Jan Pergl

32.4k total citations · 10 hit papers
153 papers, 13.8k citations indexed

About

Jan Pergl is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Pergl has authored 153 papers receiving a total of 13.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 99 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 70 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Jan Pergl's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (99 papers), Plant and animal studies (86 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (36 papers). Jan Pergl is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (99 papers), Plant and animal studies (86 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (36 papers). Jan Pergl collaborates with scholars based in Czechia, Germany and United Kingdom. Jan Pergl's co-authors include Petr Pyšek, Vojtĕch Jaros̆ı́k, Philip E. Hulme, Montserrat Vilà, Urs Schaffner, Martin Hejda, Franz Essl, José L. Espinar, John L. Maron and Yan Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jan Pergl

145 papers receiving 13.2k citations

Hit Papers

Ecological impacts of invasive alien plants: a meta-analy... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2011 2011 2008 2008 2020 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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  1. Ecological impacts of invasive alien plants: a meta-analysis of their effects on species, communities and ecosystems
    2011 2.3k citations Martin Hejda, Philip E. Hulme et al. profile →
  2. A global assessment of invasive plant impacts on resident species, communities and ecosystems: the interaction of impact measures, invading species' traits and environment
    2011 1.1k citations Petr Pyšek, Vojtĕch Jaros̆ı́k et al. profile →
  3. Grasping at the routes of biological invasions: a framework for integrating pathways into policy
    2008 739 citations Philip E. Hulme, Stefan Klotz et al. profile →
  4. Geographical and taxonomic biases in invasion ecology
    2008 617 citations Petr Pyšek, Jan Pergl et al. profile →
  5. Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050
    2020 446 citations Hanno Seebens, Wayne Dawson et al. profile →
  6. Bias and error in understanding plant invasion impacts
    2012 342 citations Philip E. Hulme, Petr Pyšek et al. profile →
  7. Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) beloved and despised: A story of an invasive tree in Central Europe
    2016 316 citations Michaela Vítková, Jiřı́ Sádlo et al. profile →
  8. Defining the Impact of Non‐Native Species
    2014 312 citations Franz Essl, Philip E. Hulme et al. profile →
  9. Global trade will accelerate plant invasions in emerging economies under climate change
    2015 297 citations Hanno Seebens, Franz Essl et al. profile →
  10. Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success
    2020 194 citations Mark van Kleunen, Qiang Yang et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jan Pergl Czechia 54 7.4k 5.5k 5.3k 4.8k 2.5k 153 13.8k
Vojtĕch Jaros̆ı́k Czechia 52 7.4k 1.0× 5.5k 1.0× 4.9k 0.9× 4.9k 1.0× 2.8k 1.1× 82 13.4k
John L. Maron United States 62 8.4k 1.1× 6.9k 1.3× 5.4k 1.0× 5.8k 1.2× 2.6k 1.0× 141 14.6k
Meelis Pärtel Estonia 56 7.3k 1.0× 4.7k 0.9× 4.0k 0.8× 3.4k 0.7× 1.3k 0.5× 187 11.4k
Jason M. Tylianakis New Zealand 51 5.2k 0.7× 6.9k 1.3× 4.0k 0.8× 4.1k 0.9× 3.6k 1.4× 131 12.7k
Jan Lepš Czechia 59 10.8k 1.5× 7.2k 1.3× 7.1k 1.4× 5.4k 1.1× 1.8k 0.7× 232 18.8k
Marc W. Cadotte Canada 58 9.7k 1.3× 6.4k 1.2× 5.9k 1.1× 2.9k 0.6× 1.5k 0.6× 215 16.0k
Milan Chytrý Czechia 64 7.7k 1.0× 6.2k 1.1× 3.9k 0.7× 8.0k 1.7× 1.7k 0.7× 352 14.4k
William K. Cornwell Australia 50 7.8k 1.0× 5.6k 1.0× 5.3k 1.0× 3.8k 0.8× 1.6k 0.6× 154 16.1k
Mark van Kleunen Germany 64 8.8k 1.2× 8.1k 1.5× 4.1k 0.8× 7.1k 1.5× 1.7k 0.7× 301 16.7k
Franz Essl Austria 58 5.4k 0.7× 3.9k 0.7× 4.8k 0.9× 2.7k 0.6× 2.0k 0.8× 295 11.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jan Pergl

