Dirk Sanders

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Dirk Sanders is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dirk Sanders has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 17 papers in Genetics and 15 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Dirk Sanders's work include Plant and animal studies (28 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (15 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (11 papers). Dirk Sanders is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (28 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (15 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (11 papers). Dirk Sanders collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and Germany. Dirk Sanders's co-authors include Rachel Kehoe, Kevin J. Gaston, F. J. Frank van Veen, Enric Frago, Christian Platner, Christophe Patterson, Élisa Thébault, Eva Knop, Jonathan Bennie and Tabea Turrini and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Dirk Sanders

44 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.

A meta-analysis of biological impacts of artificial light at night

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dirk Sanders United Kingdom	22	692	684	640	386	337	45	1.8k
Kyle J. Haynes United States	24	670 1.0×	526 0.8×	973 1.5×	235 0.6×	371 1.1×	50	1.8k
Roy H. A. van Grunsven Netherlands	27	726 1.0×	1.5k 2.2×	801 1.3×	164 0.4×	154 0.5×	49	2.5k
Gregor Kalinkat Germany	21	700 1.0×	498 0.7×	1.1k 1.7×	348 0.9×	287 0.9×	32	2.1k
Mark Parsons United Kingdom	19	877 1.3×	419 0.6×	509 0.8×	182 0.5×	242 0.7×	43	1.7k
Marta Szulkin Poland	22	913 1.3×	341 0.5×	961 1.5×	689 1.8×	63 0.2×	47	2.0k
F. J. Frank van Veen United Kingdom	25	1.7k 2.5×	436 0.6×	894 1.4×	490 1.3×	1.0k 3.1×	57	3.0k
Thomas Merckx Belgium	28	1.2k 1.8×	450 0.7×	718 1.1×	324 0.8×	245 0.7×	50	2.2k
Elrike Marais South Africa	14	441 0.6×	208 0.3×	848 1.3×	424 1.1×	317 0.9×	14	1.4k
Ralph Grundel United States	22	863 1.2×	243 0.4×	570 0.9×	238 0.6×	247 0.7×	56	1.4k
Alberto Ugolini Italy	24	381 0.6×	287 0.4×	618 1.0×	261 0.7×	78 0.2×	119	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dirk Sanders

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Risely, Alice, Thibault Stalder, Benno I. Simmons, et al.. (2024). Host- plasmid network structure in wastewater is linked to antimicrobial resistance genes. Nature Communications. 15(1). 555–555. 20 indexed citations

Tougeron, Kévin & Dirk Sanders. (2023). Combined light pollution and night warming as a novel threat to ecosystems. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 38(8). 701–704. 15 indexed citations

Kehoe, Rachel, et al.. (2022). Towards a mechanistic understanding of the effects of artificial light at night on insect populations and communities. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 53. 100950–100950. 17 indexed citations

Sanders, Dirk, et al.. (2022). Spectrum of artificial light at night drives impact of a diurnal species in insect food web. The Science of The Total Environment. 831. 154893–154893. 16 indexed citations

Klümper, Uli, Elze Hesse, Meaghan Castledine, et al.. (2022). Fitness effects of plasmids shape the structure of bacteria–plasmid interaction networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(22). e2118361119–e2118361119. 14 indexed citations

Zhong, Zhiwei, Guoliang Li, Dirk Sanders, et al.. (2022). A rodent herbivore reduces its predation risk through ecosystem engineering. Current Biology. 32(8). 1869–1874.e4. 14 indexed citations

Hesse, Elze, Siobhán O’Brien, Adela M. Luján, et al.. (2021). Stress causes interspecific facilitation within a compost community. Ecology Letters. 24(10). 2169–2177. 27 indexed citations

Li, Xiaofei, Anita C. Risch, Dirk Sanders, et al.. (2021). A facilitation between large herbivores and ants accelerates litter decomposition by modifying soil microenvironmental conditions. Functional Ecology. 35(8). 1822–1832. 12 indexed citations

Zhong, Zhiwei, Xiaofei Li, Dirk Sanders, et al.. (2021). Soil engineering by ants facilitates plant compensation for large herbivore removal of aboveground biomass. Ecology. 102(5). e03312–e03312. 24 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaofei, Zhiwei Zhong, Dirk Sanders, et al.. (2018). Reciprocal facilitation between large herbivores and ants in a semi-arid grassland. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1888). 20181665–20181665. 24 indexed citations

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Sanders, Dirk, et al.. (2018). Low Levels of Artificial Light at Night Strengthen Top-Down Control in Insect Food Web. Current Biology. 28(15). 2474–2478.e3. 84 indexed citations

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Sanders, Dirk, Andrea Moser, Jason Newton, & F. J. Frank van Veen. (2016). Trophic assimilation efficiency markedly increases at higher trophic levels in four-level host–parasitoid food chain. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1826). 20153043–20153043. 11 indexed citations

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Kehoe, Rachel, et al.. (2016). Nonhost diversity and density reduce the strength of parasitoid–host interactions. Ecology and Evolution. 6(12). 4041–4049. 9 indexed citations

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Sanders, Dirk, Rachel Kehoe, & F. J. Frank van Veen. (2015). Experimental Evidence for the Population-Dynamic Mechanisms Underlying Extinction Cascades of Carnivores. Current Biology. 25(23). 3106–3109. 23 indexed citations

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Sanders, Dirk, Rachel Kehoe, Jonathan Bennie, et al.. (2015). Artificial nighttime light changes aphid-parasitoid population dynamics. Scientific Reports. 5(1). 15232–15232. 65 indexed citations

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Sanders, Dirk, et al.. (2014). Individual and species‐specific traits explain niche size and functional role in spiders as generalist predators. Journal of Animal Ecology. 84(1). 134–142. 62 indexed citations

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Sanders, Dirk, et al.. (2013). Herbivory in Spiders: The Importance of Pollen for Orb-Weavers. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e82637–e82637. 22 indexed citations

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Sanders, Dirk & F. J. Frank van Veen. (2011). Ecosystem engineering and predation: the multi-trophic impact of two ant species. Journal of Animal Ecology. 80(3). 569–576. 95 indexed citations

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Sanders, Dirk & F. J. Frank van Veen. (2010). The impact of an ant–aphid mutualism on the functional composition of the secondary parasitoid community. Ecological Entomology. 35(6). 704–710. 22 indexed citations

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Sanders, Dirk & Christian Platner. (2006). Intraguild interactions between spiders and ants and top-down control in a grassland food web. Oecologia. 150(4). 611–624. 112 indexed citations

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