Beat Frey

12.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
181 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Beat Frey is a scholar working on Ecology, Plant Science and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Beat Frey has authored 181 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Ecology, 62 papers in Plant Science and 45 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Beat Frey's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (58 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (45 papers) and Polar Research and Ecology (34 papers). Beat Frey is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (58 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (45 papers) and Polar Research and Ecology (34 papers). Beat Frey collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, China and United Kingdom. Beat Frey's co-authors include Martin Hartmann, Franco Widmer, Ivano Brunner, Paul Mäder, Jochen Mayer, Stephan Zimmermann, Beat Stierli, H. Schüepp, Jonathan Donhauser and Nicole Regier and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Beat Frey

179 papers receiving 8.8k citations

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Distinct soil microbial diversity under long-term organic and conventional farming

2014 1.0k citations Martin Hartmann, Beat Frey et al. The ISME Journal profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Comparing soil microarthropod communities derived directly from soil DNA metabarcoding with those from morphological assessment in a drought-prone and irrigated pine forest 2025 ·Applied Soil Ecology ·Jessica Cuartero, Ivano Brunner, Marcus Schaub, Dariusz J. Gwiazdowicz, Piotr Skubała, (unknown), Paul Henning Krogh, Beat Frey	1
2	Increased carbon inputs alter soil microbial genetic potential for biogeochemical cycling in Arctic ecosystems 2025 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·Jessica Cuartero, Carla Perez-Mon, Weihong Qi, Beat Stierli, Beat Frey, Gilda Varliero	1
3	Permafrost thawing by soil transplantation alters the functional genetic potential of the alpine permafrost microbiome 2025 ·Geoderma ·(unknown), Gilda Varliero, Carla Perez-Mon, Serina L. Robinson, Weihong Qi, Beat Stierli, Beat Frey	1
4	Determinism and stochasticity drive microbial community assembly and microbial interactions in calcareous glacier forefields 2025 ·Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·(unknown), Maraike Probst, (unknown), Beat Frey, Luis M. Rodriguez‐R, Flavio Fornasier, Nadine Praeg, Paul Illmer, Ursula Peintner	1
5	Effects of organic nitrogen addition on soil microbial community assembly patterns in the Sanjiang Plain wetlands, northeastern China 2024 ·Applied Soil Ecology ·Mingyu Wang, Beat Frey, Detian Li, Xiangyu Liu, Chengrong Chen, Yingnan Liu, Rongtao Zhang, Xin Sui, Mai‐He Li	9
6	Maize–peanut intercropping and N fertilization changed the potential nitrification rate by regulating the ratio of AOB to AOA in soils 2024 ·DORA WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research) ·(unknown), Fengyan Zhao, (unknown), Wei Bai, Feng Chen, Anita C. Risch, Liangshan Feng, Beat Frey	0
7	Long-term grazing reduces soil fungal network complexity but enhances plant-soil microbe network connectivity in a semi-arid grassland 2024 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·(unknown), (unknown), Taogetao Baoyin, Xingguo Han, Beat Frey, Juejie Yang, Shikui Dong	4
8	Global hierarchical meta-analysis to identify the factors for controlling effects of antibiotics on soil microbiota 2024 ·Environment International ·Mingyu Wang, Detian Li, (unknown), Chengrong Chen, Beat Frey, Xin Sui, Mai‐He Li	5
9	Searching for new plastic-degrading enzymes from the plastisphere of alpine soils using a metagenomic mining approach 2024 ·PLoS ONE ·Beat Frey, (unknown), (unknown), Joel Rüthi, (unknown), Beat Stierli, Weihong Qi, Ivano Brunner	7
10	Climatic shifts threaten alpine mycorrhizal communities above the treeline 2023 ·Fungal ecology ·(unknown), Martin I. Bidartondo, Tuula Niskanen, Ivano Brunner, Stephan Zimmermann, Béatrice Senn-Irlet, Beat Frey, Ursula Peintner, Tanja Mrak, Laura M. Suz	3
11	Glacial Water: A Dynamic Microbial Medium 2023 ·Microorganisms ·Gilda Varliero, Pedro H. Lebre, Beat Frey, Andrew G. Fountain, Alexandre M. Anesio, Don A. Cowan	8
12	Soil fauna drives vertical redistribution of soil organic carbon in a long‐term irrigated dry pine forest 2022 ·Global Change Biology ·Claudia Guidi, Beat Frey, Ivano Brunner, Katrin Meusburger, (unknown), Xiaomei Chen, (unknown), Dariusz J. Gwiazdowicz, Piotr Skubała, Arun K. Bose, Marcus Schaub, Andreas Rigling, Frank Hagedorn	29
13	Glacier forelands reveal fundamental plant and microbial controls on short‐term ecosystem nitrogen retention 2021 ·Journal of Ecology ·Franciska T. de Vries, Cécile Thion, Michael Bahn, (unknown), Sébastien Cecillon, Beat Frey, Helen Grant, Graeme W. Nicol, Wolfgang Wanek, James I. Prosser, Richard D. Bardgett	13
14	Shotgun metagenomics reveals distinct functional diversity and metabolic capabilities between 12 000-year-old permafrost and active layers on Muot da Barba Peider (Swiss Alps) 2021 ·Microbial Genomics ·Carla Perez-Mon, Weihong Qi, Surendra Vikram, Aline Frossard, Thulani P. Makhalanyane, Don A. Cowan, Beat Frey	18
15	Habitat specialisation controls ectomycorrhizal fungi above the treeline in the European Alps 2020 ·New Phytologist ·(unknown), Martin I. Bidartondo, Tuula Niskanen, James J. Clarkson, Ivano Brunner, Stephan Zimmermann, Béatrice Senn-Irlet, Beat Frey, Ursula Peintner, Tanja Mrak, Laura M. Suz	30
16	Microbial succession on decomposing root litter in a drought-prone Scots pine forest 2019 ·The ISME Journal ·Claude Herzog, Martin Hartmann, Beat Frey, Beat Stierli, Cornélia Rumpel, Nina Buchmann, Ivano Brunner	88
17	Changes in rhizosphere bacterial populations during phytoextraction of heavy metal contaminated soil with poplar 2010 ·Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology ·Beat Frey, (unknown), Franco Widmer	4
18	The Modified Flavonol Glycosylation Profile in the Arabidopsis rol1 Mutants Results in Alterations in Plant Growth and Cell Shape Formation 2008 ·The Plant Cell ·Christoph Ringli, Laurent Bigler, Benjamin M. Kuhn, (unknown), Anouck Diet, Diana Santelia, Beat Frey, Stephan Pollmann, Markus Klein	86
19	Influence of metal contamination on soil parameters in a lysimeter experiment designed to evaluate phytostabilization by afforestation 2006 ·DORA Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa)) ·Bernd Nowack, (unknown), Beat Frey, Manoj Menon, Rainer Schulin, (unknown), Jörg Luster	20
20	ACTIN2 Is Essential for Bulge Site Selection and Tip Growth during Root Hair Development of Arabidopsis 2002 ·PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Christoph Ringli, Nicolas Baumberger, Anouck Diet, Beat Frey, Beat Keller	119

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