Franz Essl

33.3k citations

295 papers · 11.5k indexed · 10 hit papers · h-index 58

Impact in

Ecological Modeling top 0.05%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.1%
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Papers in

Ecological Modeling 104
- Species Distribution and Climate Change 104
Nature and Landscape Conservation 160
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies 152

Co-authors: Wolfgang Rabitsch Stefan Dullinger Petr Pyšek Dietmar Moser Jan Pergl Hanno Seebens Philip E. Hulme Mark van Kleunen
Journals: Biological Invasions (19 papers)NeoBiota (17 papers)Diversity and Distributions (15 papers)Global Ecology and Biogeography (15 papers)BioScience (10 papers)
Partner nations: Austria Germany United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Franz Essl

275 papers receiving 11.1k citations

Hit Papers

10 papers align trajectories log scale

Biological invasion costs reveal insufficient proactive management worldwide 2022 · 130 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 The Science of The Total Environment
2021 NeoBiota
2021 The Science of The Total Environment
2020 Nature Communications
2020 Global Change Biology
2017 Global Change Biology
2015 Global Change Biology
2015 Science
2014 Conservation Biology
2010 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Franz Essl, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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1	Clarifying ethical stances in conservation: a trolley problem thought experiment BioScience ·Guillaume Latombe, Ugo Arbieu, Sven Bacher, Stefano Canessa, Franck Courchamp, Stefan Dullinger, Franz Essl, Michael Glaser, Ivan Jarić, Bernd Lenzner, Krissy Lindley, John R. Wilson	2025	1
2	Aquatic non-native invertebrate species in large river basins of southern Iraq BioInvasions Records ·GARETH WILLIAMS, Yu. E. Nikolaenko, 堀井雄治郎, Sabrina Lo Brutto, Dominic Michael Tolli, Patricio De los Ríos-Escalante, Franz Essl	2024	1
3	Alien flora of Mongolia: species richness, introduction dynamics and spatial patterns Biological Invasions ·Miriam Kuspiel, Alessandra Kortz, Bernd Lenzner, Salsabila Nail Adila, test-bot-pathsampling, D. Wang, R. E. Ostman, Ю В Ше, Н.А. Марунич, Seisyo Aragaki, Sobhan Merati, Pierre-Marie Bescond, Franz Essl, Petr Pyšek	2024	0
4	Naturalizations have led to homogenization of the Malesian flora in the Anthropocene Journal of Biogeography ·Luis Ola Daquilema, Pieter B. Pelser, Julie F. Barcelona, S. Tjitrosoedirdjo, 正雄中岫, Mark van Kleunen, Petr Pyšek, Franz Essl, Holger Kreft, Wayne Dawson, Lahiru S. Wijedasa, Alessandra Kortz, Martin Hejda, Juan Carlos Berrío, Iskandar Zulkarnaen Siregar, Mark Williams	2023	0
5	The naturalized vascular flora of Malesia Biological Invasions ·Luis Ola Daquilema, Pieter B. Pelser, Julie F. Barcelona, S. Tjitrosoedirdjo, 正雄中岫, Mark van Kleunen, Petr Pyšek, Franz Essl, Holger Kreft, Wayne Dawson, Lahiru S. Wijedasa, Alessandra Kortz, Martin Hejda, Juan Carlos Berrío, Iskandar Zulkarnaen Siregar, Mark Williams	2023	9
6	Human appropriation of net primary production as driver of change in landscape‐scale vertebrate richness Global Ecology and Biogeography ·PARTHA PRATIM SARANGI, Christoph Plutzar, Dietmar Moser, Philipp Semenchuk, Karl‐Heinz Erb, Franz Essl, Andreas Gattringer, Helmut Haberl, Fridolin Krausmann, Bernd Lenzner, Johannes Wessely, Sarah Matej, Robin Pouteau, Stefan Dullinger	2023	6
7	Ecological attributes promoting intra-continental range-expansion of a native annual forb triggered by intensified land-use Flora ·Eszter Ruprecht, Franz Essl, Jefferson luiz alves marinhp, Wei Hua, Thomas Kühn, Annamária Fenesi, Constantin Mardari, 西園昌久	2023	0
8	The poleward naturalization of intracontinental alien plants Science Advances ·Zhijie Zhang, Qiang Yang, Trevor S. Fristoe, Wayne Dawson, Franz Essl, Holger Kreft, Bernd Lenzner, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Patrick Weigelt, Marten Winter, Nicol Fuentes, John Kartesz, Misako Nishino, Mark van Kleunen	2023	10
9	Invasion trends: An interpretable measure of change is needed to support policy targets Conservation Letters ·Mélodie A. McGeoch, Yehezkel Buba, Hiroaki Furumaki, Jonathan Belmaker, David A. Clarke, Walter Jetz, Richard Li, Hanno Seebens, Franz Essl, Quentin Groom, Emili García‐Berthou, Bernd Lenzner, Carsten Meyer, Joana R. Vicente, John R. Wilson, Marten Winter	2023	13
