Thomas Banitz

1.2k total citations
34 papers, 837 citations indexed

About

Thomas Banitz is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Banitz has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 837 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Ecology, 10 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 8 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Thomas Banitz's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (7 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (7 papers). Thomas Banitz is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (13 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (7 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (7 papers). Thomas Banitz collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Finland and Sweden. Thomas Banitz's co-authors include Hauke Harms, Karin Johst, Lukas Y. Wick, Karin Frank, Ingo Fetzer, Antonis Chatzinotas, Anja Worrich, Martin Thullner, Sara König and Florian Centler and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Banitz

34 papers receiving 825 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Banitz Germany 15 373 205 182 144 121 34 837
Nengwen Xiao China 18 340 0.9× 389 1.9× 257 1.4× 115 0.8× 91 0.8× 81 1.1k
Takashi Kamijo Japan 16 223 0.6× 175 0.9× 116 0.6× 219 1.5× 171 1.4× 66 691
Lina Shen China 10 495 1.3× 189 0.9× 240 1.3× 64 0.4× 75 0.6× 23 912
Aiyen Tjoa Indonesia 14 297 0.8× 154 0.8× 57 0.3× 147 1.0× 101 0.8× 39 774
Eduard Szöcs Germany 15 388 1.0× 145 0.7× 166 0.9× 155 1.1× 228 1.9× 23 1.2k
Robert W. Buchkowski United States 14 261 0.7× 126 0.6× 65 0.4× 105 0.7× 94 0.8× 28 615
Liyun Zhang China 17 109 0.3× 143 0.7× 112 0.6× 157 1.1× 97 0.8× 58 779
Jeffery Dahlberg United States 11 262 0.7× 588 2.9× 219 1.2× 171 1.2× 61 0.5× 19 1.1k
Wenbin Xu China 15 265 0.7× 59 0.3× 156 0.9× 85 0.6× 98 0.8× 47 699

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Banitz

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Banitz

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Banitz

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

All Works

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Schlüter‬, Maja, Tilman Hertz, María Mancilla García, et al.. (2024). Navigating causal reasoning in sustainability science. AMBIO. 53(11). 1618–1631. 6 indexed citations
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Banitz, Thomas, Volker Grimm, Tilman Hertz, et al.. (2024). A Primer to Causal Reasoning About a Complex World. FreiDok plus (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg). 2 indexed citations
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Taubert, Franziska, et al.. (2024). Prototype Biodiversity Digital Twin: grassland biodiversity dynamics. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 10. 5 indexed citations
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Hertz, Tilman, Thomas Banitz, Rodrigo Martínez‐Peña, et al.. (2024). Eliciting the plurality of causal reasoning in social-ecological systems research. Ecology and Society. 29(1). 5 indexed citations
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Banitz, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Dynamical systems modeling for structural understanding of social-ecological systems: A primer. Ecological Complexity. 56. 101052–101052. 7 indexed citations
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Banitz, Thomas, Karin Frank, Cara A. Gallagher, et al.. (2023). Local buffer mechanisms for population persistence. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 38(11). 1051–1059. 5 indexed citations
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Forbes, Valery E., Thomas Banitz, Nika Galić, et al.. (2023). Mechanistic population models for ecological risk assessment and decision support: The importance of good conceptual model diagrams. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 20(5). 1566–1574. 2 indexed citations
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Banitz, Thomas, et al.. (2022). McComedy: A user-friendly tool for next-generation individual-based modeling of microbial consumer-resource systems. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(1). e1009777–e1009777. 5 indexed citations
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König, Sara, Anja Worrich, Thomas Banitz, et al.. (2018). Spatiotemporal disturbance characteristics determine functional stability and collapse risk of simulated microbial ecosystems. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 9488–9488. 16 indexed citations
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König, Sara, Anja Worrich, Thomas Banitz, et al.. (2018). Functional Resistance to Recurrent Spatially Heterogeneous Disturbances Is Facilitated by Increased Activity of Surviving Bacteria in a Virtual Ecosystem. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 734–734. 10 indexed citations
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Worrich, Anja, Lukas Y. Wick, & Thomas Banitz. (2018). Ecology of Contaminant Biotransformation in the Mycosphere: Role of Transport Processes. Advances in applied microbiology. 104. 93–133. 11 indexed citations
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Worrich, Anja, Hryhoriy Stryhanyuk, Niculina Musat, et al.. (2017). Mycelium-mediated transfer of water and nutrients stimulates bacterial activity in dry and oligotrophic environments. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15472–15472. 97 indexed citations
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Worrich, Anja, Sara König, Thomas Banitz, et al.. (2016). Bacterial Dispersal Promotes Biodegradation in Heterogeneous Systems Exposed to Osmotic Stress. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1214–1214. 13 indexed citations
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Fetzer, Ingo, et al.. (2015). The extent of functional redundancy changes as species’ roles shift in different environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(48). 14888–14893. 132 indexed citations
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Banitz, Thomas, et al.. (2014). Highways versus pipelines: contributions of two fungal transport mechanisms to efficient bioremediation. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 6(4). 414–414. 1 indexed citations
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Kreft, Jan‐Ulrich, Caroline M. Plugge, Volker Grimm, et al.. (2013). Mighty small: Observing and modeling individual microbes becomes big science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(45). 18027–18028. 47 indexed citations
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Banitz, Thomas, Karin Johst, Lukas Y. Wick, et al.. (2011). The Relevance of Conditional Dispersal for Bacterial Colony Growth and Biodegradation. Microbial Ecology. 63(2). 339–347. 19 indexed citations
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Banitz, Thomas, Lukas Y. Wick, Ingo Fetzer, et al.. (2011). Dispersal networks for enhancing bacterial degradation in heterogeneous environments. Environmental Pollution. 159(10). 2781–2788. 23 indexed citations
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Banitz, Thomas, Ingo Fetzer, Karin Johst, et al.. (2010). Assessing biodegradation benefits from dispersal networks. Ecological Modelling. 222(14). 2552–2560. 40 indexed citations

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