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2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
75
Citations
26264
World Ranking
1039
National Ranking
8

Michael Bahn 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 Michael Bahn sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 274 publications — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael Bahn 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 Michael Bahn sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Michael Bahn is affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria and focuses their research on several areas within environmental and agricultural sciences. Their work primarily centers on understanding interactions and dynamics within terrestrial ecosystems, especially related to carbon and water cycles.

Their research spans the main fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these broader disciplines, they delve into subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Key topics in their work include soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, peatlands and wetlands ecology, climate change and permafrost, plant and animal studies, and microbial community ecology and physiology.

Michael Bahn has published frequently in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Change Biology, Nature Communications, Journal of Ecology, and Nature Ecology & Evolution.

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation (2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • Ecological memory of recurrent drought modifies soil processes via changes in soil microbial community (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Drought legacies and ecosystem responses to subsequent drought (2022, Global Change Biology)
  • The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function (2021, Nature)
  • Plant carbon allocation in a changing world - challenges and progress: introduction to a Virtual Issue on carbon allocation (2020, New Phytologist)

Frequent collaborators with Michael Bahn include Johannes Ingrisch, Sara Vicca, Andreas Richter, Lucia Fuchslueger, and Josep Peñuelas. The coauthorships indicate a consistent partnership with other researchers active in related ecological and environmental sciences.

Best Publications

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

  • Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

    Markus Reichstein;Michael Bahn;Philippe Ciais;Dorothea Frank

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts

    Dorothe A. Frank;Markus Reichstein;Michael Bahn;Kirsten Thonicke

  • Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

    Anne D. Bjorkman;Anne D. Bjorkman;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Signe Normand

  • Linking stable oxygen and carbon isotopes with stomatal conductance and photosynthetic capacity: a conceptual model.

    Y. Scheidegger;M. Saurer;M. Bahn;R. Siegwolf

  • Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship

    Dylan Craven;Nico Eisenhauer;William D. Pearse;Yann Hautier

  • Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

    Angela T. Moles;Sarah E. Perkins;Shawn W. Laffan;Habacuc Flores-Moreno

  • Towards a Comparable Quantification of Resilience.

    Johannes Ingrisch;Michael Bahn

  • Relative contributions of plant traits and soil microbial properties to mountain grassland ecosystem services

    Karl Grigulis;Sandra Lavorel;Ute Krainer;Nicolas Legay

  • Carbon allocation and carbon isotope fluxes in the plant-soil-atmosphere continuum: a review

    Nicolas Brüggemann;Arthur Gessler;Zachary E. Kayler;Sonjagisela Keel

  • Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation

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  • Soil Respiration in European Grasslands in Relation to Climate and Assimilate Supply

    Michael Bahn;Mirco Rodeghiero;Margaret Anderson-Dunn;Sabina Dore

  • Experimental drought reduces the transfer of recently fixed plant carbon to soil microbes and alters the bacterial community composition in a mountain meadow.

    Lucia Fuchslueger;Michael Bahn;Karina Fritz;Roland Hasibeder

  • Linking plant and ecosystem functional biogeography

    Markus Reichstein;Michael Bahn;Miguel D. Mahecha;Jens Kattge

  • Does photosynthesis affect grassland soil‐respired CO2 and its carbon isotope composition on a diurnal timescale?

    Michael Bahn;Michael Schmitt;Rolf Siegwolf;Andreas Richter

  • Elevation alters ecosystem properties across temperate treelines globally

    Jordan R. Mayor;Nathan J. Sanders;Nathan J. Sanders;Nathan J. Sanders;Aimée T. Classen;Aimée T. Classen;Aimée T. Classen;Richard D. Bardgett

  • Ecological memory of recurrent drought modifies soil processes via changes in soil microbial community

    Alberto Canarini;Hannes Schmidt;Lucia Fuchslueger;Victoria Martin

  • The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

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  • Summer drought alters carbon allocation to roots and root respiration in mountain grassland

    Roland Hasibeder;Lucia Fuchslueger;Andreas Richter;Michael Bahn

  • Pulse-labelling trees to study carbon allocation dynamics: a review of methods, current knowledge and future prospects

    Daniel Epron;Michael Bahn;Delphine Derrien;Fernando Alfredo Lattanzi

  • Seasonal and inter-annual variability of the net ecosystem CO2 exchange of a temperate mountain grassland: Effects of weather and management

    Georg Wohlfahrt;Albin Hammerle;Alois Haslwanter;Michael Bahn

  • Root respiration in temperate mountain grasslands differing in land use

    Michael Bahn;Margit Knapp;Zofia Garajova;Nadine Pfahringer

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrike Tappeiner
Ulrike Tappeiner University of Innsbruck
Georg Wohlfahrt
Georg Wohlfahrt University of Innsbruck
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Jens Kattge
Jens Kattge Max Planck Society
Markus Reichstein
Markus Reichstein Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Sara Vicca
Sara Vicca University of Antwerp
Sandra Lavorel
Sandra Lavorel Grenoble Alpes University
Richard D. Bardgett
Richard D. Bardgett Lancaster University
Alexandru Milcu
Alexandru Milcu Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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