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Franciska T. de Vries

Franciska T. de Vries

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
52
Citations
17611
World Ranking
3374
National Ranking
95

Franciska T. de Vries 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 Franciska T. de Vries sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 98 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Franciska T. de Vries 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 Franciska T. de Vries sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 52 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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

  • Going underground: root traits as drivers of ecosystem processes

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

  • Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe

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

  • 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

  • Harnessing rhizosphere microbiomes for drought-resilient crop production

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Fungal/bacterial ratios in grasslands with contrasting nitrogen management

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

  • Plant root exudation under drought: implications for ecosystem functioning.

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

  • Controls on soil microbial community stability under climate change

    Franciska T. de Vries;Ashley Shade

  • Global distribution of earthworm diversity

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

  • 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

  • Tracking, targeting, and conserving soil biodiversity.

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

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

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  • Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions

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

  • 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

  • Linking soil biodiversity and agricultural soil management

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

  • 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

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

    Franciska T. de Vries;Matthew D. Wallenstein

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

    Franciska Trijntje De Vries;Caley Brown;Carly Joanne Stevens

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard D. Bardgett
Richard D. Bardgett Lancaster University
Wim H. van der Putten
Wim H. van der Putten Netherlands Institute of Ecology
Matthias C. Rillig
Matthias C. Rillig Freie Universität Berlin
Peter Manning
Peter Manning University of Bergen
Diana H. Wall
Diana H. Wall Colorado State University
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Jens Kattge
Jens Kattge Max Planck Society
Nico Eisenhauer
Nico Eisenhauer Leipzig University
Robert I. Griffiths
Robert I. Griffiths University of Oxford
Volkmar Wolters
Volkmar Wolters University of Giessen

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