Erik Welk

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Erik Welk is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Erik Welk has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 23 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 18 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Erik Welk's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (29 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (17 papers) and Botany and Plant Ecology Studies (15 papers). Erik Welk is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (29 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (17 papers) and Botany and Plant Ecology Studies (15 papers). Erik Welk collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Erik Welk's co-authors include Giovanni Caudullo, Jesús San-Miguel-Ayanz, Helge Bruelheide, Matthias H. Hoffmann, Walter Durka, Henrik von Wehrden, Wenzel Kröber, Michael Beckmann, Christian Wirth and Anna F. Cord and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Ecology and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

Erik Welk

47 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Chorological maps for the main European woody species

2017 348 citations Giovanni Caudullo, Erik Welk et al. Data in Brief profile →

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Jesús Aguirre‐Gutiérrez Netherlands

Urs A. Treier Denmark

Borja Jiménez‐Alfaro Spain

Leonardo Gallo Argentina

Thilo Heinken Germany

Lara Souza United States

Věroslava Hadincová Czechia

David Kenfack United States

Kevin M. Potter United States

Rolland Douzet France

Jesús Aguirre‐Gutiérrez Netherlands

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803 ×1.3

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551 ×1.3

433 ×1.1

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Citations per year, relative to Erik Welk Erik Welk (= 1×) peers Jesús Aguirre‐Gutiérrez

Countries citing papers authored by Erik Welk

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Fields of papers citing papers by Erik Welk

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erik Welk

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Erik Welk. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Erik Welk based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Erik Welk. Erik Welk is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Divíšek, Jan, Martin Večeřa, Erik Welk, et al.. (2022). Origin of the central European steppe flora: insights from palaeodistribution modelling and migration simulations. Ecography. 2022(12). 9 indexed citations

Kambach, Stephan, Jonathan Lenoir, Guillaume Decocq, et al.. (2018). Of niches and distributions: range size increases with niche breadth both globally and regionally but regional estimates poorly relate to global estimates. Ecography. 42(3). 467–477. 45 indexed citations

Zeng, Xueqin, Walter Durka, Erik Welk, & Markus Fischer. (2017). Heritability of early growth traits and their plasticity in 14 woody species of Chinese subtropical forest. Journal of Plant Ecology. 10(1). 222–231. 8 indexed citations

Berg, Christian, Erik Welk, & Eckehart J. Jäger. (2017). Revising Ellenberg's indicator values for continentality based on global vascular plant species distribution. Applied Vegetation Science. 20(3). 482–493. 39 indexed citations

Caudullo, Giovanni, Erik Welk, & Jesús San-Miguel-Ayanz. (2017). Chorological maps for the main European woody species. Data in Brief. 12. 662–666. 348 indexed citations breakdown →

Schuldt, Andreas, Lydia Hönig, Ying Li, et al.. (2017). Herbivore and pathogen effects on tree growth are additive, but mediated by tree diversity and plant traits. Ecology and Evolution. 7(18). 7462–7474. 35 indexed citations

Liebergesell, Mario, Björn Reu, Ulrike Stahl, et al.. (2016). Functional Resilience against Climate-Driven Extinctions – Comparing the Functional Diversity of European and North American Tree Floras. PLoS ONE. 11(2). e0148607–e0148607. 18 indexed citations

Kącki, Zygmunt, et al.. (2016). Genetic diversity in the locally declining Laserpitium prutenicum L. and the more common Selinum carvifolia (L.) L.: a “silent goodbye”?. Conservation Genetics. 17(4). 847–860. 5 indexed citations

Gimbel, Katharina, Heike Puhlmann, Arthur Geßler, et al.. (2015). Drought in forest understory ecosystems – a novel rainfall reduction experiment. Biogeosciences. 12(4). 961–975. 29 indexed citations

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Gimbel, Katharina, Zachary Kayler, Ruth H. Ellerbrock, et al.. (2015). Soil Bacterial Community Structure Responses to Precipitation Reduction and Forest Management in Forest Ecosystems across Germany. PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0122539–e0122539. 52 indexed citations

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Kröber, Wenzel, Ying Li, Werner Härdtle, et al.. (2015). Early subtropical forest growth is driven by community mean trait values and functional diversity rather than the abiotic environment. Ecology and Evolution. 5(17). 3541–3556. 35 indexed citations

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Nadrowski, Karin, Katherina A. Pietsch, Martín Baruffol, et al.. (2014). Tree Species Traits but Not Diversity Mitigate Stem Breakage in a Subtropical Forest following a Rare and Extreme Ice Storm. PLoS ONE. 9(5). e96022–e96022. 6 indexed citations

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Welk, Erik, et al.. (2014). Biotic Interactions Overrule Plant Responses to Climate, Depending on the Species' Biogeography. PLoS ONE. 9(10). e111023–e111023. 5 indexed citations

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Lachmuth, Susanne, et al.. (2014). Performance of seedlings from natural and afforested populations of Cupressus sempervirens under different temperature and moisture regimes. Plant Species Biology. 30(4). 257–271. 7 indexed citations

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Ellerbrock, Ruth H., Arthur Geßler, Katharina Gimbel, et al.. (2014). Intraspecific differences in responses to rainshelter-induced drought and competition of Fagus sylvatica L. across Germany. Forest Ecology and Management. 330. 283–293. 16 indexed citations

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Kröber, Wenzel, Martin Böhnke, Erik Welk, Christian Wirth, & Helge Bruelheide. (2012). Leaf Trait-Environment Relationships in a Subtropical Broadleaved Forest in South-East China. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e35742–e35742. 67 indexed citations

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Zimmermann, Heike, Henrik von Wehrden, María A. Damascos, et al.. (2011). Habitat invasion risk assessment based on Landsat 5 data, exemplified by the shrub Rosa rubiginosa in southern Argentina. Austral Ecology. 36(7). 870–880. 27 indexed citations

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Winter, Silvia, R. Lutz Eckstein, Monika Kriechbaum, et al.. (2011). Colchicum autumnale L.. Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics. 13(3). 227–244. 17 indexed citations

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Welk, Erik & Helge Bruelheide. (2006). There may be bias in R/P ratios (realized vs. potential range) calculated for European tree species – an illustrated comment on Svenning & Skov (2004). Journal of Biogeography. 33(11). 2013–2018. 13 indexed citations

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Welk, Erik, et al.. (2002). Present and potential distribution of invasive garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) in North America. Diversity and Distributions. 8(4). 219–233. 112 indexed citations

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