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Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern

Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern

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Plant Science and Agronomy
Austria
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
63
Citations
21246
World Ranking
2416
National Ranking
23

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
63
Citations
21120
World Ranking
1013
National Ranking
7

Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 203 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern is affiliated with BOKU University in Austria and specializes in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields including Ecology, Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Chemistry, and Plant Science.

The main topics of their scientific work cover soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, peatlands and wetlands ecology, soil and water nutrient dynamics, microbial community ecology and physiology, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, forest ecology and management, and climate change and permafrost.

Recent research publications by Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern include:

  • Denitrifying pathways dominate nitrous oxide emissions from managed grassland during drought and rewetting (2021, Science Advances)
  • Fungal biomass and microbial necromass facilitate soil carbon sequestration and aggregate stability under different soil tillage intensities (2022, Applied Soil Ecology)
  • Soil microbial community structure and function mainly respond to indirect effects in a multifactorial climate manipulation experiment (2020, Soil Biology and Biochemistry)
  • Seasonal dynamics of soil microbial growth, respiration, biomass, and carbon use efficiency in temperate soils (2023, Geoderma)
  • Microbial necromass formation, enzyme activities and community structure in two alpine elevation gradients with different bedrock types (2021, Geoderma)

Frequent co-authors of Zechmeister-Boltenstern include Rajasekaran Murugan, Heide Spiegel, Katharina Keiblinger, Julia Fohrafellner, and Elena Valkama.

Their work has been published in several scientific venues, with the highest number of contributions appearing in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Applied Soil Ecology, and European Journal of Soil Science. Other frequent publication venues include Geoderma and HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe).

Best Publications

  • Nitrous oxide emissions from soils: how well do we understand the processes and their controls?

    Klaus Butterbach-Bahl;Elizabeth M. Baggs;Michael Dannenmann;Ralf Kiese

  • The Application of ecological stoichiometry to plant-microbial-soil organic matter transformations

    Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern;Katharina Maria Keiblinger;Maria Mooshammer;Josep Peñuelas

  • Methane, nitrous oxide and ammonia emissions during storage and after application of dairy cattle slurry and influence of slurry treatment

    B. Amon;V. Kryvoruchko;T. Amon;S. Zechmeister-Boltenstern

  • Adjustment of microbial nitrogen use efficiency to carbon:nitrogen imbalances regulates soil nitrogen cycling

    Maria Mooshammer;Wolfgang Wanek;Ieda Hämmerle;Lucia Fuchslueger

  • Stoichiometric imbalances between terrestrial decomposer communities and their resources: mechanisms and implications of microbial adaptations to their resources

    Maria Mooshammer;Wolfgang Wanek;Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern;Andreas Anatol Richter

  • Atmospheric composition change: Ecosystems–Atmosphere interactions

    D. Fowler;Kim Pilegaard;M.A. Sutton;Per Ambus

  • Who is who in litter decomposition? Metaproteomics reveals major microbial players and their biogeochemical functions

    Thomas Schneider;Katharina M Keiblinger;Emanuel Schmid;Katja Sterflinger-Gleixner

  • Greenhouse gas emissions from European soils under different land use: effects of soil moisture and temperature

    G. Schaufler;B. Kitzler;A. Schindlbacher;U. Skiba

  • Belowground carbon allocation by trees drives seasonal patterns of extracellular enzyme activities by altering microbial community composition in a beech forest soil

    Christina Kaiser;Marianne Koranda;Barbara Kitzler;Lucia Fuchslueger

  • Effects of soil moisture and temperature on NO, NO2, and N2O emissions from European forest soils

    Andreas Schindlbacher;Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl

  • Experimental warming effects on the microbial community of a temperate mountain forest soil.

    A. Schindlbacher;A. Rodler;M. Kuffner;B. Kitzler

  • Aerobic nitrous oxide production through N-nitrosating hybrid formation in ammonia-oxidizing archaea

    Michaela Stieglmeier;Maria Mooshammer;Barbara Kitzler;Wolfgang Wanek

  • The effect of resource quantity and resource stoichiometry on microbial carbon-use-efficiency.

    Katharina M. Keiblinger;Edward K. Hall;Wolfgang Wanek;Ute Szukics

  • Seasonality and resource availability control bacterial and archaeal communities in soils of a temperate beech forest

    Frank Rasche;Daniela Knapp;Christina Kaiser;Marianne Koranda

  • Stoichiometric controls of nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in decomposing beech leaf litter

    Maria Mooshammer;Wolfgang Wanek;Jörg Schnecker;Birgit Wild

  • Nitrifiers and denitrifiers respond rapidly to changed moisture and increasing temperature in a pristine forest soil.

    Ute Szukics;Guy C.J. Abell;Guy C.J. Abell;Verania Hödl;Birgit Mitter

  • Composition of the microbial communities in the mineral soil under different types of natural forest

    Evelyn Hackl;Michael Pfeffer;Christina Donat;Gert Bachmann

  • Comparison of Diversities and Compositions of Bacterial Populations Inhabiting Natural Forest Soils

    Evelyn Hackl;Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern;Levente Bodrossy;Angela Sessitsch

  • Carbon losses due to soil warming: Do autotrophic and heterotrophic soil respiration respond equally?

    Andreas Schindlbacher;Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern;Robert Jandl

  • Factors controlling regional differences in forest soil emission of nitrogen oxides (NO and N 2 O)

    K. Pilegaard;U. Skiba;P. Ambus;C. Beier

  • Short-term competition between crop plants and soil microbes for inorganic N fertilizer.

    Erich Inselsbacher;Nina Hinko-Najera Umana;Florian C. Stange;Markus Gorfer

  • Inventories of N2O and NO Emissions from European Forest Soils

    M. Kesik;P. Ambus;R. Baritz;N. Brüggemann

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara Kitzler
Barbara Kitzler Austrian Research Centre for Forests
Klaus Butterbach-Bahl
Klaus Butterbach-Bahl Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Wolfgang Wanek
Wolfgang Wanek University of Vienna
Franz Zehetner
Franz Zehetner BOKU University
Ute Skiba
Ute Skiba Natural Environment Research Council
Angela Sessitsch
Angela Sessitsch Austrian Institute of Technology
Per Ambus
Per Ambus University of Copenhagen
Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki
Eiko Nemitz
Eiko Nemitz UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Mark A. Sutton
Mark A. Sutton Natural Environment Research Council

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