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Mark van Kleunen

Mark van Kleunen

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
86
Citations
33407
World Ranking
573
National Ranking
48

Mark van Kleunen 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 Mark van Kleunen sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 328 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mark van Kleunen 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 Mark van Kleunen sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 86 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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

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

    Mark Van Kleunen;Ewald Weber;Markus Fischer

  • Scientists' warning on invasive alien species.

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

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Global exchange and accumulation of non-native plants

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

  • 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

  • Constraints on the evolution of adaptive phenotypic plasticity in plants

    Mark Van Kleunen;Markus Fischer

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Global hotspots and correlates of alien species richness across taxonomic groups

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

  • 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

  • The changing role of ornamental horticulture in alien plant invasions

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

  • Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success

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

  • 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

  • Macrophysiology: A Conceptual Reunification

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

  • The Global Naturalized Alien Flora (GloNAF) database

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

  • 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

  • Tradeoffs associated with constitutive and induced plant resistance against herbivory

    Anne Kempel;Martin Schädler;Thomas Chrobock;Markus Fischer

  • 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

  • Synthesis Macrophysiology: A Conceptual Reunification

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Wayne Dawson
Wayne Dawson Durham University
Petr Pyšek
Petr Pyšek Czech Academy of Sciences
Franz Essl
Franz Essl University of Vienna
Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
Jan Pergl
Jan Pergl Czech Academy of Sciences
Marten Winter
Marten Winter Leipzig University
Holger Kreft
Holger Kreft University of Göttingen
Patrick Weigelt
Patrick Weigelt University of Göttingen
Ingolf Kühn
Ingolf Kühn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Hanno Seebens
Hanno Seebens Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre

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