Oliver Schweiger

19.8k total citations · 7 hit papers
98 papers, 11.9k citations indexed

About

Oliver Schweiger is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Oliver Schweiger has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 11.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 61 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 42 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Oliver Schweiger's work include Plant and animal studies (69 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (59 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (42 papers). Oliver Schweiger is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (69 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (59 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (42 papers). Oliver Schweiger collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and France. Oliver Schweiger's co-authors include Simon G. Potts, Jacobus C. Biesmeijer, Peter Neumann, William E. Kunin, Claire Kremen, Ingolf Kühn, Josef Settele, Stefan Klotz, Vincent Devictor and Marten Winter and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Oliver Schweiger

98 papers receiving 11.6k citations

Hit Papers

Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers 2007 2026 2013 2019 2010 2015 2012 2007 2012 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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.

  1. Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers
    2010 4.5k citations Simon G. Potts, Jacobus C. Biesmeijer et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →
  2. Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents
    2015 565 citations Simon G. Potts, Oliver Schweiger et al. profile →
  3. Differences in the climatic debts of birds and butterflies at a continental scale
    2012 563 citations Chris van Swaay, Mikko Kuussaari et al. profile →
  4. How landscape structure, land‐use intensity and habitat diversity affect components of total arthropod diversity in agricultural landscapes
    2007 463 citations Oliver Schweiger et al. profile →
  5. Phylogenetic diversity and nature conservation: where are we?
    2012 434 citations Marten Winter, Oliver Schweiger et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →
  6. Combined effects of global change pressures on animal-mediated pollination
    2013 314 citations Jacobus C. Biesmeijer, Riccardo Bommarco et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →
  7. Urban areas as hotspots for bees and pollination but not a panacea for all insects
    2020 260 citations Josef Settele, Oliver Schweiger et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Oliver Schweiger Germany 43 8.3k 4.9k 4.4k 3.5k 2.9k 98 11.9k
Riccardo Bommarco Sweden 60 9.9k 1.2× 7.4k 1.5× 5.1k 1.1× 3.0k 0.9× 5.6k 1.9× 168 16.1k
Jason M. Tylianakis New Zealand 51 6.9k 0.8× 3.6k 0.7× 5.2k 1.2× 1.6k 0.5× 4.1k 1.4× 131 12.7k
David W. Inouye United States 58 9.1k 1.1× 2.9k 0.6× 4.9k 1.1× 2.0k 0.6× 4.7k 1.6× 133 13.0k
Saul A. Cunningham Australia 45 9.7k 1.2× 6.7k 1.4× 3.7k 0.8× 3.8k 1.1× 4.6k 1.6× 134 13.4k
Rachael Winfree United States 42 11.5k 1.4× 7.0k 1.4× 4.1k 0.9× 3.7k 1.1× 5.7k 2.0× 67 13.1k
Roland Brandl Germany 52 4.2k 0.5× 3.2k 0.7× 3.7k 0.8× 1.4k 0.4× 2.5k 0.9× 252 9.6k
Michael J. Samways South Africa 54 4.1k 0.5× 2.7k 0.6× 5.7k 1.3× 1.9k 0.5× 1.4k 0.5× 410 11.1k
David Kleijn Netherlands 54 7.7k 0.9× 4.6k 1.0× 5.7k 1.3× 1.6k 0.5× 4.8k 1.6× 169 14.8k
Paul Eggleton United Kingdom 53 6.4k 0.8× 2.6k 0.5× 3.0k 0.7× 5.4k 1.5× 1.3k 0.5× 159 10.6k
Raphaël K. Didham Australia 44 5.6k 0.7× 2.7k 0.6× 7.8k 1.8× 1.7k 0.5× 2.1k 0.7× 161 14.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Oliver Schweiger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Oliver Schweiger

