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h-index: 80
Works: 220
Citations: 30K

Most-cited papers

Consequences of biodiversity loss for litter decomposition across biomes
I. T. Handa, R. Aerts, F. Berendse, Matty P. Berg +14 more
2014Nature764 citations Open access
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Methane Feedbacks to the Global Climate System in a Warmer World
J. Dean, J. Middelburg, T. Röckmann, R. Aerts +9 more
2018500 citations Open access
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Highly consistent effects of plant litter identity and functional traits on decomposition across a latitudinal gradient.
M. Makkonen, M. Berg, I. Handa, S. Hättenschwiler +3 more
2012Ecology Letters448 citations Open access
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A plant economics spectrum of litter decomposability
G. Freschet, R. Aerts, J. Cornelissen
2012413 citations Open access
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A frozen feast: thawing permafrost increases plant‐available nitrogen in subarctic peatlands
F. Keuper, P. Bodegom, E. Dorrepaal, J. Weedon +3 more
2012297 citations
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Multiple mechanisms for trait effects on litter decomposition: moving beyond home‐field advantage with a new hypothesis
G. Freschet, R. Aerts, J. Cornelissen
2012282 citations Open access
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Going beyond limitations of plant functional types when predicting global ecosystem–atmosphere fluxes: exploring the merits of traits‐based approaches
P. V. van Bodegom, J. Douma, J. Witte, J. Ordoñez +2 more
2012223 citations Open access
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Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed
K. Komatsu, Meghan L. Avolio, N. Lemoine, F. Isbell +72 more
2019Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America214 citations Open access
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Interspecific differences in wood decay rates: insights from a new short‐term method to study long‐term wood decomposition
G. Freschet, J. Weedon, R. Aerts, J. van Hal +1 more
2012182 citations Open access
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Traits explain the responses of a sub-arctic Collembola community to climate manipulation
M. Makkonen, M. Berg, J. van Hal, T. Callaghan +2 more
2011182 citations
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Summer warming accelerates sub‐arctic peatland nitrogen cycling without changing enzyme pools or microbial community structure
J. Weedon, G. Kowalchuk, R. Aerts, J. van Hal +4 more
2012163 citations
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Variable temperature effects of Open Top Chambers at polar and alpine sites explained by irradiance and snow depth
S. Bokhorst, A. Huiskes, R. Aerts, P. Convey +12 more
2013Global Change Biology159 citations
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Arctic warming on two continents has consistent negative effects on lichen diversity and mixed effects on bryophyte diversity
Simone I. Lang, J. Cornelissen, G. Shaver, M. Ahrens +5 more
2012156 citations Open access
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Experimentally increased nutrient availability at the permafrost thaw front selectively enhances biomass production of deep‐rooting subarctic peatland species
F. Keuper, E. Dorrepaal, P. V. van Bodegom, R. V. van Logtestijn +3 more
2017Global Change Biology150 citations Open access
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Winters are changing: snow effects on Arctic and alpine tundra ecosystems
C. Rixen, T. Høye, P. Macek, R. Aerts +64 more
2022Arctic Science145 citations Open access
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Global to community scale differences in the prevalence of convergent over divergent leaf trait distributions in plant assemblages
G. Freschet, A. T. C. Dias, D. Ackerly, R. Aerts +13 more
2011133 citations
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Controls on Coarse Wood Decay in Temperate Tree Species: Birth of the LOGLIFE Experiment
J. Cornelissen, U. Sass-Klaassen, L. Poorter, K. V. van Geffen +19 more
2012Ambio132 citations Open access
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Do physical plant litter traits explain non‐additivity in litter mixtures? A test of the improved microenvironmental conditions theory
M. Makkonen, M. Berg, R. V. van Logtestijn, J. van Hal +1 more
2013131 citations
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Nitrogen Inputs by Marine Vertebrates Drive Abundance and Richness in Antarctic Terrestrial Ecosystems.
S. Bokhorst, P. Convey, R. Aerts
2019Current Biology123 citations Open access
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Inclusion of ecologically based trait variation in plant functional types reduces the projected land carbon sink in an earth system model
L. Verheijen, R. Aerts, V. Brovkin, J. Cavender-Bares +3 more
2015Global Change Biology110 citations Open access
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Decomposition of leaf litter mixtures across biomes: The role of litter identity, diversity and soil fauna
Shi-Xing Zhou, Olaf Butenschoen, Sandra Barantal, I. Handa +8 more
2020Journal of Ecology100 citations Open access
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Decadal warming causes a consistent and persistent shift from heterotrophic to autotrophic respiration in contrasting permafrost ecosystems
C. H. Hicks Pries, R. V. van Logtestijn, E. Schuur, S. Natali +3 more
2015Global Change Biology96 citations
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East Siberian Arctic inland waters emit mostly contemporary carbon
J. Dean, Ove H. Meisel, Melanie Martyn Rosco, L. Marchesini +14 more
2020Nature Communications89 citations Open access
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Are litter decomposition and fire linked through plant species traits?
J. Cornelissen, Saskia Grootemaat, L. Verheijen, W. Cornwell +3 more
2017New Phytologist84 citations Open access
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Polar lessons learned: long‐term management based on shared threats in Arctic and Antarctic environments
J. Bennett, J. Shaw, A. Terauds, J. Smol +14 more
201584 citations Open access
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Temperature sensitivity of peatland C and N cycling: Does substrate supply play a role?
