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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
36
Citations
4941
World Ranking
7141
National Ranking
136

Heike Lischke 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 Heike Lischke sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 104 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Heike Lischke 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 Heike Lischke sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Heike Lischke is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with significant contributions across related subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Tree Root and Stability Studies

Lischke has published extensively in several venues, notably:

  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Ecosphere
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Selected recent papers illustrate the thematic scope and collaboration network of Lischke:

  • "Tackling unresolved questions in forest ecology: The past and future role of simulation models" (2021) published in Ecology and Evolution
  • "Competition and demography rather than dispersal limitation slow down upward shifts of trees' upper elevation limits in the Alps" (2020) published in Journal of Ecology
  • "How robust are future projections of forest landscape dynamics? Insights from a systematic comparison of four forest landscape models" (2020) published in Environmental Modelling & Software
  • "Linking functional traits and demography to model species-rich communities" (2021) published in Nature Communications
  • "Scaling methods in ecological modelling" (2020) published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Frequent collaborators in their work include Christine Moos, Antoine Guisan, Deborah Zani, Veiko Lehsten, and Harald Bugmann. These coauthors have been involved in multiple joint publications, showing ongoing partnerships contributing to topics related to forest ecology and environmental science modeling.

Best Publications

  • Terrestrial and Inland Water Systems

    Josef Settele;Robert Scholes;Richard A Betts;Stuart Bunn

  • Forecasting Regional to Global Plant Migration in Response to Climate Change

    Ronald P. Neilson;Louis F. Pitelka;Allen M. Solomon;Ran Nathan

  • Biotic interactions in species distribution modelling: 10 questions to guide interpretation and avoid false conclusions

    Carsten F. Dormann;Maria Bobrowski;D. Matthias Dehling;David J. Harris

  • Climate, competition and connectivity affect future migration and ranges of European trees

    Eliane S. Meier;Heike Lischke;Dirk R. Schmatz;Niklaus E. Zimmermann

  • TreeMig: A forest-landscape model for simulating spatio-temporal patterns from stand to landscape scale

    Heike Lischke;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Janine Bolliger;Sophie Rickebusch

  • The past and future of modeling forest dynamics: from growth and yield curves to forest landscape models

    Stephen R. Shifley;Hong S. He;Heike Lischke;Wen J. Wang

  • Plant functional type mapping for earth system models

    B. Poulter;P. Ciais;E. Hodson;H. Lischke

  • Swiss National Forest Inventory: Methods and Models of the Second Assessment

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  • Tree migration-rates: narrowing the gap between inferred post-glacial rates and projected rates

    Angelica Feurdean;Shonil A. Bhagwat;Katherine J. Willis;Katherine J. Willis;H. John B Birks;H. John B Birks;H. John B Birks

  • Climate change alters elevational phenology patterns of the European spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus).

    Oliver Jakoby;Heike Lischke;Beat Wermelinger

  • Using dynamic vegetation models to simulate plant range shifts

    Rebecca S. Snell;Andreas Huth;J. E. M. S. Nabel;J. E. M. S. Nabel;Greta Bocedi

  • A model-based reconstruction of Holocene treeline dynamics in the Central Swiss Alps

    Caroline Heiri;Harald Bugmann;Willy Tinner;Oliver Heiri

  • Sustainable land use in Mountain Regions under global change synthesis across scales and disciplines

    Robert Huber;Andreas Rigling;Peter Bebi;Fridolin Simon Brand

  • Vegetation responses to rapid warming and to minor climatic fluctuations during the Late-Glacial Interstadial (GI-1) at Gerzensee (Switzerland)

    Brigitta Ammann;Jacqueline F. N. van Leeuwen;Willem Oscar van der Knaap;Heike Lischke

  • Tree species composition in European pristine forests: Comparison of stand data to model predictions

    Franz W. Badeck;Heike Lischke;Harald Bugmann;Thomas Hickler

  • A greener Greenland? Climatic potential and long-term constraints on future expansions of trees and shrubs

    Signe Normand;Christophe Randin;Ralf Ohlemüller;Christian Bay

  • AGGREGATION OF INDIVIDUAL TREES AND PATCHES IN FOREST SUCCESSION MODELS : CAPTURING VARIABILITY WITH HEIGHT STRUCTURED, RANDOM, SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS

    Heike Lischke;Thomas J. Löffler;Andreas Fischlin

  • Cost of resistance and tolerance under competition: the defense-stress benefit hypothesis

    David H. Siemens;Heike Lischke;Nicole Maggiulli;Stéphanie Schürch

  • Tackling unresolved questions in forest ecology: The past and future role of simulation models

    Isabelle Maréchaux;Fanny Langerwisch;Andreas Huth;Andreas Huth;Harald Bugmann

  • Vegetation responses to climate change in the Alps: modeling Studies

    H. Lischke;A. Guisan;A. Fischlin;J. Williams

  • Effects of climate, fire, and humans on forest dynamics: forest simulations compared to the palaeological record

    Franziska Keller;Heike Lischke;Thomas Mathis;Adrian Möhl

  • Predicting individual-tree growth of central European tree species as a function of site, stand, management, nutrient, and climate effects

    Brigitte Rohner;Peter Waldner;Heike Lischke;Marco Ferretti

Frequent Co-Authors

Harald Bugmann
Harald Bugmann ETH Zurich
Julia E. M. S. Nabel
Julia E. M. S. Nabel Max Planck Society
Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Niklaus E. Zimmermann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Antoine Guisan
Antoine Guisan University of Lausanne
Massimiliano Zappa
Massimiliano Zappa Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Jed O. Kaplan
Jed O. Kaplan University of Calgary
Willy Tinner
Willy Tinner University of Bern
Thomas Hickler
Thomas Hickler Goethe University Frankfurt
Brigitta Ammann
Brigitta Ammann University of Bern
Oliver Heiri
Oliver Heiri University of Basel

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Wilfried Thuiller

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Werner Rammer

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Antoine Guisan

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Thomas Hickler

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Publications: 21

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Benjamin Poulter

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Publications: 20

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Otso Ovaskainen

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Daniele Colombaroli

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