Florian Hofhansl

5.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
37 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Florian Hofhansl is a scholar working on Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Florian Hofhansl has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Soil Science, 13 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 12 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Florian Hofhansl's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (14 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (10 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (10 papers). Florian Hofhansl is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (14 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (10 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (10 papers). Florian Hofhansl collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United Kingdom. Florian Hofhansl's co-authors include Wolfgang Wanek, Andreas Richter, Jörg Schnecker, Maria Mooshammer, Birgit Wild, Lucia Fuchslueger, Ieda Hämmerle, Sophie Zechmeister‐Boltenstern, Katharina Keiblinger and Judith Prommer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Florian Hofhansl

36 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Adjustment of microbial nitrogen use efficiency to carbon:nitrogen imbalances regulates soil nitrogen cycling

2014 718 citations Maria Mooshammer, Wolfgang Wanek et al. Nature Communications profile →
Increased microbial growth, biomass, and turnover drive soil organic carbon accumulation at higher plant diversity

2019 384 citations Judith Prommer, Tom W. N. Walker et al. Global Change Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Florian Hofhansl Austria	22	1.5k	996	740	472	471	37	2.8k
Bonnie G. Waring United States	25	1.9k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	723 1.0×	500 1.1×	714 1.5×	55	3.0k
Yichao Rui China	31	2.0k 1.3×	1.3k 1.3×	776 1.0×	456 1.0×	314 0.7×	79	3.1k
Jessica Gutknecht United States	30	1.8k 1.1×	1.5k 1.5×	946 1.3×	357 0.8×	329 0.7×	71	3.1k
Zhuwen Xu China	31	1.6k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	883 1.2×	435 0.9×	621 1.3×	73	2.5k
Zhenghu Zhou China	27	2.0k 1.3×	1.4k 1.4×	997 1.3×	345 0.7×	332 0.7×	63	3.1k
Gerrit Angst Germany	23	2.1k 1.4×	1.1k 1.1×	525 0.7×	477 1.0×	283 0.6×	51	2.8k
Nicolas Fanin France	27	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	815 1.1×	364 0.8×	604 1.3×	53	2.8k
Ute Hamer Germany	26	2.0k 1.3×	962 1.0×	623 0.8×	537 1.1×	346 0.7×	50	3.0k
Di Tian China	25	1.1k 0.7×	685 0.7×	826 1.1×	379 0.8×	583 1.2×	75	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Florian Hofhansl

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Florian Hofhansl

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Valverde‐Barrantes, Oscar J., Laynara F. Lugli, Lucia Fuchslueger, et al.. (2025). Rainfall seasonality shapes belowground root trait dynamics in an Amazonian tropical rainforest: A test of the stress‐dominance hypothesis. Functional Ecology. 39(3). 799–812. 2 indexed citations

Werden, Leland K., Rebecca J. Cole, Karen D. Holl, et al.. (2024). Assessing innovations for upscaling forest landscape restoration. One Earth. 7(9). 1515–1528. 2 indexed citations

Schaap, Karst J., Lucia Fuchslueger, Carlos Alberto Quesada, et al.. (2023). Seasonal fluctuations of extracellular enzyme activities are related to the biogeochemical cycling of C, N and P in a tropical terra-firme forest. Biogeochemistry. 163(1). 1–15. 8 indexed citations

Noll, Lisa, Shasha Zhang, Qing Zheng, et al.. (2022). Climate and geology overwrite land use effects on soil organic nitrogen cycling on a continental scale. Biogeosciences. 19(23). 5419–5433. 3 indexed citations

Joshi, Jaideep, Benjamin D. Stocker, Florian Hofhansl, et al.. (2022). Towards a unified theory of plant photosynthesis and hydraulics. Nature Plants. 8(11). 1304–1316. 105 indexed citations

