Michael Bonkowski

20.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
216 papers, 10.3k citations indexed

About

Michael Bonkowski is a scholar working on Ecology, Plant Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Bonkowski has authored 216 papers receiving a total of 10.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 103 papers in Ecology, 92 papers in Plant Science and 67 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Michael Bonkowski's work include Protist diversity and phylogeny (63 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (58 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (50 papers). Michael Bonkowski is often cited by papers focused on Protist diversity and phylogeny (63 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (58 papers) and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (50 papers). Michael Bonkowski collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Vietnam and United States. Michael Bonkowski's co-authors include Stefan Scheu, Bryan S. Griffiths, Stefan Geisen, Kenneth Dumack, Alexandre Jousset, Anna Maria Fiore‐Donno, Robert Koller, Cécile Villenave, Jörn Alphei and Karl Ritz and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Michael Bonkowski

214 papers receiving 10.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Protozoa and plant growth: the microbial loop in soil revisited

2004 567 citations Michael Bonkowski New Phytologist profile →
Soil protists: a fertile frontier in soil biology research

2018 445 citations Stefan Geisen, Edward A. D. Mitchell et al. FEMS Microbiology Reviews profile →
Long-term organic farming fosters below and aboveground biota: Implications for soil quality, biological control and productivity

2008 441 citations Michael Bonkowski, Stefan Scheu et al. Soil Biology and Biochemistry profile →
Legume rhizodeposition promotes nitrogen fixation by soil microbiota under crop diversification

2024 72 citations Ruibo Sun, Zixuan Wang et al. Nature Communications profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Michael Bonkowski	4.8k	4.1k	3.1k	2.7k	1.6k	216	10.3k
Scott T. Bates	4.3k 0.9×	4.6k 1.1×	2.2k 0.7×	3.0k 1.1×	1.8k 1.1×	40	10.5k
Samiran Banerjee	4.1k 0.9×	4.5k 1.1×	3.8k 1.2×	2.5k 0.9×	949 0.6×	88	10.3k
Franco Widmer	4.1k 0.8×	3.2k 0.8×	2.6k 0.9×	2.5k 0.9×	927 0.6×	133	9.1k
Franciska T. de Vries	4.3k 0.9×	3.1k 0.7×	3.9k 1.3×	1.1k 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	66	8.6k
Michael S. Strickland	2.1k 0.4×	3.9k 0.9×	3.9k 1.3×	1.2k 0.4×	903 0.6×	79	7.6k
Cameron Wagg	3.7k 0.8×	2.3k 0.6×	2.5k 0.8×	927 0.3×	1.2k 0.7×	70	7.1k
François Buscot	6.8k 1.4×	3.3k 0.8×	2.6k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	2.3k 1.4×	249	11.8k
Klaus Schlaeppi	8.3k 1.7×	3.4k 0.8×	2.1k 0.7×	3.0k 1.1×	907 0.6×	55	12.1k
Diana R. Nemergut	1.5k 0.3×	5.2k 1.3×	2.3k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	980 0.6×	64	8.5k
Stefan Geisen	3.9k 0.8×	3.9k 0.9×	2.1k 0.7×	2.7k 1.0×	748 0.5×	153	8.6k

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Fiore‐Donno, Anna Maria, et al.. (2024). Biotic interactions explain seasonal dynamics of the alpine soil microbiome. ISME Communications. 4(1). ycae028–ycae028. 4 indexed citations

Temperton, Vicky M., et al.. (2024). Two-way NxP fertilisation experiment on barley (Hordeum vulgare) reveals shift from additive to synergistic N-P interactions at critical phosphorus fertilisation level. Frontiers in Plant Science. 15. 1346729–1346729. 2 indexed citations

Kumar, Amit, Silvia Gschwendtner, Hewei Chen, et al.. (2024). Shifts in plant functional trait dynamics in relation to soil microbiome in modern and wild barley. Plants People Planet. 6(6). 1398–1412. 4 indexed citations

Sun, Ruibo, Zixuan Wang, Kenneth Dumack, et al.. (2024). Legume rhizodeposition promotes nitrogen fixation by soil microbiota under crop diversification. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2924–2924. 72 indexed citations breakdown →

