Climate–land-use interactions shape tropical mountain biodiversity and ecosystem functions

Marcell K. Peters, Andreas Hemp, Tim Appelhans, +44

Nature

Landscape ProcessesBiodiversityTropical Mountain BiodiversityEcosystem Adaptation

Predictors of elevational biodiversity gradients change from single taxa to the multi-taxa community level

Marcell K. Peters, Andreas Hemp, Tim Appelhans, +32

Nature Communications

Complementary ecosystem services provided by pest predators and pollinators increase quantity and quality of coffee yields

Marcell K. Peters, Stefan W. Ferger, Maria Helbig‐Bonitz, +5

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

AgroecologyEngineeringComplementary Ecosystem ServicesEcosystem FunctioningAgroecosystem +12

Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient

Jörg Albrecht, Marcell K. Peters, Joscha N. Becker, +41

Nature Ecology & Evolution

BiodiversityEcosystem StructureEcosystem FunctioningEcological ProcessElevational Gradient +2

Effects of land use on bat diversity in a complex plantation–forest landscape in northeastern Brazil

Katrin Heer, Maria Helbig‐Bonitz, Renato G. Fernandes, +2

Journal of Mammalogy

EngineeringLand UseForestryTropical Insect ScienceSocial Sciences +18

Relationships between abiotic environment, plant functional traits, and animal body size at Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

David Schellenberger Costa, Stefan W. Ferger, Maria Helbig‐Bonitz, +4

PLoS ONE

BiodiversityEngineeringBody SizeAllometric StudyAfrican Drylands +11

Cryptic Diversity in Mongolian Vespertilionid Bats (Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera, Mammalia). Results of the Mongolian-German Biological Expeditions Since 1962, No. 299

Thomas Datzmann, Dietrich Dolch, Nyamsuren Batsaikhan, +5

Acta Chiropterologica

Animal TaxonomyGeneticsZoological TaxonomyPhylogeneticsMolecular Ecology +18

Abiotic and biotic drivers of functional diversity and functional composition of bird and bat assemblages along a tropical elevation gradient

Robert M. Byamungu, Matthias Schleuning, Stefan W. Ferger, +7

Diversity and Distributions

BiologyRange ShiftBiodiversityBroad Environmental GradientsBiogeography +13

Bats are Not Birds – Different Responses to Human Land‐use on a Tropical Mountain

Maria Helbig‐Bonitz, Stefan W. Ferger, Katrin Böhning‐Gaese, +3

Biotropica

Land‐use GradientEngineeringAgricultural EconomicsTropical MountainHuman-wildlife Relationship +14

The third dimension of bat migration: evidence for elevational movements of Miniopterus natalensis along the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro

Christian C. Voigt, Maria Helbig‐Bonitz, Stephanie Kramer‐Schadt, +1

Oecologia

BiologyMiniopterus NatalensisWildlife EcologyNatural SciencesMammalogy +7