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Thomas Scholten is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, contributing extensively with 138 and 77 publications respectively.

Their subfields of study include Environmental Engineering, Soil Science, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Artificial Intelligence. Scholten's work engages deeply with key topics such as Soil Geostatistics and Mapping, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Soil and Unsaturated Flow, Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport, Remote Sensing in Agriculture, and Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology.

Scholten has a frequent presence in several publication venues, notably Remote Sensing, Geoderma, Agronomy, Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, and SSRN Electronic Journal. Their collaborative network includes frequent coauthors such as Ruhollah Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi, Steffen Seitz, Peter Kühn, Carsten W. Mueller, and Brandon Heung.

Recent papers by Scholten include:

  • Organic and conservation agriculture promote ecosystem multifunctionality, 2021, Science Advances
  • Iron mineral dissolution releases iron and associated organic carbon during permafrost thaw, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Improving the Spatial Prediction of Soil Organic Carbon Content in Two Contrasting Climatic Regions by Stacking Machine Learning Models and Rescanning Covariate Space, 2020, Remote Sensing
  • Land Suitability Assessment and Agricultural Production Sustainability Using Machine Learning Models, 2020, Agronomy
  • Improving the spatial prediction of soil organic carbon using environmental covariates selection: A comparison of a group of environmental covariates, 2021, CATENA

Best Publications

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

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

  • Linking N2O emissions from biochar-amended soil to the structure and function of the N-cycling microbial community

    Johannes Harter;Hans Martin Krause;Stefanie Schuettler;Reiner Ruser

  • Predicting and Mapping of Soil Organic Carbon Using Machine Learning Algorithms in Northern Iran

    Mostafa Emadi;Ruhollah Taghizadeh-Mehrjardi;Ali Cherati;Majid Danesh

  • Multi-scale digital terrain analysis and feature selection for digital soil mapping

    Thorsten Behrens;A-Xing Zhu;A-Xing Zhu;Karsten Schmidt;Thomas Scholten

  • 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

  • Digital soil mapping using artificial neural networks

    Thorsten Behrens;Helga Förster;Thomas Scholten;Ulrich Steinrücken

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

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

  • Biodiversity across trophic levels drives multifunctionality in highly diverse forests

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

  • Spatial and vertical variation of soil carbon at two grassland sites — Implications for measuring soil carbon stocks

    Axel Don;Jens Schumacher;Michael Scherer-Lorenzen;Thomas Scholten

  • Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

    Helge Bruelheide;Martin Böhnke;Sabine Both;Teng Fang

  • Organic and conservation agriculture promote ecosystem multifunctionality.

    Raphaeel A. Wittwer;S. Franz Bender;Kyle Hartman;Sofia Hydbom

  • European small portable rainfall simulators: A comparison of rainfall characteristics

    T. Iserloh;J.B. Ries;J. Arnáez;C. Boix-Fayos

  • Rising Precipitation Extremes across Nepal

    Ramchandra Karki;Shabeh ul Hasson;Udo Schickhoff;Thomas Scholten

  • Iron mineral dissolution releases iron and associated organic carbon during permafrost thaw.

    Monique S. Patzner;Carsten W. Mueller;Miroslava Malusova;Moritz Baur

  • An approach to computing topographic wetness index based on maximum downslope gradient

    Cheng-Zhi Qin;A-Xing Zhu;Tao Pei;Bao-Lin Li

  • Pedogenesis, permafrost, and soil moisture as controlling factors for soil nitrogen and carbon contents across the Tibetan Plateau

    Frank Baumann;Jin-Sheng He;Karsten Schmidt;Peter Kühn

  • The spectrum-based learner: A new local approach for modeling soil vis–NIR spectra of complex datasets

    Leonardo Ramirez-Lopez;Leonardo Ramirez-Lopez;Thosten Behrens;Karsten Schmidt;Antoine Stevens

  • Soil-aggregate formation as influenced by clay content and organic-matter amendment

    Stephen Wagner;Stephen R. Cattle;Thomas Scholten

  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

    Jonas J. Lembrechts;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Michael B. Ashcroft;Michael B. Ashcroft;Pieter De Frenne

  • Do Himalayan treelines respond to recent climate change? An evaluation of sensitivity indicators

    Udo Schickhoff;Maria Bobrowski;Jürgen Böhner;Birgit Bürzle

  • Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

    Helge Bruelheide;Martin Bohnke;Sabine Both;Fang Teng

Frequent Co-Authors

Karsten Schmidt
Karsten Schmidt University of Tübingen
Peter Kühn
Peter Kühn University of Tübingen
Thorsten Behrens
Thorsten Behrens University of Tübingen
Helge Bruelheide
Helge Bruelheide Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Peter Kuhn
Peter Kuhn University of Southern California
Jin-Sheng He
Jin-Sheng He Peking University
François Buscot
François Buscot Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Jürgen Böhner
Jürgen Böhner Universität Hamburg
Werner Härdtle
Werner Härdtle Leuphana University of Lüneburg

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