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Jan Christian Habel

Jan Christian Habel

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
43
Citations
9460
World Ranking
5236
National Ranking
37

Jan Christian Habel 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 Jan Christian Habel sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 191 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jan Christian Habel 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 Jan Christian Habel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jan Christian Habel is affiliated with the University of Salzburg in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, contributing to these fields through over 100 publications.

The scientist's work covers several subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Nature and Landscape Conservation; Ecological Modeling; Ecology; and Genetics. Their research topics emphasize Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Animal and Plant Science Education, and Lepidoptera Biology and Taxonomy.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Biodiversity and Conservation
  • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Journal of Insect Conservation
  • Biological Conservation
  • Landscape Ecology

Some of the recent papers by Jan Christian Habel are:

  • "Scientists' warning to humanity on insect extinctions" (2020), published in Biological Conservation
  • "Solutions for humanity on how to conserve insects" (2020), published in Biological Conservation
  • "International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery" (2020), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition" (2021), published in Nature
  • "Climate change drives mountain butterflies towards the summits" (2021), published in Scientific Reports

Jan Christian Habel frequently collaborates with other researchers including Werner Ulrich, Thomas Schmitt, Patrick Gros, Mike Teucher, and Jonas Eberle. These coauthors have worked jointly on multiple projects, indicating sustained scientific cooperation.

Best Publications

  • Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers

    Sebastian Seibold;Martin M. Gossner;Nadja K. Simons;Nadja K. Simons;Nico Blüthgen

  • Scientists' warning to humanity on insect extinctions

    Pedro Cardoso;Philip S. Barton;Klaus Birkhofer;Filipe Chichorro

  • European grassland ecosystems: threatened hotspots of biodiversity

    Jan Christian Habel;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Monika Janišová;Péter Török

  • Solutions for humanity on how to conserve insects

    Michael J Samways;Philip S. Barton;Klaus Birkhofer;Filipe Chichorro

  • International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery

    Jeffrey A. Harvey;Robin Heinen;Inge Armbrecht;Yves Basset

  • Mitigating the precipitous decline of terrestrial European insects: Requirements for a new strategy

    Jan Christian Habel;Jan Christian Habel;Michael J. Samways;Thomas Schmitt

  • Biodiversity Hotspots: Distribution and Protection of Conservation Priority Areas

    Frank E. Zachos;Jan Christian Habel

  • Butterfly community shifts over two centuries.

    Jan Christian Habel;Andreas Segerer;Werner Ulrich;Olena Torchyk

  • The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition

    Sebastian Seibold;Werner Rammer;Torsten Hothorn;Rupert Seidl

  • Species inflation and taxonomic artefacts—A critical comment on recent trends in mammalian classification

    Frank E. Zachos;Marco Apollonio;Eva V. Bärmann;Marco Festa-Bianchet

  • Palaearctic biogeography revisited: evidence for the existence of a North African refugium for Western Palaearctic biota

    Martin Husemann;Thomas Schmitt;Frank E. Zachos;Werner Ulrich

  • Relict species : phylogeography and conservation biology

    Jan Christian Habel;Thorsten Assmann

  • Agricultural intensification drives butterfly decline

    Jan Christian Habel;Werner Ulrich;Nina Biburger;Sebastian Seibold

  • The fourth paradigm pattern of post-glacial range expansion of European terrestrial species: the phylogeography of the Marbled White butterfly (Satyrinae, Lepidoptera)

    Jan Christian Habel;Thomas Schmitt;Paul Müller

  • Final countdown for biodiversity hotspots

    Jan C. Habel;Jan C. Habel;Livia Rasche;Uwe A. Schneider;Jan Oliver Engler

  • Global warming will affect the genetic diversity and uniqueness of Lycaena helle populations

    Jan Christian Habel;Jan Christian Habel;Dennis Rödder;Thomas Schmitt;Gabriel Nève

  • Climate change drives mountain butterflies towards the summits

    Dennis Rödder;Thomas Schmitt;Patrick Gros;Werner Ulrich

  • Long-term large-scale decline in relative abundances of butterfly and burnet moth species across south-western Germany

    Jan Christian Habel;Jan Christian Habel;Robert Trusch;Thomas Schmitt;Michael Ochse

  • The relevance of time series in molecular ecology and conservation biology.

    Jan C. Habel;Martin Husemann;Aline Finger;Patrick D. Danley

  • The burden of genetic diversity

    Jan Christian Habel;Thomas Schmitt

  • Genetic differentiation of the marbled white butterfly, Melanargia galathea, accounts for glacial distribution patterns and postglacial range expansion in southeastern Europe

    Thomas Schmitt;Jan Christian Habel;Marco Zimmermann;Paul Müller

Frequent Co-Authors

Werner Ulrich
Werner Ulrich Nicolaus Copernicus University
Thomas Schmitt
Thomas Schmitt University of Potsdam
Dennis Rödder
Dennis Rödder Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change
Luc Lens
Luc Lens Ghent University
Thorsten Assmann
Thorsten Assmann Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Frank E. Zachos
Frank E. Zachos Natural History Museum Vienna
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Sebastian Seibold
Sebastian Seibold Technical University of Munich
Axel Hochkirch
Axel Hochkirch Trier University of Applied Sciences

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