Peter Biber

8.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
107 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Peter Biber is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Biber has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 63 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 20 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Peter Biber's work include Forest ecology and management (57 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (32 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (28 papers). Peter Biber is often cited by papers focused on Forest ecology and management (57 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (32 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (28 papers). Peter Biber collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Spain and Switzerland. Peter Biber's co-authors include Hans Pretzsch, Wolfgang Straßer, Enno Uhl, Thomas Rötzer, Gerhard Schütze, Tom Duckett, Ján Ďurský, Ulrich Weiß, Ben du Toit and Andreas Schilling and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The Science of The Total Environment and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Peter Biber

102 papers receiving 5.4k 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.

The normal distributions transform: a new approach to laser scan matching

2004 1.1k citations Peter Biber et al. profile →
Forest stand growth dynamics in Central Europe have accelerated since 1870

2014 458 citations Hans Pretzsch, Peter Biber 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 Biber Germany	35	2.5k	2.5k	1.4k	1.2k	963	107	5.7k
Arko Lucieer Australia	40	920 0.4×	1.8k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	4.9k 4.0×	532 0.6×	156	8.9k
Eija Honkavaara Finland	40	757 0.3×	994 0.4×	1.0k 0.7×	3.7k 3.0×	448 0.5×	183	6.2k
Antero Kukko Finland	47	2.5k 1.0×	986 0.4×	1.1k 0.8×	6.9k 5.6×	619 0.6×	192	8.4k
Harri Kaartinen Finland	51	3.6k 1.4×	1.1k 0.5×	1.0k 0.7×	7.8k 6.3×	503 0.5×	191	9.2k
Teemu Hakala Finland	35	478 0.2×	796 0.3×	603 0.4×	2.7k 2.2×	217 0.2×	134	4.4k
Norbert Pfeifer Austria	51	1.6k 0.6×	1.0k 0.4×	743 0.5×	7.0k 5.7×	630 0.7×	285	8.8k
Hannu Hyyppä Finland	45	3.0k 1.2×	1.1k 0.5×	611 0.4×	5.9k 4.8×	348 0.4×	192	7.4k
Guangjian Yan China	43	762 0.3×	4.1k 1.6×	651 0.5×	6.6k 5.4×	222 0.2×	238	9.8k
Darren Turner Australia	23	383 0.2×	637 0.3×	899 0.6×	2.9k 2.4×	275 0.3×	48	4.7k
Anttoni Jaakkola Finland	33	1.5k 0.6×	555 0.2×	804 0.6×	4.4k 3.6×	420 0.4×	69	5.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Biber

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Biber

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Biber

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Biber, Peter, et al.. (2025). Tree crown metrics as indicators for drought stress resistance?. Forest Ecology and Management. 599. 123274–123274.

Biber, Peter, et al.. (2025). Root-shoot allometry and drought response of dominant and co-dominant European beech (Fagus sylvatica [L.]) and Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.) in monospecific versus mixed-species stands in Bavaria, Germany. European Journal of Forest Research. 144(5). 981–1001. 1 indexed citations

Biber, Peter, et al.. (2025). Quantification of the drought stress response of trees depending on their past growth. Forest Ecology and Management. 594. 122923–122923. 1 indexed citations

Biber, Peter, Thomas Rötzer, Enno Uhl, et al.. (2025). Artificially induced drought stress affects seasonal foliar litterfall, nutrient contents, and nutrient masses in mature European beech (Fagus sylvatica [L.]) and Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.). Trees Forests and People. 20. 100851–100851.

Knoke, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Minimising the relative regret of future forest landscape compositions: The role of close-to-nature stand types. Forest Policy and Economics. 171. 103410–103410. 2 indexed citations

Pretzsch, Hans, Miren del Rı́o, Kamil Bielak, et al.. (2023). Forest growth in Europe shows diverging large regional trends. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 15373–15373. 39 indexed citations

Pretzsch, Hans, Miren del Rı́o, Kamil Bielak, et al.. (2023). Competition-based mortality and tree losses. An essential component of net primary productivity. Forest Ecology and Management. 544. 121204–121204. 18 indexed citations

Pretzsch, Hans, et al.. (2023). Rapid beech decline under recurrent drought stress: Individual neighborhood structure and soil properties matter. Forest Ecology and Management. 545. 121305–121305. 26 indexed citations

Hilmers, Torben, Karl Heinz Mellert, Enno Uhl, et al.. (2023). Nutrient regime modulates drought response patterns of three temperate tree species. The Science of The Total Environment. 868. 161601–161601. 33 indexed citations

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Pace, Rocco, Peter Biber, Hans Pretzsch, & Rüdiger Grote. (2018). Modeling Ecosystem Services for Park Trees: Sensitivity of i-Tree Eco Simulations to Light Exposure and Tree Species Classification. Forests. 9(2). 89–89. 45 indexed citations

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Linkevičius, Edgaras, José G. Borges, Helga Pülzl, et al.. (2018). Linking forest policy issues and decision support tools in Europe. Forest Policy and Economics. 103. 4–16. 22 indexed citations

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Moser-Reischl, Astrid, et al.. (2018). Effects of the urban heat island and climate change on the growth of Khaya senegalensis in Hanoi, Vietnam. Forest Ecosystems. 5(1). 21 indexed citations

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Moser-Reischl, Astrid, et al.. (2018). Effects of climate trends and drought events on urban tree growth in Santiago de Chile. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 45(1). 35–50. 15 indexed citations

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Pretzsch, Hans, Peter Biber, Enno Uhl, et al.. (2017). Climate change accelerates growth of urban trees in metropolises worldwide. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 15403–15403. 160 indexed citations

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Pretzsch, Hans, Peter Biber, Gerhard Schütze, Enno Uhl, & Thomas Rötzer. (2014). Forest stand growth dynamics in Central Europe have accelerated since 1870. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4967–4967. 458 indexed citations breakdown →

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Biber, Peter, Stefan Seifert, Markus Klemens Zaplata, et al.. (2013). Relationships between substrate, surface characteristics, and vegetation in an initial ecosystem. Biogeosciences. 10(12). 8283–8303. 15 indexed citations

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Caicoya, Astor Toraño, Florian Kugler, Kostas Papathanassiou, Peter Biber, & Hans Pretzsch. (2010). Biomass estimation as a function of vertical forest structure and forest height - Potential and limitations for Radar Remote Sensing. 1–4. 20 indexed citations

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Albrecht, Axel, et al.. (2009). Evaluation of the single-tree based growth simulator SILVA 2.2 using long-term experimental plots with contrasting thinning regimes.. 180. 55–64. 2 indexed citations

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Mette, Tobias, Axel Albrecht, Christian Ammer, et al.. (2009). Evaluation of the forest growth simulator SILVA on dominant trees in mature mixed Silver fir–Norway spruce stands in South-West Germany. Ecological Modelling. 220(13-14). 1670–1680. 17 indexed citations

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Onyekwelu, Jonathan C., Peter Biber, & Bernd Stimm. (2003). Thinning scenarios for Gmelina arborea plantations in south-western Nigeria using density management diagrams. 6 indexed citations

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