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Ecology and Evolution
Austria
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
93
Citations
35192
World Ranking
396
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Franz Essl is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, contributing extensively to multiple subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, ecology, ecological modeling, and plant science.

Their work spans a wide array of topics including ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, plant and animal studies, forest insect ecology and management, botany and plant ecology studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, and biological control of invasive species.

Essl has published numerous papers, several of which have notable citation counts. Recent publications include:

  • Scientists' warning on invasive alien species (2020) in Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050 (2020) in Global Change Biology
  • Global economic costs of aquatic invasive alien species (2021) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • A function-based typology for Earth's ecosystems (2022) in Nature
  • Economic costs of invasive alien species across Europe (2021) in NeoBiota

Frequent co-authors of Essl include:

  • Petr Pyšek
  • Bernd Lenzner
  • Jan Pergl
  • Mark van Kleunen
  • Wayne Dawson

Essl's research is regularly published in a set of prominent venues, such as:

  • BioInvasions Records
  • NeoBiota
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide.

    Hanno Seebens;Hanno Seebens;Tim M. Blackburn;Ellie E. Dyer;Ellie E. Dyer;Piero Genovesi

  • Scientists' warning on invasive alien species.

    Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Philip E. Hulme;Dan Simberloff;Sven Bacher

  • Global exchange and accumulation of non-native plants

    Mark Van Kleunen;Wayne Dawson;Franz Essl;Jan Pergl

  • A Unified Classification of Alien Species Based on the Magnitude of their Environmental Impacts

    Tim M. Blackburn;Franz Essl;Thomas Evans;Philip E. Hulme

  • Disentangling the role of environmental and human pressures on biological invasions across Europe

    Petr Pysek;Vojtech Jarosík;Philip E Hulme;Ingolf Kühn

  • Global rise in emerging alien species results from increased accessibility of new source pools.

    Hanno Seebens;Tim M. Blackburn;Tim M. Blackburn;Tim M. Blackburn;Ellie E. Dyer;Ellie E. Dyer;Piero Genovesi

  • Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050

    Hanno Seebens;Sven Bacher;Tim M Blackburn;Tim M Blackburn;Tim M Blackburn;César Capinha

  • Scientific foundations for an IUCN Red List of ecosystems.

    David A. Keith;David A. Keith;Jon Paul Rodríguez;Kathryn M. Rodríguez-Clark;Emily Nicholson

  • Disproportional risk for habitat loss of high‐altitude endemic species under climate change

    Thomas Dirnböck;Franz Essl;Wolfgang Rabitsch

  • Socioeconomic legacy yields an invasion debt

    Franz Essl;Stefan Dullinger;Wolfgang Rabitsch;Philip E. Hulme

  • Defining the Impact of Non-Native Species

    Jonathan M Jeschke;Sven Bacher;Tim M Blackburn;Jaimie T A Dick

  • Naturalized alien flora of the world: species diversity, taxonomic and phylogenetic patterns, geographic distribution and global hotspots of plant invasion

    Petr Pyšek;Jan Pergl;Franz Essl;Bernd Lenzner

  • Lags in the response of mountain plant communities to climate change

    Jake M. Alexander;Jake M. Alexander;Loïc Chalmandrier;Jonathan Lenoir;Treena I. Burgess

  • The dispersal of alien species redefines biogeography in the Anthropocene

    César Capinha;Franz Essl;Hanno Seebens;Dietmar Moser

  • Ecological Impacts of Alien Species: Quantification, Scope, Caveats, and Recommendations

    Sabrina Kumschick;Mirijam Gaertner;Montserrat Vilà;Franz Essl

  • Global hotspots and correlates of alien species richness across taxonomic groups

    Wayne Dawson;Dietmar Moser;Mark van Kleunen;Mark van Kleunen;Holger Kreft

  • Global trade will accelerate plant invasions in emerging economies under climate change

    Hanno Seebens;Hanno Seebens;Franz Essl;Franz Essl;Franz Essl;Wayne Dawson;Nicol Fuentes

  • The changing role of ornamental horticulture in alien plant invasions

    Mark van Kleunen;Mark van Kleunen;Franz Essl;Jan Pergl;Giuseppe Brundu

  • Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success

    Mark van Kleunen;Mark van Kleunen;Xinyi Xu;Qiang Yang;Noëlie Maurel

  • Global economic costs of aquatic invasive alien species

    Ross N. Cuthbert;Zarah Pattison;Nigel G. Taylor;Laura Verbrugge

  • NEOBIOTA IN ÖSTERREICH

    Franz Essl;Wolfgang Rabitsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Petr Pyšek
Petr Pyšek Czech Academy of Sciences
Mark van Kleunen
Mark van Kleunen University of Konstanz
Stefan Dullinger
Stefan Dullinger University of Vienna
Wolfgang Rabitsch
Wolfgang Rabitsch Umweltbundesamt, Austria
Jan Pergl
Jan Pergl Czech Academy of Sciences
Dietmar Moser
Dietmar Moser University of Vienna
Jonathan M. Jeschke
Jonathan M. Jeschke Freie Universität Berlin
Marten Winter
Marten Winter Leipzig University
Wayne Dawson
Wayne Dawson Durham University
Ingolf Kühn
Ingolf Kühn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

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