Uta Berger

16.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
138 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Uta Berger is a scholar working on Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Uta Berger has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Ecology, 48 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 48 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Uta Berger's work include Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (61 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (40 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (16 papers). Uta Berger is often cited by papers focused on Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (61 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (40 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (16 papers). Uta Berger collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Uta Berger's co-authors include Volker Grimm, Steven F. Railsback, Donald L. DeAngelis, Jarl Giske, Gary Polhill, Hanno Hildenbrandt, Florian Jeltsch, Jacob Weiner, Thorsten Wiegand and Wolf M. Mooij and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Uta Berger

130 papers receiving 7.5k citations

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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 ODD protocol: A review and first update

2010 1.7k citations Volker Grimm, Uta Berger et al. Ecological Modelling profile →
Pattern-Oriented Modeling of Agent-Based Complex Systems: Lessons from Ecology

2005 1.5k citations Volker Grimm, Uta Berger et al. profile →
The ODD Protocol for Describing Agent-Based and Other Simulation Models: A Second Update to Improve Clarity, Replication, and Structural Realism

2020 502 citations Volker Grimm, Uta Berger et al. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Uta Berger Germany	34	3.1k	2.2k	2.0k	1.0k	829	138	7.8k
Edzer Pebesma Germany	42	4.0k 1.3×	3.8k 1.7×	1.9k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	804 1.0×	152	14.0k
Wolf M. Mooij Netherlands	50	3.7k 1.2×	2.0k 0.9×	2.2k 1.1×	845 0.8×	360 0.4×	143	8.9k
Steven F. Railsback United States	32	3.1k 1.0×	2.5k 1.1×	2.9k 1.4×	1.2k 1.2×	288 0.3×	102	9.4k
Roger Bivand Norway	29	3.8k 1.2×	2.7k 1.2×	2.9k 1.4×	1.6k 1.6×	763 0.9×	84	11.3k
Michael C. Runge United States	46	4.0k 1.3×	2.5k 1.2×	2.3k 1.1×	1.4k 1.4×	786 0.9×	191	7.9k
Craig R. Allen United States	49	2.8k 0.9×	4.3k 2.0×	2.2k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	393 0.5×	222	8.9k
Carsten M. Buchmann Germany	13	3.5k 1.1×	2.2k 1.0×	2.4k 1.2×	1.5k 1.4×	531 0.6×	22	8.7k
Jon Norberg Sweden	32	3.3k 1.1×	5.4k 2.5×	1.9k 0.9×	1.4k 1.3×	562 0.7×	49	11.4k
John M. Drake United States	47	3.0k 1.0×	2.0k 0.9×	1.6k 0.8×	1.4k 1.4×	852 1.0×	209	15.4k
Ralf Seppelt Germany	53	1.8k 0.6×	6.0k 2.8×	1.2k 0.6×	1.0k 1.0×	836 1.0×	147	10.1k

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Peters, Ronny, et al.. (2025). Modelling the dynamics of soil moisture and soil water salinity in tropical saltmarshes. Ecological Modelling. 504. 111089–111089. 1 indexed citations

Filatova, Tatiana, Martijn Warnier, Amineh Ghorbani, et al.. (2025). AGENTBLOCKS: A Community Platform for Sharing, Comparing, and Improving Reusable Building Blocks for (Agent-Based) Models. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 28(4).

Berger, Uta, et al.. (2024). How root-grafted trees form networks: Modeling network dynamics with pyNET. Ecological Modelling. 498. 110916–110916. 1 indexed citations

Berger, Uta, et al.. (2024). Beyond guides, protocols and acronyms: Adoption of good modelling practices depends on challenging academia's status quo in ecology. Ecological Modelling. 496. 110829–110829. 1 indexed citations

Grimm, Volker, Uta Berger, Matthias Meyer, & Iris Lorscheid. (2024). Theory for and from agent-based modelling: Insights from a virtual special issue and a vision. Environmental Modelling & Software. 178. 106088–106088. 3 indexed citations

DeAngelis, Donald L., et al.. (2024). Global potential distribution of mangroves: Taking into account salt marsh interactions along latitudinal gradients. Journal of Environmental Management. 351. 119892–119892. 7 indexed citations

Berger, Uta, et al.. (2024). Are Thai mangrove managers aware of the potential threat posed by sea level rise?. Ocean & Coastal Management. 256. 107298–107298.

Jeltsch, Florian, et al.. (2023). Small‐scale heterogeneity shapes grassland diversity in low‐to‐intermediate resource environments. Journal of Vegetation Science. 34(4). 3 indexed citations

Berger, Uta, et al.. (2023). Multi‐trait point pattern reconstruction of plant ecosystems. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(10). 2668–2679. 2 indexed citations

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Ryabov, Alexey, Uta Berger, Bernd Blasius, & Bettina Meyer. (2023). Driving forces of Antarctic krill abundance. Science Advances. 9(50). eadh4584–eadh4584. 6 indexed citations

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Krauss, Ken W., Catherine E. Lovelock, Luzhen Chen, et al.. (2022). Mangroves provide blue carbon ecological value at a low freshwater cost. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 17636–17636. 20 indexed citations

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Puangchit, Ladawan, et al.. (2022). Aerial surveys reveal biotic drivers of mangrove expansion along a Thai salt flat ecotone. Restoration Ecology. 30(8). 2 indexed citations

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Berger, Uta, et al.. (2022). Nonparametric upscaling of bark beetle infestations and management from plot to landscape level by combining individual-based with Markov chain models. European Journal of Forest Research. 142(1). 129–144. 5 indexed citations

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Peters, Ronny, et al.. (2021). Plant–soil feedbacks in mangrove ecosystems: establishing links between empirical and modelling studies. Trees. 35(5). 1423–1438. 14 indexed citations

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Peters, Ronny, et al.. (2021). Modelling mangrove forest structure and species composition over tidal inundation gradients: The feedback between plant water use and porewater salinity in an arid mangrove ecosystem. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 308-309. 108547–108547. 23 indexed citations

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Peters, Ronny, et al.. (2018). A new mechanistic theory of self-thinning: Adaptive behaviour of plants explains the shape and slope of self-thinning trajectories. Ecological Modelling. 390. 1–9. 15 indexed citations

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Vogt, Juliane, et al.. (2017). Density-dependent shift from facilitation to competition in a dwarf Avicennia germinans forest. Wetlands Ecology and Management. 26(2). 139–150. 17 indexed citations

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Khan, Mohammad Nuruzzaman, Nico Koedam, Uta Berger, et al.. (2012). Testing mangrove forest structure development and various forest management options in Gazi (Kenya) by combining KiWi individual-based modelling with >20 years of field data. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 57. 89. 1 indexed citations

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Koedam, Nico, Karline Soetaert, Griet Neukermans, et al.. (2009). Impact of anthropogenic disturbance on a mangrove forest assessed by a 1D-cellular automaton model using Lotka-Volterra type competition. International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics. 3(4). 296–320. 2 indexed citations

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Berger, Uta, et al.. (1999). Ein neuer Felsbildfund im Wadi Hamra (Gilf Kebir, Ägypten). 203–220. 1 indexed citations

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