Publications

Publications

 
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Web of Science ResearcherID: C-7121-2008
Web of Science (CC) Bibliometric Indices: h-index: 70; total publications: 313; times cited: 15902.
Highly cited Researcher (Clarivate) in the field of Plant and Animal Science

1. Publications in international peer-reviewed scientific journals

• Gao D, Luster J, Zürcher A, Arend M, Bai E, Gessler A, Rigling A, Schaub M, Hartmann M, Werner RA, Joseph J, Poll C, Hagedorn F. 2024. Drought resistance and resilience of rhizosphere communities in forest soils from the cellular to ecosystem scale – insights from 13C pulse labeling. New Phytologist https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19612.

• Gessler A, Zweifel R. Beyond source and sink control – toward an integrated approach to understand the carbon balance in plants. New Phytologist https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19611.

• Ferretti M, Fischer C, Gessler A, Graham C, Meusburger K, Abegg M, Bebi P, Bergamini A, Brockerhoff EG, Brunner I, Bühler C, Conedera M, Cothereau P, D’Odorico P, Düggelin C, Ginzler C, Grendelmeier A, Haeni M, Hagedorn F, Hägeli M, Hegetschweiler KT, Holderegger R, Krumm F, Gugerli F, Queloz V, Rigling A, Risch AC, Rohner B, Rosset C, Scherrer D, Schulz T, Thürig E, Traub B, von Arx G, Waldner P, Wohlgemuth T, Zimmermann NE, Shackleton RT. 2024. Advancing forest inventorying and monitoring. Annals of Forest Science 81: 6.

• Diao H, Cernusak LA, Saurer M, Gessler A, Siegwolf RTW, Lehmann MM. 2024. Uncoupling of stomatal conductance and photosynthesis at high temperatures: mechanistic insights from online stable isotope techniques. New Phytologist 241: 2366-2378.

• Gessler A. 2024. Why leaves become isotopically lighter than photosynthetic carbon isotope discrimination explains: On the importance of post-photosynthetic fractionation. Journal of Experimental Botany in press.

• Gessler A, Schaub M, Bose A, Trotsiuk V, Valbuena R, Chirici G, Buchmann N. 2024. Finding the balance between open access to forest data while safeguarding the integrity of National Forest Inventory derived information. New Phytologist https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19466.

• Salomón RL, Helm J, Gessler A, Grams T, Hilman B, Muhr J, Wittmann C, Hartmann H. 2024. The quandary of sources and sinks of CO2 efflux in tree stems – new insights and future directions. Tree Physiology in press.

• Didion-Gency M, Vitasse Y, Buchmann N, Gessler A, Gisler J, Schaub M, Grossiord C. 2023. Chronic warming and dry soils limit carbon uptake and growth despite a longer growing season in beech and oak. Plant Physiology 194: 741-757.

• Treydte K, …, Gessler A, …, Loader NJ. 2023. Atmospheric drying in Europe is human-induced and unprecedented in a 400-year context. Nature Geoscience; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01335-8

• Buras A, Rehschuh R, Fonti M, Lange J, Fonti P, Menzel A, Gessler A, Rigling A, Treydte K, von Arx G. 2023. Quantitative wood anatomy and stable carbon isotopes indicate pronounced drought exposure of Scots pine when growing at the forest edge. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 6.

• Marušić M, Seletković I, Ognjenović M, Jonard M, Sever K, Schaub M, Gessler A, Šango M, Sirovica I, Zegnal I, Bogdanić R, Potočić N. 2023. Nutrient and Growth Response of Fagus sylvatica L. Saplings to Drought Is Modified by Fertilisation. Forests 14: 2445.

• Martínez-Sancho E, Cernusak LA, Fonti P, Gregori A, Ullrich B, Pannatier EG, Gessler A, Lehmann MM, Saurer M, Treydte K. 2023. Unenriched xylem water contribution during cellulose synthesis influenced by atmospheric demand governs the intra-annual tree-ring δ18O signature. New Phytologist https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19278

• Ouyang S#, Tie L, Saurer M, Bose AK, Duan H, Li M, Xu X, Shen W, Gessler A. 2023. Divergent role of nutrient availability in determining drought responses of sessile oak and Scots pine seedlings: evidence from 13C and 15N dual labeling. Tree Physiology. https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpad105

• Luo Y+, Gessler A, D'Odorico P, Hufkens K, Stocker BD. 2023. Quantifying effects of cold acclimation and delayed springtime photosynthesis resumption in northern ecosystems. New Phytologist 240: 984-1002.

• Eitel JUH, Basler D, Braun S, Buchmann N, D'Odorico P, Etzold S, Gessler A, Griffin KL, Krejza J, Luo Y, Maguire AJ, Rao MP, Vitasse Y, Walthert L, Zweifel R. 2023. Towards monitoring stem growth phenology from space with high resolution satellite data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 339: 109549.

• Tang Z, Zhai B, Wang G, Gessler A, Sun S, Hu Z. 2023. Elevational variations in stem hydraulic efficiency and safety of Abies fabri. Functional Ecology 37: 2570-2582.

• Orlowski N, Rinderer M, Dubbert M, Ceperley N, Hrachowitz M, Gessler A, Rothfuss Y, Sprenger M, Heidbüchel I, Kübert A, Beyer M, Zuecco G, McCarter C. 2023. Challenges in studying water fluxes within the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum: A tracer-based perspective on pathways to progress. Science of The Total Environment 881: 163510.

• Schuler P#, Vitali V, Saurer M, Gessler A, Buchmann N, Lehmann MM. 2023. Hydrogen isotope fractionation in carbohydrates of leaves and xylem tissues follows distinct phylogenetic patterns: a common garden experiment with 73 tree and shrub species. New Phytologist 239: 547-561.

• Wang A, Bose AK, Lehmann MM, Rigling A, Gessler A, Yu L, Li M. 2023. Water status and macronutrient concentrations, but not carbon status, of Viscum album ssp. album are determined by its hosts: a study across nine mistletoe–host pairs in central Switzerland. Frontiers in plant science 14.

• Ouyang S#, Tie L, Rao X, Cai Xa, Liu S, Vitali V, Wei L, Yu Q, Sun D, Lin Y, Bose AK, Gessler A, Shen W. 2023. Mixed-Species Acacia Plantation Decreases Soil Organic Carbon and Total Nitrogen Concentrations but Favors Species Regeneration and Tree Growth over Monoculture: A Thirty-Three-Year Field Experiment in Southern China. Forests 14: 968.

• Saurer M, Sahlstedt E, Rinne-Garmston KT, Lehmann MM, Oettli M, Gessler A, Treydte K. 2023. Progress in high-resolution isotope-ratio analysis of tree rings using laser ablation. Tree Physiology 43: 694-705

• Armstrong EM, Larson ER, Harper H, Webb CR, Dohleman F, Araya Y, Meade C, Feng X, Mukoye B, Levin MJ, Lacombe B, Bakirbas A, Cardoso AA, Fleury D, Gessler A, Jaiswal D, Onkokesung N, Pathare VS, Phartyal SS, Sevanto SA, Wilson I, Grierson CS. 2023. One hundred important questions facing plant science: an international perspective. New Phytologist 238: 470-481.

• Hermann M, Röthlisberger M, Gessler A, Rigling A, Senf C, Wohlgemuth T, Wernli H. 2023. Meteorological history of low-forest-greenness events in Europe in 2002–2022. Biogeosciences 20: 1155-1180.

• Beloiu M, Heinzmann L, Rehush N, Gessler A, Griess VC. 2023. Individual Tree-Crown Detection and Species Identification in Heterogeneous Forests Using Aerial RGB Imagery and Deep Learning. Remote Sensing 15: 1463.

• Zhang Y-L#, Yang Y, Saurer M, Schaub M, Gessler A, Lehmann MM, Rigling A, Walser M, Stierli B, Hajjar N, Christen D, Li M-H. 2023. Sugar infusion into trees: A novel method to study tree carbon relations and its regulations. Frontiers in plant science 14.

• Le Roncé I, Dardevet E, Venner S, Schönbeck L, Gessler A, Chuine I, Limousin J-M. 2023. Reproduction alternation in trees: testing the resource depletion hypothesis using experimental fruit removal in Quercus ilex. Tree Physiology. 43: 952-964

• Baumgarten F#, Gessler A, Vitasse Y. 2023. No risk—no fun: Penalty and recovery from spring frost damage in deciduous temperate trees. Functional Ecology 37: 648-663.

• Zweifel R, Pappas C, Peters RL, Babst F, Balanzategui D, Basler D, Bastos A, Beloiu M, Buchmann N, Bose AK, Braun S, Damm A, D'Odorico P, Eitel JUH, Etzold S, Fonti P, Rouholahnejad Freund E, Gessler A, Haeni M, Hoch G, Kahmen A, Körner C, Krejza J, Krumm F, Leuchner M, Leuschner C, Lukovic M, Martínez-Vilalta J, Matula R, Meesenburg H, Meir P, Plichta R, Poyatos R, Rohner B, Ruehr N, Salomón RL, Scharnweber T, Schaub M, Steger DN, Steppe K, Still C, Stojanović M, Trotsiuk V, Vitasse Y, von Arx G, Wilmking M, Zahnd C, Sterck F. 2023. Networking the forest infrastructure towards near real-time monitoring – A white paper. Science of The Total Environment 872: 162167.

• Klesse S, Wohlgemuth T, Meusburger K, Vitasse Y, von Arx G, Lévesque M, Neycken A, Braun S, Dubach V, Gessler A, Ginzler C, Gossner MM, Hagedorn F, Queloz V, Samblás Vives E, Rigling A, Frei ER. 2022. Long-term soil water limitation and previous tree vigor drive local variability of drought-induced crown dieback in Fagus sylvatica. Science of The Total Environment 851: 157926.

• Pirhofer Walzl K+, Ryo M, Raatz L, Petermann JS, Gessler A, Joshi J, Rillig MC. 2022. Distance to semi-natural habitats matters for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in wheat roots and wheat performance in a temperate agricultural landscape. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment 1: 262-274.

• Frei ER, Gossner MM, Vitasse Y, Queloz V, Dubach V, Gessler A, Ginzler C, Hagedorn F, Meusburger K, Moor M, Samblás Vives E, Rigling A, Uitentuis I, von Arx G, Wohlgemuth T. 2022. European beech dieback after premature leaf senescence during the 2018 drought in northern Switzerland. Plant Biology 24: 1132-1145.

• Wang A, Lehmann MM, Rigling A, Gessler A, Saurer M, Du Z, Li MH. 2022. There is no carbon transfer between scots pine and pine mistletoe but the assimilation capacity of the hemiparasite is constrained by host water use under dry conditions. Frontiers in Plant Science 13.

• Li RS, Yu D, Zhang YK, Han JM, Zhang WD, Yang QP, Gessler A, Li MH, Xu M, Guan X, Chen LC, Wang QK, Wang SL. 2022. Investment of needle nitrogen to photosynthesis controls the nonlinear productivity response of young Chinese fir trees to nitrogen deposition. Science of the Total Environment 840.

• Yang Y, Ouyang S#, Gessler A, Wang X, Na R, He HS, Wu Z, Li M-H. 2022. Root carbon resources determine survival and growth of young trees under long drought in combination with fertilization. Frontiers in Plant Science 13.

• Gessler A, Ferretti M, Schaub M. 2022. Editorial: Forest monitoring to assess forest functioning under air pollution and climate change. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2022.952232

• Didion-Gency M#, Gessler A, Buchmann N, Gisler J, Schaub M, Grossiord C. 2022. Impact of warmer and drier conditions on tree photosynthetic properties and the role of species interactions. New Phytologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18384

• Hunziker S, Begert M, Scherrer SC, Rigling A, Gessler A. 2022. Below Average Midsummer to Early Autumn Precipitation Evolved Into the Main Driver of Sudden Scots Pine Vitality Decline in the Swiss Rhône Valley. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 5.

• Hajek P, Link RM, Nock CA, Bauhus J, Gebauer T, Gessler A, Kovach K, Messier C, Paquette A, Saurer M, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Rose L, Schuldt B. 2022. Mutually inclusive mechanisms of drought-induced tree mortality. Global Change Biology 28: 3365-3378.

• Cernusak LA, Barbeta A, Bush RT, Eichstaedt  R, Ferrio JP, Flanagan LB, Gessler A, Martín-Gómez P, Hirl RT, Kahmen A, Keitel C, Lai C-T, Munksgaard NC, Nelson DB, Ogée J, Roden JS, Schnyder H, Voelker SL, Wang L, Stuart-Williams H, Wingate L, Yu W, Zhao L, Cuntz M. 2022. Do 2H and 18O in leaf water reflect environmental drivers differently? New Phytologist 235: 41-51.

• Nitzsche KN#, Kayler ZE, Premke K, Gessler A, Wagai R. 2022. Divergent roles of iron and aluminum in sediment organic matter association at the terrestrial–aquatic interface. Biogeochemistry 157; 355-378

• Csilléry K, Buchmann N, Brendel O, Gessler A, Glauser A, Doris Kupferschmid A. 2021. Recovery of silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) seedlings from ungulate browsing mirrors soil nitrogen availability. Tree Physiology 42: 273-288.

• Etzold S, Sterck F, Bose AK, Braun S, Buchmann N, Eugster W, Gessler A, Kahmen A, Peters RL, Vitasse Y, Walthert L, Ziemińska K, Zweifel R. 2022. Number of growth days and not length of the growth period determines radial stem growth of temperate trees. Ecology Letters 25: 427-439.

• Scherrer D, Bürgi M, Gessler A, Kessler M, Nobis MP, Wohlgemuth T. 2022. Abundance changes of neophytes and native species indicate a thermophilisation and eutrophisation of the Swiss flora during the 20th century. Ecological Indicators 135: 108558.

