Ernst-Detlef Schulze

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)

Overview

Best Publications

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

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

  4668
  Citations

• A global analysis of root distributions for terrestrial biomes

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

  3612
  Citations

• Plant diversity and productivity experiments in european grasslands

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

  2591
  Citations

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

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

  2395
  Citations

• Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks.

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

  2239
  Citations

• The Ecology and Economics of Storage in Plants

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

  2131
  Citations

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

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

  2074
  Citations

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

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

  1893
  Citations

• Reduction of forest soil respiration in response to nitrogen deposition

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

  1724
  Citations

• Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

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

  1437
  Citations

• Ecophysiology of Photosynthesis

  Ernst-Detlef Schulze;Martyn M. Caldwell

  1419
  Citations

• Reconciling carbon-cycle concepts, terminology, and methods

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

  1329
  Citations

• 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

  1313
  Citations

• Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function

  Ernst-Detlef Schulze;Harold A. Mooney

  1264
  Citations

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

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

  1206
  Citations

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

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

  1202
  Citations

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

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

  1193
  Citations

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

  Ernst Detlef Schulze

  1135
  Citations

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

  Ernst Detlef Schulze

  943
  Citations

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

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

  895
  Citations

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

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

  840
  Citations

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

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

  810
  Citations

• 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

  788
  Citations

• Maximum conductances for evaporation from global vegetation types

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

  735
  Citations

• 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

  679
  Citations

• Managing forests after Kyoto

  Ernst Detlef Schulze;Christian Wirth;Martin Heimann

  669
  Citations

• The Terrestrial Carbon Cycle : Implications for the Kyoto Protocol

  Will Steffen;Ian Noble;Josep Canadell

  596
  Citations

• 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

  569
  Citations

• Carbon and nitrogen cycling in European forest ecosystems

  Ernst-Detlef Schulze

  566
  Citations