2026 Norbert Hölzel: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	58	1339	1227	94	82	170	13045
Ecology and Evolution	61	2184	2094	121	118	194	14383

Overview

Norbert Hölzel is affiliated with the University of Münster in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change. Additional subfields include Plant Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's recent publications highlight key topics within ecology and ecosystem research. Notable papers include:

"Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands" (2022), published in Science
"The results of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic" (2020), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
"The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales" (2022), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
"sPlotOpen - An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots" (2021), published in Global Ecology and Biogeography

These publications address core topics such as ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, land use and ecosystem services, species distribution and climate change, climate change and permafrost, fire effects on ecosystems, and rangeland and wildlife management.

Frequent collaborators of Norbert Hölzel include:

Till Kleinebecker (27 joint publications)
Valentin H. Klaus (25 joint publications)
Johannes Kamp (20 joint publications)
Daniel Prati (17 joint publications)
Ramona Julia Heim (14 joint publications)

The scientist regularly publishes in notable venues, with several publications in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Journal of Applied Ecology, The Science of The Total Environment, and Global Change Biology.

Best Publications

Land use intensification alters ecosystem multifunctionality via loss of biodiversity and changes to functional composition

Eric Allan;Pete Manning;Fabian Alt;Julia Binkenstein

882
Citations
Biodiversity at multiple trophic levels is needed for ecosystem multifunctionality

Santiago Soliveres;Fons van der Plas;Peter Manning;Daniel Prati

849
Citations
Global trait–environment relationships of plant communities

Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Oliver Purschke;Jonathan Lenoir

667
Citations
Species introduction in restoration projects-Evaluation of different techniques for the establishment of semi-natural grasslands in Central and Northwestern Europe

Kathrin Kiehl;Anita Kirmer;Tobias W. Donath;Leonid Rasran

569
Citations
A quantitative index of land-use intensity in grasslands: Integrating mowing, grazing and fertilization

Nico Blüthgen;Carsten F. Dormann;Daniel Prati;Valentin H. Klaus

482
Citations
Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity.

Eric Allan;Oliver Bossdorf;Oliver Bossdorf;Carsten F. Dormann;Daniel Prati

402
Citations
Grazing and ecosystem service delivery in global drylands

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390
Citations
Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services.

María R. Felipe-Lucia;Santiago Soliveres;Caterina Penone;Markus Fischer

384
Citations
Restoration of a species-rich flood meadow by topsoil removal and diaspore transfer with plant material

Norbert Hölzel;Annette Otte

341
Citations
Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

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

330
Citations
Direct and productivity-mediated indirect effects of fertilization, mowing and grazing on grassland species richness

Stephanie A. Socher;Daniel Prati;Steffen Boch;Jörg Müller

311
Citations
sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Oliver Purschke

265
Citations
The impact of site conditions and seed dispersal on restoration success in alluvial meadows

Tobias W. Donath;Norbert Hölzel;Annette Otte

229
Citations
The results of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments are realistic

Malte Jochum;Malte Jochum;Markus Fischer;Forest Isbell;Christiane Roscher

216
Citations
Large scale application of diaspore transfer with plant material in restoration practice - Impact of seed and microsite limitation

Tobias W. Donath;Stephanie Bissels;Norbert Hölzel;Annette Otte

211
Citations
Global population collapse in a superabundant migratory bird and illegal trapping in China.

Johannes Kamp;Steffen Oppel;Alexandr A. Ananin;Yurii A. Durnev

210
Citations
Low investment in sexual reproduction threatens plants adapted to phosphorus limitation

Yuki Fujita;Harry Olde Venterink;Peter M. Van Bodegom;Jacob C. Douma

209
Citations
Land use imperils plant and animal community stability through changes in asynchrony rather than diversity

Nico Blüthgen;Nadja K. Simons;Kirsten Jung;Daniel Prati

208
Citations
Mix and match: regional admixture provenancing strikes a balance among different seed-sourcing strategies for ecological restoration

Anna Bucharova;Anna Bucharova;Anna Bucharova;Oliver Bossdorf;Norbert Hölzel;Johannes Kollmann

207
Citations
The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales

Unknown

194
Citations
Locally rare species influence grassland ecosystem multifunctionality

Santiago Soliveres;Peter Manning;Daniel Prati;Martin M. Gossner

177
Citations
Mapping the timing of cropland abandonment and recultivation in northern Kazakhstan using annual Landsat time series

Andrey Dara;Andrey Dara;Matthias Baumann;Tobias Kuemmerle;Dirk Pflugmacher

173
Citations
Genetic differentiation and regional adaptation among seed origins used for grassland restoration: lessons from a multispecies transplant experiment

Anna Bucharova;Stefan Michalski;Julia‐Maria Hermann;Karola Heveling

154
Citations