Thomas Dirnböck

8.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Thomas Dirnböck is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Dirnböck has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 25 papers in Ecology and 20 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Thomas Dirnböck's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (31 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (20 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (18 papers). Thomas Dirnböck is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (31 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (20 papers) and Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (18 papers). Thomas Dirnböck collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United Kingdom. Thomas Dirnböck's co-authors include Stefan Dullinger, Georg Grabherr, Franz Essl, Wolfgang Rabitsch, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Christophe F. Randin, Antoine Guisan, Massimiliano Zappa, Josef Greimler and Johannes Kobler and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Environmental Pollution and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Dirnböck

70 papers receiving 3.6k citations

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Dirnböck Austria	27	1.9k	1.4k	1.3k	1.1k	776	70	3.8k
Sonja Wipf Switzerland	30	1.5k 0.8×	949 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	931 0.8×	743 1.0×	54	3.5k
Jeremy W. Lichstein United States	34	2.5k 1.3×	753 0.5×	1.8k 1.4×	2.2k 2.0×	961 1.2×	68	4.8k
Bente J. Graae Norway	38	2.4k 1.3×	892 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	1.6k 2.0×	97	4.2k
Jean‐Claude Gégout France	36	3.4k 1.8×	2.5k 1.8×	1.4k 1.1×	1.7k 1.6×	1.4k 1.8×	79	5.3k
Xavier Morin France	30	2.6k 1.4×	1.7k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	2.0k 1.8×	903 1.2×	72	4.5k
Kari Klanderud Norway	28	1.8k 0.9×	867 0.6×	921 0.7×	722 0.7×	1.2k 1.5×	84	3.2k
Kari Anne Bråthen Norway	33	1.4k 0.8×	746 0.5×	1.8k 1.3×	467 0.4×	936 1.2×	77	3.7k
Ann Milbau Belgium	28	1.7k 0.9×	904 0.7×	976 0.7×	593 0.5×	1.1k 1.4×	58	2.9k
Georg Grabherr Austria	30	2.7k 1.4×	1.9k 1.4×	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	1.5k 1.9×	56	5.2k
María Laura Carranza Italy	38	1.5k 0.8×	785 0.6×	1.5k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	748 1.0×	145	3.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Dirnböck

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Dirnböck, Thomas, Jaana Bäck, Veronika Gaube, et al.. (2025). Fitness for future: eLTER RI’s representation of climate and land use change. Ecological Indicators. 171. 113159–113159. 1 indexed citations

Lilli, Maria Α., Bradley Matthews, Johannes Kobler, et al.. (2025). Modeling soil functions of forested ecosystems. Journal of Environmental Management. 386. 125636–125636. 1 indexed citations

Du, Baoguo, et al.. (2025). Consequences of nitrogen deposition and soil acidification in European forest ecosystems and mitigation approaches. Forest Ecology and Management. 580. 122523–122523. 3 indexed citations

Zacharias, Steffen, Thomas Dirnböck, Jaana Bäck, et al.. (2024). The eLTER research infrastructure: Current design and coverage of environmental and socio-ecological gradients. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators. 23. 100456–100456. 7 indexed citations

Kobler, Johannes, et al.. (2024). How to Optimize Carbon Sinks and Biodiversity in the Conversion of Norway Spruce to Beech Forests in Austria?. Forests. 15(2). 359–359. 1 indexed citations

Futter, Martyn N., Thomas Dirnböck, Martin Forsius, et al.. (2023). Leveraging research infrastructure co-location to evaluate constraints on terrestrial carbon cycling in northern European forests. AMBIO. 52(11). 1819–1831. 5 indexed citations

Schmitz, Andreas, Tanja Sanders, Andreas Bolte, et al.. (2018). Responses of forest ecosystems in Europe to decreasing nitrogen deposition. Environmental Pollution. 244. 980–994. 146 indexed citations

Kobler, Johannes, et al.. (2017). Effects of slope aspect and site elevation on seasonal soil carbon dynamics in a forest catchment in the Austrian Limestone Alps. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 16691. 2 indexed citations

Kobler, Johannes, et al.. (2017). Intensive ground vegetation growth mitigates the carbon loss after forest disturbance. Plant and Soil. 420(1-2). 239–252. 25 indexed citations

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Dirnböck, Thomas, Ika Djukic, Barbara Kitzler, et al.. (2017). Climate and air pollution impacts on habitat suitability of Austrian forest ecosystems. PLoS ONE. 12(9). e0184194–e0184194. 9 indexed citations

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Hartmann, Andreas, Johannes Kobler, Martin Králík, et al.. (2016). Model-aided quantification of dissolved carbon and nitrogen release after windthrow disturbance in an Austrian karst system. Biogeosciences. 13(1). 159–174. 48 indexed citations

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Dirnböck, Thomas, Johannes Kobler, David Kraus, Rüdiger Grote, & Ralf Kiese. (2015). Impacts of management and climate change on nitrate leaching in a forested karst area. Journal of Environmental Management. 165. 243–252. 48 indexed citations

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Jandl, Robert, et al.. (2012). Acidification and Nitrogen Eutrophication of Austrian Forest Soils. Applied and Environmental Soil Science. 2012. 1–9. 25 indexed citations

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Farnleitner, Andreas H., Georg H. Reischer, Alexander K. T. Kirschner, et al.. (2010). Escherichia coli and enterococci are sensitive and reliable indicators for human, livestock and wildlife faecal pollution in alpine mountainous water resources. Journal of Applied Microbiology. 109(5). no–no. 72 indexed citations

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Yee, Thomas W. & Thomas Dirnböck. (2009). Models for analysing species’ presence/absence data at two time points. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 259(4). 684–694. 10 indexed citations

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Kobler, Johannes, Walter J. Fitz, Thomas Dirnböck, & Michael Mirtl. (2009). Soil type affects migration pattern of airborne Pb and Cd under a spruce-beech forest of the UN-ECE integrated monitoring site Zöbelboden, Austria. Environmental Pollution. 158(3). 849–854. 9 indexed citations

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Dirnböck, Thomas, et al.. (2008). Organic matter accumulation following Pinus mugo Turra establishment in subalpine pastures. Plant Ecology & Diversity. 1(1). 59–66. 7 indexed citations

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Stuessy, Tod F., Josef Greimler, Thomas Dirnböck, Ib Friis, & Henrik Balslev. (2005). Landscape modification and impact on specific and genetic diversity in oceanic islands.. 89–101. 2 indexed citations

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Dirnböck, Thomas, Stefan Dullinger, Michael D. Gottfried, Christian Ginzler, & Georg Grabherr. (2003). Mapping alpine vegetation based on image analysis, topographic variables and anonical Correspondence Analysis. Applied Vegetation Science. 6(1). 85–85. 9 indexed citations

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Dullinger, Stefan, Thomas Dirnböck, & Georg Grabherr. (2000). Reconsidering endemism in the north-eastern Limestone Alps.. Acta Botanica Croatica. 59(1). 55–82. 6 indexed citations

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