Sylvia Haider

8.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Sylvia Haider is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Sylvia Haider has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 30 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 22 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Sylvia Haider's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (41 papers), Plant and animal studies (27 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (22 papers). Sylvia Haider is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (41 papers), Plant and animal studies (27 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (22 papers). Sylvia Haider collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Sylvia Haider's co-authors include Jake M. Alexander, Christoph Kueffer, Aníbal Pauchard, Keith L. McDougall, Lisa J. Rew, Ann Milbau, Helge Bruelheide, Lohengrin A. Cavieres, Jonathan M. Jeschke and Tina Heger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Sylvia Haider

51 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Lags in the response of mountain plant communities to climate change

2017 308 citations Jake M. Alexander, Loïc Chalmandrier et al. Global Change Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sylvia Haider Germany	24	1.4k	867	808	776	684	54	2.3k
Christine Römermann Germany	28	1.5k 1.0×	895 1.0×	981 1.2×	995 1.3×	675 1.0×	70	2.6k
Marko J. Spasojevic United States	26	1.6k 1.1×	970 1.1×	599 0.7×	738 1.0×	613 0.9×	61	2.4k
Ernesto I. Badano Mexico	26	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.5×	479 0.6×	773 1.0×	864 1.3×	91	2.6k
Vincent Jung France	13	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	615 0.8×	685 0.9×	575 0.8×	24	2.4k
Anke Stein Germany	11	1.2k 0.8×	699 0.8×	596 0.7×	778 1.0×	370 0.5×	14	2.1k
Lisa J. Rew United States	31	1.9k 1.3×	1.0k 1.2×	904 1.1×	1.2k 1.5×	1.2k 1.7×	83	3.1k
Keith L. McDougall Australia	24	1.6k 1.1×	960 1.1×	983 1.2×	1.0k 1.3×	1.2k 1.7×	81	3.0k
Catherine M. Hulshof United States	16	1.8k 1.2×	1.2k 1.3×	650 0.8×	673 0.9×	473 0.7×	33	2.6k
S.M. Hennekens Netherlands	21	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	478 0.6×	665 0.9×	1.2k 1.8×	62	2.5k
Marcin K. Dyderski Poland	28	1.5k 1.1×	711 0.8×	626 0.8×	711 0.9×	842 1.2×	136	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Sylvia Haider

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sylvia Haider

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sylvia Haider. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sylvia Haider 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 Sylvia Haider. Sylvia Haider is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Beugnon, Rémy, Sylvia Haider, Stephan Hättenschwiler, et al.. (2025). Improving forest ecosystem functions by optimizing tree species spatial arrangement. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6286–6286.

Radujković, Dajana, Erik Verbruggen, Aníbal Pauchard, et al.. (2025). Road Disturbance Shifts Root Fungal Symbiont Types and Reduces the Connectivity of Plant‐Fungal Co‐Occurrence Networks in Mountains. Molecular Ecology. 34(20). e17771–e17771. 1 indexed citations

Bakker, Jonathan D., Lori Biederman, Elizabeth T. Borer, et al.. (2025). Successful Alien Plant Species Exhibit Functional Dissimilarity From Natives Under Varied Climatic Conditions but Not Under Increased Nutrient Availability. Journal of Vegetation Science. 36(2). 2 indexed citations

Bruelheide, Helge, et al.. (2025). Within‐individual leaf trait response to local light availability and biodiversity in a subtropical forest experiment. Ecology. 106(7). e70160–e70160. 1 indexed citations

Haider, Sylvia, et al.. (2024). Taxonomic and functional changes in mountain meadow communities four years after transplantation to a lowland environment. Journal of Vegetation Science. 35(4). 1 indexed citations

Innangi, Michele, et al.. (2024). Ecological features facilitating spread of alien plants along Mediterranean mountain roads. Biological Invasions. 26(11). 3879–3899. 3 indexed citations

Haider, Sylvia, et al.. (2023). Leaf trait variation within individuals mediates the relationship between tree species richness and productivity. Oikos. 2024(2). 7 indexed citations

Beugnon, Rémy, Nico Eisenhauer, Helge Bruelheide, et al.. (2023). Tree diversity effects on litter decomposition are mediated by litterfall and microbial processes. Oikos. 2023(10). 10 indexed citations

Matesanz, Silvia, et al.. (2023). Within‐individual leaf trait variation increases with phenotypic integration in a subtropical tree diversity experiment. New Phytologist. 240(4). 1390–1404. 8 indexed citations

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Beugnon, Rémy, Wensheng Bu, Helge Bruelheide, et al.. (2022). Abiotic and biotic drivers of tree trait effects on soil microbial biomass and soil carbon concentration. Ecological Monographs. 93(2). 24 indexed citations

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Backes, Amanda Ratier, Christine Römermann, Jake M. Alexander, et al.. (2022). Mechanisms behind elevational plant species richness patterns revealed by a trait‐based approach. Journal of Vegetation Science. 34(1). 10 indexed citations

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Fuentes‐Lillo, Eduardo, Jonas J. Lembrechts, Lohengrin A. Cavieres, et al.. (2021). Anthropogenic factors overrule local abiotic variables in determining non-native plant invasions in mountains. Biological Invasions. 23(12). 3671–3686. 30 indexed citations

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Lembrechts, Jonas J., Jake M. Alexander, Sylvia Haider, et al.. (2020). The role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in nonnative plant invasion along mountain roads. New Phytologist. 230(3). 1156–1168. 21 indexed citations

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Ferlian, Olga, Simone Cesarz, Dylan Craven, et al.. (2018). Mycorrhiza in tree diversity–ecosystem function relationships: conceptual framework and experimental implementation. Ecosphere. 9(5). e02226–e02226. 55 indexed citations

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Herz, Katharina, Sophie Dietz, Karin Gorzolka, et al.. (2018). Linking root exudates to functional plant traits. PLoS ONE. 13(10). e0204128–e0204128. 66 indexed citations

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Alexander, Jake M., Loïc Chalmandrier, Jonathan Lenoir, et al.. (2017). Lags in the response of mountain plant communities to climate change. Global Change Biology. 24(2). 563–579. 308 indexed citations breakdown →

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Heger, Tina, Sylvia Haider, Wolf‐Christian Saul, & Jonathan M. Jeschke. (2015). Species from different taxonomic groups show similar invasion traits. 3. 3 indexed citations

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Jeschke, Jonathan M., Lorena Gómez Aparicio, Sylvia Haider, et al.. (2012). Support for major hypotheses in invasion biology is uneven and declining. NeoBiota. 14. 1–20. 236 indexed citations

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Haider, Sylvia, Christoph Kueffer, Peter J. Edwards, & Jake M. Alexander. (2012). Genetically based differentiation in growth of multiple non-native plant species along a steep environmental gradient. Oecologia. 170(1). 89–99. 31 indexed citations

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McDougall, Keith L., Jake M. Alexander, Sylvia Haider, et al.. (2010). Alien flora of mountains: global comparisons for the development of local preventive measures against plant invasions. Diversity and Distributions. 17(1). 103–111. 106 indexed citations

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