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D-Index
51
Citations
11695
World Ranking
3597
National Ranking
200

Ingo Schöning 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 Ingo Schöning sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 118 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ingo Schöning 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 Ingo Schöning sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ingo Schöning is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant emphasis on the interplay between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and land use.

Their work spans several interconnected subfields including global and planetary change, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, soil science, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics. This multidisciplinary approach is reflected in their frequent publication venues, such as Nature Communications, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Global Change Biology, and Environmental Microbiology.

The major topics addressed in Schöning's research include soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, land use and ecosystem services, plant and animal studies, microbial community ecology and physiology, soil and water nutrient dynamics, and forest ecology and biodiversity studies.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity, 2021, Nature Communications
  • The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Divergent drivers of the microbial methane sink in temperate forest and grassland soils, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Above- and belowground biodiversity jointly tighten the P cycle in agricultural grasslands, 2021, Nature Communications

Schöning collaborates frequently with a group of co-authors who have contributed extensively to their joint work. These frequent collaborators include Marion Schrumpf, Markus Fischer, Ellen Kandeler, Valentin H. Klaus, and Till Kleinebecker.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

    Eric Allan;Pete Manning;Fabian Alt;Julia Binkenstein

  • Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

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

  • Pyrosequencing-based assessment of bacterial community structure along different management types in German forest and grassland soils.

    Heiko Nacke;Andrea Thürmer;Antje Wollherr;Christiane Will

  • A quantitative index of land-use intensity in grasslands: Integrating mowing, grazing and fertilization

    Nico Blüthgen;Carsten F. Dormann;Daniel Prati;Valentin H. Klaus

  • Driving forces of soil bacterial community structure, diversity, and function in temperate grasslands and forests

    Kristin Kaiser;Bernd Wemheuer;Vera Korolkow;Franziska Wemheuer

  • Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity.

    Eric Allan;Oliver Bossdorf;Oliver Bossdorf;Carsten F. Dormann;Daniel Prati

  • Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services.

    María R. Felipe-Lucia;Santiago Soliveres;Caterina Penone;Markus Fischer

  • Assessing biodiversity in forests using very high- resolution images and unmanned aerial vehicles

    Stephan Getzin;Kerstin Wiegand;Ingo Schöning

  • Environmental factors affect Acidobacterial communities below the subgroup level in grassland and forest soils.

    Astrid Naether;Astrid Naether;Bärbel U. Foesel;Bärbel U. Foesel;Verena Naegele;Pia K. Wüst

  • Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services

    María R. Felipe-Lucia;Santiago Soliveres;Santiago Soliveres;Caterina Penone;Peter Manning

  • Interacting effects of fertilization, mowing and grazing on plant species diversity of 1500 grasslands in Germany differ between regions

    Stephanie A. Socher;Daniel Prati;Steffen Boch;Jörg Müller

  • Organic carbon sequestration in earthworm burrows

    Axel Don;Bert Steinberg;Ingo Schöning;Karin Pritsch

  • Intransitive competition is widespread in plant communities and maintains their species richness

    Santiago Soliveres;Fernando T. Maestre;Werner Ulrich;Peter Manning

  • Factors controlling decomposition rates of fine root litter in temperate forests and grasslands

    Emily F. Solly;Ingo Schöning;Steffen Boch;Ellen Kandeler

  • The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales

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  • Forest management type influences diversity and community composition of soil fungi across temperate forest ecosystems

    Kezia Goldmann;Kezia Goldmann;Ingo Schöning;François Buscot;Tesfaye Wubet

  • General Relationships between Abiotic Soil Properties and Soil Biota across Spatial Scales and Different Land- Use Types

    Klaus Birkhofer;Ingo Schöning;Fabian Alt;Nadine Herold

  • Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality

    Santiago Soliveres;Peter Manning;Daniel Prati;Martin M. Gossner

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

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

  • High plant species richness indicates management-related disturbances rather than the conservation status of forests

    Steffen Boch;Daniel Prati;Jorg Muller;Stephanie A. Socher

  • Small scale spatial variability of organic carbon stocks in litter and solum of a forested Luvisol

    Ingo Schöning;Kai Uwe Totsche;Ingrid Kögel-Knabner

Frequent Co-Authors

Marion Schrumpf
Marion Schrumpf Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
François Buscot
François Buscot Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Steffen Boch
Steffen Boch Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Daniel Prati
Daniel Prati University of Bern
Valentin H. Klaus
Valentin H. Klaus Ruhr University Bochum
Tesfaye Wubet
Tesfaye Wubet Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Jörg Müller
Jörg Müller Heinz Sielmann Foundation

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