Lab publications
2019
Craven, D., Winter, M., Hotzel, K., Gaikwad, J., Eisenhauer, N., Hohmuth, M., König-Ries, B. & Wirth, C. (2019): Evolution of interdisciplinarity in biodiversity science. Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1002/ece3.5244 pdf
Weigelt, P., König, C. & Kreft, H. (2019): GIFT – A Global Inventory of Floras and Traits for macroecology and biogeography. Journal of Biogeography. doi: 10.1111/jbi.13623 pdf
Zemp, D.C., Ehbrecht, M., Seidel, D., Ammer, C., Craven, D., Erkelenz, J., Irawan, B., Sundawati, L., Hölscher, D. & Kreft, H. (2019): Mixed-species tree plantings enhance structural complexity in oil palm plantations. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 283, 106564. doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2019.06.003 pdf
Cabral, J.S., Whittaker, R.J., Wiegand, K. & Kreft, H. (2019): Assessing predicted isolation effects from the general dynamic model of island biogeography with an eco-evolutionary model for plants. Journal of Biogeography. doi: 10.1111/jbi.13603 pdf
Cabral, J.S., Wiegand, K. & Kreft, H. (2019): Interactions between ecological, evolutionary and environmental processes unveil complex dynamics of insular plant diversity. Journal of Biogeography. doi: 10.1111/jbi.13606 pdf
Seidel, D., Annighöfer, P., Stiers, M., Zemp, C.D., Burkardt, K., Ehbrecht, M., Willim, K., Kreft, H., Hölscher, D. & Ammer, C. (2019): How a measure of tree structural complexity relates to architectural benefit-to-cost ratio, light availability, and growth of trees. Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1002/ece3.5281 pdf
Röll, A., Niu, F., Meijide, A., Ahongshangbam, J., Ehbrecht, M., Guillaume, T., Gunawan, D., Hardanto, A., Hendrayanto, Hertel, D., Kotowska, M.M., Kreft, H., Kuzyakov, Y., Leuschner, C., Nomura, M., Polle, A., Rembold, K., Sahner, J., Seidel, D., Zemp, D.C., Knohl, A. & Hölscher, D. (2019): Transpiration on the rebound in lowland Sumatra. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 274, 160-171. pdf
Khokthong, W., Zemp, D.C., Irawan, B., Sundawati, L., Kreft, H. & Hölscher, D. (2019): Drone-Based Assessment of Canopy Cover for Analyzing Tree Mortality in an Oil Palm Agroforest. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2, 12. pdf
Chase, J.M., Gooriah, L., May, F., Ryberg, W.A., Schuler, M.S., Craven, D., & Knight, T.M. (2009): A framework for disentangling ecological mechanisms underlying the island species–area relationship. Frontiers of Biogeography 11, e40844. pdf
Schrader, J., König, C., Moeljono, S., Pärtel, M. & Kreft, H. (2019): Requirements of plant species are linked to area and determine species pool and richness on small islands. Journal of Vegetation Science. doi: 10.1111/jvs.12758 pdf
Taylor, A., Weigelt, P., König, C., Zotz, G. & Kreft, H. (2019): Island disharmony revisited using orchids as a model group. New Phytologist. doi: 10.1111/nph.15776 pdf
Schrader, J., Moeljono, S., Keppel, G. & Kreft, H. (2019): Plants on small islands revisited: the effects of spatial scale and habitat quality on the species-area relationship. Ecography. doi: 10.1111/ecog.04512 pdf
König, C., Weigelt, P., Schrader, J., Taylor, A., Kattge, J. & Kreft, H. (2019): Biodiversity data integration – The significance of data resolution and domain. PLOS Biology 17, e3000183. pdf
Dyer, M.J.B., Keppel, G., Tuiwawa, M., Vido, S. & Boehmer, H.J. (2019): Invasive alien palm Pinanga coronata threatens native tree ferns in an oceanic island rainforest. Australian Journal of Botany 66, 647-656. pdf
Delavaux, C.S., Weigelt, P., Dawson, W., Duchicela, J., Essl, F., van Kleunen, M., König, C., Pergl, J., Pyšek, P., Stein, A., Winter, M., Schultz, P., Kreft, H. & Bever, J.D. (2019): Mycorrhizal fungi influence global plant biogeography. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3, 424-429. pdf
Poorter, L., Rozendaal, D.M.A., Bongers, F., de Almeida-Cortez, J.S., Almeyda Zambrano, A.M., Álvarez, F.S., Andrade, J.L., Villa, L.F.A., Balvanera, P., Becknell, J.M., Bentos, T.V., Bhaskar, R., Boukili, V., Brancalion, P.H.S., Broadbent, E.N., César, R.G., Chave, J., Chazdon, R.L., Colletta, G.D., Craven, D., de Jong, B.H.J., Denslow, J.S., Dent, D.H., DeWalt, S.J., García, E.D., Dupuy, J.M., Durán, S.M., Espírito Santo, M.M., Fandiño, M.C., Fernandes, G.W., Finegan, B., Moser, V.G., Hall, J.S., Hernández-Stefanoni, J.L., Jakovac, C.C., Junqueira, A.B., Kennard, D., Lebrija-Trejos, E., Letcher, S.G., Lohbeck, M., Lopez, O.R., Marín-Spiotta, E., Martínez-Ramos, M., Martins, S.V., Massoca, P.E.S., Meave, J.A., Mesquita, R., Mora, F., de Souza Moreno, V., Müller, S.C., Muñoz, R., Muscarella, R., de Oliveira Neto, S.N., Nunes, Y.R.F., Ochoa-Gaona, S., Paz, H., Peña-Claros, M., Piotto, D., Ruíz, J., Sanaphre-Villanueva, L., Sanchez-Azofeifa, A., Schwartz, N.B., Steininger, M.K., Thomas, W.W., Toledo, M., Uriarte, M., Utrera, L.P., van Breugel, M., van der Sande, M.T., van der Wal, H., Veloso, M.D.M., Vester, H.F.M., Vieira, I.C.G., Villa, P.M., Williamson, G.B., Wright, S.J., Zanini, K.J., Zimmerman, J.K. & Westoby, M. (2019): Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time. Nature Ecology & Evolution. doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-0882-6 pdf
Schulze, E.D., Craven, D., Durso, A.M., Reif, J., Guderle, M., Kroiher, F., Hennig, P., Weiserbs, A., Schall, P., Ammer, C. & Eisenhauer, N. (2019): Positive association between forest management, environmental change, and forest bird abundance. Forest Ecosystems 6, 3. pdf
