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2026

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Best Scientists

D-Index
166
Citations
103394
World Ranking
1008
National Ranking
50

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
160
Citations
99725
World Ranking
10
National Ranking
3

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
169
Citations
107186
World Ranking
9
National Ranking
1

Ernst-Detlef Schulze publications per year

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1966 2025

870 publications in total across all disciplines

Ernst-Detlef Schulze 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 Ernst-Detlef Schulze sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 756 publications — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ernst-Detlef Schulze 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 Ernst-Detlef Schulze sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 169 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Germany Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Germany Leader Award
  • 2004 - Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal, European Geosciences Union
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1990 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
  • Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Academia das Ciências de Lisboa)
  • Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Academia das Ciências de Lisboa)
  • Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Academia das Ciências de Lisboa)
  • Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Academia das Ciências de Lisboa)
  • Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Academia das Ciências de Lisboa)
  • Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Academia das Ciências de Lisboa)
  • Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Academia das Ciências de Lisboa)
  • Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Academia das Ciências de Lisboa)
  • Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Academia das Ciências de Lisboa)

Overview

Ernst-Detlef Schulze is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with significant contributions in various subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Insect Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's research topics cover a breadth of ecological and environmental areas, such as Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Forest Management and Policy, Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Notable recent publications include the following:

  • Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Heterogeneity-diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Can multi-taxa diversity in European beech forest landscapes be increased by combining different management systems?, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • FungalTraits vs. FUNGuild: Comparison of Ecological Functional Assignments of Leaf- and Needle-Associated Fungi Across 12 Temperate Tree Species, 2022, Microbial Ecology
  • The climate change mitigation effect of bioenergy from sustainably managed forests in Central Europe, 2020, GCB Bioenergy

Frequent co-authors in the scientist's work include:

  • Wolfgang W. Weisser
  • François Buscot
  • Markus Fischer
  • Peter Schall
  • Martin M. Goßner

Publications often appear in journals such as Nature Ecology & Evolution, GCB Bioenergy, Journal of Applied Ecology, Microbial Ecology, and Forest Ecosystems.

Ernst-Detlef Schulze's awards and honors include:

  • Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky Medal from the European Geosciences Union (2004)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993)
  • Membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina for Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (1990)
  • Recognition by the Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Academia das Ciências de Lisboa)

Best Publications

  • Europe-wide reduction in primary productivity caused by the heat and drought in 2003

    Ph. Ciais;M. Reichstein;N. Viovy;A. Granier

  • A global analysis of root distributions for terrestrial biomes

    R. B. Jackson;J. Canadell;J. R. Ehleringer;H. A. Mooney

  • Plant diversity and productivity experiments in european grasslands

    A. Hector;Bernhard Schmid;Carl Beierkuhnlein;M. C. Caldeira

  • Maximum rooting depth of vegetation types at the global scale.

    J. Canadell;R. B. Jackson;J. R. Ehleringer;H. A. Mooney

  • Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks.

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Ernst Detlef Schulze;Annett Börner;Alexander Knohl

  • The Ecology and Economics of Storage in Plants

    F. Stuart Chapin;Ernst-Detlef Schulze;Harold A. Mooney

  • Respiration as the main determinant of carbon balance in European forests

    R. Valentini;G. Matteucci;A. J. Dolman;E.-D. Schulze

  • A global budget for fine root biomass, surface area, and nutrient contents

    R. B. Jackson;H. A. Mooney;E.-D. Schulze

  • Reduction of forest soil respiration in response to nitrogen deposition

    I.A. Janssens;W. Dieleman;S. Luyssaert;J.-A. Subke

  • Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

    Jingjing Liang;Thomas W. Crowther;Nicolas Picard;Susan Wiser

  • Ecophysiology of Photosynthesis

    Ernst-Detlef Schulze;Martyn M. Caldwell

  • Reconciling carbon-cycle concepts, terminology, and methods

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

  • Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers

    Sebastian Seibold;Martin M. Gossner;Nadja K. Simons;Nadja K. Simons;Nico Blüthgen

  • Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function

    Ernst-Detlef Schulze;Harold A. Mooney

  • Productivity overshadows temperature in determining soil and ecosystem respiration across European forests

    I. A. Janssens;H. Lankreijer;G. Matteucci;A. S. Kowalski

  • CO2 balance of boreal, temperate, and tropical forests derived from a global database

    Sebastiaan Luyssaert;Sebastiaan Luyssaert;I. Inglima;M. Jung;A. D. Richardson

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

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

  • Air Pollution and Forest Decline in a Spruce (Picea abies) Forest

    Ernst Detlef Schulze

  • Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapor Exchange in Response to Drought in the Atmosphere and in the Soil

    Ernst Detlef Schulze

  • Implementing large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research: The Biodiversity Exploratories

    Markus Fischer;Markus Fischer;Oliver Bossdorf;Sonja Gockel;Falk Hansel

  • Europe's terrestrial biosphere absorbs 7 to 12% of European anthropogenic CO2 emissions

    I.A. Janssens;A. Freibauer;P. Ciais;Phillip Smith

  • Leaf nitrogen, photosynthesis, conductance and transpiration : scaling from leaves to canopies

    Ray Leuning;Francis M. Kelliher;D. G. G. de Pury;Ernst-Detlef Schulze

  • Relationships among Maximum Stomatal Conductance, Ecosystem Surface Conductance, Carbon Assimilation Rate, and Plant Nitrogen Nutrition: A Global Ecology Scaling Exercise

    Ernst-Detlef Schulze;Francis M. Kelliher;Christian Körner;Jon Lloyd

  • Maximum conductances for evaporation from global vegetation types

    Francis M. Kelliher;Ray Leuning;Michael Raupach;Ernst-Detlef Schulze

  • The role of biodiversity for element cycling and trophic interactions: an experimental approach in a grassland community

    Christiane Roscher;Jens Schumacher;Jussi Baade;Wolfgang Wilcke

  • Managing forests after Kyoto

    Ernst Detlef Schulze;Christian Wirth;Martin Heimann

  • The Terrestrial Carbon Cycle : Implications for the Kyoto Protocol

    Will Steffen;Ian Noble;Josep Canadell

  • Accumulation of nitrate in the shoot acts as a signal to regulate shoot‐root allocation in tobacco†

    Wolf-Rudiger Scheible;Marianne Lauerer;Ernst-Detlef Schulze;Michel Caboche

  • Carbon and nitrogen cycling in European forest ecosystems

    Ernst-Detlef Schulze

Frequent Co-Authors

Nina Buchmann
Nina Buchmann ETH Zurich
Christiane Roscher
Christiane Roscher Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Otto L. Lange
Otto L. Lange University of Würzburg
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen University of Freiburg
Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich
Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
Jens Schumacher
Jens Schumacher Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Gerhard Gebauer
Gerhard Gebauer University of Bayreuth
Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth Leipzig University

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