• Nitzsche KN#, Kleeberg A, Hoffmann C, Merz C, Premke K, Gessler A, Sommer M, Kayler ZE. 2022. Kettle holes reflect the biogeochemical characteristics of their catchment area and the intensity of the element-specific input. Journal of Soils and Sediments 22: 994-1009.

• Schönbeck L, Grossiord C, Gessler A, Gisler J, Meusburger K, D’Odorico P, Rigling A, Salmon Y, Stocker BD, Zweifel R, Schaub M. 2022. Photosynthetic acclimation and sensitivity to short- and long-term environmental changes in a drought-prone forest. Journal of Experimental Botany 73: 2576-2588.

• Bose AK+, Rigling A, Gessler A, Hagedorn F, Brunner I, Feichtinger L, Bigler C, Egli S, Etzold S, Gossner MM, Guidi C, Lévesque M, Meusburger K, Peter M, Saurer M, Scherrer D, Schleppi P, Schönbeck L, Vogel ME, von Arx G, Wermelinger B, Wohlgemuth T, Zweifel R, Schaub M. 2022. Lessons learned from a long-term irrigation experiment in a dry Scots pine forest: Impacts on traits and functioning. Ecological Monographs: e1507.

• Murazzi M, Cherubini P, Brunner I, Kagi R, Saurer M, Ballikaya P, Hagedorn F, Al Sid Cheikh M, Onandia G, Gessler A. 2022. Can forest trees take up and transport nanoplastics? iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry 15: 128-132.

• Schuler P#, Cormier M-A, Werner RA, Buchmann N, Gessler A, Vitali V, Saurer M, Lehmann MM. 2022. A high-temperature water vapor equilibration method to determine non-exchangeable hydrogen isotope ratios of sugar, starch and cellulose. Plant, Cell & Environment 45: 12-22.

• Gessler A, Bächli L, Rouholahnejad Freund E, Treydte K, Schaub M, Haeni M, Weiler M, Seeger S, Marshall J, Hug C, Zweifel R, Hagedorn F, Rigling A, Saurer M, Meusburger K. 2022. Drought reduces water uptake in beech from the drying topsoil, but no compensatory uptake occurs from deeper soil layers. New Phytologist 233: 194-206.

• Cong Y, Saurer M, Bai E, Siegwolf R, Gessler A, Liu K, ...  Li MH. 2022. In situ 13CO2 labeling reveals that alpine treeline trees allocate less photoassimilates to roots compared to low-elevation trees. Tree Physiology, online

• Rehschuh R, Rehschuh S, Gast A, Jakab A-L, Lehmann MM, Saurer M, Gessler A, Ruehr NK. 2022. Tree allocation dynamics beyond heat and hot drought stress reveal changes in carbon storage, belowground translocation and growth. New Phytologist 233: 687-704.

• Anthony MA, Crowther TW, van der Linde S, Suz LM, Bidartondo MI, Cox F, Schaub M, Rautio P, Ferretti M, Vesterdal L, De Vos B, Dettwiler M, Eickenscheidt N, Schmitz A, Meesenburg H, Andreae H, Jacob F, Dietrich H-P, Waldner P, Gessler A, Frey B, Schramm O, van den Bulk P, Hensen A, Averill C. 2022. Forest tree growth is linked to mycorrhizal fungal composition and function across Europe. The ISME Journal 16: 1327-1336.

• Rissanen K, Aalto J, Gessler A, Hölttä T, Rigling A, Schaub M, Bäck J. 2022. Drought effects on volatile organic compound emissions from Scots pine stems. Plant, Cell & Environment 45: 23-40.

• Rissanen K, Hölttä T, Bäck J, Rigling A, Wermelinger B, Gessler A. 2021. Drought effects on carbon allocation to resin defences and on resin dynamics in old-grown Scots pine. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 185, 104410.

• Gao D, Joseph J+, Werner RA, Brunner I, Zürcher A, Hug C, Wang A, Zhao C, Bai E, Meusburger K, Gessler A, Hagedorn, F. 2021, Drought alters the carbon footprint of trees in soils—tracking the spatio-temporal fate of 13C-labelled assimilates in the soil of an old-growth pine forest. Global Change Biology 27: 2491-2506.

• D'Odorico P+, Schönbeck L, Vitali V, Meusburger K, Schaub M, Ginzler C, Zweifel R, Velasco VME, Gisler J, Gessler A, Ensminger I. 2021. Drone-based physiological index reveals long-term acclimation and drought stress responses in trees. Plant, Cell & Environment 44: 3552-3570.

• Walde M, Allan E, Cappelli SL, Didion-Gency M, Gessler A, Lehmann MM, Pichon NA, Grossiord C. 2021. Both diversity and functional composition affect productivity and water use efficiency in experimental temperate grasslands. Journal of Ecology 109: 3877-3891.

• Resco de Dios V, Gessler A. 2021. Sink and source co-limitation in the response of stored non-structural carbohydrates to an intense but short drought. Trees  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-021-02116-9

• Gessler A. 2021. Water transport in trees—the importance of radial and circumferential transport. Tree Physiology 41: 2245-2247.

• Ouyang S#, Gessler A, Saurer M, Hagedorn F, Gao DC, Wang XY, ..., Schönbeck L+. 2021. Root carbon and nutrient homeostasis determines downy oak sapling survival and recovery from drought. Tree Physiology 41: 1400-1412

• Zweifel R, Etzold S, Basler D, Bischoff R, Braun S, Buchmann N, Conedera M, Fonti P, Gessler A, Haeni M, Hoch G, Kahmen A, Köchli R, Maeder M, Nievergelt D, Peter M, Peters RL, Schaub M, Trotsiuk V, Walthert L, Wilhelm M, Eugster W. 2021. TreeNet–The Biological Drought and Growth Indicator Network. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 4.

• Zweifel R, Sterck F, Braun S, Buchmann N, Eugster W, Gessler A, Häni M, Peters RL, Walthert L, Wilhelm M, Ziemińska K, Etzold S. 2021. Why trees grow at night. New Phytologist 231: 2174-2185.

• Petrovska R, Brang P, Gessler A, Bugmann H, Hobi ML. 2021. Grow slowly, persist, dominate—Explaining beech dominance in a primeval forest. Ecology and Evolution 11: 10077-10089.

• Trotsiuk V, Babst F, Grossiord C, Gessler A, Forrester DI, Buchmann N, Schaub M, Eugster W. 2021. Tree growth in Switzerland is increasingly constrained by rising evaporative demand. Journal of Ecology 109: 2981-2990.

• Didion-Gency M#, Bachofen C, Buchmann N, Gessler A, Morin X, Vicente E, Vollenweider P, Grossiord C. 2021. Interactive effects of tree species mixture and climate on foliar and woody trait variation in a widely distributed deciduous tree. Functional Ecology 35: 2397-2408.

• Gessler A. 2021. Sucrose synthase–an enzyme with a central role in the source–sink coordination and carbon flow in trees. New Phytologist, 229, 8-10.

• Schönbeck L+, Li M-H, Lehmann MM, Rigling A, Schaub M, Hoch G, Kahmen A, Gessler A. 2020. Soil nutrient availability alters tree carbon allocation dynamics during drought. Tree Physiology 41: 697-707.

• Rohner B, Kumar S, Liechti K, Gessler A, Ferretti M. 2021. Tree vitality indicators revealed a rapid response of beech forests to the 2018 drought. Ecological Indicators, 120, 106903.

• Baumgarten F#, Zohner CM, Gessler A, Vitasse Y. 2021 Chilled to be forced: the best dose to wake up buds from winter dormancy. New Phytologist. Online

• Bottero A, Forrester DI, Cailleret M, Kohnle U, Gessler A, Michel D, Bose AK, Bauhus J, Bugmann H, Cuntz M, Gillerot L, Hanewinkel M, Lévesque M, Ryder J, Sainte‐Marie J, Schwarz J, Yousefpour R, Zamora‐Pereira JC, Rigling A. 2021. Growth resistance and resilience of mixed silver fir and Norway spruce forests in central Europe: Contrasting responses to mild and severe droughts. Global Change Biology 27: 4403-4419.

• Bose AK+, Scherrer D, Camarero JJ, Ziche D, Babst F, Bigler C, Bolte A, Dorado-Liñán I, Etzold S, Fonti P, Forrester DI, Gavinet J, Gazol A, de Andrés EG, Karger DN, Lebourgeois F, Lévesque M, Martínez-Sancho E, Menzel A, Neuwirth B, Nicolas M, Sanders TGM, Scharnweber T, Schröder J, Zweifel R, Gessler A, Rigling A. 2021. Climate sensitivity and drought seasonality determine post-drought growth recovery of Quercus petraea and Quercus robur in Europe. Science of The Total Environment 784: 147222.

• Freschet GT, Roumet C, Comas LH, Weemstra M, Bengough AG, Rewald B, Bardgett RD, De Deyn GB, Johnson D, Klimesova J, Lukac M, McCormack ML, Meier IC, Pages L, Poorter H, Prieto I, Wurzburger N, Zadworny M, Bagniewska-Zadworna A, Blancaflor EB, Brunner I, Gessler A, Hobbie SE, Iversen CM, Mommer L, Picon-Cochard C, Postma JA, Rose L, Ryser P, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Soudzilovskaia NA, Sun T, Valverde-Barrantes OJ, Weigelt A, York LM, Stokes A. 2021. Root traits as drivers of plant and ecosystem functioning: current understanding, pitfalls and future research needs. New Phytologist. 223: 1123-1158

• Freschet GT, Pagès L, Iversen CM, Comas LH, Rewald B, Roumet C, Klimešová J, Zadworny M, Poorter H, Postma JA, Adams TS, Bagniewska-Zadworna A, Bengough AG, Blancaflor EB, Brunner I, Cornelissen JHC, Garnier E, Gessler A, Hobbie SE, Meier IC, Mommer L, Picon-Cochard C, Rose L, Ryser P, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Soudzilovskaia NA, Stokes A, Sun T, Valverde-Barrantes OJ, Weemstra M, Weigelt A, Wurzburger N, York LM, Batterman SA, Gomes de Moraes M, Janeček Š, Lambers H, Salmon V, Tharayil N, McCormack ML. 2021. A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements. New Phytologist 232: 973-1122.

• Wang A, Siegwolf RTW, Joseph J, Thomas FM, Werner W, Gessler A, Rigling A, Schaub M, Saurer M, Li MH, Lehmann MM. 2021. Effects of soil moisture, needle age and leaf morphology on carbon and oxygen uptake, incorporation and allocation: a dual labeling approach with (CO2)-C-13 and (H2O)-O-18 in foliage of a coniferous forest. Tree Physiology 41: 50-62.

• Joseph J+, Luster J, Bottero A, Buser N, Baechli L, Sever K, Gessler A. 2021. Effects of drought on nitrogen uptake and carbon dynamics in trees. Tree Physiology. 41: 927-943

• Joseph J+, Gao D, Backes B, Bloch C, Brunner I, Gleixner G, Haeni M, Hartmann H, Hoch G, Hug C, Kahmen A, Lehmann MM, Li M-H, Luster J, Peter M, Poll C, Rigling A, Rissanen KA, Ruehr NK, Saurer M, Schaub M, Schönbeck L, Stern B, Thomas FM, Werner RA, Werner W, Wohlgemuth T, Hagedorn F, Gessler A. 2020. Rhizosphere activity in an old-growth forest reacts rapidly to changes in soil moisture and shapes whole-tree carbon allocation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117: 24885-24892.

• Jeřábek J, Rinderer M, Gessler A, Weiler, M. 2020. Xylem sap phosphorus sampling using microdialysis—a non-destructive high sampling frequency method tested under laboratory and field conditions. Tree Physiology online

• Wang W, English N, Grossiord C, Gessler A, Das A, Stephenson N, Baisan C, Allen C, McDowell N. 2020. Mortality predispositions of conifers across Western USA. New Phytologist 229: 831-844.

• Gessler A. Bottero A, Marshall J, Arend M. 2020. The way back: recovery of trees from drought and its implication for acclimation New Phytologist. 228:1704–1709

• Bose AK+, Gessler A, Bolte A, Bottero A, Buras A, Cailleret M, Camarero JJ, Haeni M, Hereş A-M, Hevia A, Lévesque M, Linares JC, Martinez-Vilalta J, Matías L, Menzel A, Sánchez-Salguero R, Saurer M, Vennetier M, Ziche D, Rigling A. 2020. Growth and resilience responses of Scots pine to extreme droughts across Europe depend on predrought growth conditions. Global Change Biology 26: 4521-4537.

• Zhu Z, Yin X, Song X, Wang B, Ma R, Zhao Y, Rani A, Wang Y, Yan Q, Jing S, Gessler A, Zhou Y. 2020. Leaf transition from heterotrophy to autotrophy is recorded in the intraleaf C, H and O isotope patterns of leaf organic matter. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 34: e8840.

• Heger T, Bernard-Verdier M, Gessler A, Greenwood AD, Grossart HP, Hilker M., ... Niemeier, S. 2020. Clear Language for Ecosystem Management in the Anthropocene: A Reply to Bridgewater and Hemming. BioScience, 70: 374-376.

• García de Jalón L, Limousin J M, Richard F, Gessler A, Peter M, Hättenschwiler S, Milcu A. 2020. Microhabitat and ectomycorrhizal effects on the establishment, growth and survival of Quercus ilex L. seedlings under drought. Plos One, 15: e0229807.

• Bose AK+, Moser B, Rigling A, Lehmann MM, Milcu A, Peter M, Rellstab C, Wohlgemuth T, Gessler A. 2020. Memory of environmental conditions across generations affects the acclimation potential of scots pine. Plant, Cell & Environment 43: 1288-1299.

