Christian Levers

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Christian Levers is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Levers has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 23 papers in Ecology and 17 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Christian Levers's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (33 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (24 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (12 papers). Christian Levers is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (33 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (24 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (12 papers). Christian Levers collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland. Christian Levers's co-authors include Tobias Kuemmerle, Peter H. Verburg, Stephan Estel, Alexander V. Prishchepov, Patrick Hostert, Daniel Müller, Pieter Johannes Verkerk, Matthias Baumann, Camilo Alcántara and Karl‐Heinz Erb and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Christian Levers

61 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Mapping farmland abandonment and recultivation across Europe using MODIS NDVI time series

2015 443 citations Tobias Kuemmerle, Christian Levers et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christian Levers Germany	28	2.2k	1.2k	496	464	425	65	3.5k
Ignácio Gasparri Argentina	28	1.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	632 1.3×	314 0.7×	540 1.3×	73	3.2k
Van Butsic United States	30	2.6k 1.2×	841 0.7×	353 0.7×	539 1.2×	421 1.0×	103	4.0k
Claudia Stickler United States	20	2.6k 1.2×	967 0.8×	610 1.2×	417 0.9×	429 1.0×	32	4.1k
Catharina J.E. Schulp Netherlands	38	3.8k 1.8×	1.1k 0.9×	409 0.8×	689 1.5×	621 1.5×	71	5.3k
Holly K. Gibbs United States	21	2.7k 1.3×	1.3k 1.1×	793 1.6×	488 1.1×	369 0.9×	41	4.4k
Quang Bao Le Switzerland	27	1.5k 0.7×	817 0.7×	347 0.7×	427 0.9×	188 0.4×	70	3.2k
Gillian L. Galford United States	22	1.4k 0.7×	923 0.8×	268 0.5×	270 0.6×	209 0.5×	59	2.7k
Casey M. Ryan United Kingdom	31	2.0k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	311 0.6×	336 0.7×	928 2.2×	86	3.7k
Hermann Rodrigues Brazil	19	2.4k 1.1×	854 0.7×	406 0.8×	409 0.9×	502 1.2×	23	3.4k
Rinku Roy Chowdhury United States	27	1.9k 0.9×	582 0.5×	343 0.7×	321 0.7×	327 0.8×	50	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Christian Levers

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christian Levers

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Levers

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

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Li, Yafei, Jeanine Ammann, Julian Helfenstein, et al.. (2025). The potential of variable-rate technology for sustainable intensification of European arable farming. European Journal of Agronomy. 172. 127868–127868. 1 indexed citations

Baldi, Germán, Matthias Baumann, Pedro González Fernández, et al.. (2025). Considering land use complexity and overlap is critical for sustainability planning. One Earth. 8(5). 101247–101247. 3 indexed citations

Baumann, Matthias, et al.. (2024). Troubled waters at the frontier: Mapping forest-dependent people's access to surface water in the Dry Chaco. Applied Geography. 169. 103342–103342. 2 indexed citations

Li, Yafei, Félix Herzog, Christian Levers, et al.. (2024). Agricultural technology as a driver of sustainable intensification: insights from the diffusion and focus of patents. Agronomy for Sustainable Development. 44(2). 7 indexed citations

Levers, Christian, María Piquer‐Rodríguez, Florian Gollnow, et al.. (2024). What is still at stake in the Gran Chaco? Social-ecological impacts of alternative land-system futures in a global deforestation hotspot. Environmental Research Letters. 19(6). 64003–64003. 5 indexed citations

Pazúr, Róbert, Niels Debonne, Julian Helfenstein, et al.. (2024). Exploring agricultural landscape change from the second half of the twentieth century onwards: combining aerial imagery with farmer perspectives. Landscape Ecology. 39(7). 120–120. 3 indexed citations

Klimek, Sebastian, Marcel Schwieder, Norbert Röder, et al.. (2024). Woody semi‐natural habitats modulate the effects of field size and functional crop diversity on farmland birds. Journal of Applied Ecology. 61(5). 987–999. 8 indexed citations

Williams, Tim G., Matthias Bürgi, Niels Debonne, et al.. (2024). Mapping lock-ins and enabling environments for agri-food sustainability transitions in Europe. Sustainability Science. 19(4). 1221–1242. 19 indexed citations

James, Dana, Jennifer Blesh, Christian Levers, et al.. (2023). The state of agroecology in Brazil: An indicator-based approach to identifying municipal “bright spots”. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene. 11(1). 8 indexed citations

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Diogo, Vasco, Matthias Bürgi, Niels Debonne, et al.. (2023). Geographic similarity analysis for Land System Science: opportunities and tools to facilitate knowledge integration and transfer. Journal of Land Use Science. 18(1). 227–248. 7 indexed citations

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Williams, Tim G., Sibylle Bui, Costanza Conti, et al.. (2023). Synthesising the diversity of European agri-food networks: A meta-study of actors and power-laden interactions. Global Environmental Change. 83. 102746–102746. 22 indexed citations

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Levers, Christian, et al.. (2023). Meta-analyses reveal the importance of socio-psychological factors for farmers’ adoption of sustainable agricultural practices. One Earth. 6(12). 1771–1783. 33 indexed citations

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Neumann, Wiebke, Christian Levers, Fredrik Widemo, et al.. (2022). Hunting as land use: Understanding the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry. Ecology and Society. 27(1). 14 indexed citations

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Baumann, Matthias, Ignácio Gasparri, Patrick Meyfroidt, et al.. (2022). Frontier metrics for a process-based understanding of deforestation dynamics. Environmental Research Letters. 17(9). 95010–95010. 39 indexed citations

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Levers, Christian, Alfredo Romero‐Muñoz, Matthias Baumann, et al.. (2021). Agricultural expansion and the ecological marginalization of forest-dependent people. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(44). 52 indexed citations

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Levers, Christian, et al.. (2021). Armed conflict and cross-border asymmetries in urban development: A contextualized spatial analysis of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gisenyi, Rwanda. Land Use Policy. 109. 105711–105711. 7 indexed citations

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Barral, María Paula, Sebastián Horacio Villarino, Christian Levers, et al.. (2020). Widespread and major losses in multiple ecosystem services as a result of agricultural expansion in the Argentine Chaco. Journal of Applied Ecology. 57(12). 2485–2498. 46 indexed citations

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Mehrabi, Zia, Vincent Ricciardi, Christian Levers, et al.. (2020). The global divide in data-driven farming. Nature Sustainability. 4(2). 154–160. 111 indexed citations

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Macchi, Leandro, Matthias Baumann, Matthew E. Baker, et al.. (2019). Thresholds in forest bird communities along woody vegetation gradients in the South American Dry Chaco. Journal of Applied Ecology. 56(3). 629–639. 34 indexed citations

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Kuemmerle, Tobias, Christian Levers, Benjamin Bleyhl, et al.. (2018). One size does not fit all: European bison habitat selection across herds and spatial scales. Landscape Ecology. 33(9). 1559–1572. 26 indexed citations

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