2026 Mark van Kleunen: Ecology and Evolution Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Ecology and Evolution	86	577	551	48	47	328	33407

Overview

Mark van Kleunen is affiliated with the University of Konstanz in Germany. Their research contributions span across several fields primarily within agricultural and biological sciences and environmental science. The main subfields of study include nature and landscape conservation, plant science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, ecological modeling, and general ecology.

Their work focuses on various topics, including ecology and vegetation dynamics, plant and animal studies, plant parasitism and resistance, species distribution in relation to climate change, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, allelopathy and phytotoxic interactions, and soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics.

Several frequent co-authors are associated with their research, highlighting collaborative efforts. These include:

Petr Pyšek
Franz Essl
Wayne Dawson
Patrick Weigelt
Jan Pergl

Mark van Kleunen has contributed extensively to a range of publication venues. The most common journals and platforms where their work appears are:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Nature Communications
Journal of Ecology
Global Ecology and Biogeography
Biological Invasions

Among their recent papers are several influential publications, including:

"Scientists' warning on invasive alien species" (2020), published in Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
"Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050" (2020), published in Global Change Biology
"Effect of allelopathy on plant performance: a meta-analysis" (2020), published in Ecology Letters
"A conceptual map of invasion biology: Integrating hypotheses into a consensus network" (2020), published in Global Ecology and Biogeography
"Drivers of future alien species impacts: An expert-based assessment" (2020), published in Global Change Biology

Best Publications

No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide.

Hanno Seebens;Hanno Seebens;Tim M. Blackburn;Ellie E. Dyer;Ellie E. Dyer;Piero Genovesi

2531
Citations
A meta‐analysis of trait differences between invasive and non‐invasive plant species

Mark Van Kleunen;Ewald Weber;Markus Fischer

2059
Citations
Scientists' warning on invasive alien species.

Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Philip E. Hulme;Dan Simberloff;Sven Bacher

1956
Citations
TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

1926
Citations
Global exchange and accumulation of non-native plants

Mark Van Kleunen;Wayne Dawson;Franz Essl;Jan Pergl

1161
Citations
The effects of phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation on forecasts of species range shifts under climate change

Fernando Valladares;Fernando Valladares;Silvia Matesanz;Francois Guilhaumon;Francois Guilhaumon;Miguel B. Araujo;Miguel B. Araujo;Miguel B. Araujo

1123
Citations
Constraints on the evolution of adaptive phenotypic plasticity in plants

Mark Van Kleunen;Markus Fischer

822
Citations
Global rise in emerging alien species results from increased accessibility of new source pools.

Hanno Seebens;Tim M. Blackburn;Tim M. Blackburn;Tim M. Blackburn;Ellie E. Dyer;Ellie E. Dyer;Piero Genovesi

675
Citations
Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050

Hanno Seebens;Sven Bacher;Tim M Blackburn;Tim M Blackburn;Tim M Blackburn;César Capinha

672
Citations
Are invaders different? A conceptual framework of comparative approaches for assessing determinants of invasiveness.

Mark Van Kleunen;Wayne Dawson;Daniel Schlaepfer;Daniel Schlaepfer;Jonathan M. Jeschke;Jonathan M. Jeschke

569
Citations
Naturalized alien flora of the world: species diversity, taxonomic and phylogenetic patterns, geographic distribution and global hotspots of plant invasion

Petr Pyšek;Jan Pergl;Franz Essl;Bernd Lenzner

494
Citations
Global hotspots and correlates of alien species richness across taxonomic groups

Wayne Dawson;Dietmar Moser;Mark van Kleunen;Mark van Kleunen;Holger Kreft

448
Citations
Global trade will accelerate plant invasions in emerging economies under climate change

Hanno Seebens;Hanno Seebens;Franz Essl;Franz Essl;Franz Essl;Wayne Dawson;Nicol Fuentes

443
Citations
The changing role of ornamental horticulture in alien plant invasions

Mark van Kleunen;Mark van Kleunen;Franz Essl;Jan Pergl;Giuseppe Brundu

423
Citations
Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success

Mark van Kleunen;Mark van Kleunen;Xinyi Xu;Qiang Yang;Noëlie Maurel

400
Citations
Do invasive alien plants benefit more from global environmental change than native plants

Yanjie Liu;Yanjie Liu;Ayub M. O. Oduor;Ayub M. O. Oduor;Zhen Zhang;Anthony Manea

394
Citations
Macrophysiology: A Conceptual Reunification

Kevin J. Gaston;Steven L. Chown;Piero Calosi;Joseph Bernardo

383
Citations
The Global Naturalized Alien Flora (GloNAF) database

Mark van Kleunen;Petr Pyšek;Wayne Dawson;Franz Essl

297
Citations
United we stand, divided we fall: a meta-analysis of experiments on clonal integration and its relationship to invasiveness.

Yao-Bin Song;Yao-Bin Song;Fei-Hai Yu;Fei-Hai Yu;Lidewij H. Keser;Lidewij H. Keser;Wayne Dawson

288
Citations
Tradeoffs associated with constitutive and induced plant resistance against herbivory

Anne Kempel;Martin Schädler;Thomas Chrobock;Markus Fischer

288
Citations
RAPD variation among and within small and large populations of the rare clonal plant Ranunculus reptans (Ranunculaceae).

Markus Fischer;René Husi;Daniel Prati;Markus Peintinger

278
Citations
Synthesis Macrophysiology: A Conceptual Reunification

Kevin J. Gaston;Steven L. Chown;Piero Calosi;Joseph Bernardo

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Wayne Dawson Durham University

Petr Pyšek Czech Academy of Sciences

Franz Essl University of Vienna

Markus Fischer University of Bern

Jan Pergl Czech Academy of Sciences

Marten Winter Leipzig University

Holger Kreft University of Göttingen

Patrick Weigelt University of Göttingen

Ingolf Kühn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Hanno Seebens Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre

External Links

Personal website of Mark van Kleunen

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