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D-Index
45
Citations
7779
World Ranking
4849
National Ranking
258

Sebastian Seibold 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 Sebastian Seibold sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 131 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sebastian Seibold 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 Sebastian Seibold sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Sebastian Seibold is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with specific specialization in insect science, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and plant science.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including forest ecology and biodiversity studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, forest insect ecology and management, plant and animal studies, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, and lichen and fungal ecology.

Notable recent papers authored by Sebastian Seibold include:

  • The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition, 2021, Nature

Other high-impact papers published in related fields and venues, though authored by different researchers, include:

  • Heterogeneity-diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Relationship of insect biomass and richness with land use along a climate gradient, 2021, Nature Communications
  • The living dead: acknowledging life after tree death to stop forest degradation, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Resolving the SLOSS dilemma for biodiversity conservation: a research agenda, 2021, Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sebastian Seibold include:

  • Jörg Müller
  • Wolfgang W. Weisser
  • Martin M. Goßner
  • Claus Bässler
  • Nico Blüthgen

The scientist often publishes in venues such as:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Biological Conservation
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Animal Ecology

Best Publications

  • Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers

    Sebastian Seibold;Martin M. Gossner;Nadja K. Simons;Nadja K. Simons;Nico Blüthgen

  • Impacts of salvage logging on biodiversity: A meta‐analysis

    Simon Thorn;Claus Bässler;Roland Brandl;Philip J. Burton

  • Experimental studies of dead-wood biodiversity — A review identifying global gaps in knowledge

    Sebastian Seibold;Sebastian Seibold;Claus Bässler;Roland Brandl;Martin M. Gossner

  • Association of extinction risk of saproxylic beetles with ecological degradation of forests in Europe

    Sebastian Seibold;Sebastian Seibold;Roland Brandl;Jörn Buse;Torsten Hothorn

  • Microclimate and habitat heterogeneity as the major drivers of beetle diversity in dead wood

    Sebastian Seibold;Sebastian Seibold;Claus Bässler;Roland Brandl;Boris Büche

  • The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition

    Sebastian Seibold;Werner Rammer;Torsten Hothorn;Rupert Seidl

  • Heterogeneity–diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests

    Lea Heidrich;Soyeon Bae;Shaun Levick;Sebastian Seibold;Sebastian Seibold

  • “Primeval forest relict beetles” of Central Europe: a set of 168 umbrella species for the protection of primeval forest remnants

    Andreas Eckelt;Jörg Müller;Jörg Müller;Ulrich Bense;Hervé Brustel

  • Relationship of insect biomass and richness with land use along a climate gradient.

    Johannes Uhler;Sarah Redlich;Jie Zhang;Torsten Hothorn

  • Resolving the SLOSS dilemma for biodiversity conservation: a research agenda.

    Lenore Fahrig;James I. Watling;Carlos Alberto Arnillas;Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez

  • The Necessity of Multitrophic Approaches in Community Ecology

    Sebastian Seibold;Sebastian Seibold;Marc W. Cadotte;J. Scott MacIvor;Simon Thorn

  • Specialisation and diversity of multiple trophic groups are promoted by different forest features

    Caterina Penone;Eric Allan;Santiago Soliveres;María R Felipe‐Lucia

  • Agricultural intensification drives butterfly decline

    Jan Christian Habel;Werner Ulrich;Nina Biburger;Sebastian Seibold

  • The living dead: acknowledging life after tree death to stop forest degradation

    Simon Thorn;Sebastian Seibold;Alexandro B Leverkus;Thomas Michler

  • Weather explains the decline and rise of insect biomass over 34 years

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  • Independent effects of host and environment on the diversity of wood-inhabiting fungi

    Franz‐Sebastian Krah;Franz‐Sebastian Krah;Sebastian Seibold;Sebastian Seibold;Roland Brandl;Petr Baldrian

  • An experimental test of the habitat-amount hypothesis for saproxylic beetles in a forested region.

    Sebastian Seibold;Sebastian Seibold;Claus Bässler;Roland Brandl;Lenore Fahrig

  • Temperature drives variation in flying insect biomass across a German malaise trap network

    Ellen A. R. Welti;Petr Zajicek;Mark Frenzel;Manfred Ayasse

  • Radar vision in the mapping of forest biodiversity from space

    Soyeon Bae;Shaun R. Levick;Shaun R. Levick;Lea Heidrich;Paul Magdon

  • Primary determinants of communities in deadwood vary among taxa but are regionally consistent

    Jörg Müller;Jörg Müller;Mike Ulyshen;Sebastian Seibold;Marc Cadotte

  • Dead-wood addition promotes non-saproxylic epigeal arthropods but effects are mediated by canopy openness

    Sebastian Seibold;Sebastian Seibold;Claus Bässler;Petr Baldrian;Lena Reinhard

  • Changes in the dominant assembly mechanism drive species loss caused by declining resources

    Simon Thorn;Simon Thorn;Claus Bässler;Markus Bernhardt-Römermann;Marc Cadotte;Marc Cadotte

Frequent Co-Authors

Jörg Müller
Jörg Müller Heinz Sielmann Foundation
Simon Thorn
Simon Thorn University of Würzburg
Claus Bässler
Claus Bässler Goethe University Frankfurt
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Peter Schall
Peter Schall University of Göttingen
Roland Brandl
Roland Brandl Philipp University of Marburg
Marco Heurich
Marco Heurich University of Freiburg
Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
Jan Christian Habel
Jan Christian Habel University of Salzburg

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