Karl Grigulis

9.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
42 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Karl Grigulis is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Karl Grigulis has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 12 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Karl Grigulis's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (25 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (11 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (9 papers). Karl Grigulis is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (25 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (11 papers) and Land Use and Ecosystem Services (9 papers). Karl Grigulis collaborates with scholars based in France, Austria and United Kingdom. Karl Grigulis's co-authors include Sandra Lavorel, Fabien Quétier, Montserrat Vilà, Francesco de Bello, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Jonathan M. Levine, T. Matthew Robson, Sandra Dı́az, Éric Garnier and D. L. Garden and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Karl Grigulis

40 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Mechanisms underlying the impacts of exotic plant invasions

2003 1.4k citations Montserrat Vilà, Karl Grigulis et al. profile →
Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments

2007 1.3k citations Sandra Dı́az, Sandra Lavorel et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Assessing functional diversity in the field – methodology matters!

2007 740 citations Sandra Lavorel, Karl Grigulis et al. profile →
Using plant functional traits to understand the landscape distribution of multiple ecosystem services

2010 509 citations Sandra Lavorel, Karl Grigulis et al. Journal of Ecology profile →
Plant Functional Diversity: Organism traits, community structure, and ecosystem properties

2016 280 citations Éric Garnier, Karl Grigulis et al. profile →

Peers

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karl Grigulis

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Karl Grigulis. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Karl Grigulis based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Karl Grigulis. Karl Grigulis is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Shrub encroachment modifies soil properties through plant resource economics traits 2025 ·Plant and Soil ·(unknown), Karl Grigulis, (unknown), (unknown), Marie‐Pascale Colace, Christiane Gallet, Ulrike Tappeiner, Georg Leitinger, Sandra Lavorel	0
2	Ericaceous shrub encroachment influences the structure of soil fungal communities in subalpine grasslands 2025 ·Applied Soil Ecology ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Marie-Noëlle Binet, Karl Grigulis, Marie‐Pascale Colace, Sophie Périgon, Cindy Arnoldi, Delphine Rioux, Christian Miquel, Frédéric Laporte, Christiane Gallet, (unknown), Georg Leitinger, Bello Mouhamadou, Sandra Lavorel	2
3	Soil organic matter changes under experimental pedoclimatic modifications in mountain grasslands of the French Alps 2022 ·Geoderma ·(unknown), Jérôme Poulenard, Lauric Cécillon, François Baudin, Pierre Barré, (unknown), (unknown), Karl Grigulis, Sandra Lavorel, Tamara Münkemüller, Philippe Choler	8
4	Templates for multifunctional landscape design 2022 ·Landscape Ecology ·Sandra Lavorel, Karl Grigulis, Daniel R. Richards, Thomas R. Etherington, (unknown), Alexander Herzig	33
5	Community-Based Institutions Shape Cheese Co-Production in a French Alpine Valley 2022 ·Mountain Research and Development ·(unknown), Karl Grigulis, (unknown), Nicolas Buclet, Sandra Lavorel	3
6	Management versus site effects on the abundance of nitrifiers and denitrifiers in European mountain grasslands 2018 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Ute Szukics, Karl Grigulis, Nicolas Legay, Eva-Maria Kastl, Catherine Baxendale, Richard D. Bardgett, Jean‐Christophe Clément, Sandra Lavorel, Michael Schloter, Michael Bahn	21