• Zweifel R, Etzold S, Sterck F, Gessler A, Anfodillo T, Mencuccini M, von Arx G, Lazzarin M, Haeni M, Feichtinger L, Meusburger K, Knuesel S, Walthert L, Salmon Y, Bose AK, Schoenbeck L, Hug C, De Girardi N, Giuggiola A, Schaub M, Rigling A. 2020. Determinants of legacy effects in pine trees - implications from an irrigation-stop experiment. New Phytologist 227: 1081-1096.

• Lehmann MM, Goldsmith GR, Mirande-Ney C, Weigt RB, Schönbeck L, Kahmen A, Gessler A, Siegwolf RTW, Saurer M. 2020. The 18O-signal transfer from water vapour to leaf water and assimilates varies among plant species and growth forms. Plant, Cell & Environment 43: 510-523.

• Etzold S, Ferretti M, Reinds GJ, Solberg S, Gessler A, Waldner P, Schaub M, Simpson D, Benham S, Hansen K, Ingerslev M, Jonard M, Karlsson PE, Lindroos A-J, Marchetto A, Manninger M, Meesenburg H, Merilä P, Nöjd P, Rautio P, Sanders TGM, Seidling W, Skudnik M, Thimonier A, Verstraeten A, Vesterdal L, Vejpustkova M, de Vries W. 2020. Nitrogen deposition is the most important environmental driver of growth of pure, even-aged and managed European forests. Forest Ecology and Management 458: 117762.

• Schönbeck L, Gessler A, Schaub M, Rigling A, Hoch G, Kahmen A, Li M-H. 2020. Soil nutrients and lowered source:sink ratio mitigate effects of mild but not of extreme drought in trees. Environmental and Experimental Botany 169: 103905.

• Trotsiuk V, Hartig F, Cailleret M, Babst F, Forrester DI, Baltensweiler A, Buchmann N, Bugmann H, Gessler A, Gharun M, Minunno F, Rigling A, Rohner B, Stillhard J, Thürig E, Waldner P, Ferretti M, Eugster W, Schaub M. 2020. Assessing the response of forest productivity to climate extremes in Switzerland using model–data fusion. Global Change Biology 26: 2463-2476.

• Granda E, Baumgarten F#, Gessler A, Gil-Pelegrin E, Peguero-Pina JJ, Sancho-Knapik D, Zimmermann NE, Resco de Dios V. 2020. Day length regulates seasonal patterns of stomatal conductance in Quercus species. Plant, Cell & Environment 43: 28-39.

• Gessler A, Grossiord C. 2019. Coordinating supply and demand: plant carbon allocation strategy ensuring survival in the long run. New Phytologist 222: 5-7.

• Weber R, Gessler A, Hoch G. 2019. High carbon storage in carbon limited trees. New Phytologist 222: 171-182.

• Yu K, Smith WK, Trugman AT, Condit R, Hubbell SP, Sardans J, Peng C, Zhu K, Peñuelas J, Cailleret M, Levanic T, Gessler A, Schaub M, Ferretti M, Anderegg WRL. 2019. Pervasive decreases in living vegetation carbon turnover time across forest climate zones. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116: 24662-24667.

• Heger T, Bernard-Verdier M, Gessler A, Greenwood AD, Grossart H-P, Hilker M, Keinath S, Kowarik I, Kueffer C, Marquard E, Müller J, Niemeier S, Onandia G+, Petermann JS, Rillig MC, Rödel M-O, Saul W-C, Schittko C, Tockner K, Joshi J, Jeschke JM. 2019. Towards an Integrative, Eco-Evolutionary Understanding of Ecological Novelty: Studying and Communicating Interlinked Effects of Global Change. Biosci#ence 69: 888-899.

• Vitasse Y, Bottero A, Cailleret M, Bigler C, Fonti P, Gessler A, Lévesque M, Rohner B, Weber P, Rigling A, Wohlgemuth T. 2019. Contrasting resistance and resilience to extreme drought and late spring frost in five major European tree species. Global Change Biology 25: 3781-3792.

• He P, Fontana S, Sardans J, Peñuelas J, Gessler A, Schaub M, Rigling A, Li H, Jiang Y, Li M-H. 2019. The biogeochemical niche shifts of Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica along an environmental gradient. Environmental and Experimental Botany 167: 103825.

• Duan Q, Kleiber A, Jansen K#, Junker-Frohn LV, Kammerer B, Han G, Zimmer I, Rennenberg H, Schnitzler J-P, Ensminger I, Gessler A, Kreuzwieser J. 2019. Effects of elevated growth temperature and enhanced atmospheric vapour pressure deficit on needle and root terpenoid contents of two Douglas fir provenances. Environmental and Experimental Botany 166: 103819.

• Junker-Frohn LV, Kleiber A, Jansen K, Gessler A, Kreuzwieser J, Ensminger I. 2019. Differences in isoprenoid-mediated energy dissipation pathways between coastal and interior Douglas-fir seedlings in response to drought. Tree Physiology 39: 1750-1766.

• Liu J-F, Jiang Z-P, Schaub M, Gessler A, Ni Y-Y, Xiao W-F, Li M-H. 2019 No Ontogenetic Shifts in C-, N- and P-Allocation for Two Distinct Tree Species along Elevational Gradients in the Swiss Alps. Forests 10: 394.

• Lehmann MM, Ghiasi S, George G M, Cormier MA, Gessler A, Saurer M, Werner, R. A. 2019. Starch deficiency in plant mutants and its influence on photosynthetic and post-photosynthetic carbon isotope fractionations. Journal of Experimental Botany 70: 1829-1841.

• Kälin U, Lang N, Hug C, Gessler A, Wegner JD. 2019. Defoliation estimation of forest trees from ground-level images. Remote Sensing of Environment 223: 143-153.

• Onandia G+, Schittko C, Ryo M, Bernard-Verdier M, Heger T, Joshi J, Kowarik I, Gessler A. 2019. Ecosystem functioning in urban grasslands: The role of biodiversity, plant invasions and urbanization. PLoS ONE 14: e0225438.

• Brunner I, Herzog C, Galiano L+, Gessler A. 2019. Plasticity of fine-root traits under long-term irrigation of a water-limited scots pine forest. Frontiers in Plant Science 10: 701

• Kayler ZE, Premke K, Gessler A, Gessner MO, Griebler C, Hilt S, Klemedtsson L, Kuzyakov Y, Reichstein M, Siemens J, Totsche K-U, Tranvik L, Wagner A, Weitere M, Grossart H-P. 2019. Integrating Aquatic and Terrestrial Perspectives to Improve Insights Into Organic Matter Cycling at the Landscape Scale. Frontiers in Earth Science 7:127

• Joseph J+, Külls C, Arend M, Schaub M, Hagedorn F, Gessler A, Weiler M. 2019. Application of a laser-based spectrometer for continuous in situ measurements of stable isotopes of soil CO2 in calcareous and acidic soils. SOIL 5: 49-62.

• Roscher C, Karlowsky S, Milcu A, Gessler A, Bachmann D, Jesch A, Lange M, Mellado-Vázquez P, Strecker T, Landais D, Ravel O, Buchmann N, Roy J, Gleixner G. 2019. Functional composition has stronger impact than species richness on carbon gain and allocation in experimental grasslands. PLoS ONE 14: e0204715.

• Baeten L, Bruelheide H, van der Plas F, Kambach S, Ratcliffe S, Jucker T, Allan E, Ampoorter E, Barbaro L, Bastias CC, Bauhus J, Benavides R, Bonal D, Bouriaud O, Bussotti F, Carnol M, Castagneyrol B, Charbonnier Y, Chećko E, Coomes DA, Dahlgren J, Dawud SM, De Wandeler H, Domisch T, Finér L, Fischer M, Fotelli M, Gessler A, Grossiord C#, Guyot V, Hättenschwiler S, Jactel H, Jaroszewicz B, Joly F-X, Koricheva J, Lehtonen A, Müller S, Muys B, Nguyen D, Pollastrini M, Radoglou K, Raulund-Rasmussen K, Ruiz-Benito P, Selvi F, Stenlid J, Valladares F, Vesterdal L, Verheyen K, Wirth C, Zavala Miguel A, Scherer-Lorenzen M. 2019. Identifying the tree species compositions that maximize ecosystem functioning in European forests. Journal of Applied Ecology 56:733-744.

• Nussbaumer A, Waldner P, Apuhtin V, Aytar F, Benham S, Bussotti F, Eichhorn J, Eickenscheidt N, Fabianek P, Falkenried L, Leca S, Lindgren M, Manzano Serrano MJ, Neagu S, Nevalainen S, Pajtik J, Potočić N, Rautio P, Sioen G, Stakėnas V, Tasdemir C, Thomsen IM, Timmermann V, Ukonmaanaho L, Verstraeten A, Wulff S, Gessler A. 2018. Impact of weather cues and resource dynamics on mast occurrence in the main forest tree species in Europe. Forest Ecology and Management 429: 336-350.

• Grossiord, C, Gessler A, Reed SC, Borrego I, Collins AD, Dickman LT, Ryan M, Schönbeck L, Sevanto, S, Vilagrosa A, McDowell NG. 2018. Reductions in tree performance during hotter droughts are mitigated by shifts in nitrogen cycling. Plant, Cell & Environment 41: 2627-2637

• Schönbeck L#, Gessler A, Hoch G, McDowell NG, Rigling A, Schaub M., and Li, M. 2018. Homeostatic levels of nonstructural carbohydrates after 13 yr of drought and irrigation in Pinus sylvestris, New Phytologist 219: 1324-1324.

• Felsmann K#, Baudis M, Kayler ZE, Puhlmann H, Ulrich A, Gessler A. 2018. Responses of the structure and function of the understory plant communities to precipitation reduction across forest ecosystems in Germany. Annals of Forest Science 75:3

• Lehmann MM, Goldsmith GR, Schmid L, Gessler A, Saurer M, Siegwolf RTW. 2018. The effect of 18O-labelled water vapour on the oxygen isotope ratio of water and assimilates in plants at high humidity. New Phytologist, 217: 105-116

• He P, Fontana S, Sui X, Gessler A., Schaub M, Rigling A, Jiang Y, Li MH. 2018. Scale dependent responses of pine reproductive traits to experimental and natural precipitation gradients. Environmental and Experimental Botany 156: 62–73.

• Zhou Y, Zhang B, Stuart-Williams H, Grice K, Hocart CH, Gessler A, Kayler ZE, Farquhar GD. 2018. On the contribution of photorespiration and compartmentation to the contrasting intramolecular 2H profiles of C3 and C4 plant sugars. Phytochemistry 145: 197-206.

• van der Plas F, Ratcliffe S, Ruiz-Benito P, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Verheyen K, Wirth C, Zavala M, Ampoorter E, Baeten L, Barbaro L, Crespo C, Bauhus J, Benavides R, Bennete, A, Bonal D, Bouriaud O, Bruelheide H, Bussotti F, Carnol M, Castagneyrol B, Charbonnier Y, Cornelissen H, Dahlgren J, Checko E, Coppi A, Dawud S, Deconchat M, DeSmedt P, De Wandeler H, Domisch T, Finer L, Fotelli M, Gessler A, Granier A, Grossiord C#, Guyot V, Haase J, Hattenschwiler S, Jactel H, Jaroszewicz B, Joly F-X, Jucker T, Kambach S, Kändler G, Kattge J, Koricheva J, Kunstler G, Lehtonen A, Liebergesell M, Manning P, Milligan H, Müller S, Muys B, Nguyen D, Nock C, Ohse B, Paquette A, Penuelas J, Pollastrini M, Radoglou K, Raulund-Rasmussen K, Roger F, Seidl R, Selvi F, Stenlid J, Valladares F, van Keer J, Vesterdal L, Fischer M, Gamfeldt L, Allan E. 2018. Continental mapping of forest ecosystem functions reveals a high but unrealized potential for forest multifunctionality. Ecology Letters, 21:31-42

• Engelhardt IC, Welty A, Blazewicz SJ, Bru D, Rouard N, Breuil M-C, Gessler A, Galiano L+, Miranda JC, Spor A, Barnard R. 2018. Depth matters : Effects of precipitation regime on soil microbial activity upon rewetting of a plant-soil system. The ISME Journal, 12: 1061–1071 

• Jesch A, Barry K, Ravenek J, Bachmann D, Strecker T, Weigelt A, Roscher C, Gessler A, Mommer L, de Kroon H, Buchmann N, Scherer-Lorenzen M. 2018. Belowground resource partitioning alone cannot explain the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship: A field test using multiple tracers. Journal of Ecology, 106: 2002-2018.

• Cailleret M, Ferretti M, Gessler A, Rigling A, Schaub M. 2018. Ozone effects on European forest growth – towards an integrative approach. Journal of Ecology, 106: 1377-1389

• Lanza G#, Stang A, Kern J, Wirth S, Gessler A. 2018. Degradability of raw and post-processed chars in a two-year field experiment. Science of the Total Environment, 628-629: 1600-1608

• Rebetez M, von Arx G, Gessler A, Graf Pannatier E, Innes JL, Jakob P, Jetel M, Kube M, Nötzli M, Schaub M, Schmitt M, Schneiter G, Sutter F, Thimonier A, Waldner P, Häni M 2018. Meteorological data series from Swiss long-term forest ecosystem research plots since 1997; Annals of Forest Science 75:41

• Gessler A, Cailleret M, Joseph J+, Schönbeck L, Schaub M, Lehmann M, Treydte K, Rigling A, Timofeeva G, Saurer M. 2018. Drought induced tree mortality - a tree-ring isotope based conceptual model to assess mechanisms and predispositions. New Phytologist 219: 485-490.