Cameron, E.K., Martins, I.S., Lavelle, P., Mathieu, J., Tedersoo, L., Bahram, M., Gottschall, F., Guerra, C.A., Hines, J., Patoine, G., Siebert, J., Winter, M., Cesarz, S., Ferlian, O., Kreft, H., Lovejoy, T.E., Montanarella, L., Orgiazzi, A., Pereira, H.M., Phillips, H.R.P., Settele, J., Wall, D.H. & Eisenhauer, N. (2019): Global mismatches in aboveground and belowground biodiversity. Conservation Biology. doi: 10.1111/cobi.13311 pdf
Weng, W., Costa, L., Lüdeke, M.K.B. & Zemp, D.C. (2019): Aerial river management by smart cross-border reforestation. Land Use Policy 84, 105-113. pdf
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 biogeographic effects hold the answer. Global Ecology & Biogeography 28, 839-850. pdf
Fenesi, A., Sándor, D., Pyšek, P., Dawson, W., Ruprecht, E., Essl, F., Kreft, H., Pergl, J., Weigelt, P., Winter, M. & Van Kleunen, M. (2019): The role of fruit heteromorphism in the naturalization of Asteraceae. Annals of Botany. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcz012 pdf
Amandita, F.Y., Rembold, K., Vornam, B., Rahayu, S., Siregar, I.Z., Kreft, H. & Finkeldey, R. (2019): DNA barcoding of flowering plants in Sumatra, Indonesia. Ecology and Evolution 9, 1858-1868. pdf
Guo, W.-Y., van Kleunen, M., Pierce, S., Dawson, W., Essl, F., Kreft, H., Maurel, N., Pergl, J., Seebens, H., Weigelt, P. & Pyšek, P. (2019): Domestic gardens play a dominant role in selecting alien species with adaptive strategies that facilitate naturalization. Global Ecology & Biogeography, 28, 628-639. pdf
Pyšek, P., Dawson, W., Essl, F., Kreft, H., Pergl, J., Seebens, H., van Kleunen, M., Weigelt, P. & Winter, M. (2019): Contrasting patterns of naturalized plant richness in the Americas: Numbers are higher in the North but expected to rise sharply in the South. Global Ecology & Biogeography 28, 779-783. pdf
Razanajatovo, M., van Kleunen, M., Kreft, H., Dawson, W., Essl, F., Pergl, J., Pyšek, P., Winter, M. & Weigelt, P. (2019): Autofertility and self-compatibility moderately benefit island colonization of plants. Global Ecology & Biogeography 28, 341-352. pdf
van Breugel, M., Craven, D., Lai, H.R., Baillon, M., Turner, B.L. & Hall, J.S. (2019): Soil nutrients and dispersal limitation shape compositional variation in secondary tropical forests across multiple scales. Journal of Ecology 107, 566-581. pdf
van Kleunen, M., Pyšek, P., Dawson, W., Essl, F., Kreft, H., Pergl, J., Weigelt, P., Stein, A., Dullinger, S., König, C., Lenzner, B., Maurel, N., Moser, D., Seebens, H., Kartesz, J., Nishino, M., Aleksanyan, A., Ansong, M., Antonova, L.A., Barcelona, J.F., Breckle, S.W., Brundu, G., Cabezas, F.J., Cárdenas, D., Cárdenas-Toro, J., Castaño, N., Chacón, E., Chatelain, C., Conn, B., de Sá Dechoum, M., Dufour-Dror, J.-M., Ebel, A.L., Figueiredo, E., Fragman-Sapir, O., Fuentes, N., Groom, Q.J., Henderson, L., Inderjit, Jogan, N., Krestov, P., Kupriyanov, A., Masciadri, S., Meerman, J., Morozova, O., Nickrent, D., Nowak, A., Patzelt, A., Pelser, P.B., Shu, W.-s., Thomas, J., Uludag, A., Velayos, M., Verkhosina, A., Villaseñor, J.L., Weber, E., Wieringa, J.J., Yazlık, A., Zeddam, A., Zykova, E. & Winter, M (2019): The Global Naturalized Alien Flora (GloNAF) database. Ecology 100, e02542. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2542 pdf
Canavan, S., Meyerson, L.A., Packer, J.G., Pyšek, P., Maurel, N., Lozano, V., Richardson, D.M., Brundu, G., Canavan, K., Cicatelli, A., Čuda, J., Dawson, W., Essl, F., Guarino, F., Guo, W.-Y., van Kleunen, M., Kreft, H., Lambertini, C., Pergl, J., Skálová, H., Soreng, R.J., Visser, V., Vorontsova, M.S., Weigelt, P., Winter, M. & Wilson, J.R.U. (2019): Tall-statured grasses: a useful functional group for invasion science. Biological Invasions 21, 37-58. pdf
Ibanez, T., Keppel, G., Menkes, C., Gillespie, T.W., Lengaigne, M., Mangeas, M., Rivas, G. & Birnbaum, P. (2019): Globally consistent impact of tropical cyclones on the structure of tropical and subtropical forests. Journal of Ecology 107, 279-292. pdf
2018
Craven, D., Knight, T.M., Barton, K.E., Bialic-Murphy, L., Cordell, S., Giardina, C.P., Gillespie, T.W., Ostertag, R., Sack, L. & Chase, J.M. (2018): OpenNahele: the open Hawaiian forest plot database. Biodiversity Data Journal 6, e28406. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.6.e28406. pdf
Carvajal-Hernández, C.I., Guzmán-Jacob, V., Smith, A.R. & Krömer, T. (2018): A New Species, New Combinations in Pecluma and Pleopeltis, and New Records for the State of Veracruz, Mexico. American Fern Journal 108, 139-151. pdf
Antonelli, A., Kissling, W.D., Flantua, S.G.A., Bermúdez, M.A., Mulch, A., Muellner-Riehl, A.N., Kreft, H., Linder, H.P., Badgley, C., Fjeldså, J., Fritz, S.A., Rahbek, C., Herman, F., Hooghiemstra, H. & Hoorn, C. (2018): Geological and climatic influences on mountain biodiversity. Nature Geoscience 11, 718-725. pdf
Keppel, G., Ottaviani, G., Harrison, S., Wardell-Johnson, G.W., Marcantonio, M. & Mucina, L. (2018): Towards an eco-evolutionary understanding of endemism hotspots and refugia. Annals of Botany 122, 927-934. pdf
He, J., Kreft, H., Lin, S., Xu, Y. & Jiang, H. (2018): Cenozoic evolution of beta diversity and a Pleistocene emergence for modern mammal faunas in China. Global Ecology & Biogeography 27, 1326-1338. pdf
Kusuma, Y.W.C., Rembold, K., Tjitrosoedirdjo, S.S. & Kreft, H. (2018): Tropical rainforest conversion and land use intensification reduce understorey plant phylogenetic diversity. Journal of Applied Ecology 55, 2216-2226. pdf
