2026 Björn C. Rall: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	45	4837	4668	253	248	61	8107

Overview

Björn C. Rall is affiliated with RIFCON in Denmark and has contributed to the field of Environmental Science through multiple research publications and collaborative work. Their research broadly encompasses the study of ecological systems, environmental impacts, and species interactions under changing environmental conditions.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

Environmental Science

The subfields Björn C. Rall has focused on feature:

Nature and Landscape Conservation
Ecology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Genetics
Ecological Modeling

The primary research topics covered by their work are:

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
Species Distribution and Climate Change
Plant and animal studies
Isotope Analysis in Ecology
Bacteriophages and microbial interactions

Björn C. Rall has published in various venues, with frequent publications in:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Nature Climate Change
PeerJ
Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment

Among their recent papers are:

"Biodiversity of intertidal food webs in response to warming across latitudes" (2020, Nature Climate Change)
"Empirical evidence of type III functional responses and why it remains rare" (2023, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)
"Phage strategies facilitate bacterial coexistence under environmental variability" (2021, PeerJ)
"Future climate and land-use intensification modify arthropod community structure" (2021, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment)
"Thermal acclimation increases the stability of a predator-prey interaction in warmer environments" (2021, Global Change Biology)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Björn C. Rall include:

Gregor Kalinkat
Stella F. Uiterwaal
Wojciech Uszko
Ulrich Brose
Benjamin Rosenbaum

Best Publications

CONSUMER–RESOURCE BODY-SIZE RELATIONSHIPS IN NATURAL FOOD WEBS

Ulrich Brose;Tomas Jonsson;Eric L. Berlow;Eric L. Berlow;Philip Warren

757
Citations
Universal temperature and body-mass scaling of feeding rates.

Björn C. Rall;Ulrich Brose;Martin Hartvig;Martin Hartvig;Gregor Kalinkat;Gregor Kalinkat

520
Citations
Temperature, predator-prey interaction strength and population stability

Björn Christian Rall;Olivera Vucic-Pestic;Roswitha B. Ehnes;Mark Emmerson

503
Citations
Allometric degree distributions facilitate food-web stability

Sonja B. Otto;Björn C. Rall;Ulrich Brose

371
Citations
Warming up the system: higher predator feeding rates but lower energetic efficiencies

Olivera Vucic-Pestic;Roswitha B. Ehnes;Björn C. Rall;Ulrich Brose

349
Citations
Allometric functional response model: body masses constrain interaction strengths.

Olivera Vucic-Pestic;Björn C. Rall;Gregor Kalinkat;Ulrich Brose

260
Citations
Plant diversity improves protection against soil-borne pathogens by fostering antagonistic bacterial communities

Ellen Latz;Nico Eisenhauer;Björn C. Rall;Eric Allan

259
Citations
Ecological stability in response to warming

Katarina E. Fussmann;Florian Schwarzmüller;Ulrich Brose;Alexandre Jousset;Alexandre Jousset

251
Citations
Predator traits determine food-web architecture across ecosystems

Ulrich Brose;Phillippe Archambault;Andrew D. Barnes;Andrew D. Barnes;Louis-Felix Bersier

241
Citations
Phylogenetic grouping, curvature and metabolic scaling in terrestrial invertebrates.

Roswitha B. Ehnes;Björn C. Rall;Ulrich Brose

237
Citations
Body masses, functional responses and predator–prey stability

Gregor Kalinkat;Gregor Kalinkat;Florian D. Schneider;Florian D. Schneider;Florian D. Schneider;Christoph Digel;Christian Guill;Christian Guill

221
Citations
The dynamics of food chains under climate change and nutrient enrichment

Amrei Binzer;Christian Guill;Ulrich Brose;Björn C. Rall

214
Citations
Foraging theory predicts predator-prey energy fluxes

Ulrich Brose;R. B. Ehnes;B. C. Rall;Olivera Vucic-Pestic

201
Citations
Interactive effects of warming, eutrophication and size structure: impacts on biodiversity and food-web structure.

Amrei Binzer;Amrei Binzer;Christian Guill;Christian Guill;Christian Guill;Bjoern C. Rall;Bjoern C. Rall;Ulrich Brose;Ulrich Brose

198
Citations
Food-web connectance and predator interference dampen the paradox of enrichment

Björn C. Rall;Christian Guill;Ulrich Brose

193
Citations
Impacts of Warming on the Structure and Functioning of Aquatic Communities: Individual- to Ecosystem-Level Responses

Eoin J. O'Gorman;Doris E. Pichler;Georgina Adams;Georgina Adams;Jonathan P. Benstead

176
Citations
Predicting the effects of temperature on food web connectance.

Owen L. Petchey;Ulrich Brose;Björn C. Rall

174
Citations
A general scaling law reveals why the largest animals are not the fastest

Myriam R. Hirt;Walter Jetz;Walter Jetz;Björn C. Rall;Ulrich Brose

162
Citations
Predicting the consequences of species loss using size-structured biodiversity approaches.

Ulrich Brose;Julia L. Blanchard;Anna Eklöf;Nuria Galiana

161
Citations
Animal diversity and ecosystem functioning in dynamic food webs.

Florian D. Schneider;Ulrich Brose;Björn C. Rall;Christian Guill

152
Citations
BODY SIZES OF CONSUMERS AND THEIR RESOURCES

Ulrich Brose;Lara Cushing;Eric L. Berlow;Tomas Jonsson

142
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Brose Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Stefan Scheu University of Göttingen

Eoin J. O'Gorman University of Essex

Guy Woodward Imperial College London

Owen L. Petchey University of Zurich

Daniel C. Reuman University of Kansas

Alexandre Jousset Blossom Microbial Technologies B.V.

Nikolai Friberg Aarhus University

Eric L. Berlow University of California, Merced

Catarina Vinagre University of Lisbon

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