• Bussotti F, Pollastrini M, Gessler A, Luo Z.-B. 2018. Experiments with trees: From seedlings to ecosystems. Environmental and Experimental Botany 152: 1-6

• Kiorapostolou N, Galiano-Pérez L+, von Arx G, Gessler A, Petit G. 2018. Structural and anatomical responses of Pinus sylvestris and Tilia platyphyllos seedlings exposed to water shortage. Trees accepted

• Wieloch T, Ehlers I, Yu J, Frank D, Grabner M, Gessler A, Schleucher J. 2018. Intramolecular 13C analysis of tree rings provides multiple plant ecophysiology signals covering decades. Scientific Reports 8: 5048

• Gessler A. 2018. Carbon and oxygen isotopes in tree rings - climate signals and microsite effects. Trees 32:881-882

• Kayler ZE, Badrian M, Frackowski A, Rieckh H, Nitzsche KN, Kalettka T, Merz C, Gessler A. 2018. Ephemeral kettle hole water and sediment temporal and spatial dynamics within an agricultural catchment. Ecohydrology, 11: e1929

• Du B , Kreuzwieser J, Dannenmann M, Junker LV, Kleiber A, Hess M, Jansen K#, Eiblmeier M, Gessler A, Kohnle U, Ensminger I, Rennenberg H, Wildhagen H. 2018. Foliar nitrogen metabolism of adult Douglas-fir trees is affected by soil water availability and varies little among provenances. PLOS One 13: e0194684

• Milcu A, Puga-Freitas R, Ellison AM, Blouin M, Scheu S, Freschet GT, Rose L, Barot S, Cesarz S, Eisenhauer N, Girin T, Assandri D, Bonkowski M, Buchmann N, Butenschoen O, Devidal S, Gleixner G, Gessler A, Gigon A, Greiner A, Grignani C, Hansart A, Kayler Z, Lange M, Lata J-C, Le Galliard J-F, Lukac M, Mannerheim N, Müller MEH, Pando A, Rotter P, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Seyhun R, Urban-Mead K, Weigelt A, Zavattaro L, Roy J 2018. Genotypic variability enhances the reproducibility of an ecological study. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 279-287.

• Hartmann H, Moura C, Anderegg W, Ruehr N, Salmon Y, Allen C, Arndt S, Breshears D, Davi H, Galbraith D, Ruthrof K, Wunder J, Adams H, Bloemen J, Cailleret M, Cobb R, Gessler A, Grams T, Jansen S, Kautz M, Lloret F, O'Brien M. 2018. Research frontiers for improving our understanding of drought-induced tree and forest mortality. New Phytologist 218: 15–28

• Guderle M, Bachmann D, Milcu A, Gockele A, Bechmann M, Fischer C, Roscher C, Landais D, Ravel O, Devidal S, Roy J, Gessler A, Buchmann N, Weigelt A, Hildebrandt A. 2018. Dynamic niche partitioning in root water uptake facilitates efficient water use in more diverse grassland plant communities. Functional Ecology 32: 214-227
  

• Oram N, Ravenek J, Barry K, Weigelt A, Chen H, Gessler A, Gockele A, de Kroon H, van der Paauw JW, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Smit-Tiekstra A, van Ruijven J, Mommer L. 2018. Belowground complementarity effects in a grassland biodiversity experiment are related to deep-rooting species. Journal of Ecology 106: 265–277.

• Gessler A, Schaub M, McDowell NG. 2017. Tansley Insight: The role of nutrients in drought-induced tree mortality and recovery. New Phytologist, 214: 513–520

• Gessler A. 2017. Where does it come from, where does it go? The role of the xylem for plant CO2 efflux. Journal of Experimental Botany 68: 2633-2636.

• Milcu A, Gessler A, Roscher C, Rose L, Kayler Z, Bachmann D, Pirhofer-Walzl K+, Zavadlav S, Galiano L+, Buchmann T, Scherer-Loremzen M, Roy J. 2017. Top canopy nitrogen allocation linked to increased grassland carbon uptake in stands of varying species richness. Scientific Reports 7: 8392

• Ratcliffe S, Wirth C, Jucker T, van der Plas F, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Verheyen K, Allan E, Benavides R, Bruelheide H, Ohse B, Paquette A, Ampoorter E, Crespo C, Bauhus J, Bonal D, Bouriaud O, Busso tti F, Carnol M, Castagneyrol B, Checko E, Dawud S, de Wandeler H, Domisch T, Finer L, Fischer M, Fotelli M, Gessler A, Granier A, Grossiord C#, Guyot V, Haase J, Hattenschwiler S, Jactel H, Jaroszewicz B, Joly F-X, Kambach S, Kolb S, Korichev J, Liebergesell M, Milligan H, Müller S, Muys B, Nguyen D, Nock C, Pollastrini M, Purschke O, Radoglou K, Raulund-Rasmussen, K, Roger F, Ruiz-Benito P, Seidl R, Selvi F, Seiferling I, Stenlid J, Valladares F, Vesterdal L, Baeten L. 2017. Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context. Ecology Letters 20: 1414–1426

• Jucker T, Grossiord C#, Bonal D, Bouriaud O, Gessler A, Coomes DA. 2017. Detecting the fingerprint of drought across Europe's forests: do carbon isotope ratios and stem growth rates tell similar stories? Forest Ecosystems 4:24

• Thoms R, Köhler M, Gessler A, Gleixner G. 2017. Above and below ground carbohydrate allocation differs between ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) and beech (Fagus sylvatica L.). PLOS ONE 2 (9): e0184247

• Resco de Dios V, Gessler A. 2017. Circadian regulation of photosynthesis and transpiration from genes to ecosystems. Environmental and Experimental Botany 239: 185-191

• Kleiber A, Duan Q, Jansen K#, Verena Junker L, Kammerer B, Rennenberg H, Ensminger I, Gessler A, Kreuzwieser J. 2017. Drought effects on root and needle terpenoid content of a coastal and an interior Douglas fir provenance. Tree Physiology 37: 1648–1658

• Nitzsche KN#, Kaiser M, Premke K, Gessler A, Ellerbrock R, Hoffmann C, Kleeberg A, Kayler ZE. 2017. Organic matter distribution and retention along transects from hilltop to kettle hole within an agricultural landscape. Biogeochemistry 136: 47-70.
  
  

• Chen H, Oram N, Barry KE, Mommer L, van Ruijven J, de Kroon H, Ebeling A, Eisenhauer N, Fischer C, Gleixner G, Gessler A, González Macé O, Hacker N, Hildebrandt A, Lange M, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Scheu S, Oelmann Y, Wagg C, Wilcke W, Wirth C, Weigelt A. 2017. Root chemistry and soil fauna, but not soil abiotic conditions explain the effects of plant diversity on root decomposition. Oecologia 185: 499–511

• Adams HD, Zeppel MJB, Anderegg WRL, Hartmann H, Landhäusser SM, Tissue DT, Huxman TE, Hudson PJ, Franz TE, Allen CD, Anderegg LDL, Barron-Gafford GA, Beerling DJ, Breshears DD, Brodribb TJ, Bugmann H, Cobb RC, Collins AD, Dickman LT, Duan H, Ewers BE, Galiano L+, Galvez DA, Garcia-Forner N, Gaylord ML, Germino MJ, Gessler A, Hacke UG, Hakamada R, Hector A, Jenkins MW, Kane JM, Kolb TE, Law DJ, Lewis JD, Limousin J-M, Love DM, Macalady AK, Martínez-Vilalta J, Mencuccini M, Mitchell PJ, Muss JD, O’Brien MJ, O’Grady AP, Pangle RE, Pinkard EA, Piper FI, Plaut JA, Pockman WT, Quirk J, Reinhardt K, Ripullone F, Ryan MG, Sala A, Sevanto S, Sperry JS, Vargas R, Vennetier M, Way DA, Xu C, Yepez EA, McDowell NG. 2017. A multi-species synthesis of physiological mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1: 1285–1291
  
  

• Galiano L+, Timofeeva G, Saurer M, Siegwolf R, Martínez-Vilalta J, Hommel R#, Gessler A. 2017. The fate of recently fixed carbon after drought release: towards unravelling C storage regulation in Tilia platyphyllos and Pinus sylvestris. Plant, Cell and Environment 40:1711.1724.

• Resco de Dios V, Gessler A, Ferrio JP, Alday JG, Bahn M, del Castillo J, Devidal S, García-Muñoz S, Kayler Z, Landais D, Martín-Gómez P, Milcu A, Piel C, Pirhofer-Walzl K+, Ravel O, Salekin S, Tissue DT, Tjoelker MG, Voltas J, Roy J. 2017. Circadian rhythms regulate the environmental responses of net CO2 exchange in bean and cotton canopies. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 239: 185-191.

• Simon J, Dannenmann M, Pena R, Gessler A, Rennenberg H. 2017. Nitrogen nutrition of beech forests in a changing climate: Importance of plant-soil-microbe water, carbon, and nitrogen interactions. Plant and Soil 418: 89–114.

• Feichtinger LM, Siegwolf RTW, Gessler A, Buchmann N, Lévesque M, Rigling A. 2017. Plasticity in gas-exchange physiology of mature Scots pine and European larch drive short- and long-term adjustments to changes in water availability. Plant, Cell and Environment 40: 1972-1983.
  

• Nitzsche KN#, Kalettka T, Premke K, Lischeid G, Gessler A, Kayler ZE, 2017. Land-use and hydroperiod affect kettle hole sediment carbon and nitrogen biogeochemistry. Science of the Total Environment 574: 46-56.
  

• Haeni M, Zweifel R, Eugster W, Gessler A, Zielis S, Bernhofer C, Carrara A, Grünwald T, Havránková K, Heinesch B, Herbst M, Ibrom A, Knohl A, Lagergren F, Law BE, Marek M, Matteucci G, McCaughey JH, Minerbi S, Montagnani L, Moors E, Olejnik J, Pavelka M, Pilegaard K, Pita G, Rodrigues A, Sanz Sánchez MJ, Schelhaas M-J, Urbaniak M, Valentin R, Varlagin A, Vesala T, Vincke C, Wu J, Buchmann N. 2017. Timing of the compensation of winter respiratory carbon losses provides explanatory power for net ecosystem productivity of forests. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences, 122: 243-260.
  

• Weisser W, Roscher C, Meyer ST, Ebeling A, Luo G, Allan E, Beßler H, Barnard R, Buchmann N, Buscot F, Engels C, Fischer C, Fischer M, Gessler A, Gleixner G, Halle D, Hildebrandt A, Hillebrand H, De Kroon H, Lange M, Leimer S, Le Roux X, Milcu A, Mommer L, Niklaus P, Oelmann Y, Proulx R, Roy J, Scherber C, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Scheu S, Tscharntke T, Wachendorf M, Wagg C, Weigelt A, Wilcke W, Wirth C, Schulze E-D, Schmid B, Eisenhauer N. 2017. Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: patterns, mechanisms, and open questions. Basic and Applied Ecology 23: 1-71
  

• Liu J-F, Arend M, Yang W-J, Schaub M, Ni Y-Y, Gessler A, Jiang Z, Rigling A, Li M. 2017. Effects of drought on leaf carbon source and growth of European beech are modulated by soil type. Scientific Reports 7:42462
  
  

• Gessler A, Roy J, Kayler Z, Ferrio JP, Alday JG, Bahn M, del Castillo J, Devidal S, García-Muñoz S, Landais D, Martín-Gomez P, Milcu A, Piel C, Pirhofer-Walzl K+, Galiano L+, Schaub M, Haeni M, Ravel O, Salekin S, Tissue DT, Tjoelker MG, Voltas J, Hoch G, Resco de Dios V. 2017. Night and day - Circadian regulation of night-time dark respiration and light-enhanced dark respiration in plant leaves and canopies. Environmental and Experimental Botany 137: 14-25

• García Plazaola JI, Fernández Marín B, Ferrio JP, Alday JG, Hoch G, Landais D, Milcu A, Tissue DT, Voltas J, Gessler A, Roy J, Resco de Dios V. 2017. Endogenous circadian rhythms in pigment composition induce changes in photochemical efficiency in plant canopies. Plant, Cell and Environment 40: 1153–1162.

• Li R, Yang Q, Zhang W, Zheng W, Chi Y, Xu M, Fang Y, Gessler A, Li M-H, Wang S. 2017. Thinning effect on photosynthesis depends on needle ages in a Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) plantation. Science of the Total Environment, 580: 900-906.

• von Arx G, Arzac, A, Fonti P, Frank D, Zweifel R, Rigling A, Galiano L+, Gessler A, Olano J. 2017. Responses of sapwood ray parenchyma and non-structural carbohydrates (NSC) of Pinus sylvestris to drought and long-term irrigation. Functional Ecology 31:1371–1382

• Chen H, Mommer L, van Ruijven, J, de Kroon H, Fischer C, Gessler, A, Hildebrandt A, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Wirth C, Weigelt A. 2017. Plant species richness negatively affects root decomposition in grasslands. Journal of Ecology 105: 209-218.

• Pollastrini M, Garcia Nogales A, Benavides R, Bonal D, Finer L, Fotelli M, Gessler A, Grossiord C#, Radoglou K, Strasser R, Bussotti F. 2017. Tree diversity affects chlorophyll a fluorescence and other leaf traits of tree species in a boreal forest. Tree Physiology 37: 199-208.

• Junker L, Kleiber A, Jansen K#, Wildhagen H, Hess M, Kayler Z, Kammerer B, Schnitzler J-P, Kreuzwieser J, Gessler A, Ensminger I. 2017. Variation in short-term and long-term responses of photosynthesis and isoprenoid-mediated photoprotection to soil water availability in four Douglas-fir provenances. Scientific Reports 7: 40145

• Kayler Z, Keitel C, Jansen K#, Gessler A. 2017. Experimental evidence of two mechanisms coupling leaf-level C assimilation to rhizosphere CO2 release. Environmental and Experimental Botany 135: 21-26.

