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D-Index
63
Citations
34902
World Ranking
1914
National Ranking
52

Overview

Sven Bacher is affiliated with the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant focus on subfields such as Ecology, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Insect Science, and Plant Science.

The scientist's main topics of work include species distribution and climate change, forest insect ecology and management, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, plant and animal studies, animal ecology and behavior studies, horticultural and viticultural research, and environmental conservation and management.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Sven Bacher include:

  • Helen E. Roy
  • Franz Essl
  • Jonathan M. Jeschke
  • Philip E. Hulme
  • Piero Genovesi

Sven Bacher has published extensively in several key venues relevant to their research areas. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • NeoBiota
  • Biological Invasions
  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature Communications

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Sven Bacher include:

  • "Scientists' warning on invasive alien species" (2020, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
  • "Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050" (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • "Drivers of future alien species impacts: An expert-based assessment" (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • "Invasion syndromes: a systematic approach for predicting biological invasions and facilitating effective management" (2020, Biological Invasions)
  • "MAcroecological Framework for Invasive Aliens (MAFIA): disentangling large-scale context dependence in biological invasions" (2020, NeoBiota)

Their work features a strong emphasis on biological invasions, invasive alien species, and the ecological dynamics and impacts tied to these phenomena.

Best Publications

  • Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance

    Carsten F. Dormann;Jane Elith;Sven Bacher;Carsten Buchmann

  • A proposed unified framework for biological invasions.

    Tim M. Blackburn;Tim M. Blackburn;Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Sven Bacher;James T. Carlton

  • No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide.

    Hanno Seebens;Hanno Seebens;Tim M. Blackburn;Ellie E. Dyer;Ellie E. Dyer;Piero Genovesi

  • Scientists' warning on invasive alien species.

    Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Philip E. Hulme;Dan Simberloff;Sven Bacher

  • Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities

    Gian Reto Walther;Alain Roques;Philip E. Hulme;Martin T. Sykes

  • Grasping at the routes of biological invasions: a framework for integrating pathways into policy

    P. E. Hulme;S. Bacher;M. Kenis;S. Klotz

  • A Unified Classification of Alien Species Based on the Magnitude of their Environmental Impacts

    Tim M. Blackburn;Franz Essl;Thomas Evans;Philip E. Hulme

  • Disentangling the role of environmental and human pressures on biological invasions across Europe

    Petr Pysek;Vojtech Jarosík;Philip E Hulme;Ingolf Kühn

  • Global rise in emerging alien species results from increased accessibility of new source pools.

    Hanno Seebens;Tim M. Blackburn;Tim M. Blackburn;Tim M. Blackburn;Ellie E. Dyer;Ellie E. Dyer;Piero Genovesi

  • Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050

    Hanno Seebens;Sven Bacher;Tim M Blackburn;Tim M Blackburn;Tim M Blackburn;César Capinha

  • Defining the Impact of Non-Native Species

    Jonathan M Jeschke;Sven Bacher;Tim M Blackburn;Jaimie T A Dick

  • Brain Size Predicts the Success of Mammal Species Introduced into Novel Environments

    Daniel Sol;Sven Bacher;Simon M. Reader;Louis Lefebvre

  • Ecological Impacts of Alien Species: Quantification, Scope, Caveats, and Recommendations

    Sabrina Kumschick;Mirijam Gaertner;Montserrat Vilà;Franz Essl

  • TEASIng apart alien species risk assessments: a framework for best practices

    Brian Leung;Nuria Roura-Pascual;Sven Bacher;Jaakko Heikkilä

  • Socio-economic impact classification of alien taxa (SEICAT)

    Sven Bacher;Sven Bacher;T.M.Tim M. Blackburn;T.M.Tim M. Blackburn;Franz Essl;Piero Genovesi

  • More than “100 worst” alien species in Europe

    Wolfgang Nentwig;Sven Bacher;Sabrina Kumschick;Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek

  • Crossing Frontiers in Tackling Pathways of Biological Invasions

    Franz Essl;Sven Bacher;Tim M. Blackburn;Olaf Booy

  • A vision for global monitoring of biological invasions

    Guillaume Latombe;Petr Pyšek;Jonathan M. Jeschke;Tim M. Blackburn

  • Framework and guidelines for implementing the proposed IUCN Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (EICAT)

    Charlotte L. Hawkins;Sven Bacher;Franz Essl;Philip E. Hulme

  • Contrasting patterns in the invasions of European terrestrial and freshwater habitats by alien plants, insects and vertebrates

    Petr Pyšek;Petr Pyšek;Sven Bacher;Milan Chytrý;Vojtěch Jarošík;Vojtěch Jarošík

  • Drivers of future alien species impacts: An expert-based assessment.

    Franz Essl;Franz Essl;Bernd Lenzner;Sven Bacher;Sarah Bailey

Frequent Co-Authors

Petr Pyšek
Petr Pyšek Czech Academy of Sciences
Franz Essl
Franz Essl University of Vienna
Jonathan M. Jeschke
Jonathan M. Jeschke Freie Universität Berlin
Tim M. Blackburn
Tim M. Blackburn University College London
Piero Genovesi
Piero Genovesi Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale
Ingolf Kühn
Ingolf Kühn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Montserrat Vilà
Montserrat Vilà Spanish National Research Council
Wolfgang Nentwig
Wolfgang Nentwig University of Bern
Philip E. Hulme
Philip E. Hulme Lincoln University
Jan Pergl
Jan Pergl Czech Academy of Sciences

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