Egbert Schwartz

8.3k citations
107 papers · 5.1k · 2 hit papers · h-index 40

Impact in

  • Soil Science top 0.2%
    • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Ecology top 0.5%
    • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
    • Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
    • Isotope Analysis in Ecology

Papers in

  • Ecology 79
    • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 70
    • Isotope Analysis in Ecology 20
    • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies 20
    • Polar Research and Ecology 9
  • Molecular Biology 39
    • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 19
    • Gut microbiota and health 12
    • Protist diversity and phylogeny 7
Co-authors
Bruce A. Hungate (64 shared papers)Paul Dijkstra (45 shared papers)Rebecca L. Mau (30 shared papers)Ember M. Morrissey (24 shared papers)Theresa A. McHugh (12 shared papers)Steven J. Blazewicz (15 shared papers)Benjamin J. Koch (27 shared papers)Mary K. Firestone (7 shared papers)
Journals
Soil Biology and Biochemistry (16 papers)The ISME Journal (12 papers)Applied and Environmental Microbiology (6 papers)Microbial Ecology (4 papers)Journal of Environmental Quality (4 papers)
Partner nations
United StatesCanadaChina

In The Last Decade

Egbert Schwartz

104 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Egbert Schwartz's Hit Papers

Life history strategies among soil bacteria—dichotomy for few, continuum for many 2023 · 116 citations
1160+1+3Years since publication50100150
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

  • it has ≥500 total citations;
  • it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
  • it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.
  1. 2023 The ISME Journal
  2. 2021 The ISME Journal

Peers

Egbert Schwartz
Comparison fields: 5 of 118
  • Soil Science 2.4k
  • Ecology 2.9k
  • Environmental Chemistry 685
  • Pollution 517
  • Plant Science 966
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All Works