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Oliver Schweiger. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Oliver Schweiger based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Oliver Schweiger. Oliver Schweiger is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Potts, Simon G., Deepa Senapathi, Matthias Albrecht, et al.. (2025). Beekeepers’ perceptions toward a new omics tool for monitoring bee health in Europe. PLoS ONE. 20(1). e0316609–e0316609. 1 indexed citations
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Proesmans, Willem, Matthias Albrecht, Robert J. Paxton, et al.. (2024). Urbanisation and agricultural intensification modulate plant–pollinator network structure and robustness. Functional Ecology. 38(3). 628–641. 6 indexed citations
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Schweiger, Oliver, Josef Settele, Martin Wiemers, et al.. (2024). Connectivity and climate influence diversity–stability relationships across spatial scales in European butterfly metacommunities. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(10). 2 indexed citations
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Yañez, Orlando, Peter Neumann, Anna Gajda, et al.. (2024). Species traits, landscape quality and floral resource overlap with honeybees determine virus transmission in plant–pollinator networks. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(12). 2239–2251. 4 indexed citations
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Høye, Toke T., Tom August, Mario V. Balzan, et al.. (2023). Modern Approaches to the Monitoring of Biоdiversity (MAMBO). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9. 5 indexed citations
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Evans, Luke C., Yolanda Melero, Reto Schmucki, et al.. (2023). Mechanisms underpinning community stability along a latitudinal gradient: Insights from a niche‐based approach. Global Change Biology. 29(12). 3271–3284. 5 indexed citations
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Proesmans, Willem, Matthias Albrecht, Anna Gajda, et al.. (2021). Pathways for Novel Epidemiology: Plant–Pollinator–Pathogen Networks and Global Change. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 36(7). 623–636. 52 indexed citations
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Wang, Yu, et al.. (2021). Opportunities to improve China’s biodiversity protection laws. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(6). 726–732. 9 indexed citations
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Schweiger, Oliver, et al.. (2020). Origin of climatic data can determine the transferability of species distribution models. NeoBiota. 59. 61–76. 26 indexed citations
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Dapporto, Leonardo, Enrique García‐Barros, Martin Wiemers, et al.. (2020). A new comprehensive trait database of European and Maghreb butterflies, Papilionoidea. Scientific Data. 7(1). 351–351. 62 indexed citations
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Carvalheiro, Luísa G., Jacobus C. Biesmeijer, Markus Franzén, et al.. (2019). Soil eutrophication shaped the composition of pollinator assemblages during the past century. Ecography. 43(2). 209–221. 25 indexed citations
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Schweiger, Oliver, et al.. (2019). Niche expansion of the invasive plant species Ageratina adenophora despite evolutionary constraints. Journal of Biogeography. 46(7). 1306–1315. 38 indexed citations
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Titeux, Nicolas, Dirk Maes, Toon Van Daele, et al.. (2017). The need for large‐scale distribution data to estimate regional changes in species richness under future climate change. Diversity and Distributions. 23(12). 1393–1407. 36 indexed citations
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Brown, Mark J. F., Lynn V. Dicks, Robert J. Paxton, et al.. (2016). A horizon scan of future threats and opportunities for pollinators and pollination. PeerJ. 4. e2249–e2249. 147 indexed citations
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Papanikolaou, Alexandra, Ingolf Kühn, Mark Frenzel, & Oliver Schweiger. (2016). Landscape heterogeneity enhances stability of wild bee abundance under highly varying temperature, but not under highly varying precipitation. Landscape Ecology. 32(3). 581–593. 25 indexed citations
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Gallien, Laure, Florian Altermatt, Martin Wiemers, Oliver Schweiger, & Niklaus E. Zimmermann. (2016). Invasive plants threaten the least mobile butterflies in Switzerland. Diversity and Distributions. 23(2). 185–195. 8 indexed citations
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Eskildsen, Anne, Luísa G. Carvalheiro, W. Daniel Kissling, et al.. (2015). Ecological specialization matters: long‐term trends in butterfly species richness and assemblage composition depend on multiple functional traits. Diversity and Distributions. 21(7). 792–802. 93 indexed citations
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Öckinger, Erik, Oliver Schweiger, Thomas O. Crist, et al.. (2010). Life‐history traits predict species responses to habitat area and isolation: a cross‐continental synthesis. Ecology Letters. 13(8). 969–979. 356 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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Settele, Josef, Otakar Kudrna, Alexander Harpke, et al.. (2009). Corrigenda: Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies. Phaidra (Universität Wien). 2. 33–72. 5 indexed citations

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