François Buscot

26.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
249 papers, 11.8k citations indexed

About

François Buscot is a scholar working on Plant Science, Insect Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, François Buscot has authored 249 papers receiving a total of 11.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 186 papers in Plant Science, 95 papers in Insect Science and 61 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in François Buscot's work include Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (159 papers), Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (94 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (43 papers). François Buscot is often cited by papers focused on Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (159 papers), Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (94 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (43 papers). François Buscot collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Egypt. François Buscot's co-authors include Tesfaye Wubet, Carsten Renker, Witoon Purahong, Dirk Krüger, Thomas Reitz, Guillaume Lentendu, Elke Schulz, Harald Kellner, Stefan Hempel and Ingo Schöning and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

François Buscot

247 papers receiving 11.5k 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.

Choosing and using diversity indices: insights for ecological applications from the German Biodiversity Exploratories

2014 747 citations François Buscot, Markus Fischer et al. Ecology and Evolution profile →
Implementing large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research: The Biodiversity Exploratories

2010 614 citations Markus Fischer, François Buscot et al. profile →
Mineral vs. Organic Amendments: Microbial Community Structure, Activity and Abundance of Agriculturally Relevant Microbes Are Driven by Long-Term Fertilization Strategies

2016 552 citations Guillaume Lentendu, Tesfaye Wubet et al. profile →
Life in leaf litter: novel insights into community dynamics of bacteria and fungi during litter decomposition

2016 315 citations Witoon Purahong, Tesfaye Wubet et al. Molecular Ecology profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
François Buscot	6.8k	3.3k	3.2k	2.6k	2.3k	249	11.8k
Peter G. Kennedy	7.9k 1.2×	2.8k 0.9×	3.7k 1.2×	1.7k 0.7×	2.4k 1.1×	112	11.2k
Björn D. Lindahl	7.3k 1.1×	2.7k 0.8×	4.5k 1.4×	2.5k 1.0×	2.3k 1.0×	91	10.4k
Mohammad Bahram	5.9k 0.9×	2.4k 0.7×	2.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.4×	1.9k 0.9×	129	9.5k
Ari Jumpponen	6.0k 0.9×	2.7k 0.8×	1.6k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	2.8k 1.2×	143	10.3k
Wietse de Boer	7.3k 1.1×	4.8k 1.5×	1.8k 0.6×	3.8k 1.5×	1.3k 0.6×	203	14.2k
Taina Pennanen	3.7k 0.5×	2.4k 0.7×	2.0k 0.6×	2.0k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	101	7.1k
Tesfaye Wubet	3.6k 0.5×	2.2k 0.6×	2.0k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	124	7.0k
Miranda M. Hart	6.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.4×	2.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	127	9.0k
Roger T. Koide	8.9k 1.3×	1.5k 0.4×	2.9k 0.9×	2.6k 1.0×	2.4k 1.1×	171	11.5k
Petr Baldrián	12.1k 1.8×	6.4k 1.9×	5.0k 1.6×	5.3k 2.1×	3.0k 1.3×	277	22.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of François Buscot

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Tanunchai, Benjawan, Sara Fareed Mohamed Wahdan, Eliane Gomes Alves, et al.. (2024). Feels Like Home: A Biobased and Biodegradable Plastic Offers a Novel Habitat for Diverse Plant Pathogenic Fungi in Temperate Forest Ecosystems. Microbial Ecology. 87(1). 155–155. 2 indexed citations

Hennecke, Justus, et al.. (2024). Common soil history is more important than plant history for arbuscular mycorrhizal community assembly in an experimental grassland diversity gradient. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 60(4). 547–562. 10 indexed citations

Tanunchai, Benjawan, Li Ji, Olaf Schröder, et al.. (2023). Fate of a biodegradable plastic in forest soil: Dominant tree species and forest types drive changes in microbial community assembly, influence the composition of plastisphere, and affect poly(butylene succinate-co-adipate) degradation. The Science of The Total Environment. 873. 162230–162230. 21 indexed citations

