Cord Peppler-Lisbach

Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg · Institute for Biology and Environmental Sciences (IBU)

Vegetation-plot resurvey data are a main source of information on terrestrial biodiversity change, with records reaching back more than one century. although more and more data from re-sampled plots have been published, there is not yet a comprehensive open-access dataset available for analysis. Here, we compiled and harmonised vegetation-plot resu...

Long-term analyses of biodiversity data highlight a ‘biodiversity conservation paradox’: biological communities show substantial species turnover over the past century1,2, but changes in species richness are marginal1,3–5. Most studies, however, have focused only on the incidence of species, and have not considered changes in local abundance. Here...

Vegetation-plot resurvey data are a main source of information on terrestrial biodiversity change, with records reaching back more than one century. Although more and more data from re-sampled plots have been published, there is not yet a comprehensive open-access dataset available for analysis. Here, we compiled and harmonised vegetation-plot resu...

Implementing the European Green Deal and transforming agricultural practices requires a wider and amplified policy toolbox. As many sustainability considerations are context-dependent, there is a need for instruments, which take individual characteristics of production landscapes into account. Food products with a particularly strong relationship t...

Questions: Mountain grasslands can be strongly affected by extreme droughts such as those related to climate change. What are the impacts of extreme droughts on community composition, diversity, Ellenberg indicator scores and species groups in oligotrophic montane Nardus grasslands, and what are the associated mechanisms of vegetation change? Loc...

Questions: Which trends and patterns of community change occurred in Nardus grasslands over recent decades in parts of the Continental biogeographic region of Germany? Are patterns and trends consistent across two study regions? Do impacts of environmental changes on Nardus grasslands in Central Europe correspond to those identified in the European...

Most protected areas are managed based on objectives related to scientific ecological knowledge of species and ecosystems. However, a core principle of sustainability science is that understanding and including local ecological knowledge, perceptions of ecosystem service provision and landscape vulnerability will improve sustainability and resilien...

Environmental data (site and habitat characteristics) and species data related to the paper Peppler-Lisbach et al. (2020): Long-term vegetation changes in Nardus grasslands indicate eutrophication, recovery from acidification, and management change as the main drivers. Applied Vegetation Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/avsc.12513

Im Zuge der Deicherhöhung und der Umstrukturierung der Entwässerung entlang des im Tideeinflussbereich der Nordsee gelegenen Flusses Aper Tief wurde im Jahr 2005 eine 75 ha große Fläche durch eine Deichrückverlegung der natürlichen Tidedynamik ausgesetzt. Durch die Maßnahme wurde sowohl zusätzlicher Retentionsraum geschaffen als auch die Entwicklun...

Aims: We carried out vegetation studies in the ancient Hasbruch forest, which provided the unique conditions of unmanaged (UM) and managed (M) stands in two vegetation types Stellario-Carpinetum loniceretosum (POOR) and stachyetosum (RICH) stands in one closed forest allowing us to study (1) the changes in species composition and richness over 20 y...

Crassula helmsii is a semi-aquatic, invasive neophyte from Australia and New Zealand. It was first recorded on the East Frisian island Norderney in the early 2000s. Since then, it has been spreading rapidly into the Südstrandpolder and the Meierei-Wiesen. To date, there are no scientific studies on the habitat requirements and distribution of C. he...

Questions: Which trends and patterns of community change occurred in Nardus grasslands over the past decades in parts of the Continental biogeographic region in Germany? Are patterns and trends similar at local and regional scale? Do impacts of environmental changes on Nardus grasslands in Central Europe correspond to those identified in the Europe...

Questions Has plant species richness in semi‐natural grasslands changed over recent decades? Do the temporal trends of habitat specialists differ from those of habitat generalists? Has there been a homogenization of the grassland vegetation?. Location Different regions in Germany and the United Kingdom. Methods We conducted a formal meta‐analysis...

The present study aimed at assessing the present state and changes of Nardus grassland in the Werra- Meissner region (Central Germany) since the 1980s by resurveying 61 quasi-permanent plots in 2012. We repeated vegetation relevés, measurements of soil parameters (pH, C/N ratio, thickness of organic Of layer) and recorded present management practic...

QuestionsWhat are the driving factors for the species richness of understorey herbs of isolated forest patches? How can the relative direct and indirect effects of patch area, site quality, habitat isolation and continuity be disentangled? What are the effects on different species groups?LocationEutrophic hardwood forest patches in northwestern Ger...

Many of the Wadden Sea’s uninhabitated islands are characterized by strong geomorphological dynamics on multiple time scales. The salt marshes of Mellum, located beween the Weser and Jade estuaries on the Northwest-German coast, have made big increases in area during recent decades. Likewise, beaches, fore-dunes and pioneer zones of Mellum shifted...

Many of the Wadden Sea’s uninhabitated islands are characterized by strong geomorphological dynamics on multiple time scales. The salt marshes of Mellum, located beween the Weser and Jade estuaries on the Northwest-German coast, have made big increases in area during recent decades. Likewise, beaches, fore-dunes and pioneer zones of Mellum shifted...

