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Carl Beierkuhnlein

Carl Beierkuhnlein

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
75
Citations
27065
World Ranking
1038
National Ranking
70

Overview

Carl Beierkuhnlein is affiliated with the University of Bayreuth in Germany. Their research primarily deals with environmental science, with a specific focus on nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Land use and ecosystem services
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research

Carl Beierkuhnlein has published extensively in several recognized venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • npj Biodiversity
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Forests

Notable recent papers include:

  • "A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests" (2020), published in Basic and Applied Ecology
  • "Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony" (2021), published in Ecology
  • "Challenges and solutions to biodiversity conservation in arid lands" (2022), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Snapshot isolation and isolation history challenge the analogy between mountains and islands used to understand endemism" (2020), published in Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "From local spectral species to global spectral communities: A benchmark for ecosystem diversity estimate by remote sensing" (2020), published in Ecological Informatics

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues such as Anke Jentsch, Richard Field, Anna Walentowitz, Severin D. H. Irl, and Frank Weiser, with multiple joint publications reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Plant diversity and productivity experiments in european grasslands

    A. Hector;Bernhard Schmid;Carl Beierkuhnlein;M. C. Caldeira

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

    Forest Isbell;Dylan Craven;John Connolly;Michael Loreau

  • A new generation of climate-change experiments: events, not trends

    Anke Jentsch;Anke Jentsch;Jürgen Kreyling;Jürgen Kreyling;Carl Beierkuhnlein

  • A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests

    Bernhard Schuldt;Allan Buras;Matthias Arend;Yann Vitasse

  • Precipitation manipulation experiments - challenges and recommendations for the future

    Claus Beier;Carl Beierkuhnlein;Thomas Wohlgemuth;Josep Penuelas

  • ECOSYSTEM EFFECTS OF BIODIVERSITY MANIPULATIONS IN EUROPEAN GRASSLANDS

    E. M. Spehn;A. Hector;J. Joshi;M. Scherer-Lorenzen

  • Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship

    Dylan Craven;Nico Eisenhauer;William D. Pearse;Yann Hautier

  • Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

    Lauchlan H. Fraser;Jason Pither;Anke Jentsch;Marcelo Sternberg

  • Research frontiers in climate change: Effects of extreme meteorological events on ecosystems

    Anke Jentsch;Anke Jentsch;Carl Beierkuhnlein

  • No Consistent Effect of Plant Diversity on Productivity

    M. A. Huston;L. W. Aarssen;M. P. Austin;B. S. Cade

  • Ecological stress memory and cross stress tolerance in plants in the face of climate extremes

    Julia Walter;Anke Jentsch;Carl Beierkuhnlein;Juergen Kreyling

  • Topography-driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation

    Manuel J. Steinbauer;Richard Field;John-Arvid Grytnes;Panayiotis Trigas

  • Do plants remember drought? : Hints towards a drought-memory in grasses

    Julia Walter;Laura Nagy;Laura Nagy;Roman Hein;Roman Hein;Uwe Rascher

  • Climate extremes initiate ecosystem-regulating functions while maintaining productivity

    Anke Jentsch;Juergen Kreyling;Michael Elmer;Ellen Gellesch

  • Coordinated distributed experiments: An emerging tool for testing global hypotheses in ecology and environmental science

    Lauchlan H. Fraser;Hugh Al Henry;Cameron N. Carlyle;Cameron N. Carlyle;Shannon R. White

  • Beyond gradual warming: extreme weather events alter flower phenology of European grassland and heath species

    Anke Jentsch;Anke Jentsch;Juergen Kreyling;Juergen Kreyling;Jegor Boettcher-Treschkow;Carl Beierkuhnlein

  • Inventory, differentiation, and proportional diversity: a consistent terminology for quantifying species diversity.

    Gerald Jurasinski;Vroni Retzer;Carl Beierkuhnlein

  • Effects of extreme drought on specific leaf area of grassland species: A meta-analysis of experimental studies in temperate and sub-Mediterranean systems

    Camilla Wellstein;Peter Poschlod;Andreas Gohlke;Stefano Chelli

  • Plant diversity effects on grassland productivity are robust to both nutrient enrichment and drought

    Dylan Craven;Forest Isbell;Pete Manning;John Connolly

  • Iconographies supplémentaires de l'article : Research frontiers in climate change: Effects of extreme meteorological events on ecosystems

    Anke Jentsch;Carl Beierkuhnlein

Frequent Co-Authors

Anke Jentsch
Anke Jentsch University of Bayreuth
Juergen Kreyling
Juergen Kreyling University of Greifswald
Manuel J. Steinbauer
Manuel J. Steinbauer University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Alessandro Chiarucci
Alessandro Chiarucci University of Bologna
Richard Field
Richard Field University of Nottingham
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Björn Reineking
Björn Reineking Grenoble Alpes University
Andy Hector
Andy Hector University of Oxford
Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen University of Freiburg

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