2020
Thakur, Madhav P. (2020) The role of predators in driving warming-prey diversity relationships: an invertebrate perspective. Basic and Applied Ecology, 47: 23-34.10. Elsevier 10.1016/j.baae.2020.06.001 [PDF]
Thakur, Madhav P.; Bakker, Elisabeth S.; Veen, G.F. Ciska; Harvey, Jeffrey A. (2020) Climate extremes, rewilding, and the role of microhabitats. One Earth, 2: 506-509. CellPress 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.05.010 [PDF]
Zhang, Zhijie; van Kleunen, Mark; Becks, Lutz; Thakur, Madhav P. (2020) Towards a general understanding of bacterial interactions. Trends in Microbiology, 28: 783-785. CellPress 10.1016/j.tim.2020.05.010 [PDF]
Yin, Rui; Kardol, Paul; Thakur, Madhav P.; Gruss, Iwona; Wu, Gao-Lin; Eisenhauer, Nico; Schadler, Marco (2020) Soil functional biodiversity and biological quality under threat: intensive land use outweighs climate change. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 147: 107847. Elsevier 10.1016/j.soilbio.2020.107847 [PDF]
Thakur, Madhav P. (2020) Climate warming and trophic mismatches in terrestrial ecosystems: the green-brown imbalance hypothesis. Biology Letters, 16: 20190770. The Royal Society 10.1098/rsbl.2019.0770 [PDF]
Ferlian, Olga; Thakur, Madhav P.; Castaneda Gonzalez, Alejandra; Emeterio, Layla M. San; Marr, Susanne; da Silva Rocha, Barbbara; Eisenhauer, Nico (2020) Soil chemistry turned upside down: a meta-analysis of invasive earthworm effects on soil chemical properties. Ecology, 101: e02936. Ecological Society of America 10.1002/ecy.2936 [PDF]
Thakur, Madhav P.; Phillips, Helene R.P.; Brose, Ulrich; De Vries, Franciska T.; Lavelle, Patrick; Loreau, Michel; Mathieu, Jerome; Mulder, Christian; van der Putten, Wim H.; Rillig, Matthias C.; Wardle, David A.; Bach, Elizabeth M.; Bartz, Marie L.C.; Bennett, Joanne M.; Briones, Maria J.I.; Brown, George; Decaens, Thibaud; Eisenhauer, Nico; Ferlian, Olga; Guerra, Carlos Antonio; Konig-Ries, Birgitta; Origazzi, Alberto; Ramirez, Kelly S.; Russell, David J., Rutgers, Michiel; Wall, Diana H.; Cameron, Erin K. (2020) Towards an integrative understanding of soil biodiversity. Biological Reviews, 95: 350-364. Wiley 10.1111/brv.12567 [PDF]
van Langevelde, Frank; Comor, Vincent; De Bie, Steven; Prins, Herbert H.T.; Thakur, Madhav P. (2020) Disturbance regulates the density-body mass relationship of soil fauna. Ecological Applications, 30: e02019. Ecological Society of America 10.1002/eap.2019 [PDF]
2019
Phillips, Helen R.P.; Guerra, Carlos A.; .....; Thakur, Madhav P.,....et al. (2019) Global distribution of earthworm diversity. Science, 366: 480-485. This paper also has an erratum. American Association for the Advancement of Science 10.1126/science.aax4851 [PDF]
Yin, Rui; Gruss, Iwona; Eisenhauer, Nico; Kardol, Paul; Thakur, Madhav P.; Schmidt, Anja; Xu, Zhengfeng; Siebert, Julia; Zhang, Chensheng; Wu, Gao-Lin; Schadler, Martin (2019) Land use modulates the effects of climate change on abundance but not community composition of Collembola. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 138: 107598. Elsevier 10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.107598 [PDF]
