Ina Schaefer

1.4k total citations
35 papers, 641 citations indexed

About

Ina Schaefer is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ina Schaefer has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 641 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 17 papers in Ecology and 9 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Ina Schaefer's work include Study of Mite Species (23 papers), Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology (10 papers) and Collembola Taxonomy and Ecology Studies (8 papers). Ina Schaefer is often cited by papers focused on Study of Mite Species (23 papers), Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology (10 papers) and Collembola Taxonomy and Ecology Studies (8 papers). Ina Schaefer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and China. Ina Schaefer's co-authors include Stefan Scheu, Mark Maraun, Roy A. Norton, Tancredi Caruso, Tanja Schwander, Jens Bast, Ting‐Wen Chen, Katja Domes, Ken Kraaijeveld and Aidan M. Keith and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ina Schaefer

33 papers receiving 623 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ina Schaefer Germany 17 459 237 191 133 89 35 641
Helena Wirta Finland 17 379 0.8× 319 1.3× 175 0.9× 167 1.3× 159 1.8× 37 811
Georg F. J. Armbruster Switzerland 14 236 0.5× 221 0.9× 161 0.8× 137 1.0× 147 1.7× 39 532
Bernhard Eitzinger Germany 12 191 0.4× 261 1.1× 123 0.6× 64 0.5× 86 1.0× 19 436
Virgílio Vieira Portugal 11 226 0.5× 151 0.6× 171 0.9× 176 1.3× 115 1.3× 61 534
Prarthana S. Dharampal United States 15 365 0.8× 203 0.9× 327 1.7× 202 1.5× 40 0.4× 21 587
R. G. Booth United Kingdom 14 312 0.7× 221 0.9× 295 1.5× 62 0.5× 95 1.1× 42 627
Gergely Várkonyi Finland 14 350 0.8× 196 0.8× 236 1.2× 117 0.9× 109 1.2× 33 580
Libor Dvořák Czechia 14 342 0.7× 220 0.9× 377 2.0× 189 1.4× 64 0.7× 77 596
Marie‐Claude Larivière New Zealand 10 322 0.7× 153 0.6× 232 1.2× 94 0.7× 96 1.1× 53 521
Marc A. A. Pollet Belgium 15 538 1.2× 263 1.1× 387 2.0× 135 1.0× 99 1.1× 99 753

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ina Schaefer

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All Works

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Chen, Ting‐Wen, Jing‐Zhong Lu, Zhijing Xie, et al.. (2025). Older Lineages of Oribatid Mites in Mountain Ranges Have Broader Geographic Ranges and Exhibit More Generalistic Traits. Ecology and Evolution. 15(3). e71046–e71046.
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Lu, Jing‐Zhong, Christian Ammer, Tancredi Caruso, et al.. (2024). Functional traits in soil-living oribatid mites unveil trophic reorganization in belowground communities by introduced tree species. Geoderma. 448. 116947–116947. 8 indexed citations
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Lu, Jing‐Zhong, et al.. (2024). Niche dimensions in soil oribatid mite community assembly under native and introduced tree species. Ecology and Evolution. 14(5). e11431–e11431. 1 indexed citations
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Hickler, Thomas, Karin Hohberg, Ricarda Lehmitz, et al.. (2024). Genomic evidence for the widespread presence of GH45 cellulases among soil invertebrates. Molecular Ecology. 33(20). e17351–e17351. 1 indexed citations
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Chao, Huizhen, et al.. (2024). Litter quality modulates changes in bacterial and fungal communities during the gut transit of earthworm species of different ecological groups. ISME Communications. 5(1). ycae171–ycae171. 2 indexed citations
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Roth, Alexander M., et al.. (2023). Population structure and genetic variance among local populations of a non-native earthworm species in Minnesota, USA. Biological Invasions. 25(7). 2361–2375.
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Maraun, Mark, et al.. (2022). Dispersal patterns of oribatid mites across habitats and seasons. Experimental and Applied Acarology. 86(2). 173–187. 9 indexed citations
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Brandt, Alexander, Patrick Tran Van, Zoé Dumas, et al.. (2021). Haplotype divergence supports long-term asexuality in the oribatid mite Oppiella nova. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(38). 26 indexed citations
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Schaefer, Ina, Stefan Scheu, Andrei V. Tanasevitch, et al.. (2020). Different groups of ground‐dwelling spiders share similar trophic niches in temperate forests. Ecological Entomology. 45(6). 1346–1356. 7 indexed citations
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Schaefer, Ina & Tancredi Caruso. (2019). Oribatid mites show that soil food web complexity and close aboveground-belowground linkages emerged in the early Paleozoic. Communications Biology. 2(1). 387–387. 25 indexed citations
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Brandt, Alexander, Ina Schaefer, Tanja Schwander, et al.. (2017). Effective purifying selection in ancient asexual oribatid mites. Nature Communications. 8(1). 873–873. 38 indexed citations
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Scheu, Stefan, et al.. (2016). Founder events and pre-glacial divergences shape the genetic structure of European Collembola species. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16(1). 148–148. 19 indexed citations
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Lehmitz, Ricarda, et al.. (2016). Convergent evolution of aquatic life by sexual and parthenogenetic oribatid mites. Experimental and Applied Acarology. 70(4). 439–453. 19 indexed citations
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Bast, Jens, Ina Schaefer, Tanja Schwander, et al.. (2015). No Accumulation of Transposable Elements in Asexual Arthropods. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33(3). 697–706. 47 indexed citations
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Scheu, Stefan, et al.. (2015). Phylogeny and species delineation in European species of the genus Steganacarus (Acari, Oribatida) using mitochondrial and nuclear markers. Experimental and Applied Acarology. 66(2). 173–186. 10 indexed citations
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Maraun, Mark, et al.. (2014). Evidence for Frozen-Niche Variation in a Cosmopolitan Parthenogenetic Soil Mite Species (Acari, Oribatida). PLoS ONE. 9(11). e113268–e113268. 15 indexed citations
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Domes, Katja, et al.. (2012). Convergent evolution of defense mechanisms in oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) shows no “ghosts of predation past”. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 65(2). 412–420. 33 indexed citations
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Schaefer, Ina, Roy A. Norton, Stefan Scheu, & Mark Maraun. (2010). Arthropod colonization of land – Linking molecules and fossils in oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 57(1). 113–121. 77 indexed citations

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