Publications

2025:

  • Barry, K. E.*, Hennecke, J.*, Weigelt, A., Bergmann, J., Bruelheide, H., Freschet, G. T., Iversen, C. M., Kuyper, T. W., Laughlin, D. C., McCormack, M. L., Roumet, C., van der Plas, F., van Ruijven, J., Wijsmuller, R., Auge, H., Eisenhauer, N., Haase, J., Nock, C. A., Oelmann, Y., Wilcke, W., Mommer, L. . Rooting for function: Community-level fine-root traits relate to many ecosystem functions. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70606 (*authors contributed equally)
  • Klimešová, J., Laughlin, D. C., Siebert, F., Bergmann, J., Tumber-Dávila, S. J., Andraczek, K., Bombo, A. B., Bruelheide, H., Fan, Y., Freschet, G. T., Hennecke, J., Howard, C. C., Jimoh, S. O., Mommer, L., Ramalevha, T., Weigelt, A., & Fidelis, A. (2025). Belowground persistence types relevant to severe disturbance. Trends in Plant Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2025.06.010
  • Amyntas, A., Gauzens, B., Ciobanu, M., Warnke, L., Maraun, M., Salamon, J.-A., Merkle, M., Bassi, L., Hennecke, J., Lange, M., Gleixner, G., Scheu, S., Eisenhauer, N., & Brose, U. (2025). Shared community history strengthens plant diversity effects on below-ground multitrophic functioning. Journal of Animal Ecology, 94(4), 555–565. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14241
  • Bassi, L., Hennecke, J., Albracht, C., Solbach, M. D., Rai, A., Pinheiro Alves de Souza, Y., Fox, A., Zeng, M., Döll, S., Doan, V. C., Richter, R., Kahl, A., Von Sivers, L., Winkler, L., Eisenhauer, N., Meyer, S. T., van Dam, N. M., & Weigelt, A. (2025). Plant species richness promotes the decoupling of leaf and root defence traits while species-specific responses in physical and chemical defences are rare. New Phytologist, 246(2), 729–746. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.20434
  • Hennecke, J., Bassi, L., Albracht, C., Amyntas, A., Bergmann, J., Eisenhauer, N., Fox, A., Heimbold, L., Heintz-Buschart, A., Kuyper, T. W., Lange, M., Pinheiro Alves de Souza, Y., Rai, A., Solbach, M. D., Mommer, L., & Weigelt, A. (2025). Plant Species Richness and the Root Economics Space Drive Soil Fungal Communities. Ecology Letters, 28(1), e70032. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70032
  • Klimešová, J., Laughlin, D. C., Siebert, F., Bergmann, J., Tumber-Dávila, S. J., Andraczek, K., Bombo, A. B., Bruelheide, H., Fan, Y., Freschet, G. T., Hennecke, J., Howard, C. C., Jimoh, S. O., Mommer, L., Ramalevha, T., Weigelt, A., & Fidelis, A. (2025). Belowground persistence types relevant to severe disturbance. Trends in Plant Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2025.06.010
  • Madaj, A.-M., Huang, Y., Ebeling, A., Ertel, L., Gebler, A., Gleixner, G., Hines, J., Roscher, C., Weigelt, A., Albracht, C., Amyntas, A., Bassi, L., Asato, A. E. B., Bonkowski, M., Bröcher, M., Buscot, F., Giorgi, F. D., Souza, Y. P. A. de, Doan, V. C., Durka, W., Heintz-Buschart, A., Hennecke, J., Lange, M., Berkum, P. M., Meyer, S. T., Krawczyk, S., Rai, A., Reitz, T., Ristok, C., Scheu, S., Schloter, M., Schulz, S., Solbach, M. D., Unsicker, S. B., & Eisenhauer, N. (2025). JenaTron—An Experimental Approach to Study the Effects of Plant History and Soil History on Grassland Ecosystem Functioning. Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), 217, e67496. https://doi.org/10.3791/67496
  • Matthus, E., Zwetsloot, M., Delory, B. M., Hennecke, J., Andraczek, K., Henning, T., Mommer, L., Weigelt, A., & Bergmann, J. (2025). Revisiting the root economics space—Its applications, extensions and nuances advance our understanding of fine-root functioning. Plant and Soil. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-025-07379-6
  • Sanaei, A., van der Plas, F., Chen, H., Davids, S., Eckhardt, S., Hennecke, J., Kahl, A., Möller, Y., Richter, R., Schütze, J., Wirth, C., & Weigelt, A. (2025). Tree growth is better explained by absorptive fine root traits than by transport fine root traits. Communications Biology, 8(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07756-y

2024:

  • Albracht, C., Solbach, M. D., Hennecke, J., Bassi, L., van der Ploeg, G. R., Eisenhauer, N., Weigelt, A., Buscot, F., & Heintz-Buschart, A. (2024). Common soil history is more important than plant history for arbuscular mycorrhizal community assembly in an experimental grassland diversity gradient. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 60(4), 547–562. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-024-01821-0
  • Bassi, L., Hennecke, J., Albracht, C., Bröcher, M., Solbach, M. D., Schaller, J., Doan, V. C., Wagner, H., Eisenhauer, N., Ebeling, A., Meyer, S. T., van Dam, N. M., & Weigelt, A. (2024). Uncovering the secrets of monoculture yield decline: Trade-offs between leaf and root chemical and physical defence traits in a grassland experiment. Oikos, 2024(2), e10061. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10061

2023:

  • Hennecke, J., Bassi, L., Mommer, L., Albracht, C., Bergmann, J., Eisenhauer, N., Guerra, C. A., Heintz‐Buschart, A., Kuyper, T. W., Lange, M., Solbach, M. D., & Weigelt, A. (2023). Responses of rhizosphere fungi to the root economics space in grassland monocultures of different age. New Phytologist, 240(5), 2035–2049. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19261
  • Maciá-Vicente, J. G., Francioli, D., Weigelt, A., Albracht, C., Barry, K. E., Buscot, F., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Hennecke, J., Heintz-Buschart, A., Ruijven, J. van, & Mommer, L. (2023). The structure of root-associated fungal communities is related to the long-term effects of plant diversity on productivity. Molecular Ecology, 32(13), 3763–3777. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16956
  • The Herbivory Variability Network. (2023). Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain within-population variability in herbivory. Science, 382(6671), 679–683. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adh8830
  • van Der Plas, F., Hennecke, J., Chase, J. M., Van Ruijven, J., & Barry, K. E. (2023). Universal beta-diversity–functioning relationships are neither observed nor expected. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 38(6), 532–544. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2023.01.008