Temperate deciduous forest communities are slow-changing systems, with herbaceous understorey communities displaying a delayed response to overstorey canopy and light dynamics. While light availability constrains herbaceous understorey diversity and composition in space and time, its response in the long-term absence of light has seldom been quanti...

Question: The eu-atlantic forest herb Ceratocapnos claviculata showed a recent increase in frequency within its native range and an eastward and northward range expansion in Central Europe. To gain deeper understanding of factors affecting the range expansion of the species, we analyzed vegetation relevés at three different scales and asked the fol...

Little is known about changes in the significance of environmental filtering and neutral processes during the succession of plant communities. Generally, a succession is expected to be trait-driven and a shift is predicted from high importanceof seed dispersal ability in initial phases to importance of strong competitive ability in later stages. In...

Im Zuge der Deicherhöhung und der Umstrukturierung der Entwässerung entlang des im Tideeinflussbereich der Nordsee gelegenen Aper Tiefs in der Gemeinde Apen wurde im Jahr 2005 durch eine Deichrückverlegung zusätzlicher Retentionsraum geschaffen. Durch eine naturnahe Gestaltung der Flussaue kann gleichzeitig ein wertvoller Beitrag zum Hochwasser- un...

As part of the dike elevation and restructuring of the drainage along the Aper Tief, which is located in the tidal sphere of the North Sea in the municipality of Apen, an additional retention area was created through a dike relocation in 2005. Due to the nearly natural layout of the river wetlands, a valuable contribution to the flood control and n...

Seed banks are of vital importance for local plant persistence and recruitment, for maintaining both plant and genetic diversity and for habitat restoration. Yet, seed-bank dynamics, particularly on the long term and in deciduous forests, remain poorly understood. Additionally, information on compositional seed-bank differences under contrasting tr...

Question: (i) How do species richness and species turnover change along a pH gradient? (ii) What are possible driving factors behind these patterns? (iii) Can the observed patterns be explained by an individualistic continuum concept that postulates independence of species responses and constant turnover rates? Location: Semi-natural, deciduous har...

Soil chemical and hydrological parameters were investigated to characterize semi-natural deciduous forest types near Oldenburg (northwestern Germany). Univariate compari-sons and multivariate ordination techniques (DCA, CCA) are applied to quantify the ecologi-cal requirements of the woodland community types. – The dominant ecological gradient cons...

Our study investigates the negative impact of nitrogen (N) deposition on species richness in acidic grasslands, based on a temporal comparison of vegetation data spanning a period of almost 70 years. We compiled a large data base of plots assigned to the Violion caninae grassland type, composed of managed, but unfertilized semi-natural grasslands o...

Question: Species optima or indicator values are frequently used to predict environmental variables from species composition. The present study focuses on the question whether predictions can be improved by using species environmental amplitudes instead of single values representing species optima.Location: Semi-natural, deciduous hardwood forests...

Based on statistical models, the potential distribution of five natural woodland community types (Luzulo-Fagetum, Galio-Fagetum, Hordelymo-Fagetum, Carici-Fagetum, Stellario-Alnetum) is predicted for a landscape transect in northern Hesse, Germany. The logistic regression models use topographic variables derived from a digital elevation model and g...

This study deals with the vegetation and soil ecology of deciduous forest stands of the Neuenburger Holz (district Friesland, Northern Germany). Based on 108 relevés, five different forest communities are distinguished. Their species composition, horizontal and vertical structure are set out. The synsystematical position of the community types is d...

Question: Predictive models in plant ecology usually deal with single species or community types. Little effort has so far been made to predict the species composition of a community explicitly. The modelling approach presented here provides a conceptual framework on how to achieve this by combining habitat models for a large number of species to a...

Question: Predictive models in plant ecology usually deal with single species or community types. Little effort has so far been made to predict the species composition of a community explicitly. The modelling approach presented here provides a conceptual framework on how to achieve this by combining habitat models for a large number of species to a...

Borstgrasrasen (Nardetalia) sind durch eine extensive Grünlandnutzung entstandene Magerrasen kalkfreier, frischer bis mäßig feuchter Böden. Die in der Regel niedrigwüchsigen, schwach produktiven Bestände zeichnen sich durch eine gelblich-grüne Grundfärbung aus und sind dadurch im Gelände schon aus einiger Entfernung von saftig-grünen Intensivgrünla...

Land-use is constrained both by physical and socio-economic factors. The aim of this study is to evaluate how and to what extent physical factors control the land-use pattern in a Central European rural landscape. Moreover, it intends to compare different temporal situations in order to find out, whether the relations between physical features (geo...

[Note that the date given in the imprint (2000) is wrong and this book was actually only published in 2002, which is the relevant date from the nomenclatural point of view] Here is the German Introduction: Das bisherige Fehlen einer Standardliste der Pflanzengesellschaften Deutschlands ist kein Zufall. Es beruht insbesondere auf der Tatsache, daß...