Ralf Seppelt

15.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
147 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

Ralf Seppelt is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralf Seppelt has authored 147 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 31 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 22 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Ralf Seppelt's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (58 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (32 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (24 papers). Ralf Seppelt is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (58 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (32 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (24 papers). Ralf Seppelt collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Ralf Seppelt's co-authors include Sven Lautenbach, Carsten F. Dormann, Nina Schwarz, Tomáš Václavík, Alexey Voinov, Stefan Schmidt, Martin Völk, Florian V. Eppink, Dagmar Haase and Michael Beckmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Ralf Seppelt

143 papers receiving 9.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Characterising performance of environmental models

2012 1.2k citations Ralf Seppelt et al. profile →
A quantitative review of ecosystem service studies: approaches, shortcomings and the road ahead

2011 789 citations Ralf Seppelt, Stefan Schmidt et al. profile →
Global impacts of future cropland expansion and intensification on agricultural markets and biodiversity

2019 463 citations Florian Zabel, Ruth Delzeit et al. profile →
Towards systematic analyses of ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies: Main concepts, methods and the road ahead

2017 433 citations Anna F. Cord, Bartosz Bartkowski et al. Ecosystem Services profile →
Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social–ecological systems perspective

2015 324 citations Elena M. Bennett, Megan Meacham et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ralf Seppelt Germany	53	6.0k	1.8k	1.3k	1.2k	1.2k	147	10.1k
Brett A. Bryan Australia	58	6.1k 1.0×	2.0k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	837 0.7×	239	11.7k
Marina Alberti United States	36	5.9k 1.0×	2.2k 1.2×	1.9k 1.5×	1.1k 0.9×	932 0.8×	72	10.1k
P. K. Snyder United States	19	6.8k 1.1×	3.6k 1.9×	1.3k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	1.8k 1.5×	30	11.4k
Richard H. Moss United States	27	7.8k 1.3×	1.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	694 0.6×	739 0.6×	62	13.5k
E. A. Howard United States	4	5.8k 1.0×	3.4k 1.8×	1.1k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	1.8k 1.4×	4	10.1k
Osvaldo Canziani	5	4.7k 0.8×	1.9k 1.0×	812 0.6×	976 0.8×	788 0.6×	5	11.7k
Jean Palutikof United Kingdom	35	6.5k 1.1×	1.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	873 0.7×	84	13.9k
Ulrike Tappeiner Austria	55	5.8k 1.0×	2.2k 1.2×	809 0.6×	1.1k 0.9×	2.1k 1.7×	218	9.4k
N. D. Crossman Australia	39	5.9k 1.0×	2.1k 1.2×	571 0.4×	1.6k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	190	8.6k
Robert I. McDonald United States	44	3.7k 0.6×	2.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	488 0.4×	1.5k 1.2×	85	8.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Ralf Seppelt

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ralf Seppelt

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Sritongchuay, Tuanjit, Michael Beckmann, Bo Dalsgaard, et al.. (2025). Crop diversity in the landscape boosts pollinators and yield of pollinator dependent crops across the world.. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 395. 109943–109943.

Hodapp, Dorothee, et al.. (2024). Perspektiven eines politikplanenden Biodiversitätsschutzgesetzes: Rechtsrahmen, Ausgestaltung und Forschungsbedarf. Natur und Recht. 46(4). 234–242.

Schneider, Julia M., Ruth Delzeit, Ralf Seppelt, et al.. (2024). Effects of profit-driven cropland expansion and conservation policies. Nature Sustainability. 7(10). 1335–1347. 20 indexed citations

Beckmann, Michael, et al.. (2024). Connectivity conservation planning through deep reinforcement learning. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15(4). 779–790. 3 indexed citations

Morrison, Tiffany H., Örjan Bodin, Graeme S. Cumming, et al.. (2023). Building blocks of polycentric governance. Policy Studies Journal. 51(3). 475–499. 39 indexed citations

Seppelt, Ralf, et al.. (2023). Why smallholders stop engaging in forest activities: the role of in-migration in livelihood transitions in forested landscapes of southwestern Ethiopia. Ecology and Society. 28(1). 2 indexed citations

Dominik, Christophe, Ralf Seppelt, Finbarr G. Horgan, Josef Settele, & Tomáš Václavík. (2022). Landscape heterogeneity filters functional traits of rice arthropods in tropical agroecosystems. Ecological Applications. 32(3). e2560–e2560. 12 indexed citations

Qiu, Jiangxiao, Cibele Queiroz, Elena M. Bennett, et al.. (2021). Land-use intensity mediates ecosystem service tradeoffs across regional social-ecological systems. Ecosystems and People. 17(1). 264–278. 34 indexed citations

Mupepele, Anne‐Christine, Helge Bruelheide, Carsten A. Brühl, et al.. (2021). Biodiversity in European agricultural landscapes: transformative societal changes needed. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 36(12). 1067–1070. 41 indexed citations

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Beckmann, Michael, Lukas Egli, Murat Okumah, et al.. (2021). Aligning agri-environmental subsidies and environmental needs: a comparative analysis between the US and EU. Environmental Research Letters. 16(5). 54067–54067. 26 indexed citations

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Palliwoda, Julia, María R. Felipe‐Lucia, Ignacio Palomo, et al.. (2021). Ecosystem service coproduction across the zones of biosphere reserves in Europe. Ecosystems and People. 17(1). 491–506. 17 indexed citations

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Schröter, Matthias, et al.. (2021). Distinguishing anthropogenic and natural contributions to coproduction of national crop yields globally. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 10821–10821. 13 indexed citations

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Kambach, Stephan, Helge Bruelheide, Katharina Gerstner, et al.. (2020). Consequences of multiple imputation of missing standard deviations and sample sizes in meta‐analysis. Ecology and Evolution. 10(20). 11699–11712. 51 indexed citations

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Boyd, Emily, Richard Nunes, Wiebren J. Boonstra, et al.. (2020). Towards a bridging concept for undesirable resilience in social-ecological systems. Global Sustainability. 3. 39 indexed citations

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Beckmann, Michael, Katharina Gerstner, Morodoluwa Akin‐Fajiye, et al.. (2019). Conventional land‐use intensification reduces species richness and increases production: A global meta‐analysis. Global Change Biology. 25(6). 1941–1956. 194 indexed citations

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Cord, Anna F., Bartosz Bartkowski, Michael Beckmann, et al.. (2017). Towards systematic analyses of ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies: Main concepts, methods and the road ahead. Ecosystem Services. 28. 264–272. 433 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gerstner, Katharina, Christian Levers, Tobias Kuemmerle, et al.. (2017). Assessing land‐use effects on European plant diversity using a biome‐specific countryside species–area model. Diversity and Distributions. 23(10). 1193–1203. 6 indexed citations

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Cord, Anna F., Kate A. Brauman, Rebecca Chaplin‐Kramer, et al.. (2017). Priorities to Advance Monitoring of Ecosystem Services Using Earth Observation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 32(6). 416–428. 93 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Stefan, Ameur M. Manceur, & Ralf Seppelt. (2016). Uncertainty of Monetary Valued Ecosystem Services – Value Transfer Functions for Global Mapping. PLoS ONE. 11(3). e0148524–e0148524. 72 indexed citations

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Wolters, Volkmar, J. Isselstein, Hartmut Stützel, et al.. (2014). Nachhaltige ressourceneffiziente Erhöhung der Flächenproduktivität: Zukunftsoptionen der deutschen Agrarökosystemforschung. Grundsatzpapier der DFG Senatskommission für Agrarökosystemforschung. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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