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D-Index
40
Citations
10634
World Ranking
5975
National Ranking
145

Erik Öckinger 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 Erik Öckinger sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 116 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Erik Öckinger 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 Erik Öckinger sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Erik Öckinger is affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Their research spans primarily across the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a substantial body of work contributing to these areas.

Their main subfields of study include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Nature and Landscape Conservation; Insect Science; Ecological Modeling; and Plant Science. This multidisciplinary approach supports research themes centered on diverse ecological and environmental topics.

Key topics addressed in their research encompass Plant and Animal Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, and Insect and Pesticide Research.

The scientist has published papers in multiple established journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Biological Conservation
  • AMBIO
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Basic and Applied Ecology

Erik Öckinger's recent publications include:

  • Crop diversity benefits carabid and pollinator communities in landscapes with semi-natural habitats, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Habitat amount and distribution modify community dynamics under climate change, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Compensating for lost nature values through biodiversity offsetting - Where is the evidence?, 2021, Biological Conservation
  • Protected area designation and management in a world of climate change: A review of recommendations, 2022, AMBIO
  • Operationalisation of ecological compensation - Obstacles and ways forward, 2021, Journal of Environmental Management

Frequent collaborators in their research include Thomas Ranius, Riccardo Bommarco, David Kleijn, Juliana Dániel-Ferreira, and Adam Felton. These coauthors have contributed extensively to joint publications, reflecting a collaborative research environment.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Extinction debt: a challenge for biodiversity conservation.

    Mikko Kuussaari;Riccardo Bommarco;Risto K. Heikkinen;Aveliina Helm

  • Habitat fragmentation causes immediate and time‐delayed biodiversity loss at different trophic levels

    Jochen Krauss;Riccardo Bommarco;Moisès Guardiola;Risto K. Heikkinen

  • Semi‐natural grasslands as population sources for pollinating insects in agricultural landscapes

    Erik Öckinger;Henrik G. Smith

  • Life-history traits predict species responses to habitat area and isolation: a cross-continental synthesis

    Erik Öckinger;Oliver Schweiger;Thomas O. Crist;Diane M. Debinski

  • Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits

    Marco Moretti;André T. C. Dias;Francesco de Bello;Francesco de Bello;Florian Altermatt;Florian Altermatt

  • Dispersal capacity and diet breadth modify the response of wild bees to habitat loss

    Riccardo Bommarco;Jacobus C. Biesmeijer;Birgit Meyer;Simon G. Potts

  • Effects of grassland abandonment, restoration and management on butterflies and vascular plants

    Erik Öckinger;Anna K. Eriksson;Henrik G. Smith

  • The importance of fragmentation and habitat quality of urban grasslands for butterfly diversity

    Erik Öckinger;Erik Öckinger;Åse Dannestam;Henrik G. Smith

  • Landscape composition and habitat area affects butterfly species richness in semi-natural grasslands

    Erik Öckinger;Henrik G. Smith

  • Landscape matrix modifies richness of plants and insects in grassland fragments

    Erik Ockinger;Regina Lindborg;N. Erik Sjödin;Riccardo Bommarco

  • Is local distribution of the epiphytic lichen Lobaria pulmonaria limited by dispersal capacity or habitat quality

    Erik Öckinger;Mats Niklasson;Sven G. Nilsson

  • The relationship between local extinctions of grassland butterflies and increased soil nitrogen levels

    Erik Öckinger;Olle Hammarstedt;Sven G. Nilsson;Henrik G. Smith

  • Density of insect-pollinated grassland plants decreases with increasing surrounding land-use intensity

    Yann Clough;Johan Ekroos;András Báldi;Péter Batáry

  • Crop diversity benefits carabid and pollinator communities in landscapes with semi‐natural habitats

    Guillermo Aguilera;Tomas Roslin;Kirsten Miller;Kirsten Miller;Giovanni Tamburini;Giovanni Tamburini

  • Predicting bee community responses to land-use changes : Effects of geographic and taxonomic biases

    Adriana De Palma;Adriana De Palma;Stefan Abrahamczyk;Marcelo A. Aizen;Matthias Albrecht

  • The landscape matrix modifies the effect of habitat fragmentation in grassland butterflies

    Erik Öckinger;Karl-Olof Bergman;Markus Franzén;Tomáš Kadlec;Tomáš Kadlec

  • Do corridors promote dispersal in grassland butterflies and other insects

    Erik Öckinger;Erik Öckinger;Henrik G. Smith

  • Butterfly distribution and abundance is affected by variation in the Swedish forest-farmland landscape

    Åke Berg;Karin Ahrné;Erik Öckinger;Roger Svensson

  • Extinction debt for plants and flower‐visiting insects in landscapes with contrasting land use history

    Riccardo Bommarco;Regina Lindborg;Lorenzo Marini;Erik Öckinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Riccardo Bommarco
Riccardo Bommarco Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Henrik G. Smith
Henrik G. Smith Lund University
Regina Lindborg
Regina Lindborg Stockholm University
Mikko Kuussaari
Mikko Kuussaari Finnish Environment Institute
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter University of Würzburg
Lorenzo Marini
Lorenzo Marini University of Padua
Sven G. Nilsson
Sven G. Nilsson Lund University
Jochen Krauss
Jochen Krauss University of Würzburg
Maj Rundlöf
Maj Rundlöf Lund University
Stuart P. M. Roberts
Stuart P. M. Roberts Université Libre de Bruxelles

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