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5789
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Alexandru Milcu publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexandru Milcu sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 107 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Alexandru Milcu D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexandru Milcu sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alexandru Milcu is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research primarily spans the disciplines of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their work focuses on a variety of subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science, Plant Science, and Ecology.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols

Alexandru Milcu has contributed to several recent publications. Notable papers include:

  • Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Tree species mixing affects soil microbial functioning indirectly via root and litter traits and soil parameters in European forests, 2021, Functional Ecology
  • Ecotrons: Powerful and versatile ecosystem analysers for ecology, agronomy and environmental science, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Plant diversity enhances production and downward transport of biodegradable dissolved organic matter, 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • Memory of environmental conditions across generations affects the acclimation potential of scots pine, 2020, Plant Cell & Environment

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Ecology & Evolution, Global Change Biology, PLoS ONE, and eLife. These journals reflect a consistent engagement with ecological and environmental research themes.

Collaborations feature prominently in their work, with frequent co-authors being:

  • Sébastien Devidal
  • Stephan Hättenschwiler
  • Nathalie Fromin
  • Joana Sauze
  • Pierre Ganault

Best Publications

  • Bottom-up effects of plant diversity on multitrophic interactions in a biodiversity experiment

    Christoph Scherber;Nico Eisenhauer;Nico Eisenhauer;Wolfgang W Weisser;Bernhard Schmid

  • Plant diversity effects on soil microorganisms support the singular hypothesis.

    N. Eisenhauer;H. Bessler;C. Engels;G. Gleixner

  • Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions

    Wolfgang W. Weisser;Christiane Roscher;Sebastian T. Meyer;Anne Ebeling

  • The Future of Complementarity: Disentangling Causes from Consequences

    Kathryn E. Barry;Liesje Mommer;Jasper van Ruijven;Christian Wirth;Christian Wirth

  • Plant Diversity Surpasses Plant Functional Groups and Plant Productivity as Driver of Soil Biota in the Long Term

    Nico Eisenhauer;Alexandru Milcu;Alexander C. W. Sabais;Holger Bessler

  • Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning

    Fons van der Plas;Thomas Schröder-Georgi;Alexandra Weigelt;Kathryn E. Barry

  • Plant diversity drives soil microbial biomass carbon in grasslands irrespective of global environmental change factors

    Madhav Prakash Thakur;Alexandru Milcu;Pete Manning;Pascal A. Niklaus

  • EARTHWORMS AND LEGUMES CONTROL LITTER DECOMPOSITION IN A PLANT DIVERSITY GRADIENT

    Alexandru Milcu;Alexandru Milcu;Stephan Partsch;Christoph Scherber;Christoph Scherber;Wolfgang W. Weisser

  • All size classes of soil fauna and litter quality control the acceleration of litter decay in its home environment

    Alexandru Milcu;Pete Manning

  • The response of decomposers (earthworms, springtails and microorganisms) to variations in species and functional group diversity of plants

    Alexandru Milcu;Stephan Partsch;Reinhardt Langel;Stefan Scheu

  • Tree species diversity affects decomposition through modified micro-environmental conditions across European forests

    François‐Xavier Joly;Alexandru Milcu;Alexandru Milcu;Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen;Loreline‐Katia Jean

  • A comparison of the strength of biodiversity effects across multiple functions

    Eric Allan;Eric Allan;Wolfgang W. Weisser;Wolfgang W. Weisser;Markus Fischer;Markus Fischer;Ernst-Detlef Schulze

  • A multitrophic perspective on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research

    Nico Eisenhauer;Holger Schielzeth;Andrew D. Barnes;Kathryn E. Barry

  • Global Change Experiments: Challenges and Opportunities

    Hans J. De Boeck;Sara Vicca;Jacques Roy;Ivan Nijs

  • Diversity promotes temporal stability across levels of ecosystem organization in experimental grasslands.

    Raphaël Proulx;Christian Wirth;Winfried Voigt;Alexandra Weigelt;Alexandra Weigelt

  • Effects of biodiversity strengthen over time as ecosystem functioning declines at low and increases at high biodiversity

    Sebastian T. Meyer;Anne Ebeling;Nico Eisenhauer;Lionel Hertzog

  • Elevated CO2 maintains grassland net carbon uptake under a future heat and drought extreme

    Jacques Roy;Catherine Picon-Cochard;Angela Augusti;Marie-Lise Benot

  • Functionally and phylogenetically diverse plant communities key to soil biota

    Alexandru Milcu;Alexandru Milcu;Eric Allan;Christiane Roscher;Christiane Roscher;Tania Jenkins

  • Earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris) affect plant seedling recruitment and microhabitat heterogeneity

    A. Milcu;J. Schumacher;Stefan Scheu

  • Processes driving nocturnal transpiration and implications for estimating land evapotranspiration

    Víctor Resco de Dios;Jacques Roy;Juan Pedro Ferrio;Josu G. Alday

  • DECOMPOSERS (LUMBRICIDAE, COLLEMBOLA) AFFECT PLANT PERFORMANCE IN MODEL GRASSLANDS OF DIFFERENT DIVERSITY

    Stephan Partsch;Alexandru Milcu;Stefan Scheu

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacques Roy
Jacques Roy Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Christiane Roscher
Christiane Roscher Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Stefan Scheu
Stefan Scheu University of Göttingen
Nico Eisenhauer
Nico Eisenhauer Leipzig University
Arthur Gessler
Arthur Gessler ETH Zurich
Alexandra Weigelt
Alexandra Weigelt Leipzig University
Nina Buchmann
Nina Buchmann ETH Zurich
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Christoph Scherber
Christoph Scherber Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change
Gerd Gleixner
Gerd Gleixner Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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