Dr. Anne Ebeling

Briefly, we study mechanisms linking primary producers, pollination, herbivory, predation and consumer community and food web dynamics, to get a broader understanding of the ecosystem. I mainly work in grassland ecosystems, as they offer a perfect model system for studying the interactions between plant- and consumer communities of different diversities or land-use regimes. As platform for parts of our research we use the large biodiversity experiment Jena Experiment and the Nutrient Network.

Bachmann, D., Buchmann, N., Ebeling, A. & Roscher, C. (2025). Traits of the leaf economics spectrum do not always relate to species biomass proportions in grassland communities of varying diversity. Ecology and Evolution 15: e72013. doi: 10.1002/ece3.72013External link 

Kempel, A., Adamidis, G.C., Anadon, J.D., Atkinson, J., Auge, H., Avtzis, D., Bachelot, B., Bashirzadeh, M., Bota, J.L., Classen, A., Constantinou, I., Crawley, M., de Bellis, T., Dostal, P., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Eldridge, D.J., Encina, G., Estrada, C., Everingham, S., Fanin, N., Feng, Y., Gaspar, M., Gooriah, L., Graff, P., Montalvan, E.G., Montalvan, P.G., Hartke, T.R., Huang, L., Jochum, M., Kaljund, K., Karmiris, I., Koorem, K., Korell, L., Laine, A.L., le Provost, G., Lessard, J.P., Liu, M., Liu, X., Liu, Y., Llancabure, J., Loiez, S., Loydi, A., Marrero, H., Gockel, S., Montoya, A., Munzbergova, Z., Niu, Y., Ott, D., Oyarzabal, M., Panitsa, M., Papatheodorou, E., Piper, F.I., Pussa, K., Rand, K., Saiz, H., Sanders, N.J., Schadler, M., Scherber, C., Semchenko, M., Sepp, S.K., Shah, M.A., Shaheen, I., Stein, C., Stewart, J., Tang, Z., Tschan, G., van Nouhuys, S., Vandegehuchte, M.L., Vernon, M., V, R.S., Wang, J., Xiao, Y., Xystrakis, F., Yang, J., Yang, S., Zografou, K. & Allan, E. (2025). The Bug-Network (BugNet): A global experimental network testing the effects of invertebrate herbivores and fungal pathogens on plant communities and ecosystem function in open ecosystems. Ecology and Evolution 15: e72111. doi: 10.1002/ece3.72111External link 

Cabon, L., Varma, M., Winter, G., Ebeling, A. & Schielzeth, H. (2025). Phenotypic plasticity, heritability, and genotype-by-environment interactions in an insect dispersal polymorphism. BMC Ecology & Evolution doi: 10.1186/s12862-025-02447-yExternal link

Jiang, C., Roscher, C., Broecher, M., Ebeling, A., Wolf, J.B.W. & Schielzeth, H. (2025). Context-dependent relationships between genomic traits and plant performance in temperate grasslands. Functional Ecology doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.70133External link

Zhang, P.F., Seabloom, E.W., Foo, J., MacDougall, A.S., Harpole, W.S., Adler, P.B., Hautier, Y., Eisenhauer, N., Spohn, M., Bakker, J.D., Lekberg, Y., Young, A.L., Carbutt, C., Risch, A.C., Peri, P.L., Smith, N.G., Stevens, C.J., Prober, S.M., Knops, J.M.H., Wardle, G.M., Dickman, C.R., Ebeling, A., Roscher, C., Martinson, H.M., Martina, J.P., Power, S.A., Niu, Y.J., Ren, Z.W., Du, G.Z., Virtanen, R., Tognetti, P., Tedder, M.J., Jentsch, A., Catford, J.A. & Borer, E.T. (2025). Dominant species predict plant richness and biomass in global grasslands. Nature Ecology & Evolution 9: 924-936.  doi: 10.1038/s41559-025-02701-yExternal link

Halliday, F.W., Everingham, S.E., Bröcher, M., Ebeling, A., Kempel, A., Mundim, F.M., Strauss, A.T., Xirocostas, Z.A. & Kohli, M. (2025). Towards an integrative mechanistic framework for biodiversity-consumer relationships. Trends in Ecology & Evolution doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.005External link

Virtanen, R., Borer, E.T., Crawley, M., Ebeling, A., Harpole, W.S., Risch, A.C., Roscher, C., Schütz, M., Seabloom, E.W. & Eskelinen, A. (2025). Neglecting non-vascular plants leads to underestimation of grassland plant diversity loss under experimental nutrient addition. Journal of Ecology doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.70052External link

Bröcher, M., Meyer, S.T., Leher, A.G. & Ebeling, A. (2025). Ecological traits for 1374 arthropod species collected in a German grassland. Ecology 106: e70077. doi: 10.1002/ecy.70077External link

Varma, M., Winter, G., Ebeling, A., Lehmann, A., Cabon, L., Palacios-Gimenez, O.M., Pratap, N. & Schielzeth, H. (2025). Few genetic loci control the green-brown color polymorphism in the meadow grasshopper Pseudochorthippus parallelus. Journal of Evolutionary Biology doi: 10.1093/jeb/voaf036 doi: 10.1093/jeb/voaf036External link 

