Publications
Wilcke, W.; Yasin, S.; Fleischbein, K.; Goller, R.; Boy, J.; Knuth, J.; Valarezo, C. & Zech, W. (2008): Nutrient Status and Fluxes at the Field and Catchment Scale. In: Beck, Erwin; Bendix, Jörg; Kottke, Ingrid; Makeschin, Franz; Mosandl, Reinhard (eds.): Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador (Ecological Studies 198), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 203-215.
Wilcke, W.; Yasin, S.; Fleischbein, K.; Goller, R.; Boy, J.; Knuth, J.; Valarezo, C. & Zech, W. (2008): Water Relations. In: Beck, Erwin; Bendix, Jörg; Kottke, Ingrid; Makeschin, Franz; Mosandl, Reinhard (eds.): Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador (Ecological Studies 198), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 193-201.
Wilcke, W.; Yasin, S.; Schmitt, A.; Valarezo, C. & Zech, W. (2008): Soils Along the Altitudinal Transect and in Catchments. In: Beck, Erwin; Bendix, Jörg; Kottke, Ingrid; Makeschin, Franz; Mosandl, Reinhard (eds.): Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador (Ecological Studies 198), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 75-85.
Krüger, M.; Stockinger, H.; Krüger, C. & Schüßler, A. (2009): DNA-based species-level detection of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: one PCR primer set for all AMF. New Phytologist 183, 212-223.
Gerique, A. & Veintimilla, D. (2007): Useful Plants and Weeds Occuring in Shuar, Saraguro, and Mestizo Communities. Checklist of the Reserva Biológica San Francisco (Prov. Zamora-Chinchipe, S-Ecuador). Ecotropical Monographs 4, 237-256.
Homeier, J. & Breckle, S.W. (2008): Gap-dynamics in a tropical lower montane forest in South Ecuador. In: Beck, Erwin; Bendix, Jörg; Kottke, Ingrid; Makeschin, Franz; Mosandl, Reinhard (eds.): Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador (Ecological Studies 198), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 311-317.
Homeier, J. (2008): The influence of topography on forest structure and regeneration dynamics in an Ecuadorian montane forest. In: S. Robbert Gradstein; Jürgen Homeier; Dirk Gansert (eds.): The tropical mountain forest ? Patterns and processes in a biodiversity hotspot. Biodiversity and Ec (Biodiversity and Ecology Series 2), Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 97-107.
Ulloa, C. & Homeier, J. (2008): Meriania franciscana (Melastomataceae), una especie nueva de los Andes de Ecuador. Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid 65, 383-387.
Homeier, J. & Werner, F.A. (2007): Spermatophyta. Checklist of the Reserva Biológica San Francisco (Prov. Zamora-Chinchipe, S-Ecuador). Ecotropical Monographs 4, 15-58.
Moser, G.; Röderstein, M.; Soethe, N.; Hertel, D. & Leuschner, C. (2008): Altitudinal changes in stand structure and biomass allocation of tropical mountain forests in relation to microclimate and soil chemistry. In: Beck, Erwin; Bendix, Jörg; Kottke, Ingrid; Makeschin, Franz; Mosandl, Reinhard (eds.): Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador (Ecological Studies 198), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 229-242.
Zach, A.; Horna, V. & Leuschner, C. (2008): Elevational change in woody tissue CO2 efflux in a tropical mountain rain forest in southern Ecuador. Tree Physiology 28, 67-74.
Graefe, S.; Hertel, D. & Leuschner, C. (2008): Estimating fine root turnover in tropical forests along an elevational transect using minirhizotrons. Biotropica 40, 536-542.
Graefe, S.; Hertel, D. & Leuschner, C. (2008): Fine root dynamics along a 2,000-m elevation transect in South Ecuadorian mountain rainforests. Plant and Soil 313, 155-166.
Beck, E.; Makeschin, F.; Haubrich, F.; Richter, M.; Bendix, J. & Valerezo, C. (2008): The Ecosystem (Reserva Biológica San Francisco). In: Beck, Erwin; Bendix, Jörg; Kottke, Ingrid; Makeschin, Franz; Mosandl, Reinhard (eds.): Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador (Ecological Studies 198), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 1-15.
Beck, E.; Mosandl, R.; Richter, M. & Kottke, I. (2008): The Investigated Gradients. In: Beck, Erwin; Bendix, Jörg; Kottke, Ingrid; Makeschin, Franz; Mosandl, Reinhard (eds.): Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador (Ecological Studies 198), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 55-62.
