Martin Böhnke, Wenzel Kröber, Erik Welk, Christian Wirth and Helge Bruelheide*. 2014. Maintenance of constant functional diversity during secondary succession of a subtropical forest in China. Journal of Vegetation Science. 25:897-911. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvs.12114.

Helge Bruelheide*, Karin Nadrowski, Thorsten Assmann, Jürgen Bauhus, Sabine Both, François Buscot, Xiaoyong Chen, Bingyang Ding, Walter Durka, Alexandra Erfmeier, Jessica L. M. Gutknecht, Dali Guo, Liangdong Guo, Werner Härdtle, Jinsheng He, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Peter Kühn, Yu Liang, Xiaojuan Liu, Stefan Michalski, Pascal A. Niklaus, Kequan Pei, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Thomas Scholten, Andreas Schuldt, Gunnar Seidler, Stefan Trogisch, Goddert von Oheimb, Erik Welk, Christian Wirth, Tesfaye Wubet, Xuefei Yang, Mingjian Yu, Shouren Zhang, Hongzhang Zhou, Markus Fischer, Keping Ma and Bernhard Schmid. 2014. Designing forest biodiversity experiments: general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 5:74-89. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.12126.

David Eichenberg*, Christian Ristok, Wenzel Kröber and Helge Bruelheide. 2014. Plant polyphenols - implications of different sampling, storage and sample processing in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments. Chemistry and Ecology. 30:676-692. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757540.2014.894987.

Cheng Gao, Nannan Shi, Yuexing Liu, Yong Zheng, Qiong Ding, Xiangcheng Mi, Keping Ma, Tesfaye Wubet, François Buscot and Liangdong Guo*. 2014. REPLY Host plant richness explains diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi: Response to the comment of Tedersoo et al. (2014). Molecular Ecology. 23:996-999. https://doi.org/10.1111/Mec.12659.

Anne C. Lang*, Werner Härdtle, Helge Bruelheide and Goddert von Oheimb. 2014. Local neighborhood competition following an extraordinary snow break event: implications for tree-individual growth. iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry. 7:19-24. https://doi.org/10.3832/ifor1033-007.

Karin Nadrowski*, Katherina Pietsch, Martin Baruffol, Sabine Both, Jessica Gutknecht, Helge Bruelheide, Heike Heklau, Anja Kahl, Tiemo Kahl, Pascal A. Niklaus, Wenzel Kröber, Xiaojuan Liu, Xiangcheng Mi, Stefan Michalski, Goddert von Oheimb, Oliver Purschke, Bernhard Schmid, Teng Fang, Erik Welk and Christian Wirth. 2014. Tree Species Traits but Not Diversity Mitigate Stem Breakage in a Subtropical Forest following a Rare and Extreme Ice Storm. PLoS ONE. 9:e96022. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096022.

Claas-Thido Pfaff*, Helge Bruelheide, Sophia Ratcliffe, Christian Wirth and Karin Nadrowski. 2014. Readable workflows need simple data [version 2; referees: 3 approved with reservations, 1 not approved]. F1000Research. 3:110.

Andreas Schuldt*, Thorsten Assmann, Helge Bruelheide, Walter Durka, David Eichenberg, Werner Härdtle, Wenzel Kröber, Stefan G. Michalski and Oliver Purschke. 2014. Functional and phylogenetic diversity of woody plants drive herbivory in a highly diverse forest. New Phytologist. 202:864-873. https://doi.org/10.1111/Nph.12695.

Andreas Schuldt*, Martin Baruffol, Helge Bruelheide, Simon Chen, Xiulian Chi, Marcus Wall and Thorsten Assmann. 2014. Woody plant phylogenetic diversity mediates bottom-up control of arthropod biomass in species-rich forests. Oecologia. 176:171-182. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-014-3006-7.

Miaomiao Shi*, Stefan G. Michalski, Erik Welk, Xiaoyong Chen and Walter Durka. 2014. Phylogeography of a widespread Asian subtropical tree: genetic east-west differentiation and climate envelope modelling suggest multiple glacial refugia. Journal of Biogeography. 41:1710-1720. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12322.

Michael Staab. 2014. A new species of the Aenictus wroughtonii group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from South-East China. Zookeys. 391:65-73. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.391.7213.

Michael Staab*†, Michael Ohl†, Chaodong Zhu and Alexandra-Maria Klein. 2014. A Unique Nest-Protection Strategy in a New Species of Spider Wasp. PLoS ONE. 9:e101592. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101592.

Michael Staab*, Andreas Schuldt, Thorsten Assmann, Helge Bruelheide and Alexandra-Maria Klein. 2014. Ant community structure during forest succession in a subtropical forest in South-East China. Acta Oecologica. 61:32-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2014.10.003.

Michael Staab*, Andreas Schuldt, Thorsten Assmann and Alexandra-Maria Klein. 2014. Tree diversity promotes predator but not omnivore ants in a subtropical Chinese forest. Ecological Entomology. 39:637-647. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12143.