Hofhansl, Florian, Eduardo Chacón‐Madrigal, Åke Brännström, Ulf Dieckmann, & Oskar Franklin. (2021). Mechanisms driving plant functional trait variation in a tropical forest. Ecology and Evolution. 11(9). 3856–3870. 25 indexed citations

Schaap, Karst J., Lucia Fuchslueger, Marcel R. Hoosbeek, et al.. (2021). Litter inputs and phosphatase activity affect the temporal variability of organic phosphorus in a tropical forest soil in the Central Amazon. Plant and Soil. 469(1-2). 423–441. 31 indexed citations

Janßen, Thomas, Ype van der Velde, Florian Hofhansl, et al.. (2021). Drought effects on leaf fall, leaf flushing and stem growth in the Amazon forest: reconciling remote sensing data and field observations. Biogeosciences. 18(14). 4445–4472. 22 indexed citations

Prommer, Judith, Tom W. N. Walker, Wolfgang Wanek, et al.. (2019). Increased microbial growth, biomass, and turnover drive soil organic carbon accumulation at higher plant diversity. Global Change Biology. 26(2). 669–681. 384 indexed citations breakdown →

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Moser, Dietmar, Bernd Lenzner, Patrick Weigelt, et al.. (2018). Remoteness promotes biological invasions on islands worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(37). 9270–9275. 122 indexed citations

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Mooshammer, Maria, Florian Hofhansl, Alexander H. Frank, et al.. (2017). Decoupling of microbial carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycling in response to extreme temperature events. Science Advances. 3(5). e1602781–e1602781. 153 indexed citations

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Staudinger, Christiana, Erena Gil‐Quintana, Esther M. González, et al.. (2016). Evidence for a rhizobia-induced drought stress response strategy in Medicago truncatula. Journal of Proteomics. 136. 202–213. 95 indexed citations

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Hofhansl, Florian, Kelly M. Andersen, Katrin Fleischer, et al.. (2016). Amazon Forest Ecosystem Responses to Elevated Atmospheric CO2 and Alterations in Nutrient Availability: Filling the Gaps with Model-Experiment Integration. Frontiers in Earth Science. 4. 20 indexed citations

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Adlassnig, Wolfram, Stefan Sassmann, Georg Steinhäuser, et al.. (2016). The copper spoil heap Knappenberg, Austria, as a model for metal habitats – Vegetation, substrate and contamination. The Science of The Total Environment. 563-564. 1037–1049. 14 indexed citations

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Taylor, Philip, Gregory P. Asner, Kyla M. Dahlin, et al.. (2015). Landscape-Scale Controls on Aboveground Forest Carbon Stocks on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica. PLoS ONE. 10(6). e0126748–e0126748. 48 indexed citations

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Hofhansl, Florian, et al.. (2014). Sensitivity of tropical lowland net primary production to climate anomalies. EGUGA. 10585. 2 indexed citations

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Mooshammer, Maria, Wolfgang Wanek, Ieda Hämmerle, et al.. (2014). Adjustment of microbial nitrogen use efficiency to carbon:nitrogen imbalances regulates soil nitrogen cycling. Nature Communications. 5(1). 3694–3694. 718 indexed citations breakdown →

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Prommer, Judith, Wolfgang Wanek, Florian Hofhansl, et al.. (2014). Biochar Decelerates Soil Organic Nitrogen Cycling but Stimulates Soil Nitrification in a Temperate Arable Field Trial. PLoS ONE. 9(1). e86388–e86388. 249 indexed citations

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Mooshammer, Maria, Wolfgang Wanek, Jörg Schnecker, et al.. (2011). Stoichiometric controls of nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in decomposing beech leaf litter. Ecology. 93(4). 770–782. 236 indexed citations

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Hofhansl, Florian, et al.. (2010). Topography strongly affects atmospheric deposition and canopy exchange processes in different types of wet lowland rainforest, Southwest Costa Rica. Biogeochemistry. 106(3). 371–396. 38 indexed citations

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