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Carsten F. Dormann

Carsten F. Dormann

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
81
Citations
50365
World Ranking
766
National Ranking
57

Carsten F. Dormann publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Carsten F. Dormann sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 236 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Carsten F. Dormann 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 Carsten F. Dormann sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 81 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Carsten F. Dormann is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany and focuses on research within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their academic work spans several subfields, including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Ecological Modeling.

The primary topics covered in Dormann's research include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and animal studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies.

Notable recent publications include:
- A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models (2020, Ecography)
- Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models (2020, Nature Communications)
- Plant species richness increases with light availability, but not variability, in temperate forests understorey (2020, BMC Ecology)
- Adaptation of wild boar (Sus scrofa) activity in a human-dominated landscape (2020, BMC Ecology)
- Seeing through the static: the temporal dimension of plant-animal mutualistic interactions (2020, Ecology Letters)

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Marco Heurich
  • Marieke Wesselkamp
  • Jochen Fründ
  • Diego P. Vázquez
  • Laura A. Burkle

Dormann has regularly contributed to several publication venues. These venues, along with the number of publications, are:

  • Basic and Applied Ecology (6)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (5)
  • BMC Ecology (4)
  • Oikos (4)
  • BMC Ecology and Evolution (4)

The scientist has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by the European Organization for Nuclear Research: Defining Agroecology: A Festschrift for Teja Tscharntke (2023).

Best Publications

  • Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance

    Carsten F. Dormann;Jane Elith;Sven Bacher;Carsten Buchmann

  • Methods to account for spatial autocorrelation in the analysis of species distributional data : a review

    Carsten F. Dormann;Jana M. McPherson;Miguel B. Araújo;Roger Bivand

  • Landscape moderation of biodiversity patterns and processes - eight hypotheses

    Teja Tscharntke;Jason M. Tylianakis;Tatyana A. Rand;Raphael K. Didham;Raphael K. Didham;Raphael K. Didham

  • Cross-validation strategies for data with temporal, spatial, hierarchical, or phylogenetic structure

    David R. Roberts;Volker Bahn;Simone Ciuti;Mark S. Boyce

  • Indices, Graphs and Null Models: Analyzing Bipartite Ecological Networks

    Carsten F. Dormann;Jochen Fründ;Nico Blüthgen;Bernd Gruber

  • The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling

    Mary Susanne Wisz;Julien Pottier;W. Daniel Kissling;Loïc Pellissier

  • Introducing the bipartite Package: Analysing Ecological Networks

    Carsten F. Dormann;Bernd Gruber;Jochen Fründ

  • A quantitative review of ecosystem service studies: approaches, shortcomings and the road ahead

    Ralf Seppelt;Carsten F. Dormann;Florian V. Eppink;Sven Lautenbach

  • Ecological networks--beyond food webs.

    Thomas C. Ings;José M. Montoya;José M. Montoya;Jordi Bascompte;Nico Blüthgen

  • Standards for distribution models in biodiversity assessments

    Miguel B. Araujo;Miguel B. Araujo;Miguel B. Araujo;Robert P. Anderson;Robert P. Anderson;Robert P. Anderson;A. Marcia Barbosa;Colin Michael Beale

  • Indicators for biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: a pan‐European study

    R. Billeter;J. Liira;D. Bailey;R.J.F. Bugter

  • A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models

    Damaris Zurell;Janet Franklin;Christian König;Phil J. Bouchet

  • Correlation and process in species distribution models: bridging a dichotomy

    Carsten F. Dormann;Carsten F. Dormann;Stanislaus J. Schymanski;Juliano Cabral;Isabelle Chuine

  • Effects of incorporating spatial autocorrelation into the analysis of species distribution data

    Carsten F. Dormann

  • Outstanding Challenges in the Transferability of Ecological Models.

    Katherine L. Yates;Katherine L. Yates;Phil J. Bouchet;M Julian Caley;Kerrie Mengersen

  • Spillover of functionally important organisms between managed and natural habitats

    Eleanor J. Blitzer;Carsten F. Dormann;Andrea Holzschuh;Alexandra-Maria Klein

  • Crop pests and predators exhibit inconsistent responses to surrounding landscape composition

    Daniel S. Karp;Rebecca E Chaplin-Kramer;Timothy D. Meehan;Emily A. Martin

  • The interplay of landscape composition and configuration: new pathways to manage functional biodiversity and agroecosystem services across Europe

    Emily A. Martin;Matteo Dainese;Yann Clough;András Báldi

  • A method for detecting modules in quantitative bipartite networks

    Carsten F. Dormann;Rouven Strauss

  • Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models.

    Pierre Ploton;Frédéric Mortier;Maxime Rejou-Mechain;Nicolas Barbier

  • Promising the future? Global change projections of species distributions

    Carsten F. Dormann

Frequent Co-Authors

Teja Tscharntke
Teja Tscharntke University of Göttingen
Andrea Holzschuh
Andrea Holzschuh University of Würzburg
Nico Blüthgen
Nico Blüthgen Technical University of Darmstadt
Péter Batáry
Péter Batáry Centre for Ecological Research
Boris Schröder
Boris Schröder Technische Universität Braunschweig
Tim Diekötter
Tim Diekötter Kiel University
Oliver Schweiger
Oliver Schweiger Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Ralf Seppelt
Ralf Seppelt Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Jürgen Bauhus
Jürgen Bauhus University of Freiburg
Ingolf Kühn
Ingolf Kühn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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