Ernst‐Detlef Schulze

90.3k total citations · 15 hit papers
626 papers, 48.6k citations indexed

About

Ernst‐Detlef Schulze is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ernst‐Detlef Schulze has authored 626 papers receiving a total of 48.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 266 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 224 papers in Plant Science and 163 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Ernst‐Detlef Schulze's work include Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (161 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (81 papers) and Forest ecology and management (69 papers). Ernst‐Detlef Schulze is often cited by papers focused on Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (161 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (81 papers) and Forest ecology and management (69 papers). Ernst‐Detlef Schulze collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Ernst‐Detlef Schulze's co-authors include Harold A. Mooney, Robert B. Jackson, Josep G. Canadell, Osvaldo E. Sala, Martyn M. Caldwell, O. L. Lange, F. Stuart Chapin, James R. Ehleringer, Gerhard Gebauer and Jens Schumacher and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ernst‐Detlef Schulze

617 papers receiving 45.5k citations

Hit Papers

A global analysis of root... 1971 2026 1989 2007 1996 1996 1990 2008 1994 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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.

  1. A global analysis of root distributions for terrestrial biomes
    1996 2.2k citations Ernst‐Detlef Schulze et al. Oecologia profile →
  2. Maximum rooting depth of vegetation types at the global scale
    1996 1.4k citations Ernst‐Detlef Schulze et al. Oecologia profile →
  3. The Ecology and Economics of Storage in Plants
    1990 1.4k citations Ernst‐Detlef Schulze et al. profile →
  4. Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks
    2008 1.3k citations Ernst‐Detlef Schulze, Dominik Hessenmöller et al. profile →
  5. Ecophysiology of Photosynthesis
    1994 1.3k citations Ernst‐Detlef Schulze et al. profile →
  6. Reduction of forest soil respiration in response to nitrogen deposition
    2010 1.3k citations Philippe Ciais, Ernst‐Detlef Schulze et al. profile →
  7. A global budget for fine root biomass, surface area, and nutrient contents
    1997 1.2k citations Ernst‐Detlef Schulze et al. profile →
  8. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function
    1993 927 citations Ernst‐Detlef Schulze et al. profile →
  9. Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers
    2019 817 citations Martin M. Goßner, Christian Ammer et al. profile →
  10. Implementing large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research: The Biodiversity Exploratories
    2010 614 citations Markus Fischer, Dominik Hessenmöller et al. Basic and Applied Ecology profile →
  11. Air Pollution and Forest Decline in a Spruce ( Picea abies ) Forest
    1989 607 citations Ernst‐Detlef Schulze profile →
  12. Leaf nitrogen, photosynthesis, conductance and transpiration: scaling from leaves to canopies
    1995 545 citations Ernst‐Detlef Schulze et al. profile →
  13. RELATIONSHIPS AMONG MAXIMUM STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE, ECOSYSTEM SURFACE CONDUCTANCE, CARBON ASSIMILATION RATE, AND PLANT NITROGEN NUTRITION: A Global Ecology Scaling Exercise
    1994 533 citations Ernst‐Detlef Schulze et al. profile →
  14. Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapor Exchange in Response to Drought in the Atmosphere and in the Soil
    1986 503 citations Ernst‐Detlef Schulze profile →
  15. Responses of stomata to changes in humidity
    1971 350 citations Ernst‐Detlef Schulze et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ernst‐Detlef Schulze Germany 111 23.4k 17.6k 13.4k 10.0k 10.0k 626 48.6k
Christian Körner Switzerland 111 21.9k 0.9× 16.2k 0.9× 17.2k 1.3× 4.5k 0.4× 8.2k 0.8× 465 47.6k
Jerry M. Melillo United States 112 21.3k 0.9× 8.1k 0.5× 9.7k 0.7× 17.5k 1.7× 18.8k 1.9× 308 51.5k
James R. Ehleringer United States 107 24.9k 1.1× 15.9k 0.9× 9.0k 0.7× 5.2k 0.5× 14.7k 1.5× 446 51.2k
Yiqi Luo United States 113 19.0k 0.8× 11.8k 0.7× 8.0k 0.6× 23.0k 2.3× 18.0k 1.8× 590 48.6k
Josep Peñuelas Spain 142 32.9k 1.4× 30.7k 1.7× 17.7k 1.3× 15.2k 1.5× 29.6k 3.0× 1.4k 87.1k
William H. Schlesinger United States 89 15.5k 0.7× 8.6k 0.5× 8.1k 0.6× 16.0k 1.6× 15.2k 1.5× 259 43.8k
David A. Wardle Sweden 103 13.8k 0.6× 17.1k 1.0× 25.4k 1.9× 16.5k 1.6× 23.1k 2.3× 414 61.9k
Ivan A. Janssens Belgium 91 16.9k 0.7× 7.8k 0.4× 6.4k 0.5× 15.7k 1.6× 14.8k 1.5× 380 39.5k
Sarah E. Hobbie United States 88 8.3k 0.4× 7.4k 0.4× 8.8k 0.7× 10.9k 1.1× 12.2k 1.2× 245 30.8k
Nina Buchmann Switzerland 81 15.6k 0.7× 7.8k 0.4× 9.5k 0.7× 7.2k 0.7× 8.1k 0.8× 354 29.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ernst‐Detlef Schulze

