Robert Koller

3.4k total citations
36 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

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Robert Koller is a scholar working on Plant Science, Ecology and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Koller has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Plant Science, 11 papers in Ecology and 11 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Robert Koller's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (10 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (9 papers). Robert Koller is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (10 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (9 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (9 papers). Robert Koller collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and France. Robert Koller's co-authors include Michael Bonkowski, Tim Urich, Nico Eisenhauer, Peter B. Reich, Simone Cesarz, Stefan Scheu, Stefan Geisen, Christophe Robin, Kenneth Dumack and S. Krämer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, New Phytologist and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Robert Koller

32 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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Author						Papers	Cites
Robert Koller	769	499	449	280	176	36	1.4k
Jenny Kao‐Kniffin	838 1.1×	507 1.0×	427 1.0×	284 1.0×	118 0.7×	59	1.6k
Christopher Steenbock	526 0.7×	751 1.5×	685 1.5×	343 1.2×	158 0.9×	7	1.4k
Hayley Craig	799 1.0×	797 1.6×	567 1.3×	417 1.5×	205 1.2×	11	1.7k
Maurizio Zotti	493 0.6×	300 0.6×	295 0.7×	138 0.5×	145 0.8×	56	1.2k
Marcel Meyer	657 0.9×	420 0.8×	323 0.7×	316 1.1×	122 0.7×	11	1.2k
Mette Vestergård	860 1.1×	361 0.7×	335 0.7×	133 0.5×	131 0.7×	66	1.4k
Yingying Ni	601 0.8×	763 1.5×	535 1.2×	404 1.4×	183 1.0×	26	1.5k
Agata Pijl	886 1.2×	884 1.8×	823 1.8×	482 1.7×	141 0.8×	29	2.0k
Gehong Wei	728 0.9×	937 1.9×	673 1.5×	467 1.7×	194 1.1×	20	1.7k
Ederson da Conceição Jesus	742 1.0×	878 1.8×	751 1.7×	519 1.9×	145 0.8×	52	1.9k

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Schymanski, Stanislaus J., et al.. (2025). Root growth dynamics and allocation as a response to rapid and local changes in soil moisture. Biogeosciences. 22(3). 691–703. 4 indexed citations

Metzner, Ralf, Gregor Huber, Daniel Pflugfelder, et al.. (2025). Syndrome “basses richesses” disease induced structural deformations and sectorial distribution of photoassimilates in sugar beet taproot revealed by combined MRI-PET imaging. Plant Phenomics. 7(2). 100053–100053.

Frindte, Katharina, Ralf Metzner, Daniel Pflugfelder, et al.. (2025). Photosynthate distribution determines spatial patterns in the rhizosphere microbiota of the maize root system. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7286–7286. 1 indexed citations

Zierer, Wolfgang, Marvin J. Fritzler, Tsan-Hung Chiu, et al.. (2025). Engineering vascular potassium transport increases yield and drought resilience of cassava. Nature Plants. 11(12). 2498–2510.

Fischbach, Andreas, et al.. (2025). Seed-to-plant-tracking: automated phenotyping of seeds and corresponding plants of Arabidopsis. Frontiers in Plant Science. 16. 1539424–1539424.

Emonet, Aurélia, et al.. (2024). Amphicarpic development in Cardamine chenopodiifolia. New Phytologist. 244(3). 1041–1056. 6 indexed citations

Jahnke, Siegfried, Ralf Metzner, Daniel Pflugfelder, et al.. (2024). Setup and characterisation according to NEMA NU 4 of the phenoPET scanner, a PET system dedicated for plant sciences. Physics in Medicine and Biology. 69(5). 55019–55019. 4 indexed citations

Pflugfelder, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Diurnal water fluxes and growth patterns in potato tubers under drought stress. Plant and Soil. 507(1-2). 269–282. 5 indexed citations

Han, Yong-Tao, Elisabeth Georgii, Gregor Huber, et al.. (2023). Arabidopsis histone deacetylase HD2A and HD2B regulate seed dormancy by repressing DELAY OF GERMINATION 1. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1124899–1124899. 7 indexed citations

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Blagodatskaya, Еvgenia, Mika Tarkka, Claudia Knief, et al.. (2021). Bridging Microbial Functional Traits With Localized Process Rates at Soil Interfaces. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 625697–625697. 19 indexed citations

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Bonkowski, Michael, Mika Tarkka, Bahar S. Razavi, et al.. (2021). Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Maize (Zea mays L.) Root Growth and Its Potential Consequences for the Assembly of the Rhizosphere Microbiota. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 619499–619499. 34 indexed citations

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Nabel, Moritz, Silvia D. Schrey, Hendrik Poorter, et al.. (2018). Coming Late for Dinner: Localized Digestate Depot Fertilization for Extensive Cultivation of Marginal Soil With Sida hermaphrodita. Frontiers in Plant Science. 9. 1095–1095. 22 indexed citations

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Tiefenbacher, Alexandra, et al.. (2017). Single and Combined Effects of Pesticide Seed Dressings and Herbicides on Earthworms, Soil Microorganisms, and Litter Decomposition. Frontiers in Plant Science. 8. 215–215. 51 indexed citations

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Pflugfelder, Daniel, Ralf Metzner, Dagmar van Dusschoten, et al.. (2017). Non-invasive imaging of plant roots in different soils using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Plant Methods. 13(1). 102–102. 87 indexed citations

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Zaller, Johann G., et al.. (2016). Pesticide seed dressings can affect the activity of various soil organisms and reduce decomposition of plant material. BMC Ecology. 16(1). 37–37. 53 indexed citations

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Krämer, S., Julia Moll, Robert Koller, et al.. (2016). Resource Partitioning between Bacteria, Fungi, and Protists in the Detritusphere of an Agricultural Soil. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1524–1524. 152 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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Geisen, Stefan, et al.. (2015). Pack hunting by a common soil amoeba on nematodes. Environmental Microbiology. 17(11). 4538–4546. 57 indexed citations

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Koller, Robert, Christophe Robin, Michael Bonkowski, Liliane Rueß, & Stefan Scheu. (2013). Litter quality as driving factor for plant nutrition via grazing of protozoa on soil microorganisms. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 85(2). 241–250. 31 indexed citations

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Koller, Robert, Stefan Scheu, Michael Bonkowski, & Christophe Robin. (2013). Protozoa stimulate N uptake and growth of arbuscular mycorrhizal plants. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 65. 204–210. 34 indexed citations

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