I. Tanya Handa

4.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
58 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

I. Tanya Handa is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, I. Tanya Handa has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 25 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 16 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in I. Tanya Handa's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (24 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (11 papers). I. Tanya Handa is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (24 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (13 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (11 papers). I. Tanya Handa collaborates with scholars based in Canada, France and Switzerland. I. Tanya Handa's co-authors include Stephan Hättenschwiler, Matty P. Berg, Marika Makkonen, Rien Aerts, Jasper van Ruijven, Christian Körner, Brendan G. McKie, Jean‐François David, Dominique Gravel and Frank Hagedorn and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Ecology and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

I. Tanya Handa

55 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Consequences of biodiversity loss for litter decomposition across biomes

2014 597 citations I. Tanya Handa, Rien Aerts et al. profile →
Highly consistent effects of plant litter identity and functional traits on decomposition across a latitudinal gradient

2012 381 citations Marika Makkonen, Matty P. Berg et al. Ecology Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
I. Tanya Handa Canada	27	1.4k	1.1k	1.0k	988	730	58	3.1k
Marcos Fernández‐Martínez Spain	33	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	921 0.9×	877 1.2×	77	3.5k
Heather L. Throop United States	30	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	629 0.9×	69	3.0k
Pablo L. Peri Argentina	30	1.5k 1.1×	965 0.9×	1.6k 1.5×	601 0.6×	615 0.8×	232	3.5k
Jennifer D. Knoepp United States	29	1.2k 0.9×	1.8k 1.7×	1.5k 1.4×	917 0.9×	567 0.8×	68	3.8k
Juan Gaitán Argentina	19	965 0.7×	1.7k 1.6×	1.2k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	896 1.2×	43	3.9k
Alexandru Milcu France	30	1.3k 1.0×	875 0.8×	784 0.8×	1.4k 1.4×	1.0k 1.4×	58	3.1k
Daniel B. Metcalfe Sweden	32	1.6k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	2.2k 2.1×	1.4k 1.4×	1.2k 1.6×	84	4.1k
Emma J. Sayer United Kingdom	32	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	2.0k 2.0×	857 1.2×	81	3.8k
Chengyang Zheng China	21	978 0.7×	1.3k 1.2×	702 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	597 0.8×	44	3.0k
Jürgen Homeier Germany	36	1.7k 1.2×	716 0.7×	950 0.9×	555 0.6×	901 1.2×	90	3.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fraysse, Jeremy, et al.. (2026). Montreal Urban Observatory: research platform to monitor urban forest ecosystems for global change adaptation and health. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

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

Lecerf, Antoine, Matthieu Chauvat, Michaël Danger, et al.. (2024). The Detri²match conceptual framework: Matching detritivore and detritus traits to unravel consumption rules in a context of decomposition. Functional Ecology. 38(10). 2084–2098. 2 indexed citations

Aubin, Isabelle, Erik J. S. Emilson, Amanda Schoonmaker, et al.. (2024). Restoring forest ecosystem services through trait-based ecology. Environmental Reviews. 32(4). 498–524. 3 indexed citations

Handa, I. Tanya, et al.. (2024). Invasive Glossy Buckthorn (Frangula alnus) Has Weak Impact on Native Understory Plant and Saprophagous Macroarthropod Communities. Diversity. 16(9). 584–584. 1 indexed citations

Zhou, Shixing, Olaf Butenschoen, I. Tanya Handa, et al.. (2024). Litter mixture effects on nitrogen dynamics during decomposition predominantly vary among biomes but little with litter identity, diversity and soil fauna. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 199. 109602–109602. 4 indexed citations

Cortet, Jérôme, et al.. (2023). Towards a standardization of new functional trait measurements by assessing intraspecific variation: the case of springtail mandibles. European Journal of Soil Biology. 117. 103495–103495. 4 indexed citations

Handa, I. Tanya, et al.. (2023). Young temperate tree species show different fine root acclimation capacity to growing season water availability. Plant and Soil. 496(1-2). 485–504. 5 indexed citations

Handa, I. Tanya, et al.. (2023). Forest Tent Caterpillar Outbreaks Drive Change in Ant Communities in Boreal Forests. Forests. 14(6). 1147–1147. 1 indexed citations

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Despland, Emma, et al.. (2023). Decreased Soil Microbial Biomass and Changed Microbial Community Composition following a Defoliation Event by the Forest Tent Caterpillar. Forests. 14(4). 792–792.

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Martin‐Guay, Marc‐Olivier, Michaël Belluau, Benoît Côté, et al.. (2022). Tree identity and diversity directly affect soil moisture and temperature but not soil carbon ten years after planting. Ecology and Evolution. 12(1). e8509–e8509. 14 indexed citations

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Kotze, D. Johan, Elizabeth Lowe, J. Scott MacIvor, et al.. (2022). Urban forest invertebrates: how they shape and respond to the urban environment. Urban Ecosystems. 25(6). 1589–1609. 46 indexed citations

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Handa, I. Tanya, et al.. (2022). Community‐wide trait adaptation, but not plasticity, explains ant community structure in extreme environments. Functional Ecology. 37(1). 139–149. 9 indexed citations

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Handa, I. Tanya, et al.. (2021). Shade‐growing practices lessen the impact of coffee plantations on multiple dimensions of ant diversity. Journal of Applied Ecology. 58(5). 919–930. 15 indexed citations

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Zhou, Shixing, Olaf Butenschoen, Sandra Barantal, et al.. (2020). Decomposition of leaf litter mixtures across biomes: The role of litter identity, diversity and soil fauna. Journal of Ecology. 108(6). 2283–2297. 79 indexed citations

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Gravel, Dominique, et al.. (2019). A novel set of traits to describe Collembola mouthparts: taking a bite out of the broad chewing mandible classification. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 138. 107608–107608. 21 indexed citations

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Paquette, Alain, et al.. (2019). Evergreenness influences fine root growth more than tree diversity in a common garden experiment. Oecologia. 189(4). 1027–1039. 18 indexed citations

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Gravel, Dominique, et al.. (2018). Springtail community structure is influenced by functional traits but not biogeographic origin of leaf litter in soils of novel forest ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1879). 20180647–20180647. 14 indexed citations

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Gravel, Dominique, et al.. (2018). On the development of a predictive functional trait approach for studying terrestrial arthropods. Journal of Animal Ecology. 87(5). 1209–1220. 92 indexed citations

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Makkonen, Marika, Matty P. Berg, I. Tanya Handa, et al.. (2012). Highly consistent effects of plant litter identity and functional traits on decomposition across a latitudinal gradient. Ecology Letters. 15(9). 1033–1041. 381 indexed citations breakdown →

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