Christoph Plutzar

10.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
51 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Christoph Plutzar is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christoph Plutzar has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 18 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 18 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Christoph Plutzar's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (21 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (17 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (9 papers). Christoph Plutzar is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (21 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (17 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (9 papers). Christoph Plutzar collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United Kingdom. Christoph Plutzar's co-authors include Karl‐Heinz Erb, Helmut Haberl, Fridolin Krausmann, Veronika Gaube, Alberte Bondeau, Simone Gingrich, Christian Lauk, Marina Fischer‐Kowalski, Wolfgang Lucht and Thomas Kästner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Christoph Plutzar

49 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net pr... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 2013 2017 2019 250 500 750 1000
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. Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in earth's terrestrial ecosystems
    2007 1.0k citations Helmut Haberl, Karl‐Heinz Erb et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century
    2013 437 citations Fridolin Krausmann, Karl‐Heinz Erb et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  3. Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass
    2017 437 citations Karl‐Heinz Erb, Thomas Kästner et al. Nature profile →
  4. Increasing impacts of land use on biodiversity and carbon sequestration driven by population and economic growth
    2019 354 citations Alexandra Marques, Inês S. Martins et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christoph Plutzar Austria 30 2.7k 1.7k 982 938 584 51 5.3k
Robert I. McDonald United States 44 3.7k 1.4× 2.1k 1.2× 1.5k 1.5× 1.4k 1.5× 488 0.8× 85 8.4k
Weihua Xu China 38 3.7k 1.4× 2.0k 1.2× 947 1.0× 707 0.8× 759 1.3× 120 6.1k
Hugh Eva Italy 33 4.1k 1.5× 2.8k 1.6× 1.1k 1.1× 1.0k 1.1× 435 0.7× 64 6.0k
Jane Southworth United States 37 3.0k 1.1× 1.7k 1.0× 609 0.6× 449 0.5× 526 0.9× 115 4.9k
Katharine Hayhoe United States 41 5.3k 2.0× 2.0k 1.2× 1.4k 1.4× 768 0.8× 527 0.9× 120 9.1k
Philippe Mayaux Italy 39 4.3k 1.6× 3.4k 2.0× 1.2k 1.3× 1.2k 1.3× 462 0.8× 76 7.0k
Liana O. Anderson Brazil 38 5.0k 1.9× 2.4k 1.4× 1.3k 1.3× 828 0.9× 401 0.7× 129 6.8k
Rodney J. Keenan Australia 37 4.0k 1.5× 1.3k 0.8× 1.5k 1.5× 476 0.5× 518 0.9× 145 6.0k
Carlos Souza United States 42 4.4k 1.7× 2.6k 1.5× 1.3k 1.3× 1.1k 1.1× 427 0.7× 88 6.4k
Cécile Girardin United Kingdom 25 2.7k 1.0× 1.0k 0.6× 1.1k 1.1× 425 0.5× 513 0.9× 33 4.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christoph Plutzar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christoph Plutzar

