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Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia

Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
56
Citations
24980
World Ranking
2775
National Ranking
32

Overview

Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on various subfields including Plant Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their work covers several main topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

Some of the research venues where they frequently publish include:

  • New Phytologist
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Applied Soil Ecology

Recent papers involving or authored by Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia are:

  • Root traits as drivers of plant and ecosystem functioning: current understanding, pitfalls and future research needs (2020, New Phytologist)
  • A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements (2021, New Phytologist)
  • FungalRoot: global online database of plant mycorrhizal associations (2020, New Phytologist)
  • Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation (2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • Mycorrhizal mycelium as a global carbon pool (2023, Current Biology)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with colleagues including Peter M. van Bodegom, Jens Kattge, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen, Leho Tedersoo, and Bruno Enrico Leone Cerabolini.

Best Publications

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

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

  • Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

    William K. Cornwell;Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Kathryn Amatangelo;Ellen Dorrepaal

  • Structure and function of the global topsoil microbiome.

    Mohammad Bahram;Mohammad Bahram;Mohammad Bahram;Falk Hildebrand;Sofia K. Forslund;Sofia K. Forslund;Jennifer L. Anderson

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • 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

  • Root traits as drivers of plant and ecosystem functioning: current understanding, pitfalls and future research needs

    Grégoire T Freschet;Grégoire T Freschet;Catherine Roumet;Louise H Comas;Monique Weemstra

  • A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world-wide

    Simon Pierce;Daniel Negreiros;Bruno E. L. Cerabolini;Jens Kattge

  • Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship

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

  • Linking litter decomposition of above‐ and below‐ground organs to plant–soil feedbacks worldwide

    Grégoire T. Freschet;William K. Cornwell;David A. Wardle;Tatyana G. Elumeeva

  • A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements

    Grégoire T Freschet;Loïc Pagès;Colleen M Iversen;Louise H Comas

  • Global negative vegetation feedback to climate warming responses of leaf litter decomposition rates in cold biomes

    Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Peter M. van Bodegom;Rien Aerts;Terry V. Callaghan

  • Comparative Cryptogam Ecology: A Review of Bryophyte and Lichen Traits that Drive Biogeochemistry

    Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Simone I. Lang;Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia;Heinjo J. During

  • Nitrogen and phosphorus constrain the CO2 fertilization of global plant biomass

    César Terrer;César Terrer;César Terrer;Robert B. Jackson;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;Trevor F. Keenan;Trevor F. Keenan

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

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

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • FungalRoot: global online database of plant mycorrhizal associations.

    Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia;Stijn Vaessen;Milagros Barcelo;Jinhong He

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

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  • Comparative Ecology and Ecological Scaling Highlight: Article

    Johannes H. C. Cornelissen;Simone I. Lang;Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia;Heinjo J. During

  • A global Fine-Root Ecology Database to address below-ground challenges in plant ecology.

    Colleen M. Iversen;M. Luke McCormack;A. Shafer Powell;Christopher B. Blackwood

  • Climate, soil and plant functional types as drivers of global fine-root trait variation

    Grégoire T. Freschet;Oscar J. Valverde‐Barrantes;Caroline M. Tucker;Joseph M. Craine

  • Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions

    Ethan E. Butler;Abhirup Datta;Habacuc Flores-Moreno;Ming Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Johannes H. C. Cornelissen
Johannes H. C. Cornelissen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Peter M. van Bodegom
Peter M. van Bodegom Leiden University
Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Jens Kattge
Jens Kattge Max Planck Society
William K. Cornwell
William K. Cornwell University of New South Wales
Grégoire T. Freschet
Grégoire T. Freschet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Benjamin Blonder
Benjamin Blonder University of California, Berkeley
Leho Tedersoo
Leho Tedersoo University of Tartu
Bruno Enrico Leone Cerabolini
Bruno Enrico Leone Cerabolini University of Insubria

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