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Jens-Christian Svenning

Jens-Christian Svenning

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Ecology and Evolution
Denmark
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
126
Citations
61498
World Ranking
76
National Ranking
3

Jens-Christian Svenning 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 Jens-Christian Svenning sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 834 publications — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jens-Christian Svenning 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 Jens-Christian Svenning sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 126 D-Index — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Jens-Christian Svenning is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and has a research focus primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work encompasses a variety of subfields, notably Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's scholarly output is centered around key topics such as Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Plant and Animal Studies, Environmental Philosophy and Ethics, and Urban Green Space and Health.

Jens-Christian Svenning has contributed to multiple research articles, with significant publications in:

  • "Future of the human climate niche," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Areas of global importance for conserving terrestrial biodiversity, carbon and water," 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Quantifying the human cost of global warming," 2023, Nature Sustainability
  • "Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The researcher frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

Collaborations form an important part of Svenning's scientific contribution. Frequent coauthors include Robert Buitenwerf, Brian J. Enquist, Jonathan Lenoir, Josep M. Serra-Diaz, and Idoia Biurrun.

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • 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

  • Climate-related range shifts – a global multidimensional synthesis and new research directions

    J. Lenoir;J.-C. Svenning

  • The Influence of Late Quaternary Climate-Change Velocity on Species Endemism

    B. Sandel;L. Arge;B. Dalsgaard;R. G. Davies

  • 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

  • Extinction debt of high-mountain plants under twenty-first-century climate change

    Stefan Dullinger;Andreas Gattringer;Wilfried Thuiller;Dietmar Moser

  • Future of the human climate niche.

    Chi Xu;Timothy A. Kohler;Timothy M. Lenton;Jens Christian Svenning

  • Limited filling of the potential range in European tree species

    Jens-Christian Svenning;Flemming Skov

  • Tree species distributions and local habitat variation in the Amazon: large forest plot in eastern Ecuador

    Renato Valencia;Robin B. Foster;Gorky Villa;Richard Condit;Richard Condit

  • People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years

    Erle C. Ellis;Nicolas Gauthier;Kees Klein Goldewijk;Rebecca Bliege Bird

  • Residential green space in childhood is associated with lower risk of psychiatric disorders from adolescence into adulthood

    Kristine Engemann;Carsten Bøcker Pedersen;Lars Arge;Constantinos Tsirogiannis

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

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

  • Science for a wilder Anthropocene: Synthesis and future directions for trophic rewilding research

    Jens-Christian Svenning;Pil B M Pedersen;C Josh Donlan;Rasmus Ejrnæs

  • Rewilding complex ecosystems.

    Andrea Perino;Henrique M. Pereira;Henrique M. Pereira;Laetitia M. Navarro;Néstor Fernández

  • Megafauna and ecosystem function from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene

    Yadvinder Malhi;Christopher E. Doughty;Mauro Galetti;Felisa A. Smith

  • Disequilibrium vegetation dynamics under future climate change

    Jens-Christian Svenning;Brody Sandel

  • Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not climate change.

    Christopher James Sandom;Søren Faurby;Brody Steven Sandel;J.-C. Svenning

  • Upper thermal limits of Drosophila are linked to species distributions and strongly constrained phylogenetically

    Vanessa Kellermann;Johannes Overgaard;Ary A. Hoffmann;Camilla Fløjgaard

  • Could the tree diversity pattern in Europe be generated by postglacial dispersal limitation

    Jens-Christian Svenning;Flemming Skov

  • A review of natural vegetation openness in north-western Europe

    Jens-Christian Svenning

  • Global nutrient transport in a world of giants.

    Christopher E. Doughty;Joe Roman;Joe Roman;Søren Faurby;Adam Wolf

  • Glacial refugia of temperate trees in Europe: insights from species distribution modelling

    Jens-Christian Svenning;Signe Normand;Masa Kageyama

Frequent Co-Authors

Brody Sandel
Brody Sandel Santa Clara University
Henrik Balslev
Henrik Balslev Aarhus University
Brian J. Enquist
Brian J. Enquist University of Arizona
Signe Normand
Signe Normand Aarhus University
Søren Faurby
Søren Faurby University of Gothenburg
Jonathan Lenoir
Jonathan Lenoir University of Picardie Jules Verne
Rasmus Ejrnæs
Rasmus Ejrnæs Aarhus University
Cyrille Violle
Cyrille Violle Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Alejandro Ordonez
Alejandro Ordonez Aarhus University
Thomas L. P. Couvreur
Thomas L. P. Couvreur University of Montpellier

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