Moser, D., Lenzner, B., Weigelt, P., Dawson, W., Kreft, H., Pergl, J., Pyšek, P., van Kleunen, M., Winter, M., Capinha, C., Cassey, P., Dullinger, S., Economo, E.P., García-Díaz, P., Guénard, B., Hofhansl, F., Mang, T., Seebens, H. & Essl, F. (2018): Remoteness promotes biological invasions on islands worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, 9270-9275. pdf
Craven, D., Eisenhauer, N., Pearse, W.D., Hautier, Y., Isbell, F., Roscher, C., Bahn, M., Beierkuhnlein, C., Bönisch, G., Buchmann, N., Byun, C., Catford, J.A., Cerabolini, B.E.L., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Craine, J.M., De Luca, E., Ebeling, A., Griffin, J.N., Hector, A., Hines, J., Jentsch, A., Kattge, J., Kreyling, J., Lanta, V., Lemoine, N., Meyer, S.T., Minden, V., Onipchenko, V., Polley, H.W., Reich, P.B., van Ruijven, J., Schamp, B., Smith, M.D., Soudzilovskaia, N.A., Tilman, D., Weigelt, A., Wilsey, B. & Manning, P. (2018): Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2, 1579-1587. pdf
Guo, W.-Y., van Kleunen, M., Winter, M., Weigelt, P., Stein, A., Pierce, S., Pergl, J., Moser, D., Maurel, N., Lenzner, B., Kreft, H., Essl, F., Dawson, W. & Pyšek, P. (2018): The role of adaptive strategies in plant naturalization. Ecology Letters 21, 1380-1389. pdf
Haeuser, E., Dawson, W., Thuiller, W., Dullinger, S., Block, S., Bossdorf, O., Carboni, M., Conti, L., Dullinger, I., Essl, F., Klonner, G., Moser, D., Münkemüller, T., Parepa, M., Talluto, M.V., Kreft, H., Pergl, J., Pyšek, P., Weigelt, P., Winter, M., Hermy, M., Van der Veken, S., Roquet, C. & van Kleunen, M. (2018): European ornamental garden flora as an invasion debt under climate change. Journal of Applied Ecology 55, 2386-2395. pdf
Fried, O., Kühn, I., Schrader, J., Sinh Nguyen, V. & Bergmeier, E. (2018): Plant diversity and composition of rice field bunds in Southeast Asia. Paddy and Water Environment 16, 359-378. pdf
Settele, J., Heong, K.L., Kühn, I., Klotz, S., Spangenberg, J.H., Arida, G., Beaurepaire, A., Beck, S., Bergmeier, E., Burkhard, B., Brandl, R., Bustamante, J.V., Butler, A., Cabbigat, J., Le, X.C., Catindig, J.L.A., Ho, V.C., Le, Q.C., Dang, K.B., Escalada, M., Dominik, C., Franzén, M., Fried, O., Görg, C., Grescho, V., Grossmann, S., Gurr, G.M., Hadi, B.A.R., Le, H.H., Harpke, A., Hass, A.L., Hirneisen, N., Horgan, F.G., Hotes, S., Isoda, Y., Jahn, R., Kettle, H., Klotzbücher, A., Klotzbücher, T., Langerwisch, F., Loke, W.-H., Lin, Y.-P., Lu, Z., Lum, K.-Y., Magcale-Macandog, D.B., Marion, G., Marquez, L., Müller, F., Nguyen, H.M., Nguyen, Q.A., Nguyen, V.S., Ott, J., Penev, L., Pham, H.T., Radermacher, N., Rodriguez-Labajos, B., Sann, C., Sattler, C., Schädler, M., Scheu, S., Schmidt, A., Schrader, J., Schweiger, O., Seppelt, R., Soitong, K., Stoev, P., Stoll-Kleemann, S., Tekken, V., Thonicke, K., Tilliger, B., Tobias, K., Andi Trisyono, Y., Dao, T.T., Tscharntke, T., Le, Q.T., Türke, M., Václavík, T., Vetterlein, D., Villareal, S.B., Vu, K.C., Vu, Q., Weisser, W.W., Westphal, C., Zhu, Z. & Wiemers, M. (2018): Rice ecosystem services in South-east Asia. Paddy and Water Environment 16, 211-224. pdf
Cameron, E.K., Martins, I.S., Lavelle, P., Mathieu, J., Tedersoo, L., Gottschall, F., Guerra, C.A., Hines, J., Patoine, G., Siebert, J., Winter, M., Cesarz, S., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Ferlian, O., Fierer, N., Kreft, H., Lovejoy, T.E., Montanarella, L., Orgiazzi, A., Pereira, H.M., Phillips, H.R.P., Settele, J., Wall, D.H. & Eisenhauer, N. (2018): Global gaps in soil biodiversity data. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2, 1042-1043. pdf
Borges, P.A.V., Cardoso, P., Kreft, H., Whittaker, R.J., Fattorini, S., Emerson, B.C., Gil, A., Gillespie, R.G., Matthews, T.J., Santos, A.M.C., Steinbauer, M.J., Thébaud, C., Ah-Peng, C., Amorim, I.R., Aranda, S.C., Arroz, A.M., Azevedo, J.M.N., Boieiro, M., Borda-de-Água, L., Carvalho, J.C., Elias, R.B., Fernández-Palacios, J.M., Florencio, M., González-Mancebo, J.M., Heaney, L.R., Hortal, J., Kueffer, C., Lequette, B., Martín-Esquivel, J.L., López, H., Lamelas-López, L., Marcelino, J., Nunes, R., Oromí, P., Patiño, J., Pérez, A.J., Rego, C., Ribeiro, S.P., Rigal, F., Rodrigues, P., Rominger, A.J., Santos-Reis, M., Schaefer, H., Sérgio, C., Serrano, A.R.M., Sim-Sim, M., Stephenson, P.J., Soares, A.O., Strasberg, D., Vanderporten, A., Vieira, V. & Gabriel, R. (2018): Global Island Monitoring Scheme (GIMS): a proposal for the long-term coordinated survey and monitoring of native island forest biota. Biodiversity and Conservation 27, 2567-2586. pdf
van Kleunen, M., Essl, F., Pergl, J., Brundu, G., Carboni, M., Dullinger, S., Early, R., González-Moreno, P., Groom, Q.J., Hulme, P.E., Kueffer, C., Kühn, I., Máguas, C., Maurel, N., Novoa, A., Parepa, M., Pyšek, P., Seebens, H., Tanner, R., Touza, J., Verbrugge, L., Weber, E., Dawson, W., Kreft, H., Weigelt, P., Winter, M., Klonner, G., Talluto, M.V. & Dehnen-Schmutz, K. (2018): The changing role of ornamental horticulture in alien plant invasions. Biological Reviews 93, 1421-1437. pdf
Paquette, A., Hector, A., Castagneyrol, B., Vanhellemont, M., Koricheva, J., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Verheyen, K. & TreeDivNet (2018): A million and more trees for science. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2, 763-766. pdf
