Patrick Weigelt

15.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
109 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Patrick Weigelt is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Weigelt has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 82 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 50 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Patrick Weigelt's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (85 papers), Plant and animal studies (78 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (50 papers). Patrick Weigelt is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (85 papers), Plant and animal studies (78 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (50 papers). Patrick Weigelt collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Czechia. Patrick Weigelt's co-authors include Holger Kreft, Carsten Meyer, Christian König, Franz Essl, Petr Pyšek, Mark van Kleunen, Jan Pergl, Wayne Dawson, Amanda Taylor and Marten Winter and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Weigelt

105 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Multidimensional biases, gaps and uncertainties in global plant occurrence information

2016 355 citations Carsten Meyer, Patrick Weigelt et al. profile →
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						Papers	Cites
Patrick Weigelt Germany	37	2.2k	2.2k	1.4k	1.1k	986	109	4.2k
Bo Dalsgaard Denmark	27	2.2k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	804 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	60	3.5k
Şerban Procheş South Africa	29	1.8k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	916 0.6×	1.0k 0.9×	807 0.8×	94	3.6k
Dietmar Moser Austria	36	1.7k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	1.4k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	116	4.4k
Kostas A. Triantis Greece	35	1.9k 0.8×	2.2k 1.0×	1.8k 1.2×	2.0k 1.8×	573 0.6×	85	4.6k
Charles G. Willis United States	23	2.0k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	815 0.7×	1.4k 1.4×	36	3.6k
Óscar Godoy Spain	29	2.4k 1.1×	3.1k 1.4×	1.0k 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	82	4.8k
Julie R. Etterson United States	25	2.0k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	43	4.4k
Lars Götzenberger Czechia	29	1.6k 0.7×	2.4k 1.1×	844 0.6×	897 0.8×	943 1.0×	65	3.3k
Jens Mutke Germany	18	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	924 0.6×	841 0.7×	601 0.6×	25	3.0k
Alexander Zizka Germany	28	1.5k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	794 0.7×	471 0.5×	69	3.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick Weigelt

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Tuomisto, Hanna, Glenda G. Cárdenas, Samuli Lehtonen, et al.. (2024). Species–soil relationships across Amazonia: Niche specificity and consistency in understorey ferns. Journal of Vegetation Science. 35(5).

Yu, Kailiang, Paolo D’Odorico, Ana Novoa, et al.. (2024). Potential expansion of plants with crassulacean acid metabolism in the Anthropocene. BioScience. 74(7). 478–487. 4 indexed citations

Essl, Franz, Mark van Kleunen, Petr Pyšek, et al.. (2024). Invading plants remain undetected in a lag phase while they explore suitable climates. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(3). 477–488. 13 indexed citations

Taylor, Amanda, Patrick Weigelt, Benoît Guénard, et al.. (2023). Climate and ant diversity explain the global distribution of ant‐plant mutualisms. Ecography. 2023(11). 11 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhijie, Qiang Yang, Trevor S. Fristoe, et al.. (2023). The poleward naturalization of intracontinental alien plants. Science Advances. 9(40). eadi1897–eadi1897. 10 indexed citations

Hanz, Dagmar M., Adam C. Algar, Carl Beierkuhnlein, et al.. (2023). Effects of climate change on the distribution of plant species and plant functional strategies on the Canary Islands. Diversity and Distributions. 29(9). 1157–1171. 13 indexed citations

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

Zizka, Alexander, Petr Keil, Marten Winter, et al.. (2021). bRacatus : A method to estimate the accuracy and biogeographical status of georeferenced biological data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(9). 1609–1619. 14 indexed citations

Taylor, Amanda, Gerhard Zotz, Patrick Weigelt, et al.. (2021). Vascular epiphytes contribute disproportionately to global centres of plant diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 31(1). 62–74. 54 indexed citations

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Craven, Dylan, Patrick Weigelt, Hanno Seebens, et al.. (2021). Anthropogenic and environmental drivers shape diversity of naturalized plants across the Pacific. Diversity and Distributions. 27(6). 1120–1133. 17 indexed citations

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Weigelt, Patrick, et al.. (2021). Biovera-Epi: A new database on species diversity, community composition and leaf functional traits of vascular epiphytes along gradients of elevation and forest-use intensity in Mexico. ZooKeys. 9. e71974–e71974. 3 indexed citations

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Craven, Dylan, Patrick Weigelt, Dustin Wolkis, & Holger Kreft. (2021). Niche properties constrain occupancy but not abundance patterns of native and alien woody species across Hawaiian forests. Journal of Vegetation Science. 32(3). 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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Weigelt, Patrick, Nathaly R. Guerrero‐Ramírez, Dylan Craven, et al.. (2021). BIOVERA-Tree: tree diversity, community composition, forest structure and functional traits along gradients of forest-use intensity and elevation in Veracruz, Mexico. ZooKeys. 9. e69560–e69560.

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Schrader, Julian, Christian König, Kostas A. Triantis, et al.. (2020). Species–area relationships on small islands differ among plant growth forms. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29(5). 814–829. 43 indexed citations

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Weigelt, Patrick, Christian König, & Holger Kreft. (2019). GIFT – A Global Inventory of Floras and Traits for macroecology and biogeography. Journal of Biogeography. 47(1). 16–43. 137 indexed citations

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Karger, Dirk Nikolaus, Michael Kessler, Olaf Conrad, et al.. (2019). Why tree lines are lower on islands—Climatic and biogeographic effects hold the answer. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 28(6). 839–850. 30 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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König, Christian, Patrick Weigelt, Julian Schrader, et al.. (2019). Biodiversity data integration—the significance of data resolution and domain. PLoS Biology. 17(3). e3000183–e3000183. 92 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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