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D-Index
47
Citations
8142
World Ranking
5805
National Ranking
144

Brigitta Ammann publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brigitta Ammann sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 148 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Brigitta Ammann D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brigitta Ammann sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Brigitta Ammann is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland, where their research spans various fields including Earth and Planetary Sciences, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Physics and Astronomy. Their subfields of focus include Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's research covers multiple main topics, such as:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Lichen and fungal ecology
  • Scientific Research and Discoveries
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
  • Bryophyte Studies and Records

Their recent scholarly output includes the paper titled "Testing the Effect of Relative Pollen Productivity on the REVEALS Model: A Validated Reconstruction of Europe-Wide Holocene Vegetation", published in 2023 in the journal Land, which has been cited 38 times.

Brigitta Ammann has frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Maria Antonia Serge
  • Florence Mazier
  • Ralph Fyfe
  • Marie-José Gaillard
  • Thierry Klein

The publication venues where Ammann's work appears most often include:

  • Land

The scientist also has contributed to book publications primarily through the University of Bern, with titles including:

  • Late-Quaternary Palynology at Lobsigensee - Regional Vegetation History and Local Lake Development (2021), cited 80 times
  • Les fouilles néolithiques de Douanne. Volume 6: La colonne de sédiments X/42. Archéologie, botanique, palynologie, sédimentologie (2020)

Additionally, they have a forthcoming or recent work published by the Open Access CRIS of the University of Bern:

  • Festschrift Gerhard Lang. Beiträge zur Systematik und Evolution, Floristik und Geobotanik, Vegetationsgeschichte und Paläoökologie (2025), cited once

Best Publications

  • Long-term forest fire ecology and dynamics in southern Switzerland

    Willy Tinner;Priska Hubschmid;Michael Wehrli;Brigitta Ammann

  • Late‐Glacial radiocarbon‐ and palynostratigraphy on the Swiss Plateau

    Brigitta Ammann;Andre F. Lotter

  • Pollen and charcoal in lake sediments compared with historically documented forest fires in southern Switzerland since AD 1920

    Willy Tinner;Marco Conedera;Brigitta Ammann;Heinz W. Gaggeler

  • Quantification of biotic responses to rapid climatic changes around the Younger Dryas — a synthesis

    Brigitta Ammann;H.J.B Birks;H.J.B Birks;Stephen J Brooks;Ulrich Eicher

  • Two terrestrial records of rapid climatic change during the glacial–Holocene transition (14,000– 9,000 calendar years B.P.) from Europe

    Hilary H. Birks;Brigitta Ammann

  • Fire ecology north and south of the Alps since the last ice age

    Willy Tinner;Marco Conedera;Brigitta Ammann;Andre F. Lotter

  • Climatic change and contemporaneous land-use phases north and south of the Alps 2300 BC to 800 AD

    Willy Tinner;André F. Lotter;Brigitta Ammann;Marco Conedera

  • Oxygen isotopes of lake marl at Gerzensee and Leysin (Switzerland), covering the Younger Dryas and two minor oscillations, and their correlation to the GRIP ice core

    Jakob Schwander;Ueli Eicher;Brigitta Ammann

  • A 22,000 14C year BP sediment and pollen record of climate change from Laguna Miscanti (23°S), northern Chile

    M Grosjean;J.F.N van Leeuwen;W.O van der Knaap;M.A Geyh

  • Climatic changes in areas adjacent to the North Atlantic during the last glacial-interglacial transition (14-9 ka BP): a contribution to IGCP-253

    J. John Lowe;B. Ammann;H. H. Birks;S. Björck

  • Isotope signature of the Younger Dryas and two minor oscillations at Gerzensee (Switzerland): palaeoclimatic and palaeolimnologic interpretation based on bulk and biogenic carbonates

    Ulrich von Grafenstein;Ueli Eicher;Helmut Erlenkeuser;Patrick Ruch

  • Middle to Late Holocene vegetation history of the Upper Engadine (Swiss Alps): the role of man and fire

    E. Gobet;W. Tinner;P. A. Hochuli;J. F. N. van Leeuwen

  • The use of mineral magnetism in the reconstruction of fire history: a case study from Lago di Origlio, Swiss Alps

    S.J. Gedye;R.T. Jones;Willy Tinner;Brigitta Ammann

  • Treeline Fluctuations Recorded for 12,500 Years by Soil Profiles, Pollen, and Plant Macrofossils in the Central Swiss Alps

    Willy Tinner;Brigitta Ammann;Peter Germann

  • A palaeoecological attempt to classify fire sensitivity of trees in the Southern Alps

    Willy Tinner;Marco Conedera;Erika Gobet;Priska Hubschmid

  • Interactions between climate and vegetation during the Lateglacial period as recorded by lake and mire sediment archives in Northern Italy and Southern Switzerland

    Elisa Vescovi;Cesare Ravazzi;Enrico Arpenti;Walter Finsinger;Walter Finsinger

  • Late Glacial and Holocene vegetational changes on the Ulagan high-mountain plateau, Altai Mountains, southern Siberia

    T.A Blyakharchuk;H.E Wright;P.S Borodavko;W.O van der Knaap

  • Late Glacial and Holocene vegetational history of the Altai Mountains (southwestern Tuva Republic, Siberia)

    T.A. Blyakharchuk;H.E. Wright;P.S. Borodavko;W.O. van der Knaap

  • The expansion of hazel (Corylus avellana L.) in the southern Alps: a key for understanding its early Holocene history in Europe?

    Walter Finsinger;Walter Finsinger;Willy Tinner;W.O. van der Knaap;Brigitta Ammann

  • 14C Dating of Plant Macrofossils in Lake Sediment

    Michael Andree;Hans Oeschger;Ulrich Siegenthaler;Trudi Riesen

Frequent Co-Authors

Willy Tinner
Willy Tinner University of Bern
André F. Lotter
André F. Lotter University of Bern
W.O. van der Knaap
W.O. van der Knaap University of Bern
Walter Finsinger
Walter Finsinger University of Montpellier
Marco Conedera
Marco Conedera Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Herbert E. Wright
Herbert E. Wright University of Minnesota
Oliver Heiri
Oliver Heiri University of Basel
Jakob Schwander
Jakob Schwander University of Bern
Hilary H. Birks
Hilary H. Birks University of Bergen

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