Sattler, C., Schrader, J., Farkas, V.M., Settele, J. & Franzén, M. (2018): Pesticide diversity in rice growing areas of Northern Vietnam. Paddy and Water Environment 16, 339-352. pdf
Heck, V., Hoff, H., Wirsenius, S., Meyer, C. & Kreft, H. (2018): Land use options for staying within the Planetary Boundaries – Synergies and trade-offs between global and local sustainability goals. Global Environmental Change 49, 73-84. pdf
Egli, L., Meyer, C., Scherber, C., Kreft, H. & Tscharntke, T. (2018): Winners and losers of national and global efforts to reconcile agricultural intensification and biodiversity conservation. Global Change Biology 24, 2212-2228. pdf
Grossman, J.J., Vanhellemont, M., Barsoum, N., Bauhus, J., Bruelheide, H., Castagneyrol, B., Cavender-Bares, J., Eisenhauer, N., Ferlian, O., Gravel, D., Hector, A., Jactel, H., Kreft, H., Mereu, S., Messier, C., Muys, B., Nock, C., Paquette, A., Parker, J., Perring, M.P., Ponette, Q., Reich, P.B., Schuldt, A., Staab, M., Weih, M., Zemp, D.C., Scherer-Lorenzen, M. & Verheyen, K. (2018): Synthesis and future research directions linking tree diversity to growth, survival, and damage in a global network of tree diversity experiments. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 152, 68-89. pdf
Sommerville, K.D., Clarke, B., Keppel, G., McGill, C., Newby, Z.-J., Wyse, S.V., James, S.A. & Offord, C.A. (2018): Saving rainforests in the South Pacific: challenges in ex situ conservation. Australian Journal of Botany 65, 609-624. pdf
Ibanez, T., Keppel, G., Baider, C., Birkinshaw, C., Culmsee, H., Cordell, S., Florens, F.B.V., Franklin, J., Giardina, C.P., Gillespie, T.W., Laidlaw, M., Litton, C.M., Martin, T.G., Ostertag, R., Parthasarathy, N., Randrianaivo, R., Randrianjanahary, M., Rajkumar, M., Rasingam, L., Ratovoson, F., Reza, L., Sack, L., Aiba, S., Webb, E., Whitfeld, T.J.S., Zang, R. & Birnbaum, P. (2018): Regional forcing explains local species diversity and turnover on tropical islands. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27, 474-486. pdf
Ottaviani, G. & Keppel, G. (2018): Contrasting intraspecific foliar trait responses to stressful conditions of two rhizomatous granite outcrop species at different scales in southwestern Australia. Austral Ecology 43, 249-256. pdf
Staal, A., Tuinenburg, O., Bosmans, J., Holmgren, M., Van Nes, E., Scheffer, M., Zemp, D.C. & Dekker, S. (2018): Forest-rainfall cascades buffer against drought across the Amazon. Nature Climate Change 8, 539-543. pdf
Weng, W., Luedeke, M. K. B., Zemp, D.C., Lakes, T. & Kropp, J. P. (2018): Aerial and surface rivers: downwind impacts on water availability from land use changes in Amazonia. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 22, 911-927. pdf
2017
Kalusová, V., Chytrý, M., van Kleunen, M., Mucina, L., Dawson, W., Essl, F., Kreft, H., Pergl, J., Weigelt, P., Winter, M. & Pyšek, P. (2017): Naturalization of European plants on other continents: The role of donor habitats. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, 13756-13761. pdf
Schrader, J., Pillar, G. & Kreft, H. (2017): Leaf-IT: An Android application for measuring leaf area. Ecology and Evolution 7, 9731-9738. pdf, download Leaf-IT
Mayer, K., Haeuser, E., Dawson, W., Essl, F., Kreft, H., Pergl, J., Pyšek, P., Weigelt, P., Winter, M., Lenzner, B. & van Kleunen, M. (2017): Naturalization of ornamental plant species in public green spaces and private gardens. Biological Invasions 19, 3613-3627. pdf
Karger, D.N., Conrad, O., Böhner, J., Kawohl, T., Kreft, H., Soria-Auza, R.W., Zimmermann, N.E., Linder, H.P. & Kessler, M. (2017): Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas. Scientific Data 4, 170122. pdf
Barnes, A.D., Allen, K., Kreft, H., Corre, M.D., Jochum, M., Veldkamp, E., Clough, Y., Daniel, R., Darras, K., Denmead, L.H., Farikhah Haneda, N., Hertel, D., Knohl, A., Kotowska, M.M., Kurniawan, S., Meijide, A., Rembold, K., Edho Prabowo, W., Schneider, D., Tscharntke, T. & Brose, U. (2017): Direct and cascading impacts of tropical land-use change on multi-trophic biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1, 1511-1519. pdf
Gómez-Díaz, J.A., Krömer, T., Kreft, H., Gerold, G., Carvajal-Hernández, C.I. & Heitkamp, F. (2017): Diversity and composition of herbaceous angiosperms along gradients of elevation and forest-use intensity. PLoS ONE 12, e0182893. pdf
Schrader, J., Franzén, M., Sattler, C., Ferderer, P. & Westphal, C. (2017): Woody habitats promote pollinators and complexity of plant–pollinator interactions in homegardens located in rice terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras. Paddy and Water Environment 16, 253-263. pdf
Kehoe, L., Romero-Muñoz, A., Polaina, E., Estes, L., Kreft, H. & Kuemmerle, T. (2017): Biodiversity at risk under future cropland expansion and intensification. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1, 1129-1135. pdf
Rembold, K., Mangopo, H., Tjitrosoedirdjo, S.S. & Kreft, H. (2017): Plant diversity, forest dependency, and alien plant invasions in tropical agricultural landscapes. Biological Conservation 213, 234-242. pdf
Pärtel, M., Öpik, M., Moora, M., Tedersoo, L., Szava-Kovats, R., Rosendahl, S., Rillig, M.C., Lekberg, Y., Kreft, H., Helgason, T., Eriksson, O., Davison, J., de Bello, F., Caruso, T. & Zobel, M. (2017): Historical biome distribution and recent human disturbance shape the diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. New Phytologist 216, 227-238. pdf
