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8429
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4643
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121

Lia Hemerik 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 Lia Hemerik sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 163 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lia Hemerik 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 Lia Hemerik sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Lia Hemerik is a researcher affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their work primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on various subfields including Ecology, Insect Science, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics.

The research topics covered by Lia Hemerik include Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, as well as multiple aspects related to COVID-19 such as epidemiological studies, pandemic impacts, and SARS-CoV-2 research.

Lia Hemerik has contributed to several journals and publication venues, with frequent publications in Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications, Scientific Reports, Biodiversity Data Journal, European Journal of Soil Science, and PLoS ONE.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Lia Hemerik are:

  • Soil multifunctionality: Synergies and trade-offs across European climatic zones and land uses, 2020, European Journal of Soil Science
  • The pest kill rate of thirteen natural enemies as aggregate evaluation criterion of their biological control potential of Tuta absoluta, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Outbreak analysis with a logistic growth model shows COVID-19 suppression dynamics in China, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Shape and rate of movement of the invasion front of Xylella fastidiosa spp. pauca in Puglia, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Organic matter reduces the amount of detectable environmental DNA in freshwater, 2020, Ecology and Evolution

The scientist has collaborated frequently with the following coauthors:

  • Wopke van der Werf
  • Freek T. Bakker
  • Peter C. de Ruiter
  • Yi Zou
  • Stephen W. Pan

Best Publications

  • Intensive agriculture reduces soil biodiversity across Europe

    Maria A. Tsiafouli;Elisa Thébault;Stefanos P. Sgardelis;Peter C. de Ruiter

  • Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems

    Franciska T. de Vries;Franciska T. de Vries;Elisa Thébault;Elisa Thébault;Mira Liiri;Klaus Birkhofer

  • SEED MASS AND MAST SEEDING ENHANCE DISPERSAL BY A NEOTROPICAL SCATTER-HOARDING RODENT

    Patrick A. Jansen;Frans Bongers;Lia Hemerik

  • Empirical and theoretical challenges in aboveground-belowground ecology

    Wim H. van der Putten;R. D. Bardgett;P. C. de Ruiter;W. H. G. Hol

  • Amazonian rainforest tree mortality driven by climate and functional traits

    Izabela Aleixo;Izabela Aleixo;Darren Norris;Darren Norris;Lia Hemerik;Antenor Barbosa

  • Telomere length behaves as biomarker of somatic redundancy rather than biological age

    Jelle J. Boonekamp;Mirre J. P. Simons;Lia Hemerik;Simon Verhulst

  • Effects of land use on soil microbial biomass, activity and community structure at different soil depths in the Danube floodplain

    J.P. van Leeuwen;I. Djukic;I. Djukic;J. Bloem;T. Lehtinen;T. Lehtinen

  • Heteroclinic orbits indicate overexploitation in predator-prey systems with a strong Allee effect.

    George A.K. van Voorn;Lia Hemerik;Martin P. Boer;Bob W. Kooi

  • Plant-mediated indirect effects and the persistence of parasitoid–herbivore communities

    M. Vos;S.M. Berrocal;F. Karamaouna;L. Hemerik

  • An experimental test of the independent action hypothesis in virus-insect pathosystems.

    Mark P. Zwart;Lia Hemerik;Jenny S. Cory;J. Arjan G.M. de Visser

  • Adaptive superparasitism and patch time allocation in solitary parasitoids: an ESS model.

    M.E. Visser;J.J.M. van Alphen;L. Hemerik

  • Effect of local weather on butterfly flight behaviour, movement, and colonization: significance for dispersal under climate change

    Anouk Cormont;Agnieszka H. Malinowska;Olga Kostenko;Victoria Radchuk

  • Reduced foraging efficiency of a parasitoid under habitat complexity: implications for population stability and species coexistence

    R. Gols;T. Bukovinszky;L. Hemerik;J. A. Harvey

  • A two-component model of host-parasitoid interactions: determination of the size of inundative releases of parasitoids in biological pest control

    J. Grasman;O.A. van Herwaarden;L. Hemerik;J.C. van Lenteren

  • Temperature effects on pitfall catches of epigeal arthropods: a model and method for bias correction

    Pavel Saska;Wopke van der Werf;Lia Hemerik;Martin L. Luff

  • Synchronization of the behaviour within nests of the ant Leptothorax acervorum (fabricius)—I. Discovering the phenomenon and its relation to the level of starvation

    Nigel R. Franks;Steve Bryant;Richard Griffiths;Lia Hemerik

  • The time and egg budget of Leptopilina clavipes, a parasitoid of larval Drosophila

    Gerard Driessen;Lia Hemerik

  • Urban and agricultural soils: conflicts and trade-offs in the optimization of ecosystem services

    H. Setälä;R. D. Bardgett;K. Birkhofer;M. Brady

  • A new statistical tool to predict phenology under climate change scenarios

    Phillip Gienapp;Lia Hemerik;Marcel E. Visser

  • The interaction between dispersal, the Allee effect and scramble competition affects population dynamics

    Rampal Etienne;Bregje Wertheim;Lia Hemerik;Petra Schneider

  • Patch exploitation by the parasitoids Cotesia rubecula and Cotesia glomerata in multi‐patch environments with different host distributions

    Matthijs Vos;Lia Hemerik;Louise E. M. Vet

Frequent Co-Authors

Wopke van der Werf
Wopke van der Werf Wageningen University & Research
Peter C. de Ruiter
Peter C. de Ruiter University of Amsterdam
Louise E. M. Vet
Louise E. M. Vet Wageningen University & Research
W. van der Werf
W. van der Werf Wageningen University & Research
Marcel Dicke
Marcel Dicke Wageningen University & Research
Ep Heuvelink
Ep Heuvelink Wageningen University & Research
Leo F. M. Marcelis
Leo F. M. Marcelis Wageningen University & Research
Jaap Bloem
Jaap Bloem Wageningen University & Research
Richard D. Bardgett
Richard D. Bardgett Lancaster University
Just M. Vlak
Just M. Vlak Wageningen University & Research

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