Kurt H. Riitters

10.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
129 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Kurt H. Riitters is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kurt H. Riitters has authored 129 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 57 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 55 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Kurt H. Riitters's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (52 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (40 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (28 papers). Kurt H. Riitters is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (52 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (40 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (28 papers). Kurt H. Riitters collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Belgium. Kurt H. Riitters's co-authors include James Wickham, K. Bruce Jones, Timothy G. Wade, Peter Vogt, Robert V. O’Neill, R. V. O’Neill, Carolyn T. Hunsaker, Barbara L. Jackson, S. P. Timmins and Elizabeth Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Kurt H. Riitters

125 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

A factor analysis of landscape pattern and structure metrics

1995 994 citations Kurt H. Riitters, James Wickham et al. Landscape Ecology profile →
Conterminous United States land cover change patterns 2001–2016 from the 2016 National Land Cover Database

2020 457 citations Jon Dewitz, James Wickham et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Revisiting the Landscape Mosaic model 2024 ·PLoS ONE ·Peter Vogt, James Wickham, José I. Barredo, Kurt H. Riitters	2
2	Interpreting image texture metrics applied to landscape gradient data 2023 ·Landscape Ecology ·Kurt H. Riitters, Jennifer Costanza, John W. Coulston, Peter Vogt, Karen Schleeweis	3
3	Mapping landscape ecological patterns using numeric and categorical maps 2023 ·PLoS ONE ·Kurt H. Riitters, Peter Vogt	5
4	Where forest may not return in the western United States 2022 ·Ecological Indicators ·James Wickham, Anne Neale, Kurt H. Riitters, Maliha S. Nash, Jon Dewitz, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	6
5	Forest Area Change in the Shifting Landscape Mosaic of the Continental United States from 2001 to 2016 2020 ·Land ·Kurt H. Riitters, Karen Schleeweis, Jennifer Costanza	14
6	Using a hybrid demand-allocation algorithm to enable distributional analysis of land use change patterns 2020 ·PLoS ONE ·Evan B. Brooks, John W. Coulston, Kurt H. Riitters, David N. Wear	6
7	Describing and analyzing landscape patterns: where are we now, and where are we going? 2019 ·Landscape Ecology ·Jennifer Costanza, Kurt H. Riitters, Peter Vogt, James Wickham	38
8	Influence of high-resolution data on the assessment of forest fragmentation 2019 ·Landscape Ecology ·James Wickham, Kurt H. Riitters	44
9	Conserving forest biological diversity: How the Montreal Process helps achieve sustainability 2015 ·Mark D. Nelson, (unknown), Kurt H. Riitters	1
10	Global survey of anthropogenic neighborhood threats to conservation of grass-shrub and forest vegetation 2012 ·Journal of Environmental Management ·Kurt H. Riitters, James Wickham, Timothy G. Wade, Peter Vogt	7
11	Decline of forest interior conditions in the conterminous United States 2012 ·Scientific Reports ·Kurt H. Riitters, James Wickham	51
12	Detecting Temporal Change in Watershed Nutrient Yields 2008 ·Environmental Management ·James Wickham, Timothy G. Wade, Kurt H. Riitters	31
13	Hot Spots of Perforated Forest in the Eastern United States 2005 ·Environmental Management ·Kurt H. Riitters, John W. Coulston	40
14	A Preliminary Assessment of Montréal Process Indicators of Forest Fragmentation for the United States 2003 ·Environmental Monitoring and Assessment ·Kurt H. Riitters, James Wickham, John W. Coulston	44
15	Fuzzy Decision Analysis for Integrated Environmental Vulnerability Assessment of the Mid-Atlantic Region 1 2002 ·Environmental Management ·Liem Tran, Carl Knight, Robert V. O’Neill, Elizabeth Smith, Kurt H. Riitters, James Wickham	124
16	Sensitivity of selected landscape pattern metrics to land-cover misclassification and differences in land-cover composition 1997 ·Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing ·James Wickham, Robert V. O’Neill, Kurt H. Riitters, Timothy G. Wade, K. Bruce Jones	112
17	Growth in Relation to Canopy Light Interception in a Red Pine (Pinus resinosa) Thinning Study 1992 ·Forest Science ·B. E. Law, Kurt H. Riitters, Lewis F. Ohmann	3
18	Growth in relation to canopy light interception in a red pine (Pinus resinosa) thinning study 1992 ·Forest Science ·B. E. Law, Kurt H. Riitters, Lewis F. Ohmann	19
19	Evenness indices measure the signal strength of biweight site chronologies. 1990 ·UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona) ·Kurt H. Riitters	1
20	Analysis of biweight site chronologies: relative weights of individual trees over time. 1990 ·UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona) ·Kurt H. Riitters	6

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