Nelson, R.A., Sullivan, L.L., Hersch-Green, E.I., Seabloom, E.W., Borer, E.T., Tognetti, P.M., Adler, P.B., Biederman, L., Bugalho, M.N., Caldeira, M.C., Cancela, J.P., Carvalheiro, L.G., Catford, J.A., Dickman, C.R., Dolezal, A.J., Donohue, I., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Elgersma, K.J., Eskelinen, A., Estrada, C., Garbowski, M., Graff, P., Gruner, D.S., Hagenah, N., Haider, S., Harpole, W.S., Hautier, Y., Jentsch, A., Johanson, N., Koerner, S.E., Lannes, L.S., MacDougall, A.S., Martinson, H., Morgan, J.W., Olde Venterink, H., Orr, D., Osborne, B.B., Peri, P.L., Power, S.A., Raynaud, X., Risch, A.C., Shrestha, M., Smith, N.G., Stevens, C.J., Veen, G.F.C., Virtanen, R., Wardle, G.M., Wolf, A.A., Young, A.L. & Harrison, S.P. (2025). Forb diversity globally is harmed by nutrient enrichment but can be rescued by large mammalian herbivory. Communications Biology 8: 444. doi: 10.1038/s42003-025-07882-7External link 

Bonato Asato, A.E., Guimarães‐Steinicke, C., Stein, G., Schreck, B., Kattenborn, T., Ebeling, A., Posch, S., Denzler, J., Büchner, T., Shadaydeh, M., Wirth, C., Eisenhauer, N. & Hines, J. (2025). Seasonal shifts in plant diversity effects on above‐ground–below‐ground phenological synchrony. Journal of Ecology doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.14470External link 

Bonato Asato, A.E., Ebeling, A., Wirth, C., Eisenhauer, N. & Hines, J. (2025). Positive plant diversity effects on soil detritivore feeding activity and stability increase with ecosystem age. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 200: 109637. doi: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2024.109637External link 

Morton, J.A., Arnillas, C.A., Biedermann, L., Borer, E.T., Brudvig, L.A., Buckley, Y.M., Cadotte, M.W., Davies, K., Donohue, I., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Estrada, C., Haider, S., Hautier, Y., Jentsch, A., Martinson, H., McCulley, R.L., Raynaud, X., Roscher, C., Seabloom, E.W., Stevens, C.J., Vesela, K., Wallace, A., Leitch, I.J., Leitch, A.R. & Hersch-Green, E.I. (2024). Genome size influences plant growth and biodiversity responses to nutrient fertilization in diverse grassland communities. PLoS Biology 22: e3002927. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002927External link 

Eisenhauer, N., Mueller, K., Ebeling, A., Gleixner, G., Huang, Y.Y., Madaj, A.M., Roscher, C., Weigelt, A., Bahn, M., Bonkowski, M., Brose, U., Cesarz, S., Feilhauer, H., Guimaraes-Steinicke, C., Heintz-Buschart, A., Hines, J., Lange, M., Meyer, S.T., Mohanbabu, N., Mommer, L., Neuhauser, S., Oelmann, Y., Rahmanian, S., Sasaki, T., Scheu, S., Schielzeth, H., Schmid, B., Schloter, M., Schulz, S., Unsicker, S.B., Vogel, C., Weisser, W.W. & Isbell, F. (2024). The multiple-mechanisms hypothesis of biodiversity-stability relationships. Basic and Applied Ecology 79: 153-166.  doi: 10.1016/j.baae.2024.07.004External link

Chen, Q.Q., Wang, S.P., Seabloom, E.W., Isbell, F., Borer, E.T., Bakker, J.D., Bharath, S., Roscher, C., Peri, P.L., Power, S.A., Donohue, I., Stevens, C., Ebeling, A., Nogueira, C., Caldeira, M.C., Macdougall, A.S., Moore, J.L., Bagchi, S., Jentsch, A., Tedder, M., Kirkman, K., Alberti, J. & Hautier, Y. (2024). Change in functional trait diversity mediates the effects of nutrient addition on grassland stability. Journal of Ecology 112: 2598-2612. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.14404External link 

Li, Y., Schuldt, A., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Huang, Y., Albert, G., Albracht, C., Amyntas, A., Bonkowski, M., Bruelheide, H., Bröcher, M., Chesters, D., Chen, J., Chen, Y., Chen, J.T., Ciobanu, M., Deng, X., Fornoff, F., Gleixner, G., Guo, L., Guo, P.F., Heintz-Buschart, A., Klein, A.M., Lange, M., Li, S., Li, Q., Li, Y., Luo, A., Meyer, S.T., von Oheimb, G., Rutten, G., Scholten, T., Solbach, M.D., Staab, M., Wang, M.Q., Zhang, N., Zhu, C.D., Schmid, B., Ma, K. & Liu, X. (2024). Plant diversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality via multitrophic diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution doi: 10.1038/s41559-024-02517-2External link 

Dietrich, P., Ebeling, A., Meyer, S.T., Bonato Asato, A.E., Bröcher, M., Gleixner, G., Huang, Y., Roscher, C., Schmid, B., Vogel, A. & Eisenhauer, N. (2024). Plant diversity and community age stabilize ecosystem multifunctionality. Global Change Biology doi: 10.1111/gcb.17225External link