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D-Index
53
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13857
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3234
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174

Florian Wittmann 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 Florian Wittmann sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 172 publications — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Florian Wittmann 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 Florian Wittmann sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Florian Wittmann is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with particular attention to nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and plant science.

Their work spans several key topics including ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, plant diversity and evolution, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, fish biology, ecology, and behavior, conservation, biodiversity and resource management, and hydrology and sediment transport processes.

Wittmann frequently publishes in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Communications Biology, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, and Wetlands.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Wittmann are:

  • "The shadow of the Balbina dam: A synthesis of over 35 years of downstream impacts on floodplain forests in Central Amazonia" (2021, Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems)
  • "Vulnerability of the biota in riverine and seasonally flooded habitats to damming of Amazonian rivers" (2020, Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems)
  • "Convergent evolution of tree hydraulic traits in Amazonian habitats: implications for community assemblage and vulnerability to drought" (2020, New Phytologist)
  • "A Review of the Ecological and Biogeographic Differences of Amazonian Floodplain Forests" (2022, Water)
  • "More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia" (2023, Science)

Collaborations feature multiple frequent co-authors, including María Teresa Fernández Piedade, Jochen Schöngart, Layon Oreste Demarchi, Adriano Costa Quaresma, and Rafael L. Assis.

Best Publications

  • Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

    Hans Ter Steege;Hans Ter Steege;Nigel C.A. Pitman;Daniel Sabatier;Christopher Baraloto

  • Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin

    Edgardo Manuel Latrubesse;Eugenio Y. Arima;Thomas Dunne;Edward Park

  • A Classification of Major Naturally-Occurring Amazonian Lowland Wetlands

    Wolfgang J. Junk;Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade;Jochen Schöngart;Mario Cohn-Haft

  • Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition

    C. Levis;F. R. C. Costa;F. Bongers;M. Peña-Claros

  • Brazilian wetlands: their definition, delineation, and classification for research, sustainable management, and protection

    W. J. Junk;M. T. F. Piedade;R. Lourival;F. Wittmann

  • Tree species composition and diversity gradients in white‐water forests across the Amazon Basin

    Florian Wittmann;Jochen Schöngart;Juan Carlos Montero;Thomas Motzer

  • An estimate of the number of tropical tree species

    J. W. Ferry Slik;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez;Shin-Ichiro Aiba;Patricia Alvarez-Loayza

  • An expert system model for mapping tropical wetlands and peatlands reveals South America as the largest contributor

    Thomas Gumbricht;Rosa Maria Roman-Cuesta;Rosa Maria Roman-Cuesta;Louis Verchot;Louis Verchot;Martin Herold

  • Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential

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  • The várzea forests in Amazonia: flooding and the highly dynamic geomorphology interact with natural forest succession

    Florian Karl Wittmann;Wolfgang Johannes Junk;Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade

  • The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO): overview of pilot measurements on ecosystem ecology, meteorology, trace gases, and aerosols

    M. O. Andreae;M. O. Andreae;O. C. Acevedo;A. Araùjo;P. Artaxo

  • Tree species distribution and community structure of central Amazonian varzea forests by remote-sensing techniques

    Florian Wittmann;Dieter Anhuf;Wolfgang J. Junk

  • Phytogeography, Species Diversity, Community Structure and Dynamics of Central Amazonian Floodplain Forests

    Florian Wittmann;Jochen Schöngart;Wolfgang J. Junk

  • Estimating the global conservation status of more than 15,000 Amazonian tree species

    Hans ter Steege;Hans ter Steege;Nigel C. A. Pitman;Timothy J. Killeen;William F. Laurance

  • Wood growth patterns of Macrolobium acaciifolium (Benth.) Benth. (Fabaceae) in Amazonian black-water and white-water floodplain forests.

    Jochen Schöngart;Maria Teresa F. Piedade;Florian Wittmann;Wolfgang J. Junk

  • A classification of the major habitats of Amazonian black-water river floodplains and a comparison with their white-water counterparts

    Wolfgang J. Junk;Florian Wittmann;Jochen Schöngart;Maria T. F. Piedade

  • Species distribution modelling: Contrasting presence-only models with plot abundance data

    Vitor H.F. Gomes;Vitor H.F. Gomes;Stéphanie D. Ijff;Niels Raes;Iêda Leão Amaral

  • A classification of major natural habitats of Amazonian white-water river floodplains (várzeas)

    Wolfgang J. Junk;Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade;Jochen Schöngart;Florian Wittmann

  • Amazonian Floodplain Forests. Ecophysiology, Biodiversity and Sustainable Management

    Wolfgang J. Junk;Maria T. F. Piedade;Florian Wittmann;Jochen Schöngart

  • Habitat specifity, endemism and the neotropical distribution of Amazonian white-water floodplain trees

    Florian Wittmann;Ethan Householder;Maria T. F. Piedade;Rafael L. de Assis

  • Drought responses of flood-tolerant trees in Amazonian floodplains.

    Pia Parolin;Christine Lucas;Maria Teresa F. Piedade;Florian Wittmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade
Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade National Institute of Amazonian Research
Jochen Schöngart
Jochen Schöngart National Institute of Amazonian Research
Wolfgang J. Junk
Wolfgang J. Junk Max Planck Society
Pia Parolin
Pia Parolin Universität Hamburg
Hans ter Steege
Hans ter Steege Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Kenneth J. Feeley
Kenneth J. Feeley University of Miami
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Ted R. Feldpausch
Ted R. Feldpausch University of Exeter
Susan G. Laurance
Susan G. Laurance James Cook University
Leandro V. Ferreira
Leandro V. Ferreira Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi

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