Publications
2024
Schweiger AH, Svenning JC (2024). Climatic disequilibrium in tree cover is frequent in protected areas worldwide — implications for conservation and restoration. Journal of Vegetation Science.
Franzaring J, Haneke J, Sannino A, Radermacher G, Schweiger AH (2024). Effects of legacy mining on mercury concentrations in conifer needles and mushrooms in northern Palatinate, Germany. Environmental Pollution 357, 124406.
Franzaring J, Kamradt A, Büttner P, Schweiger AH (2024). Establishing grassland mixtures on mine wastes–a two-year mesocosm study. International Journal of Phytoremediation.
Palm N, Franzaring J, Schweiger AH (2024). International Biological Flora: Trapa natans† No. 5. Journal of Ecology.
Montana J [...], Schweiger AH, et al. (2024). From novel ecosystems to novel natures. GAJA 33(1), 146-151.
Conradi T, Eggli U, Kreft H, Schweiger AH, Weigelt P, Higgins SI (2024). Reassessment of the risks of climate change for terrestrial ecosystems. Nature Ecology & Evolution 8, 888-900.
Berauer B, Steppuhn A, Schweiger AH (2024). The multidimensionality of plant drought stress: The relative importance of edaphic and atmospheric drought. Plant, Cell & Environment.
2023
Berauer BJ, Akale A, Schweiger AH, Knott M, Diehl D, Wolf MP, Sawers RJH, Ahme MA (2023). Differences in mucilage properties and stomatal sensitivity of locally adapted Zea mays in relation with precipitation seasonality and vapour pressure deficit regime of their native environment. Plant Direct 7 (8), e519.
Schweiger AH, Zimmermann T, Poll C, Marhan S, Leyrer V, Berauer BJ (2023). The need to decipher plant drought stress along the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum. Oikos, e10136.
D Rocchini, [...], Schweiger AH, et al. (2023). A quixotic view of spatial bias in modelling the distribution of species and their diversity. Npj Biodiversity 2 (1), 10.
Schweiger AH, Pataczek L (2023). How to reconcile renewable energy and agricultural production in a drying world. Plants, People, Planet 5 (5), 650-661.
Abdalla M, Schweiger AH, Berauer BJ, McAdam SAM, Ahmed MA (2023). Constant hydraulic supply and ABA dynamics facilitate the trade-offs in water and carbon. Frontiers in Plant Science 14, 1140938.
Gass LC, Ruppert O, Bieberich J, Schweiger AH, Aas G (2023). Hohe Pflanzen-und Strukturdiversität im Kleinprivatwald. AFZ, der Wald 78 (1), 42-46.
Zhuang Z, Wang Q, Huang S, NiñoSavala AG, Wan Y, Li H, Schweiger AH, Fangmeier A, Jürgen Franzaring J (2023). Source-specific risk assessment for cadmium in wheat and maize: Towards an enrichment model for China Journal of Environmental Sciences 125, 723-734.
2022
Zhuang Z,Mi Z, Kong L, Wang Q, Schweiger AH, Wan Y, Li H (2023). Accumulation of potentially toxic elements in Chinese tea (Camellia sinensis): Towards source apportionment and health risk assessment, Science of The Total Environment, 851, 158018.
Andreas H. Schweiger, G. Matthias Ullmann, Nicolai M. Nürk, Dagmar Triebel, Rainer Schobert, Gerhard Rambold Chemical properties of key metabolites determine the global distribution of lichens Ecology Letters 25 (2), 416-426.
2021
Wilfahrt, PA, Schweiger, AH; et al. Disentangling climate from soil nutrient effects on plant biomass production using a multispecies phytometer. Ecosphere 12, e03719.
Irl, SDH*; Schweiger, AH*; Steinbauer, MJ; Ah-Peng, C; Arévalo, JR; Beierkuhnlein, C; Chiarucci, A; Daehler, CC; Fernández-Palacios, JM; Flores, O; Kueffer, C; Maděra, P; Otto, R; Schweiger, JM-I; Strasberg, D; Jentsch, A. Human impact, climate and dispersal strategies determine plant invasion on islands. Journal of Biogeography 48(8), 1889-1903.
* equal contributions
Schweiger, AH; Nürk, NM; Beckett, H; Liede‐Schumann, S; Midgley, GF; Higgins, SI (2021). The eco‐evolutionary significance of rainfall constancy for facultative CAM photosynthesis. New Phytologist 230(4), 1653-1664.
