Carsten F. Dormann

45.1k total citations · 12 hit papers
173 papers, 25.9k citations indexed

About

Carsten F. Dormann is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Carsten F. Dormann has authored 173 papers receiving a total of 25.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 67 papers in Ecology and 50 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Carsten F. Dormann's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (75 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (46 papers) and Plant and animal studies (45 papers). Carsten F. Dormann is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (75 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (46 papers) and Plant and animal studies (45 papers). Carsten F. Dormann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Carsten F. Dormann's co-authors include Bernd Gruber, Jochen Fründ, Boris Schröder, Sven Lautenbach, Gudrun Carl, Björn Reineking, Jane Elith, Jaime Márquez, Damaris Zurell and Carsten M. Buchmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Carsten F. Dormann

161 papers receiving 25.2k citations

Hit Papers

Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a s... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2012 2007 2016 2009 2008 2.0k 4.0k 6.0k
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.

  1. Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance
    2012 7.5k citations Carsten F. Dormann et al. profile →
  2. Methods to account for spatial autocorrelation in the analysis of species distributional data: a review
    2007 2.6k citations Carsten F. Dormann, Miguel B. Araújo et al. profile →
  3. Cross‐validation strategies for data with temporal, spatial, hierarchical, or phylogenetic structure
    2016 1.3k citations Simone Ciuti, Mark S. Boyce et al. profile →
  4. Indices, Graphs and Null Models: Analyzing Bipartite Ecological Networks
    2009 1.2k citations Carsten F. Dormann, Jochen Fründ et al. profile →
  5. Introducing the bipartite Package: Analysing Ecological Networks
    2008 1.1k citations Carsten F. Dormann, Jochen Fründ et al. profile →
  6. A quantitative review of ecosystem service studies: approaches, shortcomings and the road ahead
    2011 789 citations Carsten F. Dormann et al. profile →
  7. Standards for distribution models in biodiversity assessments
    2019 718 citations Miguel B. Araújo, Robert P. Anderson et al. Science Advances profile →
  8. Review: Ecological networks – beyond food webs
    2008 630 citations Nico Blüthgen, Carsten F. Dormann et al. profile →
  9. Correlation and process in species distribution models: bridging a dichotomy
    2012 535 citations Carsten F. Dormann et al. profile →
  10. Effects of incorporating spatial autocorrelation into the analysis of species distribution data
    2006 521 citations Carsten F. Dormann profile →
  11. Spillover of functionally important organisms between managed and natural habitats
    2011 444 citations Carsten F. Dormann, Andrea Holzschuh et al. profile →
  12. Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models
    2020 371 citations Pierre Ploton, Frédéric Mortier et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Carsten F. Dormann Germany 58 10.0k 9.4k 8.0k 7.3k 5.9k 173 25.9k
Taylor H. Ricketts United States 57 8.1k 0.8× 7.4k 0.8× 7.1k 0.9× 3.9k 0.5× 12.6k 2.1× 126 27.6k
Jens‐Christian Svenning Denmark 92 11.6k 1.2× 15.1k 1.6× 9.6k 1.2× 10.6k 1.5× 7.7k 1.3× 574 32.5k
Rodolfo Dirzo United States 58 10.8k 1.1× 9.9k 1.1× 7.2k 0.9× 4.1k 0.6× 5.6k 1.0× 229 24.1k
Cristina G. Mittermeier United States 8 11.1k 1.1× 10.1k 1.1× 9.1k 1.1× 6.0k 0.8× 8.9k 1.5× 11 30.1k
Andy Jarvis Colombia 45 7.1k 0.7× 6.1k 0.7× 6.7k 0.8× 7.6k 1.0× 5.7k 1.0× 108 24.9k
David B. Roy United Kingdom 67 8.5k 0.8× 10.8k 1.2× 8.9k 1.1× 10.9k 1.5× 4.9k 0.8× 200 23.2k
Ingolf Kühn Germany 70 6.8k 0.7× 9.2k 1.0× 6.2k 0.8× 5.0k 0.7× 4.4k 0.7× 249 19.5k
Andrew Gonzalez Canada 63 10.4k 1.0× 10.0k 1.1× 6.6k 0.8× 3.8k 0.5× 7.2k 1.2× 181 23.9k
Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca Brazil 35 12.4k 1.2× 11.7k 1.2× 10.3k 1.3× 7.1k 1.0× 10.4k 1.8× 76 34.2k
David U. Hooper United States 31 11.0k 1.1× 13.0k 1.4× 6.7k 0.8× 3.3k 0.4× 8.4k 1.4× 41 27.0k

