2022

• Damptey F G, Birkhofer K, Menor I O, Garcia de la Riva E (2022) The functional Structure of Tropical Plant Communities and soil Properties Enhance Ecosystem Functioning and Multitunctionality in Different Ecosystems in Ghana. Forests.13. 2.
• Birkhofer K, Pekar S (2022) Interaction between hunting strategy, habitat type and stratum drive intraguild predation and cannibalism. Oikos, 3.
• Birkhofer K, Djoudi E A, Schnerch B, Michalko R (2022) Climatic conditions and functional traits affect spider diets in agricultural and non-agricultural habitats worldwide. Ecography, 3.
• Wanner M, Sogame Y, Shimizu M (2022) An elevation transect study of testate amoeba communities up to 4000 m a.s.l. on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo. European Journal of Protistology. Vol. 83.
• Hecker LP, Birkhofer K, Yang X, Querhammer L, Wätzold F (2022) Insektenverluste durch den Einsatz von Konditionierern bei der Behandlung von Mähgut – ökologische und ökonomische Aspekte [Insect losses due to the use of conditioners in the treatment of mowed material – Ecological and economic aspects]. Natur und Landschaft 97: 78-84.
• Heitmann N, Glemnitz M, Birkhofer K, Müller MEH (2022) Unselective transport of phytopathogenic Fusarium fungi from litter and soil by ground-dwelling arthropods links semi-natural and agricultural habitats. Microorganisms 10, 335
• Sikorski J, Baumgartner V, Birkhofer K et al. (2022) The evolution of ecological diversity in Acidobacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology 13: 715637
• Potapov A, Beaulieu F, Birkhofer K et al. (2022) Feeding habits and multifunctional classification of soil-associated consumers from protists to vertebrates. Biological Reviews
• Meyer S, Kundel D, Birkhofer K, Fliessbach A, Scheu S. (2022) Trophic niche but not abundance of Collembola and Oribatida changes with drought and farming system. PeerJ 10:e12777

2021

• Birkhofer K et al. (2021) Conventional agriculture and not drought alters relationships between soil biota and functions. Scientific Reports 11: 23975
• Tluste C, Birkhofer K (2021) Shells of the Roman snail are important microhabitats for soil invertebrates. Soil Organisms 93: 141-152
• Ferrante M, Möller D, Möller G, Menares E, Lubin Y, Segoli M (2021) Invertebrate and vertebrate predation rates in a hyperarid ecosystem following an oil spill Ecology and Evolution. 2021;00:1-8
• de la Riva EG, ... , Villar R.(2021). Root economics spectrum and construction costs in Mediterranean woody plants: the role of symbiotic associations and the environment. Journal of Ecology 109: 1873-1885.
• Michalko R, Birkhofer K, Pekár S (2021) Interaction between hunting strategy, habitat type and stratum drive intraguild predation and cannibalism. Oikos
• Fotang C, Bröring U, … Birkhofer K (2021) Environmental and anthropogenic effects on the nesting patterns of Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzees in Northwest Cameroon. American Journal of Primatology. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.23312
• Arvidsson F*, Feng L*, Smith HG, Birkhofer K (2021) Fallows conserve the taxonomic and functional diversity of soil-emerging carabid beetles and ground-active linyphiid spiders in agricultural landscapes. Insect Conservation & Diversity. DOI:10.1111/icad.12520 (*shared first authors)
• Preußer D, Bröring U, Fischer T, Juretzek T. (2021). Effects of antibiotics ceftriaxone and levofloxacin on the growth of Calliphora vomitoria L.(Diptera: Calliphoridae) and effects on the determination of the post mortem-interval. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 102207.
• Zarzosa PS, ..., de la Riva EG, ..., Villar, R. (2021). Linking functional traits with tree growth and forest productivity in Quercus ilex forests along a climatic gradient. Science of The Total Environment, 786, 147468.
• Meyer S, Kundel D, Birkhofer K, Fleissbach A, Scheu S (2021) Soil microarthropods respond differently to simulated drought in organic and conventional farming systems. Ecology and Evolution 11: 10369-10380
• Kozjek K, …, Birkhofer K, Hedlund K (2021) Long-term agricultural management impacts arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi more than short-term experimental drought. Applied Soil Ecology 168: 104140
• Michalko R, Košulič O, Martinek P, Birkhofer K (2021) Disturbance by invasive pathogenic fungus alters arthropod predator – prey food webs in ash plantations. Journal of Animal Ecology. DOI: 0.1111/1365-2656.13537
• Shackelford N, ..., de la Riva EG, ..., Suding KL (2021). Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts. Nature ecology & evolution, 1-8.
• Leimer S, Berner D, Birkhofer K, … Wilcke W (2021) Land-use intensity and biodiversity effects on infiltration rates and hydraulic conductivity of grassland soils in southern Germany. Ecohydrology e2301
• Le Provost G, …, Birkhofer K, …., Manning P (2021) Contrasting impacts of land-use intensification on above- and belowground diversity. Nature Communications 12, 3918
• Damptey FG, Garcia de La Riva E, Birkhofer K (2021) Trade-offs and synergies between food and fodder production and other ecosystem services in an actively restored forest in Ghana. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 4: 630959.
• Phililips H, ..., Birkhofer K, ..., Eisnehauer N (2021) Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding soil properties. Scientific Data 8:136
• Fotang C, Bröring U, …, Birkhofer K (2021) Human activity and forest fragmentation threaten populations of the Nigeria-Cameroon Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes ellioti) in Western Cameroon. International Journal of Primatology 42: 105-129
• Němec T, Líznarová E, Birkhofer K, Horsák M (2021) Stable isotope analysis as a method to investigate land-snail food partitioning: a case study from Central European floodplain forest. Journal of Zoology 313: 297-306
• Michalko, R, Birkhofer, K (2021) Habitat niches suggest that non-crop habitat types differ in quality as source habitats for Central European agrobiont spiders. Agriculture, Ecosystem and Environment 308: 107248
• Mathulwe LL, Jacobs K, Malan AP, Birkhofer K, Addison MF & Addison P (2021). Characterisation of Metarhizium majus (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae) isolated from the Western Cape Province, South Africa. PloS one 16: e0240955
• Paniw, M., de la Riva, E. G., & Lloret, F. (2021). Demographic traits improve predictions of spatiotemporal changes in community resilience to drought. Journal of Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13597 
• Díaz, J. G., de la Riva, E., Funk, J. L., & Vilà, M. (2021). Functional segregation of resource-use strategies of native and invasive plants across Mediterranean biome communities. Biological Invasions 23: 253-266.