Thakur, Madhav P.; van der Putten, Wim H.; Cobben, Marleen M.P.; van Kleunen, Mark; Geisen, Stefan (2019) Microbial invasions in terrestrial ecosystems. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 17: 621-631. Springer Nature 10.1038/s41579-019-0236-z [PDF]
Thakur, Madhav P.; and Geisen, Stefan (2019) Trophic regulations of the soil microbiome. Trends in Microbiology, 27: 771–780. CellPress 10.1016/j.tim.2019.04.008 [PDF]
Thakur, Madhav P.; Del Real, Ines Martin; Cesarz, Simone; Steinauer, Katja; Reich, Peter B.; Hobbie, Sarah; Ciobanu, Marcel; Rich, Roy; Worm, Kally; Eisenhauer, Nico (2019) Soil microbial, nematode, and enzymatic responses to elevated CO2, N fertilization, warming, and reduced precipitation. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 135: 184-193. Elsevier 10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.04.020 [PDF]
Siebert, Julia; Eisenhauer, Nico; Poll, Christian; Marhan, Sven; Bonkowski, Michael; Hines, Jes; Koller, Robert; Ruess, Liliane; Thakur, Madhav P. (2019) Earthworms modulate the effects of climate warming on the taxon richness of soil meso- and macrofauna in an agricultural system. Agriculture, Ecosystem and Environment, 278: 72-80. Elsevier 10.1016/j.agee.2019.03.004 [PDF]
Thakur, Madhav P.; Quast, Vera; van Dam, Nicole M; Eisenhauer, Nico; Roscher, Christiane; Biere, Arjen; Martinez-Medina, Ainhoa (2019) Interactions between functionally diverse fungal mutualists inconsistently affect plant performance and competition. Oikos, 128: 1136-1146. Wiley 10.1111/oik.06138 [PDF]
Siebert, Julia; Thakur, Madhav P.; Reitz, Thomas; Schadler, Martin; Schulz, Elke; Yin, Rui; Weigelt, Alexandra; Eisenhauer, Nico (2019) Extensive grassland-use sustains high levels of soil biological activity, but does not alleviate detrimental climate change effects. Advances in Ecological Research, 60: 25-54. Elsevier 10.1016/bs.aecr.2019.02.002 [PDF]
Giling, Darren P.; Beaumelle, Léa; Phillips, Helen R.P.; Cesarz, Simone; Eisenhauer, Nico; Ferlian, Olga; Gottschall, Felix; Guerra, Carlos; Hines, Jes; Sendek, Agnieszka; Siebert, Julia; Thakur, Madhav P.; Barnes, Andrew D. (2018) A niche for ecosystem multifunctionality in global change research. Global Change Biology, 25: 763-774. Wiley 10.1111/gcb.14528 [PDF]
2018
Thakur, Madhav P.; Griffin, John N.; Kuenne, Tom; Dunker, Susanne; Fanesi, Andrea; Eisenhauer, Nico (2018) Temperature effects on prey and basal resources exceed that of predators in an experimental community. Ecology and Evolution, 8 (4): 12670-12680. Wiley 10.1002/ece3.4695 [PDF]
Eisenhauer, Nico; Hermann, Sylvie; Hines, Jes; Buscot, François; Siebert, Julia; Thakur, Madhav P. (2018) The dark side of animal phenology, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 33 (12), 898-901. CellPress 10.1016/j.tree.2018.09.010 [PDF]
Thakur, Madhav P.; Reich, Peter B.; Hobbie, Sarah E.; Stefanski, Artur; Rich, Roy; Rice, Karen E.; Eddy, William C.; Eisenhauer, Nico (2018) Reduced feeding activity of soil detritivores under warmer and drier conditions. Nature Climate Change, 8: 75-78. Springer Nature 10.1038/s41558-017-0032-6 [PDF]
Ferlian, Olga; Eisenhauer, Nico; Aguirrebengoa, Martin; Camara, Mariama; Ramirez-Rojas, Irene; Santos, Fabio; Tanalgo, Krizler, Thakur, Madhav P. (2018): Invasive earthworms erode soil biodiversity: A meta-analysis. Journal of Animal Ecology, 87: 162-172. British Ecological Society 10.1111/1365-2656.12746 [PDF]
