Sophia Ratcliffe

3.0k total citations
27 papers, 951 citations indexed

About

Sophia Ratcliffe is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Sophia Ratcliffe has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 951 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 8 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Sophia Ratcliffe's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (19 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (12 papers) and Forest ecology and management (10 papers). Sophia Ratcliffe is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (19 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (12 papers) and Forest ecology and management (10 papers). Sophia Ratcliffe collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Spain. Sophia Ratcliffe's co-authors include Paloma Ruiz‐Benito, Aleksi Lehtonen, Miguel Á. Zavala, Christian Wirth, Jonas Dahlgren, Gerald Kändler, Leena Finér, Seid Muhie Dawud, Jens Kattge and Yanli Zhuang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Scientific Reports and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Sophia Ratcliffe

27 papers receiving 934 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sophia Ratcliffe Germany 17 710 635 257 132 118 27 951
Karen E. Rice United States 13 371 0.5× 497 0.8× 219 0.9× 189 1.4× 213 1.8× 13 825
Albert Vilà‐Cabrera Spain 15 595 0.8× 634 1.0× 360 1.4× 147 1.1× 103 0.9× 22 854
Arun K. Bose Switzerland 18 699 1.0× 731 1.2× 331 1.3× 125 0.9× 97 0.8× 45 982
Kamil Bielak Poland 17 1.0k 1.4× 817 1.3× 260 1.0× 130 1.0× 181 1.5× 50 1.3k
Marc Gracia Spain 18 509 0.7× 631 1.0× 147 0.6× 231 1.8× 93 0.8× 25 869
Ángela Sánchez‐Miranda Spain 14 514 0.7× 620 1.0× 391 1.5× 187 1.4× 139 1.2× 22 850
Ulrich Graf Switzerland 12 361 0.5× 332 0.5× 203 0.8× 179 1.4× 161 1.4× 21 587
M. N. Nur Supardi Malaysia 10 779 1.1× 493 0.8× 159 0.6× 161 1.2× 138 1.2× 15 1.1k
Steffi Heinrichs Germany 16 434 0.6× 368 0.6× 97 0.4× 148 1.1× 187 1.6× 38 786
Claudio Leaño Netherlands 8 626 0.9× 477 0.8× 92 0.4× 121 0.9× 74 0.6× 9 849

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sophia Ratcliffe

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sophia Ratcliffe. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sophia Ratcliffe 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 Sophia Ratcliffe. Sophia Ratcliffe 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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Morin, Xavier, Maude Toïgo, Lorenz Fahse, et al.. (2025). More species, more trees: The role of tree packing in promoting forest productivity. Journal of Ecology. 113(2). 371–386. 3 indexed citations
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Güntsch, Anton, Jörg Overmann, Aletta Bonn, et al.. (2024). National biodiversity data infrastructures: ten essential functions for science, policy, and practice. BioScience. 75(2). 139–151. 7 indexed citations
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Cruz‐Alonso, Verónica, Sophia Ratcliffe, Paloma Ruiz‐Benito, et al.. (2023). The easyclimate R package: Easy access to high-resolution daily climate data for Europe. Environmental Modelling & Software. 161. 105627–105627. 26 indexed citations
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Madden, Joah R., et al.. (2023). Large‐scale correlations between gamebird release and management and animal biodiversity metrics in lowland Great Britain. Ecology and Evolution. 13(5). e10059–e10059. 3 indexed citations
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Reineking, Björn, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez, Jonas Dahlgren, et al.. (2023). Beyond mean fitness: Demographic stochasticity and resilience matter at tree species climatic edges. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(4). 573–585. 6 indexed citations
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Reineking, Björn, Jonas Dahlgren, Aleksi Lehtonen, et al.. (2021). Colonization and extinction dynamics and their link to the distribution of European trees at the continental scale. Journal of Biogeography. 49(1). 117–129. 4 indexed citations
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Ruiz‐Benito, Paloma, Sophia Ratcliffe, Thibaut Fréjaville, et al.. (2021). Occurrence but not intensity of mortality rises towards the climatic trailing edge of tree species ranges in European forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 30(7). 1356–1374. 13 indexed citations
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Jing, Xin, Bart Muys, Helge Bruelheide, et al.. (2021). Above‐ and below‐ground complementarity rather than selection drive tree diversity–productivity relationships in European forests. Functional Ecology. 35(8). 1756–1767. 25 indexed citations
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Künstler, Georges, Sophia Ratcliffe, Nadja Rüger, et al.. (2020). Demographic performance of European tree species at their hot and cold climatic edges. Journal of Ecology. 109(2). 1041–1054. 36 indexed citations
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Ruiz‐Benito, Paloma, Giorgio Vacchiano, Emily R. Lines, et al.. (2019). Available and missing data to model impact of climate change on European forests. Ecological Modelling. 416. 108870–108870. 50 indexed citations
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Ruiz‐Benito, Paloma, Sophia Ratcliffe, Thibaut Fréjaville, et al.. (2019). Similar patterns of background mortality across Europe are mostly driven by drought in European beech and a combination of drought and competition in Scots pine. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 280. 107772–107772. 42 indexed citations
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Ratcliffe, Sophia, Bernard Bosman, & Monique Carnol. (2018). Spatial and temporal variability of biological indicators of soil quality in two forest catchments in Belgium. Applied Soil Ecology. 126. 148–159. 9 indexed citations
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Wandeler, Hans De, Helge Bruelheide, Seid Muhie Dawud, et al.. (2018). Tree identity rather than tree diversity drives earthworm communities in European forests. Pedobiologia. 67. 16–25. 18 indexed citations
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Ruiz‐Benito, Paloma, Sophia Ratcliffe, Miguel Á. Zavala, et al.. (2017). Climate‐ and successional‐related changes in functional composition of European forests are strongly driven by tree mortality. Global Change Biology. 23(10). 4162–4176. 63 indexed citations
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Madrigal‐González, Jaime, Paloma Ruiz‐Benito, Sophia Ratcliffe, et al.. (2016). Complementarity effects on tree growth are contingent on tree size and climatic conditions across Europe. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 32233–32233. 44 indexed citations
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Ruiz‐Benito, Paloma, Sophia Ratcliffe, Alistair S. Jump, et al.. (2016). Functional diversity underlies demographic responses to environmental variation in European forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 26(2). 128–141. 51 indexed citations
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Dawud, Seid Muhie, Karsten Raulund‐Rasmussen, Sophia Ratcliffe, et al.. (2016). Tree species functional group is a more important driver of soil properties than tree species diversity across major European forest types. Functional Ecology. 31(5). 1153–1162. 76 indexed citations
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König‐Ries, Birgitta, et al.. (2015). rBEFdata: documenting data exchange and analysis for a collaborative data management platform. Ecology and Evolution. 5(14). 2890–2897. 1 indexed citations
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Ratcliffe, Sophia, Frédéric Holzwarth, Karin Nadrowski, Shaun R. Levick, & Christian Wirth. (2014). Tree neighbourhood matters – Tree species composition drives diversity–productivity patterns in a near-natural beech forest. Forest Ecology and Management. 335. 225–234. 48 indexed citations
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Nadrowski, Karin, et al.. (2012). Identifiers in e-Science platforms for the ecological sciences. 3. 2 indexed citations

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