Mark van Kleunen

34.5k total citations · 9 hit papers
301 papers, 16.7k citations indexed

About

Mark van Kleunen is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark van Kleunen has authored 301 papers receiving a total of 16.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 219 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 204 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 131 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Mark van Kleunen's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (218 papers), Plant and animal studies (199 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (80 papers). Mark van Kleunen is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (218 papers), Plant and animal studies (199 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (80 papers). Mark van Kleunen collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and Switzerland. Mark van Kleunen's co-authors include Markus Fischer, Wayne Dawson, Ewald Weber, Bernhard Schmid, Markus Fischer, Petr Pyšek, Yanjie Liu, Franz Essl, Adrienne B. Nicotra and Fernando Valladares and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Mark van Kleunen

288 papers receiving 16.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Plant phenotypic plasticity in a changing climate

2010 1.5k citations Mark van Kleunen et al. profile →
A meta‐analysis of trait differences between invasive and non‐invasive plant species

2009 1.5k citations Mark van Kleunen, Ewald Weber et al. Ecology Letters profile →
The effects of phenotypic plasticity and local adaptation on forecasts of species range shifts under climate change

2014 788 citations Mark van Kleunen et al. Ecology Letters profile →
Constraints on the evolution of adaptive phenotypic plasticity in plants

2005 543 citations Mark van Kleunen et al. profile →
Projecting the continental accumulation of alien species through to 2050

2020 446 citations Wayne Dawson, Mark van Kleunen et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Global trade will accelerate plant invasions in emerging economies under climate change

2015 297 citations Franz Essl, Wayne Dawson et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Do invasive alien plants benefit more from global environmental change than native plants?

2016 273 citations Yanjie Liu, Ayub M. O. Oduor et al. Global Change Biology profile →
Effect of allelopathy on plant performance: a meta‐analysis

2020 197 citations Zhijie Zhang, Yanjie Liu et al. Ecology Letters profile →
Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success

2020 194 citations Mark van Kleunen, Noëlie Maurel et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark van Kleunen

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Determinants of global variation in taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity of invasive plants 2025 ·Journal of Ecology ·Bi‐Cheng Dong, Lanhui Wang, Lei Gao, Mark van Kleunen, Fei‐Hai Yu	1
2	Responses of naturalized alien plants to soil heterogeneity and competition vary with the global naturalization success of the native competitors 2025 ·Journal of Ecology ·(unknown), Mark van Kleunen	1
3	Artificial particles and soil communities interactively change heterospecific plant-soil feedbacks 2025 ·Plant and Soil ·(unknown), (unknown), Rutger A. Wilschut, Mark van Kleunen	0
4	Investigating the drivers of negative diversity-invasibility relationship: The role of nutrient availability, allelopathy, soil biota, and soil legacy effects 2024 ·Fundamental Research ·Ayub M. O. Oduor, Mark van Kleunen, Yanjie Liu	1
5	Genotype diversity enhances invasion resistance of native plants via soil biotic feedbacks 2024 ·Ecology Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), Qun Zhang, (unknown), Rui‐Ting Ju, Bo Li, Mark van Kleunen, Jonathan M. Chase, Jihua Wu	11
6	The more microplastic types pollute the soil, the stronger the growth suppression of invasive alien and native plants 2024 ·Journal of Ecology ·Yanmei Fu, Mark van Kleunen, (unknown), Yanjie Liu	12
7	Complete chloroplast genome data reveal the existence of the Solidago canadensis L. complex and its potential introduction pathways into China 2024 ·Frontiers in Plant Science ·(unknown), Luxi Chen, (unknown), Jie Jin, (unknown), (unknown), Hanyang Lin, (unknown), Junmin Li, Mark van Kleunen	0
8	Naturalizations have led to homogenization of the Malesian flora in the Anthropocene 2023 ·Journal of Biogeography ·(unknown), Pieter B. Pelser, Julie F. Barcelona, S. Tjitrosoedirdjo, (unknown), 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	0
9	Breakdown of self-incompatibility due to genetic interaction between a specific S-allele and an unlinked modifier 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Yan Li, (unknown), (unknown), Mark van Kleunen, Marc Stift	10
10	The naturalized vascular flora of Malesia 2023 ·Biological Invasions ·(unknown), Pieter B. Pelser, Julie F. Barcelona, S. Tjitrosoedirdjo, (unknown), 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	9
11	The Matthew effect: Common species become more common and rare ones become more rare in response to artificial light at night 2022 ·Global Change Biology ·Yanjie Liu, (unknown), Eva Knop, Mark van Kleunen	24
12	Floral visitation to alien plants is non‐linearly related to their phylogenetic and floral similarity to native plants 2022 ·Functional Ecology ·Mialy Razanajatovo, (unknown), (unknown), Mark van Kleunen	2
13	Soil mesofauna may buffer the negative effects of drought on alien plant invasion 2022 ·Journal of Ecology ·(unknown), (unknown), Mark van Kleunen, Yanjie Liu	10
14	Soil heterogeneity tends to promote the growth of naturalized aliens when competing with native plant communities 2022 ·Journal of Ecology ·(unknown), Mark van Kleunen	10
15	Soil conditions drive below‐ground trait space in temperate agricultural grasslands 2022 ·Journal of Ecology ·(unknown), Joana Bergmann, Norbert Hölzel, Valentin H. Klaus, Till Kleinebecker, Matthias C. Rillig, Mark van Kleunen	12
16	Limited phenological and pollinator-mediated isolation among selfing and outcrossing Arabidopsis lyrata populations 2020 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·(unknown), (unknown), Mark van Kleunen, Marcel E. Dorken, Marc Stift	4
17	Effect of allelopathy on plant performance: a meta‐analysis breakdown → 2020 ·Ecology Letters ·Zhijie Zhang, Yanjie Liu, Ling Yuan, Ewald Weber, Mark van Kleunen	197
18	Do invasive alien plants benefit more from global environmental change than native plants? breakdown → 2016 ·Global Change Biology ·Yanjie Liu, Ayub M. O. Oduor, Zhen Zhang, Anthony Manea, (unknown), Michelle R. Leishman, Xingliang Xu, Mark van Kleunen	273
19	Characteristics of successful alien plants 2014 ·Molecular Ecology ·Mark van Kleunen, Wayne Dawson, Noëlie Maurel	161
20	Central European plant species from more productive habitats are more invasive at a global scale 2012 ·Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Petr Dostál, Wayne Dawson, Mark van Kleunen, Lidewij H. Keser, Markus Fischer	46

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