Niklaus E. Zimmermann

67.6k citations

273 papers · 37.9k indexed · 18 hit papers · h-index 83

Impact in

Ecological Modeling top 0.01%
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.01%
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Forest ecology and management

Papers in

Ecological Modeling 149
- Species Distribution and Climate Change 149
Nature and Landscape Conservation 162
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies 143

Co-authors: Antoine Guisan Wilfried Thuiller Tim R. McVicar Alexis Berg Eric F. Wood Noemi Vergopolan Hylke E. Beck Dirk Nikolaus Karger
Journals: Global Ecology and Biogeography (21 papers)Ecography (21 papers)Journal of Biogeography (16 papers)Nature Communications (13 papers)Diversity and Distributions (10 papers)
Partner nations: Switzerland France Germany

In The Last Decade

Niklaus E. Zimmermann

261 papers receiving 36.7k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

The geography of climate and the global patterns of species diversity 2023 · 68 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Nature
2019 Nature Communications
2019 Science Advances
2018 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2018 Scientific Data
2017 Cambridge University Press eBooks
2017 Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
2016 Global Change Biology
2014 Ecography
2014 Journal of Environmental Management
2012 Nature Climate Change
2011 Global Ecology and Biogeography
2009 Quaternary Science Reviews
2009 Global Change Biology
2007 Journal of Vegetation Science
2007 Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics
2006 Journal of Biogeography
2000 Ecological Modelling

