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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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Factors promoting larch dominance in central Siberia: fire versus growth performance and implications for carbon dynamics at the boundary of evergreen and deciduous conifers

TL;DR: In this paper, the relative role of fire and climate in determining canopy species composition and aboveground carbon stocks were investigated along a transect extending from the dark taiga zone of central Siberia, where Picea and Abies dominate the canopy, into the Larix zone of eastern Siberia.
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LCVP, The Leipzig catalogue of vascular plants, a new taxonomic reference list for all known vascular plants

TL;DR: An updated and much improved reference list of 1,315,562 scientific names for all described vascular plant species globally, which contains more information on the taxonomic status of global plant names than any other similar resource.
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Stand Structure and Recent Climate Change Constrain Stand Basal Area Change in European Forests: A Comparison Across Boreal, Temperate, and Mediterranean Biomes

TL;DR: This paper used forest inventory data to identify the relative importance of stand structure (stand basal area and mean d.b.h.), mean climate (water availability), and recent climate change (temperature and precipitation anomalies) on forest basal area change during the late twentieth century in three major European biomes.
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Whole‐plant trait spectra of North American woody plant species reflect fundamental ecological strategies

TL;DR: This work employed principle coordinate analysis (PCoA) to quantify fundamental whole-plant trait spectra based on 23 traits for 305 North American woody species that span boreal to subtropical climates and reveals that complex suits of traits and potential tradeoffs underlie fundamental performance strategies in forests.
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Effective Biodiversity Monitoring Needs a Culture of Integration

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a framework for aligning different efforts to realize large-scale biodiversity monitoring through a networked design of stakeholders, data, and biodiversity schemes, and emphasize the value of integrating independent biodiversity observations in conjunction with a backbone of structured core monitoring.