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Goddert von Oheimb

Goddert von Oheimb

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
55
Citations
9721
World Ranking
3014
National Ranking
160

Overview

Goddert von Oheimb is affiliated with TU Dresden in Germany and has contributed extensively to environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research spans key areas related to forest ecology, biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning.

The scientist's recent publications cover various aspects of forest biodiversity and tree growth dynamics, including:

  • Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment (2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment (2021, Science Advances)
  • Neighbourhood diversity mitigates drought impacts on tree growth (2020, Journal of Ecology)
  • The significance of tree-tree interactions for forest ecosystem functioning (2021, Basic and Applied Ecology)
  • Neighbourhood-mediated shifts in tree biomass allocation drive overyielding in tropical species mixtures (2020, New Phytologist)

Goddert von Oheimb frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Andreas Fichtner, Matthias Kunz, Helge Bruelheide, Werner Härdtle, and Nico Eisenhauer. This network reflects a consistent partnership in studying forests and ecosystems.

The scientist publishes regularly in journals and venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Basic and Applied Ecology
  • New Phytologist
  • Ecology Letters
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

Their main fields of study encompass environmental science with a significant focus also on agricultural and biological sciences. Subfields heavily represented in their work include nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, insect science, and plant science.

Goddert von Oheimb's research topics highlight ecological and vegetation dynamics, forest ecology and management, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, plant and animal studies, remote sensing and LiDAR applications, forest management and policy, and botany and plant ecology studies.

Best Publications

  • Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment.

    Yuanyuan Huang;Yuxin Chen;Nadia Castro-Izaguirre;Martin Baruffol;Martin Baruffol

  • MIGRATION OF VASCULAR PLANTS TO SECONDARY WOODLANDS IN SOUTHERN SWEDEN

    Jörg Brunet;Goddert Von Oheimb

  • Designing forest biodiversity experiments : general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China

    Helge Bruelheide;Karin Nadrowski;Thorsten Assmann;Jürgen Bauhus

  • Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests

    Andreas Schuldt;Thorsten Assmann;Matteo Brezzi;Matteo Brezzi;François Buscot

  • Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

    Helge Bruelheide;Martin Böhnke;Sabine Both;Teng Fang

  • Species richness stabilizes productivity via asynchrony and drought-tolerance diversity in a large-scale tree biodiversity experiment

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  • The effects of light and soil conditions on the species richness of the ground vegetation of deciduous forests in northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein)

    Werner Härdtle;Goddert von Oheimb;Christina Westphal

  • Functional diversity effects on productivity increase with age in a forest biodiversity experiment.

    Franca J. Bongers;Bernhard Schmid;Helge Bruelheide;Frans Bongers

  • Multiple plant diversity components drive consumer communities across ecosystems

    Andreas Schuldt;Andreas Schuldt;Anne Ebeling;Matthias Kunz;Michael Staab

  • Is the reverse J-shaped diameter distribution universally applicable in European virgin beech forests?

    Christina Westphal;Nils Tremer;Goddert von Oheimb;Jan Hansen

  • From competition to facilitation: how tree species respond to neighbourhood diversity.

    Andreas Fichtner;Werner Härdtle;Ying Li;Helge Bruelheide

  • Structural pattern of a near-natural beech forest (Fagus sylvatica) (Serrahn, North-east Germany)

    Goddert von Oheimb;Christina Westphal;Holger Tempel;Werner Härdtle

  • Tree diversity promotes insect herbivory in subtropical forests of south-east China

    Andreas Schuldt;Martin Baruffol;Martin Böhnke;Helge Bruelheide

  • Establishment success in a forest biodiversity and ecosystem functioning experiment in subtropical China (BEF-China)

    Xuefei Yang;Xuefei Yang;Jürgen Bauhus;Sabine Both;Teng Fang

  • On the combined effect of soil fertility and topography on tree growth in subtropical forest ecosystems - a study from SE China

    Thomas Scholten;Philipp Goebes;Peter Kühn;Steffen Seitz

  • Neighbourhood interactions drive overyielding in mixed-species tree communities.

    Andreas Fichtner;Werner Härdtle;Helge Bruelheide;Matthias Kunz

  • Tree morphology responds to neighbourhood competition and slope in species-rich forests of subtropical China

    Anne C. Lang;Werner Härdtle;Helge Bruelheide;Christian Geißler

  • Crown plasticity and neighborhood interactions of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in an old-growth forest

    Matthias Schröter;Matthias Schröter;Werner Härdtle;Goddert von Oheimb

  • Neighbour species richness and local structural variability modulate aboveground allocation patterns and crown morphology of individual trees.

    Matthias Kunz;Andreas Fichtner;Werner Härdtle;Pasi Raumonen

  • Species diversity and species composition of epiphytic bryophytes and lichens – a comparison of managed and unmanaged beech forests in NE Germany

    A. Friedel;G. v.Oheimb;J. Dengler;W. Härdtle

  • Factors influencing vegetation gradients across ancient‐recent woodland borderlines in southern Sweden

    Jörg Brunet;Goddert von Oheimb;Martin Diekmann

  • Individual-tree radial growth in a subtropical broad-leaved forest: The role of local neighbourhood competition

    Goddert von Oheimb;Anne C. Lang;Helge Bruelheide;David I. Forrester;David I. Forrester

  • Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

    Helge Bruelheide;Martin Bohnke;Sabine Both;Fang Teng

Frequent Co-Authors

Werner Härdtle
Werner Härdtle Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Helge Bruelheide
Helge Bruelheide Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Andreas Schuldt
Andreas Schuldt University of Göttingen
Thorsten Assmann
Thorsten Assmann Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Keping Ma
Keping Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich
Thomas Scholten
Thomas Scholten University of Tübingen
Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth Leipzig University
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen University of Freiburg
Jürgen Bauhus
Jürgen Bauhus University of Freiburg

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