Vasco Elbrecht

5.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Vasco Elbrecht is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Vasco Elbrecht has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Ecology, 32 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Vasco Elbrecht's work include Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (38 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (13 papers). Vasco Elbrecht is often cited by papers focused on Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies (38 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (13 papers). Vasco Elbrecht collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Canada and Finland. Vasco Elbrecht's co-authors include Florian Leese, Dirk Steinke, Ecaterina Edith Vamos, Jukka Aroviita, Thomas Braukmann, Kristian Meissner, Arne J. Beermann, Vera Zizka, Paul D. N. Hebert and Natalya Ivanova and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Vasco Elbrecht

43 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Can DNA-Based Ecosystem Assessments Quantify Species Abundance? Testing Primer Bias and Biomass—Sequence Relationships with an Innovative Metabarcoding Protocol

2015 515 citations Vasco Elbrecht, Florian Leese profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vasco Elbrecht Germany	25	2.6k	1.7k	570	354	297	44	3.0k
Mathew Seymour United Kingdom	19	2.5k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	417 0.7×	577 1.6×	228 0.8×	37	3.0k
Laurence J. Clarke Australia	19	1.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	327 0.6×	193 0.5×	399 1.3×	40	2.1k
Elvira Mächler Switzerland	19	2.9k 1.1×	2.0k 1.2×	479 0.8×	597 1.7×	222 0.7×	26	3.4k
Matthew A. Barnes United States	21	2.5k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	396 0.7×	488 1.4×	130 0.4×	48	2.9k
Austen C. Thomas United States	16	1.5k 0.6×	806 0.5×	311 0.5×	348 1.0×	199 0.7×	32	1.8k
Paula Arribas Spain	27	1.2k 0.4×	417 0.2×	319 0.6×	336 0.9×	595 2.0×	58	1.9k
Matthieu Leray United States	24	2.7k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	187 0.3×	339 1.0×	199 0.7×	50	3.1k
Cameron R. Turner United States	15	3.9k 1.5×	3.1k 1.8×	486 0.9×	800 2.3×	114 0.4×	19	4.2k
W. Lindsay Chadderton United States	25	3.2k 1.2×	1.9k 1.1×	430 0.8×	1.3k 3.6×	93 0.3×	50	3.7k
Owen S. Wangensteen Spain	29	2.6k 1.0×	1.9k 1.1×	253 0.4×	319 0.9×	203 0.7×	80	3.1k

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Beermann, Arne J., Vasco Elbrecht, Daniel Grabner, et al.. (2022). Impacts of multiple anthropogenic stressors on the transcriptional response of Gammarus fossarum in a mesocosm field experiment. BMC Genomics. 23(1). 816–816. 7 indexed citations

Turunen, Jarno, Vasco Elbrecht, Dirk Steinke, & Jukka Aroviita. (2021). Riparian forests can mitigate warming and ecological degradation of agricultural headwater streams. Freshwater Biology. 66(4). 785–798. 51 indexed citations

Turunen, Jarno, Heikki Mykrä, Vasco Elbrecht, et al.. (2021). The power of metabarcoding: Can we improve bioassessment and biodiversity surveys of stream macroinvertebrate communities?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 9 indexed citations

Baloğlu, Bilgenur, et al.. (2021). A workflow for accurate metabarcoding using nanopore MinION sequencing. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 12(5). 794–804. 36 indexed citations

Beermann, Arne J., Dominik Buchner, Vasco Elbrecht, et al.. (2021). Improved freshwater macroinvertebrate detection from environmental DNA through minimized nontarget amplification. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 4. 1 indexed citations

Bohmann, Kristine, Vasco Elbrecht, Christian Carøe, et al.. (2021). Strategies for sample labelling and library preparation in DNA metabarcoding studies. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(4). 1231–1246. 83 indexed citations

Steinke, Dirk, et al.. (2021). Effects of Malaise trap spacing on species richness and composition of terrestrial arthropod bulk samples. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 20 indexed citations

Elbrecht, Vasco, et al.. (2021). A bright idea—metabarcoding arthropods from light fixtures. PeerJ. 9. e11841–e11841. 6 indexed citations

Laini, Alex, Arne J. Beermann, Rossano Bolpagni, et al.. (2020). Exploring the potential of metabarcoding to disentangle macroinvertebrate community dynamics in intermittent streams. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 12 indexed citations

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Leese, Florian, et al.. (2020). Improved freshwater macroinvertebrate detection from environmental DNA through minimized nontarget amplification. Environmental DNA. 3(1). 261–276. 85 indexed citations

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Elbrecht, Vasco, et al.. (2020). Assessment of stream macroinvertebrate communities with eDNA is not congruent with tissue‐based metabarcoding. Molecular Ecology. 30(13). 3239–3251. 52 indexed citations

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Konecny‐Dupré, Lara, et al.. (2019). Enhancing DNA metabarcoding performance and applicability with bait capture enrichment and DNA from conservative ethanol. Molecular Ecology Resources. 20(1). 79–96. 19 indexed citations

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Lafage, Denis, Vasco Elbrecht, Jordan P. Cuff, et al.. (2019). A new primer for metabarcoding of spider gut contents. Environmental DNA. 2(2). 234–243. 28 indexed citations

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Braukmann, Thomas, Natalya Ivanova, Sean W. J. Prosser, et al.. (2019). Metabarcoding a diverse arthropod mock community. Molecular Ecology Resources. 19(3). 711–727. 104 indexed citations

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Elbrecht, Vasco, Paul D. N. Hebert, & Dirk Steinke. (2018). Slippage of degenerate primers can cause variation in amplicon length. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 10999–10999. 25 indexed citations

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Theißinger, Kathrin, Vasco Elbrecht, Jenny Makkonen, et al.. (2018). Using DNA metabarcoding for assessing chironomid diversity and community change in mosquito controlled temporary wetlands. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 23 indexed citations

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Elbrecht, Vasco, Ecaterina Edith Vamos, Dirk Steinke, & Florian Leese. (2018). Estimating intraspecific genetic diversity from community DNA metabarcoding data. PeerJ. 6. e4644–e4644. 115 indexed citations

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Nuy, Julia K., Anja Lange, Arne J. Beermann, et al.. (2018). Responses of stream microbes to multiple anthropogenic stressors in a mesocosm study. The Science of The Total Environment. 633. 1287–1301. 19 indexed citations

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Vamos, Ecaterina Edith, Vasco Elbrecht, & Florian Leese. (2017). Short COI markers for freshwater macroinvertebrate metabarcoding. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1. 133 indexed citations

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Elbrecht, Vasco, Ecaterina Edith Vamos, Kristian Meissner, Jukka Aroviita, & Florian Leese. (2017). Assessing strengths and weaknesses of DNA metabarcoding‐based macroinvertebrate identification for routine stream monitoring. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 8(10). 1265–1275. 259 indexed citations

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