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40
Citations
14138
World Ranking
5962
National Ranking
315

Overview

Hanno Seebens is affiliated with the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Germany. Their research primarily centers on environmental science, with a strong focus on ecology and related subfields. The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as species distribution and climate change, as well as ecological and vegetation dynamics studies.

The subfields of study associated with Seebens include ecology, ecological modeling, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and genetics. Their work reflects a multidisciplinary approach within environmental science, especially addressing issues concerning the dynamics and impacts of invasive and alien species.

Seebens has published several notable papers, including:

  • Scientists' warning on invasive alien species, 2020, Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Drivers of future alien species impacts: An expert-based assessment, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Curbing the major and growing threats from invasive alien species is urgent and achievable, 2024, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Frequent coauthors of Seebens include:

  • Franz Essl
  • Bernd Lenzner
  • Laura A. Meyerson
  • Petr Pyšek
  • Marten Winter

Their publications have appeared in several well-known research venues, with the most frequent including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Diversity and Distributions
  • Global Change Biology
  • NeoBiota

Within their research interests, Seebens has focused on areas such as forest insect ecology and management, plant and animal studies, animal ecology and behavior studies, wildlife ecology and conservation, and biological control of invasive species. This diverse range highlights their comprehensive engagement with multiple facets of environmental science and conservation biology.

Best Publications

  • No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide.

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  • 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

  • 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

  • The risk of marine bioinvasion caused by global shipping.

    H. Seebens;M. T. Gastner;M. T. Gastner;B. Blasius

  • 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

  • The dispersal of alien species redefines biogeography in the Anthropocene

    César Capinha;Franz Essl;Hanno Seebens;Dietmar Moser

  • 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

  • Crossing Frontiers in Tackling Pathways of Biological Invasions

    Franz Essl;Sven Bacher;Tim M. Blackburn;Olaf Booy

  • The Global Naturalized Alien Flora (GloNAF) database

    Mark van Kleunen;Petr Pyšek;Wayne Dawson;Franz Essl

  • Drivers of future alien species impacts: An expert-based assessment.

    Franz Essl;Franz Essl;Bernd Lenzner;Sven Bacher;Sarah Bailey

  • A Conceptual Framework for Range-Expanding Species that Track Human-Induced Environmental Change

    Franz Essl;Franz Essl;Stefan Dullinger;Piero Genovesi;Philip E Hulme

  • Predicting the spread of marine species introduced by global shipping.

    Hanno Seebens;Nicole Schwartz;Peter J. Schupp;Bernd Blasius

  • Remoteness promotes biological invasions on islands worldwide.

    Dietmar Moser;Bernd Lenzner;Patrick Weigelt;Wayne Dawson

  • Integrating invasive species policies across ornamental horticulture supply-chains to prevent plant invasions

    Philip E. Hulme;Giuseppe Brundu;Marta Carboni;Marta Carboni;Katharina Dehnen-schmutz

  • Diversity, biogeography and the global flows of alien amphibians and reptiles

    César Capinha;César Capinha;Hanno Seebens;Phillip Cassey;Pablo García-Díaz;Pablo García-Díaz

  • Curbing the major and growing threats from invasive alien species is urgent and achievable

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  • Drivers of the relative richness of naturalized and invasive plant species on Earth.

    Franz Essl;Wayne Dawson;Holger Kreft;Jan Pergl

Frequent Co-Authors

Franz Essl
Franz Essl University of Vienna
Petr Pyšek
Petr Pyšek Czech Academy of Sciences
Mark van Kleunen
Mark van Kleunen University of Konstanz
Ingolf Kühn
Ingolf Kühn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Jonathan M. Jeschke
Jonathan M. Jeschke Freie Universität Berlin
Jan Pergl
Jan Pergl Czech Academy of Sciences
Marten Winter
Marten Winter Leipzig University
Wayne Dawson
Wayne Dawson Durham University
Stefan Dullinger
Stefan Dullinger University of Vienna
Andrew M. Liebhold
Andrew M. Liebhold Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

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