Publications
Peer-reviewed articles
Kemppinen, J., Lembrechts, J.J., Van Meerbeek, K., Carnicer, J., Chardon, N.I., Kardol, P., Lenoir, J., Liu, D., Maclean, I.M.D., Pergl, J., Saccone, P., Senior, R.A., Shen, T., Słowińska, S., Vandvik, V., von Oppen, J., Microclimate Ecology & Biogeography conference attendants, and De Frenne, P. (2024). Microclimate, an important part of ecology and biogeography. Global Ecology and Biogeography, e13834.
Halbritter, A.H., Vandvik, V., Cotner, S., Farfan-Rios, W., Maitner, B.S., Michaletz, S., Oliveras Menor, I., Telford, R., Ccahuana, A., Cruz Chino, R., and Plant Functional Traits Courses group incl. von Oppen, J. (2024). Plant trait and vegetation data along a 1314 m elevation gradient with fire history in Puna grasslands, Perú. Scientific Data 11, 225.
von Oppen, J., Assmann, J.J., Bjorkman, A.D., Treier, U.A., Elberling, B., and Normand, S. (2024). Microclimate explains little variation in year-round decomposition across an Arctic tundra landscape. Nordic Journal of Botany 2024(3), e04062.
von Oppen, J., Assmann, J.J., Bjorkman, A.D., Treier, U.A., Elberling, B., Nabe-Nielsen, J., and Normand, S. (2022).
Cross-scale regulation of seasonal microclimate by vegetation and snow in the Arctic tundra. Global Change Biology
28(24), pp. 7296-7312. (plus the issue cover image)
Lembrechts, J.J., van den Hoogen, J., Aalto, J., Ashcroft, M.B., De Frenne, P., Kemppinen, J., Kopecký, M., Luoto, M., Maclean, I.M.D., Crowther, T., Bailey, J.J., Haesen, S., Klinges, D.H., Niittynen, P., Scheffers, B., van Meerbeek, K., and SoilTemp Initiative incl. von Oppen, J. (2022). Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology 28(9), pp. 3110-3144.
Kwon, T.O., Shibata, H., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Schmidt, I.K., Larsen, K.S., Beier, C., Berg, B., Verheyen, K., Lamarque, J.-F., Hagedorn, F., Eisenhauer, N., Djukic, I., and TeaComposition Network incl. von Oppen, J. (2021). Effects of climate and atmospheric nitrogen deposition on early- to mid-term stage litter decomposition across biomes. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 4, 678480.
von Oppen, J., Normand, S., Bjorkman, A.D., Blach Overgaard, A., Assmann, J.J., Forchhammer, M., Guéguen, M., and Nabe-Nielsen, J. (2021). Annual air temperature variability and biotic interactions explain tundra shrub species abundance. Journal of Vegetation Science 32(2), e13009.
Chacón-Labella, J., Boakye, M., Enquist, B.E., Farfan-Rios, W., Gya, R., Halbritter, A.H., Middleton, S.L., von Oppen, J., Pastor-Ploskonka, S., Strydom, T., Vandvik, V., and Geange, S.R. (2021). From a crisis to an opportunity: Eight insights for doing science in the COVID-19 era and beyond. Ecology and Evolution 11(8), pp. 3588–3596.
Geange, S.R.*, von Oppen, J.*, Strydom, T.*, Boakye, M., Gauthier, T-L.J., Gya, R., Halbritter, A.H., Jessup, L.H., Middleton, S.L., Navarro, J., Pierfederici, M.E., Chacón-Labella, J., Cotner, S., Farfán-Rios, W., Maitner, B.S., Michaletz, S., Telford, R.J., Enquist, B.E., and Vandvik, V. (2021). Next generation field courses: Integrating Open Science and online learning. Ecology and Evolution 11(8), pp. 3577–3587.
* shared lead authors
Djukic, I., Kepfer-Rojas, S., Schmidt, I.K., Larsen, K.S., Beier, C., Berg, B., Verheyen, K., and TeaComposition Network incl. von Oppen, J. (2018). Early stage litter decomposition across biomes. Science of the Total Environment 628-629, pp. 1369-1394.
Blume-Werry, G., Lindén, E., Andresen, L., Classen, A.T., Sanders, N.J., von Oppen, J., and Sundqvist, M.J. (2018). Proportion of fine roots, but not plant biomass allocation belowground, increases with elevation in Arctic tundra. Journal of Vegetation Science 29(2), pp. 226-235.
Metz, J., von Oppen, J., and Tielbörger, K. (2015). Parental environmental effects due to contrasting watering adapt competitive ability, but not drought tolerance, in offspring of a semi-arid annual Brassicaceae. Journal of Ecology 103(4), pp. 990-997.
theses
von Oppen, J. (2022). Arctic shrubs between macro- and microclimate: lessons across scales from Western Greenland. PhD thesis. Aarhus University, Denmark.
von Oppen, J. (2017). Tea Time On The Summits: Leaf litter decomposition in the alpine environment. Master thesis. University of Tübingen, Germany.
von Oppen, J. (2013). The interplay of interactions and parental effects on the performance of a semiarid annual plant species along an aridity gradient. Bachelor thesis. University of Tübingen, Germany.
