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Ecology and Evolution
Germany
2023

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
98
Citations
50462
World Ranking
300
National Ranking
17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Ingolf Kühn is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to agricultural and biological sciences. The scientist's work spans numerous subfields, including nature and landscape conservation, ecology, ecological modeling, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and global and planetary change.

The scientist's research topics cover diverse areas such as ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, plant and animal studies, forest insect ecology and management, land use and ecosystem services, animal ecology and behavior studies, and evolution and genetic dynamics.

Among the recent papers coauthored by Ingolf Kühn are:

  • Scientists' warning on invasive alien species (2020), published in Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050 (2020), published in Global Change Biology
  • Meta-analysis of multidecadal biodiversity trends in Europe (2020), published in Nature Communications
  • The evolution of critical thermal limits of life on Earth (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • A conceptual map of invasion biology: Integrating hypotheses into a consensus network (2020), published in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Franz Essl
  • Bernd Lenzner
  • Petr Pyšek
  • Hanno Seebens
  • Jonathan M. Jeschke

Publication venues where Kühn has frequently published are:

  • NeoBiota
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Global Change Biology
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • New Phytologist

Best Publications

  • Methods to account for spatial autocorrelation in the analysis of species distributional data : a review

    Carsten F. Dormann;Jana M. McPherson;Miguel B. Araújo;Roger Bivand

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • 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

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • A global analysis of the impacts of urbanization on bird and plant diversity reveals key anthropogenic drivers

    Myla F.J. Aronson;Frank A. La Sorte;Charles H. Nilon;Madhusudan Katti

  • The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling

    Mary Susanne Wisz;Julien Pottier;W. Daniel Kissling;Loïc Pellissier

  • The LEDA Traitbase: A database of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora

    M Kleyer;RM Bekker;RM Bekker;IC Knevel;IC Knevel;JP Bakker

  • Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities

    Gian Reto Walther;Alain Roques;Philip E. Hulme;Martin T. Sykes

  • Grasping at the routes of biological invasions: a framework for integrating pathways into policy

    P. E. Hulme;S. Bacher;M. Kenis;S. Klotz

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

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

  • Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming

    Manuel J. Steinbauer;Manuel J. Steinbauer;John-Arvid Grytnes;Gerald Jurasinski;Aino Kulonen

  • 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

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Oliver Purschke;Jonathan Lenoir

  • The flora of German cities is naturally species rich

    Ingolf Kühn;Roland Brandl;Stefan Klotz

  • Socioeconomic legacy yields an invasion debt

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

  • Invasive species in Europe: ecology, status, and policy

    Reuben P Keller;Juergen Geist;Johnathan M Jeschke;Ingolf Kuhn

  • Projecting the future distribution of European potential natural vegetation zones with a generalized, tree species-based dynamic vegetation model

    Thomas Hickler;Katrin Vohland;Jane Feehan;Paul A. Miller

  • CLIMATE CHANGE CAN CAUSE SPATIAL MISMATCH OF TROPHICALLY INTERACTING SPECIES

    Oliver Schweiger;Josef Settele;Otakar Kudrna;Stefan Klotz

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Klotz
Stefan Klotz Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Petr Pyšek
Petr Pyšek Czech Academy of Sciences
Franz Essl
Franz Essl University of Vienna
Josef Settele
Josef Settele Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Oliver Schweiger
Oliver Schweiger Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Marten Winter
Marten Winter Leipzig University
Philip E. Hulme
Philip E. Hulme Lincoln University
Jan Pergl
Jan Pergl Czech Academy of Sciences
Jonathan M. Jeschke
Jonathan M. Jeschke Freie Universität Berlin
Sven Bacher
Sven Bacher University of Fribourg

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