Bendix, J.; Rollenbeck, R.; Richter, M.; Fabian, P. & Emck, P. (2008): Climate. In: Beck, Erwin; Bendix, Jörg; Kottke, Ingrid; Makeschin, Franz; Mosandl, Reinhard (eds.): Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador (Ecological Studies 198), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 63-74.
Homeier, J.; Werner, F.A.; Gradstein, S.R.; Breckle, S.W. & Richter, M. (2008): Potential Vegetation and Floristic Composition of Andean Forests in South Ecuador , with a Focus on the RBSF. In: Beck, Erwin; Bendix, Jörg; Kottke, Ingrid; Makeschin, Franz; Mosandl, Reinhard (eds.): Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador (Ecological Studies 198), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 87-100.
Mandl, N.; Lehnert, M.; Gradstein, S.R.; Kessler, M.; Abiy, M. & Richter, M. (2008): The Unique Purdiaea nutans Forest of Southern Ecuador - Abiotic Characteristics and Cryptogamic Diversity. In: Beck, Erwin; Bendix, Jörg; Kottke, Ingrid; Makeschin, Franz; Mosandl, Reinhard (eds.): Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador (Ecological Studies 198), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 275-280.
Bendix, J.; Rollenbeck, R.; Fabian, P.; Emck, P.; Richter, M. & Beck, E. (2008): Climatic variability. In: Beck, Erwin; Bendix, Jörg; Kottke, Ingrid; Makeschin, Franz; Mosandl, Reinhard (eds.): Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador (Ecological Studies 198), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 281-290.
Bussmann , R.W.; Wilcke, W. & Richter, M. (2008): Landslides as Important Disturbance Regimes - Causes and Regeneration. In: Beck, Erwin; Bendix, Jörg; Kottke, Ingrid; Makeschin, Franz; Mosandl, Reinhard (eds.): Gradients in a Tropical Mountain Ecosystem of Ecuador (Ecological Studies 198), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 319-346.
Emck, P.; Moreira Munoz, A. & Richter, M. (2007): El clima y sus efectos en la vegetación. In: M. Moraes, B. Øllgaard, L. P. Kvist, F. Borchsenius, H. Balslev (eds.): Botánica Económica de los Andes Centrales ( ), Universidad Mayor de San Andrés , La Paz, 11-36.
Beck, E. & Richter, M. (2008): Ecological aspects of a biodiversity hotspot in the Andes of southern Ecuador. In: Gradstein, S. Robbert; Homeier, Jürgen; Gansert, Dirk (eds.): The tropical mountain forest - Patterns and processes in a biodiversity hotspot (Biodiversity and Ecology Series 2), Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 195-217.
Cueva Ortiz, E.; Homeier, J.; Breckle, S.W.; Bendix, J.; Emck, P.; Richter, M. & Beck, E. (2006): Seasonality in an evergreen tropical mountain rain forest of South Ecuador. Ecotropica 12, 69-85.
Richter, M. (2003): Using plant functional types as climatic indicators in the Cordillera. Lyonia 4, 1-18.
Richter, M. & Moreira-Munoz, A. (2005): Heterogeneidad climática y diversidad de la vegetación en el sur de Ecuador: un método de fitoindicación. Revista Peruana de Biología 12, 217-238.
Richter, M. (2008): Tropical mountain forests - distribution and general features. In: Gradstein, S. Robbert; Homeier, Jürgen; Gansert, Dirk (eds.): The tropical mountain forest - Patterns and processes in a biodiversity hotspot (Biodiversity and Ecology Series 2), Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 1-18.
Emck, P. & Richter, M. (2008): An upper threshold of enhanced global shortwave irradiance in the troposphere derived from field measuremenrs in tropical mountains. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 47, 2828-2845.
Günter, S.; Stimm, B.; Cabrera, M.; Diaz, M.L.; Lojan, M.; Ordonez, E.; Richter, M. & Weber, M. (2008): Tree phenology in montane forests of southern Ecuador can be explained by precipitation, radiation, and photoperiodic control. Journal of Tropical Ecology 24, 247-258.
Gradstein, S.R.; Kessler, M.; Lehnert, M.; Abiy, M.; Homeier, J.; Mandl, N.; Makeschin, F. & Richter, M. (2008): Vegetation, climate and soil of the unique Purdiaea forest of southern Ecuador. Ecotropica 14, 15-26.
Bräuning, A.; von Schnakenburg, P.; Volland, F. & Peters, T. (2008): Seasonal growth dynamics and its climate forcing in a tropical mountain rain forest in southern Ecuador. TRACE - Tree Rings in Archaeology, Climatology and Ecology 6, 27-30.
