Bernhard Schmid

74.1k total citations · 14 hit papers
487 papers, 40.1k citations indexed

About

Bernhard Schmid is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernhard Schmid has authored 487 papers receiving a total of 40.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 287 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 200 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 143 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Bernhard Schmid's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (277 papers), Plant and animal studies (177 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (48 papers). Bernhard Schmid is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (277 papers), Plant and animal studies (177 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (48 papers). Bernhard Schmid collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and China. Bernhard Schmid's co-authors include Andy Hector, Michel Loreau, Pablo Inchausti, David A. Wardle, David U. Hooper, Nina Buchmann, Andrea B. Pfisterer, Christiane Roscher, Jin He and John H. Lawton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Bernhard Schmid

472 papers receiving 38.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY ON ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: A CONSENSUS OF CURRENT KNOWLEDGE

2005 5.7k citations Andy Hector, Bernhard Schmid et al. profile →
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges

2001 3.4k citations Andy Hector, Bernhard Schmid et al. profile →
Quantifying the evidence for biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning and services

2006 1.9k citations Bernhard Schmid et al. Ecology Letters profile →
High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

2011 1.1k citations Andy Hector, Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen et al. profile →
Consequences of biodiversity loss for litter decomposition across biomes

2014 597 citations Stefan Scheu, Bernhard Schmid et al. profile →
Selection for niche differentiation in plant communities increases biodiversity effects

2014 298 citations Debra Zuppinger‐Dingley, Bernhard Schmid et al. profile →
The Future of Complementarity: Disentangling Causes from Consequences

2018 296 citations Liesje Mommer, Gerlinde B. De Deyn et al. profile →
Multispecies forest plantations outyield monocultures across a broad range of conditions

2022 252 citations Bernhard Schmid, Zhiyao Tang et al. profile →
Tree species richness increases ecosystem carbon storage in subtropical forests

2018 242 citations Xiaojuan Liu, Stefan Trogisch et al. profile →
Biodiversity promotes ecosystem functioning despite environmental change

2021 165 citations Bernhard Schmid, Nico Eisenhauer et al. Ecology Letters profile →
Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment

2021 151 citations Franca J. Bongers, Bernhard Schmid et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment

2021 151 citations Florian Schnabel, Xiaojuan Liu et al. profile →
Biodiversity–stability relationships strengthen over time in a long-term grassland experiment

2022 98 citations Cameron Wagg, Christiane Roscher et al. profile →
Tree mycorrhizal association types control biodiversity-productivity relationship in a subtropical forest

2023 63 citations Meifeng Deng, Lulu Guo et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bernhard Schmid