2020
Cojoc, EI; Schweiger, AH; Postolache, C; Beierkuhnlein, C (2020) Scale-dependent effects of forest edges on mountain grassland biogeochemistry. Environmental Engineering and Management Journal 19 (7), 1189-1197.
Schweiger, AH; Irl, SDH; Svenning, J-C; Higgins, SI (2020) Dynamic management needs for long‐lived, sporadically recruiting plant species in human‐dominated landscapes. Plants, People, Planet (2020), doi: 10.1002/ppp3.10096.
Schweiger, AH; Nützel, F; Koch, S (2020) Reintroducing the forest caterpillar hunter in Germany – Integrating nature conservation and pest control (Die Förderung des Großen Puppenräubers in Deutschland – ein Naturschutzprojekt zur biologischen Schädlingsbekämpfung). Natur und Landschaft 95(3), 105-110, doi: 10.17433/3.2020.50153781.105-110.
Irl, SDH; Schweiger, AH (2020) Hochgebirge: Hotspots der Biodiversität. In: Warnsignal Klima: Hochgebirge im Wandel. Lozán J. L., S.-W. Breckle, H. Grassl et al. (Eds.). p. 62-69. doi: 10.2312/warnsignal.klima.hochgebirge-im-wandel.09.
Conradi, T; Slingsby, JA; Midgley, G; Nottebrock, H; Schweiger, AH; Higgins, SI (2020) An operational definition of the biome for global change research. New Phytologist (2020), doi: 10.1111/nph.16580.
2019
Schweiger, AH; Svenning, J-C (2020) Analogous losses of large animals and trees, socio‐ecological consequences, and an integrative framework for rewilding‐based megabiota restoration. People and Nature 2 (1), 29-41, doi: 10.1002/pan3.10066.
Irl, SDH; Schweiger, AH; Hoffmann, S; Beierkuhnlein, C; Hartmann, H; Pickel, T; Jentsch, A (2019) Spatiotemporal dynamics of plant diversity and endemism during primary succession on an oceanic‐volcanic island. Journal of Vegetation Science 30(4), 587-598, doi: 10.1111/jvs.12765.
Hoffmann, S; Steiner, L; Schweiger, AH; Chiarucci, A; Beierkuhnlein, C (2019) Data on alpine grassland diversity in Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy. Data in brief, 103942.
Hoffmann, S; Steiner, L; Schweiger, AH; Chiarucci, A; Beierkuhnlein, C (2019) Optimizing sampling effort and information content of biodiversity surveys: a case study of alpine grassland. Ecological Informatics (2019), doi: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2019.03.003.
Schweiger, AH; Boulangeat, I; Conradi, C; Davis, M; Svenning, J-C (2019) The importance of ecological memory for trophic rewilding as an ecosystem restoration approach. Biological Reviews 94 (1), 1-15, doi: 10.1111/brv.12432.
Svenning, J-C; Munk, M; Schweiger, AH (2019) Trophic rewilding – ecological restoration of top-down trophic interactions to promote self-regulating biodiverse ecosystems. In: Pettorelli, N. et al. Rewilding. British Ecological Society (BES) Ecological Reviews Series.Cambridge University Press, 73-89.
2018
Kreyling, J*; Schweiger, AH*; Bahn, M; Ineson, P; Migliavacca, M; Morel-Journel, T; Christiansen, JR; Schtickzelle, N; Larsen, KS (2018) To replicate, or not to replicate – that is the question: How to tackle non-linear responses in ecological experiments. Ecology Letters 21(11): 1629-1638, doi: 10.1111/ele.13134.
* equal contributions
Schweiger, AH; Svenning, J-C (2018) Down-sizing of dung beetle assemblages over the last 53 000 years is consistent with a dominant effect of megafauna losses, OIKOS 127(9),1243-1250, doi: 10.1111/oik.04995.
Galetti, M; Moleón, M; Jordano, P; Pires, M; Guimarães, P; Pape, T; Nichols, E; Hansen, D; Olesen, J; Munk, M; de Mattos, J; Schweiger, AH; Owen-Smith, N; Johnson, C; Marquis, R; Svenning, J-C (2018) Ecological and evolutionary legacy of megafauna extinctions, Biological Reviews 93(2), 845–862, doi:10.1111/brv.12374.
