Helmut Hillebrand

38.7k total citations · 10 hit papers
224 papers, 24.4k citations indexed

About

Helmut Hillebrand is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Helmut Hillebrand has authored 224 papers receiving a total of 24.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 106 papers in Ecology, 104 papers in Oceanography and 88 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Helmut Hillebrand's work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (72 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (61 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (56 papers). Helmut Hillebrand is often cited by papers focused on Marine and coastal ecosystems (72 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (61 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (56 papers). Helmut Hillebrand collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Sweden. Helmut Hillebrand's co-authors include Jonathan B. Shurin, Daniel S. Gruner, W. Stanley Harpole, Claus‐Dieter Dürselen, Utsa Pollingher, David B. Kirschtel, Tamar Zohary, Eric W. Seabloom, Janne Soininen and Matthew E. S. Bracken and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Helmut Hillebrand

220 papers receiving 23.5k citations

Hit Papers

Global analysis of nitrog... 1999 2026 2008 2017 2007 1999 2004 2007 2011 1000 2.0k 3.0k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Global analysis of nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of primary producers in freshwater, marine and terrestrial ecosystems
    2007 3.6k citations James J. Elser, Matthew E. S. Bracken et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  2. BIOVOLUME CALCULATION FOR PELAGIC AND BENTHIC MICROALGAE
    1999 3.0k citations Helmut Hillebrand et al. profile →
  3. On the Generality of the Latitudinal Diversity Gradient
    2004 1.4k citations Helmut Hillebrand profile →
  4. The distance decay of similarity in ecological communities
    2007 827 citations Helmut Hillebrand et al. Ecography profile →
  5. Nutrient co‐limitation of primary producer communities
    2011 776 citations W. Stanley Harpole, Jacqueline T. Ngai et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  6. CONSEQUENCES OF DOMINANCE: A REVIEW OF EVENNESS EFFECTS ON LOCAL AND REGIONAL ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES
    2008 751 citations Helmut Hillebrand et al. Ecology profile →
  7. Empirical approaches to metacommunities: a review and comparison with theory
    2011 528 citations Helmut Hillebrand et al. profile →
  8. Biodiversity change is uncoupled from species richness trends: Consequences for conservation and monitoring
    2017 483 citations Helmut Hillebrand, Bernd Blasius et al. profile →
  9. Biodiversity in a complex world: consolidation and progress in functional biodiversity research
    2009 442 citations Helmut Hillebrand et al. Ecology Letters profile →
  10. Navigating the complexity of ecological stability
    2016 431 citations Ian Donohue, Helmut Hillebrand et al. Ecology Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Helmut Hillebrand Germany 68 12.4k 8.4k 7.6k 6.5k 4.3k 224 24.4k
Jonathan B. Shurin United States 46 9.0k 0.7× 6.6k 0.8× 3.2k 0.4× 4.0k 0.6× 2.8k 0.7× 116 16.3k
Petr Šmilauer Czechia 35 11.3k 0.9× 8.8k 1.0× 2.7k 0.4× 3.4k 0.5× 3.3k 0.8× 104 25.3k
H. J. B. Birks Norway 92 10.9k 0.9× 4.6k 0.5× 2.9k 0.4× 3.3k 0.5× 3.2k 0.8× 411 33.4k
James J. Elser United States 91 16.6k 1.3× 10.4k 1.2× 8.9k 1.2× 13.7k 2.1× 6.0k 1.4× 307 39.9k
Luc De Meester Belgium 78 12.8k 1.0× 7.0k 0.8× 3.5k 0.5× 8.4k 1.3× 2.5k 0.6× 409 23.3k
Eric W. Seabloom United States 56 7.9k 0.6× 6.6k 0.8× 1.8k 0.2× 2.6k 0.4× 2.9k 0.7× 176 17.5k
Daniel Borcard Canada 29 8.2k 0.7× 7.5k 0.9× 1.8k 0.2× 2.0k 0.3× 3.0k 0.7× 50 16.1k
Robert W. Sterner United States 56 8.5k 0.7× 5.0k 0.6× 5.3k 0.7× 7.2k 1.1× 2.6k 0.6× 112 17.3k
Mark O. Gessner Germany 59 13.8k 1.1× 8.8k 1.0× 1.3k 0.2× 4.3k 0.7× 3.3k 0.8× 153 23.5k
Elsa E. Cleland United States 47 7.2k 0.6× 7.1k 0.8× 1.4k 0.2× 2.3k 0.4× 4.8k 1.1× 79 17.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Helmut Hillebrand

