2026 Karsten Wesche: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	50	2149	1980	137	120	186	8848
Ecology and Evolution	51	3662	3528	204	200	194	9404

Overview

Karsten Wesche is affiliated with the Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz in Germany. Their research focuses on multiple areas within environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant concentration on ecology and vegetation dynamics.

Their main fields of study include:

Environmental Science
Agricultural and Biological Sciences

The subfields covered by their work comprise:

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Ecological Modeling
Plant Science
Ecology

Key topics in Wesche's research involve:

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Species Distribution and Climate Change
Plant and Animal Studies
Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
Plant Ecology and Taxonomy Studies
Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics

Wesche has contributed to several papers reflecting varied aspects of plant ecology and biodiversity. Notable recent publications include:

"Synchrony matters more than species richness in plant community stability at a global scale" published in 2020 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity" published in 2022 in Nature Communications
"More losses than gains during one century of plant biodiversity change in Germany" published in 2022 in Nature
"Grazing Effects on Mongolian Steppe Vegetation-A Systematic Review of Local Literature" published in 2021 in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
"Effectiveness of protected areas influenced by socio-economic context" published in 2022 in Nature Sustainability

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Flora
Diversity and Distributions
Journal of Vegetation Science
Research Ideas and Outcomes

Wesche collaborates often with several co-authors, the most frequent of whom are:

Jürgen Dengler
Helge Bruelheide
Wolfgang Schmidt
Aletta Bonn
Khurelpurev Oyundelger

Best Publications

Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

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

667
Citations
Rothmaler - Exkursionsflora von Deutschland, Gefäßpflanzen: Atlasband

Eckehart J. Jäger;Frank Müller;Christiane Ritz;Erik Welk

386
Citations
The Kobresia pygmaea ecosystem of the Tibetan highlands – Origin, functioning and degradation of the world's largest pastoral alpine ecosystem: Kobresia pastures of Tibet

Georg Miehe;Per Marten Schleuss;Elke Seeber;Wolfgang Babel

344
Citations
Fifty years of change in Central European grassland vegetation: Large losses in species richness and animal-pollinated plants

Karsten Wesche;Benjamin Krause;Heike Culmsee;Christoph Leuschner

333
Citations
The Palaearctic steppe biome: a new synthesis

Karsten Wesche;Didem Ambarlı;Johannes Kamp;Peter Török

298
Citations
sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

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

265
Citations
Dramatic losses of specialist arable plants in Central Germany since the 1950s/60s – a cross‐regional analysis

Stefan Meyer;Karsten Wesche;Benjamin Krause;Christoph Leuschner

246
Citations
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

237
Citations
Global patterns of vascular plant alpha diversity

Unknown

212
Citations
Global assessment of the non-equilibrium concept in rangelands.

Henrik von Wehrden;Jan Hanspach;Jan Hanspach;Petra Kaczensky;Joern Fischer

189
Citations
Vegetation and soil responses to livestock grazing in Central Asian grasslands: a review of Chinese literature

Yun Wang;Karsten Wesche

185
Citations
Climate variability rather than overstocking causes recent large scale cover changes of Tibetan pastures.

L. W. Lehnert;K. Wesche;K. Trachte;C. Reudenbach

153
Citations
The performance of Polylepis australis trees along their entire altitudinal range : implications of climate change for their conservation

Paula Marcora;Isabell Hensen;Daniel Renison;Peggy Seltmann

138
Citations
Impact of Grazing Livestock and Distance from Water Source on Soil Fertility in Southern Mongolia

Markus Stumpp;Karsten Wesche;Vroni Retzer;Georg Miehe

136
Citations
Exkursionsflora von Deutschland

Eckehart J. Jäger;Frank Müller;Christiane M. Ritz;Erik Welk

131
Citations
More losses than gains during one century of plant biodiversity change in Germany

Unknown

124
Citations
sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots

Francesco Maria Sabatini;Jonathan Lenoir;Tarek Hattab;Elise Aimee Arnst

123
Citations
The Significance of Fire for Afroalpine Ericaceous Vegetation

Karsten Wesche;Georg Miehe;Meinhard Kaeppeli

122
Citations
Habitat loss of floodplain meadows in north Germany since the 1950s

Benjamin Krause;Heike Culmsee;Karsten Wesche;Erwin Bergmeier

121
Citations
Meta‐analysis of ANPP and rain‐use efficiency confirms indicative value for degradation and supports non‐linear response along precipitation gradients in drylands

Jan C. Ruppert;Alexander Holm;Sabine Miehe;Esteban Muldavin

113
Citations
Plant communities of central Tibetan pastures in the Alpine Steppe / Kobresia pygmaea ecotone

Georg Miehe;Sabine Miehe;Kerstin Bach;J. Nölling

107
Citations
Effects of altitude and livestock on the regeneration of two tree line forming Polylepis species in Ecuador

Arne Cierjacks;Nadine Katrin Rühr;Karsten Wesche;Isabell Hensen

105
Citations
Habitat engineering under dry conditions: The impact of pikas (Ochotona pallasi) on vegetation and site conditions in southern Mongolian steppes

Karsten Wesche;Karin Nadrowski;Vroni Retzer

102
Citations
Lack of sexual reproduction within mountain steppe populations of the clonal shrub Juniperus sabina L. in semi-arid southern Mongolia

K. Wesche;K. Ronnenberg;I. Hensen

101
Citations
Effects of large herbivore exclusion on southern Mongolian desert steppes

Karsten Wesche;Katrin Ronnenberg;Vroni Retzer;Georg Miehe

96
Citations