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Dirk Hölscher is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany and has a research focus primarily within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans across various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Plant Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's main topics of study involve Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Oil Palm Production and Sustainability, Forest Ecology and Management, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, and African Botany and Ecology Studies.

Dirk Hölscher has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Land-use history determines ecosystem services and conservation value in tropical agroforestry, 2020, Conservation Letters
  • Tree islands enhance biodiversity and functioning in oil palm landscapes, 2023, Nature
  • Win-win opportunities combining high yields with high multi-taxa biodiversity in tropical agroforestry, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Precipitation is the most crucial factor determining the distribution of moso bamboo in Mainland China, 2020, Global Ecology and Conservation

They frequently collaborate with several coauthors, including Holger Kreft, Alexander Röll, Delphine Clara Zemp, Bambang Irawan, and Leti Sundawati.

Hölscher's research appears in a range of publication venues. Notably, these include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Global Ecology and Conservation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Forests
  • Trees

Best Publications

  • Multifunctional shade‐tree management in tropical agroforestry landscapes – a review

    Teja Tscharntke;Yann Clough;Shonil A. Bhagwat;Damayanti Buchori

  • Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes

    Ingo Grass;Ingo Grass;Christoph Kubitza;Christoph Kubitza;Vijesh V. Krishna;Marife D. Corre

  • Stand fine root biomass and fine root morphology in old-growth beech forests as a function of precipitation and soil fertility

    Christoph Leuschner;Dietrich Hertel;Iris Schmid;Oliver Koch

  • The importance of epiphytes to total rainfall interception by a tropical montane rain forest in Costa Rica

    Dirk Hölscher;Lars Köhler;Albert I.J.M. van Dijk;L.A.(Sampurno) Bruijnzeel

  • Rainfall partitioning in relation to forest structure in differently managed montane forest stands in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

    Johannes Dietz;Dirk Hölscher;Christoph Leuschner;Hendrayanto

  • Tree water uptake in a tropical plantation varying in tree diversity: interspecific differences, seasonal shifts and complementarity

    Luitgard Schwendenmann;Elise Pendall;Rut Sanchez-Bragado;Norbert Kunert

  • Effects of an experimental drought on the functioning of a cacao agroforestry system, Sulawesi, Indonesia

    Luitgard Schwendenmann;Edzo Veldkamp;Gerald Moser;Dirk Hölscher

  • Soil water uptake by trees using water stable isotopes (δ2H and δ18O)−a method test regarding soil moisture, texture and carbonate

    Meik Meißner;Michael Köhler;Luitgard Schwendenmann;Dirk Hölscher

  • Phenalenone-type phytoalexins mediate resistance of banana plants (Musa spp.) to the burrowing nematode Radopholus similis

    Dirk Hölscher;Suganthagunthalam Dhakshinamoorthy;Theodore Alexandrov;Michael Becker

  • Nutrient transfer to the atmosphere by burning of debris in eastern Amazonia

    J. Mackensen;D. Hölscher;R. Klinge;H. Fölster

  • Response of cocoa trees (Theobroma cacao) to a 13-month desiccation period in Sulawesi, Indonesia

    G Moser;C Leuschner;D Hertel;D Hölscher

  • Water scarcity and oil palm expansion: social views and environmental processes

    Jennifer Merten;Alexander Röll;Thomas Guillaume;Ana Meijide

  • Coronalon: a powerful tool in plant stress physiology

    Göde Schüler;Axel Mithöfer;Ian T Baldwin;Susanne Berger

  • Tree diversity enhances tree transpiration in a Panamanian forest plantation

    Norbert Kunert;Luitgard Schwendenmann;Catherine Potvin;Dirk Hölscher

  • Nutrient input-output budget of shifting agriculture in Eastern Amazonia

    D. Hölscher;R. F. Möller;M. Denich;H. Fölster

  • Sap flux of five co-occurring tree species in a temperate broad-leaved forest during seasonal soil drought

    Dirk Hölscher;Oliver Koch;Oliver Koch;Sandra Korn;Ch. Leuschner

  • Experimental biodiversity enrichment in oil-palm-dominated landscapes in Indonesia

    Miriam Teuscher;Anne Gérard;Ulrich Brose;Damayanti Buchori

  • A type III polyketide synthase from Wachendorfia thyrsiflora and its role in diarylheptanoid and phenylphenalenone biosynthesis

    S. Brand;D. Holscher;A. Schierhorn;A. Svatos

  • Land-use history determines ecosystem services and conservation value in tropical agroforestry

    Dominic Andreas Martin;Kristina Osen;Ingo Grass;Dirk Hölscher

  • Reducing Fertilizer and Avoiding Herbicides in Oil Palm Plantations—Ecological and Economic Valuations

    Kevin F. A. Darras;Marife D. Corre;Greta Formaglio;Aiyen Tjoa

  • Species-specific tree water use characteristics in reforestation stands in the Philippines.

    Diego Dierick;Dirk Hölscher

  • Dynamic of soil chemical parameters in shifting agriculture in the Eastern Amazon

    D. Hölscher;B. Ludwig;R.F. Möller;H. Fölster

  • Size and Structure of Fine Root Systems in Old‐growth and Secondary Tropical Montane Forests (Costa Rica)

    Dietrich Hertel;Christoph Leuschner;Dirk Hölscher

  • For Peer Review Tree diversity enhances tree transpiration in a Panamanian forest plantation

    Catherine Potvin;Dirk Hölscher

Frequent Co-Authors

Christoph Leuschner
Christoph Leuschner University of Göttingen
Holger Kreft
Holger Kreft University of Göttingen
Luitgard Schwendenmann
Luitgard Schwendenmann University of Auckland
Alexander Knohl
Alexander Knohl University of Göttingen
Dietrich Hertel
Dietrich Hertel University of Göttingen
Marife D. Corre
Marife D. Corre University of Göttingen
Edzo Veldkamp
Edzo Veldkamp University of Göttingen
Teja Tscharntke
Teja Tscharntke University of Göttingen
Ingo Grass
Ingo Grass University of Hohenheim
Ülo Niinemets
Ülo Niinemets Estonian University of Life Sciences

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