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pinsky, Malin L., Helmut Hillebrand, Jonathan M. Chase, et al.. (2025). Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in biodiversity. Nature. 638(8052). 995–999. 6 indexed citations
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Koussoroplis, Apostolos‐Manuel, et al.. (2025). Temperature‐dependent responses to light and nutrients in phytoplankton. Ecology. 106(3). e70027–e70027. 4 indexed citations
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Hillebrand, Helmut, et al.. (2024). Functional diversity loss and taxonomic delays of European freshwater fish and North American breeding birds. Functional Ecology. 38(8). 1726–1738. 3 indexed citations
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Mentges, Andrea, et al.. (2024). Accounting for effects of growth rate when measuring ecological stability in response to pulse perturbations. Ecology and Evolution. 14(10). e11637–e11637.
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Hillebrand, Helmut, et al.. (2024). Direct and indirect cumulative effects of temperature, nutrients, and light on phytoplankton growth. Ecology and Evolution. 14(8). e70073–e70073. 3 indexed citations
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Franke, Andrea, Kimberley Peters, Jochen Hinkel, et al.. (2022). Making the UN Ocean Decade work? The potential for, and challenges of, transdisciplinary research and real‐world laboratories for building towards ocean solutions. People and Nature. 5(1). 21–33. 16 indexed citations
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Waal, Dedmer B. Van de, et al.. (2022). Elemental and biochemical nutrient limitation of zooplankton: A meta‐analysis. Ecology Letters. 25(12). 2776–2792. 29 indexed citations
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Urrutia‐Cordero, Pablo, Silke Langenheder, Maren Striebel, et al.. (2021). Integrating multiple dimensions of ecological stability into a vulnerability framework. Journal of Ecology. 110(2). 374–386. 20 indexed citations
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Gerhard, Miriam, et al.. (2021). Environmental stoichiometry mediates phytoplankton diversity effects on communities' resource use efficiency and biomass. Journal of Ecology. 110(2). 430–442. 19 indexed citations
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Bauer, Barbara, Michael Kleyer, Dirk C. Albach, et al.. (2021). Functional trait dimensions of trophic metacommunities. Ecography. 44(10). 1486–1500. 15 indexed citations
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Hillebrand, Helmut, et al.. (2020). Meta‐analysis on pulse disturbances reveals differences in functional and compositional recovery across ecosystems. Ecology Letters. 23(3). 575–585. 107 indexed citations
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Mentges, Andrea, Shane A. Blowes, Dorothee Hodapp, Helmut Hillebrand, & Jonathan M. Chase. (2020). Effects of site‐selection bias on estimates of biodiversity change. Conservation Biology. 35(2). 688–698. 34 indexed citations
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Mustaffa, Nur Ili Hamizah, et al.. (2020). Sea surface phytoplankton community response to nutrient and light changes. Marine Biology. 167(9). 6 indexed citations
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Zielinski, Oliver, et al.. (2018). Environmental conditions of a salt-marsh biodiversity experiment on the island of Spiekeroog (Germany). Earth system science data. 10(4). 1843–1858. 6 indexed citations
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Hillebrand, Helmut, et al.. (2014). Effect of (a)synchronous light fluctuation on diversity, functional and structural stability of a marine phytoplankton metacommunity. Oecologia. 176(2). 497–510. 9 indexed citations
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Harpole, W. Stanley, Jacqueline T. Ngai, Elsa E. Cleland, et al.. (2011). Nutrient co‐limitation of primary producer communities. Ecology Letters. 14(9). 852–862. 776 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hillebrand, Helmut, Daniel S. Gruner, Elizabeth T. Borer, et al.. (2007). Consumer versus resource control of producer diversity depends on ecosystem type and producer community structure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(26). 10904–10909. 279 indexed citations
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Hillebrand, Helmut, et al.. (2001). Species richness patterns of unicellular organisms: is there a difference to multicellular organisms?. Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar-und Meeresforschung (Alfred-Wegener-Institut). 1 indexed citations
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Hillebrand, Helmut & Ulf Sommer. (1998). Response of epilithic microphytobenthos of the Western Baltic Sea to in situ experiments with nutrient enrichment. Oceanographic literature review. 8(45). 1398. 36 indexed citations

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