Fons van der Plas

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81 papers · 8,820 citations · H-index 33

PAPERS

Global functional shifts in trees driven by alien naturalization and native extinction
20260 citationsauthor #38
Forest Heterogeneity by Chain Saw: How Between-Patch Variation in Old Growth Attributes Changes the Metacommunities of Beetles.
20260 citationsauthor #4
Sodium constraints on megaherbivore communities in Africa
20252 citationsauthor #30
Evolutionary age correlates with range size across plants and animals
20254 citationsauthor #11
Vegetation transition in the central Brazilian Cerrado is better explained by structure than tree composition differences
20250 citationsauthor #3
Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests
20254 citationsauthor #199
Enhancing structural heterogeneity in managed forest landscapes promotes gamma but not beta diversity in understorey plant communities
20250 citationsauthor #14
Old growth attributes by chain saw: how between-patch heterogeneity changes the metacommunities of beetles in temperate forests
20250 citationsauthor #4
The global distribution and drivers of wood density and their impact on forest carbon stocks
202453 citationsauthor #214
Dominance and rarity in tree communities across the globe: Patterns, predictors and threats
20246 citationsauthor #202
Weak reciprocal relationships between productivity and plant biodiversity in managed grasslands
20245 citationsauthor #9
Rocky outcrops form islands of high and unique tree biodiversity within an ocean of grass in Serengeti National Park
20241 citationsauthor #1
Contrasting mechanisms of non‐vascular and vascular plants on spatial turnover in multifunctionality in the Antarctic continent
20245 citationsauthor #13
Tree growth is better explained by absorptive fine root traits than by transport fine root traits
202411 citationsauthor #2
Effects of grazing on the relationship between plant functional diversity and soil carbon sequestration are regulated by livestock species
202410 citationsauthor #2
Positive feedbacks and alternative stable states in forest leaf types
202410 citationsauthor #218
Atmospheric nitrogen deposition is related to plant biodiversity loss at multiple spatial scales
202421 citationsauthor #1
Universal beta-diversity-functioning relationships are neither observed nor expected.
202336 citationsauthor #1
Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential
2023315 citationsauthor #208
Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions
202364 citationsauthor #203
Hill-Chao numbers allow decomposing gamma multifunctionality into alpha and beta components.
202322 citationsauthor #4
The importance of trait selection in ecology
202345 citationsauthor #13
Increasing plant species richness by seeding has marginal effects on ecosystem functioning in agricultural grasslands
202312 citationsauthor #4
Phylogenetic diversity and community wide-trait means offer different insights into mechanisms regulating aboveground carbon storage.
202312 citationsauthor #4
Evenness mediates the global relationship between forest productivity and richness
202337 citationsauthor #199
Global beta-diversity of angiosperm trees is shaped by Quaternary climate change
202353 citationsauthor #56
Dominant species determine grazing effects on the stability of herbaceous community production at multiple scales in drylands
202327 citationsauthor #4
The evolutionary age-range size relationship is modulated by insularity and dispersal in plants and animals
20235 citationsauthor #11
Author Correction: Native diversity buffers against severity of non-native tree invasions
20233 citationsauthor #203
Scale‐dependent diversity–biomass relationships can be driven by tree mycorrhizal association and soil fertility
202331 citationsauthor #2
The global biogeography of tree leaf form and habit
202345 citationsauthor #208
Reply to: Plant traits alone are good predictors of ecosystem properties when used carefully
20236 citationsauthor #1
Biomass removal promotes plant diversity after short-term de-intensification of managed grasslands
20239 citationsauthor #6
Relationships between species richness and biomass production are context dependent in grasslands differing in land-use and seed addition
20238 citationsauthor #8
The number of tree species on Earth
2022187 citationsauthor #134
Loss of species richness with land use intensity is explained by a reduction in niche differences
20220 citationsauthor #3
High exposure of global tree diversity to human pressure
202236 citationsauthor #52
Enhancing the structural diversity between forest patches—A concept and real‐world experiment to study biodiversity, multifunctionality and forest resilience across spatial scales
202248 citationsauthor #4
Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients
202296 citationsauthor #228
Effects of large herbivores on fire regimes and wildfire mitigation
202174 citationsauthor #8
Climatic conditions, not above- and belowground resource availability and uptake capacity, mediate tree diversity effects on productivity and stability.
202112 citationsauthor #17
