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Christian Wirth
Researcher at Leipzig University
Publications - 247
Citations - 22549
Christian Wirth is an academic researcher from Leipzig University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biodiversity & Species richness. The author has an hindex of 64, co-authored 215 publications receiving 17916 citations. Previous affiliations of Christian Wirth include German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research & Kyushu University.
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Above-ground biomass and structure of pristine Siberian Scots pine forests as controlled by competition and fire.
Christian Wirth,Ernst Detlef Schulze,Waltraud X. Schulze,D. von Stünzner-Karbe,W. Ziegler,I. M. Miljukova,A. Sogatchev,Andrej Varlagin,M. Panvyorov,S. Grigoriev,W. Kusnetzova,M. Siry,G. Hardes,Reiner Zimmermann,N. N. Vygodskaya +14 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that biomass in Siberian Scots pine forests is strongly influenced by fire and that climate change will affect ecosystem functions predominantly via changes in fire regimes.
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Fire and site type effects on the long-term carbon and nitrogen balance in pristine Siberian Scots pine forests
Christian Wirth,Ernst Detlef Schulze,B. Lühker,S. Grigoriev,M. Siry,G. Hardes,Waldemar Ziegler,Martin Bačkor,G. A. Bauer,N. N. Vygodskaya +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of fire and site type on carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) balances were determined by following the change of total and component C and N pools along four chronosequences of fire-prone Siberian Scots pine ecosystems.
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Seasonal and annual variations in the photosynthetic productivity and carbon balance of a central Siberian pine forest
Jon Lloyd,Olga Shibistova,Daniil Zolotoukhine,Olaf Kolle,Almut Arneth,Christian Wirth,Julie M. Styles,N. M. Tchebakova,E.-Detlef Schulze +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between canopy conductance and photosynthesis using Cowan's notion of optimality in which stomata serve to maximise the marginal evaporative cost of plant carbon gain.
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Diversity promotes temporal stability across levels of ecosystem organization in experimental grasslands.
Raphaël Proulx,Christian Wirth,Winfried Voigt,Alexandra Weigelt,Alexandra Weigelt,Christiane Roscher,Sabine Attinger,Jussi Baade,Romain L. Barnard,Nina Buchmann,François Buscot,Nico Eisenhauer,Nico Eisenhauer,Markus Fischer,Markus Fischer,Gerd Gleixner,Stefan Halle,Anke Hildebrandt,Esther Kowalski,Annely Kuu,Annely Kuu,B Markus Lange,Alexandru Milcu,Pascal A. Niklaus,Pascal A. Niklaus,Yvonne Oelmann,Stephan Rosenkranz,Alexander C.W. Sabais,Christoph Scherber,Michael Scherer-Lorenzen,Michael Scherer-Lorenzen,Stefan Scheu,Ernst Detlef Schulze,Jens Schumacher,Guido Schwichtenberg,Jean-François Soussana,Vicky M. Temperton,Wolfgang W. Weisser,Wolfgang Wilcke,Wolfgang Wilcke,Bernhard Schmid +40 more
TL;DR: This study provides the strongest empirical support so far that diversity promotes stability across different ecological functions and levels of ecosystem organization in grasslands.
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Towards a thesaurus of plant characteristics: an ecological contribution
Eric Garnier,Ulrike Stahl,Ulrike Stahl,Marie-Angélique Laporte,Marie-Angélique Laporte,Jens Kattge,Isabelle Mougenot,Ingolf Kühn,Ingolf Kühn,Baptiste Laporte,Bernard Amiaud,Bernard Amiaud,Farshid S. Ahrestani,Gerhard Bönisch,Daniel E. Bunker,J. Hans C. Cornelissen,Sandra Díaz,Brian J. Enquist,Sophie Gachet,Pedro Jaureguiberry,Michael Kleyer,Sandra Lavorel,Lutz Maicher,Natalia Pérez-Harguindeguy,Hendrik Poorter,Mark Schildhauer,Bill Shipley,Cyrille Violle,Evan Weiher,Christian Wirth,Ian J. Wright,Stefan Klotz +31 more
TL;DR: Harmonizing definitions of concepts, as proposed by TOP, forms the basis for better integration of data across heterogeneous data sets and terminologies, thereby increasing the potential for data reuse and enhanced scientific synthesis.