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1	SDMapCH: a Comprehensive database of >7,500 modelled species habitat suitability maps for Switzerland Scientific Data ·Antoine Adde, علاء الدین اسامة احمد عطیة, Hermann Terhalle, Yohann Chauvier, Fabian Fopp, W J D Johnson, Olivier Broennimann, Blaise Petitpierre, Nicolas Strebel, Andrin Gross, Agostinho Lopes-de-Souza, Anthony Lehmann, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Loïc Pellissier, Antoine Guisan, Florian Altermatt	2025	0
2	FlorID – A nationwide identification service for plants from photos and habitat information Environmental Modelling & Software ·Philipp Brun, Stefan Lesschaeve, Xu Xia, Damaris Zurell, Dirk Nikolaus Karger, Patrice Descombes, सुमित यादव, Jan Dirk Wegner, Diandra Fitry Angelin Ginting, S.V. Vartanyan, Nenden Ineu Herawati, Niklaus E. Zimmermann	2025	0
3	Towards a sustainable energy transition Journal of Applied Ecology ·Silke Bauer, Lesley T. Lancaster, Niklaus E. Zimmermann	2025	0
4	Global Patterns of Climatic Niche Evolution in Angiosperms Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Yunpeng Liu, John J. Wiens, Ao Luo, Xiaoting Xu, Dimitar Dimitrov, Xiangyan Su, Yichao Li, Tong Lyu, Loïc Pellissier, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Zhiheng Wang	2025	0
5	The geography of connectivity shapes plant endemism hotspots Ecography ·H-C.C Huang, Margot Anderson, Wenna Ding, Philipp Brun, Alexander Skeels, Loïc Pellissier, Niklaus E. Zimmermann	2025	0
6	Synchrony and Tail‐Dependent Synchrony Have Different Effects on Stability of Terrestrial and Freshwater Communities Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Shyamolina Ghosh, Blake Matthews, Sarah R. Supp, Roel van Klink, Francesco Pomati, James A. Rusak, Imran Khaliq, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Thomas Wohlgemuth, Ole Seehausen, Christian Rixen, Martin M. Goßner, Anita Narwani, Jonathan M. Chase, Catherine H. Graham	2025	0
7	Regional uniqueness of tree species composition and response to forest loss and climate change Nature Communications ·John Nijjem, Fabian Fopp, Philipp Brun, Johan van den Hoogen, Dirk Nikolaus Karger, Cecilia M. Casadei, John J. Sardella, Devis Tuia, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Thomas W. Crowther, Loïc Pellissier	2024	13
8	Projecting Untruncated Climate Change Effects on Species' Climate Suitability: Insights From an Alpine Country Global Change Biology ·Antoine Adde, Hermann Terhalle, علاء الدین اسامة احمد عطیة, Fabian Fopp, Philipp Brun, Olivier Broennimann, Anthony Lehmann, Blaise Petitpierre, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Loïc Pellissier, Florian Altermatt, Antoine Guisan	2024	6
9	Warming underpins community turnover in temperate freshwater and terrestrial communities Nature Communications ·Imran Khaliq, Christian Rixen, Florian Zellweger, Catherine H. Graham, Martin M. Goßner, Ian R. McFadden, Laura H. Antão, Jakob Brodersen, Shyamolina Ghosh, Francesco Pomati, Ole Seehausen, Tobias Roth, Thomas Sattler, Sarah R. Supp, Vasiliy Trunev, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Blake Matthews, Anita Narwani	2024	15
10	Herding cats: integrative leadership strategies in inter- and transdisciplinary research programs Sustainability Science ·姚盼盼, Jude Bis Roedding, Andreas Fischer, 郭嘤蔚, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, ADILSON V. SOARES-JÚNIOR, Sabine Hoffmann	2024	7
11	Current and past climate co‐shape community‐level plant species richness in the Western Siberian Arctic Ecology and Evolution ·Hans M. Guo, Philipp Brun, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Ksenia Ermokhina, Merve Şeyda Karaçil Ermumucu, Natalia Koroleva, Gabriela Schaepman‐Strub	2024	2
12	Spatio‐temporal patterns in the woodiness of flowering plants Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Ao Luo, Xiaoting Xu, Yunpeng Liu, Yaoqi Li, Xiangyan Su, Yichao Li, Tong Lyu, Dimitar Dimitrov, Markku Larjavaara, Shijia Peng, Yongsheng Chen, Qinggang Wang, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Loïc Pellissier, Bernhard Schmid, Zhiheng Wang	2022	8
13	Climate, immigration and speciation shape terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity in the European Alps Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Luiz Jardim de Queiroz, 刘爱江, Florian Altermatt, Roman Alther, Špela Borko, Jakob Brodersen, Martin M. Goßner, Catherine H. Graham, Blake Matthews, Ian R. McFadden, Loïc Pellissier, Thomas Schmitt, Oliver M. Selz, Soraya Villalba, Lukas Rüber, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Ole Seehausen	2022	19
14	Major restructuring of marine plankton assemblages under global warming Nature Communications ·Fabio Benedetti, Meike Vogt, 健司座長出島, Damiano Righetti, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Nicolas Gruber	2021	118
15	The Treasure Vault Can be Opened: Large-Scale Genome Skimming Works Well Using Herbarium and Silica Gel Dried Material Plants ·Inger Greve Alsos, Sébastien Lavergne, Marie Kristine Føreid Merkel, Martí Boleda, Youri Lammers, Adriana Alberti, Charles Pouchon, France Denœud, 张志云, Mihai Puşcaş, Cristina Roquet, Bogdan‐Iuliu Hurdu, Wilfried Thuiller, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Peter M. Hollingsworth, Éric Coissac	2020	57
16	Why tree lines are lower on islands—Climatic and biogeographic effects hold the answer Global Ecology and Biogeography ·Dirk Nikolaus Karger, Michael Kessler, Olaf Conrad, Patrick Weigelt, Holger Kreft, Christian König, Niklaus E. Zimmermann	2019	30
17	Macroecology in the age of Big Data – Where to go from here? Journal of Biogeography ·Rafael O. Wüest, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Damaris Zurell, Jake M. Alexander, Susanne A. Fritz, Christian Hof, Holger Kreft, Signe Normand, Juliano Sarmento Cabral, Enikő Székely, Wilfried Thuiller, Martin Wikelski, Dirk Nikolaus Karger	2019	103
18	A framework for modeling adaptive forest management and decision making under climate change Ecology and Society ·Rasoul Yousefpour, Christian Temperli, Jette Bredahl Jacobsen, Bo Jellesmark Thorsen, Henrik Meilby, Manfred J. Lexer, Marcus Lindner, Harald Bugmann, José G. Borges, J.H.N. Palma, Duncan Ray, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Sylvain Delzon, Antoine Kremer, K. Krämer, Christopher Reyer, Petra Lasch‐Born, Jordi García-Gonzalo, Marc Hanewinkel	2017	75
19	No growth stimulation of Canada’s boreal forest under half-century of combined warming and CO ₂ fertilization Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Martin P. Girardin, Olivier Bouriaud, Edward H. Hogg, Werner A. Kurz, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Juha M. Metsaranta, Rogier de Jong, David Frank, Jan Esper, Ulf Büntgen, Xiao Jing Guo, Jagtar S. Bhatti	2016	243
20	Improving generalized regression analysis for the spatial prediction of forest communities Journal of Biogeography ·Ramona Maggini, Anthony Lehmann, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Antoine Guisan	2006	154

About Niklaus E. Zimmermann

Niklaus E. Zimmermann is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology, having authored 273 papers that have together received 37.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (149 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (143 papers), Plant and animal studies (62 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (34 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (30 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (27 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (27 papers) and Remote Sensing in Agriculture (23 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecological Modeling (16.9k citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (16.0k citations), Global and Planetary Change (11.9k citations), Ecology (14.2k citations) and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (8.0k citations). Niklaus E. Zimmermann has collaborated with scholars based in Switzerland, France and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Antoine Guisan, Wilfried Thuiller, Tim R. McVicar, Alexis Berg, Eric F. Wood, Noemi Vergopolan, Hylke E. Beck, Dirk Nikolaus Karger, Peter B. Pearman and Christophe F. Randin. Their work appears in journals such as Global Ecology and Biogeography, Ecography, Journal of Biogeography, Nature Communications and Diversity and Distributions.

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