• Nussbaumer A, Waldner P, Etzold S, Gessler A, Benham S, Thomsen IM, Jørgensen BB, Timmermann V, Verstraeten A, Sioen G, Rautio P, Ukonmaanaho L, Skudnik M, Apuhtin V, Hug C, Burkart A, Braun S, Genau K, Wauer A, Bernhard M, Ebinger T. 2016. Patterns of mast fruiting of common beech, sessile and common oak, Norway spruce and Scots pine in Central and Northern Europe. Forest Ecology and Management 363: 237-251

• Gessler A, Treydte K. 2016. The fate and age of carbon – insights into the storage and remobilisation dynamics in trees. New Phytologist 209: 1338-1340

• Ma S#, Churkina G, Gessler A, Wieland R, Bellocchi G. 2016. Yield gap of winter wheat in Europe and sensitivity of potential yield to climate factors. Climate Research 67:179-190

• Volkmann THM, Haberer K+, Gessler A, Weiler M. 2016. High-resolution isotope measurements resolve rapid ecohydrological dynamics at the soil-plant interface. New Phytologist 210: 839-849.

• Arend M, Sever K, Pflug E, Gessler A, Schaub M. 2016. Seasonal photosynthetic response of European beech to severe summer drought: limitation, recovery and post-drought stimulation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 220: 83–89

• Arend M, Gessler A, Schaub M. 2016. The influence of the soil on spring and autumn phenology in European beech. Tree Physiology 36:78-85 .

• Milcu A, Eugster W, Bachmann D, Guderle M, Roscher C, Gockele A, Landais D, Ravel O, Gessler A, Lange M, Ebeling A, Weisser W, Roy J, Hildebrandt A, Buchmann N. 2016 Plant species and functional diversity increase grassland productivity-related water vapor fluxes: a combined Ecotron and modeling approach. Ecology 97: 2044-2054

• Pollastrini M, Feducci M, Bonal D, Fotelli M, Gessler A, Gossiord G#, Guyot V, Jactel H, Nguyen D, Radoglou K, Bussotti F. 2016. Physiological significance of forest tree defoliation: results from a survey in a mixed forest in Tuscany (central Italy). Forest Ecology and Management 361:170-178

• Giugiola A, Ogée J, Rigling A, Gessler A, Bugmann H, Treydte K. 2016. Improvement of water and light availability after thinning at a xeric site: Which matters more? A dual isotope approach. New Phytologist 210:108-121
  

• Du B, Jansen K#, Kleiber A, Eiblmeier M, Kammerer B, Ensminger I, Gessler A, Rennenberg H, Kreuzwieser J. 2016. Coastal and interior Douglas fir provenances exhibit different metabolic strategies to deal with drought stress. Tree Physiology 36:148-163

• Hentschel R#, Hommel R#, Poschenrieder W, Grote R, Holst J, Biernath C, Gessler A, Priesack E. 2016. Stomatal conductance and intrinsic water use efficiency in the drought year 2003 – A case study of European beech. Trees, 30:153-174.

• Nitzsche KN#, Verch G, Premke K, Gessler A, Kayler ZE. 2016. Visualizing land-use and management complexity within biogeochemical cycles of an agricultural landscape. Ecosphere 7: e01282.

• Volkmann THM, Kühnhammer K, Herbstritt K, Gessler A, Weiler M. 2016. A method for in situ monitoring of the isotopic composition of tree xylem water using laser spectroscopy. Plant, Cell and Environment 39: 2055-2063
  

• Premke K, Attermeyer K, Augustin J, Cabezas A, Casper P, Deumlich D, Gelbrecht J, Gerke HH, Gessler A, Grossart H-P, Hilt S, Hupfer M, Kalettka T, Kayler Z, Lischeid G, Sommer M, Zak K. 2016. Importance of landscape complexity for C fluxes on the landscape level: Small scale heterogeneity matters WIREs Water 3: 601-617.
  

• Weise L, Ulrich A, Moreano M, Gessler A, Kayler, Z, Steger K, Zeller B, Rudolph K, Knezevic-Jaric, J, Premke K. 2016. Water level changes affect carbon turnover and microbial community composition in lake sediments. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 92: fiw035

• Von Rein I#, Gessler A, Premke K, Keitel C, Ulrich A, Kayler ZE. 2016. Forest understory plant and soil microbial response to an experimentally induced drought and heat-pulse event: the importance of maintaining the continuum. Global Change Biology 22: 2861–2874.

• Yan C-F, Gessler A, Rigling A, Dobbertin M, Han X-G, Li M-H. 2016 Effects of mistletoe removal on growth, N and C reserves and carbon and oxygen isotope composition in Scots pine hosts. Tree Physiology 36: 562-575

• Anderegg WRL, Martinez-Vilalta J, Cailleret M, Camarero JJ, Ewers B, Galbraith D, Gessler A, Grote R, Huang C-Y, Levick S, Powell TL, Rowland L, Sánchez-Salguero R, Trotsiuk V. 2016. When a tree dies in the forest: Scaling climate-driven tree mortality to ecosystem water and carbon fluxes. Ecosystems 19: 1133-1147

• Hommel R#, Siegwolf R, Zavadlav S, Arend M, Schaub M, Galiano L+, Haeni M, Kayler Z, Gessler A. 2016. Impact of interspecific competition and drought on the allocation of new assimilates in trees. Plant Biology 18: 785-796

• van der Plas F, Manning P, Allan E, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Verheyen K, Wirth C, Zavala MA, Hector A, Ampoorter E, Baeten L, Barbaro L, Bauhus J, Benavides R, Benneter A, Berthold F, Bonal D, Bouriaud O, Bruelheide H, Bussotti F, Carnol M, Castagneyrol B, Charbonnier Y, Coomes D, Coppi A, Bastias CC, Dawud SM, De Wandeler H, Domisch T, Finér L, Gessler A, Granier A, Grossiord C#, Guyot V, Hättenschwiler S, Jactel H, Jaroszewicz B, Joly F-X, Jucker T, Koricheva J, Milligan H, Müller S, Muys B, Nguyen D, Pollastrini M, Raulund-Rasmussen K, Selvi F, Stenlid J, Valladares F, Vesterdal L, Zielínski D, Fischer M. 2015. ‘Jack-of-all-trades’ effects drive biodiversity-ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in European forests. Nature Communications 7: 11109
  

• van der Plas F., Manning P., Soliveres S, Allan E, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Verheyen K, Wirth C, Zavala MA, Ampoorter E, Baeten L, Barbaro L, Bauhus J, Benavides R, Benneter A, Bonal D, Bouriaud O, Bruelheide H, Bussotti F, Carnol M, Castagneyrol B, Charbonnier Y, Coomes DA, Coppi A, Bestias CC, Dawud SM, De Wandeler H, Domisch T, Finér L, Gessler A, Granier A, Grossiord C#, Guyot V, Hättenschwiler S, Jactel H, Jaroszewicz B, Joly F-X, Jucker T, Koricheva J, Milligan H, Mueller S, Muys B, Nguyen D, Pollastrini M, Ratcliffe S, Raulund-Rasmussen K, Selvi F, Stenlid J, Valladares F, Vesterdal L, Zielínski D, Fischer M. 2016. Biotic homogenization can decrease landscape-scale forest multifunctionality. Proceedings of fhe National Academy of Sciences doi: 10.1073/pnas.1517903113

• Resco de Dios V, Gessler A, Ferrio JP, Alday JG, Bahn M, del Castillo J, Devidal S, Garcia-Munoz S, Kayler Z, Landais D, Martín Gómez P, Milcu A, Piel C, Pirhofer-Walzl K+, Ravel O, Salekin S, Tissue DT, Tjoelker MG, Voltas J, Roy J 2016. Circadian rhythms have significant effects on leaf-to-canopy gas exchange under field conditions. GigaScience 5:43
  
  

• Forrester DI, Bonal D, Dawud S, Gessler A, Granier A, Pollastrini M, Grossiord C#. 2016. Drought responses by individual tree species are not often correlated with tree species diversity in European forests. Journal of Applied Ecology 53: 1725-1734.
  

• Zhou Y, Grice K, Stuart-Williams H, Hocart CH, Gessler A, Farquhar G. 2016. Hydrogen isotopic differences between C3 and C4 land plant lipids: consequences of compartmentation in C4 photosynthetic chemistry and C3 photorespiration. Plant Cell and Environment 39: 2676-2690

• Grote R, Gessler A, Hommel R#, Poschenrieder W, Priesack E. 2016. Importance of tree height and social position for drought-related stress on tree growth and mortality. Trees, 30: 1467-1482

• von Rein I#, Kayler ZE, Premke K, Gessler A. 2016. Desiccation of sediments affects assimilate transport within aquatic plants and carbon transfer to microorganisms. Plant Biology, 18: 947-961

• Hagedorn F, Joseph J+, Peter M., Luster J., Pritsch K., Geppert U., Kerner R., Molinier V., Egli S., Schaub M., Liu J.-F., Li M., Sever K., Weiler M., Siegwolf R., Gessler A., Arend M. 2016. Recovery of trees from drought depends on belowground sink control. Nature Plants 2: 16111.

• Gimbel KF, Felsman K#, Baudis M, Puhlmann H, Gessler A, Bruelheide H, Kayler Z, Ellerbrock RH, Ulrich A, Welk E, Weiler M. 2015. Drought in forest understory ecosystems – a novel rainfall reduction experiment. Biogeosciences 12:961-975.

• Zhou Y, Stuart-Williams H, Grice K, Kayler ZE, Zavadlav S, Vogts A, Rommerskirchen F, Farquhar G, Gessler A. 2015. Allocate carbon for a reason: priorities are reflected in the 13C/12C ratios of plant lipids synthesized via three independent biosynthetic pathways. Phytochemistry 111: 14-20.

• Grossiord C#, Forner A, Gessler A, Granier A, Pollastrini M, Valladares F, Bonal D. 2015. Influence of species interactions on transpiration of Mediterranean tree species during a summer drought. European Journal of Forest Research, 134: 365-376.

• Grossiord C#, Gessler A, Granier A, Bonal D. 2015. Les forêts tempérées face aux conséquences du changement climatique : est-il primordial de favoriser une plus forte diversité d’arbres dans les peuplements forestiers? Revue Forestière Française 67: 99-110

• Peuke AD+, Gessler A, Trumbore S, Windt CW, Homan N, Gerkema EDO, Van As H. 2015. Phloem flow and sugar transport in Ricinus communis L. is inhibited under anoxic conditions of shoot or roots. Plant, Cell & Environment 38:433-447.

• Rillig MC, Kiessling W, Borsch T, Gessler A, Greenwood AD, Hofer H, Joshi J, Schröder B, Thoenicke K, Tockner K, Weisshuhn K, Jeltsch F. 2015. Biodiversity research: data without theory – theory without data. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 3:20

• Felsmann K#, Baudis M, Gimbel K, Kayler ZE, Ellerbrock R, Bruehlheide H, Bruckhoff, J, Welk E, Puhlmann H, Weiler M, Gessler A, Ulrich A. 2015. Soil bacterial community structure responses to precipitation reduction and forest management in forest ecosystems across Germany. PLOS ONE 10 (4): e0122539

• Lanza G#, Wirth S, Gessler A, Kern J. 2015. Short-term response of soil respiration to addition of chars: impact of fermentation post-processing and mineral nitrogen Pedosphere 25: 761-769.

• Hacker N, Ebeling A, Gessler A, Gleixner G, Gonzales O, De Kroon H, Lange M, Mommer L, Eisenhauer N, Ravenek J, Scheu S, Weigelt A, Wagg C, Wilcke W, Oelmann Y. 2015. Microbe-rhizosphere interactions shape plant diversity effects on P mobilization from organic matter in soil. Ecology Letters 18: 1356–1365

• Resco de Dios V, Roy J, Ferrio JP, Alday J, Landais D, Milcu A, Gessler A. 2015. Processes driving nocturnal transpiration and implications for estimating land evapotranspiration. Scientific Reports 5: 10975.

• Grossiord C#, Gessler A, Granier A, Berger S, Bréchet C, Hentschel R#, Hommel R#, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Bonal D. 2014 Impact of interspecific interactions on the depth of soil water uptake in a young temperate mixed plantation. Journal of Hydrology, 519: 3511-3519

• Jansen K#, Du B, Kayler Z, Siegwolf R, Ensminger I, Rennenberg H, Kammerer B, Jaeger C, Schaub M, Kreuzwieser J, Gessler A. 2014. Douglas-fir seedlings exhibit metabolic responses to increased temperature and atmospheric drought. PLOS ONE 9(12): e114165.

•  Grossiord C#, Granier A, Ratcliffe S, Bouriaud O, Bruelheide H, Chećko E. Forrester DI, Dawud SM, Finér L, Pollastrini M, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Valladares F, Bonal D, Gessler A. 2014. Tree diversity does not always improve resistance of forest ecosystems to drought. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111:14812–14815.

• Gockele A, Weigelt A, Gessler A, Scherer-Lorenzen M. 2014. Quantifying resource use complementarity in grassland species: a comparison of different nutrient tracers. Pedobiologia, 57: 251–256.

• Du B, Jansen K#, Junker LV, Eiblmeier M, Kreuzwieser J, Gessler A, Ensminger I, Rennenberg H. 2014. Elevated temperature differently affects foliar nitrogen partitioning in seedlings of diverse Douglas fir provenances. Tree Physiology, 34: 1090–1101.

• Grossiord C#, Granier A, Gessler A, Jucker T, Bonal D. 2014. Does Drought Influence the Relationship between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Boreal Forests? Ecosystems, 17: 394–404.

