, J.; Hildebrandt, A.; Buchmann, N., 2016: Plant functional diversity increases grassland productivity-related water vapor fluxes: an Ecotron and modeling approach. Ecology, 97, 8: 2044-2054. doi: 10.1890/15-1110.1
Ma, S.; Churkina, G.; Gessler, A.; Wieland, R.; Bellocchi, G., 2016: Yield gap of winter wheat in Europe and sensitivity of potential yield to climate factors. Climate Research, 67, 3: 179-190. doi: 10.3354/cr01367
Hommel, R.; Siegwolf, R.; Zavadlav, S.; Arend, M.; Schaub, M.; Galiano, L.; Haeni, M.; Kayler, Z.E.; Gessler, A., 2016: Impact of interspecific competition and drought on the allocation of new assimilates in trees. Plant Biology, 18, 5: 785-796. doi: 10.1111/plb.12461
Hentschel, R.; Hommel, R.; Poschenrieder, W.; Grote, R.; Holst, J.; Biernath, C.; Gessler, A.; Priesack, E., 2016: Stomatal conductance and intrinsic water use efficiency in the drought year 2003: a case study of European beech. Trees: Structure and Function, 30, 1: 153-174. doi: 10.1007/s00468-015-1284-2
Hagedorn, F.; Joseph, J.; Peter, M.; Luster, J.; Pritsch, K.; Geppert, U.; Kerner, R.; Molinier, V.; Egli, S.; Schaub, M.; Liu, J.; Li, M.; Sever, K.; Weiler, M.; Siegwolf, R.T.W.; Gessler, A.; Arend, M., 2016: Recovery of trees from drought depends on belowground sink control. Nature Plants, 2, 8: 16111 (5 pp.). doi: 10.1038/NPLANTS.2016.111
Grote, R.; Gessler, A.; Hommel, R.; Poschenrieder, W.; Priesack, E., 2016: Importance of tree height and social position for drought-related stress on tree growth and mortality. Trees: Structure and Function, 30, 5: 1467-1482. doi: 10.1007/s00468-016-1446-x
Giuggiola, A.; Ogée, J.; Rigling, A.; Gessler, A.; Bugmann, H.; Treydte, K., 2016: Improvement of water and light availability after thinning at a xeric site: which matters more? A dual isotope approach. New Phytologist, 210, 1: 108-121. doi: 10.1111/nph.13748
Du, B.; Jansen, K.; Kleiber, A.; Eiblmeier, M.; Kammerer, B.; Ensminger, I.; Gessler, A.; Rennenberg, H.; Kreuzwieser, J., 2016: A coastal and an interior Douglas fir provenance exhibit different metabolic strategies to deal with drought stress. Tree Physiology, 36, 2: 148-163. doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpv105
Arend, M.; Gessler, A.; Schaub, M., 2016: The influence of the soil on spring and autumn phenology in European beech. Tree Physiology, 36, 1: 78-85. doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpv087
Arend, M.; Sever, K.; Pflug, E.; Gessler, A.; Schaub, M., 2016: Seasonal photosynthetic response of European beech to severe summer drought: limitation, recovery and post-drought stimulation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 220: 83-89. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.01.011
Anderegg, W.R.L.; Martinez-Vilalta, J.; Cailleret, M.; Camarero, J.J.; Ewers, B.E.; Galbraith, D.; Gessler, A.; Grote, R.; Huang, C.; Lewick, S.R.; Powell, T.L.; Rowland, L.; Sánchez-Salguero, R.; Trotsiuk, V., 2016: When a tree dies in the forest: scaling climate-driven tree mortality to ecosystem water and carbon Fluxes. Ecosystems, 19, 6: 1133-1147. doi: 10.1007/s10021-016-9982-1
Zhou, Y.; Stuart-Williams, H.; Grice, K.; Kayler, Z.E.; Zavadlav, S.; Vogts, A.; Rommerskirchen, F.; Farquhar, G.D.; Gessler, A., 2015: Allocate carbon for a reason: priorities are reflected in the 13C/12C ratios of plant lipids synthesized via three independent biosynthetic pathways. Phytochemistry, 111: 14-20. doi: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2014.12.005
Rillig, M.C.; Kiessling, W.; Borsch, T.; Gessler, A.; Greenwood, A.D.; Hofer, H.; Joshi, J.; Schröder, B.; Thonicke, K.; Tockner, K.; Weisshuhn, K.; Jeltsch, F., 2015: Biodiversity research: data without theory - theory without data. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 3: 20 (4 pp.). doi: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00020
Resco de Dios, V.; Roy, J.; Ferrio, J.P.; Alday, J.G.; Landais, D.; Milcu, A.; Gessler, A., 2015: Processes driving nocturnal transpiration and implications for estimating land evapotranspiration. Scientific Reports, 5: 10975 (8 pp.). doi: 10.1038/srep10975
