Stephan Getzin

3.4k total citations
42 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Stephan Getzin is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephan Getzin has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 29 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 12 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Stephan Getzin's work include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (28 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (16 papers) and Forest ecology and management (8 papers). Stephan Getzin is often cited by papers focused on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (28 papers), Ecosystem dynamics and resilience (16 papers) and Forest ecology and management (8 papers). Stephan Getzin collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Israel and United States. Stephan Getzin's co-authors include Kerstin Wiegand, Thorsten Wiegand, Fangliang He, Hezi Yizhaq, Ingo Schöning, David Ward, E. Meroni, Robert Nuske, Jost von Hardenberg and C. B. Dean and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Stephan Getzin

42 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stephan Getzin Germany 24 1.6k 1.2k 795 561 404 42 2.5k
Sari C. Saunders Canada 17 1.4k 0.9× 1.4k 1.2× 1.1k 1.4× 499 0.9× 234 0.6× 29 2.8k
Juliana Schietti Brazil 23 985 0.6× 865 0.7× 637 0.8× 340 0.6× 364 0.9× 45 1.9k
Andrés Hernández Panama 15 2.4k 1.5× 1.1k 0.9× 853 1.1× 1.1k 2.0× 349 0.9× 21 3.0k
Raphaël Pélissier France 31 2.2k 1.4× 1.2k 1.1× 1.3k 1.6× 711 1.3× 823 2.0× 73 3.8k
Sylvie Gourlet‐Fleury France 31 1.8k 1.1× 1.8k 1.5× 956 1.2× 497 0.9× 526 1.3× 107 3.5k
Maxime Réjou‐Méchain France 23 978 0.6× 697 0.6× 790 1.0× 306 0.5× 758 1.9× 42 2.1k
I‐Fang Sun Taiwan 24 1.7k 1.1× 769 0.7× 748 0.9× 845 1.5× 127 0.3× 47 2.4k
Nicolas Barbier France 26 1.5k 0.9× 1.8k 1.5× 1.3k 1.6× 266 0.5× 1.1k 2.7× 86 3.1k
Benoı̂t Courbaud France 24 1.4k 0.9× 1.0k 0.9× 316 0.4× 391 0.7× 152 0.4× 56 1.9k
Lisa Patrick Bentley United States 30 1.5k 0.9× 1.5k 1.3× 740 0.9× 390 0.7× 733 1.8× 48 2.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephan Getzin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephan Getzin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Stephan Getzin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Stephan Getzin based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Stephan Getzin. Stephan Getzin is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Getzin, Stephan, et al.. (2024). Spatio-temporal dynamics of fairy circles in Namibia are driven by rainfall and soil infiltrability. Landscape Ecology. 39(7). 1 indexed citations
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Getzin, Stephan & Hezi Yizhaq. (2024). Desiccation of undamaged grasses in the topsoil causes Namibia’s fairy circles – Response to Jürgens & Gröngröft (2023). Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics. 63. 125780–125780. 1 indexed citations
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Getzin, Stephan, et al.. (2021). Revisiting Theron’s hypothesis on the origin of fairy circles after four decades: Euphorbias are not the cause. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 21(1). 102–102. 6 indexed citations
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Getzin, Stephan, Hezi Yizhaq, & Wälter R. Tschinkel. (2021). Definition of “fairy circles” and how they differ from other common vegetation gaps and plant rings. Journal of Vegetation Science. 32(6). 23 indexed citations
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Getzin, Stephan, Todd E. Erickson, Hezi Yizhaq, et al.. (2020). Bridging ecology and physics: Australian fairy circles regenerate following model assumptions on ecohydrological feedbacks. Journal of Ecology. 109(1). 399–416. 20 indexed citations
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Getzin, Stephan, Rico Fischer, Nikolai Knapp, & Andreas Huth. (2017). Using airborne LiDAR to assess spatial heterogeneity in forest structure on Mount Kilimanjaro. Landscape Ecology. 32(9). 1881–1894. 19 indexed citations
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Getzin, Stephan, Hezi Yizhaq, Todd E. Erickson, et al.. (2016). Discovery of fairy circles in Australia supports self-organization theory. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(13). 3551–3556. 130 indexed citations
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Velázquez, Eduardo, Isabel Martínez, Stephan Getzin, Kirk A. Moloney, & Thorsten Wiegand. (2015). An evaluation of the state of spatial point pattern analysis in ecology. Ecography. 39(11). 1042–1055. 142 indexed citations
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Getzin, Stephan, Kerstin Wiegand, Thorsten Wiegand, et al.. (2015). Clarifying misunderstandings regarding vegetation self‐organisation and spatial patterns of fairy circles in N amibia: a response to recent termite hypotheses. Ecological Entomology. 40(6). 669–675. 24 indexed citations
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Wiegand, Kerstin, et al.. (2014). SPATIAL PATTERNS AND DEMOGRAPHICS OF STREBLUS MACROPHYLLUS TREES IN A TROPICAL EVERGREEN FOREST, VIETNAM. JOURNAL OF TROPICAL FOREST SCIENCE. 26(3). 309–319. 16 indexed citations
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Getzin, Stephan, Thorsten Wiegand, & Stephen P. Hubbell. (2014). Stochastically driven adult–recruit associations of tree species on Barro Colorado Island. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 281(1790). 20140922–20140922. 42 indexed citations
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Getzin, Stephan, Robert Nuske, & Kerstin Wiegand. (2014). Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to Quantify Spatial Gap Patterns in Forests. Remote Sensing. 6(8). 6988–7004. 136 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yan, Stephan Getzin, Thorsten Wiegand, Haibao Ren, & Keping Ma. (2013). The Relative Importance of Janzen-Connell Effects in Influencing the Spatial Patterns at the Gutianshan Subtropical Forest. PLoS ONE. 8(9). e74560–e74560. 31 indexed citations
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Ward, David, Kerstin Wiegand, & Stephan Getzin. (2013). Walter's two-layer hypothesis revisited - back to the roots!. South African Journal of Botany. 86. 141–141. 5 indexed citations
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Lan, Guoyu, Stephan Getzin, Thorsten Wiegand, et al.. (2012). Spatial Distribution and Interspecific Associations of Tree Species in a Tropical Seasonal Rain Forest of China. PLoS ONE. 7(9). e46074–e46074. 59 indexed citations
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Ward, David, Kerstin Wiegand, & Stephan Getzin. (2012). Walter’s two-layer hypothesis revisited: back to the roots!. Oecologia. 172(3). 617–630. 184 indexed citations
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Wiegand, Thorsten, Andreas Huth, Stephan Getzin, et al.. (2012). Testing the independent species’ arrangement assertion made by theories of stochastic geometry of biodiversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 279(1741). 3312–3320. 81 indexed citations
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Getzin, Stephan, Kerstin Wiegand, & Ingo Schöning. (2011). Assessing biodiversity in forests using very high‐resolution images and unmanned aerial vehicles. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 3(2). 397–404. 238 indexed citations
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Getzin, Stephan. (2005). The suitability of the degradation gradient method in arid Namibia. African Journal of Ecology. 43(4). 340–351. 11 indexed citations
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Getzin, Stephan, et al.. (2000). The fairy circles of Kaokoland (North-West Namibia) origin, distribution, and characteristics. Basic and Applied Ecology. 1(2). 149–159. 43 indexed citations

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