Pysek, P., Pergl, J., Essl, F., Lenzner, B., Dawson, W., Kreft, H., Weigelt, P., Winter, M., Kartesz, J., Nishino, M., Antonova, L.A., Barcelona, J.F., Cabezas, F.J., Cárdenas, D., Cárdenas-Toro, J., Castano, N., Chacón, E., Chatelain, C., Dullinger, S., Ebel, A.L., Figueiredo, E., Fuentes, N., Genovesi, P., Groom, Q.J., Henderson, L., Inderjit, Kupriyanov, A., Masciadri, S., Maurel, N., Meerman, J., Morozova, O., Moser, D., Nickrent, D., Nowak, P.M., Pagad, S., Patzelt, A., Pelser, P.B., Seebens, H., Shu, W., Thomas, J., Velayos, M., Weber, E., Wieringa, J.J., Baptiste, M.P. & van Kleunen, M. (2017): Naturalized alien flora of the world: species diversity, taxonomic and phylogenetic patterns, geographic distribution and global hotspots of plant invasion. Preslia 89, 203-274. pdf
Dawson, W., Moser, D., van Kleunen, M., Kreft, H., Pergl, J., Pysek, P., Weigelt, P., Winter, M., Lenzner, B., Blackburn, T.M., Dyer, E.E., Cassey, P., Scrivens, S.L., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B., Capinha, C., Seebens, H., García-Díaz, P., Nentwig, W., García-Berthou, E., Casal, C., Mandrak, N.E., Fuller, P., Meyer, C. & Essl, F. (2017): Global hotspots and correlates of alien species richness across taxonomic groups. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1, 0186. pdf
Klonner, G., Dullinger, I., Wessely, J., Bossdorf, O., Carboni, M., Dawson, W., Essl, F., Gattringer, A., Haeuser, E., van Kleunen, M., Kreft, H., Moser, D., Pergl, J., Pysek, P., Thuiller, W., Weigelt, P., Winter, M. & Dullinger, S. (2017): Will climate change increase hybridization risk between potential plant invaders and their congeners in Europe? Diversity and Distributions 23, 934-943. pdf
Jochum, M., Barnes, A.D., Weigelt, P., Ott, D., Rembold, K., Farajallah, A. & Brose, U (2017): Resource stoichiometry and availability modulate species richness and biomass of tropical litter macro-invertebrates. Journal of Animal Ecology 86, 1114-1123. pdf
Franzén, M., Schrader, J. & Sjöberg, G. (2017): Butterfly diversity and seasonality of Ta Phin mountain area (N. Vietnam, Lao Cai province). Journal of Insect Conservation 21, 465-475. pdf
Fried, O., Kühn, I., Schrader, J., Sinh, N. Van & Bergmeier, E. (2017): Plant diversity and community composition of rice agroecosystems in Vietnam and the Philippines. Phytocoenologia 47, 49-66. pdf
Schrader, J., Unsicker, S.B., Bhattacharya, S. & Mummenhoff, K. (2017): Growth form rather than phylogenetic relationship predicts broad volatile emission patterns in the Brassicaceae. Plant Systematics and Evolution 303, 653-662. pdf
Patiño, J., Whittaker, R.J., Borges, P.A.V., Fernandez-Palacios, J.M., Ah-Peng, C., Araujo, M.B., Avila, S.P., Cardoso, P., Cornuault, J., De Boer, E.J., de Nascimento, L., Gil, A., Gonzalez-Castro, A., Gruner, D.S., Heleno, R., Hortal, J., Illera, J.C., Kaiser-Bunbury, C.N., Matthews, T.J., Papadopoulou, A., Pettorelli, N., Price, J.P., Santos, A.M.C., Steinbauer, M.J., Triantis, K.A., Valente, L.M., Vargas, P., Weigelt, P. & Emerson, B.C. (2017): A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography. Journal of Biogeography, 44, 963-983. pdf
Gérard, A., Wollni, M., Hölscher, D., Irawan, B., Sundawati, L., Teuscher, M. & H. Kreft (2017): Oil-palm yields in diversified plantations: Initial results from a biodiversity enrichment experiment in Sumatra, Indonesia. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 240, 253-260. pdf
Seebens, H., Blackburn, T.M., Dyer, E.E., Genovesi, P., Hulme, P.E., Jeschke, J.M., Pagad, S., Pysek, P., Winter, M., Arianoutsou, M., Bacher, S., Blasius, B., Brundu, G., Capinha, C., Celesti-Grapow, L., Dawson, W., Dullinger, S., Fuentes, N., Jäger, H., Kartesz, J., Kenis, M., Kreft, H., Kühn, I., Lenzner, B., Liebhold, A., Mosena, A., Moser, D., Nishino, M., Pearman, D., Pergl, J., Rabitsch, W., Rojas-Sandoval, J., Roques, A., Rorke, S., Rossinelli, S., Roy, H.E., Scalera, R., Schindler, S., Stajerová, K., Tokarska-Guzik, B., van Kleunen, M., Walker, K., Weigelt, P., Yamanaka, T. & Essl, F. (2017): No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide. Nature Communications 8, 14435. pdf
König, C., Weigelt, P. & Kreft, H. (2017): Dissecting global turnover in vascular plants. Global Ecology & Biogeography 26, 228-242. pdf
Lenzner, B., Weigelt, P., Kreft, H., Beierkuhnlein, C. & Steinbauer, M.J. (2017): The general dynamic model of island biogeography revisited on the level of major plant families. Journal of Biogeography 44, 1029-1040. pdf
Dullinger, I., Wessely, J., Bossdorf, O., Dawson, W., Essl, F., Gattringer, A., Klonner, G., Kreft, H., Kuttner, M., Moser, D., Pergl, J., Pysek, P., Thuiller, W., van Kleunen, M., Weigelt, P., Winter, M. & Dullinger, S. (2017): Climate change will increase the naturalization risk from garden plants in Europe. Global Ecology & Biogeography 26, 43-53. pdf
Borregaard, M.K., Amorim, I.R., Borges, P.A.V., Cabral, J.S., Fernández-Palacios, J.M., Field, R., Heaney, L.R., Kreft, H., Matthews, T.J., Olesen, J.M., Price, J., Rigal, F., Steinbauer, M.J., Triantis, K.A., Valente, L., Weigelt, P. & Whittaker, R.J. (2017): Oceanic island biogeography through the lens of the General Dynamic Model: assessment and prospect. Biological Reviews 92, 830-853. pdf
He, J., Kreft, H., Gao, E., Wang, Z. & Jiang, H. (2017): Patterns and drivers of zoogeographical regions of terrestrial vertebrates in China. Journal of Biogeography 44, 1172-1184. pdf
