Werner Rammer

8.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Werner Rammer is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Werner Rammer has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 52 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 29 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Werner Rammer's work include Forest Management and Policy (49 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (34 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (28 papers). Werner Rammer is often cited by papers focused on Forest Management and Policy (49 papers), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (34 papers) and Fire effects on ecosystems (28 papers). Werner Rammer collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and United States. Werner Rammer's co-authors include Rupert Seidl, Manfred J. Lexer, Mart‐Jan Schelhaas, Pieter Johannes Verkerk, Dominik Thom, Thomas A. Spies, Katharina Albrich, Dietmar Jäger, Monica G. Turner and Kristin H. Braziunas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Ecology and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Werner Rammer

86 papers receiving 5.3k 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.

Increasing forest disturbances in Europe and their impact on carbon storage

2014 857 citations Rupert Seidl, Werner Rammer et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Werner Rammer Austria	42	3.9k	2.7k	1.6k	1.3k	667	87	5.4k
Giorgio Vacchiano Italy	32	3.2k 0.8×	2.5k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	872 0.7×	1.0k 1.6×	100	5.0k
William S. Keeton United States	36	3.2k 0.8×	2.6k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	1.6k 1.3×	435 0.7×	85	5.2k
Mart‐Jan Schelhaas Netherlands	35	4.8k 1.2×	3.6k 1.3×	1.8k 1.1×	1.6k 1.2×	923 1.4×	112	7.1k
Anthony W. D’Amato United States	41	4.9k 1.2×	3.5k 1.3×	1.7k 1.1×	1.8k 1.4×	1.2k 1.7×	237	6.7k
Daniel Kneeshaw Canada	45	4.5k 1.1×	3.7k 1.3×	1.6k 1.0×	1.9k 1.5×	1.0k 1.5×	167	6.4k
Dominik Thom Germany	24	2.7k 0.7×	1.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	853 0.7×	599 0.9×	51	3.8k
Anna Barbati Italy	30	3.4k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	727 0.6×	630 0.9×	79	4.7k
G.M.J. Mohren Netherlands	38	3.6k 0.9×	3.0k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	604 0.5×	885 1.3×	141	5.7k
Thomas A. Nagel Slovenia	28	2.5k 0.6×	2.3k 0.9×	999 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	947 1.4×	57	4.1k
Mikko Peltoniemi Finland	29	2.6k 0.7×	1.6k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	657 1.0×	107	4.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Werner Rammer

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Braziunas, Kristin H., Werner Rammer, Pieter De Frenne, et al.. (2025). Microclimate temperature effects propagate across scales in forest ecosystems. Landscape Ecology. 40(2). 37–37. 4 indexed citations

Tasser, Erich, et al.. (2025). Future expansion of upper forest-grassland ecotone under land-use and climate change in the Eastern Alps. Landscape Ecology. 40(3). 1 indexed citations

Wessely, Johannes, Franz Essl, Konrad Fiedler, et al.. (2024). A climate-induced tree species bottleneck for forest management in Europe. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(6). 1109–1117. 33 indexed citations

Seidl, Rupert, Mária Potterf, Jörg Müller, Monica G. Turner, & Werner Rammer. (2024). Patterns of early post-disturbance reorganization in Central European forests. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2031). 20240625–20240625. 6 indexed citations

Rammer, Werner, et al.. (2023). Climate change accelerates ecosystem restoration in the mountain forests of Central Europe. Journal of Applied Ecology. 60(12). 2665–2675. 17 indexed citations

Hansen, Winslow D., Adrianna Foster, Benjamin V. Gaglioti, Rupert Seidl, & Werner Rammer. (2023). The Permafrost and Organic LayEr module for Forest Models (POLE-FM) 1.0. Geoscientific model development. 16(7). 2011–2036. 3 indexed citations

Thom, Dominik, Werner Rammer, Patrick Laux, et al.. (2022). Will forest dynamics continue to accelerate throughout the 21st century in the Northern Alps?. Global Change Biology. 28(10). 3260–3274. 29 indexed citations

Albrich, Katharina, Rupert Seidl, Werner Rammer, & Dominik Thom. (2022). From sink to source: changing climate and disturbance regimes could tip the 21st century carbon balance of an unmanaged mountain forest landscape. Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research. 96(3). 399–409. 29 indexed citations

Albrich, Katharina, Dominik Thom, Werner Rammer, & Rupert Seidl. (2021). The long way back: Development of Central European mountain forests towards old‐growth conditions after cessation of management. Journal of Vegetation Science. 32(4). 20 indexed citations

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Honkaniemi, Juha, Werner Rammer, & Rupert Seidl. (2021). From mycelia to mastodons – A general approach for simulating biotic disturbances in forest ecosystems. Environmental Modelling & Software. 138. 104977–104977. 9 indexed citations

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Sommerfeld, Andreas, Werner Rammer, Marco Heurich, et al.. (2020). Do bark beetle outbreaks amplify or dampen future bark beetle disturbances in Central Europe?. Journal of Ecology. 109(2). 737–749. 80 indexed citations

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Albrich, Katharina, Werner Rammer, Monica G. Turner, et al.. (2020). Simulating forest resilience: A review. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29(12). 2082–2096. 78 indexed citations

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Honkaniemi, Juha, Werner Rammer, & Rupert Seidl. (2020). Norway spruce at the trailing edge: the effect of landscape configuration and composition on climate resilience. Landscape Ecology. 35(3). 591–606. 65 indexed citations

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Albrich, Katharina, Werner Rammer, & Rupert Seidl. (2020). Climate change causes critical transitions and irreversible alterations of mountain forests. Global Change Biology. 26(7). 4013–4027. 162 indexed citations

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Seidl, Rupert, Günther Klonner, Werner Rammer, et al.. (2018). Invasive alien pests threaten the carbon stored in Europe’s forests. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1626–1626. 93 indexed citations

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Kalt, Gerald, Martin Baumann, Christian Lauk, et al.. (2016). Transformation scenarios towards a low-carbon bioeconomy in Austria. Energy Strategy Reviews. 13-14. 125–133. 27 indexed citations

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Rammer, Werner, et al.. (2015). Evaluating the effects of forest management on rockfall protection and timber production at slope scale. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. 30(8). 719–731. 29 indexed citations

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Seidl, Rupert, Filip Aggestam, Werner Rammer, Kristina Blennow, & Bernhard Wolfslehner. (2015). The sensitivity of current and future forest managers to climate-induced changes in ecological processes. AMBIO. 45(4). 430–441. 41 indexed citations

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Scherhaufer, Patrick, et al.. (2012). Partizipation und Stakeholder-Beteiligung in der Pilotregion Mostviertel: WP3 Synthesebericht. Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences). 49. 1 indexed citations

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Seidl, Rupert, Werner Rammer, & Manfred J. Lexer. (2009). Estimating soil properties and parameters for forest ecosystem simulation based on large scale forest inventories.. 180. 35–44. 19 indexed citations

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