Florian Schnabel

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 732 citations indexed

About

Florian Schnabel is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Florian Schnabel has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 732 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 17 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 7 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Florian Schnabel's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (14 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers) and Forest ecology and management (10 papers). Florian Schnabel is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (14 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers) and Forest ecology and management (10 papers). Florian Schnabel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Panama and Canada. Florian Schnabel's co-authors include Jürgen Bauhus, Julia Schwarz, Andreas Fichtner, Georgios Skiadaresis, Catherine Potvin, Jörg Kunz, Valentina Vitali, Martin Kohler, Goddert von Oheimb and Werner Härdtle and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, New Phytologist and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Florian Schnabel

22 papers receiving 722 citations

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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.

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. Science Advances profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Florian Schnabel Germany	12	512	506	249	94	77	24	732
Alejandro Velázquez‐Martínez Mexico	12	365 0.7×	312 0.6×	173 0.7×	48 0.5×	32 0.4×	74	542
Seid Muhie Dawud Denmark	10	552 1.1×	421 0.8×	160 0.6×	168 1.8×	54 0.7×	13	813
Yueh‐Hsin Lo Spain	12	314 0.6×	385 0.8×	224 0.9×	97 1.0×	33 0.4×	27	581
Éster González de Andrés Spain	15	395 0.8×	462 0.9×	332 1.3×	87 0.9×	44 0.6×	54	638
Jorge I. del Valle Colombia	14	296 0.6×	313 0.6×	122 0.5×	65 0.7×	34 0.4×	34	514
Thomas Kuster Switzerland	15	366 0.7×	505 1.0×	291 1.2×	135 1.4×	74 1.0×	18	821
Marie R. Coyea Canada	11	244 0.5×	428 0.8×	162 0.7×	126 1.3×	21 0.3×	18	576
Tobias Gebauer Germany	9	256 0.5×	283 0.6×	212 0.9×	72 0.8×	28 0.4×	14	463
André Granier France	6	189 0.4×	326 0.6×	177 0.7×	90 1.0×	35 0.5×	6	461
Tanja I. Lenz Australia	10	264 0.5×	252 0.5×	100 0.4×	133 1.4×	100 1.3×	13	491

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Florian Schnabel

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Kattenborn, Teja, et al.. (2025). Forest Dieback in Drinking Water Protection Areas—A Hidden Threat to Water Quality. Earth s Future. 13(4). 2 indexed citations

Schnabel, Florian, Joannès Guillemot, Kathryn E. Barry, et al.. (2025). Tree Diversity Increases Carbon Stocks and Fluxes Above—But Not Belowground in a Tropical Forest Experiment. Global Change Biology. 31(2). e70089–e70089. 2 indexed citations

Skiadaresis, Georgios, Jean-Michel Leban, Florian Schnabel, et al.. (2025). Interacting and dynamic effects of species and structural diversity promote annual woody biomass production in a tropical tree diversity experiment. Forest Ecology and Management. 593. 122844–122844.

Wang, Ming‐Qiang, Douglas Chesters, Helge Bruelheide, et al.. (2025). Tree diversity, tree growth, and microclimate independently structure Lepidoptera herbivore community stability. Ecological Monographs. 95(3).

Schnabel, Florian, Ronny Richter, Jens Kattge, et al.. (2025). Functional traits explain growth response to successive hotter droughts across a wide set of common and future tree species in Europe. Plant Biology. 1 indexed citations

Schiefer, Felix, Sebastian Schmidtlein, Henrik Hartmann, Florian Schnabel, & Teja Kattenborn. (2024). Large-scale remote sensing reveals that tree mortality in Germany appears to be greater than previously expected. Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research. 98(4). 535–549. 2 indexed citations

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

Schnabel, Florian, Kathryn E. Barry, Sabine Eckhardt, et al.. (2024). Neighbourhood species richness and drought‐tolerance traits modulate tree growth and δ ¹³ C responses to drought. Plant Biology. 26(2). 330–345. 11 indexed citations

Fichtner, Andreas, Matthias Kunz, Helge Bruelheide, et al.. (2024). Diversity-enhanced canopy space occupation and leaf functional diversity jointly promote overyielding in tropical tree communities. The Science of The Total Environment. 951. 175438–175438. 4 indexed citations

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Skiadaresis, Georgios, Florian Schnabel, Jean-Michel Leban, et al.. (2024). Identifying the impact of climate extremes on radial growth in young tropical trees: A comparison of inventory and tree-ring based estimates. Dendrochronologia. 86. 126237–126237. 3 indexed citations

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Rosenbaum, Benjamin, Florian Schnabel, Helge Bruelheide, et al.. (2023). Systematic distributions of interaction strengths across tree interaction networks yield positive diversity–productivity relationships. Ecology Letters. 27(1). e14338–e14338. 8 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiaojuan, Yuanyuan Huang, Lei Chen, et al.. (2022). Species richness, functional traits and climate interactively affect tree survival in a large forest biodiversity experiment. Journal of Ecology. 110(10). 2522–2531. 16 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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Schnabel, Florian, Xiaojuan Liu, Matthias Kunz, et al.. (2021). Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment. Science Advances. 7(51). eabk1643–eabk1643. 151 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wirth, Christian, Rolf A. Engelmann, Henrik Hartmann, et al.. (2021). Naturschutz und Klimawandel im Leipziger Auwald. BieJournals. 2 indexed citations

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Fichtner, Andreas, Florian Schnabel, Helge Bruelheide, et al.. (2020). Neighbourhood diversity mitigates drought impacts on tree growth. Journal of Ecology. 108(3). 865–875. 57 indexed citations

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Guillemot, Joannès, Matthias Kunz, Florian Schnabel, et al.. (2020). Neighbourhood‐mediated shifts in tree biomass allocation drive overyielding in tropical species mixtures. New Phytologist. 228(4). 1256–1268. 45 indexed citations

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Potvin, Catherine, et al.. (2020). Coarse root architecture: Neighbourhood and abiotic environmental effects on five tropical tree species growing in mixtures and monocultures. Forest Ecology and Management. 460. 117851–117851. 19 indexed citations

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Donoso, Pablo J., et al.. (2020). Initial Responses in Growth, Production, and Regeneration following Selection Cuttings in Hardwood-Dominated Temperate Rainforests in Chile. Forests. 11(4). 412–412. 7 indexed citations

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Schnabel, Florian, et al.. (2017). Short-term effects of single-tree selection cutting on stand structure and tree species composition in Valdivian rainforests of Chile. New Zealand journal of forestry science. 47(1). 14 indexed citations

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