7	Historical trajectories in land use pattern and grassland ecosystem services in two European alpine landscapes 2017 ·Regional Environmental Change ·Sandra Lavorel, Karl Grigulis, Georg Leitinger, Marina Kohler, Uta Schirpke, Ulrike Tappeiner	80
8	Elevation alters ecosystem properties across temperate treelines globally 2017 ·Nature ·Jordan R. Mayor, Nathan J. Sanders, Aimée T. Classen, Richard D. Bardgett, Jean‐Christophe Clément, Alex Fajardo, Sandra Lavorel, Maja K. Sundqvist, Michael Bahn, Chelsea Chisholm, Ellen Cieraad, Ze’ev Gedalof, Karl Grigulis, Gaku Kudo, Daniel L. Oberski, David A. Wardle	222
9	Plant functional assemblages as indicators of the resilience of grassland ecosystem service provision 2016 ·Ecological Indicators ·Marina Kohler, (unknown), Karl Grigulis, Georg Leitinger, Sandra Lavorel, Ulrike Tappeiner	28
10	Contribution of above- and below-ground plant traits to the structure and function of grassland soil microbial communities 2014 ·Annals of Botany ·Nicolas Legay, Catherine Baxendale, Karl Grigulis, (unknown), (unknown), Michael Schloter, Richard D. Bardgett, Cindy Arnoldi, Michael Bahn, Maxime Dumont, Franck Poly, Thomas Pommier, Jean‐Christophe Clément, Sandra Lavorel	139
11	Using plant traits to explain plant–microbe relationships involved in nitrogen acquisition 2014 ·Ecology ·Amélie Cantarel, Thomas Pommier, Marie Desclos-Theveniau, Sylvain Diquélou, Maxime Dumont, Fabrice Grassein, Eva-Maria Kastl, Karl Grigulis, Philippe Laîné, Sandra Lavorel, Servane Lemauviel‐Lavenant, Emmanuelle Personeni, Michael Schloter, Franck Poly	128
12	Estimating herbaceous plant biomass in mountain grasslands: a comparative study using three different methods 2012 ·Alpine Botany ·(unknown), Antoine Duparc, Sandra Lavorel, Karl Grigulis, Christophe Bonenfant, D. Maillard, Sonia Saı̈d, Anne Loison	29
13	Response of herbaceous vegetation functional diversity to land use change across five sites in Europe and Israel 2011 ·Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution ·Sandra Lavorel, Francesco de Bello, Karl Grigulis, Jan Lepš, Éric Garnier, Helena Castro, Jiří Doležal, (unknown), Fabien Quétier, Aurélie Thébault	20
14	Using plant functional traits to understand the landscape distribution of multiple ecosystem services breakdown → 2010 ·Journal of Ecology ·Sandra Lavorel, Karl Grigulis, Pénélope Lamarque, Marie‐Pascale Colace, D. L. Garden, Jacky Girel, (unknown), Rolland Douzet	509
15	Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments breakdown → 2007 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Sandra Dı́az, Sandra Lavorel, Francesco de Bello, Fabien Quétier, Karl Grigulis, T. Matthew Robson	1250
16	Landscape‐scale positive feedbacks between fire and expansion of the large tussock grass, Ampelodesmos mauritanica in Catalan shrublands 2005 ·Global Change Biology ·Karl Grigulis, Sandra Lavorel, Ian D. Davies, (unknown), Francisco Lloret, Montserrat Vilà	89
17	Mechanisms of resistance of Mediterranean annual communities to invasion by Conyza bonariensis : effects of native functional composition 2002 ·Oikos ·Anne‐Hélène Prieur‐Richard, Sandra Lavorel, A. dos Santos, Karl Grigulis	39
18	Plant community diversity and invasibility by exotics: invasion of Mediterranean old fields by Conyza bonariensis and Conyza canadensis 2000 ·Ecology Letters ·Anne‐Hélène Prieur‐Richard, Sandra Lavorel, Karl Grigulis, A. dos Santos	117
19	Invasibility and diversity of plant communities:from patterns to processes 1999 ·Diversity and Distributions ·Sandra Lavorel, Anne‐Hélène Prieur‐Richard, Karl Grigulis	86
20	Plant Competition in Relation to Neighbor Biomass: An Intercontinental Study with POA Pratensis 1994 ·Ecology ·R. J. Reader, Scott D. Wilson, (unknown), Irene C. Wisheu, Paul A. Keddy, David Tilman, E. Charles Morris, James B. Grace, James B. McGraw, Han Olff, Roy Turkington, Elena Klein, Yat Fai Leung, Bill Shipley, Robert van Hulst, Mats E. Johansson, Christer Nilsson, Jessica Gurevitch, Karl Grigulis, Beatrix E. Beisner	127

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