• Milcu A, Roscher C, Gessler A, Bachmann D, Gockele A, Guderle M, Landais D, Piel C, Escape C, Devidal S, Ravel O, Buchmann N, Gleixner G, Hildebrandt A, Roy J. 2014. Functional diversity of leaf nitrogen concentrations drives grassland carbon fluxes. Ecology Letters 17: 435-444

•  Treydte K, Boda S, Graf Pannatier E, Fonti P, Frank D, Ullrich B, Saurer M, Siegwolf R, Battipaglia G, Werner W, Gessler A. 2014 Seasonal transfer of oxygen isotopes from precipitation and soil to the tree ring: source water versus needle water enrichment. New Phytologist 202: 772-783.
  
  

• Hommel R#, Siegwolf R., Saurer M, Farquhar GD, Kayler Z, Ferrio JP, Gessler A. 2014. Drought response of mesophyll conductance in forest understory species - Impacts on water use efficiency and interactions with leaf water movement. Physiologia Plantarum 152: 98-114.

• Grossiord C#, Gessler A, Granier A, Pollastrini M, Bussotti F, Bonal D. 2014. Interspecific competition influences the response of oak transpiration to increasing drought stress in a mixed Mediterranean forest. Forest Ecology and Management 318: 54-61.

• Song X, Farquhar GD, Gessler A, Barbour MM. 2014. Turnover time of the non-structural carbohydrate pool influences delta O-18 of leaf cellulose. Plant, Cell and Environment 37: 2500–2507.

• Hentschel R#, Rosner S, Kayler ZE, Andreassen K, Børja I, Sollberg S, Tveito OE, Priesack E, Gessler A. 2014. Norway spruce physiological and anatomical predisposition to dieback. Forest Ecology and Management, 322: 27–36.
  

• Ravenek JM, Bessler H, Engels C, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Gessler A, Gockele A, De Luca E, Temperton VM, Ebeling A, Roscher C, Schmid B, Weisser WW, Wirth C, de Kroon H, Weigelt A, Mommer L. 2014. Long-term study of root biomass in a biodiversity experiment reveals shifts in diversity effects over time. Oikos 123: 1528–1536

• Baudis M, Felsmann K#, Gimbel K, Ellerbrock R, Gessler A, Kayler Z, Puhlmann H, Ulrich A, Weiler M, Welk E, Bruelheide, H. 2014. Intraspecific differences in responses to rainshelter-induced drought and competition of Fagus sylvatica L. across Germany. Forest Ecology and Management 330: 283-

• Gessler A, Ferrio JP, Hommel R#, Treydte K, Werner RA, Monson RK 2014. Stable isotopes in tree rings - Toward a mechanistic understanding of isotope fractionation and mixing processes from the leaves to the wood. Tree Physiology, 34: 796-818.

• Jansen K#, Sohrt J, Kohnle U, Ensminger I, Gessler A. 2013. Tree ring isotopic composition, radial increment and height growth reveal provenance-specific reactions of Douglas-fir towards environmental parameters. Trees 27:37–52

• Grossiord C#, Granier A, Gessler A, Pollastrini M, Bonal D. 2013. The influence of tree species mixture on ecosystem-level carbon accumulation and water use in a mixed boreal plantation. Forest Ecology And Management 298: 82–92.

• Gessler A, Brandes E#, Keitel C, Boda S, Kayler ZE, Granier A, Barbour M, Farquhar GD, Treydte K. 2013. The oxygen isotope enrichment of leaf-exported assimilates - does it always reflect lamina leaf water enrichment? New Phytologist 200: 144-157.

• Grossiord C#, Granier A, Gessler A, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Pollastrini M, Bonal D. 2013. Application of Loreau & Hector's (2001) partitioning method to complex functional traits. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 4: 954-960.

• Resco de Dios V, Díaz-Sierra R, Goulden ML, Barton CVM, Boer MM, Gessler A, Ferrio JP, Pfautsch S, Tissue DT. 2013. Woody clockworks: circadian regulation of night-time water use in Eucalyptus globulus. New Phytologist 200: 743-752.

• Hentschel R#, Bittner S, Janott M, Biernath C, Holst J, Ferrio JP, Gessler A, Priesack E. 2013.  Simulation of stand transpiration based on a xylem water flow model for individual trees. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; 182-183:31-42.

• Beaten L, Verheyen K, Wirth C, Bruelheide H, Bussotti F Finér L, Jaroszewicz B, Selvi F, Valladares F, Allan E, Ampoorter E, Auge H, Avăcăriței D, Barbaro L, Bărnoaiea I, Bauhus J, Beinhoff C, Benavides R, Benneter A, Berger S, Berthold F, Boberg J, Bonal D, Brüggemann W, Carnol M, Castagneyrol B, Charbonnier Y, Chećko  E, Coomes D, Coppi A, Crespo Bastias C, Dalmaris E, Dănilă G, Dawud SM, de Vries W, De Wandeler H, Deconchat M, Domisch T, Duduman G, Fischer M, Fotelli M, Gessler A, Gimeno TE, Granier A, Grossiord C, Guyot V, Hantsch L, Hattenschwiler St, Hector A, Hermy M, Holland  V, Jactel H, Joly F-X, Jucker T, Kolb S, Koricheva J, Lexer MJ, Liebergesell M, Milligan H, Müller S, Muys B, Nguyen D, Nichiforel L, Pollastrini M, Proulx R, Rabasa S, Radoglou K, Ratcliffe S, Raulund-Rasmussen K, Seiferling I, Stenlid J, Vesterdal L, von Wilpert  K, Zavala MA, Zielinski D, Scherer-Lorenzen M. 2013. A novel comparative research platform designed to determine the functional significance of tree species diversity in European forests. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 15: 281-291.

• Peuke AD, Gessler A, Tcherkez G. 2013. Experimental evidence for diel δ15N-patterns in different tissues, xylem and phloem saps of castor bean (Ricinus communis L.). Plant, Cell and Environment 36: 2219-2228.

• Ferrio JP, Pou A, Florez-Sarasa I, Gessler A, Kodama N, Flexas J, Ribas-Carbo M. 2012. The Péclet effect on leaf water enrichment correlates with leaf hydraulic conductance and mesophyll conductance for CO2. Plant, Cell and Environment 35: 611-625

• Erxleben A, Gessler A, Vervliet-Scheebaum M, Reski R. 2012. Metabolite profiling of the moss Physcomitrella patens reveals evolutionary conservation of osmoprotective substances. Plant Cell Reports 31: 427-436.

• Werner C, Schnyder H, Badeck F, Brugnoli E, Cohn B, Cuntz M, Dawson T,  Ghashghaie J, Grams TEE, Kayler Z, Keitel C, Lakatos M, Lee X, Máguas C, Ogée J, Rascher KG, Siegwolf R, Unger S, Welker J, Wingate L, Zeeman MJ., Gessler A. 2012. Linking carbon and water cycles using stable isotopes across scales: progress and challenges. Biogeosciences 9:3083-3111.

• Epron D, Bahn M, Derrien D, Lattanzi FA, Pumpanen J, Gessler A, Högberg P, Maillard P, Dannoura M, Gerant D, Buchmann N. 2012. Pulse-labelling trees to study carbon allocation dynamics: a review of methods, current knowledge and future prospects. Tree Physiology 32, 776–798.

• Sohn J, Kohler M, Gessler A, Bauhus J. 2012. Interactions of thinning and stem height on the drought response of radial stem growth and isotopic composition of  Norway spruce (Picea abies). Tree Physiology 32: 1199–1213.

• Mikosch M, Kumari N, Sharma T, Sharma V, Gessler A, Fischer-Schliebs E, Lüttge U. 2012. Plasticity of photosynthetic performance of the Indian tree Butea monosperma TAUB. at three sites with different microclimates. Photosynthesis Research 113: 287–295.

• Kodama N#, Ferrio JP+, Brüggemann N, #. 2011. Short-term dynamics of the carbon isotope composition of CO2 emitted from a wheat agroecosystem – physiological and environmental controls. Plant Biology 13:115–125

• Janott M, Gayler S, Gessler A, Javaux M, Klier C, Priesack E 2011. A one-dimensional model of water flow in soil-plant systems based on plant architecture. Plant and Soil 341: 233-256.

• Werner RA, Buchmann N, Siegwolf RTW, Kornexl BE, Gessler A. 2011. Metabolic fluxes, carbon isotope fractionation and respiration - lessons to be learned from plant biochemistry. New Phytologist 191: 10-15.

• Offermann C#, Ferrio JP+, Holst J, Grote R, Siegwolf R, Kayler Z, Gessler A. 2011. The long way down – Are carbon and oxygen isotope signals in the tree ring uncoupled from canopy physiological processes? Tree Physiology 31: 1088-1102.

• Ma S#, Churkina G, Wieland R, Gessler A. 2011. Optimization and evaluation of the ANTHRO-BGC model for winter crops in Europe. Ecological Modelling 222: 3662– 3679

• Fréchette E, Ensminger I, Bergeron Y, Gessler A, Berninger F, 2011. Will changes in root zone temperature in boreal spring affect recovery of photosynthesis in Picea mariana and Populus tremuloides in a future climate? Tree Physiology 31: 1204-1216.

• Kayler ZE, Kaiser M, Gessler A, Ellerbrock RH, Sommer M. 2011. Application of δ13C and δ15N isotopic signatures of organic matter fractions sequentially separated from adjacent arable and forest soils to identify carbon stabilization mechanisms. Biogeosciences  8: 2895–2906.

• Werner C, Gessler A. 2011. Diel variations in the carbon isotope composition of respired CO2 and associated carbon sources: a review of dynamics and mechanisms. Biogeosciences 8: 2437-2459.

• Brüggemann N, Gessler A, Kayler Z, Keel SG, Badeck F, Barthel M, Boeckx P, Buchmann N, Brugnoli E, Esperschütz J, Gavrichkova O, Ghashghaie J, Gomez-Casanovas N, Keitel C, Knohl A, Kuptz D, Palacio S, Salmon Y, Uchida Y, Bahn M. 2011. Carbon allocation and carbon isotope fluxes in the plant-soil-atmosphere continuum: a review. Biogeosciences 8: 3457-3489.

• Holst J, Grote R, Gessler A, Offermann C#, Ferrio JP+, Mayer H, Rennenberg H. 2010. Water fluxes of a beech stand in complex terrain. International Journal of Biometeorology 54: 23-36.

• Pfautsch S, Gessler A, Rennenberg H, Weston C. Adams MA. 2010. Drought and topographic effects on ecosystem delta2H, delta13C and delta18O and growth and hydrology of eucalypt-Nothofagus ecosystems at Mt Donna Buang, Victoria. Water Resources Research, doi:10.1029/2009WR007807

• Pena R, Offermann C#, Simon J, Naumann PS, Gessler A, Holst J, Dannenmann M. Mayer H, Kögel-Knabner I, Rennenberg H, Polle A. 2010. Girdling affects ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity and reveals functional differences of EMF community composition in a beech forest. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 76: 1831–1841

• Kreuzwieser J, Gessler A. 2010. Global climate change and tree nutrition: influence of water availability Tree Physiology 30, 1221–1234.

• Wingate L, Ogée J, Burlett R, Bosc A, Devaux M, Grace J, Loustau D, Gessler A. 2010 Photosynthetic carbon isotope discrimination and its relationship to the carbon isotope signals of stem, soil and ecosystem respiration. New Phytologist, 188: 576–589.

• Kayler Z, Gessler A, Buchmann N. 2010. What is the speed of link between above- and belowground processes? New Phytologist 187: 885–888

• Winkler J, Dannenmann M, Simon J, Pena R, Offermann C#, Sternad W, Clemenz C, Naumann P, Gasche R, Kögel-Knabner I, Gessler A, Rennenberg H, Polle A. 2010 Carbon and nitrogen balance in beech roots under competitive pressure of soil-borne microorganisms induced by girdling, drought and glucose application. Functional Plant Biology 37, 879–889

• Gessler A, Tcherkez G, Karyanto O, Keitel C, Ferrio JP+, Ghashghaie J, Farquhar GD. 2009. On the metabolic origin of the carbon isotope composition of CO2 evolved from darkened light-acclimated leaves in Ricinus communis. New Phytologist 181: 374–386

• Gessler A, Brandes E#, Buchmann N, Helle G, Rennenberg H, Barnard R. 2009. Carbon and oxygen isotopes – tracing the isotope signals from newly assimilated sugars in the leaves to the tree ring archive Plant Cell and Environment 32: 780-795.

• Ferrio JP+, Offermann C#, Siegwolf R, Saurer M, Cuntz M, Gessler A. 2009. Effect of water availability on leaf water isotopic enrichment in beech seedlings: implications for fractionation models. Plant Cell and Environment 32: 1285–1296

• Rennenberg H, Dannenmann M, Gessler A, Kreuzwieser J, Simon J, Papen H. 2009. Nitrogen balance in forest soils: nutritional limitation of plants under climate change stresses. Plant Biology 11: 4-23,

• Richter A., Wanek W, Werner R, Ghashghaie J, Jäggi M, Gessler A, Brugnoli E, Hettmann E, Göttlicher S, Salmon Y, Bathellier C, Kodama N#, Nogues S, Soe A, Volders P, Sörgel K, Blöchl A, Siegwolf R, Buchmann N, Gleixner G. 2009. Preparation of starch and soluble sugars of plant material for analysis of carbon isotope composition: a comparison of methods. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 23: 2476–2488

• Devaux M, Ghashghaie J, Bert D, Lambrot C, Gessler A, Bathellier C, Ogée J, Lousteau D. 2009. Carbon stable isotope ratio of phloem sugars in mature pine trees throughout the growing season: Comparison of two extraction methods. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 23: 2511–2518.