2017
Irl, S; Schweiger, AH; Medina, F M; Fernández-Palacios, JM; Harter, D; Jentsch, A; Provenzale, A; Steinbauer, MJ; Beierkuhnlein, C (2017) An island view of endemic rarity – environmental drivers and consequences for nature conservation, Diversity and Distributions, 23(10), 1132–1142, doi:10.1111/ddi.12605.
Schweiger, AH; Beierkuhnlein, C (2017) The ecological legacy of 20th century acidification carried on by ecosystem engineers, Applied Vegetation Science, 20, 215–224 (2017), doi:10.1111/avsc.12259.
Schweiger, AH (2017) The complex adaptive character of spring fens as model ecosystems, Frontiers of Biogeography, 9(2), doi:10.21425/F59232607.
2016
Muffler, L; Beierkuhnlein, C; Aas, G; Jentsch, A; Schweiger, AH; Zohner, C; Kreyling, J (2016) Distribution ranges and spring phenology explain late frost sensitivity of 170 woody plants from the Northern hemisphere, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25(9), 1061–1071 (2016), doi:10.1111/geb.12466.
Schweiger, AH; Irl, S; Steinbauer, M; Dengler, J; Beierkuhnlein, C (2016) Optimizing sampling approaches along ecological gradients, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 463–471, doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12495.
Schweiger, AH; Beierkuhnlein, C (2016) Scale-dependence of temperature as an abiotic driver of species’ distributions, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25(8), 1013–1021, doi:10.1111/geb.12463.
Schweiger, AH; Beierkuhnlein, C (2016) Size dependency in colour patterns of Western Palearctic carabids, Ecography, 39, 846–857, doi:10.1111/ecog.01570.
Steinbauer, M; Schweiger, AH; Irl, S (2016) Patterns in Biogeography, Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology. vol. 1, Oxford: Academic Press, 221–230, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-800049-6.00110-4.
Steinbauer, M; Beierkuhnlein, C; Arfin Khan, MAS; Harter, D; Irl, S; Jentsch, A; Schweiger, AH; Svenning, JC; Dengler, J (2016) How to differentiate facilitation and environmentally driven coexistence, Journal of Vegetation Science, 27, 1071–1079, doi:10.1111/jvs.12441.
2015
Schweiger, AH; Audorff, V; Beierkuhnlein, C (2015) The acid taste of climate change: 20th century acidification is re-emerging during a climatic extreme event, Ecosphere, 6(6) art94, doi:10.1890/ES15-00032.1.
Schweiger, AH; Audorff, V; Beierkuhnlein, C (2015) Salt in the wound: the interfering effect of road salt on acidified forest catchments, The Science of the Total Environment, 532, 595–604, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.06.034.
Schweiger, AH; Fünfstück, H-J; Beierkuhnlein, C (2015) Availability of optimal-sized prey affects global distribution patterns of the golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos, Journal of Avian Biology, 46(1), 81–88 (2015), doi:10.1111/jav.00396.
Schweiger, AH; Otieno, DO; Kulunge, SR ; Reineking, B; Tenhunen, J (2015) The Afro-alpine dwarf shrub Helichrysum citrispinum favours understorey plants through microclimate amelioration, Plant Ecology and Diversity, 8(3), 293–303, doi:10.1080/17550874.2015.1014207.
2014
Schweiger, AH; Beierkuhnlein, C (2014) Water temperature and acidity regime shape dominance and beta-diversity patterns in the plant communities of springs, Frontiers of Biogeography, 6(3), 132–143.
Schweiger, AH; Fünfstück, H-J (2014) In der Not frisst der Steinadler alles (außer Fliegen), Der Falke: Journal für Vogelbeobachter(7), 38–40.
2013
Schweiger, AH; Fünfstück, H-J; Beierkuhnlein, C (2013) Bayerische Steinadler als Nahrungsgeneralisten am nördlichen Alpenrand, Vogelwarte: Zeitschrift für Vogelkunde, 51(4), 296–298
2011
Schweiger, AH; Lipp, L (2011) Voles (Arvicolinae) as preferred prey of Bavarian Eagle Owls Bubo bubo (L.) during the nestling period, Ornithologischer Anzeiger, 50(1), 1–25.
2010
Koch, S; Schweiger, AH (2010) Aktueller Nachweis der Holzbiene Xylocopa violacea (L., 1758) in Mittelfranken (Weidenbach, Lkr. Ansbach), Galathea, 26(3), 155–160.