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liao, Huixuan, Lakhvinder Kaur, Petr Pyšek, et al.. (2025). Invasive Prosopis associated with large, but idiosyncratic, ecosystem changes and loss of native biodiversity across India. Plant Ecology. 226(11-12). 1315–1333.
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Kortz, Alessandra, Jan Pergl, Petr Petřík, et al.. (2024). Impacts of native and alien plant dominants at different spatial scales. NeoBiota. 92. 29–43. 1 indexed citations
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Cai, Lirong, Holger Kreft, Pierre Denelle, et al.. (2024). Environmental filtering, not dispersal history, explains global patterns of phylogenetic turnover in seed plants at deep evolutionary timescales. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(2). 314–324. 6 indexed citations
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Cai, Lirong, Holger Kreft, Amanda Taylor, et al.. (2023). Climatic stability and geological history shape global centers of neo- and paleoendemism in seed plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(30). e2300981120–e2300981120. 27 indexed citations
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Yang, Qiang, Shaopeng Li, Trevor S. Fristoe, et al.. (2023). A latitudinal gradient in Darwin’s naturalization conundrum at the global scale for flowering plants. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6244–6244. 16 indexed citations
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Essl, Franz, M.J. Kraak, Wayne Dawson, et al.. (2022). Introducing the combined atlas framework for large‐scale web‐based data visualization: The GloNAF atlas of plant invasion. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(5). 1073–1081. 3 indexed citations
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Kreft, Holger, Dylan Craven, Christian König, et al.. (2022). Phylogenetic composition of native island floras influences naturalized alien species richness. Ecography. 2022(11). 6 indexed citations
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Pouteau, Robin, Caroline Brunel, Wayne Dawson, et al.. (2021). Environmental and socioeconomic correlates of extinction risk in endemic species. Diversity and Distributions. 28(1). 53–64. 25 indexed citations
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Wagner, Viktoria, Martin Večeřa, Borja Jiménez‐Alfaro, et al.. (2021). Alien plant invasion hotspots and invasion debt in European woodlands. Journal of Vegetation Science. 32(2). 29 indexed citations
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Guo, Qinfeng, Brian S. Cade, Wayne Dawson, et al.. (2020). Latitudinal patterns of alien plant invasions. Journal of Biogeography. 48(2). 253–262. 42 indexed citations
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Pyšek, Petr, Wen‐Yong Guo, Kateřina Štajerová, et al.. (2019). Facultative mycorrhizal associations promote plant naturalization worldwide. Ecosphere. 10(11). 17 indexed citations
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Guo, Wen‐Yong, Mark van Kleunen, Simon Pierce, et al.. (2019). Domestic gardens play a dominant role in selecting alien species with adaptive strategies that facilitate naturalization. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 28(5). 628–639. 64 indexed citations
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Razanajatovo, Mialy, Mark van Kleunen, Holger Kreft, et al.. (2018). Autofertility and self‐compatibility moderately benefit island colonization of plants. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 28(3). 341–352. 23 indexed citations
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Dullinger, Stefan, Franz Essl, Wolfgang Rabitsch, et al.. (2013). Europe’s other debt crisis caused by the long legacy of future extinctions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(18). 7342–7347. 90 indexed citations
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Pyšek, Petr, Milan Chytrý, Jan Pergl, Jiřı́ Sádlo, & Jan Wild. (2012). Plant invasions in the Czech Republic: current state,introduction dynamics, invasive species and invaded habitats. Preslia. 84(3). 575–629. 124 indexed citations
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Winter, Marten, Oliver Schweiger, Stefan Klotz, et al.. (2009). Plant extinctions and introductions lead to phylogenetic and taxonomic homogenization of the European flora. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(51). 21721–21725. 284 indexed citations
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Perglová, Irena, Jan Pergl, & Petr Pyšek. (2006). Flowering phenology and reproductive effort of the invasive alien plant Heracleum mantegazzianum.. Preslia. 78(3). 265–285. 35 indexed citations
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Moravcová, Lenka, Petr Pyšek, Jan Pergl, Irena Perglová, & Vojtĕch Jaros̆ı́k. (2006). Seasonal pattern of germination and seed longevity in the invasive species Heracleum mantegazzianum. Preslia. 78(3). 287–301. 41 indexed citations

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