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41
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9588
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5716
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Thomas Dirnböck 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 Thomas Dirnböck sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 118 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas Dirnböck 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 Thomas Dirnböck sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 41 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Thomas Dirnböck is affiliated with the Environment Agency in the United Kingdom and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, and Water Science and Technology.

Throughout their career, Dirnböck has focused on topics related to Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Forest Management and Policy, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

Dirnböck's recent publications include the following papers:

  • Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming, 2020, Science
  • Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Replacements of small- by large-ranged species scale up to diversity loss in Europe's temperate forest biome, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Directional turnover towards larger-ranged plants over time and across habitats, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Assessing critical load exceedances and ecosystem impacts of anthropogenic nitrogen and sulphur deposition at unmanaged forested catchments in Europe, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Dirnböck frequently publishes in venues such as ARPHA Conference Abstracts, Science, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Journal of Environmental Management, and AMBIO. The Environment Agency affiliation situates their work within applied environmental research contexts.

The scientist collaborates regularly with several coauthors, indicating a networked research approach. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Kris Verheyen
  • Markus Bernhardt-Römermann
  • Lander Baeten
  • Pieter De Frenne
  • Jörg Brunet

Best Publications

  • Extinction debt of high-mountain plants under twenty-first-century climate change

    Stefan Dullinger;Andreas Gattringer;Wilfried Thuiller;Dietmar Moser

  • Are niche-based species distribution models transferable in space?

    Christophe F. Randin;Thomas Dirnböck;Stefan Dullinger;Niklaus E. Zimmermann

  • 21st century climate change threatens mountain flora unequally across Europe

    Robin Engler;Christophe F. Randin;Wilfried Thuiller;Stefan Dullinger

  • Forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming

    Florian Zellweger;Florian Zellweger;Pieter De Frenne;Jonathan Lenoir;Pieter Vangansbeke

  • Disproportional risk for habitat loss of high‐altitude endemic species under climate change

    Thomas Dirnböck;Franz Essl;Wolfgang Rabitsch

  • A regional impact assessment of climate and land‐use change on alpine vegetation

    Thomas Dirnböck;Stefan Dullinger;Georg Grabherr

  • Modelling climate change-driven treeline shifts: relative effects of temperature increase, dispersal and invasibility

    Stefan Dullinger;Thomas Dirnböck;Thomas Dirnböck;Georg Grabherr

  • Monitoring biodiversity in the Anthropocene using remote sensing in species distribution models

    Christophe F. Randin;Michael B. Ashcroft;Janine Bolliger;Jeannine Cavender-Bares

  • Patterns of Shrub Invasion into High Mountain Grasslands of the Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria

    S. Dullinger;T. Dirnböck;G. Grabherr

  • Forest floor vegetation response to nitrogen deposition in Europe

    Thomas Dirnböck;Ulf Grandin;Markus Bernhardt-Römermann;Burkhardt Beudert

  • The impacts of climate change and disturbance on spatio-temporal trajectories of biodiversity in a temperate forest landscape.

    Dominik Thom;Werner Rammer;Thomas Dirnböck;Jörg Müller

  • Responses of forest ecosystems in Europe to decreasing nitrogen deposition

    Andreas Schmitz;Tanja G.M. Sanders;Andreas Bolte;Filippo Bussotti

  • Functional traits and local environment predict vegetation responses to disturbance: a pan‐European multi‐site experiment

    Markus Bernhardt-Römermann;Alan Gray;Adam J. Vanbergen;Laurent Bergès

  • Drivers of temporal changes in temperate forest plant diversity vary across spatial scales

    Markus Bernhardt-Römermann;Lander Baeten;Dylan Craven;Pieter De Frenne

  • A resampling approach for evaluating effects of pasture abandonment on subalpine plant species diversity

    Stefan Dullinger;Thomas Dirnböck;Josef Greimler;Georg Grabherr

  • Global environmental change effects on plant community composition trajectories depend upon management legacies.

    Michael P. Perring;Michael P. Perring;Markus Bernhardt‐Römermann;Lander Baeten;Gabriele Midolo;Gabriele Midolo

  • Assessing the Long-Term Dynamics of Endemic Plants at Summit Habitats

    H. Pauli;M. Gottfried;T. Dirnböck;S. Dullinger

  • Uniform climate sensitivity in tree-ring stable isotopes across species and sites in a mid-latitude temperate forest

    Claudia Hartl-Meier;Christian Zang;Ulf Büntgen;Jan Esper

  • Escherichia coli and enterococci are sensitive and reliable indicators for human, livestock and wildlife faecal pollution in alpine mountainous water resources.

    Andreas H Farnleitner;G Ryzinska-Paier;Georg H Reischer;M M Burtscher

  • Combining Biodiversity Resurveys across Regions to Advance Global Change Research

    Kris Verheyen;Pieter De Frenne;Lander Baeten;Donald M Waller

  • Replacements of small- by large-ranged species scale up to diversity loss in Europe’s temperate forest biome

    Ingmar R. Staude;Donald M. Waller;Markus Bernhardt-Römermann;Anne D. Bjorkman

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan Dullinger
Stefan Dullinger University of Vienna
Georg Grabherr
Georg Grabherr University of Vienna
Martin Kopecký
Martin Kopecký Czech Academy of Sciences
Jonathan Lenoir
Jonathan Lenoir University of Picardie Jules Verne
Franz Essl
Franz Essl University of Vienna
Radim Hédl
Radim Hédl Czech Academy of Sciences
Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Martin Forsius
Martin Forsius Finnish Environment Institute
Markus Bernhardt-Römermann
Markus Bernhardt-Römermann Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Petr Petřík
Petr Petřík Czech Academy of Sciences

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