Vanessa Minden
 

Vanessa Minden

Dr. rer. nat.

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4933-5931

  • Pleinlaan 2

    1050 Brussels

    Belgium

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20052024

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Research interests

In my research I am interested in functional responses of plants to environmental factors, with a main emphasis on ecological stoichiometry. These responses are measured as plant functional traits, which are organismal properties impacting its fitness via effects on growth, reproduction and survival. Today society as entered a stage in which the effects of anthropogenic forces transforming the ecology of our planet cannot be denied. These effects include changes in atmospheric composition and climate, hydrology, fire and landscape regimes. Humans have driven changes in net primary production-patterns, as well as in local and global biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and other elements. Further effects comprise both the extinction of species and the introduction of species into new systems. Against this background, my main research-emphasis is to disentangle intrinsic determinations of functionally different plant organs from the effects of the abiotic environment. Understanding the responses of plants to the environment, their trait-trait relationships and ultimately their effects on ecosystem properties is crucial for understanding ecosystem processes per se and allows predictions of consequences of the changing environment we live in.

Today’s research on plant ecology is challenged from two sides: identify fundamental principles of plant strategies and understand plant behaviour in the framework of environmental change.  With my overall research interests I intend to tackle both challenges, through my work on plant functional traits. My research lines focus on different aspects of functional trait research, for example trait plasticity, ecological stoichiometry, trait-trait interactions and ecosystem functioning.

 

For more information on my projects, CV and publications see my personal website: vanessaminden.eu

Education/Academic qualification

PhD , University of Oldenburg

2006 → 2010

Diploma thesis, University of Rostock

2005

Studies in Biology, Diplom Biology, University of Rostock

1998 → 2005

Research stay, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park

2004

External positions

Assistant Professor, University of Oldenburg

2017 → 2020

Research Fellow, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

2016 → 2017

Assistant Professor, University of Oldenburg

2011 → 2016

Project Coordinator, University of Oldenburg

2011

Keywords

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  • plant functional traits
  • transgenerational plasticity
  • nutrient stress
  • veterrinary antibiotics
  • ecological stoichiometry

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  • Plants increase silicon content as a response to nitrogen or phosphorus limitation: a case study with Holcus lanatus.

    Minden, V., Schaller, J. & Olde Venterink, H., May 2021, In: Plant and Soil. 462, 1-2, p. 95-108 13 p.

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  • Hydrodynamics affect plant traits in estuarine ecotones with impact on carbonsequestration potential

    Schulte Ostermann, T., Kleyer, M., Heuner, M., Fuchs, E., Temmermann, S., Schoutens, K., Bouma, T. & Minden, V., 2021, In: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 259, p. 107464

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  • TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access