Dislich, C., Keyel, A.C., Salecker, J., Kisel, Y., Meyer, K.M., Corre, M.D., Faust, H., Hess, B., Knohl, A., Kreft, H., Meijide, A., Nurdiansyah, F., Otten, F., Pe'er, G., Steinebach, S., Tarigan, S., Tscharntke, T., Tölle, M. & Wiegand, K. (2017): A review of the ecosystem functions in oil palm plantations, using forests as a reference system. Biological Reviews 92, 1539-1569. pdf
2016
Razanajatovo, M., Maurel, N., Dawson, W., Essl, F., Kreft, H., Pergl, J., Pysek, P., Weigelt, P., Winter, M. & van Kleunen, M. (2016): Plants capable of selfing are more likely to become naturalized. Nature Communications, 7, 13313. pdf
Teuscher, M., Gérard, A., Brose, U., Buchori, D., Clough, Y., Ehbrecht, M., Hölscher, D., Irawan, B., Sundawati, L., Wollni, M. & Kreft, H. (2016): Experimental Biodiversity Enrichment in Oil-Palm-Dominated Landscapes in Indonesia. Frontiers of Plant Science, 7, 1538. pdf
Petter, G., Wagner, K., Wanek, W., Sánchez, E., Zotz, G., Cabral, J.S. & Kreft, H. (2016): Functional leaf traits of vascular epiphytes: vertical trends within the forest, intra- and interspecific trait variability, and taxonomic signals. Functional Ecology, 30, 188-198. pdf
Clough, Y., Krishna, V.V. , Corre, M.D., Darras, K., Denmead, L.H., Meijide, A., Moser, S., Musshoff, O., Steinebach, S., Veldkamp, E., Allen, K., Barnes, A.D., Breidenbach, N., Brose, U., Buchori, D., Daniel, R., Finkeldey, R., Harahap, I., Hertel, D., Holtkamp, A.M., Horandl, E., Irawan, B., Jaya, I.N., Jochum, M., Klarner, B., Knohl, A., Kotowska, M.M., Krashevska, V., Kreft, H., Kurniawan, S., Leuschner, C., Maraun, M., Melati, D.N., Opfermann, N., Perez-Cruzado, C., Prabowo, W.E., Rembold, K., Rizali, A., Rubiana, R., Schneider, D., Tjitrosoedirdjo, S.S., Tjoa, A., Tscharntke, T. & Scheu, S. (2016): Land-use choices follow profitability at the expense of ecological functions in Indonesian smallholder landscapes. Nature Communications 7, 13137. pdf
Gasparri, N.I., Kuemmerle, T., Meyfroidt, P., le Polain de Waroux, Y. & Kreft, H. (2016): The Emerging Soybean Production Frontier in Southern Africa: Conservation Challenges and the Role of South-South Telecouplings. Conservation Letters 9, 21-31. pdf
Kehoe, L., Senf, C., Meyer, C., Gerstner, K., Kreft, H. & Kuemmerle, T. (2016): Agriculture rivals biomes in predicting global species richness. Ecography 40, 1118-1128. pdf
Meyer, C. (2016): Limitations in global information on species occurrences. Frontiers of Biogeography, 8, fb_28195. pdf
Meyer C., Jetz, W., Guralnick, R., Fritz, S. & Kreft, H. (2016): Range geometry and socio-economics dominate species-level biases in occurrence information. Global Ecology & Biogeography, 25, 1181-1193. pdf
Böhnert, T., Wenzel, A., Altenhövel, C., Beeretz, L., Tjitrosoedirdjo, S.S., Meijide, A., Rembold, K. & Kreft, H. (2016): Effects of land-use change on vascular epiphyte diversity in Sumatra (Indonesia). Biological Conservation, 202, 20-29. pdf
Meyer, C., Weigelt, P. & Kreft, H. (2016): Multidimensional biases, gaps and uncertainties in global plant occurrence information. Ecology Letters, 19, 992-1006. pdf
Drescher, J., Rembold, K., Allen, K., Beckschäfer, P., Buchori, D., Clough, Y., Faust, H., Fauzi, A.M., Gunawan, D., Hertel, D., Irawan, B., Jaya, I.N.S., Klarner, B., Kleinn, C., Knohl, A., Kotowska, M.M., Krashevska, V., Krishna, V., Leuschner, C., Lorenz, W., Meijide, A., Melati, D., Nomura, M., Pérez-Cruzado, C., Qaim, M., Siregar, I.Z., Steinebach, S., Tjoa, A., Tscharntke, T., Wick, B., Wiegand, K., Kreft, H. & Scheu, S. (2016): Ecological and socioeconomic functions across tropical land-use systems after rainforest conversion. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371, 20150275. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0275 pdf
Barnes, A.D., Weigelt, P., Jochum, M., Ott, D., Hodapp, D., Haneda, N.F. & Brose, U. (2016): Species richness and biomass explain spatial turnover in ecosystem functioning across tropical and temperate ecosystems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371, 20150279. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0279 pdf
Darras, K., Pütz, P., Fahrurrozi, Rembold, K. & Tscharntke, T. (2016): Measuring sound detection spaces for acoustic animal sampling and monitoring. Biological Conservation, 201, 29-37. pdf
Weigelt, P., Steinbauer, M.J., Cabral, J.S. & Kreft, H. (2016): Late Quaternary climate change shapes island biodiversity. Nature, 532, 99-102. pdf (commentary by J.M. Fernández-Palacios)
Karger, D.N., Cord, A.F., Kessler, M., Kreft, H., Kühn, I., Pompe, S., Sandel, B., Cabral, J.S., Smith, A.B., Svenning, J.-C., Tuomisto, H., Weigelt, P. & Wesche, K. (2016): Delineating probabilistic species pools in ecology and biogeography. Global Ecology & Biogeography 25, 489-501. pdf
Wahyuni, I., Sulistijorini, Setiabudi, Meijide, A., Nomura , M., Kreft , H., Rembold , K., Tjitrosoedirdjo, S.S. & Tjitrosoedirdjo, S. (2016): Distribution of invasive plant species in different land-use systems in Sumatera, Indonesia. Biotropia 23, 127-135. pdf
2015
Stein, A. (2015): Environmental heterogeneity-species richness relationships from a global perspective. Frontiers of Biogeography 7, 168-173. pdf
Weigelt, P. (2015): The macroecology of island floras. Frontiers of Biogeography 7, 119-125. pdf
Meyer, C., Kreft, H., Guralnick, R. & Jetz, W. (2015): Global priorities for an effective information basis of biodiversity distributions. Nature Communications 6, 8221. pdf
Kehoe, L., Kuemmerle, T., Meyer, C., Levers, C., Václavík, T., Kreft, H. & Essl, F. (2015). Global patterns of agricultural land-use intensity and vertebrate diversity. Diversity and Distributions 21, 1308-1318. pdf
