2026 Franciska T. de Vries: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	52	3379	3250	95	93	98	17611

Overview

Franciska T. de Vries is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research focuses primarily on Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to Plant Science, Soil Science, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work covers a broad range of topics including Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Plant and animal studies.

Notable recent publications by Franciska T. de Vries include:

Harnessing rhizosphere microbiomes for drought-resilient crop production, 2020, Science
Tracking, targeting, and conserving soil biodiversity, 2021, Science
Root traits explain rhizosphere fungal community composition among temperate grassland plant species, 2020, New Phytologist
Global root traits (GRooT) database, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
Root functional traits explain root exudation rate and composition across a range of grassland species, 2021, Journal of Ecology

Frequent collaborators of de Vries include Richard D. Bardgett, Marina Semchenko, Matthias C. Rillig, Peter Manning, and Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo.

de Vries has published extensively in venues such as Journal of Ecology, Science, Nature Communications, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature.

Best Publications

Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks.

Franciska T. de Vries;Rob I. Griffiths;Mark Bailey;Hayley Craig

1876
Citations
Going underground: root traits as drivers of ecosystem processes

Richard D. Bardgett;Liesje Mommer;Franciska T. De Vries

1336
Citations
Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe

Maria A. Tsiafouli;Elisa Thébault;Stefanos P. Sgardelis;Peter C. de Ruiter

1078
Citations
Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems

Franciska T. de Vries;Franciska T. de Vries;Elisa Thébault;Elisa Thébault;Mira Liiri;Klaus Birkhofer

831
Citations
Harnessing rhizosphere microbiomes for drought-resilient crop production

Franciska T. de Vries;Franciska T. de Vries;Rob I. Griffiths;Christopher G. Knight;Oceane Nicolitch

803
Citations
Land use alters the resistance and resilience of soil food webs to drought

Franciska T. de Vries;Mira E. Liiri;Lisa Bjørnlund;Matthew A. Bowker

716
Citations
Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

Anne D. Bjorkman;Anne D. Bjorkman;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Signe Normand

709
Citations
Abiotic drivers and plant traits explain landscape-scale patterns in soil microbial communities

Franciska T. de Vries;Pete Manning;Jerry R. B. Tallowin;Simon R. Mortimer

705
Citations
Fungal/bacterial ratios in grasslands with contrasting nitrogen management

Franciska T. de Vries;Ellis Hoffland;Nick van Eekeren;Lijbert Brussaard

698
Citations
Plant root exudation under drought: implications for ecosystem functioning.

Alex Williams;Franciska T de Vries;Franciska T de Vries

559
Citations
Controls on soil microbial community stability under climate change

Franciska T. de Vries;Ashley Shade

538
Citations
Global distribution of earthworm diversity

Helen R P Phillips;Carlos A Guerra;Marie L C Bartz;Maria J I Briones

469
Citations
Legacy effects of drought on plant–soil feedbacks and plant–plant interactions

Aurore Kaisermann;Aurore Kaisermann;Franciska T. de Vries;Robert I. Griffiths;Richard D. Bardgett

322
Citations
Tracking, targeting, and conserving soil biodiversity.

Carlos A. Guerra;Richard D. Bardgett;Lucrezia Caon;Thomas W. Crowther

310
Citations
The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

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295
Citations
Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions

Ethan E. Butler;Abhirup Datta;Habacuc Flores-Moreno;Ming Chen

291
Citations
Hierarchical responses of plant-soil interactions to climate change:consequences for the global carbon cycle

Richard D. Bardgett;Pete Manning;Elly Morriën;Franciska T. De Vries

286
Citations
Linking soil biodiversity and agricultural soil management

S Thiele-Bruhn;J Bloem;F T De Vries;K Kalbitz

279
Citations
Changes in root-exudate-induced respiration reveal a novel mechanism through which drought affects ecosystem carbon cycling.

Franciska T. de Vries;Franciska T. de Vries;Alex Williams;Fiona Stringer;Robert Willcocks

275
Citations
Below-ground connections underlying above-ground food production: a framework for optimising ecological connections in the rhizosphere

Franciska T. de Vries;Matthew D. Wallenstein

254
Citations
Grassland species root response to drought: consequences for soil carbon and nitrogen availability

Franciska Trijntje De Vries;Caley Brown;Carly Joanne Stevens

170
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard D. Bardgett Lancaster University

Wim H. van der Putten Netherlands Institute of Ecology

Matthias C. Rillig Freie Universität Berlin

Peter Manning University of Bergen

Diana H. Wall Colorado State University

Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota

Jens Kattge Max Planck Society

Nico Eisenhauer Leipzig University

Robert I. Griffiths University of Oxford

Volkmar Wolters University of Giessen

External Links

Personal website of Franciska T. de Vries

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