Sünnemann, Marie, Rémy Beugnon, Claudia Breitkreuz, et al.. (2023). Climate change and cropland management compromise soil integrity and multifunctionality. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 37 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

Aliasgharzad, Nasser, Ezatollah Esfandiari, Mohammad Bagher Hassanpouraghdam, et al.. (2022). Biofilm forming rhizobacteria affect the physiological and biochemical responses of wheat to drought. AMB Express. 12(1). 93–93. 17 indexed citations

Siles, José A., Marta Díaz‐López, Alfonso Vera, et al.. (2022). Priming effects in soils across Europe. Global Change Biology. 28(6). 2146–2157. 39 indexed citations

Ferlian, Olga, Kezia Goldmann, Nico Eisenhauer, et al.. (2021). Distinct effects of host and neighbour tree identity on arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal fungi along a tree diversity gradient. ISME Communications. 1(1). 40–40. 30 indexed citations

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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Mapook, Ausana, Kevin D. Hyde, Eric H. C. McKenzie, et al.. (2020). Taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungi associated with the invasive weed Chromolaena odorata (Siam weed). Fungal Diversity. 101(1). 1–175. 126 indexed citations

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Schall, Peter, Steffi Heinrichs, Christian Ammer, et al.. (2020). Can multi‐taxa diversity in European beech forest landscapes be increased by combining different management systems?. Journal of Applied Ecology. 57(7). 1363–1375. 43 indexed citations

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Staab, Michael, Xiaojuan Liu, Thorsten Aßmann, et al.. (2020). Tree phylogenetic diversity structures multitrophic communities. Functional Ecology. 35(2). 521–534. 29 indexed citations

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Graf, Marcel, Markus Bönn, Lasse Feldhahn, et al.. (2019). Collembola interact with mycorrhizal fungi in modifying oak morphology, C and N incorporation and transcriptomics. Royal Society Open Science. 6(3). 181869–181869. 15 indexed citations

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Ferlian, Olga, Simone Cesarz, Dylan Craven, et al.. (2018). Mycorrhiza in tree diversity–ecosystem function relationships: conceptual framework and experimental implementation. Ecosphere. 9(5). e02226–e02226. 55 indexed citations

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Purahong, Witoon, Robert Lehmann, Martina Herrmann, et al.. (2018). First insights into the living groundwater mycobiome of the terrestrial biogeosphere. Water Research. 145. 50–61. 22 indexed citations

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Leppert, Katrin N., David Eichenberg, Helge Bruelheide, et al.. (2017). Leaf litter diversity alters microbial activity, microbial abundances, and nutrient cycling in a subtropical forest ecosystem. Biogeochemistry. 134(1-2). 163–181. 42 indexed citations

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Hoppe, Björn, Witoon Purahong, Tesfaye Wubet, et al.. (2015). Linking molecular deadwood-inhabiting fungal diversity and community dynamics to ecosystem functions and processes in Central European forests. Fungal Diversity. 77(1). 367–379. 149 indexed citations

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Bönn, Markus, Lasse Feldhahn, Sylvie Herrmann, et al.. (2014). Streptomyces -Induced Resistance Against Oak Powdery Mildew Involves Host Plant Responses in Defense, Photosynthesis, and Secondary Metabolism Pathways. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 27(9). 891–900. 91 indexed citations

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Lentendu, Guillaume, Tesfaye Wubet, Antonis Chatzinotas, et al.. (2014). Effects of long‐term differential fertilization on eukaryotic microbial communities in an arable soil: a multiple barcoding approach. Molecular Ecology. 23(13). 3341–3355. 149 indexed citations

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Błaszkowski, Janusz, et al.. (2012). The arbuscular mycorrhizal Paraglomus majewskii sp. nov. represents a distinct basal lineage in Glomeromycota. Mycologia. 104(1). 148–156. 49 indexed citations

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