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Christian Wirth

Christian Wirth

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
85
Citations
31233
World Ranking
629
National Ranking
52

Christian Wirth 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 Christian Wirth sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 319 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Christian Wirth 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 Christian Wirth sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 85 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Christian Wirth is affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research output includes 168 publications in Environmental Science and 63 in Agricultural and Biological Sciences, reflecting a broad engagement with ecological and environmental topics.

Their work touches various subfields, notably Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecology. These subfields encompass 53, 52, 30, 26, and 24 publications respectively.

Research topics covered include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, and Forest Ecology and Management. The number of publications spanning these topics are 82, 60, 44, 44, 30, 22, and 18 respectively.

Selected recent papers authored with colleagues include:

  • Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment, 2021, Science Advances
  • Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Demographic trade-offs predict tropical forest dynamics, 2020, Science
  • Effective Biodiversity Monitoring Needs a Culture of Integration, 2020, One Earth

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Christian Wirth include:

  • Nico Eisenhauer
  • Ronny Richter
  • Alexandra Weigelt
  • Florian Schnabel
  • Nadja Rüger

They have published multiple works in noteworthy venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Ecology, Nature Ecology & Evolution, and Global Change Biology. The volume of publications in these venues are 15, 8, 5, 4, and 4 respectively.

In addition to journal publications, Christian Wirth has contributed to books published by oekom verlag, including two editions of "Faktencheck Artenvielfalt" released in 2024.

Best Publications

  • The global spectrum of plant form and function

    Sandra Myrna Díaz;Jens Kattge;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Ian J. Wright

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Recent patterns and mechanisms of carbon exchange by terrestrial ecosystems

    D. S. Schimel;J. I. House;K. A. Hibbard;P. Bousquet

  • Reconciling carbon-cycle concepts, terminology, and methods

    F. S. Chapin Iii;G. M. Woodwell;J. Randerson;E. B. Rastetter

  • Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

    Georges Kunstler;Georges Kunstler;Daniel Falster;David A. Coomes;Francis Hui

  • Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment.

    Yuanyuan Huang;Yuxin Chen;Nadia Castro-Izaguirre;Martin Baruffol;Martin Baruffol

  • Quantifying photosynthetic capacity and its relationship to leaf nitrogen content for global-scale terrestrial biosphere models

    Jens Kattge;Wolfgang Knorr;Thomas Raddatz;Christian Wirth

  • Managing forests after Kyoto

    Ernst Detlef Schulze;Christian Wirth;Martin Heimann

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Oliver Purschke;Jonathan Lenoir

  • Global meta‐analysis of wood decomposition rates: a role for trait variation among tree species?

    James T. Weedon;William K. Cornwell;Johannes H.C. Cornelissen;Amy E. Zanne;Amy E. Zanne

  • Productivity of forests in the Eurosiberian boreal region and their potential to act as a carbon sink –- a synthesis

    E.-D. Schulze;J. Lloyd;F. M. Kelliher;C. Wirth

  • 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

  • Plant traits and wood fates across the globe: rotted, burned, or consumed?

    William K. Cornwell;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Steven D. Allison;Jürgen Bauhus

  • Carbon cycling under 300 years of land use change: Importance of the secondary vegetation sink

    Elena Shevliakova;Stephen Wilson Pacala;Sergey Malyshev;George C. Hurtt

  • The Future of Complementarity: Disentangling Causes from Consequences

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

  • Allometric equations for integrating remote sensing imagery into forest monitoring programmes.

    Tommaso Jucker;John Caspersen;Jérôme Chave;Cécile Antin;Cécile Antin

  • Global variability in leaf respiration in relation to climate, plant functional types and leaf traits

    Owen K. Atkin;Keith J. Bloomfield;Peter B. Reich;Peter B. Reich;Mark G. Tjoelker

  • Generic biomass functions for Norway spruce in Central Europe - a meta-analysis approach toward prediction and uncertainty estimation

    Christian Wirth;Jens Schumacher;Ernst-Detlef Schulze

  • Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation

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  • Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context

    Sophia Ratcliffe;Christian Wirth;Christian Wirth;Tommaso Jucker;Tommaso Jucker;Fons van der Plas

  • Designing forest biodiversity experiments : general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China

    Helge Bruelheide;Karin Nadrowski;Thorsten Assmann;Jürgen Bauhus

  • Tree species richness increases ecosystem carbon storage in subtropical forests

    Xiaojuan Liu;Stefan Trogisch;Jin-Sheng He;Pascal A. Niklaus

  • Is forest diversity driving ecosystem function and service

    Karin Nadrowski;Christian Wirth;Michael Scherer-Lorenzen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens Kattge
Jens Kattge Max Planck Society
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen University of Freiburg
Helge Bruelheide
Helge Bruelheide Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Alexandra Weigelt
Alexandra Weigelt Leipzig University
Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Paloma Ruiz-Benito
Paloma Ruiz-Benito University of Alcalá
Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
François Buscot
François Buscot Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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