2017
Thakur, Madhav P.; and Wright, Alexandra J. (2017): Environmental filtering, niche construction and trait variability-the missing discussion. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 32: 884-886. CellPress 10.1016/j.tree.2017.09.014 [PDF]
Schwarz, Benjamin; Barnes, Andrew D.; Thakur, Madhav P.; Brose, Ulrich; Ciobanu, Marcel; Reich, Peter B.; Rich, Roy L.; Rosenbaum, Benjamin; Stefanski, Artur; Eisenhauer, Nico (2017): Warming alters energetic structure and function but not resilience of soil food webs. Nature Climate Change, 7: 895-900. Springer Nature 10.1038/s41558-017-0002-z [PDF]
Thakur, Madhav P.; Tilman, David; Purschke, Oliver; Ciobanu, Marcel; Cowles, Jane; Isbell, Forest; Wragg, Peter D.; Eisenhauer, Nico (2017): Climate warming promotes species diversity, but with greater taxonomic redundancy, in complex environments. Science Advances 3, e1700866. American Association for the Advancement of Science 10.1126/sciadv.1700866 [PDF]
Patione, Guillaume; Thakur, Madhav P.; Friese, Julia; Nock, Charles; Hönig, Lydia, Haase, Josephine; Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael; Eisenhauer, Nico (2017) Plant litter functional diversity effects on litter mass loss depend on the macro-detritivore community, Pedobiologia, 65: 29-42. Elsevier 10.1016/j.pedobi.2017.07.003 [PDF]
Thakur, Madhav P.; Kuenne, Tom; Griffin, John N.; Eisenhauer, Nico (2017) Warming magnifies predation and reduces prey coexistence in a model litter arthropod system, Proceedings of Royal Society B 284, The Royal Society 10.1098/rspb.2016.2570 [PDF]
Eisenhauer, Nico; Lanoue, Arnaud; Strecker, Tanja; Scheu, Stefan; Steinauer, Katja; Thakur, Madhav P.; Mommer, Liesje (2017) Root biomass and exudates link plant diversity with soil microbial communities, Scientific Reports, 7:44641. Springer Nature 10.1038/srep44641 [PDF]
Thakur, Madhav P. (2017) Putting Community Ecology in a Better Order. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 32: 6-7. CellPress 10.1016/j.tree2016.10.015 [PDF]
Craven, Dylan; Thakur, Madhav P. et al. (2017) The unseen invaders: introduced earthworms as drivers of change in plant communities in North American forests (a meta-analysis). Global Change Biology, 23: 1065-7410. Wiley 10.1111/gcb.13446 [PDF]
Thakur, Madhav P.; Reich, Peter B.; Wagg, Cameron; Fisichelli, Nicholas A.; Ciobanu, Marcel; Hobbie, Sarah E.; Rich, Roy L.; Stefanski, Artur; Eisenhauer, Nico (2017): Effects of soil warming history on the performances of congeneric temperate and boreal herbaceous plant species and their associations with soil biota. Journal of Plant Ecology, 10: 670-680. Oxford University Press 10.1093/jpe/rtw066 [PDF]
2016
Eisenhauer, Nico; Barnes Andrew D.; Cesarz, Simone; Craven, Dylan; Ferlian, Olga; Gottschall, Felix; Hines, Jes; Sendek, Agnieszka; Siebert, Julia; Thakur, Madhav P.; Türke, Manfred (2016) Biodiversity–ecosystem function experiments reveal the mechanisms underlying the consequences of biodiversity change in real world ecosystems. Journal of Vegetation Science, 27: 1061-70 Wiley 10.1111/jvs.12435 [PDF]
