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Vicky M. Temperton 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 Vicky M. Temperton sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 159 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Vicky M. Temperton 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 Vicky M. Temperton sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Vicky M. Temperton is affiliated with Leuphana University of Lüneburg in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as plant science, nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their work covers a range of interconnected topics including ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, land use and ecosystem services, plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, legume nitrogen-fixing symbiosis, agronomic practices and intercropping systems, as well as particle accelerators and free-electron lasers.

Vicky M. Temperton has authored several recent scientific papers including:

  • Making the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration a Social-Ecological Endeavour, 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Biodiversity-stability relationships strengthen over time in a long-term grassland experiment, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Priority effects and ecological restoration, 2020, Restoration Ecology
  • Placing Brazil's grasslands and savannas on the map of science and conservation, 2022, Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Benjamin M. Delory, Inés M. Alonso-Crespo, Amit Kumar, Emanuela W. A. Weidlich, and Richard van Duijnen.

Temperton's publications have appeared most frequently in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Restoration Ecology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Trends in Ecology & Evolution, and Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Resilience in ecology: Abstraction, distraction, or where the action is?

    Rachel J. Standish;Richard J. Hobbs;Margaret M. Mayfield;Brandon T. Bestelmeyer

  • Plant species richness and functional composition drive overyielding in a six‐year grassland experiment

    Elisabeth Marquard;Elisabeth Marquard;Alexandra Weigelt;Vicky M. Temperton;Christiane Roscher

  • Assembly rules and restoration ecology : bridging the gap between theory and practice

    V. M. Temperton;R. J. Hobbs;T. Nuttle;S. Halle

  • Plant diversity positively affects short‐term soil carbon storage in experimental grasslands

    Sibylle Steinbeiss;Holger Bessler;Christof Engels;Vicky M. Temperton

  • Making the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration a Social-Ecological Endeavour.

    Joern Fischer;Maraja Riechers;Jacqueline Loos;Berta Martin-Lopez

  • Positive interactions between nitrogen-fixing legumes and four different neighbouring species in a biodiversity experiment

    Vicky M. Temperton;Peter N. Mwangi;Michael Scherer-Lorenzen;Bernhard Schmid

  • Combined MRI-PET dissects dynamic changes in plant structures and functions.

    Siegfried Jahnke;Siegfried Jahnke;Marion I. Menzel;Dagmar Van Dusschoten;Gerhard W. Roeb

  • Overyielding in experimental grassland communities - irrespective of species pool or spatial scale

    Christiane Roscher;Vicky M. Temperton;Michael Scherer-Lorenzen;Martin Schmitz;Martin Schmitz

  • Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”

    Joseph W. Veldman;Julie C. Aleman;Julie C. Aleman;Swanni T. Alvarado;T. Michael Anderson

  • Ecological restoration for future sustainability in a changing environment

    Young D. Choi;Vicky M. Temperton;Edith B. Allen;Albert P. Grootjans

  • Long‐term study of root biomass in a biodiversity experiment reveals shifts in diversity effects over time

    Janneke M. Ravenek;Holger Bessler;Christof Engels;Michael Scherer‐Lorenzen

  • Biodiversity–multifunctionality relationships depend on identity and number of measured functions

    Sebastian T. Meyer;Robert Ptacnik;Helmut Hillebrand;Holger Bessler

  • Plant Diversity Surpasses Plant Functional Groups and Plant Productivity as Driver of Soil Biota in the Long Term

    Nico Eisenhauer;Alexandru Milcu;Alexander C. W. Sabais;Holger Bessler

  • 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

  • Biodiversity–stability relationships strengthen over time in a long-term grassland experiment

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  • Soil and Plant Nitrogen Pools as Related to Plant Diversity in an Experimental Grassland

    Yvonne Oelmann;Wolfgang Wilcke;Vicky M. Temperton;Nina Buchmann

  • Non-invasive approaches for phenotyping of enhanced performance traits in bean

    Uwe Rascher;Stephan Blossfeld;Fabio Fiorani;Siegfried Jahnke

  • Step back from the forest and step up to the Bonn Challenge: How a broad ecological perspective can promote successful landscape restoration

    Vicky M. Temperton;Nina Buchmann;Elise Buisson;Giselda Durigan

  • A comparison of the strength of biodiversity effects across multiple functions

    Eric Allan;Eric Allan;Wolfgang W. Weisser;Wolfgang W. Weisser;Markus Fischer;Markus Fischer;Ernst-Detlef Schulze

  • Priority effects and ecological restoration

    Emanuela W. A. Weidlich;Emanuela W. A. Weidlich;Cara R. Nelson;John L. Maron;Ragan M. Callaway

  • Aboveground overyielding in grassland mixtures is associated with reduced biomass partitioning to belowground organs

    Holger Bessler;Vicky M. Temperton;Vicky M. Temperton;Christiane Roscher;Nina Buchmann

  • Diversity promotes temporal stability across levels of ecosystem organization in experimental grasslands.

    Raphaël Proulx;Christian Wirth;Winfried Voigt;Alexandra Weigelt;Alexandra Weigelt

  • Effects of biodiversity strengthen over time as ecosystem functioning declines at low and increases at high biodiversity

    Sebastian T. Meyer;Anne Ebeling;Nico Eisenhauer;Lionel Hertzog

Frequent Co-Authors

Nina Buchmann
Nina Buchmann ETH Zurich
Christiane Roscher
Christiane Roscher Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Alexandra Weigelt
Alexandra Weigelt Leipzig University
Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
Richard J. Hobbs
Richard J. Hobbs University of Western Australia
Yvonne Oelmann
Yvonne Oelmann University of Tübingen
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen University of Freiburg

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