Daniel Scherrer

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Daniel Scherrer is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Scherrer has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 21 papers in Ecological Modeling and 13 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Daniel Scherrer's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (24 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (21 papers) and Plant and animal studies (9 papers). Daniel Scherrer is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (24 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (21 papers) and Plant and animal studies (9 papers). Daniel Scherrer collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, France and Finland. Daniel Scherrer's co-authors include Christian Körner, Antoine Guisan, Heidi K. Mod, Miska Luoto, Martin Karl‐Friedrich Bader, Rui F. Fernandes, Thomas Wohlgemuth, Pascal Vittoz, Philippe Christe and Yann Vitasse and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Ecology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Scherrer

35 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Topographically controlled thermal-habitat differentiation buffers alpine plant diversity against climate warming

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel Scherrer Switzerland	18	985	978	606	526	513	39	1.9k
Christian Piedallu France	19	752 0.8×	1.3k 1.3×	561 0.9×	912 1.7×	365 0.7×	40	2.1k
Jonas J. Lembrechts Belgium	18	615 0.6×	797 0.8×	525 0.9×	279 0.5×	447 0.9×	46	1.4k
Anke Stein Germany	11	596 0.6×	1.2k 1.2×	778 1.3×	616 1.2×	699 1.4×	14	2.1k
Marko J. Spasojevic United States	26	599 0.6×	1.6k 1.6×	738 1.2×	614 1.2×	970 1.9×	61	2.4k
Dirk R. Schmatz Switzerland	15	493 0.5×	665 0.7×	421 0.7×	697 1.3×	301 0.6×	23	1.5k
Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin Thailand	26	360 0.4×	1.5k 1.6×	462 0.8×	1.1k 2.1×	574 1.1×	55	2.2k
A. E. Kelly United States	6	463 0.5×	529 0.5×	402 0.7×	657 1.2×	273 0.5×	9	1.4k
Ann Milbau Belgium	28	904 0.9×	1.7k 1.7×	976 1.6×	593 1.1×	1.1k 2.1×	58	2.9k
Tarek Hattab France	23	766 0.8×	703 0.7×	1.1k 1.7×	903 1.7×	350 0.7×	49	2.0k
Dylan Keon United States	7	334 0.3×	816 0.8×	731 1.2×	694 1.3×	385 0.8×	12	1.7k

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Scherrer, Daniel, et al.. (2025). Differential responses of taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic multi-taxa diversity to environmental factors in temperate forest ecosystems. Ecological Indicators. 178. 113855–113855.

Guisan, Antoine, Mathieu Chevalier, Antoine Adde, et al.. (2025). Spatially nested species distribution models (N‐ SDM ): An effective tool to overcome niche truncation for more robust inference and projections. Journal of Ecology. 113(7). 1588–1605. 6 indexed citations

Bloom, Colin K., Katrin Meusburger, Roman Zweifel, et al.. (2025). Towards near real-time drought stress assessment in Europe’s temperate forests – comparing remote sensing time series with continuous in-situ tree-level measurements. Ecological Indicators. 177. 113757–113757. 1 indexed citations

Moser, Barbara, Esther R. Frei, Christoph Bachofen, Thomas Wohlgemuth, & Daniel Scherrer. (2025). Non-native Douglas fir seedlings outcompete native Norway spruce, silver fir and Scots pine under dry and nutrient-poor conditions. Frontiers in Plant Science. 16. 1546250–1546250.

Portier, Jeanne, Brigitte Rohner, Andri Baltensweiler, et al.. (2024). Soil and climate‐dependent ingrowth inference: broadleaves on their slow way to conquer Swiss forests. Ecography. 2024(7). 2 indexed citations

Stadelmann, Golo, Jeanne Portier, Brigitte Rohner, et al.. (2024). Ökologisch kohärente Baumartengruppen für die praxisnahe Forschung. Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen. 175(6). 312–313.

Scherrer, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Unravelling the impact of soil data quality on species distribution models of temperate forest woody plants. The Science of The Total Environment. 944. 173719–173719. 5 indexed citations

Scherrer, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Deadlift Biomechanics across Multiple Sets in Resistance Trained Males. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 1 indexed citations

Scherrer, Daniel, Barbara Moser, & Thomas Wohlgemuth. (2023). Huhn oder Ei? Störungen und Baumartenzusammensetzung. DORA WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research). 33–40. 1 indexed citations

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Wohlgemuth, Thomas, Valentin Queloz, Barbara Moser, et al.. (2023). Dynamik von Störungen in Wäldern auf der Alpennordseite von 1900 bis 2022. DORA WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research). 17–24. 2 indexed citations

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Korner‐Nievergelt, Fränzi, Jakub Szymkowiak, Marta Maziarz, et al.. (2023). Wood warbler population dynamics in response to mast seeding regimes in Europe. Ecology. 105(2). e4227–e4227. 8 indexed citations

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Bader, Martin Karl‐Friedrich, Daniel Scherrer, Roman Zweifel, & Christian Körner. (2022). Less Pronounced Drought Responses in Ring-Porous than in Diffuse-Porous Temperate Tree Species. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Scherrer, Daniel, Matthias Bürgi, Arthur Geßler, et al.. (2022). Abundance changes of neophytes and native species indicate a thermophilisation and eutrophisation of the Swiss flora during the 20th century. Ecological Indicators. 135. 108558–108558. 16 indexed citations

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Scherrer, Daniel, et al.. (2021). Mind the gaps: Comparison of representative vs opportunistic assessment of tree regeneration in Central European beech forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 491. 119179–119179. 9 indexed citations

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Scherrer, Daniel, Yann Vitasse, Antoine Guisan, Thomas Wohlgemuth, & Heike Lischke. (2020). Competition and demography rather than dispersal limitation slow down upward shifts of trees’ upper elevation limits in the Alps. Journal of Ecology. 108(6). 2416–2430. 45 indexed citations

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Scherrer, Daniel & Antoine Guisan. (2019). Ecological indicator values reveal missing predictors of species distributions. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 3061–3061. 58 indexed citations

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Guisan, Antoine, Heidi K. Mod, Daniel Scherrer, et al.. (2019). Scaling the linkage between environmental niches and functional traits for improved spatial predictions of biological communities. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 28(10). 1384–1392. 17 indexed citations

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Scherrer, Daniel, Peter Stoll, & Jürg Stöcklin. (2017). Colonization dynamics of a clonal pioneer plant on a glacier foreland inferred from spatially explicit and size-structured matrix models. Folia Geobotanica. 52(3-4). 353–366. 5 indexed citations

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Scherrer, Daniel, et al.. (2017). Assessing and predicting shifts in mountain forest composition across 25 years of climate change. Diversity and Distributions. 23(5). 517–528. 47 indexed citations

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Scherrer, Daniel, et al.. (2010). Elevational species shifts in a warmer climate are overestimated when based on weather station data. International Journal of Biometeorology. 55(4). 645–654. 73 indexed citations

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