van Kleunen, M., Dawson, W., Essl, F., Pergl, J., Winter, M., Weber, E., Kreft, H., Weigelt, P., Kartesz, J., Nishino, M., Antonova, L.A., Barcelona, J.F., Cabezas, F.J., Cardenas, D., Cardenas-Toro, J., Castano, N., Chacon, E., Chatelain, C., Ebel, A.L., Figueiredo, E., Fuentes, N., Groom, Q.J., Henderson, L., Inderjit, Kupriyanov, A., Masciadri, S., Meerman, J., Morozova, O., Moser, D., Nickrent, D.L., Patzelt, A., Pelser, P.B., Baptiste, M.P., Poopath, M., Schulze, M., Seebens, H., Shu, W.S., Thomas, J., Velayos, M., Wieringa, J.J. & Pysek, P. (2015): Global exchange and accumulation of non-native plants. Nature, 525, 100-103. pdf (commentary by M. Rejmánek)
Weigelt, P., Kissling, W.D., Kisel, Y., Fritz, S.A., Karger, D.N., Kessler, M., Lehtonen, S., Svenning, J.-C. & Kreft, H. (2015): Global patterns and drivers of phylogenetic structure in island floras. Scientific Reports 5, 12213. pdf
Cabral, J.S., Petter, G., Mendieta-Leiva, G., Wagner, K., Zotz, G. & Kreft, H. (2015): Branchfall as a demographic filter for epiphyte communities: lessons from forest floor-based sampling. PLoS One 10, e0128019. pdf
Stein, A., Beck, J., Meyer, C., Waldmann, E., Weigelt, P. & Kreft, H. (2015). Differential effects of environmental heterogeneity on global mammal species richness. Global Ecology & Biogeography 24, 1072-1083. pdf
Stein, A. & Kreft, H. (2015): Terminology and quantification of environmental heterogeneity in species-richness research. Biological Reviews, 90, 815-836. pdf
Patiño, J., Sólymos, P., Carine, M., Weigelt, P., Kreft, H. & Vanderpoorten, A. (2015): Island floras are not necessarily more species-poor than continental ones. Journal of Biogeography, 42, 8-10. pdf
2014
Gerstner, K., Dormann, C.F., Stein, A., Manceur, A.M., & Seppelt, R. (2014): Effects of land use on plant diversity – a global meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Ecology 51, 1690-1700.
Patiño, J., Weigelt, P., Guilhaumon, F., Kreft, H., Triantis, K.A., Naranjo-Cigala, A., Sólymos, P. & Vanderpoorten, A. (2014): Differences in species-area relationships among the major lineages of land plants: a macroecological perspective. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23, 1275-1283. pdf
Yang, W., Ma, K. & Kreft, H. (2014): Environmental and socio-economic factors shaping the geography of floristic collections in China. Global Ecology & Biogeography, 23, 1284-1292. pdf
Stein, A., Gerstner, K. & Kreft, H. (2014): Environmental heterogeneity as a universal driver of species richness across taxa, biomes and spatial scales. Ecology Letters, 17, 866-880. pdf
Cabral, J.S., Weigelt, P., Kissling, W.D. & Kreft, H. (2014): Biogeographic, climatic and spatial drivers differentially affect alpha, beta and gamma diversities on oceanic archipelagos. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281: 20133246. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.3246. pdf
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. pdf (commentary by R.J. Whittaker & T.J. Matthews)
Gerstner, K., Dormann, C.F., Václavík, T., Kreft, H. & Seppelt, R. (2014): Accounting for geographic variation in species-area relationships improves the prediction of plant species richness at the global scale. Journal of Biogeography, 41, 261-273. pdf (commentary by R.J. Whittaker & T.J. Matthews)
Petter, G., Weitere , M. Richter, O. & Moenickes, S.(2014): Consequences of altered temperature and food conditions for individuals and populations: a Dynamic Energy Budget analysis for Corbicula fluminea in the Rhine. Freshwater Biology, 59, 832-846. pdf
2013
Weigelt, P., Jetz, W., Kreft, H. (2013): Bioclimatic and physical characterization of the World’s islands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110, 15307–15312. pdf
Gerten, D., Lucht, W., Ostberg, S., Heinke, J. Kowarsch, M., Kreft, H., Kundzewicz, Z.W., Rastgooy, J, Warren, R., Schellnhuber, H.J. (2013): Asynchronous exposure to global warming: freshwater resources and terrestrial ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters, 8, 034032. pdf
Kreft, H. & Jetz, W. (2013): Comment on “An Update of Wallace’s Zoogeographic Regions of the World”. Science, 341, 343. pdf
Yang, W., Ma, K. & Kreft, H. (2013): Geographical sampling bias in a large distributional database and its effects on species richness-environment models. Journal of Biogeography, 40, 1415–1426. pdf
Köster, N., Kreft, H., Nieder, N. & Barthlott, W. (2013): Range size and climatic niche correlate with the vulnerability of epiphytes to human land-use in the tropics. Journal of Biogeography, 40, 963–976. pdf
Weigelt, P. & Kreft, H. (2013): Quantifying island isolation – insights from global patterns of insular plant species richness. Ecography, 36, 417–429. pdf
2012
Sarmento Cabral, J., Kreft, H. (2012) Linking ecological niche, community ecology and biogeography: insights from a mechanistic niche model. Journal of Biogeography, 39, 2212–2224. pdf
Sarmento Cabral, J., Jeltsch, F., Midgley, G.F., Higgins, S.I., Phillips, S.I., Rebelo, A.G., Rouget, M., Thuiller, W., Schurr, F.M. (2013) Impacts of past habitat loss and future climate change on the range dynamics of South African Proteaceae. Diversity and Distributions, 19, 363–376. pdf
Schurr, F.M., Pagel, J., Sarmento Cabral, J., Groeneveld, J., Bykova, O., O'Hara, R.B., Hartig, F., Kissling, W.D., Linder, H.P., Midgley, G.F., Schröder, B., Singer, A., Zimmermann, N.E. (2012) How to understand species' niches and range dynamics: a demographic research agenda for biogoegraphy. Journal of Biogeography, 39, 2146–2162. pdf