Feng, Kai, Yan Chen, Ruibo Sun, et al.. (2023). Responses of root architecture and the rhizosphere microbiome assembly of maize (Zea mays L.) to a soil texture gradient. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 181. 109026–109026. 16 indexed citations

Jansa, Jan, et al.. (2023). Root cap is an important determinant of rhizosphere microbiome assembly. New Phytologist. 239(4). 1434–1448. 22 indexed citations

Nguyen, Bao‐Anh Thi, Michael Bonkowski, Kenneth Dumack, et al.. (2023). Protistan predation selects for antibiotic resistance in soil bacterial communities. The ISME Journal. 17(12). 2182–2189. 32 indexed citations

Pham, Cuong The, et al.. (2022). Will climatic changes affect the Vietnamese crocodile lizard? Seasonal variation in microclimate and activity pattern of Shinisaurus crocodilurus vietnamensis. Amphibia-Reptilia. 43(2). 155–167. 3 indexed citations

Dumack, Kenneth, et al.. (2020). Molecular investigation of Phryganella acropodia Hertwig et Lesser, 1874 (Arcellinida, Amoebozoa). European Journal of Protistology. 75. 125707–125707. 10 indexed citations

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Chen, Yan, Michael Bonkowski, Yi Shen, et al.. (2020). Root ethylene mediates rhizosphere microbial community reconstruction when chemically detecting cyanide produced by neighbouring plants. Microbiome. 8(1). 4–4. 156 indexed citations

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Valencia, Enrique, Nicolas Gross, José L. Quero, et al.. (2018). Cascading effects from plants to soil microorganisms explain how plant species richness and simulated climate change affect soil multifunctionality. Global Change Biology. 24(12). 5642–5654. 130 indexed citations

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Geisen, Stefan, Edward A. D. Mitchell, Sina M. Adl, et al.. (2018). Soil protists: a fertile frontier in soil biology research. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 42(3). 293–323. 445 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fiore‐Donno, Anna Maria, Christian Rixen, Martin Rippin, et al.. (2017). New barcoded primers for efficient retrieval of cercozoan sequences in high‐throughput environmental diversity surveys, with emphasis on worldwide biological soil crusts. Molecular Ecology Resources. 18(2). 229–239. 66 indexed citations

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Kretzschmar, Martin, et al.. (2015). Phylogeny of the Highly Divergent Echinosteliales (Amoebozoa). Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 63(4). 453–459. 16 indexed citations

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Geisen, Stefan, Alexander Tøsdal Tveit, Ian M. Clark, et al.. (2015). Metatranscriptomic census of active protists in soils. The ISME Journal. 9(10). 2178–2190. 203 indexed citations

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Geisen, Stefan, et al.. (2015). Not all are free‐living: high‐throughput DNA metabarcoding reveals a diverse community of protists parasitizing soil metazoa. Molecular Ecology. 24(17). 4556–4569. 103 indexed citations

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Geisen, Stefan, et al.. (2015). The soil food web revisited: Diverse and widespread mycophagous soil protists. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 94. 10–18. 153 indexed citations

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Nguyen, Thi Anh Duong, Vũ Thị Thanh Tâm, Michael Bonkowski, & Reyes Peña‐Santiago. (2014). New data of three rare belondirid species (Nematoda, Dorylaimida, Belondiridae) from Vietnam, with the first record and description of the male of Oxybelondira paraperplexa Ahmad & Jairajpuri, 1979. ZooKeys. 2(2). e1156–e1156. 2 indexed citations

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Luu, Vinh Quang, et al.. (2013). New country records of reptiles from Laos. ZooKeys. 1(1). e1015–e1015. 13 indexed citations

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Jousset, Alexandre, Laurène Rochat, Stefan Scheu, Michael Bonkowski, & Christoph Keel. (2010). Predator-Prey Chemical Warfare Determines the Expression of Biocontrol Genes by Rhizosphere-Associated Pseudomonas fluorescens. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 76(15). 5263–5268. 62 indexed citations

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