Plant Ecology & Nature Conservation
Institute for Biology and Chemistry
Phone +49(0)5121-883-40722
Mail metzjo(at)uni-hildesheim(de)
Room G105
Gade F, Metz J (2024)
Competition, Drought, Season Length? Disentangling Key Factors for Local Adaptation in Two Mediterranean Annuals across Combined Macroclimatic and Microclimatic Aridity Gradients. Ecology and Evolution, 14, e70513. doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70513
Kurze S, Ouyang J, Gade F, Katz O, Schaller J, Metz J (2024)
Ecotypic differentiation of leaf silicon concentration in the grass Brachypodium hybridum along a rainfall gradient. Frontiers in Plant Science 15, 1417721. doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2024.1417721
Hartmann LJ, Metz, J (2024)
Vulnerabler auf kleinen Flächen und mit einer gewissen Widerstandskraft gegenüber klimatischen Einflüssen – die Feuchtwiesenorchidee Dactylorhiza majalis in Brandenburg. Naturschutz und Landschaftspflege in Brandenburg, 2022 (4), 24 - 30.
Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383499866_Vulnerabler_auf_kleinen_Flachen_und_mit_einer_gewissen_Widerstandskraft_gegenuber_klimatischen_Einflussen_-_die_Feuchtwiesenorchidee_Dactylorhiza_majalis_in_Brandenburg
Metz J, Tielbörger K (2023)
A drought year favored drier-adapted origins over local origins in a reciprocal transplant experiment along a rainfall gradient. Oikos. doi.org/10.1111/oik.09806
Hartmann LJ, Metz J (2023)
Long-term data indicates positive effects of habitat size and ambiguous climate effects on population growth of the endangered wetland orchid Dactylorhiza majalis. Global Ecology and Conservation. doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2023.e02483
Steingräber, LF, Ludolphy C, Metz J, Kierdorf H, Kierdorf U (2022)
Uptake of lead and zinc from soil by blackberry plants (Rubus fruticosus L. agg.) and translocation from root to leaves. Environmental Advances 9, 100313. doi.org/10.1016/j.envadv.2022.100313
Steingräber, LF, Ludolphy C, Metz J, Germershausen L, Kierdorf H, Kierdorf U (2021) Heavy metal concentrations in floodplain soils of the Innerste River and in leaves of wild blackberries (Rubus fruticosus L. agg.) growing within and outside the floodplain – the legacy of historical mining activities in the Harz Mountains (Germany). Environmental Science and Pollution Research, doi: 10.1007/s11356-021-17320-w.
Metz J, Hartmann LJ, Ristow M (2021) Zur Diskussion der Pflege und Bestandssituation des Breitblättrigen Knabenkrautes (Dactylorhiza majalis) in Schutzgebieten Brandenburgs – Antwort auf eine Entgegnung. Berichte aus den Arbeitskreisen Heimische Orchideen 38(1) 111-121.
Metz J, Lampei C, Bäumler L, Bocherens H, de Meaux J, et al. (2020): Rapid adaptive evolution to drought in a subset of plant traits in a large-scale climate change experiment. Ecology Letters, DOI:10.1111/ele.13596
Poppei M, Ristow M, Geissler K, Metz J (2018b): Die Bestandssituation des Breitblättrigen Knabenkrautes Dactylorhiza majalis in ausgewählten Schutzgebieten Brandenburgs. Berichte aus den Arbeitskreisen Heimische Orchideen 35(2): 179-196. (reprint of Poppei et al. 2018a)
Poppei M, Ristow M, Geissler K, Metz J (2018a): Die Bestandssituation des Breitblättrigen Knabenkrautes Dactylorhiza majalis in ausgewählten Schutzgebieten Brandenburgs. Naturschutz & Landschaftspflege in Brandenburg 27: 20-26.
Metz J, Freundt H, Jeltsch F (2018): Stable germination behavior but partly shifting seed-seed interactions along a steep rainfall gradient. Basic and Applied Ecology 28: 5-16.
Kurze S, Bareither N, Metz J (2017): Phenology, roots and reproductive allocation, but not the LHS scheme, shape ecotypes along an aridity gradient. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 29: 20-29.
Bareither N, Scheffel A, Metz J (2017) Distribution of polyploid plants in the common annual Brachypodium distachyon (s.l.) in Israel is not linearly correlated with aridity. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences. doi: 10.1080/07929978.2017.1288406
Lampei C, Metz J, Tielbörger K (2017) Clinal population divergence in an adaptive parental environmental effect that adjusts seed banking. New Phytologist 214: 1230–1244.
Tomiolo S, Metz J, Blackwood CB, Djendouci K, Henneberg L, Müller C, Tielbörger K (2017) Short-term drought and long-term climate legacy affect production of chemical defenses among plant ecotypes. Environmental and Experimental Botany 141: 124-131.
Garcia-Camacho R, Metz J, Bilton MC, Tielbörger K (2017) Phylogenetic structure of annual plant communities along an aridity gradient: Interacting effects of habitat filtering and shifting plant-plant interactions. Israel Journal of Plant Sciences doi: 10.1080/07929978.2017.1288477.
Bilton MC, Metz J, Tielbörger K (2016) Climatic niche groups: A novel application of a common assumption predicting plant community response to climate change. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 19: 61–69.
Metz J, Tielbörger K (2016) Spatial and temporal aridity gradients provide poor proxies for plant-plant interactions under climate change: a large-scale experiment. Functional Ecology 30: 20-29.
Metz J, von Oppen J, Tielbörger K (2015) Parental environmental effects due to contrasting watering adapt competitive ability, but not drought tolerance, in offspring of a semi-arid annual Brassicaceae. Journal of Ecology 103: 990-997.
Tielbörger K*, Bilton MC*, Metz J*, Kigel J, Holzapfel C, Lebrija-Trejos E, Konsens I, et al. (2014) Middle-Eastern plant communities tolerate 9 years of drought in a multi-site climate manipulation experiment. Nature Communications 5, Article 5102. * equal contribution authors
Metz J, Ribbers K, Tielbörger K, Müller C (2014) Long- and medium-term effects of aridity on the chemical defence of a widespread Brassicaceae in the Mediterranean. Environmental and Experimental Botany 105: 39-45.
Tielbörger K, Fleischer A, Menzel L, Metz J, Sternberg M (2010) The aesthetics of water and land: a promising concept for managing scarce water resources under climate change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A – Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 368: 5323-5337.
Metz J, Liancourt P, Kigel J, Harel D, Sternberg M, Tielbörger K (2010) Plant survival in relation to seed size along environmental gradients: a long- term study from semi-arid and Mediterranean annual plant communities. Journal of Ecology 98: 697-704.