Publications

Please note that I do not provide manuscripts before they have finally passed peer review and are officially accepted by the publisher.

Journal articles

• Kehl L, Willis FM, Dietrich L (in press). The Brocken tree limit: treeline, summit syndrome or forest advance? Plant Ecology

• Dietrich L (2026). Keeping Humans at the Heart of Sustainability. Sustainability Science DOI: 10.1007/s11625-026-01886-w

• Kurschildgen S, Dietrich L, Büssing A, Schwarzer S, Kremer K (2026). Analyzing Preservice Biology Teachers’ Nature-of-Science Reflection Skills in a 360° Lab Environment. Science & Education DOI: 10.1007/s11191-026-00778-w

• Dietrich L, Zeidler M (2026). A potential role for DELLA signaling in global treeline formation. New Phytologist, 251, 2337-2343. DOI: 10.1111/nph.71385

• Urhahne D, Kehle L, Dietrich L, Kremer K (2026). The Role of Epistemic Beliefs in Predicting ChatGPT Adoption and Avoidance in Higher Education. Acta Psychologica, 263, 106334. DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.106334

• Dietrich L, Dittert J, Biestek L, Konnemann C, Asshoff R (2025). Investigating plant awareness: Image composition affects student perceptions of flora and fauna. Plants People Planet, 8, 611-625. DOI: 10.1002/ppp3.70104

• Dietrich L, Asshoff R (2025). Ecosystems have no thermostat: Regulation misleads in ecology education and outreach. BioScience, biaf127. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biaf127

• Dietrich L, Syrovy C, Döring TF, Jung R, Siebert S, Neuhoff D (2025). Irrigation but not fertilization increases yields and N₂ fixation in organic faba bean in temperate climates. Agricultural Water Management, 314, 109498. DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2025.109498

• Dietrich L, Dahn C, Fritz J, Berg M, Köpke U, Döring TF (2024). No yield effects of biodynamic compost preparations in a long-term field trial. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 39, e30. DOI: 10.1017/S1742170524000218

• Dietrich L, Kahmen A, Hoch G, Körner C (2023). Reply to: The three-dimensional structure of wood enables horizontal water transport needed to conduct water around lesions. Scientific Reports, 13, 15066. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-41785-z

• Peters RL, Steppe K, Pappas C, Zweifel R, Babst F, Dietrich L, von Arx G, Poyatos R, Fonti M, Fonti P, Grossiord C, Gharun M, Buchmann N, Steger D, Kahmen A (2023). Daytime stomatal regulation in mature temperate trees prioritizes stem rehydration at night. New Phytologist, 239, 533–546. DOI: 10.1111/nph.18964

• Schärer ML, Dietrich L, Kundel D, Mäder P, Kahmen A (2022). Reduced plant water use can explain higher soil moisture in organic compared to conventional farming systems. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 332, 107915. DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2022.107915

• Kahmen A, Buser T, Hoch G, Grun G, Dietrich L (2021). Dynamic ²H irrigation pulse-labelling reveals rapid infiltration and mixing of precipitation in the soil and species-specific water uptake depths of trees in a temperate forest. Ecohydrology, 14, e2322. DOI: 10.1002/eco.2322

• Salmon Y, Dietrich L, Sevanto SA, Holttä T, Damasoura M, Epron D (2019). Drought impacts on phloem in trees: From cell-level responses to ecological significance. Tree Physiology, 39, 171–191. DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpy153

• Dietrich L, Kahmen A (2019). Water relations of drought-stressed temperate trees benefit from short drought-intermitting rainfall events. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 265, 70–77. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.11.012

• Dietrich L, Delzon S, Hoch G, Kahmen A (2019). No role for xylem embolism or carbohydrate shortage in temperate trees during the severe 2015 drought. Journal of Ecology, 107, 334–349. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13051

• Dietrich L, Kahmen A, Hoch G, Körner C (2018). Losing half the sapwood area hardly impacts the water status of mature trees. Scientific Reports, 8, 15006. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-33465-0

• Peters RL, Fonti P, Frank DC, Poyatos R, Pappas C, Kahmen A, Carraro V, Prendin AL, Schneider L, Baltzer JL, Baron-Gafford GA, Dietrich L, Heinrich I, Minor RL, Sonnentag O, Matheny AM, Wightman MG, Steppe K (2018). Quantification of uncertainties in conifer sap flow measured with the thermal dissipation method. New Phytologist, 219, 1283–1299.
  DOI: 10.1111/nph.15241

• Dietrich L, Zweifel R, Kahmen A (2018). Stem diameter variations can predict the canopy water status of mature temperate trees. Tree Physiology, 38, 941–952. DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpy023

• Dietrich L, Körner C (2014). Thermal imaging reveals massive heat accumulation in flowers across a broad spectrum of alpine taxa. Alpine Botany, 124, 27–35. DOI: 10.1007/s00035-014-0123-1

Textbook

• Schmidt C, Dietrich L (2022). Chemie im Biologiestudium: Von Grund auf verständlich erklärt. Second Edition. Springer Spektrum. Link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-63416-5

Contributions and teaching materials

• Behrend A, Büchter T, Dietrich L, Eichler A, Göddenhenrich T, Heuckmann B, Koulani H, Kremer K, Mehl S, Söllner M (2026) DUDa – Digital, adaptive support for generic and discipline-related data literacy. Proceedings ICOTS 12.

• Dietrich L, Hammann M, Kremer K, Asshoff R (2026). Die Ökologie braucht das Basiskonzept System zurück. MNU Journal, 79(2), 162-168.

• Dietrich L, Dankbar J, Asshoff R (2025). Abitur und Klausur: Trophische Kaskade im Yellowstone Nationalpark. Unterricht Biologie, 505, 45–47.

• Westendorf-Bröring E (ed.) (2023). Biologie Heute SI 3 Niedersachsen. Westermann Bildungsmedien Verlag GmbH: Braunschweig. (Contributor)

• Dietrich L, Kalker L , Asshoff R (2022). Vernetzung von Organisationsebenen am Beispiel eines Experiments zu den konservierenden Eigenschaften von Zucker. MNU Journal, 22, 145-150.

• Westendorf-Bröring E (ed.) (2021). Biologie Heute SI 2 Niedersachsen. Westermann Bildungsmedien Verlag GmbH: Braunschweig. (Contributor)

• Dietrich L (2019). Insular Woodiness – Verholzung bei Inselendemiten. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Dendrologie, 69–70, 85–88.

• FWU (Institute for Movie and Picture in Science and Teaching) (var. years). Various explanatory short movies for biology teaching, a.o. “Traits of Life”, “Competition”, “Freshwater Lake Ecosystems”, “Animals of the Alpine”, “Carnivorous Plants”.

Posters & Presentations

• yet to be compiled.