Christian Wirth

33.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
178 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Christian Wirth is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Wirth has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 89 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 37 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Christian Wirth's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (72 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (49 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (34 papers). Christian Wirth is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (72 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (49 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (34 papers). Christian Wirth collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Christian Wirth's co-authors include Ernst‐Detlef Schulze, Jens Kattge, Jens Schumacher, Martin Heimann, Thomas Raddatz, Wolfgang Knorr, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen, William K. Cornwell, Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen and Amy E. Zanne and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Christian Wirth

171 papers receiving 9.1k citations

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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.

Quantifying photosynthetic capacity and its relationship to leaf nitrogen content for global‐scale terrestrial biosphere models

2009 520 citations Jens Kattge, Wolfgang Knorr et al. Global Change Biology profile →
The Future of Complementarity: Disentangling Causes from Consequences

2018 296 citations Kathryn E. Barry, Christian Wirth et al. profile →
Tree species richness increases ecosystem carbon storage in subtropical forests

2018 242 citations Xiaojuan Liu, Stefan Trogisch et al. 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 →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian Wirth Germany	51	5.0k	4.5k	2.2k	1.8k	1.6k	178	9.4k
James M. Vose United States	57	6.9k 1.4×	3.9k 0.9×	3.4k 1.6×	2.2k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	209	11.3k
Deborah A. Clark United States	51	4.3k 0.9×	6.0k 1.3×	2.5k 1.1×	1.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	126	10.4k
Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen Germany	55	3.9k 0.8×	6.4k 1.4×	2.7k 1.2×	2.7k 1.5×	681 0.4×	162	11.2k
Zhiyao Tang China	50	3.5k 0.7×	4.4k 1.0×	2.6k 1.2×	1.7k 0.9×	968 0.6×	237	9.4k
Patrick González United States	18	5.6k 1.1×	3.8k 0.8×	2.4k 1.1×	1.5k 0.8×	2.5k 1.5×	29	8.6k
Jennifer S. Powers United States	45	3.4k 0.7×	3.4k 0.8×	1.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	863 0.5×	136	7.2k
Jeffrey Q. Chambers United States	43	6.6k 1.3×	5.9k 1.3×	2.7k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	141	10.8k
Níro Higuchi Brazil	44	6.1k 1.2×	6.3k 1.4×	2.3k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	217	10.5k
Yves Bergeron Canada	52	5.6k 1.1×	3.7k 0.8×	2.2k 1.0×	875 0.5×	2.5k 1.5×	224	8.3k
Dominique Bachelet United States	31	7.4k 1.5×	3.8k 0.9×	2.5k 1.1×	1.7k 0.9×	3.0k 1.9×	66	10.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Wirth

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Sanaei, Anvar, Fons van der Plas, Justus Hennecke, et al.. (2025). Tree growth is better explained by absorptive fine root traits than by transport fine root traits. Communications Biology. 8(1). 313–313. 1 indexed citations

Wirth, Christian, Adam Thomas Clark, Michael Crawford, et al.. (2025). How size and resource traits control species' biomass in monoculture and mixture and drive biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships. Oikos. 2025(10).

Schnabel, Florian, Peter Dietrich, Nico Eisenhauer, et al.. (2024). Forest growth resistance and resilience to the 2018–2020 drought depend on tree diversity and mycorrhizal type. Journal of Ecology. 112(8). 1787–1803. 17 indexed citations

Kattenborn, Teja, Sebastian Wieneke, David Montero, et al.. (2024). Temporal dynamics in vertical leaf angles can confound vegetation indices widely used in Earth observations. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 8 indexed citations

Sanaei, Anvar, Hartmut Herrmann, Olga Ferlian, et al.. (2023). Changes in biodiversity impact atmospheric chemistry and climate through plant volatiles and particles. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 17 indexed citations

Staude, Ingmar R., Alexandra Weigelt, & Christian Wirth. (2023). Biodiversity change in light of succession theory. Oikos. 2023(11). 16 indexed citations

Costa, David Schellenberger, Martin Freiberg, Rafaël Govaerts, et al.. (2023). The big four of plant taxonomy – a comparison of global checklists of vascular plant names. New Phytologist. 240(4). 1687–1702. 21 indexed citations

Schuldt, Andreas, Xiaojuan Liu, François Buscot, et al.. (2023). Carbon–biodiversity relationships in a highly diverse subtropical forest. Global Change Biology. 29(18). 5321–5333. 27 indexed citations

Guimarães‐Steinicke, Claudia, Alexandra Weigelt, Anne Ebeling, Nico Eisenhauer, & Christian Wirth. (2022). Diversity Effects on Canopy Structure Change throughout a Growing Season in Experimental Grassland Communities. Remote Sensing. 14(7). 1557–1557. 6 indexed citations

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Mahecha, Miguel D., Francesco María Sabatini, Christian Wirth, et al.. (2022). Citizen science plant observations encode global trait patterns. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(12). 1850–1859. 29 indexed citations

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Schnabel, Florian, Rolf A. Engelmann, Anja Kahl, et al.. (2021). Cumulative growth and stress responses to the 2018–2019 drought in a European floodplain forest. Global Change Biology. 28(5). 1870–1883. 50 indexed citations

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Guimarães‐Steinicke, Claudia, Alexandra Weigelt, Raphaël Proulx, et al.. (2021). Biodiversity facets affect community surface temperature via 3D canopy structure in grassland communities. Journal of Ecology. 109(5). 1969–1985. 18 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Anja, Jes Hines, Manfred Türke, et al.. (2021). The iDiv Ecotron—A flexible research platform for multitrophic biodiversity research. Ecology and Evolution. 11(21). 15174–15190. 12 indexed citations

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Sendek, Agnieszka, Fons van der Plas, Christiane Schulz‐Zunkel, et al.. (2021). Topographical factors related to flooding frequency promote ecosystem multifunctionality of riparian floodplains. Ecological Indicators. 132. 108312–108312. 12 indexed citations

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Crawford, Michael, Kathryn E. Barry, Adam Thomas Clark, et al.. (2021). The function‐dominance correlation drives the direction and strength of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships. Ecology Letters. 24(9). 1762–1775. 20 indexed citations

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Künstler, Georges, Sophia Ratcliffe, Nadja Rüger, et al.. (2020). Demographic performance of European tree species at their hot and cold climatic edges. Journal of Ecology. 109(2). 1041–1054. 36 indexed citations

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Rüger, Nadja, Richard Condit, Daisy H. Dent, et al.. (2020). Demographic trade-offs predict tropical forest dynamics. Science. 368(6487). 165–168. 115 indexed citations

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Craven, Dylan, Marten Winter, Jitendra Gaikwad, et al.. (2019). Evolution of interdisciplinarity in biodiversity science. Ecology and Evolution. 9(12). 6744–6755. 22 indexed citations

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Bouriaud, Olivier, Marius Teodosiu, Alexander V. Kirdyanov, & Christian Wirth. (2015). Influence of wood density in tree-ring-based annual productivity assessments and its errors in Norway spruce. Biogeosciences. 12(20). 6205–6217. 31 indexed citations

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Kattge, Jens, Wolfgang Knorr, Thomas Raddatz, & Christian Wirth. (2009). Quantifying photosynthetic capacity and its relationship to leaf nitrogen content for global‐scale terrestrial biosphere models. Global Change Biology. 15(4). 976–991. 520 indexed citations breakdown →

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