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Plutzar, Christoph, Dietmar Moser, Philipp Semenchuk, et al.. (2023). Human appropriation of net primary production as driver of change in landscape‐scale vertebrate richness. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(6). 855–866. 6 indexed citations
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Semenchuk, Philipp, Christoph Plutzar, Thomas Kästner, et al.. (2022). Relative effects of land conversion and land-use intensity on terrestrial vertebrate diversity. Nature Communications. 13(1). 615–615. 83 indexed citations
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Brenning, Alexander, et al.. (2021). Kulturlandschaft im Wandel: Ein indikatorenbasierter Rückblick bis in das 19. Jahrhundert. Fallstudie anhand der Gemeinden Waidhofen/Ybbs und Paldau. Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online (Institut für kunst- und musikhistorische Forschungen der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften). 1. 255–285. 2 indexed citations
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Kästner, Thomas, Sarah Matej, Matthew Forrest, et al.. (2021). Land use intensification increasingly drives the spatiotemporal patterns of the global human appropriation of net primary production in the last century. Global Change Biology. 28(1). 307–322. 53 indexed citations
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Brenning, Alexander, Simone Gingrich, Gerhard Heiß, et al.. (2021). Towards the Use of Land Use Legacies in Landslide Modeling: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives in an Austrian Case Study. Land. 10(9). 954–954. 13 indexed citations
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Marques, Alexandra, Inês S. Martins, Thomas Kästner, et al.. (2019). Increasing impacts of land use on biodiversity and carbon sequestration driven by population and economic growth. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(4). 628–637. 354 indexed citations breakdown →
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Erb, Karl‐Heinz, Thomas Kästner, Christoph Plutzar, et al.. (2017). Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass. Nature. 553(7686). 73–76. 437 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dullinger, Stefan, Nicolas Dendoncker, Andreas Gattringer, et al.. (2015). Modelling the effect of habitat fragmentation on climate‐driven migration of European forest understorey plants. Diversity and Distributions. 21(12). 1375–1387. 31 indexed citations
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Mouchet, Maud, Christian Levers, Tobias Kuemmerle, et al.. (2015). Testing the Effectiveness of Environmental Variables to Explain European Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Richness across Biogeographical Scales. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0131924–e0131924. 22 indexed citations
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Levers, Christian, Daniel Müller, Karl‐Heinz Erb, et al.. (2015). Archetypical patterns and trajectories of land systems in Europe. Regional Environmental Change. 18(3). 715–732. 203 indexed citations
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Krausmann, Fridolin, Karl‐Heinz Erb, Simone Gingrich, et al.. (2013). Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(25). 10324–10329. 437 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kuemmerle, Tobias, Karl‐Heinz Erb, Patrick Meyfroidt, et al.. (2013). Challenges and opportunities in mapping land use intensity globally. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 5(5). 484–493. 298 indexed citations
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Erb, Karl‐Heinz, Helmut Haberl, & Christoph Plutzar. (2012). Dependency of global primary bioenergy crop potentials in 2050 on food systems, yields, biodiversity conservation and political stability. Energy Policy. 47(4). 260–269. 97 indexed citations
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Haberl, Helmut, J. Steinberger, Christoph Plutzar, et al.. (2012). Natural and socioeconomic determinants of the embodied human appropriation of net primary production and its relation to other resource use indicators. Ecological Indicators. 23(3). 222–231. 49 indexed citations
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Haberl, Helmut, Karl‐Heinz Erb, Fridolin Krausmann, et al.. (2011). Global bioenergy potentials from agricultural land in 2050: Sensitivity to climate change, diets and yields. Biomass and Bioenergy. 35(12). 4753–4769. 176 indexed citations
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Haberl, Helmut, Karl‐Heinz Erb, Fridolin Krausmann, et al.. (2007). Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in earth's terrestrial ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(31). 12942–12947. 1048 indexed citations breakdown →
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Erb, Karl‐Heinz, Veronika Gaube, Fridolin Krausmann, et al.. (2007). A comprehensive global 5 min resolution land-use data set for the year 2000 consistent with national census data. Journal of Land Use Science. 2(3). 191–224. 179 indexed citations
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Haberl, Helmut, et al.. (2005). Human appropriation of net primary production as determinant of avifauna diversity in Austria. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 110(3-4). 119–131. 80 indexed citations
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Moser, Dietmar, Stefan Dullinger, Thorsten Englisch, et al.. (2005). Environmental determinants of vascular plant species richness in the Austrian Alps. Journal of Biogeography. 32(7). 1117–1127. 122 indexed citations
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Sauberer, Norbert, Klaus Peter Zulka, Max Abensperg‐Traun, et al.. (2003). Surrogate taxa for biodiversity in agricultural landscapes of eastern Austria. Biological Conservation. 117(2). 181–190. 172 indexed citations

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