• Gessler A, Löw M, Heerdt C, Op de Beeck M, Schumacher J, Grams TEE, Bahnweg G, Ceulemans R, Werner H, Matyssek R, Rennenberg H, Haberer K. 2009. Within-canopy and ozone fumigation effects on δ13C and ∆18O in adult beech (Fagus sylvatica) trees: relation to meteorological and gas exchange parameters. Tree Physiology 29, 1349–1365.

• Pfautsch S, Gessler A, Adams MA, Rennenberg H. 2009 Using amino-nitrogen pools and fluxes to identify contributions of understory Acacia spp. to overstory Eucalyptus regnans and stand nitrogen uptake in temperate Australia New Phytologist 183: 1097

• Rühr NK, Offermann C#, Gessler A, Winkler BJ, Ferrio JP+, Buchmann N Barnard R. 2009. Drought effects on allocation of recent carbon: from beech leaves to soil CO2 efflux. New Phytologist 184: 950–961

• Jaeger C, Gessler A, Biller S, Rennenberg H, Kreuzwieser J. 2009. Differences in C and N metabolism of ash species and ecotypes as a consequence of root oxygen deprivation by waterlogging. Journal of Experimental Botany 15, 4335–4345.

• Gessler A, Nitschke R, de Mattos EA, Zaluar HLT, Scarano FR, Rennenberg R, Lüttge U. 2008. Comparison of the performance of three different ecophysiological life forms in a sandy coastal restinga ecosystem of SE-Brazil: A nodulated N2-fixing C3-shrub (Andira legalis (Vell.) Toledo), a CAM-shrub (Clusia hilariana Schltdl.) and a C3-hemicryptophyte (Allagoptera arenaria (Gomes) O. Ktze). Trees 22: 105-119.

• Kodama N#, Barnard R, Salmon Y, Weston C, Ferrio JP, Holst J, Werner R, Saurer M, Buchmann N, Gessler A. 2008. Temporal dynamics of the carbon isotope composition in a Pinus sylvestris stand: from newly assimilated organic carbon to respired carbon dioxide Oecologia 156: 737-750.

• Gessler A, Tcherkez G, Peuke AD, Ghashghaie J, Farquhar GD. 2008.  Experimental evidence of diel variations of the carbon isotope composition in leaf, stem and phloem sap organic matter in Ricinus communis. Plant Cell and Environment 31: 941-953.

• Holst J, Barnard R, Brandes E#, Buchmann N, Gessler A, Jaeger L. 2008. Impacts of water limitations during summer on the carbon balance of a Scots pine forest in the southern upper Rhine plain. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology  148: 1815

• Gessler A. Keitel C, Kreuzwieser J, Matyssek R, Seiler W, Rennenberg H. 2007. Potential risks for European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in a changing climate Trees, 21:1–11

• Nahm M, Matzarakis A, Rennenberg H, Gessler A. 2007 Seasonal courses of key parameters of nitrogen, carbon and water balance in European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) grown on four different study sites along a European North–South climate gradient during the 2003 drought. Trees 21: 79–92. 

• Dluzniewska P#, Gessler A, Dietrich H, Schnitzler J-P, Teuber M, Rennenberg H. 2007. Nitrogen uptake and metabolism in Populus x canescens as affected by salinity. New Phytologist, 73: 279-293.

• Brandes E#, Wenninger J, Koeniger P, Schindler D, Rennenberg H, Leibundgut C, Mayer H, Gessler A. 2007. Assessing environmental and physiological controls over water relations in a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) stand through analyses of stable isotope composition of water and organic matter. Plant, Cell and Environment 30: 113-127.

• Gessler A, Peuke AD, Keitel C, Farquhar GD. 2007. Oxygen isotope enrichment of organic matter in Ricinus communis during the diel course and as affected by assimilate transport. New Phytologist 174: 600-613.

• Haberer K, Grebenc T, Alexou M, Gessler A, Kraigher H, Rennenberg H 2007. Effects of long-term free-air ozone fumigation on delta15N and total N in Fagus sylvatica and associated mycorrhizal fungi. Plant Biology 9: 242-252.

• Barnard R, Salmon Y, Kodama N#, Weston C, Sörgel K, Rost J, Werner RA, Gessler A, Buchmann N. 2007. Evaporative enrichment and time lags between delta18O of leaf water and organic pools in a pine stand. Plant Cell and Environment 30: 539-550.

• Ehlting B, Dluzniewska P#, Dietrich H, Selle A, Teuber M, Hänsch R, Mendel RR, Nehls U, Polle A, Schnitzler J-P, Rennenberg H, Gessler A. 2007. Interaction of nitrogen nutrition and salinity in grey poplar (Populus tremula x alba) Plant, Cell & Environment 30: 796-811.

• Gessler A, Keitel C, Kodama N#, Weston C, Winters T, Leuning R, Keith H, Farquhar GD. 2007. delta13C of organic matter transported from the leaves to the roots in Eucalyptus delegatensis - short-term variations and relation to respired CO2. Functional Plant Biology 34: 692-706.

• Nahm M, Holst T, Matzarakis A, Mayer H, Rennenberg H, Gessler A. 2006. Soluble N compound profiles and concentrations in European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) are influenced by local climate and thinning. European Journal of Forest Research 125: 1-14.

• Nahm M, Radoglou K, Halyvopoulos G, Gessler A, Rennenberg H, Fotelli MN 2006. Physiological performance of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) at its south-eastern distribution limit in Europe: Seasonal changes in nitrogen, carbon and water balance. Plant Biology, 8: 52-63.

• Rennenberg H, Loreto F, Polle A, Brilli F, Fares S, Beniwal RS, Gessler A. 2006. Physiological responses of forest trees to heat and drought. Plant Biology 8: 556-571

• Peuke AD, Gessler A, Rennenberg H. 2006. The effect of drought on C and N stable isotopes in different fractions of leaves, axes and roots of sensitive and tolerant beech ecotypes. Plant, Cell and Environment, 29: 823–835.

• Hänsch R, Lang C, Wüstefeld Y, Riebeseel E, Lindigkeit R, Gessler A, Rennenberg H, Mendel RR. 2006. Plant sulfite oxidase as novel producer of H2O2: Combination of enzyme catalysis with a subsequent non-enzymatic reaction step. Journal of Biological Chemistry 281: 6884–6888

• Dluzniewska P#, Gessler A, Kopriva S, Strnad M, Novak O, Dietrich H, Rennenberg H. 2006. Exogenous supply of glutamine and active cytokinin to the roots reduces nitrate uptake rates in poplar. Plant, Cell and Environment 29: 1284–1297.

• Keitel C#, Matzarakis A, Rennenberg H, Gessler A. 2006. Carbon isotope composition and oxygen isotope enrichment in phloem and total leaf organic matter of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) along a climate gradient Plant, Cell and Environment 29: 1492–1507.

• Brandes E#, Kodama N#, Whittaker K, Weston C, Rennenberg H, Keitel C, Adams MA, Gessler A. 2006. Short-term variations in the isotopes signatures of organic matter allocated from the leaves to the axis of Pinus sylvestris – effects of photosynthetic and post-photosynthetic carbon isotope fractionation. Global Change Biology 12:1922-1939.

• Fotelli NM#, Rudolph P, Rennenberg H, Gessler A. 2005. Irradiance and temperature affect the competitive interference of blackberry on the physiology of European beech seedlings New Phytologist 165: 453-462.

• Franco AC, de Mattos EA, Duarte HM, Gessler A, Nahm M, Rennenberg H, Ribeiro KT, Scarano FR, Lüttge U. 2005. In situ measurements of carbon and nitrogen distribution and composition, photochemical efficiency and stable isotope ratios in Araucaria angustifolia. Trees 19: 422-433.

• Gessler A, Jung K, Gasche R, Papen H, Heidenfelder A, Börner E, Metzler B, Augustin S, Hildebrand E, Rennenberg H. 2005. Climate and forest management influence nitrogen balance of beech forests: Microbial N transformations and N uptake by mycorrhizal roots, European Journal of Forest Research, 124: 95-111.

• Duarte HM, Gessler A, Scarano FR, Franco AC, de Mattos EA, Nahm M, Rennenberg H, Rodrigues PJFP, Zaluar HLT, Lüttge U. 2005. Ecophysiology of six selected shrub species in different plant communities at the periphery of the Atlantic Forest of SE – Brazil. Flora 200: 456-476.

• Gessler A, Rienks M, Rennenberg H. 2005. Radial variation of sap flow densities in the sapwood of beech trees (Fagus sylvatica). Phyton 45:257-266.

• Scarano FR, Duarte HM, Franco AC, Gessler A, de Mattos EA, Nahm M, Rennenberg H, Zaluar HLT, Lüttge U. 2005. Ecophysiology of selected tree species in different plant communities at the periphery of the Atlantic Forest of SE – Brazil. I. Behaviour of three different species of Clusia in an array of plant communities. Trees 19: 497-509

• Gessler A, Duarte HM, Franco AC, de Mattos EA, Nahm M, Scarano FR, Zaluar HLT, Rennenberg H, Lüttge U. 2005. Ecophysiology of selected tree species in different plant communities at the periphery of the Atlantic Forest of SE – Brazil. II. Spatial and ontogenetic dynamics in deciduous Andira legalis. Trees 19: 510-522

• Gessler A, Duarte HM, Franco AC, de Mattos EA, Nahm M, Rodrigues PJFP, Scarano FR, Rennenberg H, Lüttge U. 2005. Ecophysiology of selected tree species in different plant communities at the periphery of the Atlantic Forest of SE – Brazil. III. Three legume trees in a semideciduous dry forest. Trees 19: 523-530

• Scarano FR, Duarte HM, Franco AC, Gessler A, de Mattos EA, Rennenberg H, Lüttge U. 2005. Physiological synecology of tree species in relation to geographic distribution and ecophysiological parameters at the Atlantic forest periphery in Brazil: an overview. Trees 19: 493-496

• Selle A, Willmann M, Grunze G, Gessler A, Weiß M, Nehls U. 2005. The high-affinity poplar ammonium importer PttAMT1.2 and its role in ectomycorrhizal symbiosis. New Phytologist 168: 697-706.

• Fotelli NM#, Rienks M, Rennenberg H, Gessler A. 2004. Climate and forest management affect 15N-uptake, N balance and biomass of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) seedlings. Trees 18: 157-166

• Gessler A, Keitel C#, Nahm N, Rennenberg H. 2004. Water shortage affects the water and nitrogen balance in central European beech forests Plant Biology 6: 289-298.

• Gessler A, Rennenberg H, Kopriva S. 2004. Regulation of nitrate uptake on the whole plant level: Interaction between nitrogen compounds, cytokinins and carbon metabolism. Tree Physiology 24: 1313-1321.

• Gessler A, Rennenberg H, Keitel C#. 2004. Stable isotope composition of organic compounds transported in the phloem of European beech - Evaluation of different methods of phloem sap collection and assessment of gradients in carbon isotope composition during leaf-to-stem transport Plant Biology 6: 721-729.

• Keitel C#, Adams MA, Holst T, Matzarakis A, Mayer H, Rennenberg H, Gessler A. 2003. Carbon and oxygen isotope composition of organic compounds in the phloem sap provides a short-time measure for stomatal conductance of European beech (Fagus sylvativa), Plant, Cell and Environment, 26: 1157-1168.

• Gessler A, Weber P, Schneider S, Rennenberg H. 2003. Bidirectional exchange of amino compounds between phloem and xylem during long distance transport in Norway spruce trees (Picea abies [L.] Karst). Journal of Experimental Botany 54: 1389-1397.

• Fotelli MN#, Rennenberg H, Holst T, Mayer H, Gessler A. 2003. Carbon isotope composition of various tissues of beech (Fagus sylvatica) regeneration is indicative of recent environmental conditions within the forest understorey. New Phytologist, 159: 229-244.

• Collier M, Fotelli NM#, Nahm N, Rennenberg H, Hanke D, Gessler A. 2003. Regulation of nitrogen uptake by Fagus sylvatica on a whole plant level: Interaction between soluble nitrogen compounds and cytokinins. Plant, Cell and Environment 26: 1549-1560.

• Papen H, Gessler A, Zumbusch E, Rennenberg H. 2002. Chemolithoautotrophic nitrifiers in the phyllosphere of a spruce ecosystem receiving high atmospheric nitrogen input. Current Microbiology, 44: 55-60.

• Gessler A, Kreuzwieser J, Dopatka T, Rennenberg H. 2002. Diurnal courses of ammonium net uptake by the roots of adult beech (Fagus sylvatica) and spruce (Picea abies) trees. Plant and Soil, 240: 23-32.

• Fotelli NM#, Nahm M, Heidenfelder A, Papen H, Rennenberg H, Gessler A. 2002. Soluble nonprotein nitrogen compounds indicate changes in the nitrogen status of beech seedlings due to climate and thinning New Phytologist 154: 85-97.

• Fotelli NM#, Rennenberg H, Gessler A. 2002. Effects of drought on the competitive interference of an early successional species (Rubus fruticosus) on Fagus sylvatica L. seedlings: 15N uptake and partitioning, responses of amino acids and other N compounds. Plant Biology, 4: 311-320.

• Gessler A, Rienks M, Rennenberg H. 2002. Stomatal uptake and cuticular adsorption contribute to dry deposition of NH3 and NO2 to needles of adult spruce (Picea abies) trees. New Phytologist 156: 176-194.

• Gessler A, Schrempp S, Matzarakis A, Mayer H, Rennenberg H, Adams MA. 2001. Radiation modifies the effect of water availability on the carbon isotope composition of beech (Fagus sylvatica). New Phytologist, 150: 653-664.

