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55
Citations
12449
World Ranking
2958
National Ranking
75

Overview

Anita C. Risch is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science with significant contributions to agricultural and biological sciences. The main subfields of study include nature and landscape conservation, ecology, global and planetary change, soil science, and plant science.

The scientist's work covers several important topics such as ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, wildlife ecology and conservation, plant and animal studies, land use and ecosystem services, species distribution and climate change, and rangeland and wildlife management.

Risch's publication record reveals frequent partnerships with multiple co-authors, including Elizabeth T. Borer, Eric W. Seabloom, Carly J. Stevens, Andrew S. MacDougall, and Maria C. Caldeira. These collaborations reflect a broad network within ecological and environmental research communities.

There is a substantial body of work published in prestigious venues, with repeated appearances in Nature Communications, Global Change Biology, Journal of Ecology, Ecology Letters, and Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Recent publications include:

  • General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time, 2020, Ecology
  • The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Negative effects of nitrogen override positive effects of phosphorus on grassland legumes worldwide, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Spatial resolution, spectral metrics and biomass are key aspects in estimating plant species richness from spectral diversity in species-rich grasslands, 2021, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation

Best Publications

  • Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe

    Jonathan W. Leff;Stuart E. Jones;Suzanne M. Prober;Albert Barberán

  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

    Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Daniel S. Gruner;W. Stanley Harpole

  • Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide

    Suzanne M. Prober;Jonathan W. Leff;Scott T. Bates;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

    Peter B. Adler;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

    Philip A. Fay;Suzanne M. Prober;W. Stanley Harpole;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands

    Yann Hautier;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Peter B. Adler

  • Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

    W. Stanley Harpole;W. Stanley Harpole;Lauren L. Sullivan;Eric M. Lind;Jennifer Firn

  • Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality

    Yann Hautier;Forest Isbell;Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom

  • Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity

    Sally E. Koerner;Melinda D. Smith;Deron E. Burkepile;Niall P. Hanan

  • Life-history constraints in grassland plant species : a growth-defence trade-off is the norm

    Eric M. Lind;Elizabeth Borer;Eric Seabloom;Peter Adler

  • Life‐history constraints in grassland plant species: a growth‐defence trade‐off is the norm

    Eric M. Lind;Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Peter B. Adler

  • Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts local grassland primary production worldwide

    Carly J. Stevens;Eric M. Lind;Yann Hautier;Yann Hautier;W. Stanley Harpole

  • The impact of ants on mineral soil properties and processes at different spatial scales

    E. L. H. Cammeraat;A. C. Risch

  • Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands

    A.C. Risch;S. Zimmermann;R. Ochoa-Hueso;M. Schütz

  • The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate

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  • General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales

    Yann Hautier;Pengfei Zhang;Michel Loreau;Kevin R. Wilcox

  • Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs

    Jennifer Firn;James M. McGree;Eric Harvey;Habacuc Flores-Moreno

  • Impact of herbivory by red deer ( Cervus elaphus L.) on patterns and processes in subalpine grasslands in the Swiss National Park

    Martin Schütz;Anita C Risch;Eliane Leuzinger;Bertil O Krüsi

  • Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time.

    Eric W. Seabloom;Peter B. Adler;Juan Alberti;Lori Biederman

  • Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: Is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness?

    Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Yvonne M. Buckley;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Carbon dioxide fluxes in a spatially and temporally heterogeneous temperate grassland

    Anita C. Risch;Douglas A. Frank

  • Foraging activity and dietary spectrum of wood ants (Formica rufa group) and their role in nutrient fluxes in boreal forests

    Timo Domisch;Leena Finér;Seppo Neuvonen;Pekka Niemelä

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Schütz
Martin Schütz Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
Jennifer Firn
Jennifer Firn Queensland University of Technology
Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Carly J. Stevens
Carly J. Stevens Lancaster University
Yann Hautier
Yann Hautier Utrecht University
W. Stanley Harpole
W. Stanley Harpole Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Peter B. Adler
Peter B. Adler Utah State University
Andrew S. MacDougall
Andrew S. MacDougall University of Guelph
Rebecca L. McCulley
Rebecca L. McCulley University of Kentucky

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