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	When can we expect negative effects of plant diversity on community biomass? 2025 ·Journal of Ecology ·Eric Allan, Caterina Penone, Bernhard Schmid, Óscar Godoy, Noémie A. Pichon	1
2	Selection and Phenotypic Plasticity Shape Plant Performance in a Grassland Biodiversity Experiment 2025 ·Ecology and Evolution ·(unknown), Walter Durka, Yuanyuan Huang, Bernhard Schmid, Christiane Roscher	5
3	Functional diversity of neighbours mediates sap flow density and radial growth of focal trees, but in different ways between evergreen and deciduous broadleaved species 2024 ·Functional Ecology ·(unknown), (unknown), Xia Chen, Yanpei Guo, Hong‐Tu Zhang, Xuejiao Zhang, Shan Li, Bernhard Schmid, Helge Bruelheide, Keping Ma, Zhiyao Tang	3
4	Distribution, species richness, and relative importance of different plant life forms across drylands in China 2024 ·Plant Diversity ·Shuran Yao, Weigang Hu, Mingfei Ji, A. Allan Degen, Qiajun Du, Muhammad Adnan Akram, Yuan Sun, Ying Sun, Yan Deng, Longwei Dong, Haiyang Gong, Qingqing Hou, Shubin Xie, (unknown), Jinzhi Ran, Bernhard Schmid, Qinfeng Guo, Karl J. Niklas, Jianming Deng	5
5	Evolutionary and ecological forces shape nutrient strategies of mycorrhizal woody plants 2023 ·Ecology Letters ·Lulu Guo, Meifeng Deng, Xuefei Li, Bernhard Schmid, Junsheng Huang, Yuntao Wu, Ziyang Peng, Lu Yang, Lingli Liu	18
6	Remote Sensing‐Based Forest Modeling Reveals Positive Effects of Functional Diversity on Productivity at Local Spatial Scale 2023 ·Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Fabian Schneider, Marcos Longo, Eugénie Paul‐Limoges, (unknown), Bernhard Schmid, Felix Morsdorf, Ryan Pavlick, David Schimel, Michael E. Schaepman, P. R. Moorcroft	11
7	Enhanced stability of grassland soil temperature by plant diversity 2023 ·Nature Geoscience ·Yuanyuan Huang, Gideon Stein, Olaf Kolle, (unknown), Ernst‐Detlef Schulze, Hui Dong, David Eichenberg, Gerd Gleixner, Anke Hildebrandt, Markus Lange, Christiane Roscher, Holger Schielzeth, Bernhard Schmid, Alexandra Weigelt, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Maha Shadaydeh, Joachim Denzler, Anne Ebeling, Nico Eisenhauer	31
8	Relationships between ecosystem functions vary among years and plots and are driven by plant species richness 2023 ·Oikos ·(unknown), Wolfgang W. Weisser, Anne Ebeling, Nico Eisenhauer, Markus Lange, Yvonne Oelmann, Christiane Roscher, Holger Schielzeth, Bernhard Schmid, Wolfgang Wilcke, Sebastian T. Meyer	4
9	Effects of enemy exclusion on biodiversity–productivity relationships in a subtropical forest experiment 2022 ·Journal of Ecology ·Yuanyuan Huang, Andreas Schuldt, Lydia Hönig, Bo Yang, Xiaojuan Liu, Helge Bruelheide, Keping Ma, Bernhard Schmid, Pascal A. Niklaus	12
10	Species richness, functional traits and climate interactively affect tree survival in a large forest biodiversity experiment 2022 ·Journal of Ecology ·Xiaojuan Liu, Yuanyuan Huang, Lei Chen, Shan Li, Franca J. Bongers, Nadia Castro‐Izaguirre, Yu Liang, Bo Yang, Yuxin Chen, Florian Schnabel, Ting Tang, Yujie Xue, Stefan Trogisch, Michael Staab, Helge Bruelheide, Bernhard Schmid, Keping Ma	16
11	Removing subordinate species in a biodiversity experiment to mimic observational field studies 2022 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Bernhard Schmid, Martin Schmitz, Michael Rzanny, Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen, Peter Mwangi, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Andy Hector, (unknown), Dan F. B. Flynn	6
12	Effects of plant community history, soil legacy and plant diversity on soil microbial communities 2021 ·Journal of Ecology ·Marc W. Schmid, Sofia J. van Moorsel, Terhi Hahl, Enrica De Luca, Gerlinde B. De Deyn, Cameron Wagg, Pascal A. Niklaus, Bernhard Schmid	67
13	Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment breakdown → 2021 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Franca J. Bongers, Bernhard Schmid, Helge Bruelheide, Frans Bongers, Shan Li, Goddert von Oheimb, Yin Li, (unknown), Keping Ma, Xiaojuan Liu	151
14	Plant diversity enhances production and downward transport of biodegradable dissolved organic matter 2020 ·Journal of Ecology ·Markus Lange, Vanessa-Nina Roth, Nico Eisenhauer, Christiane Roscher, Thorsten Dittmar, Christine Fischer, (unknown), Anke Hildebrandt, Alexandru Milcu, Liesje Mommer, Natalie J. Oram, Janneke Ravenek, Stefan Scheu, Bernhard Schmid, Tanja Strecker, Cameron Wagg, Alexandra Weigelt, Gerd Gleixner	39
15	Plant responses to diversity‐driven selection and associated rhizosphere microbial communities 2019 ·Functional Ecology ·Terhi Hahl, Sofia J. van Moorsel, Marc W. Schmid, Debra Zuppinger‐Dingley, Bernhard Schmid, Cameron Wagg	17
16	Evidence for rapid evolution in a grassland biodiversity experiment 2019 ·Molecular Ecology ·Sofia J. van Moorsel, Marc W. Schmid, Niels Wagemaker, Thomas P. van Gurp, Bernhard Schmid, Philippine Vergeer	42
17	Feedbacks of plant identity and diversity on the diversity and community composition of rhizosphere microbiomes from a long‐term biodiversity experiment 2018 ·Molecular Ecology ·Marc W. Schmid, Terhi Hahl, Sofia J. van Moorsel, Cameron Wagg, Gerlinde B. De Deyn, Bernhard Schmid	41
18	The assembly of a plant network in alpine vegetation 2018 ·Journal of Vegetation Science ·Gianalberto Losapio, Marcelino de la Cruz, Adrián Escudero, Bernhard Schmid, Christian Schöb	24
19	The ecological forecast horizon, and examples of its uses and determinants 2015 ·Ecology Letters ·Owen L. Petchey, Mikael Pontarp, Thomas M. Massie, Sonia Kéfi, Arpat Özgül, M. Weilenmann, Gian Marco Palamara, Florian Altermatt, Blake Matthews, Jonathan M. Levine, Dylan Z. Childs, Brian J. McGill, Michael E. Schaepman, Bernhard Schmid, Piet Spaak, Andrew P. Beckerman, Frank Pennekamp, Ian S. Pearse	207
20	The Swiss agri‐environment scheme enhances pollinator diversity and plant reproductive success in nearby intensively managed farmland 2007 ·Journal of Applied Ecology ·Matthias Albrecht, Peter Duelli, Christine Müller, David Kleijn, Bernhard Schmid	177

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