J. Weedon, R. Aerts, G. Kowalchuk, R. V. van Logtestijn +2 more
201375 citations
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Ecological consequences of the expansion of N2-fixing plants in cold biomes
E. Hiltbrunner, R. Aerts, Tobias Bühlmann, K. Huss-Danell +5 more
2014Oecologia74 citations
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Succession‐induced trait shifts across a wide range of NW European ecosystems are driven by light and modulated by initial abiotic conditions
J. Douma, M. de Haan, R. Aerts, J. Witte +1 more
201272 citations Open access
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Litter stoichiometric traits of plant species of high-latitude ecosystems show high responsiveness to global change without causing strong variation in litter decomposition.
R. Aerts, P. V. van Bodegom, J. Cornelissen
2012New Phytologist65 citations
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A Race for Space? How Sphagnum fuscum stabilizes vegetation composition during long‐term climate manipulations
F. Keuper, E. Dorrepaal, P. V. van Bodegom, R. Aerts +3 more
201163 citations
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Glasshouse vs field experiments: do they yield ecologically similar results for assessing N impacts on peat mosses?
J. Limpens, G. Granath, R. Aerts, M. Heijmans +27 more
2012New Phytologist61 citations Open access
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Fuel moisture content enhances nonadditive effects of plant mixtures on flammability and fire behavior
Luke G. Blauw, Niki Wensink, L. Bakker, R. V. van Logtestijn +3 more
2015Ecology and Evolution44 citations Open access
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Variation in trait trade-offs allows differentiation among predefined plant functional types: implications for predictive ecology.
L. Verheijen, R. Aerts, G. Bönisch, J. Kattge +1 more
2016New Phytologist42 citations Open access
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Winners always win: growth of a wide range of plant species from low to future high CO 2
A. Temme, Jin-Chun Liu, W. Cornwell, J. Cornelissen +1 more
2015Ecology and Evolution41 citations Open access
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Usnea antarctica, an important Antarctic lichen, is vulnerable to aspects of regional environmental change
S. Bokhorst, P. Convey, A. Huiskes, R. Aerts
2016Polar Biology40 citations Open access
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Sphagnum-dwelling testate amoebae in subarctic bogs are more sensitive to soil warming in the growing season than in winter: the results of eight-year field climate manipulations.
A. Tsyganov, R. Aerts, I. Nijs, J. Cornelissen +1 more
2012Protist40 citations
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A combination of functionally different plant traits provides a means to quantitatively predict a broad range of species assemblages in NW Europe
J. Douma, R. Aerts, J. Witte, R. Bekker +3 more
201239 citations Open access
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Towards a functional basis for predicting vegetation patterns; incorporating plant traits in habitat distribution models
J. Douma, J. Witte, R. Aerts, R. Bartholomeus +4 more
201239 citations Open access
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Tundra in the Rain: Differential Vegetation Responses to Three Years of Experimentally Doubled Summer Precipitation in Siberian Shrub and Swedish Bog Tundra
F. Keuper, F. Parmentier, D. Blok, P. V. van Bodegom +4 more
2012Ambio37 citations Open access
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Vascular plant litter input in subarctic peat bogs changes Collembola diets and decomposition patterns
E. J. Krab, M. Berg, R. Aerts, R. V. van Logtestijn +1 more
201335 citations
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No effects of experimental warming but contrasting seasonal patterns for soil peptidase and glycosidase enzymes in a sub-arctic peat bog
J. Weedon, R. Aerts, G. Kowalchuk, P. V. van Bodegom
2013Biogeochemistry32 citations
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Greenhouse Gas Fluxes from Dutch Peatland Water Bodies: Importance of the Surrounding Landscape
J. Vermaat, Fritz Hellmann, A. T. C. Dias, B. Hoorens +2 more
2011Wetlands (Wilmington, N.C.)32 citations
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Understanding ecosystems of the future will require more than realistic climate change experiments – A response to Korell et al.
H. D. De Boeck, J. Bloor, R. Aerts, M. Bahn +20 more
2019Global Change Biology30 citations Open access
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Compositional Stability of the Bacterial Community in a Climate-Sensitive Sub-Arctic Peatland
J. Weedon, G. Kowalchuk, R. Aerts, Stef Freriks +2 more
2017Frontiers in Microbiology29 citations Open access
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Tree species identity in high-latitude forests determines fire spread through fuel ladders from branches to soil and vice versa
Luke G. Blauw, R. V. van Logtestijn, R. Broekman, R. Aerts +1 more
201729 citations Open access
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Impacts of trait variation through observed trait-climate relationships on performance of a representative Earth System model : a conceptual analysis
L. Verheijen, V. Brovkin, R. Aerts, G. Bönisch +5 more
201227 citations Open access
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Community adaptation to temperature explains abrupt soil bacterial community shift along a geothermal gradient on Iceland
J. Weedon, E. Bååth, Ruud Rijkers, S. Reischke +6 more
2022bioRxiv26 citations Open access
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Meta-analysis reveals profound responses of plant traits to glacial CO2 levels
A. Temme, W. Cornwell, J. Cornelissen, R. Aerts
2013Ecology and Evolution25 citations Open access
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Warming impacts potential germination of non-native plants on the Antarctic Peninsula
S. Bokhorst, P. Convey, A. Casanova-Katny, R. Aerts
2021Communications Biology24 citations Open access
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Optimal growth temperature of Arctic soil bacterial communities increases under experimental warming
Ruud Rijkers, J. Rousk, R. Aerts, B. Sigurdsson +1 more
2022Global Change Biology23 citations Open access
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