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Nico Eisenhauer

Nico Eisenhauer

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
109
Citations
43036
World Ranking
188
National Ranking
13

Overview

Nico Eisenhauer is a researcher affiliated with Leipzig University in Germany, specializing in fields related to environmental and agricultural sciences. Their scholarly contributions focus extensively on ecology, soil science, and biodiversity, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to studying ecosystem functions and sustainability challenges.

Their research spans multiple key fields of study, including:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Eisenhauer's work also extends into specific subfields such as:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

The main topics addressed in their publications cover diverse aspects of ecosystem dynamics and biology:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology

Eisenhauer frequently collaborates with a number of researchers who have co-authored multiple publications alongside them. These co-authors include:

  • Olga Ferlian
  • Simone Cesarz
  • Christiane Roscher
  • Anne Ebeling
  • Carlos A. Guerra

Their scholarly output is often published in prominent academic venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Global Change Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Eisenhauer include:

  • "Action needed for the EU Common Agricultural Policy to address sustainability challenges" (2020), People and Nature
  • "The proportion of soil-borne pathogens increases with warming at the global scale" (2020), Nature Climate Change
  • "For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!" (2021), Conservation Letters
  • "Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research" (2020), Nature Communications
  • "Tracking, targeting, and conserving soil biodiversity" (2021), Science

Best Publications

  • Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

    Forest Isbell;Dylan Craven;John Connolly;Michael Loreau

  • Plant diversity increases soil microbial activity and soil carbon storage

    Markus Lange;Nico Eisenhauer;Carlos Sierra;Holger Bessler

  • Bottom-up effects of plant diversity on multitrophic interactions in a biodiversity experiment

    Christoph Scherber;Nico Eisenhauer;Nico Eisenhauer;Wolfgang W Weisser;Bernhard Schmid

  • Impacts of Biodiversity Loss Escalate Through Time as Redundancy Fades

    Peter B. Reich;David Tilman;David Tilman;Forest Isbell;Kevin E. Mueller

  • Biodiversity enhances ecosystem multifunctionality across trophic levels and habitats

    Jonathan S. Lefcheck;Jarrett E. K. Byrnes;Forest Isbell;Lars Gamfeldt

  • Benefits of increasing plant diversity in sustainable agroecosystems

    Forest Isbell;Paul R. Adler;Nico Eisenhauer;Dario Fornara

  • Plant diversity effects on soil microorganisms support the singular hypothesis.

    N. Eisenhauer;H. Bessler;C. Engels;G. Gleixner

  • Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship

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

  • Action needed for the EU Common Agricultural Policy to address sustainability challenges.

    Guy Pe'er;Guy Pe'er;Aletta Bonn;Aletta Bonn;Helge Bruelheide;Petra Dieker

  • The proportion of soil-borne pathogens increases with warming at the global scale

    Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo;Carlos A. Guerra;Concha Cano-Díaz;Eleonora Egidi

  • Root biomass and exudates link plant diversity with soil bacterial and fungal biomass

    Nico Eisenhauer;Arnaud Lanoue;Tanja Strecker;Stefan Scheu

  • Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions

    Wolfgang W. Weisser;Christiane Roscher;Sebastian T. Meyer;Anne Ebeling

  • Global distribution of earthworm diversity

    Helen R P Phillips;Carlos A Guerra;Marie L C Bartz;Maria J I Briones

  • From patterns to causal understanding: Structural equation modeling (SEM) in soil ecology

    Nico Eisenhauer;Matthew A. Bowker;James B. Grace;Jeff R. Powell

  • Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

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  • Blind spots in global soil biodiversity and ecosystem function research.

    Carlos A. Guerra;Anna Heintz-Buschart;Johannes Sikorski;Antonis Chatzinotas

  • Probiotic Diversity Enhances Rhizosphere Microbiome Function and Plant Disease Suppression.

    Jie Hu;Jie Hu;Zhong Wei;Ville Petri Friman;Shao Hua Gu

  • For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!

    Christian Messier;Christian Messier;Jürgen Bauhus;Rita Sousa-Silva;Harald Auge

  • Energy Flux: The Link between Multitrophic Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

    Andrew D. Barnes;Andrew D. Barnes;Malte Jochum;Jonathan S. Lefcheck;Nico Eisenhauer

  • Global change belowground: impacts of elevated CO2, nitrogen, and summer drought on soil food webs and biodiversity

    Nico Eisenhauer;Simone Cesarz;Robert Koller;Kally Worm

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

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

  • Invasion of a deciduous forest by earthworms: Changes in soil chemistry, microflora, microarthropods and vegetation

    Nico Eisenhauer;Stephan Partsch;Dennis Parkinson;Stefan Scheu

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Scheu
Stefan Scheu University of Göttingen
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Christiane Roscher
Christiane Roscher Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Anne Ebeling
Anne Ebeling Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Alexandra Weigelt
Alexandra Weigelt Leipzig University
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Simone Cesarz
Simone Cesarz Leipzig University
Cameron Wagg
Cameron Wagg Environment and Climate Change Canada
Madhav P. Thakur
Madhav P. Thakur University of Bern
Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich

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