Safaa Wasof

745 total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 506 citations indexed

About

Safaa Wasof is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Safaa Wasof has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 506 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 7 papers in Soil Science and 7 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Safaa Wasof's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (14 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (7 papers) and Plant and animal studies (6 papers). Safaa Wasof is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (14 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (7 papers) and Plant and animal studies (6 papers). Safaa Wasof collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, Australia and France. Safaa Wasof's co-authors include Kris Verheyen, Pieter De Frenne, Guillaume Decocq, Michael P. Perring, Shiyu Ma, Evy Ampoorter, Sybryn L. Maes, Emiel De Lombaerde, Haben Blondeel and Lionel R. Hertzog and has published in prestigious journals such as Global Change Biology, Biological Conservation and Plant and Soil.

In The Last Decade

Safaa Wasof

18 papers receiving 496 citations

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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.

The functional role of temperate forest understorey vegetation in a changing world

2019 197 citations Dries Landuyt, Emiel De Lombaerde et al. Global Change Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Safaa Wasof Belgium	11	283	165	162	136	130	18	506
Zhijun Lu China	15	410 1.4×	225 1.4×	194 1.2×	180 1.3×	155 1.2×	35	672
Gábor Ónodi Hungary	14	262 0.9×	167 1.0×	174 1.1×	170 1.3×	127 1.0×	38	499
Emiel De Lombaerde Belgium	15	414 1.5×	256 1.6×	130 0.8×	147 1.1×	128 1.0×	25	617
Michele de Sá Dechoum Brazil	14	270 1.0×	202 1.2×	177 1.1×	126 0.9×	164 1.3×	46	550
Deborah Schäfer Switzerland	14	344 1.2×	144 0.9×	183 1.1×	173 1.3×	162 1.2×	19	569
Katherina A. Pietsch Germany	8	307 1.1×	219 1.3×	151 0.9×	157 1.2×	113 0.9×	11	585
Justin M. Valliere United States	14	261 0.9×	166 1.0×	172 1.1×	235 1.7×	102 0.8×	30	537
Mariana Villagra Argentina	12	307 1.1×	253 1.5×	155 1.0×	130 1.0×	98 0.8×	21	542
Stefan Trogisch Germany	14	407 1.4×	273 1.7×	140 0.9×	169 1.2×	118 0.9×	22	703
Marlyse C. Duguid United States	14	284 1.0×	253 1.5×	136 0.8×	140 1.0×	93 0.7×	34	536

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Safaa Wasof

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18 of 18 papers shown

Schrijver, An De, Stephanie Schelfhout, Safaa Wasof, et al.. (2021). Win some, lose some: Mesocosm communities maintain community productivity despite lower phosphorus availability because of increased species diversity. Applied Vegetation Science. 24(3). 2 indexed citations

Perring, Michael P., Pieter De Frenne, Lionel R. Hertzog, et al.. (2021). “Lianification” or liana invasion – is there a difference?. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 19(7). 377–378. 2 indexed citations

Naqinezhad, Alireza, Emiel De Lombaerde, Hamid Gholizadeh, et al.. (2021). The combined effects of climate and canopy cover changes on understorey plants of the Hyrcanian forest biodiversity hotspot in northern Iran. Global Change Biology. 28(3). 1103–1118. 18 indexed citations

Landuyt, Dries, Evy Ampoorter, Cristina C. Bastías, et al.. (2020). Importance of overstorey attributes for understorey litter production and nutrient cycling in European forests. Forest Ecosystems. 7(1). 45–45. 11 indexed citations

Perring, Michael P., Pieter De Frenne, Lionel R. Hertzog, et al.. (2020). Increasing liana frequency in temperate European forest understories is driven by ivy. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 18(10). 550–557. 13 indexed citations

Schelfhout, Stephanie, Safaa Wasof, Jan Mertens, et al.. (2020). Effects of bioavailable phosphorus and soil biota on typical Nardus grassland species in competition with fast-growing plant species. Ecological Indicators. 120. 106880–106880. 10 indexed citations

Schelfhout, Stephanie, An De Schrijver, Margot Vanhellemont, et al.. (2019). Phytomining to re-establish phosphorus-poor soil conditions for nature restoration on former agricultural land. Plant and Soil. 440(1-2). 233–246. 8 indexed citations

Lenoir, Jonathan, Aurélien Jamoneau, Tarek Hattab, et al.. (2019). Forest fragmentation shapes the alpha–gamma relationship in plant diversity. Journal of Vegetation Science. 31(1). 63–74. 9 indexed citations

Landuyt, Dries, Emiel De Lombaerde, Michael P. Perring, et al.. (2019). The functional role of temperate forest understorey vegetation in a changing world. Global Change Biology. 25(11). 3625–3641. 197 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ma, Shiyu, Pieter De Frenne, Safaa Wasof, et al.. (2019). Plant–soil feedbacks of forest understorey plants transplanted in nonlocal soils along a latitudinal gradient. Plant Biology. 21(4). 677–687. 7 indexed citations

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Ma, Shiyu, Pieter De Frenne, Margot Vanhellemont, et al.. (2019). Local soil characteristics determine the microbial communities under forest understorey plants along a latitudinal gradient. Basic and Applied Ecology. 36. 34–44. 13 indexed citations

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Smedt, Pallieter De, et al.. (2018). Macro-detritivore identity and biomass along with moisture availability control forest leaf litter breakdown in a field experiment. Applied Soil Ecology. 131. 47–54. 11 indexed citations

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Wasof, Safaa, An De Schrijver, Stephanie Schelfhout, et al.. (2018). Linkages between aboveground and belowground community compositions in grasslands along a historical land-use intensity gradient. Plant and Soil. 434(1-2). 289–304. 18 indexed citations

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Ma, Shiyu, Kris Verheyen, Ruben Props, et al.. (2018). Plant and soil microbe responses to light, warming and nitrogen addition in a temperate forest. Functional Ecology. 32(5). 1293–1303. 48 indexed citations

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Wasof, Safaa, Jonathan Lenoir, Tarek Hattab, et al.. (2018). Dominance of individual plant species is more important than diversity in explaining plant biomass in the forest understorey. Journal of Vegetation Science. 29(3). 521–531. 35 indexed citations

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Wasof, Safaa, Andreas Demey, Stephanie Schelfhout, et al.. (2017). Quantifying establishment limitations during the ecological restoration of species‐rich Nardus grassland. Applied Vegetation Science. 20(4). 594–607. 8 indexed citations

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Closset‐Kopp, Déborah, Safaa Wasof, & Guillaume Decocq. (2016). Using process-based indicator species to evaluate ecological corridors in fragmented landscapes. Biological Conservation. 201. 152–159. 42 indexed citations

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Wasof, Safaa, Jonathan Lenoir, Emilie Gallet‐Moron, et al.. (2013). Ecological niche shifts of understorey plants along a latitudinal gradient of temperate forests in north‐western Europe. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 22(10). 1130–1140. 54 indexed citations

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