    Kattge, J., Díaz, S., Tautenhahn, S., Werner, G. D. A., Aakala, T., Abedi, M., Acosta, A. T. R., Adamidis, G. C., Aiba, M., Albert, C. H., Alcántara, J. M., Alcázar, C., Aleixo, I., Ali, H., Ammer, C., Anderson, C., Apgaua, D. M. G., Ashman, T-L., Asner, G. P., Aspinwall, M. & 557 others, Atkin, O., Aubin, I., Baastrup-Spohr, L., Bahalkeh, K., Bahn, M., Baker, W. J., Bakker, J. P., Baldocchi, D., Baltzer, J., Barlow, J., Barneche, D. R., Baruch, Z., Bastianelli, D., Battles, J., Bauerle, W., Bauters, M., Beckmann, M., Beeckman, H., Beierkuhnlein, C., Belfry, G., Belluau, M., Beloiu, M., Benavides, R., Benomar, L., Berdugo-Lattke, M. L., Berenguer, E., Bergamin, R., Bergmann, J., Bergmann Carlucci, M., Berner, L., Bernhardt-Römermann, M., Bigler, C., Bjorkman, A. D., Blanco, C., Blonder, B., Blumenthal, D., Bocanegra-González, K. T., Boeckx, P., Böhning-Gaese, K. B-G., Boisvert-Marsh, L., Bond, W., Bond-Lamberty, B., Boom, A., Boonman, C. C. F., Bordin, K., Boughton, E. H., Boukili, V., Bravo, S., Brendel, M. R., Broadley, M. R., Brown, K. A., Bruelheide, H., Brumnich, F., Bruun, H. H., Bruy, D., Bucher, S. F., Buchmann, N., Buitenwerf, R., Bunker, D. E., Burrascano, S., Burslem, D. F. R. P., Butterfield, B. J., Byun, C., Marques, M., Scalon, M. C., Caccianiga, M., Cadotte, M., Cailleret, M., Camac, J., Camarero, J. J., Campetella, G., Campos, J. A., Canullo, R., Carbognani, M., Carvalho, F., Casanoves, F., Castagneyrol, B., Catford, J. A., Cavender-Bares, J., Cerabolini, B. E. L., Cervellini, M., Chacón-Madrigal, E., Chapin, K., Chapin, F. S., Chelli, S., Chen, S-C., Chen, A., Cherubini, P., Chianucci, F., Choat, B., Chung, K-S., Chytrý, M., Ciccarelli, D., Conti, L., Coomes, D., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Cornwell, W. K., Corona, P., Craine, J., Craven, D., Csecserits, A., Cufar, K., Cuntz, M., da Silva, A. C., Dahlin, K. M., Dainese, M., Dalke, I., Fratte, M. D., Dang-Le, A. T., Danihelka, J., Dannoura, M., Dawson, S., De Frutos, A., De Long, J. R., Dechant, B., Delpierre, N., Derroire, G., Dias, A. S., Diaz-Toribio, M. H., Dimitrakopoulos, P. G., Dobrowolski, M., Dřevojan, P., Dong, N., Duarte, L., Dullinger, S., Durka, W., Dymova, O., Vojtkó, A. E., Eckstein, R. L., Ejtehadi, H., Elser, J., Emilio, T., Engemann, K., Erfanian, M. B., Esquivel-Muelbert, A., Estiarte, M., Domingues, T. F., Fagan, W. F., Fagúndez, J., Falster, D. S., Fan, Y., Farris, E., Fazlioglu, F., Feng, Y., Fernandez-Mendez, F., Ferreira, J., Fidelis, A., Firn, J., Flowers, T. J., Flynn, D. F. B., Forey, E., Forgiarini, C., François, L., Frangipani, M., Freschet, G. T., Fry, E. L., Fyllas, N. M., Mazzochini, G. G., Gallagher, R., García-Palacios, P., Gargaglione, V., Garnier, E., Garrido, J. L., de Gasper, A. L., Gea-Izquierdo, G., Gibson, D., Gillison, A. N., Giroldo, A., Gleason, S., Gliesch, M., Gonzalez-Akre, E., Gonzalez-Andujar, J. L., González-Robles, A., Jessen