Science Education and Plant Ecology
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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. 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
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)
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.