Most ecosystems worldwide are facing unprecedented pressure from abiotic and biotic stressors such as elevated atmospheric CO2, climate warming, increased nitrogen deposition, and invasion of non-native species. Numerous short-term studies have shown the impact of single climate change factors on focal species, but extending these results to predict real world consequences of climate change remains contentious. I use two complementary approaches to understand the broad-scale and long-term impact of climate stressors on naturally complex ecosystems.

First, I conduct surveys using field sampling and spatially explicit literature reviews to determine how food web structure and species traits change across natural climate gradients. Second, I conduct experimental climate manipulations in the field to determine the sensitivity of species interactions and ecosystem processes to changes in climate.

Collaborators: Bert Drake, Mark Gessner, Nico Eisenhauer, Elizabeth Borer, Dana Blumenthal

Selected Publications:

Year	Citation	pdf
2020	Bowler, D.E., Bjorkmann, A., Navarro, L., Niamir, A., Waldock, C., Dornelas, M., O’Connor, M., Supp, S., Böhning-Gaese, K., Bruelheide, H., Elahi, R., Henriques Antao, L., Hines, J. , Isbell, F., Jones, H., Magurran, A., Sarmento Cabral, J., Winter, M. Vellend, M. & A.E. Bates. 2020. Geography of the Anthropocene: eleven co-occurrence regions define global patterns of biodiversity change drivers. People and Nature Accepted 28 Nov 2019	link
2020	Buzhdygan, O., S. T. Meyer, W. W. Weisser, N. Eisenhauer, A. Ebeling, S. R. Borrett, N. Buchmann, R. Cortois, G. De Deyn, H. de Kroon, G. Gleixner, L. Hertzog, J. Hines, M. Lange, L. Mommer, J. Ravenek, C. Scherber, M. Scherer-Lorenzen, S. Scheu, B. Schmid, K. Steinauer, T. Strecker, B. Tietjen, A. Vogel, A. Weigelt, J. S. Petermann. 2020. Biodiversity increases multitrophic energy use efficiency, flow and storage in grasslands. Nature Ecology and Evolution.	link
2019	Blowes, S. and S. Supp, L. Antão, A. Bates, H. Bruelheide, J. Chase, F. Moyes, A. Magurran, B. McGill, I. Myers-Smith, M. Winter, A. Bjorkman, D. Bowler, J. E.K. Byrnes, A. Gonzalez, J. Hines, F. Isbell, H. Jones, L. M. Navarro, P. Thompson, M. Vellend, C. Waldock, M. Dornelas. 2019. Biodiversity trends are stronger in marine than terrestrial assemblages. Science: Accepted Preprint online at Biorxiv: doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/457424
2018	N. Eisenhauer, J. Hines, F. Isbell, F. van der Plas, S. E. Hobbie, C. E. Kazanski, A. Lehmann, M. Liu, A. Lochner, M. C. Rillig, K. Worm, P. B. Reich. Accepted 2018. Plant diversity maintains multiple soil functions in future environments. eLife.	pdf
2018	Giling, DP., L. Beaumelle, H. Phillips, S. Cesarz, O. Ferlian, F. Gottschall, C. Guerra, J. Hines, A. Sendek, J. Siebert, A. Barnes. 2018. A niche for ecosystem multifunctionality in global change research. Global Change Biology 25: 763-774.	link
2018	Bowler, D.E., Bjorkmann, A., Navarro, L., Niamir, A., Waldock, C., Dornelas, M., O’Connor, M., Supp, S., Böhning-Gaese, K., Bruelheide, H., Elahi, R., Henriques Antao, L., Hines, J., Isbell, F., Jones, H., Magurran, A., Sarmento Cabral, J., Winter, M., Vellend, M. & A.E. Bates. Geography of the Anthropocene: eleven co-occurrence regions define global patterns of biodiversity change drivers. preprint online at Biorxiv	preprint
2018	Eisenhauer, N., S. Hermann, J. Hines , F. Buscot, J. Siebert, M. P. Thakur. Accepted 2018. The dark side of animal phenology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution.	link
2017	Hines, J., S. Pabst, K. E. Mueller, S. Cesarz, D. M. Blumenthal, N. Eisenhauer. 2017. Soil-mediated effects of global change on plants communities depend on plant growth form. Ecosphere: 8 (11) e01996	pdf
2016	Hines, J.E., M. Reyes, M.O. Gessner. 2016. Density constrains cascading consequences of warming and nitrogen from invertebrate growth to litter decomposition. Ecology 97: 1635-1642	pdf
2016	Mueller, K., D. M. Blumenthal, Y. Carrillo, S. Cesarz, M. Ciobanu, J. Hines, S. Pabst, E. Pendall, C. Milano de Tomasel, D. H. Wall, N. Eisenhauer. 2016. Elevated CO2 and warming shift the functional composition of soil nematode communities in a semiarid grassland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 103: 46-51.	pdf
2015	Hines, J., N. Eisenhauer, B. Drake. 2015. Inter-annual changes in detritus-based food chains can enhance plant growth response to elevated atmospheric CO2. Global Change Biology 21: 4642-4650	pdf
2014	Hines, J.E., M. Reyes, T. Mozdzer, M.O. Gessner. 2014. Genotypic trait variation modifies effects of climate warming and nitrogen deposition on litter mass loss and microbial respiration. Global Change Biology 20: 3780–3789.	pdf
2014	Schäller, J., J. Hines, C. Brackhage, E. Bäucker, and M.O. Gessner. 2014. Silica supply decouples fungal growth and litter mass loss but does not change responses of decomposition to climate warming and N enrichment. Ecology 95: 3181–3189.	pdf
2013	Hines, J., A. Hammrich, D. Steiner, and M.O. Gessner. 2013. A field facility to simulate climate warming and increased nutrient supply in shallow aquatic ecosystems. Oecologia: 173:1169-1178.	pdf