Preprints (not peer-reviewed)
Thomas, H.J.D., Myers-Smith, I.H., Høye, T.T., Petit Bon, M., Lembrechts, J.J., Walker, E.R., Björnsdóttir, K., Barrio, I.C., Jónsdóttir, I.S., Venn, S., Alatalo, J.M., Baltzer, J., Wallace, C., Ackerman, D., Gough, L., Prevéy, J.S., and TundraTeabag Network incl. von Oppen, J. (2023). Litter quality outweighs climate as a driver of decomposition across the tundra biome. EcoEvoRxiv. (in review at Nature Communications)
blog and Popular Science articles
von Oppen, J., Gya, R., Geange, S.R., Strydom, T., Middleton, S.L., and Maitner, B.S. (2021). Next Generation Field Courses: enhancing ECR development through Open Science and online learning. Ecology for the Masses.
Cotner, S., Enquist, B.J., Chacón-Labella, J., Maitner, B.S., Farfan-Rios, W., Michaletz, S.T., Garen, J., Gauthier, T-L.J., Vandvik, V., Gya, R., Halbritter, A.H., Gaudard, J., Hoskova, K., Pierfederici, M.E., Quinteros-Casaverde, N., Sánchez-Díaz, E., Jessup, L.H., Strydom, T., and von Oppen, J. (2020). International scientists need better support during global emergencies. Times Higher Education.
von Oppen, J. (2018). From Peaks to Pipettes, or The Bull in the China Shop. Functional Ecologists blog.
Presentations
von Oppen, J., and Rumpf, S. (2024). MAPLe: Microhabitats for Alpine Plant Life. Biennial meeting of the International Biogeography Society, Prague, Czech Republic, 08-10 January 2024 & biology24, Zürich, Switzerland, 18-19 January 2024. (Poster presentation)
von Oppen, J., Boulangeat, I., and Normand, S. (2022). TundraFATE: towards predicting succession across an Arctic tundra landscape. Annual meeting of the British Ecological Society, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 19-21 December 2022 & Macroecology and Biogeography meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Bayreuth, Germany, 04-06 May 2023. (Poster presentation)
von Oppen, J., Assmann, J.J., Bjorkman, A.D., Treier, U.A., Elberling, B., and Normand, S. (2022). Litter decomposition in relationship to canopy traits, plant cover and soil properties across an Arctic tundra landscape. Microclimate Ecology and Biogeography conference. Antwerp, Belgium, 30 August – 01 September 2022. (Oral presentation)
von Oppen, J., Assmann, J.J., Bjorkman, A.D., Treier, U.A., Elberling, B., Nabe-Nielsen, J., and Normand, S. (2022). Cross-scale regulation of seasonal microclimate by vegetation and snow in the Arctic tundra. Ecology and Evolution for a Changing World: The fifth conference of the Nordic Society Oikos. Aarhus, Denmark, 08-10 June 2022. (Oral presentation)
Egelkraut, D.D., Geange, S.R., Ocampo-Zuleta, K., von Oppen, J., Rickenback, J., Strydom, T., Vilca Bustamante, L., et al. (2022). Fire and elevation affect plant communities and functional traits in Peruvian Puna grasslands. Ecology and Evolution for a Changing World: The fifth conference of the Nordic Society Oikos. Aarhus, Denmark, 08-10 June 2022. (Poster presentation)
von Oppen, J., Assmann, J.J., Bjorkman, A.D., Treier, U.A., Elberling, B., Nabe-Nielsen, J., and Normand, S. (2020). Local vegetation and terrain effects on differences between above- and belowground temperature in arctic tundra. Biannual meeting of the Danish Society Oikos (online),
10 March 2021. (Oral presentation)
von Oppen, J., Assmann, J.J., Bjorkman, A.D., Treier, U.A., Elberling, B., Nabe-Nielsen, J., and Normand, S. (2020). Shrubs and bryophytes control microclimate across an arctic tundra landscape. Ecology in the Anthropocene: The fourth conference of the Nordic Society Oikos. Reykjavík, Iceland, 03-05 March 2020. (Poster presentation)
Assmann, J.J., von Oppen, J., Baines, O.A., Bjorkman, A.D., Treier, U.A., and Normand, S. (2019). High variation in microclimate, plants and terrain in Disko Island’s tundra landscape. Annual Meeting of the British Ecological Society, Belfast, United Kingdom, 10-13 December 2019. (Oral presentation)
von Oppen, J., and Wipf, S. (2018). Teesatz mit Aussicht: was verwesende Blätter über die Zukunft alpiner Ökosysteme erzählen (Tea With a View: what rotting leaves tell about the future of alpine ecosystems). Phil.Alp/Alp.relève: the alps from the view of young researchers. Swiss Interacademic Commission for Alpine Studies. Fribourg, Switzerland, 01-02 March 2018. (Oral presentation, in German)
von Oppen, J., Veen, C., Robroek, B., and Wipf, S. (2017). Tea Time On the Summits: Belowground processes rather than temperature determine alpine leaf litter decomposition. Ecology Across Borders. Ghent, Belgium, 12-14 December 2017. (Poster presentation)