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Alexander Zizka

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
38
Citations
6053
World Ranking
6607
National Ranking
345

Alexander Zizka publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 129 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Alexander Zizka D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexander Zizka sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alexander Zizka is affiliated with Philipp University of Marburg in Germany. Their research focuses predominantly on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, and Plant Science.

Their work extensively covers topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and animal studies, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions.

Zizka's recent publications illustrate a broad interest in biodiversity, data quality in biodiversity databases, and regional flora evolution. Among these are:

  • "The Andes through time: evolution and distribution of Andean floras" (2022, Wiardi Beckman Foundation)
  • "No one-size-fits-all solution to clean GBIF" (2020, PeerJ)
  • "Madagascar's extraordinary biodiversity: Threats and opportunities" (2022, Science)
  • "Madagascar's extraordinary biodiversity: Evolution, distribution, and use" (2022, Science)
  • "Bridging the research-implementation gap in IUCN Red List assessments" (2022, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Alexandre Antonelli
  • Daniele Silvestro
  • Christine D. Bacon
  • Renske E. Onstein
  • Tobias Andermann

Their work has been published mostly in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Biogeography, Science, and Ecography.

Best Publications

  • CoordinateCleaner: Standardized cleaning of occurrence records from biological collection databases

    Alexander Zizka;Alexander Zizka;Daniele Silvestro;Daniele Silvestro;Tobias Andermann;Josué Azevedo

  • Amazonia is the primary source of Neotropical biodiversity.

    Alexandre Antonelli;Alexander Zizka;Fernanda Antunes Carvalho;Ruud Scharn

  • Estimating species diversity and distribution in the era of Big Data: to what extent can we trust public databases?

    Carla Maldonado;Carla Maldonado;Carlos I. Molina;Carlos I. Molina;Alexander Zizka;Claes Persson

  • The pitfalls of biodiversity proxies: Differences in richness patterns of birds, trees and understudied diversity across Amazonia

    Camila D. Ritter;Camila D. Ritter;Søren Faurby;Dominic J. Bennett;Luciano N. Naka

  • Infomap Bioregions: Interactive Mapping of Biogeographical Regions from Species Distributions

    Daniel Edler;Daniel Edler;Thaís Guedes;Thaís Guedes;Thaís Guedes;Alexander Zizka;Martin Rosvall

  • Bridging the research-implementation gap in IUCN Red List assessments.

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  • Madagascar’s extraordinary biodiversity: Threats and opportunities

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  • Conceptual and empirical advances in Neotropical biodiversity research.

    Alexandre Antonelli;María Ariza;María Ariza;James Albert;Tobias Andermann

  • Madagascar’s extraordinary biodiversity: Evolution, distribution, and use

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  • No one-size-fits-all solution to clean GBIF.

    Alexander Zizka;Fernanda Antunes Carvalho;Alice Calvente;Mabel Rocio Baez-Lizarazo

  • Traditional plant use in Burkina Faso (West Africa): a national-scale analysis with focus on traditional medicine

    Alexander Zizka;Adjima Thiombiano;Stefan Dressler;Blandine M. Y. Nacoulma

  • sampbias, a method for quantifying geographic sampling biases in species distribution data

    Alexander Zizka;Alexander Zizka;Alexandre Antonelli;Alexandre Antonelli;Daniele Silvestro;Daniele Silvestro

  • SECAPR—a bioinformatics pipeline for the rapid and user-friendly processing of targeted enriched Illumina sequences, from raw reads to alignments

    Tobias Andermann;Ángela Cano;Alexander Zizka;Christine Bacon

  • Patterns, biases and prospects in the distribution and diversity of Neotropical snakes

    Thaís B Guedes;Ricardo J Sawaya;Alexander Zizka;Shawn Laffan

  • SpeciesGeoCoder: Fast Categorization of Species Occurrences for Analyses of Biodiversity, Biogeography, Ecology, and Evolution.

    Mats H. Töpel;Alexander Zizka;Maria Fernanda Calió;Maria Fernanda Calió;Maria Fernanda Calió;Ruud Scharn

  • An engine for global plant diversity: highest evolutionary turnover and emigration in the American tropics

    Alexandre Antonelli;Alexander Zizka;Daniele Silvestro;Ruud Scharn

  • Effects of large herbivores on fire regimes and wildfire mitigation

    Julia Rouet-Leduc;Julia Rouet-Leduc;Guy Pe'er;Francisco Moreira;Francisco Moreira;Aletta Bonn;Aletta Bonn

  • LCVP, The Leipzig catalogue of vascular plants, a new taxonomic reference list for all known vascular plants

    Martin Freiberg;Marten Winter;Alessandro Gentile;Alexander Zizka

  • The evolution of insular woodiness

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  • Automated conservation assessment of the orchid family with deep learning

    Alexander Zizka;Alexander Zizka;Daniele Silvestro;Daniele Silvestro;Pati Vitt;Pati Vitt;Tiffany M. Knight;Tiffany M. Knight;Tiffany M. Knight

  • Early Arrival and Climatically-Linked Geographic Expansion of New World Monkeys from Tiny African Ancestors.

    Daniele Silvestro;Marcelo F Tejedor;Martha L Serrano-Serrano;Oriane Loiseau;Oriane Loiseau

  • Biogeography and conservation status of the pineapple family (Bromeliaceae)

    Alexander Zizka;Alexander Zizka;Josue Azevedo;Elton Leme;Beatriz Neves

  • Fossil biogeography: a new model to infer dispersal, extinction and sampling from palaeontological data

    Daniele Silvestro;Alexander Zizka;Christine D. Bacon;Borja Cascales-Miñana

  • Disproportionate extinction of South American mammals drove the asymmetry of the Great American Biotic Interchange.

    Juan D. Carrillo;Søren Faurby;Daniele Silvestro;Alexander Zizka

  • Selective extinction against redundant species buffers functional diversity

    Catalina Pimiento;Catalina Pimiento;Christine D. Bacon;Daniele Silvestro;Daniele Silvestro;Austin Hendy

  • Finding needles in the haystack: where to look for rare species in the American tropics

    Alexander Zizka;Hans ter Steege;Maria do Céo R. Pessoa;Alexandre Antonelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexandre Antonelli
Alexandre Antonelli University of Gothenburg
Daniele Silvestro
Daniele Silvestro ETH Zurich
Tiffany M. Knight
Tiffany M. Knight Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Søren Faurby
Søren Faurby University of Gothenburg
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Carlos Jaramillo
Carlos Jaramillo Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Staffan I. Lindberg
Staffan I. Lindberg University of Gothenburg
Nicolas Salamin
Nicolas Salamin University of Lausanne
Marten Winter
Marten Winter Leipzig University
Frederic Lens
Frederic Lens Naturalis Biodiversity Center

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Camila C. Ribas

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R. Toby Pennington

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Carlos Jaramillo

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