Graae, B., Granda, E., Graves, S., Gregor, T., Gross, N., Guerin, G. R., Gutiérrez, A. G., Haddock, L., Hall, J., Han, W., Harrison, S. P., Hawes, J. E., He, P., Heberling, J. M., Helm, A., Hérault, B., Hereş, A-M., Herz, K., Heuertz, M., Hietz, P., Higuchi, P., Hipp, A. L., Hock, M., Hogan, J. A., Holl, K., Honnay, O., Hou, E., Hough-Snee, N., Hovstad, K. A., Ichie, T., Igić, B., Illa, E., Isaac, M., Ishihara, M., Ivanov, L., Ivanova, L., Iversen, C. M., Izquierdo, J., Jackson, R. B., Jackson, B., Jactel, H., Jagodzinski, A. M., Jansen, S., Jenkins, T., Jentsch, A., Jiang, G-F., Johansen, J. L., Johnson, D., Jokela, E. J., Joly, C. A., Jordan, G. J., Joseph, G. S., Junaedi, D., Junker, R. R., Justes, E., Kane, J., Kaplan, Z., Kattenborn, T., Kearsley, E., Kempel, A., Kenzo, T., Khalil, M. I., Kinlock, N. L., Kissling, W. D., Kitajima, K., Kitzberger, T., Kjøller, R., Klein, T., Kleyer, M., Klimešová, J., Klipel, J., Kloeppel, B., Kohyama, T., Koike, F., Kollmann, J., Komatsu, K., König, C., Kraft, N. J. B., Kramer, K., Kreft, H., Kühn, I., Kumarathunge, D., Kuppler, J., Kurokawa, H., Kurosawa, Y., Kuyah, S., Laclau, J-P., Lamb, E., Lamprecht, A., Larkin, D. J., Laughlin, D., Le Bagousse-Pinguet, Y., le Maire, G., le Roux, P. C., le Roux, E., Lee, T., Lens, F., Lewis, S. L., Li, Y., Lichstein, J. W., Lim, J. Y., Linares, J. C., Liu, D., Liu, U., Lohbeck, M., López-García, Á., Lopez-Gonzalez, G., Lososová, Z., Louault, F., Lukács, B. A., Lussu, M., Maciel Rabelo Pereira, C., Maire, V., Mäkelä, A., Mäkinen, H., Mendes Malhado, A. C., Mallik, A., Manning, P., Manzoni, S., Marchetti, Z., Marcilio-Silva, V., Marcon, E., Marignani, M., Markesteijn, L., Martin, A., Martínez-Garza, C., Martínez-Vilalta, J., Mašková, T., Mason, K., Mayrose, I., McCarthy, J., McCormack, M. L., McCulloh, K., McFadden, I. R., McPartland, M. Y., Medlyn, B., Mehrabi, Z., Meir, P., Melo, F. P. L., Mencuccini, M., Meredieu, C., Messier, J., Michaletz, S. T., Michelaki, C., Milla, R., Miller, J. E. D., Minden, V., Ming, R., Mokany, K., Moles, A. T., Molnár, A., Molofsky, J., Monty, A., Moreno-Martínez, A., Moretti, M., Mori, A. S., Mori, S., Morris, D., Morrison, J., Mucina, L., Muir, C. D., Müller, S. C., Munoz, F., Myers-Smith, I. H., Natesan, B., Negoita, L., Nelson, A. S., Neuschulz, E. L., Ni, J., Niedrist, G., Niinemets, Ü., Nolan, R., Nottebrock, H., Nouvellon, Y., Novakovskiy, A., Nystuen, K. O., O'Hara, K., O'Reilly-Nugent, A., Oakley, S., Oberhuber, W., Ohtsuka, T., Oliveira, R., Öllerer, K., Olson, M. E., Onipchenko, V., Onoda, Y., Onstein, R. E., Ostonen, I., Ottaviani, G., Otto, S., Overbeck, G. E., Ozinga, W. A., Paine, C. E. T., Pakeman, R. J., Papageorgiou, A. C., Pärtel, M., Paula, S., Paule, J., Pauli, H., Pausas, J. G., Peco, B., Penuelas, J., Perea, A., Peri, P., Petisco-Souza, A. C., Petraglia, A., Petritan, A. M., Phillips, O. L., Pierce, S., Pillar, V. D., Pisek, J., Poorter, H., Portsmuth, A., Poschlod, P., Powell, A. S., Power, S. A., Puglielli, G., Pyšek, P., Raevel, V., Ray, C. A., Reich, P. B., Reid, D. E. B., Réjou-Méchain, M., Resco de