Merel B. Soons

4.9k total citations
69 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Merel B. Soons is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Merel B. Soons has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Ecology, 39 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 13 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Merel B. Soons's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (37 papers), Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (20 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (12 papers). Merel B. Soons is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (37 papers), Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (20 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (12 papers). Merel B. Soons collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and United Kingdom. Merel B. Soons's co-authors include Gerrit W. Heil, Jos T. A. Verhoeven, Gabriel G. Katul, Ran Nathan, James M. Bullock, Annemarie G. Garssen, Erik Kleyheeg, Henry S. Horn, Rob G. A. Fraaije and W.A. Ozinga and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Merel B. Soons

68 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Merel B. Soons Netherlands 34 2.0k 1.9k 992 982 631 69 3.7k
John N. Griffin United Kingdom 33 2.2k 1.1× 1.6k 0.8× 880 0.9× 497 0.5× 1.4k 2.2× 80 4.4k
Marcelo Sternberg Israel 32 1.4k 0.7× 2.4k 1.2× 1.2k 1.2× 1.2k 1.2× 1.2k 1.9× 94 4.4k
Michael Kleyer Germany 35 1.7k 0.8× 2.5k 1.3× 1.5k 1.5× 1.3k 1.4× 1.3k 2.0× 75 4.5k
Doria R. Gordon United States 34 1.7k 0.9× 2.0k 1.1× 998 1.0× 1.3k 1.3× 1.3k 2.0× 88 4.1k
Hannah L. Buckley New Zealand 33 1.6k 0.8× 828 0.4× 889 0.9× 924 0.9× 680 1.1× 116 3.5k
Kristin Saltonstall United States 30 2.6k 1.3× 1.1k 0.6× 508 0.5× 1.2k 1.2× 433 0.7× 70 3.9k
Orsolya Valkó Hungary 37 1.7k 0.9× 2.1k 1.1× 904 0.9× 1.4k 1.4× 801 1.3× 149 3.8k
Martı́n R. Aguiar Argentina 35 1.7k 0.9× 2.8k 1.5× 1.1k 1.1× 933 1.0× 1.4k 2.3× 91 4.2k
Qinfeng Guo United States 43 2.2k 1.1× 3.0k 1.6× 1.6k 1.6× 1.2k 1.2× 1.3k 2.1× 170 5.0k
Balázs Déak Hungary 37 1.7k 0.9× 2.0k 1.1× 842 0.8× 1.2k 1.3× 924 1.5× 138 3.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Merel B. Soons

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Côrtes, Marina Corrêa, et al.. (2025). Landscape-scale forest cover shapes the complexity of seed-dispersal networks in regenerating forest fragments. Biological Conservation. 309. 111312–111312.
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Barry, Kathryn E., George A. Kowalchuk, Nico Eisenhauer, et al.. (2025). Plant Diversity Maintains Soil Detritivore Activity Under Drought. Global Change Biology. 31(8). e70377–e70377. 1 indexed citations
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Kuijk, Marijke van, et al.. (2024). The effect of livestock grazing on plant diversity and productivity of mountainous grasslands in South America – A meta‐analysis. Ecology and Evolution. 14(4). e11076–e11076. 7 indexed citations
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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
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Soons, Merel B., et al.. (2024). Camelid herding may homogenize Andean grassland plant communities. Ecological Indicators. 167. 112590–112590. 2 indexed citations
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Hautier, Yann, Kathryn E. Barry, Mariet M. Hefting, et al.. (2024). The Biodiversity and Climate Variability Experiment (BioCliVE): Quantifying the role of biodiversity in buffering ecosystems against climatic variability. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Pengfei, Elizabeth T. Borer, Eric W. Seabloom, et al.. (2023). Space resource utilization of dominant species integrates abundance‐ and functional‐based processes for better predictions of plant diversity dynamics. Oikos. 2023(4). 3 indexed citations
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Leeuwen, Casper H. A. van, Nacho Villar, Irene Mendoza, et al.. (2022). A seed dispersal effectiveness framework across the mutualism–antagonism continuum. Oikos. 2022(9). 40 indexed citations
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Seale, Madeleine, Merel B. Soons, Cathal Cummins, et al.. (2022). Environmental morphing enables informed dispersal of the dandelion diaspore. eLife. 11. 11 indexed citations
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Treep, Jelle, Monique de Jager, Frederic Bartumeus, & Merel B. Soons. (2021). Seed dispersal as a search strategy: dynamic and fragmented landscapes select for multi-scale movement strategies in plants. Movement Ecology. 9(1). 4–4. 16 indexed citations
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Zhang, Pengfei, Mariet M. Hefting, Merel B. Soons, et al.. (2020). Fast and furious: Early differences in growth rate drive short‐term plant dominance and exclusion under eutrophication. Ecology and Evolution. 10(18). 10116–10129. 10 indexed citations
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Zhang, Pengfei, George A. Kowalchuk, Merel B. Soons, et al.. (2019). SRUD: A simple non‐destructive method for accurate quantification of plant diversity dynamics. Journal of Ecology. 107(5). 2155–2166. 6 indexed citations
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Baattrup‐Pedersen, Annette, Annemarie G. Garssen, Emma Göthe, et al.. (2018). Structural and functional responses of plant communities to climate change‐mediated alterations in the hydrology of riparian areas in temperate Europe. Ecology and Evolution. 8(8). 4120–4135. 16 indexed citations
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Kleyheeg, Erik, et al.. (2018). Interactions between seed traits and digestive processes determine the germinability of bird-dispersed seeds. PLoS ONE. 13(4). e0195026–e0195026. 33 indexed citations
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Kleyheeg, Erik, et al.. (2017). Movement patterns of a keystone waterbird species are highly predictable from landscape configuration. Movement Ecology. 5(1). 2–2. 36 indexed citations
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Fraaije, Rob G. A., et al.. (2017). Spatial patterns of water-dispersed seed deposition along stream riparian gradients. PLoS ONE. 12(9). e0185247–e0185247. 23 indexed citations
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Stevens, Carly, David Gowing, Didier Alard, et al.. (2011). Addressing the Impact of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on Western European Grasslands. Environmental Management. 48(5). 885–894. 27 indexed citations
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Soons, Merel B. & W.A. Ozinga. (2005). How important is long‐distance seed dispersal for the regional survival of plant species?. Diversity and Distributions. 11(2). 165–172. 106 indexed citations
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Nathan, Ran, Nir Sapir, Ana Trakhtenbrot, et al.. (2005). Long‐distance biological transport processes through the air: can nature's complexity be unfolded in silico?. Diversity and Distributions. 11(2). 131–137. 101 indexed citations
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Katul, Gabriel G., Amilcare Porporato, Ran Nathan, et al.. (2005). Mechanistic Analytical Models for Long‐Distance Seed Dispersal by Wind. The American Naturalist. 166(3). 368–381. 234 indexed citations

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