Michael Bahn

25.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
159 papers, 10.3k citations indexed

About

Michael Bahn is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Bahn has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 10.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 79 papers in Soil Science and 50 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Michael Bahn's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (78 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (77 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (28 papers). Michael Bahn is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (78 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (77 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (28 papers). Michael Bahn collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United States. Michael Bahn's co-authors include Andreas Richter, Johannes Ingrisch, Roland Hasibeder, Rolf Siegwolf, Alexander Cernusca, Lucia Fuchslueger, Markus Reichstein, Georg Wohlfahrt, Ulrike Tappeiner and Miguel D. Mahecha and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael Bahn

146 papers receiving 10.1k 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.

Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

2013 1.4k citations Markus Reichstein, Michael Bahn et al. profile →
Towards a Comparable Quantification of Resilience

2018 303 citations Johannes Ingrisch, Michael Bahn profile →
Experimental drought reduces the transfer of recently fixed plant carbon to soil microbes and alters the bacterial community composition in a mountain meadow

2013 278 citations Lucia Fuchslueger, Michael Bahn et al. profile →
Ecological memory of recurrent drought modifies soil processes via changes in soil microbial community

2021 223 citations Lucia Fuchslueger, Roland Hasibeder et al. profile →
Drought legacies and ecosystem responses to subsequent drought

2022 179 citations Michael Bahn et al. Global Change Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Bahn Austria	53	5.7k	3.6k	3.0k	2.8k	2.3k	159	10.3k
Elise Pendall United States	56	3.8k 0.7×	4.4k 1.2×	3.5k 1.2×	2.9k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	196	9.8k
Jianyang Xia China	51	4.0k 0.7×	3.2k 0.9×	3.3k 1.1×	1.9k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	167	8.4k
Miko U. F. Kirschbaum New Zealand	48	5.2k 0.9×	4.8k 1.3×	3.3k 1.1×	2.9k 1.0×	1.7k 0.7×	135	11.6k
Sara Vicca Belgium	40	4.5k 0.8×	3.1k 0.9×	3.2k 1.1×	2.2k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	112	9.5k
Christian P. Giardina United States	42	3.9k 0.7×	3.5k 1.0×	2.6k 0.9×	1.7k 0.6×	2.4k 1.1×	144	8.4k
Sune Linder Sweden	53	6.0k 1.1×	2.6k 0.7×	2.5k 0.8×	3.3k 1.2×	3.4k 1.5×	131	10.7k
Genxu Wang China	53	3.3k 0.6×	2.1k 0.6×	2.7k 0.9×	2.3k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	499	11.0k
Claus Beier Denmark	47	4.0k 0.7×	2.7k 0.7×	2.6k 0.9×	2.2k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	131	7.9k
George W. Koch United States	44	6.2k 1.1×	2.0k 0.5×	2.5k 0.8×	2.6k 0.9×	3.3k 1.5×	123	9.9k
Dafeng Hui United States	51	5.0k 0.9×	6.6k 1.8×	4.1k 1.4×	3.2k 1.2×	1.9k 0.9×	261	13.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Bahn

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bahn, Michael, et al.. (2025). Recurrent drought amplifies drought impacts and increases seasonal synchrony in mountain grassland communities. Oikos. 2026(3).

Meeran, Kathiravan, Johannes Ingrisch, Klaus Steenberg Larsen, et al.. (2025). Soil Respiration Responses to Prolonged Warming Vary Seasonally in a Subarctic Grassland. Global Change Biology. 31(8). e70388–e70388.

Shang, Yu, Ruzhen Wang, Bin Wang, et al.. (2025). Trade‐off in carbon allocation between roots and rhizodeposition underpins plant adaptation to acidification in a meadow steppe. Journal of Ecology. 113(10). 2992–3004.

Thakur, Dinesh, et al.. (2025). Elevated CO2, warming and drought differentially impact reproductive and vegetative economic traits in two grassland species. Annals of Botany. 137(3). 673–688.

Orth, René, Markus Reichstein, Mirco Migliavacca, et al.. (2025). Widespread but Divergent Drought Legacy Effects on Gross Primary Productivity Across Biomes. Global Change Biology. 31(10). e70541–e70541.

Oram, Natalie J., Fiona Brennan, Nadine Praeg, et al.. (2024). Plant community composition and traits modulate the impacts of drought intensity on soil microbial community composition and function. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 200. 109644–109644. 6 indexed citations

Zhou, Shenglin, Xiukang Wang, Yuan‐Han Yang, et al.. (2024). Spatio-temporal microbial regulation of aggregate-associated priming effects under contrasting tillage practices. The Science of The Total Environment. 925. 171564–171564. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Quan, et al.. (2024). Biochar strategy for long-term N2O emission reduction: Insights into soil physical structure and microbial interaction. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 202. 109685–109685. 16 indexed citations

Burek, Peter, et al.. (2024). Sensitivity of montane grassland water fluxes to warming and elevated CO2 from local to catchment scale: A case study from the Austrian Alps. Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies. 56. 101970–101970. 1 indexed citations

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Grünzweig, José M., Hans J. De Boeck, Ana Rey, et al.. (2022). Dryland mechanisms could widely control ecosystem functioning in a drier and warmer world. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(8). 1064–1076. 69 indexed citations

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Orth, René, Markus Reichstein, Michael Bahn, et al.. (2022). Contrasting drought legacy effects on gross primary productivity in a mixed versus pure beech forest. Biogeosciences. 19(17). 4315–4329. 31 indexed citations

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Xi, Nianxun, et al.. (2022). Drought soil legacy alters drivers of plant diversity-productivity relationships in oldfield systems. Science Advances. 8(18). eabn3368–eabn3368. 35 indexed citations

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Vries, Franciska T. de, Cécile Thion, Michael Bahn, et al.. (2021). Glacier forelands reveal fundamental plant and microbial controls on short‐term ecosystem nitrogen retention. Journal of Ecology. 109(10). 3710–3723. 13 indexed citations

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Harris, Eliza, Eugenio Díaz‐Pinés, Michael Schloter, et al.. (2021). Denitrifying pathways dominate nitrous oxide emissions from managed grassland during drought and rewetting. Science Advances. 7(6). 101 indexed citations

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Kelly, Ruth, Kevin Healy, Madhur Anand, et al.. (2021). Climatic and evolutionary contexts are required to infer plant life history strategies from functional traits at a global scale. Ecology Letters. 24(5). 970–983. 27 indexed citations

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Xi, Nianxun, Peter B. Adler, Jane A. Catford, et al.. (2021). Relationships between plant–soil feedbacks and functional traits. Journal of Ecology. 109(9). 3411–3423. 45 indexed citations

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Liao, Huixuan, Róbert W. Pál, Ülo Niinemets, et al.. (2020). Different functional characteristics can explain different dimensions of plant invasion success. Journal of Ecology. 109(3). 1524–1536. 26 indexed citations

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Dios, Víctor Resco de, Arthur Geßler, Juan Pedro Ferrio, et al.. (2016). Circadian rhythms have significant effects on leaf-to-canopy scale gas exchange under field conditions. GigaScience. 5(1). 43–43. 28 indexed citations

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Hasibeder, Roland, et al.. (2014). Summer drought alters dynamics of carbon allocation to roots and root respiration in mountain grassland. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 12991. 1 indexed citations

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Lasslop, Gitta, Mirco Migliavacca, Gil Bohrer, et al.. (2012). On the choice of the driving temperature for eddy-covariance carbon dioxide flux partitioning. Biogeosciences. 9(12). 5243–5259. 56 indexed citations

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