Heike Zimmermann

1.6k total citations
39 papers, 839 citations indexed

About

Heike Zimmermann is a scholar working on Ecology, Atmospheric Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Heike Zimmermann has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 839 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Ecology, 13 papers in Atmospheric Science and 11 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Heike Zimmermann's work include Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (14 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (9 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (8 papers). Heike Zimmermann is often cited by papers focused on Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (14 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (9 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (8 papers). Heike Zimmermann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Argentina and Russia. Heike Zimmermann's co-authors include Kathleen R. Stoof‐Leichsenring, Henrik von Wehrden, Ulrike Herzschuh, Laura S. Epp, Isabell Hensen, Daniel Renison, Rui Santos, Lutz Schirrmeister, David Behringer and Sascha Liepelt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Forest Ecology and Management.

In The Last Decade

Heike Zimmermann

39 papers receiving 813 citations

Peers

Heike Zimmermann

ECOLO

GPC

NLC

Christian Marchese Canada

Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado Peru

Chelsea J. Little Switzerland

Chloé Wüst‐Galley Switzerland

Laura C. Feher United States

Leif Schulman Finland

C. Edward Proffitt United States

Sarah L. Mincks United States

Akash R. Sastri Canada

Lars Opgenoorth Germany

Christian Marchese Canada

Heike Zimmermann

213 ×0.6

ECOLO

228 ×0.9

GPC

251 ×1.3

121 ×0.6

NLC

57 ×0.4

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Countries citing papers authored by Heike Zimmermann

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heike Zimmermann

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ribeiro, Sofia, Kevin Nota, Matt O’Regan, et al.. (2025). Holocene shifts in marine mammal distributions around Northern Greenland revealed by sedimentary ancient DNA. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4543–4543. 2 indexed citations

Zimmermann, Heike, Sara Harðardóttir, & Sofia Ribeiro. (2024). Assessing the performance of short 18S rDNA markers for environmental DNA metabarcoding of marine protists. Environmental DNA. 6(4). 1 indexed citations

Zimmermann, Heike, Kathleen R. Stoof‐Leichsenring, Lars Harms, et al.. (2023). Marine ecosystem shifts with deglacial sea-ice loss inferred from ancient DNA shotgun sequencing. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1650–1650. 18 indexed citations

Ribeiro, Sofia, et al.. (2023). Single‐cell DNA from West Greenland marine sediments suggests presence of Protoperidinium tricingulatum in the Arctic. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 71(1). e13005–e13005. 1 indexed citations

Giorgis, Melisa A., Sebastián R. Zeballos, Lucas M. Carbone, et al.. (2021). A review of fire effects across South American ecosystems: the role of climate and time since fire. Fire Ecology. 17(1). 59 indexed citations

Liu, Sisi, Stefan Kruse, Dirk Scherler, et al.. (2021). Sedimentary ancient DNA reveals a threat of warming-induced alpine habitat loss to Tibetan Plateau plant diversity. Nature Communications. 12(1). 2995–2995. 43 indexed citations

Bernhardt, Nadine, Kathleen R. Stoof‐Leichsenring, Heike Zimmermann, et al.. (2020). Hybridization capture of larch ( Larix Mill.) chloroplast genomes from sedimentary ancient DNA reveals past changes of Siberian forest. Molecular Ecology Resources. 21(3). 801–815. 30 indexed citations

Zimmermann, Heike, Kathleen R. Stoof‐Leichsenring, Stefan Kruse, et al.. (2020). Changes in the composition of marine and sea-ice diatoms derived from sedimentary ancient DNA of the eastern Fram Strait over the past 30 000 years. Ocean science. 16(5). 1017–1032. 16 indexed citations

Herzschuh, Ulrike, et al.. (2020). Genetic and morphologic determination of diatom community composition in surface sediments from glacial and thermokarst lakes in the Siberian Arctic. Journal of Paleolimnology. 64(3). 225–242. 20 indexed citations

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Zimmermann, Heike, Elisabeth Dietze, Andrea Vieth‐Hillebrand, et al.. (2019). Vegetation state changes in the course of shrub encroachment in an African savanna since about 1850 CE and their potential drivers. Ecology and Evolution. 10(2). 962–979. 20 indexed citations

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Zimmermann, Heike, Lars Harms, Laura S. Epp, et al.. (2019). Chloroplast and mitochondrial genetic variation of larches at the Siberian tundra-taiga ecotone revealed by de novo assembly. PLoS ONE. 14(7). e0216966–e0216966. 10 indexed citations

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Epp, Laura S., Heike Zimmermann, & Kathleen R. Stoof‐Leichsenring. (2019). Sampling and Extraction of Ancient DNA from Sediments. Methods in molecular biology. 1963. 31–44. 32 indexed citations

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Rau, Anna‐Lena, Christian Dorninger, K. M. Ibe, et al.. (2019). Temporal patterns in ecosystem services research: A review and three recommendations. AMBIO. 49(8). 1377–1393. 55 indexed citations

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Zimmermann, Heike, et al.. (2018). A Social–Ecological Systems Framework as a Tool for Understanding the Effectiveness of Biosphere Reserve Management. Sustainability. 10(10). 3608–3608. 34 indexed citations

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Zimmermann, Heike, Laura S. Epp, Kathleen R. Stoof‐Leichsenring, et al.. (2017). Sedimentary ancient DNA and pollen reveal the composition of plant organic matter in Late Quaternary permafrost sediments of the Buor Khaya Peninsula (north-eastern Siberia). Biogeosciences. 14(3). 575–596. 55 indexed citations

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Zimmermann, Heike, Jacqueline Loos, Henrik von Wehrden, & Joern Fischer. (2015). Aliens in Transylvania: risk maps of invasive alien plant species in Central Romania. NeoBiota. 24. 55–65. 16 indexed citations

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Behringer, David, Heike Zimmermann, Birgit Ziegenhagen, & Sascha Liepelt. (2015). Differential Gene Expression Reveals Candidate Genes for Drought Stress Response in Abies alba (Pinaceae). PLoS ONE. 10(4). e0124564–e0124564. 47 indexed citations

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Wehrden, Henrik von & Heike Zimmermann. (2009). Plant communities of the summits of the Dund Saykhan mountain range (Southern Mongolia).. Candollea. 64(1). 49–67. 1 indexed citations

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Zimmermann, Heike, Daniel Renison, Ilona Leyer, & Isabell Hensen. (2009). Do we need livestock grazing to promote Polylepis australis tree recruitment in the Central Argentinean Mountains?. Ecological Research. 24(5). 1075–1081. 27 indexed citations

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Zimmermann, Heike. (1996). Interactions between planktonic protozoans and metazoans after the spring bloom of phytoplankton in a eutrophic lake, the Belauer See, in the Bornhöveder Seenkette, North Germany. Acta Protozoologica. 35(3). 215–221. 8 indexed citations

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