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42
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5426
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289

Jens Schumacher 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 Jens Schumacher sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 85 publications — 9th percentile

9% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jens Schumacher 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 Jens Schumacher sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jens Schumacher is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, and earth and planetary sciences. The subfields of study that mark their work include nature and landscape conservation, atmospheric science, plant science, global and planetary change, and radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging.

The scientist's research topics encompass ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, tree-ring climate responses, botany and plant ecology studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, foreign body medical cases, and tracheal and airway disorders.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Jens Schumacher cover a range of topics and journals, reflecting their interdisciplinary interests. The notable recent papers include:

  • It is not just a 'trade-off': indications for sink- and source-limitation to vegetative and regenerative growth in an old-growth beech forest, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Leaf wax n-alkane patterns and compound-specific δ13C of plants and topsoils from semi-arid and arid Mongolia, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Entwicklungsverzögerung nach Fremdkörperingestion, 2021, HNO
  • Diversity-induced plant history and soil history effects modulate plant responses to global change, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Impact of meteorological conditions on the foliar nutrition of old-growth European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) stands: results of long-term serial analysis of macro- and micronutrients, 2025, Trees

Jens Schumacher has collaborated frequently with several coauthors including Martina Mund, Mathias Herbst, Alexander Knohl, Bertrand Matthäus, and Peter Schall.

Their work appears in a variety of publication venues, including:

  • New Phytologist
  • Biogeosciences
  • HNO
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Trees

Best Publications

  • Impact of tropical land-use change on soil organic carbon stocks - a meta-analysis

    Axel Don;Jens Schumacher;Annette Freibauer

  • Bottom-up effects of plant diversity on multitrophic interactions in a biodiversity experiment

    Christoph Scherber;Nico Eisenhauer;Nico Eisenhauer;Wolfgang W Weisser;Bernhard Schmid

  • Temporal dynamics of soil organic carbon after land-use change in the temperate zone ― carbon response functions as a model approach

    Christopher Poeplau;Axel Don;Lars Vesterdal;Jens Leifeld

  • The role of biodiversity for element cycling and trophic interactions: an experimental approach in a grassland community

    Christiane Roscher;Jens Schumacher;Jussi Baade;Wolfgang Wilcke

  • TROPHIC LEVELS ARE DIFFERENTIALLY SENSITIVE TO CLIMATE

    Winfried Voigt;Jörg Perner;Andrew J. Davis;Till Eggers

  • How does plant richness affect pollinator richness and temporal stability of flower visits

    Anne Ebeling;Alexandra-Maria Klein;Jens Schumacher;Wolfgang W. Weisser

  • How accurately can soil organic carbon stocks and stock changes be quantified by soil inventories

    M. Schrumpf;E. D. Schulze;K. Kaiser;J. Schumacher

  • Plant species richness and functional composition drive overyielding in a six‐year grassland experiment

    Elisabeth Marquard;Elisabeth Marquard;Alexandra Weigelt;Vicky M. Temperton;Christiane Roscher

  • Generic biomass functions for Norway spruce in Central Europe - a meta-analysis approach toward prediction and uncertainty estimation

    Christian Wirth;Jens Schumacher;Ernst-Detlef Schulze

  • Using Plant Functional Traits to Explain Diversity–Productivity Relationships

    Christiane Roscher;Jens Schumacher;Marlén Gubsch;Annett Lipowsky

  • Overyielding in experimental grassland communities - irrespective of species pool or spatial scale

    Christiane Roscher;Vicky M. Temperton;Michael Scherer-Lorenzen;Martin Schmitz;Martin Schmitz

  • Spatial and vertical variation of soil carbon at two grassland sites — Implications for measuring soil carbon stocks

    Axel Don;Jens Schumacher;Michael Scherer-Lorenzen;Thomas Scholten

  • Exploring the functional significance of forest diversity: A new long-term experiment with temperate tree species (BIOTREE)

    Michael Scherer-Lorenzen;Ernst-Detlef Schulze;Axel Don;Jens Schumacher

  • Niche pre-emption increases with species richness in experimental plant communities

    Peter N. Mwangi;Peter N. Mwangi;Martin Schmitz;Martin Schmitz;Christoph Scherber;Christiane Roscher

  • Leaf and wood carbon isotope ratios, specific leaf areas and wood growth of Eucalyptus species across a rainfall gradient in Australia.

    Ernst-Detlef Schulze;Neil C. Turner;Dean Nicolle;Jens Schumacher

  • Soil and Plant Nitrogen Pools as Related to Plant Diversity in an Experimental Grassland

    Yvonne Oelmann;Wolfgang Wilcke;Vicky M. Temperton;Nina Buchmann

  • Does biodiversity increase spatial stability in plant community biomass

    Alexandra Weigelt;Jens Schumacher;Christiane Roscher;Bernhard Schmid

  • How do earthworms, soil texture and plant composition affect infiltration along an experimental plant diversity gradient in grassland?

    Christine Fischer;Christiane Roscher;Britta Jensen;Nico Eisenhauer

  • Generic biomass functions for Common beech (Fagus sylvatica) in Central Europe: predictions and components of uncertainty

    Thomas WutzlerT. Wutzler;Christian WirthC. Wirth;Jens SchumacherJ. Schumacher;Jens SchumacherJ. Schumacher

  • Spatial pattern formation in semi-arid shrubland: a priori predicted versus observed pattern characteristics

    Frank M. Schurr;Oliver Bossdorf;Oliver Bossdorf;Suzanne J. Milton;Jens Schumacher

Frequent Co-Authors

Christiane Roscher
Christiane Roscher Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich
Alexandra Weigelt
Alexandra Weigelt Leipzig University
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Nina Buchmann
Nina Buchmann ETH Zurich
Vicky M. Temperton
Vicky M. Temperton Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen University of Freiburg
Nico Eisenhauer
Nico Eisenhauer Leipzig University
Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern

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