Holger Kreft

in press

Sommer, J.H., Kreft, H., Kier, G., Jetz, W., Mutke, J. & Barthlott, W. (in press): Projected impacts of climate change on regional capacities for global plant species richness. - Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Golding, J., Waylen, K., Güsewell, S., Kreft, H., Kuzevanov, V.Y., Lehvävirta, S., Parmentier, I. & Pautasso, M. (in press): Species-richness patterns of the living collections of the world’s botanic gardens: a matter of socio-economics?. - Annals of Botany.

Laube, S., Leiva, M.G., Nauheimer, L., Wanek, W., Kreft, H., Zotz, G. (in press): Taxonomic and functional diversity of vascular epiphytes at Rio Changuinola, Panama. Flora.

published

Bass, M., Finer, M., Jenkins, C.N., Kreft, H., Cisneros-Heredia, D.F., McCracken, S.F., Pitman, N.C.A., English, P. H., Swing, K., Villa, G., Di Fiore, A., Kunz, T. H.& Voigt, C.C. (2010). Global conservation significance of Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park. - PLoS One 5: E8767. Media coverage: NY Times, Nature Blog.

Kier, G., Kreft, H., Lee, T.M., Jetz, W., Ibisch, P.I., Nowicki, C., Mutke, J. & Barthlott, W. (2009): A global assessment of endemism and species richness across island and mainland regions. - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 9322–9327. (pdf, suppl. information).
Links to press releases: Uni Bonn (German, English), UCSD (English)
Media coverage: BBC, New Scientist, Scientific American
highlighted by Faculty of 1000

Jetz, W., Kreft, H., Ceballos, G. & Mutke, J. (2009): Global associations between terrestrial producer and vertebrate consumer diversity. - Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276: 269–278. (pdf).

Kreft, H., Jetz, W., Mutke, J., Kier, G. & Barthlott W. (2008): Global diversity of island floras from a macroecological perspective. - Ecology Letters 11: 116-127. (pdf). (Cover Article; highlighted by Faculty of 1000).

Kreft, H. & Jetz, W. (2007): Global patterns and determinants of vascular plant diversity. - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104: 5925-5930. (pdf).

Links to press releases: Uni Bonn (in German) UCSD (in English)

Barthlott, W., Hostert, A., Kier, G., Küper, W., Kreft, H., Mutke, J., Rafiqpoor, M.D. & Sommer, H. (2007): Geographic patterns of vascular plant diversity at continental to global scales. Erdkunde 61: 305-315. (pdf).

Schmidt, M., Kreft, H., Thiombiano, A. & Zizka, G. (2007): Indicator value of different vascular plants families for overall plant diversity in the savanna belt of Western Africa. - Ecotropica 13: 135-142. (pdf).

Thiombiano, A., Schmidt, M., Kreft, H., Guinko, S. (2006): Influence of the climatic gradient on the distribution of Combretaceae species in Burkina Faso (West Africa). - Candollea 61: 189-203. (pdf).

Kreft, H., Sommer, J. H. and Barthlott, W. (2006): The significance of geographic range size for the explanation of spatial diversity patterns in Neotropical palms. - Ecography 29: 21-30. (pdf,  Appendix).

Kier, G., Mutke, J., Dinerstein, E., Ricketts, T.H., Küper, W., Kreft, H. and Barthlott, W. (2005): Global patterns of plant diversity and floristic knowledge. - Journal of Biogeography 32: 1107-1116. (pdf). [Highlighted by SCIENCE and Nature]

Schmidt, M., Kreft, H., Thiombiano, A. and Zizka, G. (2005): Herbarium collections and field data-based plant diversity maps for Burkina Faso . - Diversity and Distributions 11: 509-516. (pdf).

Kreft, H., Köster, N., Küper, W., Nieder, J. & Barthlott, W. (2004): Diversity and biogeography of vascular epiphytes in Western Amazonia (Yasuní, Ecuador). - Journal of Biogeography 31: 1463-1476. (pdf, Appendix ).

Küper, W., Kreft, H., Köster, N., Nieder, J. & Barthlott, W. (2004): Large scale diversity patterns of vascular epiphytes in Neotropical montane rain forests. - Journal of Biogeography 31: 1477-1487. (pdf).

Other articles, popular articles, book chapters

Mutke, J., Kreft, H., Kier, G. & Barthlott, W. (2010): European plant diversity in the global context. In: J. Settele, L. Penev, T. Georgiev, R. Grabaum, V. Grobelnik, V. Hammen, S. Klotz and I. Kühn (eds.). Atlas of Biodiversity Risk. Pensoft Publishers: Sofia-Moscow, 4-5. (pdf).

Barthlott, W., Mutke, J., Rafiqpoor, M. D., Kier, G. & Kreft, H. (2005): Global centres of vascular plant diversity. - Nova Acta Leopoldina NF 92, Nr. 342: 61-83. (pdf).

Barthlott, W., Cerman, Z., Stosch, A. and Kreft, H. (2005): Lotus-Effekt und Titanenwurz - Biodiversität und ihre technische Nutzung. - In: Bundesamt für Naturschutz. (eds.), Zukunftsfaktor Natur - Blickpunkt Naturnutzung. Landwirtschaftsverlag, Münster.

Kreft, H. & Köster, N. (2004): Vascular Epiphytes of the Yasuní. Color guide series. Field Museum, Chicago (US).

Kier, G., Mutke, J., Küper, W., Kreft, H. & Barthlott, W. (2002): Richness of Vascular Plant Species of the Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World. Final project report to the WWF-US.

Theses

Kreft, H. (2002): Biogeographie und Diversität vaskulärer Epiphyten eines westamazonischen Tieflandregenwaldes (Tiputini, Ecuador) im Kontext neotropischer Epiphytendiversität. Diploma thesis, Botanisches Institut, University Bonn.