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D-Index
62
Citations
16299
World Ranking
2052
National Ranking
56

Jürgen Dengler 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 Jürgen Dengler sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 533+

This scientist: 376 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 533 publications or more.

Jürgen Dengler 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 Jürgen Dengler sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 122+

This scientist: 62 D-Index — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 122 D-Index or more.

Overview

Jürgen Dengler is affiliated with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland. Their research spans multiple fields primarily within Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. The focus of their work includes Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology.

The main topics covered in their publications emphasize Botany and Plant Ecology Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Mediterranean and Iberian Flora and Fauna, Lichen and Fungal Ecology, and Bryophyte Studies and Records.

Dengler's recent published papers include:

  • EUNIS Habitat Classification: Expert system, characteristic species combinations and distribution maps of European habitats (2020), Applied Vegetation Science
  • Global maps of soil temperature (2021), Global Change Biology
  • Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs (2021), Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity (2022), Nature Communications

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Dengler include Idoia Biurrun, Iwona Dembicz, Florian Jansen, Milan Chytrý, and Helge Bruelheide.

Their work is commonly published in venues such as Vegetation Classification and Survey, Palaearctic Grasslands - Journal of the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group, Journal of Vegetation Science, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and ZHAW Digital Collection.

Best Publications

  • Vegetation of Europe: hierarchical floristic classification system of vascular plant, bryophyte, lichen, and algal communities

    Ladislav Mucina;Ladislav Mucina;Helga Bültmann;Klaus Dierßen;Jean-Paul Theurillat

  • Plant species richness: the world records

    J. Bastow Wilson;Robert K. Peet;Jürgen Dengler;Meelis Pärtel

  • Biodiversity of Palaearctic grasslands: a synthesis

    Jürgen Dengler;Monika Janišová;Péter Török;Camilla Wellstein

  • Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

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

  • European grassland ecosystems: threatened hotspots of biodiversity

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

  • Which function describes the species–area relationship best? A review and empirical evaluation

    Jürgen Dengler

  • European Vegetation Archive (EVA): an integrated database of European vegetation plots

    Milan Chytrý;Stephan M. Hennekens;Borja Jiménez‐Alfaro;Ilona Knollová

  • The Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD): a new resource for vegetation science

    Jürgen Dengler;Florian Jansen;Falko Glöckler;Robert K. Peet

  • European Red List of Habitats : Part 2. Terrestrial and freshwater habitats

    J. A. M. Janssen;J. S. Rodwell;M. Garcia Criado;S. Gubbay

  • EUNIS Habitat Classification: expert system, characteristic species combinations and distribution maps of European habitats

    Milan Chytrý;Lubomír Tichý;Stephan M. Hennekens;Ilona Knollová

  • The Palaearctic steppe biome: a new synthesis

    Karsten Wesche;Didem Ambarlı;Johannes Kamp;Peter Török

  • What ' s on the horizon for macroecology?

    Jan Beck;Liliana Ballesteros-Mejia;Carsten M. Buchmann;Jürgen Dengler

  • sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Oliver Purschke

  • Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale.

    Enrique Valencia;Francesco de Bello;Thomas Galland;Peter B Adler;Peter B Adler

  • Site use of grazing cattle and sheep in a large-scale pasture landscape: A GPS/GIS assessment

    Dorothee Putfarken;Jürgen Dengler;Stephan Lehmann;Werner Härdtle

  • Species richness of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens in dry grasslands: The effects of environment, landscape structure and competition

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  • Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

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  • A comparative framework for broad‐scale plot‐based vegetation classification

    Miquel De Cáceres;Milan Chytrý;Emiliano Agrillo;Fabio Attorre

  • The impact of livestock grazing on plant diversity: an analysis across dryland ecosystems and scales in southern Africa.

    Wiebke Hanke;Jürgen Böhner;Niels Dreber;Norbert Jürgens

  • Root traits explain plant species distributions along climatic gradients yet challenge the nature of ecological trade-offs

    Daniel C. Laughlin;Liesje Mommer;Francesco Maria Sabatini;Helge Bruelheide

  • Plant names in vegetation databases – a neglected source of bias

    Florian Jansen;Jürgen Dengler

  • Effect of land abandonment on the vegetation of upland semi-natural grasslands in the Western Balkan Mts., Bulgaria

    K. Vassilev;H. Pedashenko;S. C. Nikolov;I. Apostolova

  • Scale- and taxon-dependent biodiversity patterns of dry grassland vegetation in Transylvania

    Pavel Dan Turtureanu;Salza Palpurina;Thomas Becker;Christian Dolnik

Frequent Co-Authors

Ute Jandt
Ute Jandt Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Milan Chytrý
Milan Chytrý Masaryk University
Steffen Boch
Steffen Boch Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Wolfgang Willner
Wolfgang Willner University of Vienna
Joop H.J. Schaminée
Joop H.J. Schaminée Wageningen University & Research
Erwin Bergmeier
Erwin Bergmeier University of Göttingen
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro University of Oviedo
Manuel J. Steinbauer
Manuel J. Steinbauer University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Helge Bruelheide
Helge Bruelheide Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Karsten Wesche
Karsten Wesche Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz

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