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71
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71
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685
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56

Edzo Veldkamp publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Edzo Veldkamp sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 193 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Edzo Veldkamp D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Edzo Veldkamp sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Edzo Veldkamp is a researcher affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany, with a focus on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their body of work primarily explores the dynamics of soil, ecosystems, and sustainability in tropical and temperate environments.

Their recent significant publications include the following:

  • Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Deforestation and reforestation impacts on soils in the tropics, 2020, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Measured greenhouse gas budgets challenge emission savings from palm-oil biodiesel, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Poplar Rows in Temperate Agroforestry Croplands Promote Bacteria, Fungi, and Denitrification Genes in Soils, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Soil greenhouse gas fluxes following conventional selective and reduced-impact logging in a Congo Basin rainforest, 2020, Biogeochemistry

Veldkamp frequently collaborates with a range of researchers, including Marife D. Corre, Alexander Knohl, Aiyen Tjoa, Christian Stiegler, and Oliver van Straaten.

Their publications are often featured in journals with a strong focus on biogeosciences and ecosystem studies. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Biogeosciences
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Nature Communications
  • Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems

Veldkamp's research encompasses several core fields and subfields, primarily:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Soil Science
  • Forestry
  • Plant Science

The main thematic areas covered in their work include:

  • Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Best Publications

  • Testing a Conceptual Model of Soil Emissions of Nitrous and Nitric Oxides

    Eric A. Davidson;Michael Keller;Heather E. Erickson;Louis V. Verchot

  • 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

  • Organic Carbon Turnover in Three Tropical Soils under Pasture after Deforestation

    E. Veldkamp

  • Effects of soil texture on belowground carbon and nutrient storage in a lowland Amazonian forest ecosystem

    Whendee L. Silver;Jason Neff;Megan McGroddy;Ed Veldkamp

  • Effectiveness of exclosures to restore degraded soils as a result of overgrazing in Tigray, Ethiopia

    Wolde Mekuria;E. Veldkamp;Mitiku Haile;J. Nyssen;J. Nyssen

  • Assessment of soil nutrient depletion and its spatial variability on smallholders’ mixed farming systems in Ethiopia using partial versus full nutrient balances

    Amare Haileslassie;Joerg Priess;Edzo Veldkamp;Demil Teketay

  • Geographic bias of field observations of soil carbon stocks with tropical land-use changes precludes spatial extrapolation

    Jennifer S. Powers;Marife D. Corre;Tracy E. Twine;Edzo Veldkamp

  • Effect of pasture age on soil trace-gas emissions from a deforested area of Costa Rica

    M. Keller;E. Veldkamp;A.M. Weitz;W.A. Reiners

  • Land-use choices follow profitability at the expense of ecological functions in Indonesian smallholder landscapes.

    Yann Clough;Yann Clough;Vijesh V. Krishna;Marife D. Corre;Kevin Darras

  • Deforestation and reforestation impacts on soils in the tropics

    Edzo Veldkamp;Marcus Schmidt;Jennifer S. Powers;Marife D. Corre

  • Direct and cascading impacts of tropical land-use change on multi-trophic biodiversity

    Andrew D. Barnes;Andrew D. Barnes;Kara Allen;Kara Allen;Holger Kreft;Marife D. Corre

  • Soil Nitrogen-Cycling Responses to Conversion of Lowland Forests to Oil Palm and Rubber Plantations in Sumatra, Indonesia.

    Kara Allen;Marife D. Corre;Aiyen Tjoa;Edzo Veldkamp

  • Stocks and flows of coarse woody debris across a tropical rain forest nutrient and topography gradient.

    David B Clark;Deborah A Clark;Sandra Brown;Steven F Oberbauer

  • Conversion of lowland tropical forests to tree cash crop plantations loses up to one-half of stored soil organic carbon

    Oliver van Straaten;Marife D. Corre;Katrin Wolf;Martin Tchienkoua

  • Soil Carbon Stocks Decrease following Conversion of Secondary Forests to Rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) Plantations

    Marleen de Blécourt;Rainer Brumme;Jianchu Xu;Marife D. Corre

  • Spatial and temporal variation in soil CO2 efflux in an old-growth neotropical rain forest, La Selva, Costa Rica

    Luitgard Schwendenmann;Edzo Veldkamp;Tania Brenes;Joseph J. O''Brien

  • Impact of elevated N input on soil N cycling and losses in old-growth lowland and montane forests in Panama

    Marife D. Corre;Edzo Veldkamp;Julia Arnold;S. Joseph Wright

  • Effects of pasture management on N2O and NO emissions from soils in the humid tropics of Costa Rica

    Edzo Veldkamp;Michael Keller;Marvin Nuñez

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

    Luitgard Schwendenmann;Edzo Veldkamp;Gerald Moser;Dirk Hölscher

  • Substantial labile carbon stocks and microbial activity in deeply weathered soils below a tropical wet forest

    Edzo Veldkamp;Anja Becker;Luitgard Schwendenmann;Deborah A. Clark

  • Fertilizer-induced nitric oxide emissions from agricultural soils

    Edzo Veldkamp;Michael Keller

Frequent Co-Authors

Marife D. Corre
Marife D. Corre University of Göttingen
Michael Keller
Michael Keller US Forest Service
Teja Tscharntke
Teja Tscharntke University of Göttingen
Christoph Leuschner
Christoph Leuschner University of Göttingen
Alexander Knohl
Alexander Knohl University of Göttingen
Luitgard Schwendenmann
Luitgard Schwendenmann University of Auckland
Yann Clough
Yann Clough Lund University
Dietrich Hertel
Dietrich Hertel University of Göttingen
Dirk Hölscher
Dirk Hölscher University of Göttingen
Mitiku Haile
Mitiku Haile Mekelle University

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