Zander S. Venter

5.9k total citations · 8 hit papers
49 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Zander S. Venter is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Zander S. Venter has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 19 papers in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis and 14 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Zander S. Venter's work include Land Use and Ecosystem Services (17 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (17 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (11 papers). Zander S. Venter is often cited by papers focused on Land Use and Ecosystem Services (17 papers), Urban Green Space and Health (17 papers) and Urban Heat Island Mitigation (11 papers). Zander S. Venter collaborates with scholars based in Norway, South Africa and United States. Zander S. Venter's co-authors include David N. Barton, Heidi‐Jayne Hawkins, Vegard Gundersen, Kristin Aunan, Sourangsu Chowdhury, Jos Lelieveld, Helene Figari, Megan Nowell, Michael D. Cramer and TC Chakraborty and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Zander S. Venter

47 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

COVID-19 lockdowns cause global air pollution declines

2020 661 citations Zander S. Venter, Kristin Aunan et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Urban nature in a time of crisis: recreational use of green space increases during the COVID-19 outbreak in Oslo, Norway

2020 564 citations Zander S. Venter, David N. Barton et al. profile →
The impact of crop rotation on soil microbial diversity: A meta-analysis

2016 326 citations Zander S. Venter, Heidi‐Jayne Hawkins et al. profile →
Drivers of woody plant encroachment over Africa

2018 244 citations Zander S. Venter, Michael D. Cramer et al. Nature Communications profile →
Crowdsourced air temperatures contrast satellite measures of the urban heat island and its mechanisms

2021 211 citations Zander S. Venter, TC Chakraborty et al. profile →
Back to nature: Norwegians sustain increased recreational use of urban green space months after the COVID-19 outbreak

2021 204 citations Zander S. Venter, David N. Barton et al. Landscape and Urban Planning profile →
Global 10 m Land Use Land Cover Datasets: A Comparison of Dynamic World, World Cover and Esri Land Cover

2022 186 citations Zander S. Venter, David N. Barton et al. Remote Sensing profile →
Reassessing the role of urban green space in air pollution control

2024 76 citations Zander S. Venter et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Citations

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zander S. Venter

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Assessing recreationists’ preferences of the landscape and species using crowdsourced images and machine learning 2025 ·Landscape and Urban Planning ·(unknown), Johannes Hermes, (unknown), Zander S. Venter, (unknown), (unknown), Sandro Bimonte, Nathan Fox	4
2	Darkening nights and rooftop solar adoption under South Africa’s electricity crisis: geographies of the energy apartheid 2025 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Zander S. Venter, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	0
3	Children’s and Adolescents’ Use of Nature During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Very Green Country 2024 ·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ·Vegard Gundersen, Zander S. Venter, Line Camilla Wold, (unknown), (unknown)	1
4	Climatic conditions and landscape diversity predict plant–bee interactions and pollen deposition in bee‐pollinated plants 2024 ·Ecography ·(unknown), Yoko Luise Dupont, Anders Nielsen, Jens M. Olesen, (unknown), (unknown), Claus Rasmussen, Megan Nowell, Zander S. Venter, Stein Joar Hegland, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Katrine Eldegard, Trond Reitan, Graciela M. Rusch	1
5	Uncertainty quantification for probabilistic machine learning in earth observation using conformal prediction 2024 ·Scientific Reports ·Geethen Singh, Glenn R. Moncrieff, Zander S. Venter, Kerry Cawse‐Nicholson, Jasper A. Slingsby, Tamara B. Robinson	13
6	Large disagreements in estimates of urban land across scales and their implications 2024 ·Nature Communications ·TC Chakraborty, Zander S. Venter, Matthias Demuzere, (unknown), Jing Gao, Lei Zhao, Yun Qian	19
7	The contributions of flower strips to wild bee conservation in agricultural landscapes can be predicted using pollinator habitat suitability models 2023 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·(unknown), Zander S. Venter, Katrine Eldegard, (unknown), Megan Nowell, (unknown), (unknown), Yoko Luise Dupont, Claus Rasmussen, (unknown), Graciela M. Rusch	6
8	Comparing Global Sentinel-2 Land Cover Maps for Regional Species Distribution Modeling 2023 ·Remote Sensing ·Zander S. Venter, Ruben E. Roos, Megan Nowell, Graciela M. Rusch, Gunnar Mikalsen Kvifte, (unknown)	5
9	Increased nationwide use of green spaces in Norway during the COVID-19 pandemic 2023 ·Environment International ·(unknown), Zander S. Venter, (unknown), Emma Charlott Andersson Nordbø, Tilmann von Soest	12
10	Delineation of Wetland Areas in South Norway from Sentinel-2 Imagery and LiDAR Using TensorFlow, U-Net, and Google Earth Engine 2023 ·Remote Sensing ·Vegar Bakkestuen, Zander S. Venter, (unknown), Erik Framstad	5
11	Lower Urban Humidity Moderates Outdoor Heat Stress 2022 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·TC Chakraborty, Zander S. Venter, Yun Qian, Xuhui Lee	97
12	Environmental justice in a very green city: Spatial inequality in exposure to urban nature, air pollution and heat in Oslo, Norway 2022 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Zander S. Venter, Helene Figari, Olve Krange, Vegard Gundersen	72
13	MetaComNet: A random forest‐based framework for making spatial predictions of plant–pollinator interactions 2021 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·(unknown), Zander S. Venter, Trond Reitan, Claus Rasmussen, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Stein Joar Hegland, Yoko Luise Dupont, Anders Nielsen, Joseph Chipperfield, Graciela M. Rusch	9
14	Mapping soil organic carbon stocks and trends with satellite-driven high resolution maps over South Africa 2021 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Zander S. Venter, Heidi‐Jayne Hawkins, Michael D. Cramer, Anthony Mills	81
15	COVID-19 lockdowns cause global air pollution declines breakdown → 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Zander S. Venter, Kristin Aunan, Sourangsu Chowdhury, Jos Lelieveld	661
16	Urban nature in a time of crisis: recreational use of green space increases during the COVID-19 outbreak in Oslo, Norway 2020 ·Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo) ·Zander S. Venter, David N. Barton, Vegard Gundersen, Helene Figari, Megan Nowell	58
17	Air pollution declines during COVID-19 lockdowns mitigate the global health burden 2020 ·Environmental Research ·Zander S. Venter, Kristin Aunan, Sourangsu Chowdhury, Jos Lelieveld	80
18	Application of Landsat-derived vegetation trends over South Africa: Potential for monitoring land degradation and restoration 2020 ·Ecological Indicators ·Zander S. Venter, (unknown), Philip Desmet, M. Timm Hoffman	49
19	Linking green infrastructure to urban heat and human health risk mitigation in Oslo, Norway 2019 ·The Science of The Total Environment ·Zander S. Venter, Norun Hjertager Krog, David N. Barton	134
20	Drivers of woody plant encroachment over Africa breakdown → 2018 ·Nature Communications ·Zander S. Venter, Michael D. Cramer, Heidi‐Jayne Hawkins	244

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