Nadja K. Simons

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Nadja K. Simons is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Nadja K. Simons has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 26 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 12 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Nadja K. Simons's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (26 papers), Plant and animal studies (22 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (12 papers). Nadja K. Simons is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (26 papers), Plant and animal studies (22 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (12 papers). Nadja K. Simons collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Türkiye. Nadja K. Simons's co-authors include Wolfgang W. Weisser, Martin M. Goßner, Nico Blüthgen, Daniel Prati, Markus Fischer, Caterina Penone, Didem Ambarlı, Peter Schall, Sebastian Seibold and Jürgen Bauhus and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Nadja K. Simons

30 papers receiving 2.1k citations

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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.

Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers

2019 817 citations Sebastian Seibold, Martin M. Goßner et al. Nature profile →
Landscape simplification filters species traits and drives biotic homogenization

2015 422 citations Sagrario Gámez‐Virués, David J. Perović et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nadja K. Simons Germany	16	1.1k	1.1k	682	617	530	32	2.1k
Caterina Penone Switzerland	18	975 0.9×	900 0.9×	848 1.2×	406 0.7×	744 1.4×	30	2.4k
Roel van Klink Germany	22	1.0k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	924 1.4×	510 0.8×	580 1.1×	47	2.4k
James S. Pryke South Africa	27	991 0.9×	1.4k 1.4×	960 1.4×	560 0.9×	577 1.1×	143	2.5k
Rafael Dudeque Zenni Brazil	23	748 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	693 1.0×	428 0.7×	289 0.5×	58	2.2k
Regula Billeter Switzerland	23	1.4k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	743 1.1×	666 1.1×	397 0.7×	39	2.6k
Fernando Zagury Vaz‐de‐Mello Brazil	31	1.6k 1.5×	1.8k 1.8×	910 1.3×	515 0.8×	341 0.6×	251	3.7k
Markus Franzén Sweden	25	1.2k 1.1×	957 0.9×	393 0.6×	429 0.7×	708 1.3×	86	1.8k
Nina Farwig Germany	29	1.4k 1.2×	1.5k 1.4×	1.1k 1.6×	282 0.5×	469 0.9×	116	2.6k
Gregor Kalinkat Germany	21	700 0.6×	744 0.7×	1.1k 1.6×	287 0.5×	403 0.8×	32	2.1k
Gary D. Powney United Kingdom	21	958 0.8×	554 0.5×	526 0.8×	457 0.7×	728 1.4×	38	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Nadja K. Simons

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nadja K. Simons

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Hou, Yanhui, Xiaona Li, Shaopeng Wang, et al.. (2025). Land use conversion weakens the cascading effects of plant diversity on temporal stability of high trophic levels at multiple spatial scales in grasslands. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 392. 109742–109742.

Sperandii, Marta Gaia, Manuele Bazzichetto, Lars Götzenberger, et al.. (2025). Functional traits mediate the effect of land use on drivers of community stability within and across trophic levels. Science Advances. 11(4). eadp6445–eadp6445. 2 indexed citations

Staab, Michael, Nadja K. Simons, Konstans Wells, et al.. (2024). The day after mowing: Time and type of mowing influence grassland arthropods. Ecological Applications. 34(6). e3022–e3022. 9 indexed citations

Staab, Michael, Martin M. Goßner, Nadja K. Simons, et al.. (2023). Insect decline in forests depends on species’ traits and may be mitigated by management. Communications Biology. 6(1). 338–338. 43 indexed citations

Wehner, Katja, M. Brandt, Andrea Hilpert, Nadja K. Simons, & Nico Blüthgen. (2023). Little evidence for land-use filters on intraspecific trait variation in three arthropod groups. Web Ecology. 23(1). 35–49.

Neff, Felix, Martin Brändle, Didem Ambarlı, et al.. (2021). Changes in plant-herbivore network structure and robustness along land-use intensity gradients in grasslands and forests. Science Advances. 7(20). 36 indexed citations

Seibold, Sebastian, Torsten Hothorn, Martin M. Goßner, et al.. (2021). Insights from regional and short‐term biodiversity monitoring datasets are valuable: a reply to Daskalova et al . 2021. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 14(1). 144–148. 9 indexed citations

Wehner, Katja, Carsten Renker, Nadja K. Simons, Wolfgang W. Weisser, & Nico Blüthgen. (2021). Narrow environmental niches predict land-use responses and vulnerability of land snail assemblages. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 21(1). 15–15. 7 indexed citations

Wehner, Katja, et al.. (2021). How land-use intensity affects sexual and parthenogenetic oribatid mites in temperate forests and grasslands in Germany. Experimental and Applied Acarology. 83(3). 343–373. 4 indexed citations

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Mody, Karsten, et al.. (2020). Flower power in the city: Replacing roadside shrubs by wildflower meadows increases insect numbers and reduces maintenance costs. PLoS ONE. 15(6). e0234327–e0234327. 50 indexed citations

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Ambarlı, Didem, Nadja K. Simons, Katja Wehner, et al.. (2020). Animal-Mediated Ecosystem Process Rates in Forests and Grasslands are Affected by Climatic Conditions and Land-Use Intensity. Ecosystems. 24(2). 467–483. 6 indexed citations

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Schneider, Florian D., Martin M. Goßner, Anton Güntsch, et al.. (2019). Towards an ecological trait‐data standard. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(12). 2006–2019. 92 indexed citations

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Heinze, Johannes, Nadja K. Simons, Sebastian Seibold, et al.. (2019). The relative importance of plant-soil feedbacks for plant-species performance increases with decreasing intensity of herbivory. Oecologia. 190(3). 651–664. 10 indexed citations

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Seibold, Sebastian, Martin M. Goßner, Nadja K. Simons, et al.. (2019). Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers. Nature. 574(7780). 671–674. 817 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schneider, Florian D., Martin M. Goßner, Anton Güntsch, et al.. (2019). Towards an Ecological Trait-data Standard Vocabulary. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 3. 1 indexed citations

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Simons, Nadja K. & Wolfgang W. Weisser. (2017). Agricultural intensification without biodiversity loss is possible in grassland landscapes. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(8). 1136–1145. 21 indexed citations

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Blüthgen, Nico, Nadja K. Simons, Kirsten Jung, et al.. (2016). Land use imperils plant and animal community stability through changes in asynchrony rather than diversity. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10697–10697. 133 indexed citations

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Gámez‐Virués, Sagrario, David J. Perović, Martin M. Goßner, et al.. (2015). Landscape simplification filters species traits and drives biotic homogenization. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8568–8568. 422 indexed citations breakdown →

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Simons, Nadja K., Wolfgang W. Weisser, & Martin M. Goßner. (2015). Multi‐taxa approach shows consistent shifts in arthropod functional traits along grassland land‐use intensity gradient. Ecology. 97(3). 754–764. 92 indexed citations

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Goßner, Martin M., Nadja K. Simons, Theo Blick, et al.. (2015). A summary of eight traits of Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Orthoptera and Araneae, occurring in grasslands in Germany. Scientific Data. 2(1). 150013–150013. 46 indexed citations

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