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Katja Tielbörger

Katja Tielbörger

University of Tübingen
Germany

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
45
Citations
13306
World Ranking
4740
National Ranking
249

Katja Tielbörger 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 Katja Tielbörger sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 138 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Katja Tielbörger 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 Katja Tielbörger sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Katja Tielbörger is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany and specializes in environmental and biological sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields with a focus on ecology, plant science, global change, and conservation.

The scientist's recent projects and publications explore themes related to plant responses to environmental stressors, climate effects, and ecosystem dynamics. Their publication record includes work in several peer-reviewed journals and prestigious venues.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Relative effects of climate and litter traits on decomposition change with time, climate and trait variability, 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • Density-dependence tips the change of plant-plant interactions under environmental stress, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Functional traits and their plasticity shift from tolerant to avoidant under extreme drought, 2022, Ecology
  • Functional traits influence patterns in vegetative and reproductive plant phenology - a multi-botanical garden study, 2022, New Phytologist

They have collaborated frequently with researchers such as Mark C. Bilton, Liesbeth van den Brink, Maaike Y. Bader, Maria Májeková, and Rafaella Canessa.

Katja Tielbörger has published extensively in the following venues:

  • Oikos
  • Ecology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution

Their primary fields of study are Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these, their subfields of research focus on:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Plant Science
  • Ecological Modeling

Main research topics covered by their work include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture

Best Publications

  • Animal species diversity driven by habitat heterogeneity/diversity: the importance of keystone structures

    J. Tews;U. Brose;V. Grimm;K. Tielbörger

  • Facilitation in plant communities: the past, the present, and the future

    Rob W. Brooker;Fernando T. Maestre;Ragan M. Callaway;Christopher L. Lortie

  • TEMPORAL ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION TIPS THE BALANCE BETWEEN FACILITATION AND INTERFERENCE IN DESERT PLANTS

    Katja Tielbörger;Ronen Kadmon

  • Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

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  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

  • Annual plant–shrub interactions along an aridity gradient

    Claus Holzapfel;Katja Tielbörger;Hadas A. Parag;Jaime Kigel

  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

    Jonas J. Lembrechts;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Michael B. Ashcroft;Michael B. Ashcroft;Pieter De Frenne

  • Plant survival in relation to seed size along environmental gradients: a long-term study from semi-arid and Mediterranean annual plant communities

    Johannes Metz;Pierre Liancourt;Pierre Liancourt;Jaime Kigel;Danny Harel

  • Ontogenetic shifts in interactions among annual plants

    Katja Schiffers;Katja Tielbörger

  • What does the stress‐gradient hypothesis predict? Resolving the discrepancies

    Dan Malkinson;Katja Tielbörger

  • Middle-Eastern plant communities tolerate 9 years of drought in a multi-site climate manipulation experiment

    Katja Tielbörger;Mark C. Bilton;Johannes Metz;Jaime Kigel

  • Life history variation in an annual plant under two opposing environmental constraints along an aridity gradient

    Martina Petrů;Katja Tielbörger;Ruthie Belkin;Marcelo Sternberg

  • A demographic approach to study effects of climate change in desert plants.

    Roberto Salguero-Gómez;Wolfgang Siewert;Brenda B. Casper;Katja Tielbörger

  • Pedogenic and microbial interrelations to regional climate and local topography: New insights from a climate gradient (arid to humid) along the Coastal Cordillera of Chile

    Nadine Bernhard;Lisa-Marie Moskwa;Karsten Schmidt;Ralf A. Oeser

  • Decision-making in plants under competition

    Michal Gruntman;Dorothee Groß;Maria Májeková;Maria Májeková;Maria Májeková;Katja Tielbörger

  • Few multiyear precipitation-reduction experiments find a shift in the productivity-precipitation relationship.

    Marc Estiarte;Sara Vicca;Josep Peñuelas;Michael Bahn

  • Managing open habitats by wild ungulate browsing and grazing: A case-study in North-Eastern Germany

    Okka Tschöpe;Dieter Wallschläger;Michael Burkart;Katja Tielbörger

  • The handbook for standardized field and laboratory measurements in terrestrial climate change experiments and observational studies (ClimEx)

    Aud Helen Halbritter Rechsteiner;Hans J. De Boeck;Amy Elizabeth Eycott;Amy Elizabeth Eycott;Sabine Reinsch

  • Field experiments underestimate aboveground biomass response to drought

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  • Chemistry and microbiology of the Critical Zone along a steep climate and vegetation gradient in the Chilean Coastal Cordillera.

    Ralf A. Oeser;Nicole Stroncik;Lisa-Marie Moskwa;Nadine Bernhard

  • Rethinking the common garden in invasion research.

    Kirk A. Moloney;Claus Holzapfel;Katja Tielbörger;Florian Jeltsch

  • The vegetation of linear desert dunes in the north-western Negev, Israel

    Katja Tielbörger

  • Relationships between shrubs and annual communities in a sandy desert ecosystem: a three-year study

    Katja Tielbörger;Ronen Kadmon

Frequent Co-Authors

Florian Jeltsch
Florian Jeltsch University of Potsdam
Marcelo Sternberg
Marcelo Sternberg Tel Aviv University
Pierre Liancourt
Pierre Liancourt University of Tübingen
Jaime Kigel
Jaime Kigel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ronen Kadmon
Ronen Kadmon Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Thomas Scholten
Thomas Scholten University of Tübingen
Ulrich Brose
Ulrich Brose Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Volker Grimm
Volker Grimm Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Caroline Müller
Caroline Müller Bielefeld University
Sebastian Gayler
Sebastian Gayler University of Hohenheim

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