Georg Gratzer

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Georg Gratzer is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Georg Gratzer has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 23 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 18 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Georg Gratzer's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (30 papers), Forest ecology and management (11 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (11 papers). Georg Gratzer is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (30 papers), Forest ecology and management (11 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (11 papers). Georg Gratzer collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United States and Slovakia. Georg Gratzer's co-authors include Bernhard E. Splechtna, Bryan A. Black, Richard Law, Janine Illian, I. A. U. N. Gunatilleke, C. V. S. Gunatilleke, David F. R. P. Burslem, William S. Keeton, Gerhard Glatzel and Abrham Abiyu and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences and Global Change Biology.

In The Last Decade

Georg Gratzer

59 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Ecological information from spatial patterns of plants: insights from point process theory

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Georg Gratzer Austria	24	1.0k	795	429	338	254	59	1.8k
Christopher D. Philipson Switzerland	16	1.3k 1.3×	1.3k 1.7×	482 1.1×	319 0.9×	421 1.7×	29	2.2k
Matteo Garbarino Italy	31	924 0.9×	1.2k 1.6×	596 1.4×	533 1.6×	290 1.1×	82	2.1k
Palle Madsen Denmark	22	1.2k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	395 0.9×	477 1.4×	421 1.7×	34	1.9k
Sylvie de Blois Canada	27	1.2k 1.1×	717 0.9×	818 1.9×	230 0.7×	398 1.6×	39	2.0k
Isabelle Aubin Canada	23	1.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	776 1.8×	378 1.1×	279 1.1×	60	2.2k
Benoı̂t Courbaud France	24	1.4k 1.4×	1.0k 1.3×	316 0.7×	315 0.9×	212 0.8×	56	1.9k
Margaret R. Metz United States	19	1.2k 1.2×	1.2k 1.5×	825 1.9×	207 0.6×	324 1.3×	37	2.2k
Marion Pfeifer United Kingdom	27	950 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	888 2.1×	158 0.5×	242 1.0×	68	2.3k
Dylan Keon United States	7	816 0.8×	694 0.9×	731 1.7×	181 0.5×	332 1.3×	12	1.7k
Eliot J. B. McIntire Canada	24	1.2k 1.2×	888 1.1×	886 2.1×	171 0.5×	284 1.1×	59	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Georg Gratzer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Georg Gratzer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Georg Gratzer

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

All Works

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Gratzer, Georg, et al.. (2025). Tracking individual seed fate confirms mainly antagonistic interactions between rodents and European beech. Biology Letters. 21(1). 20240586–20240586. 1 indexed citations

Wals, A.E.J., et al.. (2025). The art of arts-based interventions in transdisciplinary sustainability research. Sustainability Science. 20(2). 547–563. 3 indexed citations

Pesendorfer, Mario B., et al.. (2024). Positive spatial and temporal density‐dependence drive early reproductive economy‐of‐scale effects of masting in a European old‐growth forest community. Journal of Ecology. 112(8). 1872–1884. 4 indexed citations

Szymkowiak, Jakub, Andrew Hacket‐Pain, Dave Kelly, et al.. (2024). Masting ontogeny: the largest masting benefits accrue to the largest trees. Annals of Botany. 135(4). 697–706. 1 indexed citations

Bogdziewicz, Michał, Mario B. Pesendorfer, Davide Ascoli, et al.. (2024). Widespread breakdown in masting in European beech due to rising summer temperatures. Global Change Biology. 30(5). e17307–e17307. 13 indexed citations

Pesendorfer, Mario B., et al.. (2021). Differential spatial responses of rodents to masting on forest sites with differing disturbance history. Ecology and Evolution. 11(17). 11890–11902. 12 indexed citations

Vacchiano, Giorgio, Mario B. Pesendorfer, Marco Conedera, et al.. (2021). Natural disturbances and masting: from mechanisms to fitness consequences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1839). 20200384–20200384. 18 indexed citations

Pesendorfer, Mario B., et al.. (2021). Fire history and weather interact to determine extent and synchrony of mast-seeding in rhizomatous scrub oaks of Florida. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1839). 20200381–20200381. 8 indexed citations

Allerberger, Franziska, Georg Gratzer, Lars Keller, et al.. (2021). Den 17 Nachhaltigen Entwicklungszielen den Weg bereiten: UniNEtZ: der Weg von der Theorie in die Praxis. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society. 30(1). 54–56. 1 indexed citations

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Nopp‐Mayr, Ursula, et al.. (2020). Analyzing long-term impacts of ungulate herbivory on forest-recruitment dynamics at community and species level contrasting tree densities versus maximum heights. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 20274–20274. 13 indexed citations

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Keeton, William S., Garrett W. Meigs, Sabina Burrascano, et al.. (2018). European Old-growth Forests in a Global Context: Expanding our Conception of Late-Successional Forests to Account for Structural and Functional Variability. Jyväskylä University Digital Archive (University of Jyväskylä). 1 indexed citations

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Mayer, Mathias, et al.. (2017). Soil CO ₂ efflux from two mountain forests in the eastern Himalayas, Bhutan: components and controls. Biogeosciences. 14(1). 99–110. 14 indexed citations

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Staudhammer, Christina L., et al.. (2016). Burning for enhanced non‐timber forest product yield may jeopardize the resource base through interactive effects. Journal of Applied Ecology. 53(5). 1613–1622. 3 indexed citations

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Gratzer, Georg, et al.. (2015). Forage yield and cattle carrying capacity differ by understory type in conifer forest gaps. Livestock Science. 180. 226–232. 12 indexed citations

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Abiyu, Abrham, et al.. (2015). Tree Planting by Smallholder Farmers in the Upper Catchment of Lake Tana Watershed, Northwest Ethiopia. Small-scale Forestry. 15(2). 199–212. 41 indexed citations

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Gratzer, Georg, et al.. (2014). Unfavourable microsites, competing vegetation and browsing restrict post-disturbance tree regeneration on extreme sites in the Northern Calcareous Alps. European Journal of Forest Research. 134(2). 293–308. 38 indexed citations

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Gratzer, Georg, et al.. (2011). The influence of windthrow microsites on tree regeneration and establishment in an old growth mountain forest. Forest Ecology and Management. 262(7). 1289–1297. 47 indexed citations

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Keeton, William S., et al.. (2010). Structural characteristics and aboveground biomass of old‐growth spruce–fir stands in the eastern Carpathian mountains, Ukraine. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 144(1). 148–159. 50 indexed citations

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Gratzer, Georg, et al.. (2009). Forest Grazing and Natural Regeneration in a Late Successional Broadleaved Community Forest in Bhutan. Mountain Research and Development. 29(1). 30–35. 38 indexed citations

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Gratzer, Georg, et al.. (2004). Density-dependent mortality versus spatial segregation in early life stages of Abies densa and Rhododendron hodgsonii in Central Bhutan. Forest Ecology and Management. 192(2-3). 143–159. 23 indexed citations

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