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Martin Hermy

Martin Hermy

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Ecology and Evolution
Belgium
2026

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
98
Citations
32037
World Ranking
314
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Martin Hermy is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has contributed to research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work encompasses diverse subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Nature and Landscape Conservation; Plant Science; Global and Planetary Change; and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The scientist's research focuses on various topics related to plant and animal studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics, land use and ecosystem services, plant parasitism and resistance, botany and plant ecology, urban green space and health, as well as urban heat island mitigation.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Journal of Ecology
  • Plants People Planet
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Sustainability

Martin Hermy has collaborated with a number of co-authors multiple times, with several frequent collaborators being:

  • Pieter De Frenne (7 publications)
  • Kris Verheyen (5 publications)
  • Guillaume Decocq (4 publications)
  • Jan Plue (3 publications)
  • Hans Van Calster (3 publications)

Some of the recent papers include:

  • "Buffering effects of soil seed banks on plant community composition in response to land use and climate," 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "The European Forest Plant Species List (EuForPlant): Concept and applications," 2022, Journal of Vegetation Science
  • "Mapping Functional Urban Green Types Using High Resolution Remote Sensing Data," 2020, Sustainability
  • "Assessing climate risk to support urban forests in a changing climate," 2022, Plants People Planet
  • "Earlier onset of flowering and increased reproductive allocation of an annual invasive plant in the north of its novel range," 2020, Annals of Botany

Best Publications

  • The LEDA Traitbase: A database of life-history traits of the Northwest European flora

    M Kleyer;RM Bekker;RM Bekker;IC Knevel;IC Knevel;JP Bakker

  • Green roofs as a tool for solving the rainwater runoff problem in the urbanized 21st century

    Jeroen Mentens;Dirk Raes;Martin Hermy

  • An ecological comparison between ancient and other forest plant species of Europe, and the implications for forest conservation

    Martin Hermy;Olivier Honnay;Les Firbank;Carla Grashof-Bokdam

  • Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming

    Pieter De Frenne;Pieter De Frenne;Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez;David Anthony Coomes;Lander Baeten

  • SAFE--A hierarchical framework for assessing the sustainability of agricultural systems

    N. Van Cauwenbergh;K. Biala;Charles Bielders;V. Brouckaert

  • Extinction debt of forest plants persists for more than a century following habitat fragmentation.

    Mark Vellend;Kris Verheyen;Hans Jacquemyn;Annette Kolb

  • Latitudinal gradients as natural laboratories to infer species' responses to temperature

    Pieter De Frenne;Pieter De Frenne;Bente J. Graae;Francisco Rodríguez‐Sánchez;Annette Kolb

  • Biodiversity relationships in urban and suburban parks in Flanders

    Johnny Cornelis;Martin Hermy

  • Legacies of the past in the present-day forest biodiversity: a review of past land-use effects on forest plant species composition and diversity

    Martin Hermy;Kris Verheyen

  • Response of forest plant species to land-use change: a life-history trait-based approach

    Kris Verheyen;Olivier Honnay;Glenn Motzkin;Martin Hermy

  • Homogenization of forest plant communities and weakening of species–environment relationships via agricultural land use

    Mark Vellend;Kris Verheyen;Kathryn M. Flinn;Hans Jacquemyn

  • Possible effects of habitat fragmentation and climate change on the range of forest plant species

    Olivier Honnay;Kris Verheyen;Jan Butaye;Hans Jacquemyn

  • Forest fragmentation effects on patch occupancy and population viability of herbaceous plant species

    Olivier Honnay;Hans Jacquemyn;Beatrijs Bossuyt;Martin Hermy

  • Effects of area, age and diversity of forest patches in Belgium on plant species richness, and implications for conservation and reforestation

    Olivier Honnay;Martin Hermy;Pol Coppin

  • Migration of herbaceous plant species across ancient–recent forest ecotones in central Belgium

    Beatrijs Bossuyt;Martin Hermy;Jozef Deckers

  • Driving factors behind the eutrophication signal in understorey plant communities of deciduous temperate forests

    Kris Verheyen;Lander Baeten;Pieter De Frenne;Markus Bernhardt-Römermann

  • Permeability of ancient forest edges for weedy plant species invasion

    Olivier Honnay;Kris Verheyen;Martin Hermy

  • The land use history (1278–1990) of a mixed hardwood forest in western Belgium and its relationship with chemical soil characteristics

    Kris Verheyen;Beatrijs Bossuyt;Martin Hermy;G Tack

  • Satellite based land use and landscape complexity indices as predictors for regional plant species diversity

    Olivier Honnay;Katrien Piessens;W Van Landuyt;Martin Hermy

  • Impact of habitat quality on forest plant species colonization

    Olivier Honnay;Martin Hermy;Pol Coppin

Frequent Co-Authors

Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Rein Brys
Rein Brys Research Institute for Nature and Forest
Bart Muys
Bart Muys KU Leuven
Pieter De Frenne
Pieter De Frenne Ghent University
Lander Baeten
Lander Baeten Ghent University
Guillaume Decocq
Guillaume Decocq University of Picardie Jules Verne
Jörg Brunet
Jörg Brunet Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Raf Aerts
Raf Aerts KU Leuven

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