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Erik Welk

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
33
Citations
4959
World Ranking
7817
National Ranking
403

Erik Welk 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 Welk sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 189 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Erik Welk 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 Welk sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Erik Welk is affiliated with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. The primary research focus encompasses fields related to Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these broad areas, the scholar has contributed extensively to the following subfields:

  • Plant Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Ecology

The main topics addressed across Erik Welk's body of work include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna
  • Bryophyte Studies and Records
  • Pasture and Agricultural Systems

Erik Welk's publication record features research articles appearing in various venues, with multiple contributions notably in:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Preslia

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Erik Welk include:

  • Testing macroecological abundance patterns: The relationship between local abundance and range size, range position and climatic suitability among European vascular plants (2020), Journal of Biogeography
  • The relationship between niche breadth and range size of beech (Fagus) species worldwide (2021), Journal of Biogeography
  • Different sets of traits explain abundance and distribution patterns of European plants at different spatial scales (2021), Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Geographical pattern of genetic diversity in Capsella bursa-pastoris (Brassicaceae)-A global perspective (2020), Ecology and Evolution
  • ClimPlant: Realized climatic niches of vascular plants in European forest understoreys (2021), Global Ecology and Biogeography

Frequent co-authors with whom Erik Welk has collaborated include:

  • Milan Chytrý
  • Jiří Danihelka
  • Martin Večeřa
  • Idoia Biurrun
  • Christiane Roscher

Best Publications

  • Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment.

    Yuanyuan Huang;Yuxin Chen;Nadia Castro-Izaguirre;Martin Baruffol;Martin Baruffol

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

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

  • Chorological maps for the main European woody species.

    Giovanni Caudullo;Erik Welk;Jesús San-Miguel-Ayanz

  • Rothmaler - Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, Gefäßpflanzen: Atlasband

    Eckehart J. Jäger;Frank Müller;Christiane Ritz;Erik Welk

  • Designing forest biodiversity experiments : general considerations illustrated by a new large experiment in subtropical China

    Helge Bruelheide;Karin Nadrowski;Thorsten Assmann;Jürgen Bauhus

  • Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

    Helge Bruelheide;Martin Böhnke;Sabine Both;Teng Fang

  • Ecological networks are more sensitive to plant than to animal extinction under climate change

    Matthias Schleuning;Jochen Fründ;Jochen Fründ;Oliver Schweiger;Erik Welk

  • European atlas of forest tree species

    Jesús San-Miguel-Ayanz;Daniele de Rigo;Giovanni Caudullo;Tracy Houston Durrant

  • glUV: a global UV‐B radiation data set for macroecological studies

    Michael Beckmann;Michael Beckmann;Tomáš Václavík;Ameur M. Manceur;Lenka Šprtová

  • Present and potential distribution of invasive garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) in North America

    Erik Welk;Konstanze Schubert;Matthias H. Hoffmann

  • Plant traits affecting herbivory on tree recruits in highly diverse subtropical forests.

    Andreas Schuldt;Helge Bruelheide;Walter Durka;David Eichenberg

  • Exkursionsflora von Deutschland

    Eckehart J. Jäger;Frank Müller;Christiane M. Ritz;Erik Welk

  • Cross-realm assessment of climate change impacts on species’ abundance trends

    Diana E. Bowler;Christian Hof;Peter Haase;Peter Haase;Ingrid Kröncke

  • Constraints in range predictions of invasive plant species due to non-equilibrium distribution patterns: Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) in North America

    Erik Welk

  • Less favourable climates constrain demographic strategies in plants.

    Anna M. Csergő;Anna M. Csergő;Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Olivier Broennimann;Shaun R. Coutts;Shaun R. Coutts

  • Phylogeography of a widespread Asian subtropical tree: genetic east–west differentiation and climate envelope modelling suggest multiple glacial refugia

    Miao-Miao Shi;Stefan G. Michalski;Erik Welk;Xiao-Yong Chen

  • Leaf Trait-Environment Relationships in a Subtropical Broadleaved Forest in South-East China

    Wenzel Kröber;Martin Böhnke;Erik Welk;Christian Wirth

  • Predicting the spread of an invasive plant: combining experiments and ecological niche model

    Susan K. Ebeling;Erik Welk;Harald Auge;Helge Bruelheide

  • Of niches and distributions: range size increases with niche breadth both globally and regionally but regional estimates poorly relate to global estimates

    Stephan Kambach;Jonathan Lenoir;Guillaume Decocq;Erik Welk

  • Early subtropical forest growth is driven by community mean trait values and functional diversity rather than the abiotic environment

    Wenzel Kröber;Ying Li;Werner Härdtle;Keping Ma

  • Soil Bacterial Community Structure Responses to Precipitation Reduction and Forest Management in Forest Ecosystems across Germany

    Katja Felsmann;Mathias Baudis;Katharina Gimbel;Zachary E. Kayler

  • Testing macroecological abundance patterns: The relationship between local abundance and range size, range position and climatic suitability among European vascular plants

    Maria Sporbert;Petr Keil;Gunnar Seidler;Helge Bruelheide

  • Toward a Methodical Framework for Comprehensively Assessing Forest Multifunctionality

    Stefan Trogisch;Andreas Schuldt;Jürgen Bauhus;Juliet A. Blum

  • Community assembly during secondary forest succession in a Chinese subtropical forest

    Helge Bruelheide;Martin Bohnke;Sabine Both;Fang Teng

Frequent Co-Authors

Helge Bruelheide
Helge Bruelheide Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Karsten Wesche
Karsten Wesche Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz
Christian Wirth
Christian Wirth Leipzig University
Walter Durka
Walter Durka Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Jürgen Dengler
Jürgen Dengler Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Bernhard Schmid
Bernhard Schmid University of Zurich
Goddert von Oheimb
Goddert von Oheimb TU Dresden
Werner Härdtle
Werner Härdtle Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Henrik von Wehrden
Henrik von Wehrden Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Andreas Schuldt
Andreas Schuldt University of Göttingen

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Best Scientists Citing Erik Welk

Helge Bruelheide

Helge Bruelheide

Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Publications: 146

Bernhard Schmid

Bernhard Schmid

University of Zurich

Publications: 60

Keping Ma

Keping Ma

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Publications: 47

Werner Härdtle

Werner Härdtle

Leuphana University of Lüneburg

Publications: 43

Andreas Schuldt

Andreas Schuldt

University of Göttingen

Publications: 42

Christian Wirth

Christian Wirth

Leipzig University

Publications: 39

Nico Eisenhauer

Nico Eisenhauer

Leipzig University

Publications: 37

Goddert von Oheimb

Goddert von Oheimb

TU Dresden

Publications: 36

Michael Scherer-Lorenzen

Michael Scherer-Lorenzen

University of Freiburg

Publications: 34

Walter Durka

Walter Durka

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Publications: 33

Thomas Scholten

Thomas Scholten

University of Tübingen

Publications: 32

Pascal A. Niklaus

Pascal A. Niklaus

University of Zurich

Publications: 29

Peter B. Reich

Peter B. Reich

University of Minnesota

Publications: 25

Alexandra-Maria Klein

Alexandra-Maria Klein

University of Freiburg

Publications: 24

François Buscot

François Buscot

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Publications: 24

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Tesfaye Wubet

Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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