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Rolf Holderegger

Rolf Holderegger

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
65
Citations
18176
World Ranking
1770
National Ranking
49

Overview

Rolf Holderegger is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with numerous publications contributing to these fields.

Their work spans several subfields including ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, plant science, nature and landscape conservation, and ecological modeling. The topics of their research emphasize species distribution and climate change, genetic diversity and population structure, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, botany and plant ecology studies, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, lichen and fungal ecology, as well as plant and animal studies.

Holderegger has authored several recent papers, which include:

  • "Re-thinking the environment in landscape genomics" (2022), published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Bending the curve: Simple but massive conservation action leads to landscape-scale recovery of amphibians" (2022), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Monitoring of species' genetic diversity in Europe varies greatly and overlooks potential climate change impacts" (2024), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Genomic signatures of convergent adaptation to Alpine environments in three Brassicaceae species" (2020), published in Molecular Ecology
  • "Disentangling the effects of geographic peripherality and habitat suitability on neutral and adaptive genetic variation in Swiss stone pine" (2020), published in Molecular Ecology

Their frequent co-authors include Ariel Bergamini, Félix Gugerli, Christian Rellstab, Alex Widmer, and Steffen Boch.

Holderegger's work has appeared repeatedly in prominent scientific venues, particularly:

  • Molecular Ecology
  • Conservation Genetics
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Biological Conservation
  • Journal of Vegetation Science

In addition to research articles, they have contributed to several book publications primarily released through:

  • Merkblatt für die Praxis
  • Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, WSL eBooks
  • WSL-Berichte/WSL Berichte

The book titles include "Portrait, Gefährdung und Schutz der Findlingsflora" (2023), "Grundsätze fur Artenzusammensetzung und genetische Vielfalt von Pflanz-, Saat- und Schnittgut im Naturschutz" (2024), "Portrait, précarité et protection de la flore des blocs erratiques" (2023), "Principes de composition des espèces et de diversité génétique du matériel végétal pour la protection de la nature" (2024), and "Wirkungskontrolle Biotopschutz Schweiz (WBS): Zustand und Veränderungen in den Biotopen von nationaler Bedeutung nach zwei Erhebungsperioden" (2025).

Best Publications

  • Molecular evidence for glacial refugia of mountain plants in the European Alps.

    P Schönswetter;I Stehlik;R Holderegger;Andreas Tribsch

  • A practical guide to environmental association analysis in landscape genomics

    Christian Rellstab;Felix Gugerli;Andrew J. Eckert;Angela M. Hancock

  • Evolutionary consequences of autopolyploidy

    Christian Parisod;Rolf Holderegger;Christian Brochmann

  • Ten years of landscape genetics

    Stéphanie Manel;Rolf Holderegger

  • Landscape genetics: where are we now?

    Andrew Storfer;Melanie A. Murphy;Stephen F. Spear;Rolf Holderegger

  • Adaptive vs. neutral genetic diversity: implications for landscape genetics

    Rolf Holderegger;Urs Kamm;Felix Gugerli

  • Considering spatial and temporal scale in landscape-genetic studies of gene flow

    Corey Devin Anderson;Bryan K. Epperson;Marie Josée Fortin;Rolf Holderegger

  • The genetic effects of roads: A review of empirical evidence

    Rolf Holderegger;Manuela Di Giulio

  • Applications of landscape genetics in conservation biology: concepts and challenges

    Gernot Segelbacher;Samuel A. Cushman;Bryan K. Epperson;Marie Josée Fortin

  • Landscape Genetics

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  • Perspectives on the use of landscape genetics to detect genetic adaptive variation in the field

    Stéphanie Manel;Stéphanie Manel;Stéphane Joost;Bryan K. Epperson;Rolf Holderegger

  • Estimating genomic diversity and population differentiation – an empirical comparison of microsatellite and SNP variation in Arabidopsis halleri

    Martin Claude Fischer;Christian Rellstab;Marianne Leuzinger;Marie Roumet

  • A brief guide to Landscape Genetics

    Rolf Holderegger;Helene H. Wagner

  • Identifying future research needs in landscape genetics: Where to from here?

    Niko Balkenhol;Felix Gugerli;Sam A. Cushman;Lisette P. Waits

  • History or ecology? Substrate type as a major driver of spatial genetic structure in Alpine plants

    Nadir Alvarez;Conny Thiel-Egenter;Andreas Tribsch;Rolf Holderegger

  • Effects of habitat and landscape fragmentation on humans and biodiversity in densely populated landscapes

    Manuela Di Giulio;Rolf Holderegger;Silvia Tobias

  • Trait differentiation and adaptation of plants along elevation gradients

    Aud H. Halbritter;Aud H. Halbritter;Simone Fior;Irene Keller;Regula Billeter

  • A new analytical approach to landscape genetic modelling: least‐cost transect analysis and linear mixed models

    Maarten J. Van Strien;Daniela Keller;Rolf Holderegger

  • A discussion of different types of glacial refugia used in mountain biogeography and phylogeography

    Rolf Holderegger;Conny Thiel-Egenter

  • Genetic diversity in widespread species is not congruent with species richness in alpine plant communities.

    Pierre Taberlet;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Thorsten Englisch;Andreas Tribsch

  • Common factors drive adaptive genetic variation at different spatial scales in Arabis alpina

    Stéphanie Manel;Stéphanie Manel;B N Poncet;P Legendre;F Gugerli

  • Quantifying dispersal and establishment limitation in a population of an epiphytic lichen

    Silke Werth;Helene H. Wagner;Felix Gugerli;Rolf Holderegger

Frequent Co-Authors

Felix Gugerli
Felix Gugerli Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Stéphanie Manel
Stéphanie Manel PSL University
Pierre Taberlet
Pierre Taberlet Grenoble Alpes University
Andreas Tribsch
Andreas Tribsch University of Salzburg
Helene H. Wagner
Helene H. Wagner University of Toronto
Nadir Alvarez
Nadir Alvarez University of Geneva
Benedikt R. Schmidt
Benedikt R. Schmidt University of Zurich
Christoph Scheidegger
Christoph Scheidegger Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Ludovic Gielly
Ludovic Gielly Grenoble Alpes University

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