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2023

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Environmental Sciences

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81
Citations
21676
World Ranking
928
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60

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
77
Citations
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World Ranking
494
National Ranking
44

Wolfgang Wilcke 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 Wolfgang Wilcke sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 297 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wolfgang Wilcke 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 Wolfgang Wilcke sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 77 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% 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

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Wolfgang Wilcke is a researcher affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their work primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Ecology.

Their research explores a variety of main topics, including:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry

Wolfgang Wilcke has contributed to several publications, with frequent appearances in specific scientific venues such as:

  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Soil Science Society of America Journal
  • Plant and Soil
  • New Phytologist
  • Global Change Biology

Some recent papers published by Wolfgang Wilcke include:

  • Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Possible application of stable isotope compositions for the identification of metal sources in soil, 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials

Wolfgang Wilcke frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Yvonne Oelmann
  • Sophia Leimer
  • Andre Velescu
  • Jürgen Homeier
  • Nico Eisenhauer

Best Publications

  • SYNOPSIS Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Soil — a Review

    Wolfgang Wilcke

  • Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

    Eric Allan;Pete Manning;Fabian Alt;Julia Binkenstein

  • Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

    Santiago Soliveres;Fons van der Plas;Peter Manning;Daniel Prati

  • The role of biodiversity for element cycling and trophic interactions: an experimental approach in a grassland community

    Christiane Roscher;Jens Schumacher;Jussi Baade;Wolfgang Wilcke

  • Global patterns of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soil

    Wolfgang Wilcke

  • Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning in a 15-year grassland experiment: Patterns, mechanisms, and open questions

    Wolfgang W. Weisser;Christiane Roscher;Sebastian T. Meyer;Anne Ebeling

  • Urban soil contamination in Bangkok : heavy metal and aluminium partitioning in topsoils

    Wolfgang Wilcke;Silke Müller;Nualsri Kanchanakool;Wolfgang Zech

  • Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services.

    María R. Felipe-Lucia;Santiago Soliveres;Caterina Penone;Markus Fischer

  • PM2.5-bound oxygenated PAHs, nitro-PAHs and parent-PAHs from the atmosphere of a Chinese megacity: Seasonal variation, sources and cancer risk assessment

    Benjamin A. Musa Bandowe;Hannah Meusel;Ru-jin Huang;Kinfai Ho;Kinfai Ho

  • Polycyclic aromatic compounds (PAHs and oxygenated PAHs) and trace metals in fish species from Ghana (West Africa): Bioaccumulation and health risk assessment

    Benjamin A. Musa Bandowe;Moritz Bigalke;Linda Boamah;Elvis Nyarko

  • Stable Cu and Zn isotope ratios as tracers of sources and transport of Cu and Zn in contaminated soil

    Moritz Bigalke;Moritz Bigalke;Stefan Weyer;Jozef Kobza;Wolfgang Wilcke

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

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

  • Nitrogen and phosphorus additions impact arbuscular mycorrhizal abundance and molecular diversity in a tropical montane forest

    Tessa Camenzind;Stefan Hempel;Jürgen Homeier;Sebastian Horn

  • Biotic and abiotic properties mediating plant diversity effects on soil microbial communities in an experimental grassland

    Markus Lange;Maike Habekost;Nico Eisenhauer;Christiane Roscher

  • Rainfall interception in a lower montane forest in Ecuador: effects of canopy properties

    Katrin Fleischbein;Wolfgang Wilcke;Rainer Goller;Jens Boy

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polychlorinated biphenyls in forest soils: depth distribution as indicator of different fate.

    M Krauss;W Wilcke;W Zech

  • Availability of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) and Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) to Earthworms in Urban Soils

    Martin Krauss;Wolfgang Wilcke;Wolfgang Zech

  • The results of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic

    Malte Jochum;Malte Jochum;Markus Fischer;Forest Isbell;Christiane Roscher

  • 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

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in hydromorphic soils of the tropical metropolis Bangkok

    Wolfgang Wilcke;Silke Müller;Nualsri Kanchanakool;Chalinee Niamskul

  • Nutrient storage and turnover in organic layers under tropical montane rain forest in Ecuador

    Wolfgang Wilcke;Syafrimen Yasin;Uwe Abramowski;Carlos Valarezo

  • Atmospheric versus biological sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in a tropical rain forest environment

    Martin Krauss;Wolfgang Wilcke;Christopher Martius;Adelmar G. Bandeira

  • Contributions of biotic and abiotic factors to soil aggregation across a land use gradient

    E. Kathryn Barto;Fabian Alt;Yvonne Oelmann;Wolfgang Wilcke

Frequent Co-Authors

Yvonne Oelmann
Yvonne Oelmann University of Tübingen
Wolfgang Zech
Wolfgang Zech University of Bayreuth
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Christiane Roscher
Christiane Roscher Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Nico Eisenhauer
Nico Eisenhauer Leipzig University
Alexandra Weigelt
Alexandra Weigelt Leipzig University
Stefan Scheu
Stefan Scheu University of Göttingen
Gerd Gleixner
Gerd Gleixner Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Martin Krauss
Martin Krauss Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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