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Peter M. van Bodegom

Peter M. van Bodegom

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
82
Citations
33550
World Ranking
733
National Ranking
26

Peter M. van Bodegom 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 Peter M. van Bodegom sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 417 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter M. van Bodegom 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 Peter M. van Bodegom sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 82 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Peter M. van Bodegom is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with extensive work in subfields such as ecology, global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, plant science, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Land use and ecosystem services
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics
  • Remote sensing in agriculture

van Bodegom has published extensively in several prominent venues. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Nature Communications

Among their recent papers are:

  • A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications - confronting product characteristics with user requirements, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Organizing principles for vegetation dynamics, 2020, Nature Plants
  • Global root traits (GRooT) database, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity, 2022, Nature Communications

van Bodegom works collaboratively with various researchers, with frequent co-authors including Laura Scherer, Josep Peñuelas, Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, Jens Kattge, and Ülo Niinemets. The number of co-authored publications with these individuals ranges from 15 to 23.

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

  • A global study of relationships between leaf traits, climate and soil measures of nutrient fertility

    Jenny C. Ordoñez;Peter M. Van Bodegom;Jan Philip M. Witte;Ian J. Wright

  • 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

  • Present state of global wetland extent and wetland methane modelling: conclusions from a model inter-comparison project (WETCHIMP)

    J. R. Melton;J. R. Melton;R. Wania;E. L. Hodson;B. Poulter

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Oliver Purschke;Jonathan Lenoir

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

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

  • Highly consistent effects of plant litter identity and functional traits on decomposition across a latitudinal gradient

    Marika Makkonen;Matty P. Berg;I. Tanya Handa;I. Tanya Handa;Stephan Hättenschwiler

  • 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

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

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

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

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

  • Global drivers and patterns of microbial abundance in soil

    Hector M. Serna-Chavez;Hector M. Serna-Chavez;Noah Fierer;Peter M. van Bodegom

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

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  • Global effects of soil and climate on leaf photosynthetic traits and rates

    Vincent Maire;Ian J. Wright;I. Colin Prentice;I. Colin Prentice;Niels H. Batjes

  • A quantitative framework for assessing spatial flows of ecosystem services

    H.M. Serna-Chavez;C.J.E. Schulp;P.M. van Bodegom;W. Bouten

  • Microbial maintenance: a critical review on its quantification.

    Peter M. van Bodegom

  • Nutrient limitation reduces land carbon uptake in simulations with a model of combined carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling

    Daniel Goll;Victor Brovkin;Bikash Parida;Christian H. Reick

  • 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

  • A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications ─ confronting product characteristics with user requirements

    Jian Peng;Jian Peng;Jian Peng;Clement Albergel;Anna Balenzano;Luca Brocca

  • Plant functional types in Earth system models: past experiences and future directions for application of dynamic vegetation models in high-latitude ecosystems

    Stan D. Wullschleger;Howard E. Epstein;Elgene O. Box;Eugénie S. Euskirchen

  • A frozen feast: thawing permafrost increases plant-available nitrogen in subarctic peatlands

    Frida Keuper;Peter M. van Bodegom;Ellen Dorrepaal;James T. Weedon

Frequent Co-Authors

Rien Aerts
Rien Aerts Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Jens Kattge
Jens Kattge Max Planck Society
Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia
Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia Hasselt University
Johannes H. C. Cornelissen
Johannes H. C. Cornelissen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Martina G. Vijver
Martina G. Vijver Leiden University
Josep Peñuelas
Josep Peñuelas Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), CSIC
Ülo Niinemets
Ülo Niinemets Estonian University of Life Sciences
Michael Bahn
Michael Bahn University of Innsbruck
William K. Cornwell
William K. Cornwell University of New South Wales

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