Craven, Dylan; Isbell, Forest; …, Thakur, Madhav P.; …et al. (2016) Plant diversity effects on grassland productivity are robust to both nutrient enrichment and drought. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371: 20150277 The Royal Society 10.1098/rstb.2015.0277 [PDF]
2015
Isbell, Forest; Craven, Dylan; …, Thakur, Madhav P.,…et al. (2015): Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes, Nature, 526: 574-577. Springer Nature 10.1038/nature15374 [PDF]
Thakur, Madhav P.; Herrmann, Martina; Steinauer, Katja; Rennoch, Saskia; Cesarz, Simone; Eisenhauer, Nico (2015) Cascading effects of belowground predators on plant community are density-dependent, Ecology & Evolution, 5: 4300-4314 (Editor's choice article). Wiley 10.1002/ece3.1597 [PDF]
Thakur, Madhav P.; Milcu, Alexandru; Manning, Pete; Niklaus, Pascal A.; Roscher, Christiane; Power, Sally; Reich, Peter B.; Scheu, Stefan; Tilman, David; Ai, Fuxun; Guo, Hongyan; Ji, Rong; Pierce, Sarah; Guerrero Ramirez, Nathaly; Richter, Annabell Nicola; Steinauer, Katja; Strecker, Tanja; Vogel, Anja; Eisenhauer, Nico (2015) Plant diversity drives soil microbial biomass carbon in grasslands irrespective of global environmental change factors. Global Change Biology, 12: 4076-4085. Wiley 10.1111/gcb.13011 [PDF]
Thakur, Madhav P.; and Eisenhauer, Nico (2015) Plant community composition determines the strength of top-down control in soil food webs, Scientific Reports, 5:9134 Springer Nature 10.1038/srep09134 [PDF]
2014
Thakur, Madhav P.; Berg, Matty P.; Eisenhauer, Nico, Van Langevelde, Frank (2014) Disturbance-diversity relation is explained by the community biomass of soil fauna in salt marsh. Soil Biology Biochemistry, 78: 30-37. Elsevier 10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.06.021 [PDF]
Thakur, Madhav P.; Reich, Peter B.; Fisichelli, Nicolas A.; Stefanski, Artur; Cesarz, Simone; Dobies, Tomasz; Rich, Roy L.; Hobbie, Sarah E.; Eisenhauer, Nico (2014) Nematode community shifts in response to experimental warming and canopy conditions are associated with plant community changes in the temperate-boreal forest Ecotone. Oecologia, 175: 713-723. Springer Nature 10.1007/s00442-014-2927-5 [PDF]
Comor, Vincent; Thakur, Madhav P.; Berg, Matty P.; de Bie, Steven; Prins, Herbert H.T.; van Langevelde, Frank (2014) Productivity affects the density–body mass relationship of soil fauna communities. Soil Biology Biochemistry, 72:203–211. Elsevier 10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.02.003 [PDF]
Thakur, Madhav P.; Van Groenigen, Jan Willem; Kuiper, Imke; De Deyn, Gerlinde B. (2014) Interactions between microbial-feeding and predatory soil fauna trigger N2O emissions. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 70: 256-262. Elsevier 10.1016/j.soilbio.2013.12.020 [PDF]
Thakur, Madhav P.; Reich, Peter B.; Eddy, William C.; Stefanski, Artur; Rich, Roy; Hobbie, Sarah E., Eisenhauer, Nico (2014) Some plants like it warmer: Increased growth of three selected invasive plant species in soils with a history of experimental warming. Pedobiologia, 57(1): 57-60. Elsevier 10.1016/j.pedobi.2013.12.002 [PDF]
2013
Kuiper, Imke; De Deyn, Gerlinde B.; Thakur, Madhav P.; Van Groenigen, Jan Willem (2013) Soil invertebrate fauna affect N2O emissions from soil. Global Change Biology, 19: 2814-2825. Wiley 10.1111/gcb.12232 [PDF]
