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Patrick Weigelt is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, as well as Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work addresses key topics including Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Plant and Animal Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Fern and Epiphyte Biology, Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions, and Plant Parasitism and Resistance.

Recent publications by Patrick Weigelt include:

  • Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success (2020) in Nature Communications
  • Global root traits (GRooT) database (2020) in Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • EpiList 1.0: a global checklist of vascular epiphytes (2021) in Ecology
  • Global models and predictions of plant diversity based on advanced machine learning techniques (2022) in New Phytologist
  • Naturalized alien floras still carry the legacy of European colonialism (2022) in Nature Ecology & Evolution

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Holger Kreft, with 88 joint publications
  • Franz Essl, with 47 joint publications
  • Mark van Kleunen, with 46 joint publications
  • Petr Pyšek, with 45 joint publications
  • Jan Pergl, with 41 joint publications

Patrick Weigelt's research has been published in multiple venues, with notable frequency in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), 17 publications
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography, 10 publications
  • Nature Communications, 9 publications
  • Ecography, 9 publications
  • Journal of Biogeography, 8 publications

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

  • 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

  • Multidimensional biases, gaps and uncertainties in global plant occurrence information

    Carsten Meyer;Patrick Weigelt;Holger Kreft

  • 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

  • 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

  • Bioclimatic and physical characterization of the world’s islands

    Patrick Weigelt;Walter Jetz;Holger Kreft

  • The Global Naturalized Alien Flora (GloNAF) database

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

  • The global spectrum of plant form and function: enhanced species-level trait dataset

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  • Late Quaternary climate change shapes island biodiversity.

    Patrick Weigelt;Manuel Jonas Steinbauer;Juliano Sarmento Cabral;Holger Kreft

  • GIFT – A Global Inventory of Floras and Traits for macroecology and biogeography

    Patrick Weigelt;Christian König;Holger Kreft

  • A roadmap for island biology: 50 fundamental questions after 50 years of The Theory of Island Biogeography

    Jairo Patiño;Jairo Patiño;Robert J. Whittaker;Robert J. Whittaker;Paulo A.V. Borges;José María Fernández-Palacios

  • Quantifying island isolation – insights from global patterns of insular plant species richness

    Patrick Weigelt;Holger Kreft

  • Global root traits (GRooT) database

    Nathaly R. Guerrero-Ramírez;Liesje Mommer;Grégoire T. Freschet;Colleen M. Iversen

  • Remoteness promotes biological invasions on islands worldwide.

    Dietmar Moser;Bernd Lenzner;Patrick Weigelt;Wayne Dawson

  • Global models and predictions of plant diversity based on advanced machine learning techniques.

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  • Global patterns and drivers of phylogenetic structure in island floras.

    Patrick Weigelt;W. Daniel Kissling;Yael Kisel;Susanne A. Fritz

  • Biodiversity data integration-the significance of data resolution and domain.

    Christian König;Patrick Weigelt;Julian Schrader;Amanda Taylor

  • Oceanic island biogeography through the lens of the general dynamic model: assessment and prospect.

    Michael K. Borregaard;Michael K. Borregaard;Isabel R. Amorim;Paulo A. V. Borges;Juliano S. Cabral

  • Climate change will increase the naturalization risk from garden plants in Europe.

    Iwona Dullinger;Johannes Wessely;Oliver Bossdorf;Wayne Dawson

Frequent Co-Authors

Holger Kreft
Holger Kreft University of Göttingen
Petr Pyšek
Petr Pyšek Czech Academy of Sciences
Mark van Kleunen
Mark van Kleunen University of Konstanz
Franz Essl
Franz Essl University of Vienna
Wayne Dawson
Wayne Dawson Durham University
Jan Pergl
Jan Pergl Czech Academy of Sciences
Marten Winter
Marten Winter Leipzig University
Hanno Seebens
Hanno Seebens Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
Dietmar Moser
Dietmar Moser University of Vienna
Stefan Dullinger
Stefan Dullinger University of Vienna

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