• Fotelli NM#, Gessler A, Peuke AD, Rennenberg H. 2001. Drought affects the competitive interaction between Fagus sylvatica seedlings and an early successional species, Rubus fruticosus: Responses of growth, water status and d13C composition. New Phytologist. 151: 427-435.

• Gessler A, Rienks M, Rennenberg H. 2000. NH3 and NO2 fluxes between beech trees and the atmosphere –Correlation with climatic and physiological parameters. New Phytologist, 147: 539-560.

• Gessler A, Rennenberg H. 2000. The effect of liming on the soluble nitrogen pool in Norway spruce (Picea abies) exposed to high loads of nitrogen. Phyton, 40: 51-64.

• Rennenberg H, Gessler A. 1999. Consequences of N deposition to forest ecosystems - recent results and future research needs. Water, Air and Soil Pollution, 116: 47-64.

• Gessler A, Schneider S, v. Sengbusch D, Weber P, Hanemann U, Huber C, Rothe A, Kreutzer K, Rennenberg H. 1998. Field and laboratory experiments on net uptake of nitrate and ammonium by the roots of spruce (Picea abies) and beech (Fagus sylvatica) trees. New Phytologist 138: 275-285.

• Gessler A, Schneider S, Weber P, Hanemann U, Rennenberg H. 1998. Soluble N compounds in trees exposed to high loads of N: a comparison between the roots of Norway spruce (Picea abies) and beech (Fagus sylvatica) trees. New Phytologist 138: 385-399.

• Gessler A, Schultze M, Schrempp S, Rennenberg H. 1998. Interaction of phloem-translocated amino compounds with nitrate net uptake by the roots of beech (Fagus sylvatica) trees. Journal of Experimental Botany 49, 1529-1537.

• Weber P, Stoermer H, Gessler A, Schneider S, v. Sengbusch D, Hanemann U, Rennenberg H. 1998. Metabolic responses of Norway spruce (Picea abies L. Karst) trees to long-term forest managment practices and acute (NH4)2SO4 fertilization: Transport of soluble non-protein N compounds in xylem and phloem. New Phytologist 140: 461-475.

• Schneider S, Gessler A, Weber P, v. Sengbusch D, Hanemann U, Rennenberg H. 1996. Soluble N compounds in trees exposed to high loads of N: a comparison of spruce (Picea abies) and beech (Fagus sylvatica) grown under field conditions. New Phytologist 134: 103-114.

• Rathgeber CBK, Pérez-de-Lis G, Fernández-de-Uña L, Fonti P, Rossi S, Treydte K, Gessler A, Deslauriers A, Fonti MV, Ponton S 2022. Anatomical, Developmental and Physiological Bases of Tree-Ring Formation in Relation to Environmental Factors. In: R. T. W. Siegwolf, J. R. Brooks, J. RodenM. Saurer eds. Stable Isotopes in Tree Rings: Inferring Physiological, Climatic and Environmental Responses. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 61-99.

• Gessler A, Ferrio JP 2022. Postphotosynthetic Fractionation in Leaves, Phloem and Stem. In: R. T. W. Siegwolf, J. R. Brooks, J. RodenM. Saurer eds. Stable Isotopes in Tree Rings: Inferring Physiological, Climatic and Environmental Responses. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 381-396.

• Barry KE, Weigelt A, van Ruijven J, de Kroon H, Ebeling A, Eisenhauer N, Gessler A, ..., Vogel A. 2019. Above-and belowground overyielding are related at the community and species level in a grassland biodiversity experiment. Adv. Ecol. Res.61: 55-89.

• Pfautsch S, Bell TL, Gessler A. 2015. Uptake, transport and redistribution of amino nitrogen in woody plants. In: Amino acids in higher plants (ed. D’Mello JPF), CABI, Wallingford, UK, pp 315-339.
• Herschbach C, Gessler A, Rennenberg H. 2012. Long-Distance Transport and Plant Internal Cycling of N- and S-Compounds. Progress in Botany 73: 161-188.
• Gessler A. 2011. Carbon and oxygen isotopes in trees: tools to study assimilate transport and partitioning and to assess physiological responses towards the environment . Progress in Botany 72 : 227-248.
• Teuber M, Papen H, Gasche R, Eßmüller T, Gessler A. 2007. The apoplast of Norway spruce (Picea Abies) needles as habitat and reaction compartment for autotrophic nitrifiers. In: The apoplast of higher plants: storage, transport and reaction compartment. (ed. Sattelmacher B); Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherland

• Kumari N, Sharma V, Mikosch M, Unfried C, Gessler A, Fischer-Schliebs E, Lüttge U. 2005. Seasonal photosynthetic performance and nutrient relations of Butea monosperma TAUB. (Fabaceae) in comparison to two other woody species of a seasonal deciduous forest in NW-India and to planted trees in this area. Indian Journal of Forestry 28: 116-126.

• Rennenberg H, Seiler W, Matyssek R, Gessler A, Kreuzwieser J. 2004. Die Buche (Fagus sylvatica L.) – ein Waldbaum ohne Zukunft im südlichen Mitteleuropa? AFJZ, 175: 210-224

• Kreuzwieser J, Gessler A, Rennenberg H. 2001. Regulation der Stickstoffernährung in Bäumen. In: Langenfeld-Heyser R, Polle A, Fritz E. (eds.) Neues zum Stofftransport in Bäumen. Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Forstbotanik der Universität Göttingen, Sauerländers Verlag Frankfurt, Band 131 pp. 150-160.

• Fotelli NM, Gessler A, Peuke AD, Rennenberg H. 2001. Drought modulates the interference of an early successional species (Rubus fruticosus) with beech seedlings: Effects on water and N status. In: Radoglou K (ed.) Forest Research: A challenge for an integrated European approach. NAGREF-Forest Research Institute, Thessaloniki pp. 529-536.

• Gessler A, Rienks M, Rennenberg H. 2000. NH3 and NO2 fluxes between the atmosphere and twigs of adult beech trees. In: Martins-Lução MA, Lips SH (eds.) Nitrogen in a sustainable ecosystem – From the cell to the plant. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. pp 315-316.

• Rennenberg H, Gessler A. 1999. Acid rain. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Macmillan Reference Limited, London UK.

• Gessler A, Rennenberg H. 1998. Atmospheric ammonia: mechanisms of uptake and impacts on N metabolism of plants. In: de Kok LJ, Stulen I. (eds.). Responses of plant metabolism to air pollution. Backhuys Pub. Leiden, The Netherlands, pp 81-94.

• Gessler A., Weber P., Schneider S., Rienks M., Rennenberg H. 1996. Ammonia fluxes to beech trees. In: Sutton M.A., Lee D.S., Dollard G.J., Fowler D. (eds.) Atmospheric Ammonia: Emission, deposition and environmental impacts. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (Edinburgh Research Station), GB. pp. 116-119.

3. Other publications (e.g., implementation, knowledge transfer)

• Waldner P, Hobi M, Stillhard J, Brang P, Hug C, Thimonier A, Schmitt M, Walser M, Köchli R, Zürcher A,…, Gessler A et al. 2023. Forschung im Waldreservat am Bettlachstock. Mitt. Nat.forsch. Ges. Kanton Solothurn, No. 45, 161-179. https://doi.org/10.5169/seals-1007786

• Gessler A, Wilhelm M, Plattner G-K. 2022. Wie der Klimawandel den Wald bedroht. ProClim Flash 76: 28-29

• Anthony M, Ferretti M, Frey B, Gessler A, Schaub M. 2022, Wie die Artengemeinschaft von Pilzen das Baumwachstum beeinflusst. www.waldwissen.net

• Gessler A, Wilhelm M, Zweifel R, Rigling A, Plattner G. 2021. Zustand des Schweizer Waldes: heute und morgen. www.waldwissen.net

• Wohlgemuth T, Kistler M, Aymon C, Hagedorn F, Gessler A, Gossner MM, ... ,Rigling, A. 2020. Früher Laubfall der Buche während der Sommertrockenheit 2018: Resistenz oder Schwächesymptom? Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen, 171(5), 257-269.

• Wohlgemuth T, Forster B, Gessler A, Ginzler C, Queloz V, Vitasse Y, Rigling A. 2018. La sécheresse estivale, défi grandissant pour la forêt. La Forêt 9/18: 5.

• Wohlgemuth T, Forster B, Gessler A, Ginzler C, Queloz V, Vitasse Y, Rigling A. 2018. Sommertrockenheit – Zunehmend eine Herausforderung für den Wald. Wald und Holz 9/18: 18-19

• Kalin U, Lang N, Hug C, Gessler A, Wegner JD. 2018. Defoliation estimation of forest trees from ground-level images. bioRxiv 441733  https://doi.org/10.1101/441733.

• Gleixner G, Roscher C, Karlowsky S, Milcu A, Gessler A, Bachmann D, Jesch A, Lange M, Mellado-Vázquesz P, Strecker T, Landais D, Ravel O, Buchmann N, Roy J. 2018. Functional composition rather than species richness drive carbon gain and allocation in experimental grasslands. bioRxiv, 418301.

• Gessler A, Bugmann H, Bigler C, Edwards P, della Guistina C, Kueffer C, Roy J, Resco de Dios V 2017. Light as a source of information in ecosystems. In: Changing perspectives on daylight: Science, technology, and culture. Science/AAAS, Washington DC, p. 9-15.

• Resco de Dios V, Gessler A, Ferrio JP, Alday JG, Bahn M, del Castillo J, Devidal S, García-Muñoz S, Kayler Z, Landais D, Martín-Gómez P, Milcu A, Piel C, Pirhofer-Walzl K+, Ravel O, Salekin S, Tissue DT, Tjoelker MG, Voltas J, Roy J. 2017. Does circadian regulation lead to optimal gas exchange? bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/121368

• Rigling A, Gessler A, Feichtinger LM, Queloz V, Wohlgemuth T, Krumm F, Vitková L. 2016. Introduced or native tree species to maintain forest ecosystem services in a hotter and drier future?. In: Introduced tree species in European forests: opportunities and challenges, pp. 236-247.

• Milcu A, Puga-Freitas R, Ellison AM, Blouin M, Scheu S, Girin T, Frechet G, Rose L, Scherer-Lorenzen M, Barot S, Lata J-C, Cesarz S, Eisenhauer N, Gigon A, Weigelt A, Hansart A, Greiner A, Pando A, Gessler A, Grignani C, Assandri D, Gleixner G, Le Galliard J-F, Urban-Mead K, Zavattaro L, Muller MEH, Lange M, Lukac M, Bonkowski M, Mannerheim N, Buchnann N, Butenschoen O, Rotter P, Seyhun R, Devidal S, Kayler Z, Roy J. 2016. Systematic variability enhances the reproducibility of an ecological study. bioRxiv, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/080119

• •         featured in Nature News: "Why 14 ecology labs teamed up to watch grass grow" Nature 548, 271 (17 August 2017) doi:10.1038/548271a

• Rigling, A., Gessler, A., Feichtinger, L.M., Queloz, V., Wohlgemuth, T., Krumm, F., & Vitková, L., 2016. Introduced or native tree species to maintain forest ecosystem services in a hotter and drier future?. In: Introduced tree species in European forests: opportunities and challenges, pp. 236-247.

• Haeni M, von Arx G, Gessler A, Graf Pannatier E, Innes JL, Jakob P, Jetel M, Kube M, Nötzli M, Schaub M, Schmitt M, Sutter F, Thimonier A, Waldner P, Rebetez M 2016. Long-term forest meteorological data from the Long-term Forest Ecosystem Research Programme (LWF) in Switzerland, from 1996-2016. PANGAEA; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.868390 (dataset)

• Pirhofer-Walzl K+, Tauschke M, Kayler Z, Glemnitz M, Müller M, Gessler A. 2014. Biodiversität in Agrarlandschaften. Treffpunkt Biologische Vielfalt XIII Interdisziplinärer Forschungsaustausch im Rahmen des Übereinkommens über die biologische Vielfalt. Bundesamt für Naturschutz, Germany

• Gessler A. 2010. Applikationslabor Stabile Isotope und Radionuklide – Leibniz-Aplikationslabore. Leibnizgemeinschaft. Berlin.
• Jaeger L, Gessler A, Kastendeuch P, Kodama N, Lehner I, Najjar G, Parlow E, Paul P, Rennenberg H, Rost J, Viville D, Vogt R, Zygmuntowski M. 2006. Impacts des changements climatiques sur le comportement de la végétation dans le fossé rhénan. Annales de l’Association Internationale de Climatologie 2: 137-149.
• Schindler D, Imbery F, Gessler A, Mayer H, Rennenberg H, Wellpott A. 2005. Investigation on the CO2 balance of a Scots pine stand suffering from regularly occurring summer drought: proposal of a combination of methods applied in micrometeorology and tree physiology. EFI-Proceedings. 49: 181-188
• Holst, T, Gessler A, Rennenberg H, Wellpott A, Mayer H. 2003. Auswirkungen von Klima- und Landnutzungsänderungen auf den Wasserhaushalt von Buchenbeständen (Fagus sylvatica L.) auf der Baaralb. In: "Klima - Wasser - Flussgebietsmanagement - im Lichte der Flut". Beiträge zum Tag der Hydrologie 2003 20./21. März 2003 in Freiburg i.Br.. Herausgeber: H.-B. Kleeberg. ATV-DVWK, Hennef, Heft 04.03. ISBN: 3-924063-59-1.
• Gessler A. 2001. Der Stickstoffhaushalt der Buche in einem stickstoffgesättigten Waldökosystem. Forstarchiv 72: 118-122.

# and +: PhD students and PostDocs of the applicant are marked with # and +, respectively. It needs to be noted that I am is not in favor of the traditional senior author = last author ranking but that scientist in their earlier career should be enabled and encouraged to take responsibilities for publications.