Peuke, A.D.; Gessler, A.; Trumbore, S.; Windt, C.W.; Homan, N.; Gerkema, E.; Van As, H., 2015: Phloem flow and sugar transport in Ricinus communis L. is inhibited under anoxic conditions of shoot or roots. Plant, Cell and Environment, 38, 3: 433-447. doi: 10.1111/pce.12399
Lanza, G.; Wirth, S.; Gessler, A.; Kern, J., 2015: Short-term response of soil respiration to addition of chars: impact of fermentation post-processing and mineral nitrogen. Pedosphere, 25, 5: 761-769. doi: 10.1016/S1002-0160(15)30057-6
Hacker, N.; Ebeling, A.; Gessler, A.; Gleixner, G.; González Macé, O.; De Kroon, H.; Lange, M.; Mommer, L.; Eisenhauer, N.; Ravenek, J.; Scheu, S.; Weigelt, A.; Wagg, C.; Wilcke, C.; Oelmann, Y., 2015: Plant diversity shapes microbe-rhizosphere effects on P mobilisation from organic matter in soil. Ecology Letters, 18, 12: 1356-1365. doi: 10.1111/ele.12530
Grossiord, C.; Forner, A.; Gessler, A.; Garnier, A.; Pollastini, M.; Valladares, F.; Bonal, D., 2015: Influence of species interactions on transpiration of Mediterranean tree species during a summer drought. European Journal of Forest Research, 134, 2: 365-376. doi: 10.1007/s10342-014-0857-8
Gimbel, K.F.; Felsmann, K.; Baudis, M.; Puhlmann, H.; Gessler, A.; Bruelheide, H.; Kayler, Z.; Ellerbrock, R.H.; Ulrich, A.; Welk, E.; Weiler, M., 2015: Drought in forest understory ecosystems – a novel rainfall reduction experiment. Biogeosciences, 12, 4: 961-975. doi: 10.5194/bg-12-961-2015
Felsmann, K.; Baudis, M.; Gimbel, K.; Kayler, Z.E.; Ellerbrock, R.; Bruehlheide, H.; Bruckhoff, J.; Welk, E.; Puhlmann, H.; Weiler, M.; Gessler, A.; Ulrich, A., 2015: Soil bacterial community structure responses to precipitation reduction and forest management in forest ecosystems across Germany. PLoS One, 10, 4: e0122539 (24 pp.). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122539
Grossiord, C.; Gessler, A.; Granier, A.; Bonal, D., 2015: Les forêts tempérées face aux conséquences du changement climatique: Est-il primordial de favoriser une plus forte diversité d'arbres dans les peuplements forestiers?. Revue Forestiere Francaise, 67, 2: 99-110. doi: 10.4267/2042/57901
Grossiord, C.; Gessler, A.; Granier, A.; Berger, S.; Bréchet, C.; Hentschel, R.; Hommel, R.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Bonal, D., 2014: Impact of interspecific interactions on the soil water uptake depth in a young temperate mixed species plantation. Journal of Hydrology, 519: 3511-3519. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.11.011
Song, X.; Farquhar, G.D.; Gessler, A.; Barbour, M.M., 2014: Turnover time of the non-structural carbohydrate pool influences δ18O of leaf cellulose. Plant, Cell and Environment, 37, 11: 2500-2507. doi: 10.1111/pce.12309
Treydte, K.; Boda, S.; Graf Pannatier, E.; Fonti, P.; Frank, D.; Ullrich, B.; Saurer, M.; Siegwolf, R.; Battipaglia, G.; Werner, W.; Gessler, A., 2014: Seasonal transfer of oxygen isotopes from precipitation and soil to the tree ring: source water versus needle water enrichment. New Phytologist, 202, 3: 772-783. doi: 10.1111/nph.12741
Ravenek, J.M.; Bessler, H.; Engels, C.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Gessler, A.; Gockele, A.; De Luca, E.; Temperton, V.M.; Ebeling, A.; Roscher, C.; Schmid, B.; Weisser, W.W.; Wirth, C.; De Kroon, H.; Weigelt, A.; Mommer, L., 2014: Long-term study of root biomass in a biodiversity experiment reveals shifts in diversity effects over time. Oikos, 123, 12: 1528-1536. doi: 10.1111/oik.01502
Jansen, K.; Du, B.; Kayler, Z.; Siegworf, R.; Ensminger, I.; Rennenberg, H.; Kammerer, B.; Jaeger, C.; Schaub, M.; Kreuzwieser, J.; Gessler, A., 2014: Douglas-fir seedlings exhibit metabolic responses to increased temperature and atmospheric drought. PLoS One, 9, 12: e114165 (21 pp.). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0114165
Hommel, R.; Siegwolf, R.; Saurer, M.; Farquhar, G.D.; Kayler, Z.; Ferrio, J.P.; Gessler, A., 2014: Drought response of mesophyll conductance in forest understory species - impacts on water-use efficiency and interactions with leaf water movement. Physiologia Plantarum, 152, 1: 98-114. doi: 10.1111/ppl.12160