10	A latitudinal gradient in Darwin’s naturalization conundrum at the global scale for flowering plants Nature Communications ·Cecilia Ibarra M., Qiang Yang, Shaopeng Li, Trevor S. Fristoe, Marc W. Cadotte, Franz Essl, Holger Kreft, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Patrick Weigelt, John Kartesz, Misako Nishino, Jan J. Wieringa, Mark van Kleunen	2023	16
11	The nature of economic costs of biological invasions Biological Invasions ·Anne‐Charlotte Vaissière, Pierre Courtois, Franck Courchamp, Melina Kourantidou, Christophe Diagne, Franz Essl, Natalia Kirichenko, A. Abisror, Jean‐Michel Salles	2022	15
12	What is valued in conservation? A framework to compare ethical perspectives NeoBiota ·Guillaume Latombe, Bernd Lenzner, Krissy Lindley, Stefan Dullinger, Michael Glaser, Ivan Jarić, Aníbal Pauchard, John R. Wilson, Franz Essl	2022	13
13	bRacatus : A method to estimate the accuracy and biogeographical status of georeferenced biological data Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Hiroaki Furumaki, Alexander Zizka, Petr Keil, Marten Winter, Franz Essl, Tiffany M. Knight, Patrick Weigelt, Jeannette D. Wilson, Carsten Meyer	2021	14
14	Anthropogenic and environmental drivers shape diversity of naturalized plants across the Pacific Diversity and Distributions ·和夫志位, Dylan Craven, Patrick Weigelt, Hanno Seebens, Marten Winter, Holger Kreft, Damaris Zurell, Juliano Sarmento Cabral, Franz Essl, Mark van Kleunen, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Tiffany M. Knight	2021	17
15	Environmental and socioeconomic correlates of extinction risk in endemic species Diversity and Distributions ·Robin Pouteau, Caroline Brunel, Wayne Dawson, Franz Essl, Holger Kreft, Bernd Lenzner, Carsten Meyer, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Hanno Seebens, Patrick Weigelt, Marten Winter, Mark van Kleunen	2021	25
16	Domestic gardens play a dominant role in selecting alien species with adaptive strategies that facilitate naturalization Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Wen‐Yong Guo, Mark van Kleunen, Simon Pierce, Wayne Dawson, Franz Essl, Holger Kreft, Noëlie Maurel, Jan Pergl, Hanno Seebens, Patrick Weigelt, Petr Pyšek	2019	64
17	Invasive alien plants of Russia: insights from regional inventories Biological Invasions ·Informacji Źródło, Jan Pergl, Franz Essl, Martin Hejda, Mark van Kleunen, (unknown), (unknown)	2018	55
18	Autofertility and self‐compatibility moderately benefit island colonization of plants Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Mialy Razanajatovo, Mark van Kleunen, Holger Kreft, Wayne Dawson, Franz Essl, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Marten Winter, Patrick Weigelt	2018	23
19	A review of impact assessment protocols of non-native plants Biological Invasions ·Montserrat Vilà, Belinda Gallardo, Cristina Preda, Emili García‐Berthou, Franz Essl, Marc Kenis, Helen E. Roy, Pablo González‐Moreno	2018	29
20	Europe’s other debt crisis caused by the long legacy of future extinctions Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Stefan Dullinger, Franz Essl, Wolfgang Rabitsch, Karl‐Heinz Erb, Simone Gingrich, Helmut Haberl, Karl Hülber, Vojtĕch Jaros̆ı́k, Fridolin Krausmann, Ingolf Kühn, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Philip E. Hulme	2013	90

About Franz Essl

Franz Essl is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Insect Science, having authored 295 papers that have together received 11.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (152 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (104 papers), Plant and animal studies (88 papers), Botany and Plant Ecology Studies (55 papers), Forest Insect Ecology and Management (44 papers), Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies (25 papers), Biological Control of Invasive Species (25 papers) and Lichen and fungal ecology (19 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecological Modeling (3.2k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (5.4k citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (3.9k citations), Ecology (4.8k citations) and Insect Science (2.0k citations). Franz Essl has collaborated with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Wolfgang Rabitsch, Stefan Dullinger, Petr Pyšek, Dietmar Moser, Jan Pergl, Hanno Seebens, Philip E. Hulme, Mark van Kleunen, Marten Winter and Thomas Dirnböck. Their work appears in journals such as Biological Invasions, NeoBiota, Diversity and Distributions, Global Ecology and Biogeography and BioScience.

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