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Overview

Andreas Hemp is affiliated with the University of Bayreuth in Germany, contributing extensively to the fields of environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields including nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, global and planetary change, ecological modeling, and general ecology.

The scientist's work covers a broad spectrum of main topics such as ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, plant and animal studies, forest ecology and management, forest management and policy, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, as well as African botany and ecology studies.

Among their frequent coauthors are Markus Fischer, Frans Bongers, Luciana F. Alves, Jean-François Bastin, and Jiří Doležal, each collaborating on numerous publications. The venues where Andreas Hemp commonly publishes include Nature Communications, Nature, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Environmental Microbiology, and Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Recent notable papers include the following:

  • Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential, 2023, Nature
  • The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition, 2021, Nature
  • Contrasting patterns and drivers of soil bacterial and fungal diversity across a mountain gradient, 2020, Environmental Microbiology
  • High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests, 2021, Nature
  • The global abundance of tree palms, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography

Andreas Hemp's research output demonstrates an emphasis on the carbon dynamics and biodiversity within forest ecosystems, with a significant focus on tropical and montane forest environments, as well as soil microbial ecology.

Best Publications

  • Mapping tree density at a global scale

    T. W. Crowther;H. B. Glick;K. R. Covey;C. Bettigole

  • Implementing large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research: The Biodiversity Exploratories

    Markus Fischer;Markus Fischer;Oliver Bossdorf;Sonja Gockel;Falk Hansel

  • Climate–land-use interactions shape tropical mountain biodiversity and ecosystem functions

    Marcell K. Peters;Andreas Hemp;Tim Appelhans;Joscha N. Becker

  • A quantitative index of land-use intensity in grasslands: Integrating mowing, grazing and fertilization

    Nico Blüthgen;Carsten F. Dormann;Daniel Prati;Valentin H. Klaus

  • Continuum or zonation? Altitudinal gradients in the forest vegetation of Mt. Kilimanjaro

    Andreas Hemp

  • Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity.

    Eric Allan;Oliver Bossdorf;Oliver Bossdorf;Carsten F. Dormann;Daniel Prati

  • Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential

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  • Environmental factors affect Acidobacterial communities below the subgroup level in grassland and forest soils.

    Astrid Naether;Astrid Naether;Bärbel U. Foesel;Bärbel U. Foesel;Verena Naegele;Pia K. Wüst

  • Predictors of elevational biodiversity gradients change from single taxa to the multi-taxa community level

    Marcell K. Peters;Andreas Hemp;Tim Appelhans;Christina Behler

  • A global comparative analysis of elevational species richness patterns of ferns

    Michael Kessler;Jürgen Kluge;Andreas Hemp;Ralf Ohlemüller

  • Global warming, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota

    William F. Laurance;William F. Laurance;D. Carolina Useche;Luke P. Shoo;Sebastian K. Herzog

  • Climate change‐driven forest fires marginalize the impact of ice cap wasting on Kilimanjaro

    Andreas Hemp

  • The number of tree species on Earth

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  • The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition

    Sebastian Seibold;Werner Rammer;Torsten Hothorn;Rupert Seidl

  • Interacting effects of fertilization, mowing and grazing on plant species diversity of 1500 grasslands in Germany differ between regions

    Stephanie A. Socher;Daniel Prati;Steffen Boch;Jörg Müller

  • Vegetation of Kilimanjaro: hidden endemics and missing bamboo

    Andreas Hemp

  • Contrasting patterns and drivers of soil bacterial and fungal diversity across a mountain gradient

    Congcong Shen;Anna Gunina;Yu Luo;Jianjun Wang

  • Food resources and vegetation structure mediate climatic effects on species richness of birds

    Stefan W. Ferger;Matthias Schleuning;Andreas Hemp;Kim M. Howell

  • Development and climate change in Tanzania: focus on Mount Kilimanjaro

    Shardul Agrawala;Annett Moehner;Andreas Hemp;Maarten van Aalst

  • High plant species richness indicates management-related disturbances rather than the conservation status of forests

    Steffen Boch;Daniel Prati;Jorg Muller;Stephanie A. Socher

  • Phylogenetic classification of the world's tropical forests

    J. W.Ferry Slik;Janet Franklin;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Richard Field

  • Ecology of the pteridophytes on the southern slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro – I. Altitudinal distribution

    Andreas Hemp

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Daniel Prati
Daniel Prati University of Bern
Katrin Böhning-Gaese
Katrin Böhning-Gaese Goethe University Frankfurt
François Buscot
François Buscot Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Elisabeth K. V. Kalko
Elisabeth K. V. Kalko University of Ulm
Konstans Wells
Konstans Wells Swansea University
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter University of Würzburg
Matthias Schleuning
Matthias Schleuning Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Michael Kleyer
Michael Kleyer Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

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