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D-Index
45
Citations
12603
World Ranking
4746
National Ranking
101

Eric Allan 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 Eric Allan sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 102 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Eric Allan 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 Eric Allan sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Eric Allan is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions in several subfields including nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, plant science, global and planetary change, and soil science.

Allan's main topics of study revolve around ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, land use and ecosystem services, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, plant parasitism and resistance, as well as conservation, biodiversity, and resource management.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Allan include Noémie A. Pichon, Santiago Soliveres, Markus Fischer, Seraina L. Cappelli, and Martin M. Goßner. These partnerships reflect recurring research efforts across related ecological and environmental disciplines.

Eric Allan has published extensively in various scientific venues. Their most frequent publication venues are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Ecology Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

Among Allan's recent papers are:

  • "Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales" (2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • "Plant-Soil Feedbacks and Temporal Dynamics of Plant Diversity-Productivity Relationships" (2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • "Sick plants in grassland communities: a growth-defense trade-off is the main driver of fungal pathogen abundance" (2020, Ecology Letters)

Best Publications

  • Bottom-up effects of plant diversity on multitrophic interactions in a biodiversity experiment

    Christoph Scherber;Nico Eisenhauer;Nico Eisenhauer;Wolfgang W Weisser;Bernhard Schmid

  • Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality.

    Peter Manning;Fons van der Plas;Santiago Soliveres;Eric Allan

  • Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

    Eric Allan;Pete Manning;Fabian Alt;Julia Binkenstein

  • Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

    Santiago Soliveres;Fons van der Plas;Peter Manning;Daniel Prati

  • Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities

    Martin M. Gossner;Martin M. Gossner;Thomas M. Lewinsohn;Thomas M. Lewinsohn;Tiemo Kahl;Fabrice Grassein

  • 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

  • Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity.

    Eric Allan;Oliver Bossdorf;Oliver Bossdorf;Carsten F. Dormann;Daniel Prati

  • Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services.

    María R. Felipe-Lucia;Santiago Soliveres;Caterina Penone;Markus Fischer

  • 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

  • More diverse plant communities have higher functioning over time due to turnover in complementary dominant species.

    Eric Allan;Wolfgang Weisser;Alexandra Weigelt;Christiane Roscher

  • Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services

    María R. Felipe-Lucia;Santiago Soliveres;Santiago Soliveres;Caterina Penone;Peter Manning

  • Biotic homogenization can decrease landscape-scale forest multifunctionality

    Fons van der Plas;Pete Manning;Santiago Soliveres;Eric Allan

  • Jack-of-all-trades effects drive biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in European forests

    Fons Van der Plas;Peter Manning;Eric Allan;Michael Scherer-Lorenzen

  • Plant diversity improves protection against soil-borne pathogens by fostering antagonistic bacterial communities

    Ellen Latz;Nico Eisenhauer;Björn C. Rall;Eric Allan

  • Direct and indirect effects of invasive species: Biodiversity loss is a major mechanism by which an invasive tree affects ecosystem functioning

    Theo Edmund Werner Linders;Theo Edmund Werner Linders;Urs Schaffner;René Eschen;Anteneh Abebe

  • A novel comparative research platform designed to determine the functional significance of tree species diversity in European forests

    Lander Baeten;Kris Verheyen;Christian Wirth;Helge Bruelheide

  • Intransitive competition is widespread in plant communities and maintains their species richness

    Santiago Soliveres;Fernando T. Maestre;Werner Ulrich;Peter Manning

  • The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales

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  • Species richness, but not phylogenetic diversity, influences community biomass production and temporal stability in a re-examination of 16 grassland biodiversity studies

    Patrick Venail;Patrick Venail;Kevin Gross;Todd H. Oakley;Anita Narwani;Anita Narwani

  • Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality

    Santiago Soliveres;Peter Manning;Daniel Prati;Martin M. Gossner

  • Epigenetic diversity increases the productivity and stability of plant populations

    Vít Latzel;Eric Allan;Amanda Bortolini Silveira;Vincent Colot

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Santiago Soliveres
Santiago Soliveres University of Alicante
Steffen Boch
Steffen Boch Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Peter Manning
Peter Manning University of Bergen
Fons van der Plas
Fons van der Plas Wageningen University & Research
Daniel Prati
Daniel Prati University of Bern
Valentin H. Klaus
Valentin H. Klaus Ruhr University Bochum
Till Kleinebecker
Till Kleinebecker University of Münster

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