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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
37
Citations
6816
World Ranking
6798
National Ranking
356

Hanno Schaefer publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 107 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Hanno Schaefer 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 Hanno Schaefer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Hanno Schaefer is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the biological sciences, focusing primarily on agricultural and biological sciences, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and environmental science.

Their work encompasses several subfields including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics; plant science; genetics; molecular biology; and nature and landscape conservation. These areas connect closely to the main topics they address, which cover plant and animal studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics, plant diversity and evolution, species distribution and climate change, genetic diversity and population structure, advances in Cucurbitaceae research, and genomics and phylogenetic studies.

Hanno Schaefer's research output includes publications in a range of scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Phytotaxa
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Systematic Botany
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Scientific Reports

Their recent papers illustrate diverse interests and collaborations. Notable publications are:

  • Macaronesia as a Fruitful Arena for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Phylogenetic informativeness analyses to clarify past diversification processes in Cucurbitaceae, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Enhancing photosynthesis at high light levels by adaptive laboratory evolution, 2021, Nature Plants
  • Is there solid evidence of widespread landscape disturbance in the Azores before the arrival of the Portuguese?, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A novel phylogenomics pipeline reveals complex pattern of reticulate evolution in Cucurbitales, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Hanno Schaefer include Edgardo M. Ortiz, Jairo Patiño, Paulo A. V. Borges, Miguel Menezes de Sequeira, and Mónica Moura. These collaborations reflect a network of researchers working in related fields of plant systematics, evolution, and molecular biology.

Best Publications

  • Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) and melon (C. melo) have numerous wild relatives in Asia and Australia, and the sister species of melon is from Australia

    Patrizia Sebastian;Hanno Schaefer;Ian R. H. Telford;Susanne S. Renner

  • Legume Crops Phylogeny and Genetic Diversity for Science and Breeding

    Petr Smýkal;Clarice J. Coyne;Mike J. Ambrose;Nigel Maxted

  • Phylogenomics and a posteriori data partitioning resolve the Cretaceous angiosperm radiation Malpighiales

    Zhenxiang Xi;Brad R. Ruhfel;Brad R. Ruhfel;Hanno Schaefer;Hanno Schaefer;André M. Amorim

  • Phylogenetic relationships in the order Cucurbitales and a new classification of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae)

    Hanno Schaefer;Susanne S. Renner

  • Gourds afloat: a dated phylogeny reveals an Asian origin of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae) and numerous oversea dispersal events.

    Hanno Schaefer;Christoph Heibl;Susanne S Renner

  • Phylogenetics of Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae): Cucumber (C. sativus) belongs in an Asian/Australian clade far from melon (C. melo)

    Susanne S Renner;Hanno Schaefer;Alexander Kocyan

  • A multi-locus chloroplast phylogeny for the Cucurbitaceae and its implications for character evolution and classification.

    Alexander Kocyan;Li-Bing Zhang;Hanno Schaefer;Susanne S. Renner

  • Origin and domestication of Cucurbitaceae crops: insights from phylogenies, genomics and archaeology

    Guillaume Chomicki;Hanno Schaefer;Susanne S. Renner

  • A comprehensive genome variation map of melon identifies multiple domestication events and loci influencing agronomic traits.

    Guangwei Zhao;Qun Lian;Zhonghua Zhang;Qiushi Fu

  • Systematics, biogeography, and character evolution of the legume tribe Fabeae with special focus on the middle-Atlantic island lineages

    Hanno Schaefer;Paulina Hechenleitner;Arnoldo Santos-Guerra;Miguel Menezes de Sequeira

  • A three-genome phylogeny of Momordica (Cucurbitaceae) suggests seven returns from dioecy to monoecy and recent long-distance dispersal to Asia.

    Hanno Schaefer;Susanne S. Renner

  • Temperature-dependent shifts in phenology contribute to the success of exotic species with climate change

    Elizabeth M. Wolkovich;Elizabeth M. Wolkovich;T. Jonathan Davies;Hanno Schaefer;Hanno Schaefer;Elsa E. Cleland

  • Testing Darwin's naturalization hypothesis in the Azores.

    Hanno Schaefer;Hanno Schaefer;Olivier J. Hardy;Luís Silva;Timothy G. Barraclough

  • The evolution and loss of oil-offering flowers: new insights from dated phylogenies for angiosperms and bees

    S. S. Renner;H. Schaefer

  • Cyclic peptides arising by evolutionary parallelism via asparaginyl-endopeptidase–mediated biosynthesis

    Joshua S. Mylne;Lai Yue Chan;Aurelie H. Chanson;Norelle L. Daly

  • Evolutionary dynamics of host specialization in wood-decay fungi

    Franz-Sebastian Krah;Claus Bässler;Christoph Heibl;John Soghigian

  • Global Island Monitoring Scheme (GIMS): a proposal for the long‐term coordinated survey and monitoring of native island forest biota

    Paulo A. V. Borges;Paulo A. V. Borges;Pedro Cardoso;Pedro Cardoso;Pedro Cardoso;Holger Kreft;Robert J. Whittaker;Robert J. Whittaker

  • Long-term morphological stasis maintained by a plant–pollinator mutualism

    Charles C. Davis;Hanno Schaefer;Hanno Schaefer;Zhenxiang Xi;David A. Baum

  • The Azores diversity enigma: why are there so few Azorean endemic flowering plants and why are they so widespread?

    Mark A. Carine;Hanno Schaefer

  • Macaronesia as a Fruitful Arena for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology

    Margarita Florencio;Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Sandra Nogué;Anna Traveset

  • there so few Azorean endemic flowering plants and why are they so widespread

    Mark A. Carine;Hanno Schaefer

Frequent Co-Authors

Susanne S. Renner
Susanne S. Renner Washington University in St. Louis
Jairo Patiño
Jairo Patiño Instituto de Productos Naturales y Agrobiología
Charles C. Davis
Charles C. Davis Harvard University
Paulo A. V. Borges
Paulo A. V. Borges University of the Azores
Claus Bässler
Claus Bässler Goethe University Frankfurt
Pedro Cardoso
Pedro Cardoso University of Lisbon
José María Fernández-Palacios
José María Fernández-Palacios University of La Laguna
Manuel J. Steinbauer
Manuel J. Steinbauer University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Michelle van der Bank
Michelle van der Bank University of Johannesburg
Vincent Savolainen
Vincent Savolainen Imperial College London

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