Dr. Orsi Decker

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• Three-dimensional temperature variations drive arthropod communities in temperate forests. Decker, Orsi; Pierick, Kerstin; Seidel, Dominik; Ammer, Christian; von Oheimb, Goddert; Schuldt, Bernhard; Müller, Jörg. In Forest Ecology and Management, 618, p. 123969. Elsevier BV, 2026.
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• Identifying the scale of effect of habitat for diversity and biomass of multiple arthropod taxa. Uhler, Johannes; Kortmann, Mareike; Mitesser, Oliver; Zhang, Jie; Tobisch, Cynthia; Benjamin, Caryl S.; Decker, Orsi; Englmeier, Jana; Fricke, Ute; Ganuza, Cristina; Haensel, Maria; Redlich, Sarah; Riebl, Rebekka; Rojas-Botero, Sandra; Rummler, Thomas; Uphus, Lars; Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf; Müller, Jörg. In Landscape Ecology, 41(8), p. 138. 2026.
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• Biodiversity associations between above‐ground and below‐ground communities in mountain forests across different climatic regions. Zou, Jia‐Yun; Seidl, Rupert; Bässler, Claus; Geres, Lisa; Ma, Liang‐Liang; Richter, Tobias; Thom, Dominik; Xiong, Chao; Rieker, Daniel; Zheng, Wei; Müller, Jörg; Chao, Anne; Mitesser, Oliver; Kortmann, Mareike; Rothacher, Julia; Li, De‐Zhu; Liu, Jie; Gao, Lian‐Ming; Luo, Ya‐Huang; Seibold, Sebastian. In Journal of Ecology, 114(4). Wiley, 2026.
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• Forest Heterogeneity by Chain Saw: How Between‐Patch Variation in Old Growth Attributes Changes the Metacommunities of Beetles. Mitesser, Oliver; Cadotte, Marc W.; Mori, Akira S.; van der Plas, Fons; Chao, Anne; Rothacher, Julia; Bässler, Claus; Bevanda, Mirjana; Biedermann, Peter H. W.; Bradler, Pia; Castañeda‐Gómez, Antonio; Decker, Orsi; Delory, Benjamin M.; Dittrich, Sebastian; Feldhaar, Heike; Fichtner, Andreas; Kreis, Alexander; Köstler‐Albert, Lisa; Lettenmaier, Ludwig; von Oheimb, Goddert; Pflumm, Luisa; Pierick, Kerstin; Schwalb‐Willmann, Jakob; Thorn, Simon; Vogelfänger, Leah; Weisser, Wolfgang; Wegmann, Martin; Wild, Clara; Müller, Jörg. In Ecology Letters, 29(3). Wiley, 2026.
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• Enhanced forest structural heterogeneity increases functional β-diversity but reduces α- and γ-diversity in soil nematodes. Schwarz, Rike; Bradler, Pia M.; Chao, Anne; Chuang, Po-Yen; Ciobanu, Marcel; Decker, Orsi; Delory, Benjamin M.; Dietrich, Peter; Dittrich, Sebastian; Fichtner, Andreas; Lettenmaier, Ludwig; Junginger, Michael; Mitesser, Oliver; Mori, Akira S.; Müller, Jörg; von Oheimb, Goddert; Pierick, Kerstin; Eisenhauer, Nico; Cesarz, Simone. In Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 214, p. 110078. Elsevier BV, 2026.
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• Elevation reverses the effects of forest structure on folivory and leaf asymmetry. Mallick, Soumen; Wild, Clara; Kieffer, Adèle; Torres Pineda, Jorge Salvador; Pierick, Kerstin; Rothacher, Julia; Decker, Orsi; Lettenmaier, Ludwig; Mitesser, Oliver; Eisenhauer, Nico; Mori, Akira S.; Ammer, Christian; Schuldt, Bernhard; Müller, Jörg. In Functional Ecology, 40(4), pp. 1061–1073. Wiley, 2026.
