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Ecology and Evolution
China
2023

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
81
Citations
48688
World Ranking
771
National Ranking
17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in China Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in China Leader Award

Overview

Johannes M. H. Knops is affiliated with Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in China. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a prolific output contributing to a range of subfields and topical areas.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these broader fields, their work focuses extensively on the following subfields:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Plant Science
  • Soil Science

Their research addresses topics including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience

Johannes M. H. Knops has published papers in several frequent venues, reflecting their disciplinary focus. These publication venues include:

  • Nature Communications
  • Ecology Letters
  • Ecology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Global Change Biology

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Knops include:

  • "General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales" (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • "Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time" (2020), published in Ecology
  • "The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate" (2023), published in Nature Communications
  • "Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference" (2023), published in Nature Communications
  • "Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects" (2021), published in Nature Communications

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Elizabeth T. Borer
  • Eric W. Seabloom
  • Carly J. Stevens
  • Anita C. Risch
  • Yann Hautier

Best Publications

  • The Influence of Functional Diversity and Composition on Ecosystem Processes

    David Tilman;Johannes Knops;David Wedin;Peter Reich

  • Productivity and sustainability influenced by biodiversity in grassland ecosystems

    David Tilman;David Wedin;Johannes Knops

  • Diversity and productivity in a long-term grassland experiment

    David Tilman;Peter B Reich;Johannes M Knops;David Wedin

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem stability in a decade-long grassland experiment

    David Tilman;Peter B. Reich;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Biodiversity as a barrier to ecological invasion

    Theodore A Kennedy;Shahid Naeem;Katherine M Howe;Johannes M H Knops

  • Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe

    Jonathan W. Leff;Stuart E. Jones;Suzanne M. Prober;Albert Barberán

  • Nitrogen limitation constrains sustainability of ecosystem response to CO2

    Peter B. Reich;Sarah E. Hobbie;Tali Lee;David S. Ellsworth

  • Effects of plant species richness on invasion dynamics, disease outbreaks, insect abundances and diversity

    Johannes M.H. Knops;David Tilman;Nick M. Haddad;Shahid Naeem

  • Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

    Elizabeth T. Borer;Eric W. Seabloom;Daniel S. Gruner;W. Stanley Harpole

  • Plant diversity increases resistance to invasion in the absence of covarying extrinsic factors

    Shahid Naeem;Johannes M. H. Knops;David Tilman;Katherine M. Howe

  • Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Anderson;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide

    Suzanne M. Prober;Jonathan W. Leff;Scott T. Bates;Elizabeth T. Borer

  • Dynamics of soil nitrogen and carbon accumulation for 61 years after agricultural abandonment

    Johannes M. H. Knops;David Tilman

  • Herbivore effects on plant and nitrogen dynamics in oak Savanna

    Mark E. Ritchie;David Tilman;Johannes M. H. Knops

  • Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

    Peter B. Adler;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer;Helmut Hillebrand

  • Plant species loss decreases arthropod diversity and shifts trophic structure

    Nick M. Haddad;Gregory M. Crutsinger;Kevin Gross;John Haarstad

  • Contrasting Effects of Plant Richness and Composition on Insect Communities: A Field Experiment

    Nick M. Haddad;David Tilman;John Haarstad;Mark Ritchie

  • Mechanisms of plant species impacts on ecosystem nitrogen cycling

    J. M. H. Knops;K. L. Bradley;D. A. Wedin

  • Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

    James B. Grace;T. Michael Andersen;Eric W. Seabloom;Elizabeth T. Borer

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter D. Koenig
Walter D. Koenig University of California, Berkeley
Eric W. Seabloom
Eric W. Seabloom University of Minnesota
David Tilman
David Tilman University of Minnesota
Elizabeth T. Borer
Elizabeth T. Borer University of Minnesota
Nicole Hagenah
Nicole Hagenah University of Pretoria
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Jennifer Firn
Jennifer Firn Queensland University of Technology
Andrew S. MacDougall
Andrew S. MacDougall University of Guelph
Rebecca L. McCulley
Rebecca L. McCulley University of Kentucky
Suzanne M. Prober
Suzanne M. Prober Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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