Above‐ and below‐ground complementarity rather than selection drive tree diversity–productivity relationships in European forests
202127 citationsauthor #13
Vegetation characteristics control local sediment and nutrient retention on but not underneath vegetation in floodplain meadows
20216 citationsauthor #7
Vegetation characteristics control sediment and nutrient retention on but not underneath vegetation in floodplain meadows
20211 citationsauthor #7
Dimensions of invasiveness: Links between local abundance, geographic range size, and habitat breadth in Europe’s alien and native floras
202173 citationsauthor #57
Contrasting responses of above- and belowground diversity to multiple components of land-use intensity
2021141 citationsauthor #7
An integrated framework of plant form and function: The belowground perspective.
2021317 citationsauthor #14
Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs
2021118 citationsauthor #18
Plant structural diversity alters sediment retention on and underneath herbaceous vegetation in a flume experiment
202115 citationsauthor #4
Topographical factors related to flooding frequency promote ecosystem multifunctionality of riparian floodplains
202120 citationsauthor #3
Paleoclimate and current climate collectively shape the phylogenetic and functional diversity of trees worldwide
20206 citationsauthor #55
Quaternary climate change explains global patterns of tree beta-diversity
20203 citationsauthor #55
Leaf area and pubescence drive sedimentation on leaf surfaces during flooding
20200 citationsauthor #3
Half of the world’s tree biodiversity is unprotected and is increasingly threatened by human activities
202012 citationsauthor #53
The results of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic
20202 citationsauthor #5
Leaf area and pubescence drive sedimentation on leaf surfaces during flooding
202012 citationsauthor #3
Plant traits alone are poor predictors of ecosystem properties and long-term ecosystem functioning
2020174 citationsauthor #1
The results of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic
2019151 citationsauthor #5
Incomplete datasets obscure associations between traits affecting dispersal ability and geographic range size of reef fishes in the Tropical Eastern Pacific
201912 citationsauthor #2
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in naturally assembled communities
2019607 citationsauthor #1
How do trees respond to species mixing in experimental compared to observational studies?
201913 citationsauthor #11
TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access.
20191,645 citationsauthor #661
Plant traits are poor predictors of long-term ecosystem functioning
20193 citationsauthor #1
Food Web Uncertainties Influence Predictions of Climate Change Effects on Soil Carbon Sequestration in Heathlands
20197 citationsauthor #6
A multitrophic perspective on biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research.
2019118 citationsauthor #35
Biotic predictors complement models of bat and bird responses to climate and tree diversity in European forests
201927 citationsauthor #19
Inferring plant functional diversity from space: the potential of Sentinel-2
201981 citationsauthor #4
Plant diversity maintains multiple soil functions in future environments
201889 citationsauthor #4
Publisher Correction: Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality
20180 citationsauthor #2
Author response: Plant diversity maintains multiple soil functions in future environments
20181 citationsauthor #4
Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality
2018837 citationsauthor #2
Redefining ecosystem multifunctionality
20180 citationsauthor #2
Specialisation and diversity of multiple trophic groups are promoted by different forest features.
2018125 citationsauthor #9
Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services
2018285 citationsauthor #5
Forest biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services
2017921 citationsauthor #12
Continental mapping of forest ecosystem functions reveals a high but unrealised potential for forest multifunctionality.
2017107 citationsauthor #1
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context.
2017333 citationsauthor #4
Forest biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services
20170 citationsauthor #12
Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality
2016730 citationsauthor #2
Biotic homogenization can decrease landscape-scale forest multifunctionality
2016255 citationsauthor #1
Jack-of-all-trades effects drive biodiversity–ecosystem multifunctionality relationships in European forests
2016258 citationsauthor #1
Arthropod abundance is most strongly driven by crop and semi-natural habitat type rather than management in an intensive agricultural landscape in the Netherlands
year unknown13 citationsauthor #2

TIMELINE

2016 1,243 citations

2017 1,361 citations

2018 1,337 citations

2019 2,664 citations

2020 209 citations

2021 804 citations

2022 367 citations

2023 730 citations

2024 122 citations

2025 10 citations

2026 0 citations

Unknown 13 citations

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