Peter Annighöfer

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Peter Annighöfer is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Annighöfer has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 34 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 26 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Peter Annighöfer's work include Forest ecology and management (46 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (33 papers) and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (26 papers). Peter Annighöfer is often cited by papers focused on Forest ecology and management (46 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (33 papers) and Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (26 papers). Peter Annighöfer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Italy and Slovakia. Peter Annighöfer's co-authors include Christian Ammer, Dominik Seidel, Martin Ehbrecht, Torsten Vor, Stefan Zerbe, Heike Kawaletz, André Terwei, Inga Mölder, Katharina Willim and Melissa Stiers and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Peter Annighöfer

72 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Global patterns and climatic controls of forest structural complexity

2021 210 citations Martin Ehbrecht, Dominik Seidel et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Annighöfer Germany	23	1.2k	775	495	418	339	74	1.7k
Matteo Garbarino Italy	31	924 0.8×	1.2k 1.6×	533 1.1×	249 0.6×	596 1.8×	82	2.1k
Arne Pommerening Sweden	23	1.6k 1.4×	1.1k 1.5×	586 1.2×	435 1.0×	355 1.0×	73	2.2k
Martin Ehbrecht Germany	20	865 0.7×	575 0.7×	473 1.0×	463 1.1×	384 1.1×	44	1.4k
Emanuele Lingua Italy	28	1.2k 1.0×	1.2k 1.6×	727 1.5×	571 1.4×	711 2.1×	93	2.3k
Sonia Condés Spain	24	1.3k 1.1×	961 1.2×	304 0.6×	653 1.6×	392 1.2×	51	1.7k
Kamil Král Czechia	23	739 0.6×	403 0.5×	629 1.3×	432 1.0×	301 0.9×	48	1.5k
Marilou Beaudet Canada	24	1.3k 1.1×	1.0k 1.3×	469 0.9×	159 0.4×	322 0.9×	31	1.6k
Juha Honkaniemi Finland	9	945 0.8×	1.4k 1.8×	439 0.9×	180 0.4×	615 1.8×	23	2.0k
Mark C. Vanderwel Canada	21	789 0.7×	861 1.1×	378 0.8×	159 0.4×	450 1.3×	43	1.4k
Jonas Fridman Sweden	21	1.2k 1.0×	1.0k 1.3×	859 1.7×	461 1.1×	479 1.4×	45	2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Annighöfer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Annighöfer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Annighöfer

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20 of 20 papers shown

Achury, Rafael, et al.. (2025). The effect of Douglas-fir on biodiversity in European forests – What do we know and what do we not know?. Forest Ecosystems. 13. 100319–100319. 1 indexed citations

Salamon, Jörg‐Alfred, et al.. (2025). Changes in soil mesofauna communities with increasing proportions of Douglas-fir and silver fir in European beech forests. Applied Soil Ecology. 213. 106328–106328.

Sundqvist, Maja K., Peter Annighöfer, C. Aragón, et al.. (2025). Resource quantity and heterogeneity drive successional plant diversity in managed and unmanaged boreal forests. Ecography. 2025(7). 2 indexed citations

Achury, Rafael, et al.. (2025). Mixing for resilience? Evaluating the growth and drought response of beech mixed with Douglas fir or silver fir. Forest Ecology and Management. 594. 122959–122959. 1 indexed citations

Egerer, Monika, et al.. (2024). Urban oases: the social-ecological importance of small urban green spaces. Ecosystems and People. 20(1). 19 indexed citations

Cabral, Juliano Sarmento, et al.. (2024). Insights into the relationship between hydraulic safety, hydraulic efficiency and tree structural complexity from terrestrial laser scanning and fractal analysis. Trees. 38(1). 221–239. 5 indexed citations

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

Ammer, Christian, et al.. (2022). Tree regeneration characteristics in limestone forests of the Cat Ba National Park, Vietnam. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 22(1). 6–6. 7 indexed citations

Annighöfer, Peter, et al.. (2022). Biomass Allocation and Leaf Morphology of Saplings Grown under Various Conditions of Light Availability and Competition Types. Plants. 11(3). 305–305. 13 indexed citations

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Thom, Dominik, Christian Ammer, Peter Annighöfer, et al.. (2022). Regeneration in European beech forests after drought: the effects of microclimate, deadwood and browsing. European Journal of Forest Research. 142(2). 259–273. 19 indexed citations

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Annighöfer, Peter, Martina Mund, Dominik Seidel, et al.. (2021). Examination of aboveground attributes to predict belowground biomass of young trees. Forest Ecology and Management. 505. 119942–119942. 13 indexed citations

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Leverkus, Alexandro B., Enrique Andivia, Peter Annighöfer, et al.. (2021). Restoring oak forests through direct seeding or planting: Protocol for a continental-scale experiment. PLoS ONE. 16(11). e0259552–e0259552. 8 indexed citations

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Annighöfer, Peter, et al.. (2021). Seedling Growth and Biomass Production under Different Light Availability Levels and Competition Types. Forests. 12(10). 1376–1376. 18 indexed citations

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Ehbrecht, Martin, Dominik Seidel, Peter Annighöfer, et al.. (2021). Global patterns and climatic controls of forest structural complexity. Nature Communications. 12(1). 519–519. 210 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schall, Peter, Peter Annighöfer, Christian Ammer, et al.. (2019). Mortality of Different Populus Genotypes in Recently Established Mixed Short Rotation Coppice with Robinia pseudoacacia L.. Forests. 10(5). 410–410. 9 indexed citations

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Annighöfer, Peter, Dominik Seidel, Andreas Mölder, & Christian Ammer. (2019). Advanced Aboveground Spatial Analysis as Proxy for the Competitive Environment Affecting Sapling Development. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10. 690–690. 8 indexed citations

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Seidel, Dominik, Peter Annighöfer, Martin Ehbrecht, Christian Ammer, & Peter Schall. (2018). Applying fractal analysis to stem distribution maps. Ecological Indicators. 93. 243–246. 2 indexed citations

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Annighöfer, Peter, Heike Kawaletz, André Terwei, et al.. (2015). Managing an invasive tree species - silvicultural recommendations for black cherry (Prunus serotina Ehrh.). View. 11 indexed citations

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Annighöfer, Peter, Philip Beckschäfer, Torsten Vor, & Christian Ammer. (2015). Regeneration Patterns of European Oak Species (Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl., Quercus robur L.) in Dependence of Environment and Neighborhood. PLoS ONE. 10(8). e0134935–e0134935. 122 indexed citations

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Kawaletz, Heike, Inga Mölder, Stefan Zerbe, et al.. (2013). Exotic tree seedlings are much more competitive than natives but show underyielding when growing together. Journal of Plant Ecology. 6(4). 305–315. 32 indexed citations

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