Eric Allan

12.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Eric Allan is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric Allan has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 42 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 24 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Eric Allan's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (51 papers), Plant and animal studies (34 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers). Eric Allan is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (51 papers), Plant and animal studies (34 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (13 papers). Eric Allan collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and Spain. Eric Allan's co-authors include Markus Fischer, Santiago Soliveres, Fernando T. Maestre, Peter Manning, Fons van der Plas, Georgina M. Mace, Mark J. Whittingham, Christiane Roscher, Michael J. Crawley and Wolfgang W. Weisser and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Eric Allan

67 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality

2018 720 citations Peter Manning, Santiago Soliveres et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eric Allan Switzerland	26	1.4k	978	940	748	714	70	2.9k
S. Luke Flory United States	33	1.7k 1.2×	1000 1.0×	1.3k 1.4×	1.2k 1.6×	576 0.8×	108	3.1k
Fons van der Plas Netherlands	19	1.7k 1.2×	899 0.9×	836 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	1.4k 1.9×	47	3.6k
Sabrina E. Russo United States	27	1.6k 1.1×	911 0.9×	623 0.7×	901 1.2×	734 1.0×	66	2.7k
Jane Cowles United States	14	1.4k 1.0×	662 0.7×	500 0.5×	1.1k 1.5×	1.1k 1.5×	17	3.0k
Yann Hautier Netherlands	26	2.1k 1.5×	1.3k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	1.4k 1.8×	911 1.3×	72	3.9k
Sara E. Kuebbing United States	26	917 0.6×	604 0.6×	852 0.9×	760 1.0×	415 0.6×	69	2.3k
Daniel Renison Argentina	33	1.9k 1.4×	909 0.9×	738 0.8×	1.1k 1.4×	944 1.3×	135	3.2k
Robert Bagchi United States	25	2.3k 1.6×	1.1k 1.1×	797 0.8×	1.1k 1.5×	1.4k 2.0×	49	3.8k
Carri J. LeRoy United States	21	1.3k 0.9×	779 0.8×	649 0.7×	1.3k 1.7×	373 0.5×	54	2.8k
Andrew S. MacDougall Canada	29	2.3k 1.6×	1.3k 1.3×	947 1.0×	1.6k 2.1×	813 1.1×	76	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Eric Allan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Eric Allan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Eric Allan

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All Works

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Allan, Eric, Caterina Penone, Bernhard Schmid, Óscar Godoy, & Noémie A. Pichon. (2025). When can we expect negative effects of plant diversity on community biomass?. Journal of Ecology. 113(8). 1955–1969. 1 indexed citations

Bergamini, Ariel, et al.. (2025). Nitrogen enrichment and vascular plant richness loss reduce bryophyte richness. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 4049–4049.

Allan, Eric, et al.. (2024). Fast–slow traits predict competition network structure and its response to resources and enemies. Ecology Letters. 27(4). e14425–e14425. 4 indexed citations

Mariotte, Pierre, Melissa Terranova, Marco Pittarello, et al.. (2024). Alnus viridis: an encroaching species with valuable nutritional value reducing livestock greenhouse gas emissions. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 364. 108884–108884. 1 indexed citations

Bazzichetto, Manuele, Marta Gaia Sperandii, Caterina Penone, et al.. (2024). Biodiversity promotes resistance but dominant species shape recovery of grasslands under extreme drought. Journal of Ecology. 112(5). 1087–1100. 19 indexed citations

Pichon, Noémie A., Seraina L. Cappelli, Santiago Soliveres, et al.. (2024). Nitrogen availability and plant functional composition modify biodiversity‐multifunctionality relationships. Ecology Letters. 27(1). e14361–e14361. 15 indexed citations

He, Miao, Kathryn E. Barry, Merel B. Soons, et al.. (2024). Cumulative nitrogen enrichment alters the drivers of grassland overyielding. Communications Biology. 7(1). 309–309. 4 indexed citations

Allan, Eric, et al.. (2024). Contrasting effects of sheep and cattle grazing on foliar fungal diseases by changing plant community characteristics. Functional Ecology. 38(5). 1172–1184. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Shaopeng, Pubin Hong, Peter B. Adler, et al.. (2024). Towards mechanistic integration of the causes and consequences of biodiversity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 39(7). 689–700. 26 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiang, et al.. (2023). Divergent trait responses to nitrogen addition in tall and short species. Journal of Ecology. 111(7). 1443–1454. 13 indexed citations

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Allan, Eric, Florian Altermatt, Forest Isbell, et al.. (2023). Diversity–functioning relationships across hierarchies of biological organization. Oikos. 2024(1). 4 indexed citations

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Cappelli, Seraina L., et al.. (2022). Partitioning the effects of plant diversity on ecosystem functions at different trophic levels. Ecological Monographs. 92(3). 18 indexed citations

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Crawley, Michael J., Robin J. Pakeman, S. D. Albon, et al.. (2021). The dynamics of vegetation grazed by a food‐limited population of Soay sheep on St Kilda. Journal of Ecology. 109(12). 3988–4006. 9 indexed citations

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Pichon, Noémie A., Seraina L. Cappelli, & Eric Allan. (2021). Intraspecific trait changes have large impacts on community functional composition but do not affect ecosystem function. Journal of Ecology. 110(3). 644–658. 33 indexed citations

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Allan, Eric, Seraina L. Cappelli, Arthur Geßler, et al.. (2021). Both diversity and functional composition affect productivity and water use efficiency in experimental temperate grasslands. Journal of Ecology. 109(11). 3877–3891. 16 indexed citations

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Boch, Steffen, Hugo Sáiz, Eric Allan, et al.. (2021). Direct and Indirect Effects of Management Intensity and Environmental Factors on the Functional Diversity of Lichens in Central European Forests. Microorganisms. 9(2). 463–463. 8 indexed citations

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Linders, Theo, Urs Schaffner, Tena Alamirew, et al.. (2021). Stakeholder priorities determine the impact of an alien tree invasion on ecosystem multifunctionality. People and Nature. 3(3). 658–672. 20 indexed citations

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Pichon, Noémie A., Seraina L. Cappelli, Santiago Soliveres, et al.. (2020). Decomposition disentangled: A test of the multiple mechanisms by which nitrogen enrichment alters litter decomposition. Functional Ecology. 34(7). 1485–1496. 43 indexed citations

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Linders, Theo, Urs Schaffner, René Eschen, et al.. (2019). Direct and indirect effects of invasive species: Biodiversity loss is a major mechanism by which an invasive tree affects ecosystem functioning. Journal of Ecology. 107(6). 2660–2672. 158 indexed citations

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Soliveres, Santiago, Anika Lehmann, Steffen Boch, et al.. (2018). Intransitive competition is common across five major taxonomic groups and is driven by productivity, competitive rank and functional traits. Journal of Ecology. 106(3). 852–864. 36 indexed citations

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