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Accelerated microbial turnover but constant growth efficiency with warming in soil
Nature Climate Change ·Shannon B. Hagerty, Kees Jan van Groenigen, Steven Allison, Bruce A. Hungate, Egbert Schwartz, George W. Koch, Randall K. Kolka, Paul Dijkstra
2014267
2
13C and 15N natural abundance of the soil microbial biomass
Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Paul Dijkstra, Ayaka Ishizu, Richard R. Doucett, Stephen C. Hart, Egbert Schwartz, O. V. Menyailo, Bruce A. Hungate
2006230
3
Quantitative Microbial Ecology through Stable Isotope Probing
Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Bruce A. Hungate, Rebecca L. Mau, Egbert Schwartz, J. Gregory Caporaso, Paul Dijkstra, Natasja van Gestel, Benjamin J. Koch, Cindy M. Liu, Theresa A. McHugh, Jane C. Marks, Ember M. Morrissey, Lance B. Price
2015216
4
Effect of temperature on metabolic activity of intact microbial communities: Evidence for altered metabolic pathway activity but not for increased maintenance respiration and reduced carbon use efficiency
Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Paul Dijkstra, Scott C. Thomas, Paul L Heinrich, George W. Koch, Egbert Schwartz, Bruce A. Hungate
2011216
5
Growth and death of bacteria and fungi underlie rainfall‐induced carbon dioxide pulses from seasonally dried soil
Ecology ·Steven J. Blazewicz, Egbert Schwartz, Mary K. Firestone
2013172
6
The temperature sensitivity of soil: microbial biodiversity, growth, and carbon mineralization
The ISME Journal ·Chao Wang, Ember M. Morrissey, Rebecca L. Mau, Michaela Hayer, J. Piñeiro, Michelle C. Mack, Jane C. Marks, Sheryl Bell, Samantha Miller, Egbert Schwartz, Paul Dijkstra, Benjamin J. Koch, Bram WG Stone, Alicia M. Purcell, Steven J. Blazewicz, Kirsten Hofmockel, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Bruce A. Hungate
Hit paper breakdown →		2021162
7
Linking soil bacterial biodiversity and soil carbon stability
The ISME Journal ·Rebecca L. Mau, Cindy M. Liu, Maliha Aziz, Egbert Schwartz, Paul Dijkstra, Jane C. Marks, Lance B. Price, Paul Keim, Bruce A. Hungate
2014161
8
Evidence that Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea are More Abundant than Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria in Semiarid Soils of Northern Arizona, USA
Microbial Ecology ·Karen L. Adair, Egbert Schwartz
2008153
9
15N enrichment as an integrator of the effects of C and N on microbial metabolism and ecosystem function
Ecology Letters ·Paul Dijkstra, Corinne M. LaViolette, Jeffrey S. Coyle, Richard R. Doucett, Egbert Schwartz, Stephen C. Hart, Bruce A. Hungate
2008145
10
Bacterial carbon use plasticity, phylogenetic diversity and the priming of soil organic matter
The ISME Journal ·Ember M. Morrissey, Rebecca L. Mau, Egbert Schwartz, Theresa A. McHugh, Paul Dijkstra, Benjamin J. Koch, Jane C. Marks, Bruce A. Hungate
2017145
11
Root Influence on Nitrogen Mineralization and Nitrification in Avena barbata Rhizosphere Soil
Soil Science Society of America Journal ·Donald J. Herman, Katherine Johnson, C. H. Jaeger, Egbert Schwartz, Mary K. Firestone
2006134
12
Phylogenetic organization of bacterial activity
The ISME Journal ·Ember M. Morrissey, Rebecca L. Mau, Egbert Schwartz, J. Gregory Caporaso, Paul Dijkstra, Natasja van Gestel, Benjamin J. Koch, Cindy M. Liu, Michaela Hayer, Theresa A. McHugh, Jane C. Marks, Lance B. Price, Bruce A. Hungate
2016128
13
Labile carbon input determines the direction and magnitude of the priming effect
Applied Soil Ecology ·Xiao‐Jun Allen Liu, Jingran Sun, Rebecca L. Mau, Brianna Finley, Zacchaeus G. Compson, Natasja van Gestel, Jamie R. Brown, Egbert Schwartz, Paul Dijkstra, Bruce A. Hungate
2016126
14
Life history strategies among soil bacteria—dichotomy for few, continuum for many
The ISME Journal ·Bram WG Stone, Paul Dijkstra, Brianna Finley, Raina Fitzpatrick, Megan Foley, Michaela Hayer, Kirsten Hofmockel, Benjamin J. Koch, Junhui Li, Xiao‐Jun Allen Liu, Ayla Martinez, Rebecca L. Mau, Jane C. Marks, Victoria Monsaint-Queeney, Ember M. Morrissey, Jeffrey Propster, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Alicia M. Purcell, Egbert Schwartz, Bruce A. Hungate
Hit paper breakdown →		2023116
15
Nutrients cause consolidation of soil carbon flux to small proportion of bacterial community
Nature Communications ·Bram WG Stone, Junhui Li, Benjamin J. Koch, Steven J. Blazewicz, Paul Dijkstra, Michaela Hayer, Kirsten Hofmockel, Xiao‐Jun Allen Liu, Rebecca L. Mau, Ember M. Morrissey, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Egbert Schwartz, Bruce A. Hungate
2021115
16
The soil priming effect: Consistent across ecosystems, elusive mechanisms
Soil Biology and Biochemistry ·Xiao‐Jun Allen Liu, Brianna Finley, Rebecca L. Mau, Egbert Schwartz, Paul Dijkstra, Matthew A. Bowker, Bruce A. Hungate
2019108
17
Characterization of Growing Microorganisms in Soil by Stable Isotope Probing with H 2 18 O
Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Egbert Schwartz
200793
18
Water from air: an overlooked source of moisture in arid and semiarid regions
Scientific Reports ·Theresa A. McHugh, Ember M. Morrissey, Sasha C. Reed, Bruce A. Hungate, Egbert Schwartz
201592
19
Geologic controls of soil carbon cycling and microbial dynamics in temperate conifer forests
Chemical Geology ·Katherine Heckman, Amy Welty-Bernard, Craig Rasmussen, Egbert Schwartz
200984
20
Taxon-specific microbial growth and mortality patterns reveal distinct temporal population responses to rewetting in a California grassland soil
The ISME Journal ·Steven J. Blazewicz, Bruce A. Hungate, Benjamin J. Koch, Erin Nuccio, Ember M. Morrissey, Eoin Brodie, Egbert Schwartz, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge, Mary K. Firestone
202083

About Egbert Schwartz

Egbert Schwartz is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology, Soil Science, Pollution and Plant Science, having authored 107 papers that have together received 5.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (70 papers), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (36 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (20 papers), Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (20 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers), Gut microbiota and health (12 papers), Polar Research and Ecology (9 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Soil Science (2.4k citations), Ecology (2.9k citations), Environmental Chemistry (685 citations), Pollution (517 citations) and Plant Science (966 citations). Egbert Schwartz has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Frequent co-authors include Bruce A. Hungate, Paul Dijkstra, Rebecca L. Mau, Ember M. Morrissey, Theresa A. McHugh, Steven J. Blazewicz, Benjamin J. Koch, Mary K. Firestone, Michaela Hayer and Jane C. Marks. Their work appears in journals such as Soil Biology and Biochemistry, The ISME Journal, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Microbial Ecology and Journal of Environmental Quality.

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