| Climate–land-use interactions shape tropical mountain biodiversity and ecosystem functions MK Peters, A Hemp, T Appelhans, JN Becker, C Behler, A Classen, ... Nature 568 (7750), 88-92, 2019 | 419 | 2019 |
| Annual litterfall dynamics and nutrient deposition depending on elevation and land use at Mt. Kilimanjaro J Becker, H Pabst, J Mnyonga, Y Kuzyakov Biogeosciences 12 (19), 5635-5646, 2015 | 88 | 2015 |
| Metagenomic insights into soil microbial communities involved in carbon cycling along an elevation climosequences Z Dai, H Zang, J Chen, Y Fu, X Wang, H Liu, C Shen, J Wang, Y Kuzyakov, ... Environmental Microbiology 23 (8), 4631-4645, 2021 | 59 | 2021 |
| Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient J Albrecht, MK Peters, JN Becker, C Behler, A Classen, A Ensslin, ... Nature ecology & evolution 5 (12), 1582-1593, 2021 | 54 | 2021 |
| Teatime on Mount Kilimanjaro: Assessing climate and land‐use effects on litter decomposition and stabilization using the Tea Bag Index JN Becker, Y Kuzyakov Land Degradation & Development 29 (8), 2321-2329, 2018 | 50 | 2018 |
| Depth rather than microrelief controls microbial biomass and kinetics of C-, N-, P-and S-cycle enzymes in peatland S Parvin, E Blagodatskaya, JN Becker, Y Kuzyakov, S Uddin, ... Geoderma 324, 67-76, 2018 | 48 | 2018 |
| Nitrogen turnover and greenhouse gas emissions in a tropical alpine ecosystem, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania A Gütlein, M Zistl-Schlingmann, JN Becker, NS Cornejo, F Detsch, ... Plant and soil 411, 243-259, 2017 | 35 | 2017 |
| Riparian wetland properties counter the effect of land-use change on soil carbon stocks after rainforest conversion to plantations N Hennings, JN Becker, T Guillaume, M Damris, MA Dippold, Y Kuzyakov Catena 196, 104941, 2021 | 30 | 2021 |
| Biomass, morphology, and dynamics of the fine root system across a 3,000-m elevation gradient on Mt. Kilimanjaro N Sierra Cornejo, D Hertel, JN Becker, A Hemp, C Leuschner Frontiers in Plant Science 11, 470408, 2020 | 30 | 2020 |
| Factors controlling soil organic carbon stocks in hardwood floodplain forests of the lower middle Elbe River A Heger, JN Becker, LKV Navas, A Eschenbach Geoderma 404, 115389, 2021 | 28 | 2021 |
| The effect of root hairs on rhizosphere phosphatase activity M Holz, M Zarebanadkouki, A Carminati, JN Becker, M Spohn Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 183 (3), 382-388, 2020 | 21 | 2020 |
| Legume and non-legume trees increase soil carbon sequestration in Savanna JN Becker, A Gütlein, N Sierra Cornejo, R Kiese, D Hertel, Y Kuzyakov Ecosystems 20, 989-999, 2017 | 20 | 2017 |
| Soil water stress at young urban street-tree sites in response to meteorology and site parameters A Schütt, JN Becker, A Gröngröft, S Schaaf-Titel, A Eschenbach Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 75, 127692, 2022 | 18 | 2022 |
| Effects of land use and elevation on the functional characteristics of soil enzymes at Mt. Kilimanjaro EM Ndossi, JN Becker, A Hemp, MA Dippold, Y Kuzyakov, BS Razavi European Journal of Soil Biology 97, 103167, 2020 | 18 | 2020 |
| Ashes to ashes: Characterization of organic matter in Andosols along a 3400 m elevation transect at Mount Kilimanjaro using analytical pyrolysis JN Becker, MA Dippold, A Hemp, Y Kuzyakov Catena 180, 271-281, 2019 | 11 | 2019 |
| Are active and former floodplain soils of the lower middle Elbe similar? A study of soil characteristics and possible implications for forest restoration LKV Navas, JN Becker, A Heger, A Gröngröft, A Eschenbach CATENA 222, 106814, 2023 | 8 | 2023 |
| Hot or not? connecting rhizosphere hotspots to total soil respiration JN Becker, M Holz Plant and Soil 464, 489-499, 2021 | 8 | 2021 |
| Application of planar optodes to measure CO2 gradients in the rhizosphere of unsaturated soils M Holz, JN Becker, G Daudin, E Oburger Rhizosphere 16, 100266, 2020 | 6 | 2020 |
| Effects of land-use change and disturbance on the fine root biomass, dynamics, morphology, and related C and N fluxes to the soil of forest ecosystems at different elevations … N Sierra Cornejo, JN Becker, A Hemp, D Hertel Oecologia, 1-19, 2023 | 5* | 2023 |
| Climate implications on forest above-and belowground carbon allocation patterns along a tropical elevation gradient on Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) N Sierra Cornejo, C Leuschner, JN Becker, A Hemp, ... Oecologia 195 (3), 797-812, 2021 | 5 | 2021 |