Hentschel, R.; Rosner, S.; Kayler, Z.E.; Andreassen, K.; Børja, I.; Solberg, S.; Tveito, O.E.; Priesack, E.; Gessler, A., 2014: Norway spruce physiological and anatomical predisposition to dieback. Forest Ecology and Management, 322: 27-36. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.03.007
Grossiord, C.; Granier, A.; Ratcliffe, S.; Bouriaud, O.; Bruelheide, H.; Checko, E.; Forrester, D.I.; Dawud, S.M.; Finér, L.; Pollastrini, M.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M.; Valladares, F.; Bonal, D.; Gessler, A., 2014: Tree diversity does not always improve resistance of forest ecosystems to drought. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America PNAS, 111, 41: 14812-14815. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1411970111
Gockele, A.; Weigelt, A.; Gessler, A.; Scherer-Lorenzen, M., 2014: Quantifying resource use complementarity in grassland species: a comparison of different nutrient tracers. Pedobiologia, 57, 4-6: 251-256. doi: 10.1016/j.pedobi.2014.09.001
Gessler, A.; Ferrio, J.P.; Hommel, R.; Treydte, K.; Werner, R.A.; Monson, R.K., 2014: Stable isotopes in tree rings: towards a mechanistic understanding of isotope fractionation and mixing processes from the leaves to the wood. Tree Physiology, 34, 8: 796-818. doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpu040
Baudis, M.; Ellerbrock, R.H.; Felsmann, K.; Gessler, A.; Gimbel, K.; Kayler, Z.; Puhlmann, H.; Ulrich, A.; Weiler, M.; Welk, E.; Bruelheide, H., 2014: Intraspecific differences in responses to rainshelter-induced drought and competition of Fagus sylvatica L. across Germany. Forest Ecology and Management, 330: 283-293. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.07.012
Du, B.; Jansen, K.; Junker, L.V.; Eiblmeier, M.; Kreuzwieser, J.; Gessler, A.; Ensminger, I.; Rennenberg, H., 2014: Elevated temperature differently affects foliar nitrogen partitioning in seedlings of diverse Douglas fir provenances. Tree Physiology, 34, 10: 1090-1101. doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpu074
Gessler, A., 2012: Where does it come from, where does it go? The role of the xylem for plant CO2 efflux. Journal of Experimental Botany, 68, 11: 2633-2636. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erx161
Further scientific publications
Gessler, A., 2018: Editor's highlight for TSAF D-17-00396: carbon and oxygen isotopes in tree rings – climate signals and microsite effects. Trees: Structure and Function, 32, 3: 881-882. doi: 10.1007/s00468-018-1681-4
Gessler, A.; Bugmann, H.; Bigler, C.; Edwards, P.; Della Guistina, C.; Kueffer, C.; Roy, J.; Resco de Dios, V., 2017: Light as a source of information in ecosystems. In: Sander, S.; Oberst, J. (eds), 2017: Changing perspectives on daylight: science, technology, and culture. Washington DC, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 9-15.
Gessler, A.; Treydte, K., 2016: The fate and age of carbon – insights into the storage and remobilization dynamics in trees. New Phytologist, 209, 4: 1338-1340. doi: 10.1111/nph.13863
Rigling, A.; Gessler, A.; Feichtinger, L.; Queloz, V.; Wohlgemuth, T., 2016: Introduced or native tree species to maintain forest ecosystem services in a hotter and drier future?. In: Krumm, F.; Vitková, L. (eds), 2016: Introduced tree species in European forests: opportunities and challenges. Freiburg, European Forest Institute. 236-247.
Pfautsch, S.; Bell, T.L.; Gessler, A., 2015: Uptake, transport and redistribution of amino nitrogen in woody plants. In: D'Mello, J.P.F. (eds), 2015: Amino acids in higher plants. Wallingford, CABI Publishing. 315-339.
Magazine article and brochures
Niedermann, S.; Gessler, A., 2018: Waldschäden frühzeitig erkennen. WSL-Magazin Diagonal, 2018, 2: 12-14.
Niedermann, S.; Gessler, A., 2018: Détection précoce des dégâts en forêt. Magazine du WSL Diagonale, 2018, 2: 12-14.
Niedermann, S.; Gessler, A., 2018: Detecting forest damage early. WSL magazine Diagonal, 2018, 2: 12-14.
Wohlgemuth, T.; Forster, B.; Gessler, A.; Ginzler, C.; Queloz, V.; Vitasse, Y.; Rigling, A., 2018: Sommertrockenheit. Zunehmend eine Herausforderung für den Wald. Wald und Holz, 99, 9: 18-19.