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Wolfgang Wanek

Wolfgang Wanek

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Plant Science and Agronomy
Austria
2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
74
Citations
19719
World Ranking
564
National Ranking
5

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
  • 2023 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Wolfgang Wanek is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with substantial contributions to the understanding of soil processes and ecology.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these domains, Wanek has worked extensively in specific subfields such as soil science, ecology, plant science, environmental chemistry, and ecological evolution, behavior, and systematics.

  • Soil Science
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Their research topics cover several key areas, including soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, soil and water nutrient dynamics, microbial community ecology and physiology, isotope analysis in ecology, peatlands and wetlands ecology, forest ecology and management, and marine and coastal ecosystems.

  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Wolfgang Wanek has published a substantial number of articles in several frequent venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Soil Biology and Biochemistry
  • Global Change Biology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Geoderma

The scientist collaborates with various researchers, with notable frequent co-authors listed as follows:

  • Andreas Schindlbacher
  • Andreas Richter
  • Werner Borken
  • Steve Kwatcho Kengdo
  • Petra Heinz

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Uptake, Metabolism, and Accumulation of Tire Wear Particle-Derived Compounds in Lettuce (2022) published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • Climatic and edaphic controls over tropical forest diversity and vegetation carbon storage (2020) published in Scientific Reports
  • Long-term soil warming decreases microbial phosphorus utilization by increasing abiotic phosphorus sorption and phosphorus losses (2023) published in Nature Communications
  • Composition and activity of nitrifier communities in soil are unresponsive to elevated temperature and CO2, but strongly affected by drought (2020) published in The ISME Journal
  • Microbial growth and carbon use efficiency show seasonal responses in a multifactorial climate change experiment (2020) published in Communications Biology

Best Publications

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

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

  • Root Exudation of Primary Metabolites: Mechanisms and Their Roles in Plant Responses to Environmental Stimuli.

    Alberto Canarini;Christina Kaiser;Andrew Merchant;Andreas Richter

  • 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

  • Increased microbial growth, biomass, and turnover drive soil organic carbon accumulation at higher plant diversity.

    Judith Prommer;Tom W. N. Walker;Tom W. N. Walker;Wolfgang Wanek;Judith Braun;Judith Braun

  • Microbial carbon use efficiency and biomass turnover times depending on soil depth – Implications for carbon cycling

    Marie Spohn;Marie Spohn;Karoline Klaus;Wolfgang Wanek;Andreas Richter

  • Soil multifunctionality is affected by the soil environment and by microbial community composition and diversity.

    Qing Zheng;Yuntao Hu;Yuntao Hu;Shasha Zhang;Lisa Noll

  • Alternative methods for measuring inorganic, organic, and total dissolved nitrogen in soil.

    Rebecca Hood-Nowotny;Nina Hinko-Najera Umana;Erich Inselbacher;Petra Oswald Lachouani

  • 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

  • Biochar decelerates soil organic nitrogen cycling but stimulates soil nitrification in a temperate arable field trial.

    Judith Prommer;Wolfgang Wanek;Florian Hofhansl;Daniela Trojan

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

    Maria Mooshammer;Wolfgang Wanek;Jörg Schnecker;Birgit Wild

  • Soil microbial carbon use efficiency and biomass turnover in a long-term fertilization experiment in a temperate grassland.

    Marie Spohn;Marie Spohn;Erich M. Pötsch;Stephanie A. Eichorst;Dagmar Woebken

  • Long-term change in the nitrogen cycle of tropical forests.

    Peter Hietz;Benjamin L. Turner;Wolfgang Wanek;Andreas Richter

  • Nitrogen fixation by phyllosphere bacteria associated with higher plants and their colonizing epiphytes of a tropical lowland rainforest of Costa Rica.

    Michael Fürnkranz;Wolfgang Wanek;Andreas Richter;Guy Abell

  • Physiological and morphological adaptations of the fruit tree Ziziphus rotundifolia in response to progressive drought stress

    S. K. Arndt;S. C. Clifford;W. Wanek;H. G. Jones

  • MANGROVE ISOTOPIC (δ15N AND δ13C) FRACTIONATION ACROSS A NITROGEN VS. PHOSPHORUS LIMITATION GRADIENT

    Karen L. McKee;Ilka C. Feller;Marianne Popp;Wolfgang Wanek

  • Heterotrophic microbial communities use ancient carbon following glacial retreat

    Richard D Bardgett;Andreas Richter;Roland Bol;Mark H Garnett

  • Functional diversity of the soil microflora in primary succession across two glacier forelands in the Central Alps

    D. Tscherko;J. Rustemeier;A. Richter;W. Wanek

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

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

  • Direct dating of Early Upper Palaeolithic human remains from Mladeč

    Eva M. Wild;Maria Teschler-Nicola;Walter Kutschera;Peter Steier

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Hietz
Peter Hietz BOKU University
Xingliang Xu
Xingliang Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Birgit Wild
Birgit Wild Stockholm University
Marianne Popp
Marianne Popp University of Vienna
Yakov Kuzyakov
Yakov Kuzyakov University of Göttingen
Joseph Strauss
Joseph Strauss BOKU University
Andreas Richter
Andreas Richter University of Bremen
Gerhard Zotz
Gerhard Zotz Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Stefan K. Arndt
Stefan K. Arndt University of Melbourne

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