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D-Index
43
Citations
6000
World Ranking
5378
National Ranking
283

Martin Schädler 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 Martin Schädler sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 114 publications — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Martin Schädler 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 Martin Schädler sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Martin Schädler is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science, with particular interest in soil science, plant science, ecology, and nature and landscape conservation.

The scientist's work contributes to various subfields and topics including:

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution

Martin Schädler has published extensively in several scientific journals, notably:

  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry (5 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (5 publications)
  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment (4 publications)
  • The ISME Journal (3 publications)
  • Global Change Biology (3 publications)

Their recent papers include:

  • Future climate conditions accelerate wheat straw decomposition alongside altered microbial community composition, assembly patterns, and interaction networks, 2022, The ISME Journal
  • Extreme summers impact cropland and grassland soil microbiomes, 2023, The ISME Journal
  • Soil functional biodiversity and biological quality under threat: Intensive land use outweighs climate change, 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Back to the Future: Decomposability of a Biobased and Biodegradable Plastic in Field Soil Environments and Its Microbiome under Ambient and Future Climates, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Soil microbiomes show consistent and predictable responses to extreme events, 2024, Nature

Frequent collaborators of Martin Schädler include:

  • Nico Eisenhauer (33 collaborations)
  • Thomas Reitz (17 collaborations)
  • François Buscot (16 collaborations)
  • Rui Yin (12 collaborations)
  • Benjawan Tanunchai (11 collaborations)

Best Publications

  • Climate extremes initiate ecosystem-regulating functions while maintaining productivity

    Anke Jentsch;Juergen Kreyling;Michael Elmer;Ellen Gellesch

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

  • Empirical and theoretical challenges in aboveground-belowground ecology

    Wim H. van der Putten;R. D. Bardgett;P. C. de Ruiter;W. H. G. Hol

  • Tradeoffs associated with constitutive and induced plant resistance against herbivory

    Anne Kempel;Martin Schädler;Thomas Chrobock;Markus Fischer

  • Using earthworms as model organisms in the laboratory: Recommendations for experimental implementations

    Heinz-Christian Fründ;Kevin Butt;Yvan Capowiez;Nico Eisenhauer

  • Palatability, decomposition and insect herbivory: patterns in a successional old‐field plant community

    Martin Schädler;Gertraud Jung;Harald Auge;Roland Brandl

  • Do invertebrate decomposers affect the disappearance rate of litter mixtures

    Martin Schädler;Roland Brandl

  • Interaction between silicon cycling and straw decomposition in a silicon deficient rice production system

    A. Marxen;T. Klotzbücher;R. Jahn;K. Kaiser

  • Climate change effects on earthworms - a review

    Jaswinder Singh;Martin Schädler;Wilian Demetrio;George G Brown;George G Brown

  • Dual benefit from a belowground symbiosis: nitrogen fixing rhizobia promote growth and defense against a specialist herbivore in a cyanogenic plant

    Sylvia Thamer;Martin Schädler;Dries Bonte;Daniel J. Ballhorn

  • Lack of home-field advantage in the decomposition of leaf litter in the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil

    Urs Christian Gießelmann;Kelly Geronazzo Martins;Martin Brändle;Martin Schädler

  • Support from the underground: Induced plant resistance depends on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

    Anne Kempel;Anne Kempel;Antje K. Schmidt;Roland Brandl;Martin Schädler

  • Induced plant defense via volatile production is dependent on rhizobial symbiosis

    Daniel J. Ballhorn;Stefanie Kautz;Martin Schädler

  • Investigating the consequences of climate change under different land-use regimes: a novel experimental infrastructure

    Martin Schädler;Francois Buscot;Stefan Klotz;Thomas Reitz

  • OakContigDF159.1, a reference library for studying differential gene expression in Quercus robur during controlled biotic interactions: use for quantitative transcriptomic profiling of oak roots in ectomycorrhizal symbiosis.

    Mika T. Tarkka;Sylvie Herrmann;Tesfaye Wubet;Lasse Feldhahn;Lasse Feldhahn

  • Symbiotic soil microorganisms as players in aboveground plant-herbivore interactions - the role of rhizobia.

    Anne Kempel;Roland Brandl;Martin Schädler

  • Future climate conditions accelerate wheat straw decomposition alongside altered microbial community composition, assembly patterns, and interaction networks

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  • Secondary succession is influenced by belowground insect herbivory on a productive site

    Martin Schädler;Martin Schädler;Gertraud Jung;Roland Brandl;Roland Brandl;Harald Auge

  • Natural enemies and environmental factors affecting the population dynamics of the gypsy moth

    U. Alalouni;M. Schädler;R. Brandl

  • Mycorrhiza in tree diversity–ecosystem function relationships: conceptual framework and experimental implementation

    Olga Ferlian;Simone Cesarz;Dylan Craven;Jes Hines

  • Combined effects of multifactor climate change and land-use on decomposition in temperate grassland

    Julia Walter;Roman Hein;Carl Beierkuhnlein;Verena Hammerl

  • How do extreme drought and plant community composition affect host plant metabolites and herbivore performance

    Julia Walter;Roman Hein;Harald Auge;Carl Beierkuhnlein

Frequent Co-Authors

Roland Brandl
Roland Brandl Philipp University of Marburg
Nico Eisenhauer
Nico Eisenhauer Leipzig University
Harald Auge
Harald Auge Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
François Buscot
François Buscot Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Stefan Scheu
Stefan Scheu University of Göttingen
Josef Settele
Josef Settele Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Stefan Klotz
Stefan Klotz Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Doris Vetterlein
Doris Vetterlein Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Ingolf Kühn
Ingolf Kühn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Benjamin Burkhard
Benjamin Burkhard University of Hannover

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