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Citations
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6257
National Ranking
153

Overview

Fons van der Plas is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands, focusing on research in environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work spans several subfields including nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, plant science, and ecology.

The scientist's research topics cover a diverse array of ecological and environmental themes. Key areas of study include:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Land use and ecosystem services
  • Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics
  • Forest management and policy
  • Hydrology and sediment transport processes

Notable recent publications demonstrate the scope and interdisciplinary nature of their research. These include:

  • The fungal collaboration gradient dominates the root economics space in plants, 2020, Science Advances
  • An integrated framework of plant form and function: the belowground perspective, 2021, New Phytologist
  • Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Global root traits (GRooT) database, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Publications are frequently found in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Journal of Ecology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Science Advances

Frequent collaboration occurs with other researchers in their field. Regular co-authors include Alexandra Weigelt, Jens Kattge, Liesje Mommer, Helge Bruelheide, and Akira Mori, reflecting an active engagement in collaborative scientific efforts.

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Forest biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services

    Eckehard G. Brockerhoff;Luc Barbaro;Bastien Castagneyrol;David I. Forrester

  • Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality.

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

  • The fungal collaboration gradient dominates the root economics space in plants.

    Joana Bergmann;Alexandra Weigelt;Fons van der Plas;Daniel C. Laughlin

  • Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

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

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in naturally assembled communities

    Fons van der Plas

  • An integrated framework of plant form and function: The belowground perspective

    Alexandra Weigelt;Liesje Mommer;Karl Andraczek;Colleen M. Iversen

  • 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

  • Effects of large herbivores on grassland arthropod diversity

    R. van Klink;F. van der Plas;C. G. E. van Noordwijk;C. G. E. van Noordwijk;M. F. WallisDeVries;M. F. WallisDeVries

  • 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

  • Individual experience and evolutionary history of predation affect expression of heritable variation in fish personality and morphology

    Niels J Dingemanse;Fons Van der Plas;Jonathan Wright;Denis Réale

  • The results of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic

    Malte Jochum;Malte Jochum;Markus Fischer;Forest Isbell;Christiane Roscher

  • Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning

    Fons van der Plas;Thomas Schröder-Georgi;Alexandra Weigelt;Kathryn E. Barry

  • Global root traits (GRooT) database

    Nathaly R. Guerrero-Ramírez;Liesje Mommer;Grégoire T. Freschet;Colleen M. Iversen

  • Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity

    Gaëtane Le Provost;Jan Thiele;Catrin Westphal;Caterina Penone

  • Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs

    Daniel C. Laughlin;Liesje Mommer;Francesco Maria Sabatini;Helge Bruelheide

  • Tree diversity is key for promoting the diversity and abundance of forest-associated taxa in Europe

    Evy Ampoorter;Luc Barbaro;Hervé Jactel;Lander Baeten;Lander Baeten

  • Specialisation and diversity of multiple trophic groups are promoted by different forest features

    Caterina Penone;Eric Allan;Santiago Soliveres;María R Felipe‐Lucia

  • A multitrophic perspective on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research

    Nico Eisenhauer;Holger Schielzeth;Andrew D. Barnes;Kathryn E. Barry

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth Leipzig University
Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
Eric Allan
Eric Allan University of Bern
Alexandra Weigelt
Alexandra Weigelt Leipzig University
Peter Manning
Peter Manning University of Bergen
Helge Bruelheide
Helge Bruelheide Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen University of Freiburg
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Hervé Jactel
Hervé Jactel University of Bordeaux
Bastien Castagneyrol
Bastien Castagneyrol University of Bordeaux

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