| Climate–land-use interactions shape tropical mountain biodiversity and ecosystem functions MK Peters, A Hemp, T Appelhans, JN Becker, C Behler, A Classen, ... Nature 568 (7750), 88-92, 2019 | 486 | 2019 |
| Predictors of elevational biodiversity gradients change from single taxa to the multi-taxa community level MK Peters, A Hemp, T Appelhans, C Behler, A Classen, F Detsch, ... Nature communications 7 (1), 13736, 2016 | 344 | 2016 |
| Community‐weighted means and functional dispersion of plant functional traits along environmental gradients on Mount Kilimanjaro D Schellenberger Costa, F Gerschlauer, H Pabst, A Kühnel, B Huwe, ... Journal of Vegetation Science 28 (4), 684-695, 2017 | 94 | 2017 |
| Plant and animal functional diversity drive mutualistic network assembly across an elevational gradient J Albrecht, A Classen, MGR Vollstädt, A Mayr, NP Mollel, ... Nature Communications 9 (1), 3177, 2018 | 93 | 2018 |
| Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient J Albrecht, MK Peters, JN Becker, C Behler, A Classen, A Ensslin, ... Nature ecology & evolution 5 (12), 1582-1593, 2021 | 76 | 2021 |
| Global gradients in intraspecific variation in vegetative and floral traits are partially associated with climate and species richness J Kuppler, CH Albert, GM Ames, WS Armbruster, G Boenisch, FC Boucher, ... Global Ecology and Biogeography 29 (6), 992-1007, 2020 | 71 | 2020 |
| Understanding context dependency in the response of forest understorey plant communities to nitrogen deposition MP Perring, M Diekmann, G Midolo, DS Costa, M Bernhardt-Römermann, ... Environmental pollution 242, 1787-1799, 2018 | 70 | 2018 |
| Plant niche breadths along environmental gradients and their relationship to plant functional traits D Schellenberger Costa, F Gerschlauer, R Kiese, M Fischer, M Kleyer, ... Diversity and Distributions 24 (12), 1869-1882, 2018 | 57 | 2018 |
| Trait patterns of epiphytes compared to other plant life‐forms along a tropical elevation gradient D Schellenberger Costa, G Zotz, A Hemp, M Kleyer Functional ecology 32 (8), 2073-2084, 2018 | 45 | 2018 |
| Putting vascular epiphytes on the traits map P Hietz, K Wagner, F Nunes Ramos, JS Cabral, C Agudelo, ... Journal of Ecology 110 (2), 340-358, 2022 | 43 | 2022 |
| Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of leaves, litter, and soils of various ecosystems along an elevational and land-use gradient at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania F Gerschlauer, G Saiz, D Schellenberger Costa, M Kleyer, ... Biogeosciences 16 (2), 409-424, 2019 | 42 | 2019 |
| Simulating carbon stocks and fluxes of an African tropical montane forest with an individual-based forest model R Fischer, A Ensslin, G Rutten, M Fischer, D Schellenberger Costa, ... PLoS One 10 (4), e0123300, 2015 | 40 | 2015 |
| Relationships between abiotic environment, plant functional traits, and animal body size at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania D Schellenberger Costa, A Classen, S Ferger, M Helbig-Bonitz, M Peters, ... PLoS one 12 (3), e0174157, 2017 | 25 | 2017 |
| The big four of plant taxonomy–a comparison of global checklists of vascular plant names D Schellenberger Costa, G Boehnisch, M Freiberg, R Govaerts, M Grenié, ... New Phytologist 240 (4), 1687-1702, 2023 | 24 | 2023 |
| Predictors of elevational biodiversity gradients change from single taxa to the multi-taxa community level. Nat Commun 7: 13736 MK Peters, A Hemp, T Appelhans, C Behler, A Classen, F Detsch, ... | 19 | 2016 |
| Leaf traits mediate changes in invertebrate herbivory along broad environmental gradients on Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania HK Njovu, MK Peters, D Schellenberger Costa, R Brandl, M Kleyer, ... Journal of Animal Ecology 88 (11), 1777-1788, 2019 | 18 | 2019 |
| Plant traits mediate the effects of climate on phytophagous beetle diversity on Mt. Kilimanjaro HK Njovu, I Steffan‐Dewenter, F Gebert, D Schellenberger Costa, ... Ecology 102 (12), e03521, 2021 | 7 | 2021 |
| Climate implications on forest above-and belowground carbon allocation patterns along a tropical elevation gradient on Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) N Sierra Cornejo, C Leuschner, JN Becker, A Hemp, ... Oecologia 195 (3), 797-812, 2021 | 6 | 2021 |
| Towards a semantic toolbox for reproducible knowledge graph generation in the biodiversity domain-how to make the most out of biodiversity data S Babalou, D Schellenberger Costa, J Kattge, C Römermann, ... INFORMATIK 2021, 581-590, 2021 | 5 | 2021 |
| Potential of airborne LiDAR derived vegetation structure for the prediction of animal species richness at Mount Kilimanjaro A Ziegler, H Meyer, I Otte, MK Peters, T Appelhans, C Behler, ... Remote Sensing 14 (3), 786, 2022 | 3 | 2022 |