Dormann, C.F., Schymanski, S.J., Sarmento Cabral, J., Chuine, I., Graham, C., Hartig, F., Kearney, M., Morin, X., Römermann, C., Schröder, B., Singer, A. (2011) Correlation and process in species distribution models: bridging a dichotomy. Journal of Biogeography, 39, 2119–2131. pdf
Schleuning, M., Fründ, J., Klein, A.M., Abrahamczyk, S., Alarcón, R., Albrecht, M., Andersson, G.K.S., Bazarian, S., Böhning-Gaese, K., Bommarco, R., Dalsgaard, B., Dehling, D.M., Gotlieb, A., Hagen, M., Hickler, T., Holzschuh, A., Kaiser-Bunbury, C.N., Kreft, H., Morris, R.J., Sandel, B., Sutherland, W.J., Svenning, J.C., Tscharntke, T., Watts, S., Weiner, C.N., Werner, M., Williams, N.M., Winqvist, C., Dormann, C.F., Blüthgen, N. (2012): Specialization of mutualistic interaction networks decreases towards tropical latitudes. Current Biology 22: 1925-1931. pdf
Beck, J., Ballesteros-Mejia, L., Buchmann, C. M., Dengler, J., Fritz, S., Gruber, B., Hof, C., Jansen, F., Knapp, S., Kreft, H., Schneider, A.-K., Winter, M. & Dormann, C. F. (2012): What's on the horizon for macroecology? - Present status and future perspectives. Ecography 35: 673–683. pdf
Ellis, E.C, Antill, E.C. & Kreft, H. (2012): All Is Not Loss: Plant Biodiversity in the Anthropocene. PLoS ONE 7(1): e30535. pdf
2011
Raedig, C. & Kreft, H. (2011): Influence of different species range types on the perception of macroecological patterns. Systematics and Biodiversity 9(2): 159–170. pdf
Wester, S., Leiva, M.G., Nauheimer, L., Wanek, W., Kreft, H., Zotz, G. (2011): Physiological diversity and biogeography of vascular epiphytes at Río Changuinola, Panama. Flora 206 (1): 66-79. pdf
2010
Kreft, H. & Jetz, W. (2010): A framework for delineating biogeographical regions based on species distributions. - Journal of Biogeography 37: 2029–2053 - Special Paper - pdf (commentary by C.B. Cox)
Kreft, H., Jetz, W., Mutke, M. & Barthlott, W. (2010): Contrasting environmental and regional effects on global pteridophyte and seed plant diversity. - Ecography 33: 408-419. pdf
Golding, J., Güsewell, S., Kreft, H., Kuzevanov, V.Y., Lehvävirta, S., Parmentier, I. & Pautasso, M. (2010): Species-richness patterns of the living collections of the world’s botanic gardens: a matter of socio-economics?. - Annals of Botany 105: 689–696. pdf
Sommer, J.H., Kreft, H., Kier, G., Jetz, W., Mutke, J. & Barthlott, W. (2010): Projected impacts of climate change on regional capacities for global plant species richness. - Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277: 2271-2280. pdf
Bass, M., Finer, M., Jenkins, C.N., Kreft, H., Cisneros-Heredia, D.F., McCracken, S.F., Pitman, N.C.A., English, P. H., Swing, K., Villa, G., Di Fiore, A., Kunz, T. H.& Voigt, C.C. (2010). Global conservation significance of Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park. - PLoS One 5: E8767. pdf
2009
Kier, G., Kreft, H., Lee, T.M., Jetz, W., Ibisch, P.I., Nowicki, C., Mutke, J. & Barthlott, W. (2009): A global assessment of endemism and species richness across island and mainland regions. - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 9322–9327. pdf - supporting information
Jetz, W., Kreft, H., Ceballos, G. & Mutke, J. (2009): Global associations between terrestrial producer and vertebrate consumer diversity. - Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276: 269–278. pdf
2008
Kreft, H., Jetz, W., Mutke, J., Kier, G. & Barthlott W. (2008): Global diversity of island floras from a macroecological perspective. - Ecology Letters 11: 116-127. pdf
Kreft, H. & Jetz, W. (2007): Global patterns and determinants of vascular plant diversity. - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104: 5925-5930. pdf
2007
Barthlott, W., Hostert, A., Kier, G., Küper, W., Kreft, H., Mutke, J., Rafiqpoor, M.D. & Sommer, H. (2007): Geographic patterns of vascular plant diversity at continental to global scales. Erdkunde 61: 305-315. pdf
Schmidt, M., Kreft, H., Thiombiano, A. & Zizka, G. (2007): Indicator value of different vascular plants families for overall plant diversity in the savanna belt of Western Africa. - Ecotropica 13: 135-142. pdf
2006
Thiombiano, A., Schmidt, M., Kreft, H., Guinko, S. (2006): Influence of the climatic gradient on the distribution of Combretaceae species in Burkina Faso (West Africa). - Candollea 61: 189-203. pdf
Kreft, H., Sommer, J. H. and Barthlott, W. (2006): The significance of geographic range size for the explanation of spatial diversity patterns in Neotropical palms. - Ecography 29: 21-30. pdf - appendix
2005
Kier, G., Mutke, J., Dinerstein, E., Ricketts, T.H., Küper, W., Kreft, H. and Barthlott, W. (2005): Global patterns of plant diversity and floristic knowledge. - Journal of Biogeography 32: 1107-1116. pdf
Schmidt, M., Kreft, H., Thiombiano, A. and Zizka, G. (2005): Herbarium collections and field data-based plant diversity maps for Burkina Faso . - Diversity and Distributions 11: 509-516. pdf
2004
Kreft, H., Köster, N., Küper, W., Nieder, J. & Barthlott, W. (2004): Diversity and biogeography of vascular epiphytes in Western Amazonia (Yasuní, Ecuador). - Journal of Biogeography 31: 1463-1476. pdf - appendix
Küper, W., Kreft, H., Köster, N., Nieder, J. & Barthlott, W. (2004): Large scale diversity patterns of vascular epiphytes in Neotropical montane rain forests. - Journal of Biogeography 31: 1477-1487. pdf