Insa Otte

TL;DR: The study reveals that climate can modulate the effects of land use on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, and points to a lowered resistance of ecosystems in climatically challenging environments to ongoing land-use changes in tropical mountainous regions.

TL;DR: This work quantifies cross-taxon consensus in diversity gradients and evaluates predictors of diversity from single taxa to a multi-taxa community level and points to the importance of temperature for diversification and species coexistence in plant and animal communities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented long-term and seasonal vegetation dynamics derived from a GIMMS-based NDVI record resampled to 1-km spatial resolution and covering a 30-year period (1982-2011).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduced the set-up of a new meteorological station network on the southern slopes of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, since 2010 and presented the recorded characteristics of air temperature, air humidity and precipitation in both a plot-based and area-wide perspectives.

TL;DR: In this paper, the isotopic variability of oxygen (δ18O) and hydrogen(δD) of rainfall, throughfall, and fog from a total of 2,140 samples collected weekly over 2 years at 9 study sites along an elevation transect ranging from 950 to 3,880m above sea level.