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Dirk Nikolaus Karger 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 Dirk Nikolaus Karger sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 158 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Dirk Nikolaus Karger 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 Dirk Nikolaus Karger sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Dirk Nikolaus Karger is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland. Their body of work spans various topics in environmental science, with a particular focus on species distribution, climate change, and ecological modeling.

The primary fields of study for Karger include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these fields, their research further specializes in subfields such as:

  • Ecological Modeling
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology

The main topics covered in Karger's research are:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Climate variability and models
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies

Karger's recent publications include:

  • "Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models," 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Global climate-related predictors at kilometer resolution for the past and future," 2022, Earth system science data
  • "Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs," 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Global models and predictions of plant diversity based on advanced machine learning techniques," 2022, New Phytologist
  • "CHELSA-TraCE21k - high-resolution (1 km) downscaled transient temperature and precipitation data since the Last Glacial Maximum," 2023, Climate of the past

The scientific output is often published in venues including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Global Change Biology

Frequent co-authors working with Karger include:

  • Niklaus E. Zimmermann
  • Jonathan Lenoir
  • Milan Chytrý
  • Helge Bruelheide
  • Jürgen Dengler

Best Publications

  • Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

    Dirk Nikolaus Karger;Olaf Conrad;Jürgen Böhner;Tobias Kawohl

  • Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome

    Anne D. Bjorkman;Anne D. Bjorkman;Isla H. Myers-Smith;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Sarah C. Elmendorf;Signe Normand

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Oliver Purschke;Jonathan Lenoir

  • Uncertainty in ensembles of global biodiversity scenarios.

    Wilfried Thuiller;Maya Guéguen;Julien Renaud;Dirk N. Karger

  • Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models

    Christophe F. Randin;Michael B. Ashcroft;Janine Bolliger;Jeannine Cavender-Bares

  • Global climate-related predictors at kilometer resolution for the past and future

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  • Global models and predictions of plant diversity based on advanced machine learning techniques.

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  • Global patterns and drivers of phylogenetic structure in island floras.

    Patrick Weigelt;W. Daniel Kissling;Yael Kisel;Susanne A. Fritz

  • CHELSA-TraCE21k – high-resolution (1 km) downscaled transient temperature and precipitation data since the Last Glacial Maximum

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  • Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species

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  • Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs

    Daniel C. Laughlin;Liesje Mommer;Francesco Maria Sabatini;Helge Bruelheide

  • Bias Correction of Global High-Resolution Precipitation Climatologies Using Streamflow Observations from 9372 Catchments

    Hylke E. Beck;Eric F. Wood;Tim R. McVicar;Tim R. McVicar;Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini

  • Macroecology in the age of Big Data – Where to go from here?

    Rafael O. Wüest;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Damaris Zurell;Jake M. Alexander

  • Climate sensitivity and drought seasonality determine post-drought growth recovery of Quercus petraea and Quercus robur in Europe.

    Arun K. Bose;Daniel Scherrer;J. Julio Camarero;Daniel Ziche

  • Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns

    Samuli Lehtonen;Daniele Silvestro;Dirk Nikolaus Karger;Dirk Nikolaus Karger;Christopher Scotese

  • Global vulnerability of soil ecosystems to erosion.

    Carlos A. Guerra;Isabel M. D. Rosa;Emiliana Valentini;Florian Wolf

  • Limited protection and ongoing loss of tropical cloud forest biodiversity and ecosystems worldwide.

    Dirk Nikolaus Karger;Michael Kessler;Marcus Lehnert;Walter Jetz

  • sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots

    Francesco Maria Sabatini;Jonathan Lenoir;Tarek Hattab;Elise Aimee Arnst

  • High-resolution monthly precipitation and temperature time series from 2006 to 2100

    Dirk Nikolaus Karger;Dirk R. Schmatz;Gabriel Dettling;Niklaus E. Zimmermann

  • Influence of climate, soil, and land cover on plant species distribution in the European Alps

    Yohann Chauvier;Wilfried Thuiller;Philipp Brun;Sébastien Lavergne

  • CHELSA-TraCE21k v1.0. Downscaled transient temperature and precipitation data since the last glacial maximum

    Dirk Nikolaus Karger;Michael P. Nobis;Signe Normand;Catherine H. Graham

  • The effect of area on local and regional elevational patterns of species richness

    Dirk Nikolaus Karger;Jürgen Kluge;Thorsten Krömer;Andreas Hemp

  • Global daily 1 km land surface precipitation based on cloud cover-informed downscaling.

    Dirk Nikolaus Karger;Adam M. Wilson;Colin Mahony;Niklaus E. Zimmermann

  • Bryophyte cover on trees as proxy for air humidity in the tropics

    Dirk Nikolaus Karger;Jürgen Kluge;Stefan Abrahamczyk;Laura Salazar

  • Genomic vulnerability to rapid climate warming in a tree species with a long generation time

    Benjamin Dauphin;Christian Rellstab;Max Schmid;Stefan Zoller

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Kessler
Michael Kessler University of Zurich
Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Niklaus E. Zimmermann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Holger Kreft
Holger Kreft University of Göttingen
Jürgen Dengler
Jürgen Dengler Zurich University of Applied Sciences
H. Peter Linder
H. Peter Linder University of Zurich
Jürgen Böhner
Jürgen Böhner Universität Hamburg
Patrick Weigelt
Patrick Weigelt University of Göttingen
Jonathan Lenoir
Jonathan Lenoir University of Picardie Jules Verne
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Stefan Abrahamczyk
Stefan Abrahamczyk University of Bonn

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