Dios, V., Ribeiro, S., Richardson, S., Rillig, M. C., Riviera, F., Robert, E. M. R., Robroek, B., Roddy, A., Rodrigues, A. V., Rogers, A., Rollinson, E., Rolo, V., Römermann, C., Ronzhina, D., Roscher, C., Rosell, J. A., Rosenfield, M. F., Roy, D. B., Royer-Tardif, S., Rüger, N., Ruiz-Peinado, R., Rumpf, S. B., Ryo, M., Sack, L., Salgado-Negret, B., Salguero-Gomez, R., Santa-Regina, I., Santacruz-García, A. C., Santos, J., Sardans, J., Schamp, B., Scherer-Lorenzen, M., Schleuning, M., Schmid, B., Schmidt, M., Schmitt, S., Schneider, J. V., Schowanek, S. D., Schrader, J., Schrodt, F., Schurr, F., Selaya Garvizu, G., Semchenko, M., Sfair, J. C., Sheppard, C. S., Sheremetiev, S., Shiodera, S., Shipley, B., Shovon, T. A., Siebenkäs, A., Sierra, C., Silva, V., Silva, M., Sitzia, T., Sjöman, H., Slot, M., Smith, N. G., Sodhi, D., Soltis, P., Soltis, D., Somers, B., Sonnier, G., Sørensen, M. V., Sosinski, E. E., Soudzilovskaia, N. A., Souza, A. F., Spasojevic, M., Sperandii, M. G., Stan, A. B., Stegen, J., Steinbauer, K., Stephan, J. G., Stojanovic, D. B., Svenning, J-C., Svitkova, I., Svitok, M., Svoboda, M., Swenson, N., Tabarelli, M., Takagi, K., Tappeiner, U., Tarifa, R., Tauugourdeau, S., Tavsanoglu, C., te Beest, M., Tedersoo, L., Thiffault, N., Thom, D., Thomas, E., Thornton, P. E., Thuiller, W., Tichý, L., Tissue, D., Tjoelker, M. G., Tng, D. Y. P., Tobias, J., Török, P., Tarin, T., Torres-Ruiz, J. M., Tóthmérész, B., Treurnicht, M., Trolliet, F., Trotsiuk, V., Tsakalos, J. L., Tsiripidis, I., Usoltsev, V., Vadeboncoeur, M., Valladares, F., Vamosi, J., van Bodegom, P. M., van Breugel, M., Van Cleemput, E., van der Merwe, S., van der Sande, M. T., van Kleunen, M., Van Meerbeek, K., Vanselow, K. A., Varone, L., Vasquez Valderrama, M. Y., Vassilev, K., Vellend, M., Veneklaas, E. J., Verbeeck, H., Verheyen, K., Vibrans, A., Vieira, I., Villacís, J., Violle, C., Wagner, K., Walker, A. P., Waller, M., Wang, H., Wang, F., Wang, W., Watkins, H., Weedon, J. T., Wei, L., Weigelt, P., Weiher, E., Wells, A. W., Wellstein, C., Westoby, M., White, P. J., Williams, M., Winkler, D. E., Wright, I. J., Wright, S. J., Wright, J., Pinho, B. X., Ximenes, F., Yamada, T., Yamaji, K., Yanai, R., Zanne, A. E., Zelený, D., Zheng, J., Zheng, J., Ziemińska, K., Zirbel, C. R., Zo-Bi, I. C. & Zotz, G., 1 Jan 2020, In: Global Change Biology. 26, 1, p. 119-188 70 p.

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    1271 Citations (Scopus)

  • Plant traits and species interactions along gradients of N, P and K availabilities

    Minden, V. & Olde Venterink, H., Jun 2019, In: Functional Ecology. 33, 9, p. 1611-1626 16 p.

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    33 Citations (Scopus)

  • Negative bottom-up effects of sulfadiazine, but not penicillin and tetracycline, in soil substitute on plants and higher trophic levels

    Pufal, G., Memmert, J., Leonhardt, S. & Minden, V., 1 Feb 2019, In: Environmental Pollution. 245, p. 531-544 14 p.

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    6 Citations (Scopus)
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