Cornelius Senf

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
75 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Cornelius Senf is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cornelius Senf has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 38 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 35 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Cornelius Senf's work include Fire effects on ecosystems (28 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (27 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (21 papers). Cornelius Senf is often cited by papers focused on Fire effects on ecosystems (28 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (27 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (21 papers). Cornelius Senf collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Cornelius Senf's co-authors include Rupert Seidl, Patrick Hostert, Dirk Pflugmacher, Julius Sebald, Anja Rammig, Christian Zang, Allan Buras, Sebastian van der Linden, Marco Heurich and Pedro J. Leitão and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Cornelius Senf

71 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Excess forest mortality is consistently linked to drought across Europe

2020 350 citations Cornelius Senf, Rupert Seidl et al. Nature Communications profile →
Mapping the forest disturbance regimes of Europe

2020 304 citations Cornelius Senf, Rupert Seidl profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cornelius Senf Germany	28	2.1k	1.5k	1.1k	691	493	75	3.1k
Paola Mairota Italy	19	2.0k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	351 0.5×	388 0.8×	34	3.1k
Arjan J. H. Meddens United States	29	2.2k 1.1×	1.9k 1.2×	929 0.8×	374 0.5×	475 1.0×	63	3.1k
Cho‐ying Huang Taiwan	22	1.3k 0.6×	975 0.6×	769 0.7×	314 0.5×	459 0.9×	63	2.2k
Leonor Calvo Spain	38	2.6k 1.3×	1.7k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	510 0.7×	279 0.6×	156	3.7k
Jonathan A. Greenberg United States	26	1.3k 0.6×	1.6k 1.0×	884 0.8×	627 0.9×	514 1.0×	66	3.2k
Janet L. Ohmann United States	23	1.5k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	1.5k 1.3×	813 1.2×	129 0.3×	39	2.8k
Stephanie Bohlman United States	30	947 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	811 1.2×	191 0.4×	72	2.6k
Hooman Latifi Germany	26	865 0.4×	2.0k 1.3×	991 0.9×	1.9k 2.7×	150 0.3×	90	2.8k
Alisa L. Gallant United States	27	1.5k 0.7×	1.5k 1.0×	409 0.4×	464 0.7×	339 0.7×	45	2.5k
Christopher B. Anderson United States	21	1.1k 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	939 0.9×	694 1.0×	191 0.4×	37	2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Cornelius Senf

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cornelius Senf

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20 of 20 papers shown

Braziunas, Kristin H., Werner Rammer, Pieter De Frenne, et al.. (2025). Microclimate temperature effects propagate across scales in forest ecosystems. Landscape Ecology. 40(2). 37–37. 4 indexed citations

Assmann, Jakob J., Pil Birkefeldt Møller Pedersen, Jesper Erenskjold Moeslund, et al.. (2025). Temperate forests of high conservation value are successfully identified by satellite and LiDAR data fusion. Conservation Science and Practice. 7(2). 1 indexed citations

Schuldt, Andreas, et al.. (2025). Increase in disturbance-induced canopy gaps leads to reorganization of Central European bird communities. Basic and Applied Ecology. 83. 88–97.

Disney, Mathias, Shaun R. Levick, Joanne Nightingale, et al.. (2025). Benchmarking tree instance segmentation of terrestrial laser scanning point clouds. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 231. 230–247.

Crowley, Morgan A., et al.. (2025). Distribution and characteristics of lightning-ignited wildfires in boreal forests – the BoLtFire database. Earth system science data. 17(6). 2249–2276. 1 indexed citations

Suvanto, Susanne, Adriane Esquivel‐Muelbert, Mart‐Jan Schelhaas, et al.. (2025). Understanding Europe's Forest Harvesting Regimes. Earth s Future. 13(2). 5 indexed citations

Senf, Cornelius, et al.. (2024). Large‐scale forest disturbance and associated management shape bird communities in Central European spruce forests. Journal of Applied Ecology. 62(2). 329–343. 3 indexed citations

Braziunas, Kristin H., Cornelius Senf, Dominik Thom, et al.. (2024). Effects of climate and forest development on habitat specialization and biodiversity in Central European mountain forests. Communications Biology. 7(1). 1518–1518. 7 indexed citations

Bathiany, Sebastian, Robbin Bastiaansen, Ana Bastos, et al.. (2024). Ecosystem Resilience Monitoring and Early Warning Using Earth Observation Data: Challenges and Outlook. Surveys in Geophysics. 46(2). 265–301. 11 indexed citations

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Senf, Cornelius, et al.. (2024). Large‐scale remote sensing analysis reveals an increasing coupling of grassland vitality to atmospheric water demand. Global Change Biology. 30(5). e17315–e17315. 7 indexed citations

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Braziunas, Kristin H., et al.. (2024). Projected climate and canopy change lead to thermophilization and homogenization of forest floor vegetation in a hotspot of plant species richness. Global Change Biology. 30(1). e17121–e17121. 12 indexed citations

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Stritih, Ana, Cornelius Senf, Tobias Kuemmerle, et al.. (2024). Same, but different: similar states of forest structure in temperate mountain regions of Europe despite different social-ecological forest disturbance regimes. Landscape Ecology. 39(6). 2 indexed citations

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Senf, Cornelius, et al.. (2023). Mapping subcanopy light regimes in temperate mountain forests from Airborne Laser Scanning, Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8. 100107–100107. 4 indexed citations

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Seibold, Sebastian, et al.. (2023). Mapping spatial microclimate patterns in mountain forests from LiDAR. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 341. 109662–109662. 16 indexed citations

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Stritih, Ana, et al.. (2023). Spaceborne LiDAR for characterizing forest structure across scales in the European Alps. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation. 9(5). 599–614. 23 indexed citations

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Pugh, Thomas A. M., Rupert Seidl, Daijun Liu, et al.. (2023). The anthropogenic imprint on temperate and boreal forest demography and carbon turnover. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(1). 100–115. 5 indexed citations

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Maroschek, Michael, Rupert Seidl, Benjamin Poschlod, & Cornelius Senf. (2023). Quantifying patch size distributions of forest disturbances in protected areas across the European Alps. Journal of Biogeography. 51(3). 368–381. 10 indexed citations

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Senf, Cornelius & Rupert Seidl. (2021). Post‐disturbance canopy recovery and the resilience of Europe’s forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 31(1). 25–36. 59 indexed citations

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Munteanu, Catalina, Cornelius Senf, Mihai Daniel Niță, et al.. (2021). Using historical spy satellite photographs and recent remote sensing data to identify high‐conservation‐value forests. Conservation Biology. 36(2). e13820–e13820. 15 indexed citations

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Senf, Cornelius, Dirk Pflugmacher, Zhiqiang Yang, et al.. (2018). Canopy mortality has doubled in Europe’s temperate forests over the last three decades. Nature Communications. 9(1). 4978–4978. 227 indexed citations

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