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Pascal A. Niklaus

Pascal A. Niklaus

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
67
Citations
18965
World Ranking
1584
National Ranking
44

Overview

Pascal A. Niklaus is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and focuses primarily on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans several intersecting subfields, including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work covers a range of ecological and environmental topics. Key areas of study include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Plant and Animal Studies, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Land Use and Ecosystem Services.

Pascal A. Niklaus has contributed to multiple recent publications, including:

  • Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Ecological and evolutionary approaches to improving crop variety mixtures, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Temperatures beyond the community optimum promote the dominance of heat-adapted, fast growing and stress resistant bacteria in alpine soils, 2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Effects of plant community history, soil legacy and plant diversity on soil microbial communities, 2021, Journal of Ecology

Their frequent co-authors include Bernhard Schmid, Samuel E. Wuest, Michael E. Schaepman, Florian Altermatt, and Keping Ma.

Pascal A. Niklaus publishes most often in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Ecology & Evolution, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, and Biogeosciences.

Best Publications

  • Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

    Forest Isbell;Dylan Craven;John Connolly;Michael Loreau

  • Competition for light causes plant biodiversity loss after eutrophication

    Yann Hautier;Pascal A. Niklaus;Pascal A. Niklaus;Andy Hector

  • Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

    Jingjing Liang;Thomas W. Crowther;Nicolas Picard;Susan Wiser

  • Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment.

    Yuanyuan Huang;Yuxin Chen;Nadia Castro-Izaguirre;Martin Baruffol;Martin Baruffol

  • Water relations in grassland and desert ecosystems exposed to elevated atmospheric CO2

    J. A. Morgan;D. E. Pataki;Christian Körner;H. Clark

  • A meta-analysis of responses of soil biota to global change

    Joseph C. Blankinship;Joseph C. Blankinship;Pascal A. Niklaus;Bruce A. Hungate

  • 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

  • Trait-based approaches for understanding microbial biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

    Sascha Krause;Xavier Le Roux;Pascal A. Niklaus;Peter M. Van Bodegom

  • Resistance and resilience of the forest soil microbiome to logging-associated compaction.

    Martin Hartmann;Pascal A Niklaus;Stephan Zimmermann;Stefan Schmutz

  • Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential

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  • Designing forest biodiversity experiments : general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China

    Helge Bruelheide;Karin Nadrowski;Thorsten Assmann;Jürgen Bauhus

  • Tree species richness increases ecosystem carbon storage in subtropical forests

    Xiaojuan Liu;Stefan Trogisch;Jin-Sheng He;Pascal A. Niklaus

  • Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests

    Andreas Schuldt;Thorsten Assmann;Matteo Brezzi;Matteo Brezzi;François Buscot

  • Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia.

    Constantin M. Zohner;Lidong Mo;Susanne S. Renner;Jens-Christian Svenning

  • Kinetics and thermodynamics of formation of copper-dioxygen adducts: oxygenation of mononuclear copper(I) complexes containing tripodal tetradentate ligands

    Kenneth D. Karlin;Ning Wei;Bernhard Jung;Susan Kaderli

  • Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning

    Fons van der Plas;Thomas Schröder-Georgi;Alexandra Weigelt;Kathryn E. Barry

  • Plant diversity drives soil microbial biomass carbon in grasslands irrespective of global environmental change factors

    Madhav Prakash Thakur;Alexandru Milcu;Pete Manning;Pascal A. Niklaus

  • Six years of in situ CO2 enrichment evoke changes in soil structure and soil biota of nutrient‐poor grassland

    P. A. Niklaus;J. Alphei;D. Ebersberger;C. Kampichler

  • A field study of the effects of elevated CO(2) on plant biomass and community structure in a calcareous grassland.

    Paul W. Leadley;Pascal A. Niklaus;Reto Stocker;Christian Körner

  • Soil moisture effects determine CO2 responses of grassland species.

    Matthias Volk;Pascal A. Niklaus;Christian Körner

  • The responses of alpine grassland to four seasons of CO2 enrichment: a synthesis

    Christian Körner;Matthias Diemer;Bernd Schäppi;Pascal Niklaus

  • SYNTHESIS OF A SIX-YEAR STUDY OF CALCAREOUS GRASSLAND RESPONSES TO IN SITU CO2 ENRICHMENT

    Pascal A. Niklaus;Christian Körner

  • Soil moisture dynamics of calcareous grassland under elevated CO2.

    Pascal A. Niklaus;D. Spinnler;C. Körner

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen University of Freiburg
Helge Bruelheide
Helge Bruelheide Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Keping Ma
Keping Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth Leipzig University
Nina Buchmann
Nina Buchmann ETH Zurich
Romain L. Barnard
Romain L. Barnard INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
Frank Hagedorn
Frank Hagedorn Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Christian Körner
Christian Körner University of Basel

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