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39
Citations
8613
World Ranking
6284
National Ranking
331

Overview

Carlos A. Guerra is affiliated with the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research in Germany. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, Ecology, Plant Science, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work centers on key topics including Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, as well as Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies.

Frequent co-authors of Carlos A. Guerra include:

  • Nico Eisenhauer
  • Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo
  • Alberto Orgiazzi
  • Simone Cesarz
  • Matthias C. Rillig

The venues where their research is most often published include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Science
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Carlos A. Guerra are:

  • "Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Tracking, targeting, and conserving soil biodiversity," 2021, Science

Additional influential papers including Guerra's co-authors cover:

  • "The direct drivers of recent global anthropogenic biodiversity loss," 2022, Science Advances
  • "The proportion of soil-borne pathogens increases with warming at the global scale," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands," 2022, Science

Best Publications

  • Assessing nature's contributions to people

    Sandra Diaz;Unai Pascual;Marie Stenseke;Berta Martin-Lopez

  • The proportion of soil-borne pathogens increases with warming at the global scale

    Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Carlos A. Guerra;Concha Cano-Díaz;Eleonora Egidi

  • Global distribution of earthworm diversity

    Helen R P Phillips;Carlos A Guerra;Marie L C Bartz;Maria J I Briones

  • Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research.

    Carlos A. Guerra;Anna Heintz-Buschart;Johannes Sikorski;Antonis Chatzinotas

  • Tracking, targeting, and conserving soil biodiversity.

    Carlos A. Guerra;Richard D. Bardgett;Lucrezia Caon;Thomas W. Crowther

  • Recognizing the quiet extinction of invertebrates

    Nico Eisenhauer;Aletta Bonn;Aletta Bonn;Carlos A. Guerra

  • Monitoring biodiversity change through effective global coordination

    Laetitia M. Navarro;Néstor Fernández;Carlos Guerra;Rob Guralnick

  • Ecosystem services in global sustainability policies

    Ilse R. Geijzendorffer;Emmanuelle Cohen-Shacham;Anna F. Cord;Wolfgang Cramer

  • Mapping and monitoring High Nature Value farmlands: challenges in European landscapes.

    Angela Lomba;Carlos Guerra;Carlos Guerra;Joaquim Alonso;João Pradinho Honrado

  • Towards an integrative understanding of soil biodiversity

    Madhav P. Thakur;Helen R. P. Phillips;Ulrich Brose;Franciska T. De Vries

  • Global gaps in soil biodiversity data.

    Erin K. Cameron;Erin K. Cameron;Inês S. Martins;Patrick Lavelle;Patrick Lavelle;Jérôme Mathieu

  • Global mismatches in aboveground and belowground biodiversity

    Erin K. Cameron;Erin K. Cameron;Inês S. Martins;Patrick Lavelle;Patrick Lavelle;Jérôme Mathieu

  • Effective Biodiversity Monitoring Needs a Culture of Integration

    Hjalmar S. Kühl;Hjalmar S. Kühl;Diana E. Bowler;Diana E. Bowler;Diana E. Bowler;Lukas Bösch;Helge Bruelheide;Helge Bruelheide

  • An assessment of soil erosion prevention by vegetation in Mediterranean Europe: Current trends of ecosystem service provision

    Carlos A. Guerra;Joachim Maes;Ilse Geijzendorffer;Marc J. Metzger

  • Global vulnerability of soil ecosystems to erosion.

    Carlos A. Guerra;Isabel M. D. Rosa;Emiliana Valentini;Florian Wolf

  • A niche for ecosystem multifunctionality in global change research.

    Darren P. Giling;Darren P. Giling;Darren P. Giling;Léa Beaumelle;Léa Beaumelle;Helen R. P. Phillips;Helen R. P. Phillips;Simone Cesarz;Simone Cesarz

  • Biodiversity post-2020: Closing the gap between global targets and national-level implementation

    Andrea Perino;Henrique M. Pereira;Henrique M. Pereira;Maria Felipe-Lucia;HyeJin Kim

  • Global patterns of forest loss across IUCN categories of protected areas

    Roxanne Leberger;Isabel M.D. Rosa;Isabel M.D. Rosa;Carlos A. Guerra;Florian Wolf

  • A protocol for an intercomparison of biodiversity and ecosystem services models using harmonized land-use and climate scenarios

    HyeJin Kim;Isabel M. D. Rosa;Rob Alkemade;Rob Alkemade;Paul Leadley

  • Mapping Soil Erosion Prevention Using an Ecosystem Service Modeling Framework for Integrated Land Management and Policy

    Carlos A. Guerra;Teresa Pinto-Correia;Marc J. Metzger

Frequent Co-Authors

Nico Eisenhauer
Nico Eisenhauer Leipzig University
Henrique M. Pereira
Henrique M. Pereira Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Diana H. Wall
Diana H. Wall Colorado State University
Olga Ferlian
Olga Ferlian Leipzig University
Aletta Bonn
Aletta Bonn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Simon I. Hay
Simon I. Hay University of Washington
Patrick Lavelle
Patrick Lavelle Sorbonne University
Simone Cesarz
Simone Cesarz Leipzig University
Josef Settele
Josef Settele Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Matthias C. Rillig
Matthias C. Rillig Freie Universität Berlin

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