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Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Anne Kakouridis
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2
Maëva Labouyrie
University of Zurich
3
Janne Mäyrä
Finnish Environment Institute
4
Xinjing Qu
Nanjing Forestry University
5
Thomas Asbeck
University of Freiburg
6
Shuai Jiang
Heilongjiang University
7
Eva F. Leifheit
Berlin Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research
8
Changlin Xu
Peking University
9
Rongxu Shan
Sun Yat-sen University
10
Patrick Kacic
University of Würzburg

Papers

1
Publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024) [102 citations, W4392663265]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2024
102 cit.
2
Arbuscular mycorrhiza convey significant plant carbon to a diverse hyphosphere microbial food web and mineral‐associated organic matter
New Phytologist|2024
83 cit.
3
Fungal traits help to understand the decomposition of simple and complex plant litter
FEMS Microbiology Ecology|2024
48 cit.
4
Interaction effects of pH and land cover on soil microbial diversity are climate‐dependent
Environmental Microbiology|2024
15 cit.
5
Publication in Ecological Indicators (2025) [14 citations, W4406554881]
Ecological Indicators|2025
14 cit.
6
Publication in Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation (2024) [12 citations, W4393856246]
Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation|2024
12 cit.
7
Publication in Remote Sensing of Environment (2025) [6 citations, W4410395857]
Remote Sensing of Environment|2025
6 cit.
8
Publication in Remote Sensing of Environment (2025) [6 citations, W4412553236]
Remote Sensing of Environment|2025
6 cit.
9
Desiccated Cyanobacteria Serve As Efficient Plasmid DNA Carriers in Space Flight
ACS Synthetic Biology|2024
3 cit.
10
Publication in Applied Soil Ecology (2025) [3 citations, W4412508762]
Applied Soil Ecology|2025
3 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Hervé Jactel
Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement
2
Dominik Seidel
Universitätsmedizin Göttingen
3
Delphine Clara Zemp
University of Neuchâtel
4
Sebastian Seibold
Technische Universität Dresden
5
Gaihe Yang
Northwest A&F University
6
Petr Kohout
Charles University
7
Jennifer Bhatnagar
Boston University
8
Alberto Orgiazzi
Joint Research Centre
9
Anahita Khosravipour
University of Twente
10
Mahendra Dia
North Carolina State University

Papers

1
Patterns in soil microbial diversity across Europe
Nature Communications|2023
308 cit.
2
Tree islands enhance biodiversity and functioning in oil palm landscapes
Nature|2023
108 cit.
3
In defence of soil biodiversity: Towards an inclusive protection in the European Union
Biological Conservation|2022
94 cit.
4
<scp>LUCAS</scp> Soil Biodiversity and <scp>LUCAS</scp> Soil Pesticides, new tools for research and policy development
European Journal of Soil Science|2022
76 cit.
5
<scp>GlobalAMFungi</scp>: a global database of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal occurrences from high‐throughput sequencing metabarcoding studies
New Phytologist|2023
76 cit.
6
Fungal communities in soils under global change
Studies in Mycology|2022
63 cit.
7
Drivers of community assembly change during succession in wood‐decomposing beetle communities
Journal of Animal Ecology|2022
42 cit.
8
Exploring the Potential of Mobile Laser Scanning to Quantify Forest Structural Complexity
Frontiers in Remote Sensing|2022
38 cit.
9
Towards a causal understanding of the relationship between structural complexity, productivity, and adaptability of forests based on principles of thermodynamics
Forest Ecology and Management|2023
38 cit.
10
Urbanization and edge effects interact to drive mutualism breakdown and the rise of unstable pathogenic communities in forest soil
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2023
37 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Thomas D. Bruns
University of California, Berkeley
2
Pierre Legendre
Université de Montréal
3
Ian R. Sanders
University of Lausanne
4
Peter G. Kennedy
University of Minnesota
5
Matthias C. Rillig
Berlin Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research
6
Petr Baldrián
Institute of Microbiology
7
Jörg Müller
University of Würzburg
8
Kessy Abarenkov
University of Tartu
9
Björn D. Lindahl
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
10
John Townshend
University of Maryland, College Park

Papers

1
ITS primers with enhanced specificity for basidiomycetes ‐ application to the identification of mycorrhizae and rusts
Molecular Ecology|1993
10.4k cit.
2
SPECIES ASSEMBLAGES AND INDICATOR SPECIES:THE NEED FOR A FLEXIBLE ASYMMETRICAL APPROACH
Ecological Monographs|1997
7.4k cit.
3
Ecologically meaningful transformations for ordination of species data
Oecologia|2001
5.4k cit.
4
Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems
Science Advances|2015
4.5k cit.
5
FUNGuild: An open annotation tool for parsing fungal community datasets by ecological guild
Fungal ecology|2015
4.5k cit.
6
A distance‐based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits
Ecology|2010
4.2k cit.
7
Species Assemblages and Indicator Species: The Need for a Flexible Asymmetrical Approach
Ecological Monographs|1997
4.1k cit.
8
Associations between species and groups of sites: indices and statistical inference
Ecology|2009
3.9k cit.
9
Ward’s Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering Method: Which Algorithms Implement Ward’s Criterion?
Journal of Classification|2014
3.8k cit.
10
Spatial Autocorrelation: Trouble or New Paradigm?
Ecology|1993
3.7k cit.

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