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All Works

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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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Piredda, Roberta, Thomas Denk, Guido W. Grimm, et al.. (2021). 5S‐IGS rDNA in wind‐pollinated trees ( Fagus L.) encapsulates 55 million years of reticulate evolution and hybrid origins of modern species. The Plant Journal. 109(4). 909–926. 23 indexed citations
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Schall, Peter, Steffi Heinrichs, Christian Ammer, et al.. (2021). Among stand heterogeneity is key for biodiversity in managed beech forests but does not question the value of unmanaged forests: Response to Bruun and Heilmann‐Clausen (2021). Journal of Applied Ecology. 58(9). 1817–1826. 10 indexed citations
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Hessenmöller, Dominik, et al.. (2018). A silvicultural strategy for managing uneven-aged beech-dominated forests in Thuringia, Germany: a new approach to an old problem. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. 33(7). 668–680. 16 indexed citations
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Müller, Jörg, Steffen Boch, Daniel Prati, et al.. (2018). Effects of forest management on bryophyte species richness in Central European forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 432. 850–859. 45 indexed citations
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Schall, Peter, Ernst‐Detlef Schulze, Markus Fischer, Manfred Ayasse, & Christian Ammer. (2018). Relations between forest management, stand structure and productivity across different types of Central European forests. Basic and Applied Ecology. 32. 39–52. 92 indexed citations
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Konovalov, I. B., Philippe Ciais, Grégoire Broquet, et al.. (2014). Constraining CO 2 emissions from open biomass burning by satellite observations of co-emitted species: a method and its application to wildfires in Siberia. Atmospheric chemistry and physics. 14(19). 10383–10410. 63 indexed citations
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Konovalov, I. B., Philippe Ciais, Grégoire Broquet, et al.. (2013). CO2 emissions from wildfires in Siberia: FRP measurement based estimates constrained by satellite and ground based observations of co-emitted species. EGUGA. 2 indexed citations
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Schrumpf, Marion, Klaus Kaiser, Georg Guggenberger, et al.. (2013). Storage and stability of organic carbon in soils as related to depth, occlusion within aggregates, and attachment to minerals. Biogeosciences. 10(3). 1675–1691. 278 indexed citations
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Roscher, Christiane, Bernhard Schmid, Nina Buchmann, Alexandra Weigelt, & Ernst‐Detlef Schulze. (2010). Legume species differ in the responses of their functional traits to plant diversity. Oecologia. 165(2). 437–452. 54 indexed citations
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Weigelt, Alexandra, Elisabeth Marquard, Vicky M. Temperton, et al.. (2010). The Jena Experiment: six years of data from a grassland biodiversity experiment. Ecology. 91(3). 930–931. 67 indexed citations
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Turner, Neil C., Ernst‐Detlef Schulze, Dean Nicolle, Jens Schumacher, & Iris Kuhlmann. (2008). Annual rainfall does not directly determine the carbon isotope ratio of leaves of Eucalyptus species. Physiologia Plantarum. 132(4). 440–445. 37 indexed citations
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Don, Axel, et al.. (2007). Anwuchserfolg von 19 verschiedenen Baumarten bei Erstaufforstungen - Ergebnisse eines Biodiversitätsexperiments. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 178. 164–172. 10 indexed citations
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Roscher, Christiane, et al.. (2007). Establishment of grassland species in monocultures: different strategies lead to success. Oecologia. 152(3). 435–447. 26 indexed citations
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Schulze, Ernst‐Detlef, R. J. Williams, Graham D. Farquhar, et al.. (1999). Response: Interpretation of increasing foliar d15N in woody species along a rainfall gradient in northern Australia. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology. 26. 296–298. 25 indexed citations
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Schulze, Ernst‐Detlef, Gerhard Gebauer, H. Ziegler, & O. L. Lange. (1991). Estimates of nitrogen fixation by trees on an aridity gradient in Namibia. Oecologia. 88(3). 451–455. 155 indexed citations
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Hartung, Wolfram, et al.. (1990). IONIC CONTENT AND ABSCISIC ACID RELATIONS OF ANASTATICA HIËROCHUNTICA L. UNDER ARID CONDITIONS. Israel journal of botany. Basic and applied plant sciences. 39(4). 373–382. 8 indexed citations
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Gebauer, Gerhard & Ernst‐Detlef Schulze. (1988). Forest decline of spruce as a result of nutrient imbalance and nutrient stress. ERef Bayreuth (University of Bayreuth). 4 indexed citations

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