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Silke Langenheder

Silke Langenheder

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
43
Citations
9927
World Ranking
5228
National Ranking
127

Silke Langenheder 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 Silke Langenheder sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 96 publications — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Silke Langenheder 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 Silke Langenheder sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Silke Langenheder is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden and works primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their research focuses on multiple subfields including Ecology, Oceanography, Molecular Biology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Gut Microbiota and Health, Protist Diversity and Phylogeny, and Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Diversity and Ecology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Silke Langenheder include:

  • Maren Striebel
  • Pablo Urrutia-Cordero
  • Eva S. Lindström
  • Maria Lundgren
  • Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer

They have published in scientific venues with multiple contributions, most notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • Freshwater Biology
  • Ecology

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Silke Langenheder include:

  • Microbial Community Resilience across Ecosystems and Multiple Disturbances, 2021, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
  • Freshwater Salinisation: A Research Agenda for a Saltier World, 2022, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Using Null Models to Compare Bacterial and Microeukaryotic Metacommunity Assembly under Shifting Environmental Conditions, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Current Water Quality Guidelines across North America and Europe Do Not Protect Lakes from Salinization, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Association between Aquatic Micropollutant Dissipation and River Sediment Bacterial Communities, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology

Best Publications

  • Fundamentals of microbial community resistance and resilience

    Ashley Shade;Hannes Peter;Steven D. Allison;Didier L. Baho

  • Local and regional factors influencing bacterial community assembly

    Eva S. Lindström;Silke Langenheder

  • Biogeography of bacterial communities exposed to progressive long-term environmental change

    Ramiro Logares;Eva S. Lindstrom;Silke Langenheder;Jürg Brendan Logue;Jürg Brendan Logue

  • Microbial Community Resilience across Ecosystems and Multiple Disturbances

    Laurent Philippot;Bryan S. Griffiths;Silke Langenheder

  • Heterotrophic bacterial growth efficiency and community structure at different natural organic carbon concentrations.

    Alexander Eiler;Silke Langenheder;Stefan Bertilsson;Lars J. Tranvik

  • Species sorting and neutral processes are both important during the initial assembly of bacterial communities

    Silke Langenheder;Anna J Székely

  • Unraveling assembly of stream biofilm communities.

    Katharina Besemer;Hannes Peter;Jürg B Logue;Silke Langenheder

  • Decomposing multiple dimensions of stability in global change experiments.

    Helmut Hillebrand;Silke Langenheder;Karen Lebret;Eva S. Lindström

  • Freshwater salinisation: a research agenda for a saltier world.

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  • Function-specific response to depletion of microbial diversity

    Hannes Peter;Sara Beier;Stefan Bertilsson;Eva S Lindström

  • The importance of species sorting differs between habitat generalists and specialists in bacterial communities.

    Anna J. Székely;Silke Langenheder

  • Weak coupling between community composition and functioning of aquatic bacteria

    Silke Langenheder;Eva S. Lindström;Lars J. Tranvik

  • Structure and Function of Bacterial Communities Emerging from Different Sources under Identical Conditions

    Silke Langenheder;Eva S. Lindström;Eva S. Lindström;Lars J. Tranvik

  • Bacterial biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relations are modified by environmental complexity

    Silke Langenheder;Mark T. Bulling;Martin Solan;James I. Prosser

  • Factors influencing aquatic and terrestrial bacterial community assembly.

    Silke Langenheder;Eva S. Lindström

  • The role of environmental and spatial factors for the composition of aquatic bacterial communities

    Silke Langenheder;Henrik Ragnarsson

  • Regulation of bacterial biomass and community structure by metazoan and protozoan predation

    Silke Langenheder;Klaus Jürgens

  • Regional invariance among microbial communities.

    Örjan Östman;Stina Drakare;Emma S. Kritzberg;Silke Langenheder

  • Environmental and spatial characterisation of bacterial community composition in soil to inform sampling strategies

    Kate L. Baker;Kate L. Baker;Kate L. Baker;Silke Langenheder;Graeme W. Nicol;Dean Ricketts

  • Effects of Disturbance Intensity and Frequency on Bacterial Community Composition and Function

    Mercè Berga;Anna J. Székely;Silke Langenheder

  • Influence of dissolved organic matter source on lake bacterioplankton structure and function - implications for seasonal dynamics of community composition

    Emma S. Kritzberg;Silke Langenheder;Eva S. Lindström;Eva S. Lindström

  • Salinity as a structuring factor for the composition and performance of bacterioplankton degrading riverine DOC

    Silke Langenheder;Veljo Kisand;Johan Wikner;Lars J. Tranvik

Frequent Co-Authors

Eva S. Lindström
Eva S. Lindström Uppsala University
Stefan Bertilsson
Stefan Bertilsson Swedish Research Council
Lars J. Tranvik
Lars J. Tranvik Uppsala University
Helmut Hillebrand
Helmut Hillebrand Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Peter Eklöv
Peter Eklöv Uppsala University
David G. Angeler
David G. Angeler Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Alexander Eiler
Alexander Eiler University of Oslo
Hjalmar Laudon
Hjalmar Laudon Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
James I. Prosser
James I. Prosser University of Aberdeen
Lars Gamfeldt
Lars Gamfeldt University of Gothenburg

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