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• Dung beetles do not profit from enhanced spatial heterogeneity in temperate production forests: A forest manipulation experiment. Asch, Johanna; Scherer‐Lorenzen, Michael; Pierick, Kerstin; Wild, Clara; Rothacher, Julia; Müller, Jörg; Decker, Orsi; Cesarz, Simone; Daume, Nico; Buse, Jörn; Peters, Marcell K. In Journal of Applied Ecology, 63(2). Wiley, 2026.
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• Distance-decay reveals contrasting effects of land-use types on arthropod community homogenisation. Decker, Orsi; Uhler, Johannes; Redlich, Sarah; Chao, Anne; Kortmann, Mareike; Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf; Tobisch, Cynthia; Ewald, Jörg; Englmeier, Jana; Fricke, Ute; Ganuza, Cristina; Haensel, Maria; Bozicevic, Vedran; Morinière, Jérôme; Zhang, Jie; Müller, Jörg. In Nature Communications, 17(1), p. 763. 2026.
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• Restoring structural complexity in temperate forests increases bat and bird diversity. Wild, Clara; Chao, Anne; Chuang, Po-Yen; Cadotte, Marc; Daume, Nico; Decker, Orsi; Hausmann, Ronja; Hochrein, Sophia; Junginger, Michael; Kortmann, Mareike; Kümmet, Sonja; Mallick, Soumen; Mitesser, Oliver; Pickert, Ruth; Rothacher, Julia; Sattler, Kai; Schlüter, Jens; Thorn, Simon; Müller, Jörg. In Current Biology, 36(11), pp. 2840–2852.e4. Elsevier BV, 2026.
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• 12 years of assembly patterns in saproxylic beetles suggest early decay wood as ephemeral resource patch. Lettenmaier, Ludwig; Bässler, Claus; Decker, Orsi; Hagge, Jonas; Heibl, Christoph; Mamadashvili, Giorgi; Seibold, Sebastian; Thorn, Simon; Müller, Jörg. In Journal of Animal Ecology. Wiley, 2025.
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• Inconsistent short-term effects of enhanced structural complexity on soil microbial properties across German forests. Schwarz, Rike; Eisenhauer, Nico; Ammer, Christian; Bradler, Pia M.; Decker, Orsi; Delory, Benjamin M.; Dietrich, Peter; Fichtner, Andreas; Huang, Yuanyuan; Lettenmaier, Ludwig; Junginger, Michael; Mitesser, Oliver; Müller, Jörg; von Oheimb, Goddert; Pierick, Kerstin; Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael; Cesarz, Simone. In Applied Soil Ecology, 214, p. 106335. Elsevier BV, 2025.
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• Nest mass in forest tits increases with elevation and decreasing body mass, promoting reproductive success. Wild, Clara; Brandl, Roland; Decker, Orsi; Hochrein, Sophia; Ingrosso, Andrea; Mallick, Soumen; Mitesser, Oliver; Rothacher, Julia; Thorn, Simon; Müller, Jörg. In Journal of Avian Biology, 2025(4). Wiley, 2025.
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• The role of decomposer communities in managing surface fuels: a neglected ecosystem service. Gibb, H.; Grubb, J. J.; Decker, O.; Murphy, N.; Franks, A. E.; Wood, J. L. In International Journal of Wildland Fire, 31(4), pp. 350–368. CSIRO Publishing, 2022.
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• Faunal community consequence of interspecific bark trait dissimilarity in early‐stage decomposing logs. Zuo, Juan; Berg, Matty P.; Klein, Roy; Nusselder, Jasper; Neurink, Gert; Decker, Orsi; Hefting, Mariet M.; Sass‐Klaassen, Ute; van Logtestijn, Richard S. P.; Goudzwaard, Leo; van Hal, Jurgen; Sterck, Frank J.; Poorter, Lourens; Cornelissen, Johannes H. C. In Functional Ecology, 30(12), M. J. de Briones (ed.), pp. 1957–1966. Wiley, 2016.
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