Kathryn E. Barry

2.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
44 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Kathryn E. Barry is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Kathryn E. Barry has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 16 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 13 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Kathryn E. Barry's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (27 papers), Plant and animal studies (16 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (5 papers). Kathryn E. Barry is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (27 papers), Plant and animal studies (16 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (5 papers). Kathryn E. Barry collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Kathryn E. Barry's co-authors include Liesje Mommer, Alexandra J. Wright, Jasper van Ruijven, Alexandra Weigelt, Hans de Kroon, Christian Wirth, Bernhard Schmid, Christiane Roscher, Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen and Stefan A. Schnitzer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Kathryn E. Barry

39 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

The Future of Complementarity: Disentangling Causes from Consequences

2018 296 citations Kathryn E. Barry, Liesje Mommer et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →
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 →
Deciphering the role of specialist and generalist plant–microbial interactions as drivers of plant–soil feedback

2022 116 citations Kathryn E. Barry, Liesje Mommer et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kathryn E. Barry Netherlands	16	725	439	394	310	249	44	1.3k
Thomas Spiegelberger France	22	620 0.9×	329 0.7×	446 1.1×	312 1.0×	443 1.8×	49	1.4k
Rainer Waldhardt Germany	20	572 0.8×	411 0.9×	585 1.5×	315 1.0×	500 2.0×	42	1.4k
Bernard Amiaud France	21	521 0.7×	415 0.9×	194 0.5×	333 1.1×	345 1.4×	38	1.1k
Alexandra J. Wright United States	20	994 1.4×	563 1.3×	789 2.0×	417 1.3×	380 1.5×	35	1.8k
Valentin H. Klaus Switzerland	28	957 1.3×	577 1.3×	595 1.5×	479 1.5×	686 2.8×	79	1.9k
Chris M. Clark United States	7	654 0.9×	305 0.7×	256 0.6×	300 1.0×	488 2.0×	8	1.2k
Kristin B. Hulvey United States	15	770 1.1×	230 0.5×	575 1.5×	326 1.1×	491 2.0×	20	1.4k
Keith Wrage United States	8	991 1.4×	465 1.1×	731 1.9×	281 0.9×	483 1.9×	9	1.5k
Yunhui Liu China	22	434 0.6×	306 0.7×	402 1.0×	469 1.5×	317 1.3×	74	1.4k
Sabine Tischew Germany	24	773 1.1×	446 1.0×	232 0.6×	346 1.1×	552 2.2×	61	1.3k

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Huang, Mengjiao, Peter B. Reich, Shaopeng Wang, et al.. (2025). Nitrogen and CO2 enrichment interact to decrease biodiversity impact on complementarity and selection effects. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7445–7445.

Wirth, Christian, Adam Thomas Clark, Michael Crawford, et al.. (2025). How size and resource traits control species' biomass in monoculture and mixture and drive biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships. Oikos. 2025(10).

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

Hautier, Yann, George A. Kowalchuk, Ralph J. M. Temmink, et al.. (2025). Applying complementarity in ecological restoration. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 40(11). 1077–1089.

He, Miao, Kathryn E. Barry, Merel B. Soons, et al.. (2024). Cumulative nitrogen enrichment alters the drivers of grassland overyielding. Communications Biology. 7(1). 309–309. 4 indexed citations

Soons, Merel B., et al.. (2024). Camelid herding may homogenize Andean grassland plant communities. Ecological Indicators. 167. 112590–112590. 2 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

Barry, Kathryn E., et al.. (2023). MRS Functions and the Pareto Interval in Public Good Provision. The B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. 23(2). 525–535.

Plas, Fons van der, Justus Hennecke, Jonathan M. Chase, Jasper van Ruijven, & Kathryn E. Barry. (2023). Universal beta-diversity–functioning relationships are neither observed nor expected. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 38(6). 532–544. 27 indexed citations

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Maciá‐Vicente, Jose G., Davide Francioli, Alexandra Weigelt, et al.. (2023). The structure of root‐associated fungal communities is related to the long‐term effects of plant diversity on productivity. Molecular Ecology. 32(13). 3763–3777. 11 indexed citations

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Li, Yao, Min Zhang, Yong Yang, et al.. (2023). More than just pandas: Urgent research needed on China's native plant biodiversity. Biological Conservation. 289. 110388–110388. 4 indexed citations

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Jansen, Patrick A., Cécile Richard‐Hansen, René Boot, et al.. (2022). Defaunation changes leaf trait composition of recruit communities in tropical forests in French Guiana. Ecology. 104(1). e3872–e3872. 2 indexed citations

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Wright, Alexandra J., Kathryn E. Barry, Christopher J. Lortie, & Ragan M. Callaway. (2021). Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: Have our experiments and indices been underestimating the role of facilitation?. Journal of Ecology. 109(5). 1962–1968. 58 indexed citations

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Crawford, Michael, Kathryn E. Barry, Adam Thomas Clark, et al.. (2021). The function‐dominance correlation drives the direction and strength of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships. Ecology Letters. 24(9). 1762–1775. 20 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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Barry, Kathryn E. & Stefan A. Schnitzer. (2021). Are we missing the forest for the trees? Conspecific negative density dependence in a temperate deciduous forest. PLoS ONE. 16(7). e0245639–e0245639. 3 indexed citations

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Barry, Kathryn E., Gabriella A. Pintér, Istvan Lauko, et al.. (2020). A graphical null model for scaling biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships. Journal of Ecology. 109(3). 1549–1560. 14 indexed citations

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Bucher, Solveig Franziska, Nico Eisenhauer, Anja Schmidt, et al.. (2020). Invertebrate Decline Leads to Shifts in Plant Species Abundance and Phenology. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11. 542125–542125. 8 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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Barry, Kathryn E. & Jeffrey H. Weiss. (2008). A variance decomposition in the evaluation of the effects of educational policies in economic education. Applied Economics Letters. 16(3). 239–242. 1 indexed citations

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