Markus Lange

10.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
57 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Markus Lange is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Lange has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 24 papers in Ecology and 22 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Markus Lange's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (26 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (22 papers) and Plant and animal studies (10 papers). Markus Lange is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (26 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (22 papers) and Plant and animal studies (10 papers). Markus Lange collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and France. Markus Lange's co-authors include Gerd Gleixner, Nico Eisenhauer, Robert I. Griffiths, Susan Trumbore, Stefan Scheu, Holger Beßler, Jacques Roy, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Ashish A. Malik and Carlos A. Sierra and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Markus Lange

56 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Plant diversity increases soil microbial activity and soil carbon storage

2015 1.2k citations Markus Lange, Nico Eisenhauer et al. Nature Communications profile →
Crosstalk between cytosolic and plastidial pathways of isoprenoid biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana

2003 544 citations Markus Lange et al. profile →
Persistence of dissolved organic matter explained by molecular changes during its passage through soil

2019 351 citations Vanessa-Nina Roth, Markus Lange et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Markus Lange Germany	27	1.5k	1.3k	923	920	718	57	3.9k
Zhiqun Huang China	36	2.2k 1.4×	1.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.6×	920 1.0×	288 0.4×	125	4.1k
Yan Peng China	30	1.3k 0.9×	883 0.7×	826 0.9×	453 0.5×	277 0.4×	123	2.9k
Peter D. Stahl United States	35	1.8k 1.2×	1.3k 1.0×	1.0k 1.1×	618 0.7×	275 0.4×	101	3.6k
Lucia Fuchslueger Austria	25	2.8k 1.8×	1.8k 1.3×	1.6k 1.7×	539 0.6×	342 0.5×	55	4.3k
Rebecca E. Drenovsky United States	26	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	1.0k 1.1×	857 0.9×	260 0.4×	52	2.7k
Albert Rivas‐Ubach United States	23	864 0.6×	949 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	767 0.8×	411 0.6×	39	3.3k
Christina Kaiser Austria	33	2.7k 1.8×	2.3k 1.7×	1.9k 2.1×	384 0.4×	694 1.0×	67	5.5k
Yongliang Chen China	27	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	346 0.4×	273 0.4×	67	3.1k
Kai Yue China	31	1.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	804 0.9×	550 0.6×	155 0.2×	142	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Markus Lange

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Fields of papers citing papers by Markus Lange

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Markus Lange

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Markus Lange. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Markus Lange 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 Markus Lange. Markus Lange is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Moossen, Heiko, Federica Camin, Heike Geilmann, et al.. (2025). How Well Do We Know VPDB—Part 2: Interlaboratory Assessment of Existing δ ¹³ C _VPDB Reference Materials. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 40(4). e10171–e10171.

Angst, Šárka, Gerrit Angst, Kevin E. Mueller, Markus Lange, & Nico Eisenhauer. (2025). Un(der)explored links between plant diversity and particulate and mineral-associated organic matter in soil. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5548–5548. 1 indexed citations

Ding, Su, et al.. (2025). Bioavailable carbon additions to soil promote free-living nitrogen fixation and microbial biomass growth with N-free lipids. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 203. 109748–109748. 3 indexed citations

Gauzens, Benoît, Marcel Ciobanu, Mark Maraun, et al.. (2025). Shared community history strengthens plant diversity effects on below‐ground multitrophic functioning. Journal of Animal Ecology. 94(4). 555–565. 3 indexed citations

Lehmann, Antje, et al.. (2024). Cold Atmospheric Plasma Improves the Colonization of Titanium with Primary Human Osteoblasts: An In Vitro Study. Biomedicines. 12(3). 673–673. 2 indexed citations

Lange, Markus, et al.. (2024). Adiabatic Evolution of Low-Temperature Many-Body Systems. Communications in Mathematical Physics. 405(3). 75–75. 1 indexed citations

Huang, Yuanyuan, Gideon Stein, Olaf Kolle, et al.. (2023). Enhanced stability of grassland soil temperature by plant diversity. Nature Geoscience. 17(1). 44–50. 31 indexed citations

Weisser, Wolfgang W., Anne Ebeling, Nico Eisenhauer, et al.. (2023). Relationships between ecosystem functions vary among years and plots and are driven by plant species richness. Oikos. 2024(1). 4 indexed citations

Hennecke, Justus, Liesje Mommer, Joana Bergmann, et al.. (2023). Responses of rhizosphere fungi to the root economics space in grassland monocultures of different age. New Phytologist. 240(5). 2035–2049. 17 indexed citations

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Lange, Markus, et al.. (2023). Increased soil carbon storage through plant diversity strengthens with time and extends into the subsoil. Global Change Biology. 29(9). 2627–2639. 61 indexed citations

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Fromm, Sophie F. von, Alison M. Hoyt, Markus Lange, et al.. (2021). Continental-scale controls on soil organic carbon across sub-Saharan Africa. SOIL. 7(1). 305–332. 60 indexed citations

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Lange, Markus, Vanessa-Nina Roth, Nico Eisenhauer, et al.. (2020). Plant diversity enhances production and downward transport of biodegradable dissolved organic matter. Journal of Ecology. 109(3). 1284–1297. 39 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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Leidinger, Jan, Sebastian Seibold, Wolfgang W. Weisser, et al.. (2019). Effects of forest management on herbivorous insects in temperate Europe. Forest Ecology and Management. 437. 232–245. 39 indexed citations

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Roscher, Christiane, Stefan Karlowsky, Alexandru Milcu, et al.. (2019). Functional composition has stronger impact than species richness on carbon gain and allocation in experimental grasslands. PLoS ONE. 14(1). e0204715–e0204715. 6 indexed citations

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Türke, Manfred, Markus Lange, & Nico Eisenhauer. (2018). Gut shuttle service: endozoochory of dispersal-limited soil fauna by gastropods. Oecologia. 186(3). 655–664. 18 indexed citations

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Roth, Vanessa-Nina, Markus Lange, Thorsten Dittmar, & Gerd Gleixner. (2016). Broadband molecular composition of dissolved organic matter in grassland soil as a function of depth. EGUGA. 2 indexed citations

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Lange, Markus, et al.. (2016). The soil microbial community composition and soil microbial carbon uptake are more affected by soil type than by different vegetation types (C3 and C4 plants) and seasonal changes. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations

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Lange, Markus, Nico Eisenhauer, Carlos A. Sierra, et al.. (2015). Plant diversity increases soil microbial activity and soil carbon storage. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6707–6707. 1209 indexed citations breakdown →

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Türke, Manfred, Martin M. Goßner, Markus Lange, et al.. (2011). Are Gastropods, Rather than Ants, Important Dispersers of Seeds of Myrmecochorous Forest Herbs?. The American Naturalist. 179(1). 124–131. 32 indexed citations

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