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Martin Diekmann

Martin Diekmann

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
63
Citations
11311
World Ranking
2001
National Ranking
115

Overview

Martin Diekmann is affiliated with the University of Bremen in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, plant science, insect science, and global and planetary change.

Their research spans several main topics including ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, botany and plant ecology studies, plant and animal studies, species distribution and climate change, forest management and policy, and forest ecology and management.

Martin Diekmann has contributed to numerous scientific publications, with frequent appearances in journals such as the Journal of Vegetation Science, IAVS Bulletin, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Landscape Ecology, and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

Recent notable papers include:

  • More losses than gains during one century of plant biodiversity change in Germany (2022), published in Nature
  • Ecological Indicator Values for Europe (EIVE) 1.0 (2023), published in Vegetation Classification and Survey
  • Benchmarking plant diversity of Palaearctic grasslands and other open habitats (2021), published in Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Plant diversity in hedgerows and road verges across Europe (2020), published in Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Microclimatic edge-to-interior gradients of European deciduous forests (2021), published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Martin Diekmann include:

  • Pieter De Frenne
  • Jörg Brunet
  • Kris Verheyen
  • Jonathan Lenoir
  • Thomas Vanneste

Best Publications

  • Species indicator values as an important tool in applied plant ecology – a review

    Martin Diekmann

  • Latitudinal gradients as natural laboratories to infer species' responses to temperature

    Pieter De Frenne;Pieter De Frenne;Bente J. Graae;Francisco Rodríguez‐Sánchez;Annette Kolb

  • Changes in species richness and composition in European acidic grasslands over the past 70 years: the contribution of cumulative atmospheric nitrogen deposition

    Cecilia Duprè;Carly J. Stevens;Carly J. Stevens;Traute Ranke;Albert Bleeker

  • Nitrogen deposition threatens species richness of grasslands across Europe

    Carly J. Stevens;Cecilia Duprè;Edu Dorland;Cassandre Gaudnik

  • Local temperatures inferred from plant communities suggest strong spatial buffering of climate warming across Northern Europe

    Jonathan Lenoir;Bente Jessen Graae;Per Arild Aarrestad;Inger Greve Alsos

  • Effects of life-history traits on responses of plant species to forest fragmentation

    Annette Kolb;Martin Diekmann

  • Use and improvement of Ellenberg's indicator values in deciduous forests of the Boreo-nemoral zone in Sweden

    Martin Diekmann

  • Differences in species richness and life‐history traits between grazed and abandoned grasslands in southern Sweden

    Cecilia Dupré;Martin Diekmann

  • Soil phosphorus constrains biodiversity across European grasslands

    Tobias Ceulemans;Carly J. Stevens;Luc Duchateau;Hans Jacquemyn

  • Temperature effects on forest herbs assessed by warming and transplant experiments along a latitudinal gradient

    Pieter De Frenne;Jörg Brunet;Anna Shevtsova;Annette Kolb

  • Effects of environment, habitat configuration and forest continuity on the distribution of forest plant species

    Annette Kolb;Martin Diekmann

  • Changes in species density along the soil pH gradient — evidence from German plant communities

    Brigitte Schuster;Martin Diekmann

  • Ecosystem Services from Small Forest Patches in Agricultural Landscapes

    Guillaume Decocq;Emilie Andrieu;Jörg Brunet;Olivier Chabrerie

  • Acidification and eutrophication of deciduous forests in northwestern Germany demonstrated by indicator species analysis

    Martin Diekmann;Cecilia Dupré

  • Global environmental change effects on plant community composition trajectories depend upon management legacies.

    Michael P. Perring;Michael P. Perring;Markus Bernhardt‐Römermann;Lander Baeten;Gabriele Midolo;Gabriele Midolo

  • Deciduous forest vegetation in Boreo-nemoral Scandinavia

    Martin Diekmann

  • A new species index for forest vascular plants: development of functional indices based on mineralization rates of various forms of soil nitrogen

    Martin Diekmann;Ursula Falkengren-Grerup

  • Interregional variation in the floristic recovery of post‐agricultural forests

    Pieter De Frenne;Lander Baeten;Bente J. Graae;Jörg Brunet

  • The impact of nitrogen deposition on acid grasslands in the Atlantic region of Europe

    Carly J. Stevens;Cecilia Duprè;Edu Dorland;Cassandre Gaudnik

  • Relationship between flowering phenology of perennial herbs and meteorological data in deciduous forests of Sweden

    Martin Diekmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Jörg Brunet
Jörg Brunet Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Guillaume Decocq
Guillaume Decocq University of Picardie Jules Verne
Sara A. O. Cousins
Sara A. O. Cousins Stockholm University
Pieter De Frenne
Pieter De Frenne Ghent University
Bente J. Graae
Bente J. Graae Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Martin Hermy
Martin Hermy KU Leuven
Monika Wulf
Monika Wulf University of Potsdam
Jonathan Lenoir
Jonathan Lenoir University of Picardie Jules Verne
Thilo Heinken
Thilo Heinken University of Potsdam

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