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All Works

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Chantry, Matthew, Ewan Pinnington, Margarita Choulga, et al.. (2025). Advances in land surface forecasting: a comparison of LSTM, gradient boosting, and feed-forward neural networks as prognostic state emulators in a case study with ecLand. Geoscientific model development. 18(4). 921–937. 2 indexed citations
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Pinnington, Ewan, et al.. (2025). The ecological forecast limit revisited: Potential, absolute and relative system predictability. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 16(7). 1521–1541.
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Hoermann, Christian von, Johannes Signer, Elisa Belotti, et al.. (2024). Risk response towards roads is consistent across multiple species in a temperate forest ecosystem. Oikos. 2024(7). 3 indexed citations
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Poorbagher, Hadi, et al.. (2024). The importance of temporal scale in distribution modeling of migratory Caspian Kutum, Rutilus frisii. Ecology and Evolution. 14(9). e70259–e70259.
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Stahl, Kerstin, et al.. (2023). Drought impact prediction across time and space: limits and potentials of text reports. Environmental Research Letters. 18(7). 74004–74004. 5 indexed citations
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Kattenborn, Teja, Felix Schiefer, Julian Frey, et al.. (2022). Spatially autocorrelated training and validation samples inflate performance assessment of convolutional neural networks. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 100018–100018. 72 indexed citations
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Hajek, Peter, et al.. (2021). Tree diversity reduces the risk of bark beetle infestation for preferred conifer species, but increases the risk for less preferred hosts. Journal of Ecology. 109(7). 2649–2661. 37 indexed citations
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CaraDonna, Paul J., Laura A. Burkle, Benjamin Schwarz, et al.. (2020). Seeing through the static: the temporal dimension of plant–animal mutualistic interactions. Ecology Letters. 24(1). 149–161. 82 indexed citations
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Ploton, Pierre, Frédéric Mortier, Maxime Réjou‐Méchain, et al.. (2020). Spatial validation reveals poor predictive performance of large-scale ecological mapping models. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4540–4540. 371 indexed citations breakdown →
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Araújo, Miguel B., Robert P. Anderson, A. Márcia Barbosa, et al.. (2019). Standards for distribution models in biodiversity assessments. Science Advances. 5(1). eaat4858–eaat4858. 718 indexed citations breakdown →
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Benneter, Adam, David I. Forrester, Olivier Bouriaud, Carsten F. Dormann, & Jürgen Bauhus. (2018). Tree species diversity does not compromise stem quality in major European forest types. Forest Ecology and Management. 422. 323–337. 22 indexed citations
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El‐Gabbas, Ahmed & Carsten F. Dormann. (2018). Wrong, but useful: regional species distribution models may not be improved by range‐wide data under biased sampling. Ecology and Evolution. 8(4). 2196–2206. 70 indexed citations
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Dormann, Carsten F., et al.. (2017). Environmental determinants and temporal variation of amphibian habitat use in a temperate floodplain. Herpetological Journal. 27(2). 161–171. 3 indexed citations
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Boyce, Mark S., Henrik Thurfjell, Dale Paton, et al.. (2016). Dispersal Ecology Informs Design of Large-Scale Wildlife Corridors. PLoS ONE. 11(9). e0162989–e0162989. 24 indexed citations
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Mupepele, Anne‐Christine, et al.. (2016). An evidence assessment tool for ecosystem services and conservation studies. Ecological Applications. 26(5). 1295–1301. 48 indexed citations
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Fründ, Jochen, Carsten F. Dormann, Andrea Holzschuh, & Teja Tscharntke. (2013). Bee diversity effects on pollination depend on functional complementarity and niche shifts. Ecology. 94(9). 2042–2054. 252 indexed citations
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Dormann, Carsten F. & René van der Wal. (2001). Impact of soil nematodes on salt-marsh plants: a pilot experiment. Journal of Coastal Research. 17(2). 383–388. 3 indexed citations

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