Peter Biber

8.7k citations

107 papers · 5.7k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 35

Impact in

Nature and Landscape Conservation top 0.5%
- Forest ecology and management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Forest Management and Policy

Papers in ⓘ

Global and Planetary Change 66
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 32
- Forest Management and Policy 28
Nature and Landscape Conservation 63
- Forest ecology and management 57
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies 17

Co-authors: Hans Pretzsch (66 shared papers)Wolfgang Straßer (5 shared papers)Enno Uhl (28 shared papers)Thomas Rötzer (17 shared papers)Gerhard Schütze (8 shared papers)Tom Duckett (5 shared papers)Ján Ďurský (1 shared paper)Ulrich Weiß (3 shared papers)
Journals: Forest Ecology and Management (14 papers)European Journal of Forest Research (10 papers)Forests (9 papers)Forest Ecosystems (4 papers)Forest Policy and Economics (3 papers)
Partner nations: Germany Spain Switzerland

In The Last Decade

Peter Biber

102 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Forest stand growth dynamics in Central Europe have accelerated since 1870 2014 · 458 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2014 Nature Communications
2004 The normal distributions transform: a new approach to laser scan matching

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1	The normal distributions transform: a new approach to laser scan matching Peter Biber, Wolfgang Straßer Hit paper breakdown →	2004	1097
2	Forest stand growth dynamics in Central Europe have accelerated since 1870 Nature Communications ·Hans Pretzsch, Peter Biber, Gerhard Schütze, Enno Uhl, Thomas Rötzer Hit paper breakdown →	2014	458
3	The single tree-based stand simulator SILVA: construction, application and evaluation Forest Ecology and Management ·Hans Pretzsch, Peter Biber, Ján Ďurský	2002	412
4	Dynamic Maps for Long-Term Operation of Mobile Service Robots IEEE Transactions on Robotics ·Peter Biber, Tom Duckett	2005	242
5	Crown size and growing space requirement of common tree species in urban centres, parks, and forests Urban forestry & urban greening ·Hans Pretzsch, Peter Biber, Enno Uhl, Jens Dahlhausen, Thomas Rötzer, Juan Caldentey, Takayoshi Koike, Tran van Con, Aurélia Chavanne, Thomas Seifert, Ben du Toit, Craig Farnden, Stephan Pauleit	2015	239
6	Plant detection and mapping for agricultural robots using a 3D LIDAR sensor Robotics and Autonomous Systems ·Ulrich Weiß, Peter Biber	2011	223
7	A Re-Evaluation of Reineke's Rule and Stand Density Index Forest Science ·Hans Pretzsch, Peter Biber	2005	216
8	Size-symmetric versus size-asymmetric competition and growth partitioning among trees in forest stands along an ecological gradient in central Europe Canadian Journal of Forest Research ·Hans Pretzsch, Peter Biber	2010	162
9	Climate change accelerates growth of urban trees in metropolises worldwide Scientific Reports ·Hans Pretzsch, Peter Biber, Enno Uhl, Jens Dahlhausen, Gerhard Schütze, Diana Perkins, Thomas Rötzer, Juan Caldentey, Takayoshi Koike, Tran van Con, Aurélia Chavanne, Ben du Toit, Keith Foster, B. L. Lefer	2017	160
10	Effect of forest stand management on species composition, structural diversity, and productivity in the temperate zone of Europe European Journal of Forest Research ·Jochen Dieler, Enno Uhl, Peter Biber, Jörg Müller, Thomas Rötzer, Hans Pretzsch	2017	132
11	Wood density reduced while wood volume growth accelerated in Central European forests since 1870 Forest Ecology and Management ·Hans Pretzsch, Peter Biber, Gerhard Schütze, Julia Kemmerer, Enno Uhl	2018	103
12	Tree species mixing can increase maximum stand density Canadian Journal of Forest Research ·Hans Pretzsch, Peter Biber	2016	103
13	Plant classification system for crop /weed discrimination without segmentation Sebastian Haug, Andreas Michaels, Peter Biber, Jörn Östermann	2014	93
14	Contrasting effects of environmental change on the radial growth of co-occurring beech and fir trees across Europe The Science of The Total Environment ·Michal Bošeľa, Martin Lukáč, Daniele Castagneri, Róbert Sedmák, Peter Biber, Marco Carrer, Bohdan Konôpka, Paola Nola, Thomas A. Nagel, Ionel Popa, Cătălin-Constantin Roibu, Miroslav Svoboda, Volodymyr Trotsiuk, Ulf Büntgen	2017	89
15	3D modeling of indoor environments by a mobile robot with a laser scanner and panoramic camera Lincoln Repository (University of Lincoln) ·Peter Biber, Henrik Andreasson, Tom Duckett, Andreas Schilling	2005	82
16	Drought can favour the growth of small in relation to tall trees in mature stands of Norway spruce and European beech Forest Ecosystems ·Hans Pretzsch, Gerhard Schütze, Peter Biber	2018	82
17	Ecosystem service trade-offs for adaptive forest management Ecosystem Services ·Fabian Schwaiger, Werner Poschenrieder, Peter Biber, Hans Pretzsch	2019	73
18	Maintenance of long-term experiments for unique insights into forest growth dynamics and trends: review and perspectives European Journal of Forest Research ·Hans Pretzsch, Miren del Rı́o, Peter Biber, Catia Arcangeli, Kamil Bielak, Peter Brang, M. Dudzinska, David I. Forrester, Joachim Klädtke, Ulrich Kohnle, Thomas Ledermann, Robert Matthews, Jürgen Nagel, Ralf Nagel, Urban Nilsson, François Ningre, Thomas Nord‐Larsen, Holger Wernsdörfer, Ekaterina Sycheva	2018	69
19	Hotspots of the European forests carbon cycle Forest Ecology and Management ·G.J. Nabuurs, Esther Thürig, Nanny Heidema, Kęstutis Armolaitis, Peter Biber, Emil Cienciala, E Kaufmann, Raisa Mäkipää, Petter Nilsen, Richard Petritsch, Т. А. Пристова, Joachim Rock, Mart‐Jan Schelhaas, Risto Sievänen, Zoltán Somogyi, Patrick Vallet	2008	65
20	Experimental Analysis of Sample-Based Maps for Long-Term SLAM The International Journal of Robotics Research ·Peter Biber, Tom Duckett	2009	60

About Peter Biber

Peter Biber is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Atmospheric Science, Aerospace Engineering and Insect Science, having authored 107 papers that have together received 5.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Forest ecology and management (57 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (32 papers), Forest Management and Policy (28 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (19 papers), Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization (18 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (17 papers), Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies (16 papers) and 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nature and Landscape Conservation (2.5k citations), Global and Planetary Change (2.5k citations), Geology (545 citations), Environmental Engineering (1.2k citations) and Aerospace Engineering (1.4k citations). Peter Biber has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, Spain and Switzerland. Frequent 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. Their work appears in journals such as Forest Ecology and Management, European Journal of Forest Research, Forests, Forest Ecosystems and Forest Policy and Economics.

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