Roland Brandl

14.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
252 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Roland Brandl is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Roland Brandl has authored 252 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 122 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 115 papers in Ecology and 105 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Roland Brandl's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (98 papers), Plant and animal studies (79 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (67 papers). Roland Brandl is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (98 papers), Plant and animal studies (79 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (67 papers). Roland Brandl collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Roland Brandl's co-authors include Jörg Müller, Martin Brändle, Claus Bässler, Martin Schädler, Stefan Klotz, Teja Tscharntke, Karin Johst, Ingolf Kühn, Sebastian Seibold and Sabine Eber and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Roland Brandl

245 papers receiving 9.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Biodiversity along temperate forest succession

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roland Brandl Germany	52	4.2k	3.8k	3.7k	3.2k	2.5k	252	9.6k
Nigel E. Stork Australia	56	5.0k 1.2×	3.9k 1.0×	4.2k 1.1×	2.8k 0.9×	1.6k 0.6×	147	11.8k
Jason M. Tylianakis New Zealand	51	6.9k 1.6×	4.0k 1.1×	5.2k 1.4×	3.6k 1.1×	4.1k 1.6×	131	12.7k
Matthew P. Ayres United States	47	2.6k 0.6×	5.5k 1.4×	2.7k 0.7×	3.4k 1.1×	1.6k 0.6×	163	9.8k
Eckehard G. Brockerhoff New Zealand	48	2.6k 0.6×	4.8k 1.3×	3.3k 0.9×	4.3k 1.3×	1.6k 0.6×	162	9.8k
Ingrid M. Parker United States	40	4.9k 1.2×	4.9k 1.3×	5.5k 1.5×	2.3k 0.7×	4.5k 1.8×	91	12.7k
Raphaël K. Didham Australia	44	5.6k 1.3×	6.8k 1.8×	7.8k 2.1×	2.7k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	161	14.9k
Ralf Ohlemüller New Zealand	19	4.6k 1.1×	4.0k 1.1×	4.7k 1.3×	1.7k 0.5×	1.8k 0.7×	37	11.1k
Franz Essl Austria	58	3.9k 0.9×	4.8k 1.3×	5.4k 1.5×	2.0k 0.6×	2.7k 1.1×	295	11.5k
Ulrich Brose Germany	56	4.7k 1.1×	6.7k 1.8×	4.9k 1.3×	1.2k 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	140	12.2k
Jan Pergl Czechia	54	5.5k 1.3×	5.3k 1.4×	7.4k 2.0×	2.5k 0.8×	4.8k 1.9×	153	13.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roland Brandl

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Heurich, Marco, Christian von Hoermann, Sandra Steiger, et al.. (2025). No genetic differentiation among populations up to 300 km apart in three species of carrion beetles. Ecological Entomology. 50(6). 953–967.

Hagge, Jonas, et al.. (2023). Logging operations creating snags, logs, and stumps under open and closed canopies promote stand-scale beetle diversity. Forest Ecology and Management. 540. 121022–121022. 15 indexed citations

Gottwald, Jannis, Thomas Nauß, Roland Brandl, et al.. (2023). Towards reliable estimates of abundance trends using automated non‐lethal moth traps. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 16(5). 539–549. 4 indexed citations

Larsen, Annegret, Roland Brandl, Nina Farwig, et al.. (2023). Mammalian bioturbation amplifies rates of both hillslope sediment erosion and accumulation along the Chilean climate gradient. Biogeosciences. 20(15). 3367–3394. 2 indexed citations

Krah, Franz‐Sebastian, et al.. (2022). Fungal fruit body assemblages are tougher in harsh microclimates. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 1633–1633. 9 indexed citations

Larsen, Annegret, Sebastian Achilles, Roland Brandl, et al.. (2022). Higher sediment redistribution rates related to burrowing animals than previously assumed as revealed by time-of-flight-based monitoring. Earth Surface Dynamics. 10(6). 1273–1301. 3 indexed citations

Gottwald, Jannis, Raphaël Royauté, Sascha Rösner, et al.. (2022). Classifying the activity states of small vertebrates using automated VHF telemetry. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(1). 252–264. 6 indexed citations

Seibold, Sebastian, Jörg Müller, Sebastian Allner, et al.. (2022). Quantifying wood decomposition by insects and fungi using computed tomography scanning and machine learning. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 16150–16150. 13 indexed citations

Bässler, Claus, et al.. (2021). Global analysis reveals an environmentally driven latitudinal pattern in mushroom size across fungal species. Ecology Letters. 24(4). 658–667. 14 indexed citations

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Gottwald, Jannis, et al.. (2020). Szenarien der künftigen Verbreitung des Hirschkäfers in Hessen: welchen Einfluss hat der Klimawandel?. 0028-0615. 95(3). 111–117. 1 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Anja, Harald Auge, Roland Brandl, et al.. (2015). Small-scale variability in the contribution of invertebrates to litter decomposition in tropical rice fields. Basic and Applied Ecology. 16(8). 674–680. 22 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Anja, G. S. Arida, Harald Auge, et al.. (2015). Effects of Residue Management on Decomposition in Irrigated Rice Fields Are Not Related to Changes in the Decomposer Community. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0134402–e0134402. 21 indexed citations

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Brandl, Roland, et al.. (2014). Spatio‐phylogenetic multispecies distribution models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 6(2). 187–197. 14 indexed citations

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Höfer, Hubert, et al.. (2013). No bottom-up effects of food addition on predators in a tropical forest. Basic and Applied Ecology. 15(1). 59–65. 7 indexed citations

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Schädler, Martin, Roland Brandl, & Josephine Haase. (2007). ANTAGONISTIC INTERACTIONS BETWEEN PLANT COMPETITION AND INSECT HERBIVORY. Ecology. 88(6). 1490–1498. 36 indexed citations

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Brändle, Martin & Roland Brandl. (2003). Species richness on trees: a comparison of parasitic fungi and insects. Evolutionary ecology research. 5(6). 941–952. 11 indexed citations

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Brändle, Martin, et al.. (2002). Dietary niche breadth for Central European birds: correlations with species-specific traits. Evolutionary ecology research. 4(5). 643–657. 58 indexed citations

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Prinzing, Andréas, Walter Durka, Stefan Klotz, & Roland Brandl. (2002). Which species become aliens. Evolutionary ecology research. 4(3). 385–405. 119 indexed citations

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Darlington, Johanna P. E. C., Manfred Kaib, & Roland Brandl. (2001). Termites (Isoptera) in forest remnants and forest islands in the Shimba Hills National Reserve, Coastal Province of Kenya. Sociobiology. 373. 527–538. 2 indexed citations

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Johst, Karin & Roland Brandl. (1999). Natal versus breeding dispersal: Evolution in a model system. Evolutionary ecology research. 1(8). 911–921. 19 indexed citations

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