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Rasmus Ejrnæs

Rasmus Ejrnæs

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
7785
World Ranking
6032
National Ranking
88

Rasmus Ejrnæs 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 Rasmus Ejrnæs sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 190 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rasmus Ejrnæs 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 Rasmus Ejrnæs sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Rasmus Ejrnæs is affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark and has contributed extensively to environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their research spans numerous subfields, including ecology, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, global and planetary change, and ecological modeling.

Their work has been published in several frequent venues, such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Oikos, AMBIO, Applied Vegetation Science, and the Journal of Applied Ecology.

Ejrnæs has worked collaboratively with several co-authors, notably Camilla Fløjgaard, Hans Henrik Bruun, Tobias Guldberg Frøslev, Ane Kirstine Brunbjerg, and Lars Dalby. Their joint research has produced multiple studies across diverse ecological topics.

Among recent papers, notable titles include:

  • Exploring a natural baseline for large-herbivore biomass in ecological restoration (2021, Journal of Applied Ecology)
  • The biodiversity effect of reduced tillage on soil microbiota (2021, AMBIO)
  • Detecting flying insects using car nets and DNA metabarcoding (2021, Biology Letters)
  • ReSurveyEurope: A database of resurveyed vegetation plots in Europe (2024, Journal of Vegetation Science)
  • Dark diversity reveals importance of biotic resources and competition for plant diversity across habitats (2020, Ecology and Evolution)

The main research topics covered include ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, peatlands and wetlands ecology, species distribution and climate change, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, and environmental philosophy and ethics.

Ejrnæs is also an author of book publications, having published with Johns Hopkins University. One of the titles is Byens grønne struktur: Natur og miljø i bylandskabet (2023).

Best Publications

  • Algorithm for post-clustering curation of DNA amplicon data yields reliable biodiversity estimates

    Tobias Guldberg Frøslev;Rasmus Kjøller;Hans Henrik Bruun;Rasmus Ejrnæs

  • Science for a wilder Anthropocene: Synthesis and future directions for trophic rewilding research

    Jens-Christian Svenning;Pil B M Pedersen;C Josh Donlan;Rasmus Ejrnæs

  • Vascular plant species richness and bioindication predict multi‐taxon species richness

    Ane Kirstine Brunbjerg;Hans Henrik Bruun;Lars Dalby;Camilla Fløjgaard

  • European Vegetation Archive (EVA): an integrated database of European vegetation plots

    Milan Chytrý;Stephan M. Hennekens;Borja Jiménez‐Alfaro;Ilona Knollová

  • Biowide Species data

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  • Local temperatures inferred from plant communities suggest strong spatial buffering of climate warming across Northern Europe

    Jonathan Lenoir;Bente Jessen Graae;Per Arild Aarrestad;Inger Greve Alsos

  • sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

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

  • High herbivore density associated with vegetation diversity in interglacial ecosystems

    Christopher J. Sandom;Rasmus Ejrnæs;Morten D. D. Hansen;Jens-Christian Svenning

  • Stay or go - how topographic complexity influences alpine plant population and community responses to climate change

    Bente Jessen Graae;Vigdis Vandvik;W. Scott Armbruster;Wolf L. Eiserhardt;Wolf L. Eiserhardt

  • Putting plant resistance traits on the map: a test of the idea that plants are better defended at lower latitudes

    Angela T. Moles;Ian R. Wallis;William J. Foley;David I. Warton

  • Correlations between physical and chemical defences in plants: tradeoffs, syndromes, or just many different ways to skin a herbivorous cat?

    Angela T. Moles;Begoña Peco;Ian R. Wallis;William J. Foley

  • Topographically controlled soil moisture drives plant diversity patterns within grasslands

    Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund;Lars Arge;Peder Klith Bøcher;Tommy Dalgaard

  • Effects of ecological continuity on species richness and composition in forests and woodlands: A review

    Björn Nordén;Anders Dahlberg;Tor Erik Brandrud;Örjan Fritz

  • Trait correlation network analysis identifies biomass allocation traits and stem specific length as hub traits in herbaceous perennial plants

    Michael Kleyer;Juliane Trinogga;Miguel A. Cebrián-Piqueras;Miguel A. Cebrián-Piqueras;Anastasia Trenkamp

  • Community Assembly in Experimental Grasslands: Suitable Environment or Timely Arrival?

    Rasmus Ejrnæs;Hans Henrik Bruun;Bente Jessen Graae

  • Strong microsite control of seedling recruitment in tundra

    Bente J. Graae;Rasmus Ejrnæs;Simone I. Lang;Eric Meineri;Eric Meineri

  • Mammal predator and prey species richness are strongly linked at macroscales.

    Christopher James Sandom;Lars Dalby;Camilla Fløjgaard;Camilla Fløjgaard;W. Daniel Kissling

  • Can we trust gradients extracted by Detrended Correspondence Analysis

    Rasmus Ejrnæs

  • Spatial application of Random Forest models for fine-scale coastal vegetation classification using object based analysis of aerial orthophoto and DEM data

    Anders Juel;Geoffrey Brian Groom;Jens-Christian Svenning;Rasmus Ejrnæs

  • Gradient analysis of dry grassland vegetation in Denmark.

    Rasmus Ejrnæs;Hans Henrik Bruun

  • The impact of temperature regimes on development, dormancy breaking and germination of dwarf shrub seeds from arctic, alpine and boreal sites

    Bente Jessen Graae;Bente Jessen Graae;Inger Greve Alsos;Rasmus Ejrnaes

  • Disturbance drives phylogenetic community structure in coastal dune vegetation

    Ane Kirstine Brunbjerg;Finn Borchsenius;Wolf L. Eiserhardt;Rasmus Ejrnæs

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans Henrik Bruun
Hans Henrik Bruun University of Copenhagen
Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Jacob Heilmann-Clausen
Jacob Heilmann-Clausen University of Copenhagen
Bente J. Graae
Bente J. Graae Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Brian Kronvang
Brian Kronvang Aarhus University
Christian Damgaard
Christian Damgaard Aarhus University
Toke T. Høye
Toke T. Høye Aarhus University
Jonathan Lenoir
Jonathan Lenoir University of Picardie Jules Verne
Brody Sandel
Brody Sandel Santa Clara University
Carsten Rahbek
Carsten Rahbek University of Copenhagen

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