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Christoph Plutzar

Christoph Plutzar

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
36
Citations
11672
World Ranking
7000
National Ranking
55

Overview

Christoph Plutzar is affiliated with BOKU University in Austria. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a significant number of publications addressing Global and Planetary Change.

Their work spans various closely related subfields, including Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Molecular Biology, and Ecological Modeling. This interdisciplinary approach supports their exploration of complex environmental systems and dynamics.

Plutzar's main topics of research cover:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Phytochemical Studies and Bioactivities
  • Natural product bioactivities and synthesis

The scientist has contributed to several frequent publication venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature
  • Nature Communications
  • Global Change Biology
  • Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Some recent papers by Christoph Plutzar include:

  • Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration, 2020, Nature
  • Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth, 2020, Conservation Letters
  • Relative effects of land conversion and land-use intensity on terrestrial vertebrate diversity, 2022, Nature Communications
  • High-Resolution Maps of Material Stocks in Buildings and Infrastructures in Austria and Germany, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Scientists' warning of threats to mountains, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent co-authors in their research include Karl-Heinz Erb, Helmut Haberl, Thomas Kästner, Sarah Matej, and Fridolin Krausmann, indicating a collaborative network that supports cross-disciplinary environmental studies. Both Karl-Heinz Erb and Helmut Haberl have coauthored with Plutzar on at least twenty occasions, suggesting sustained research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Quantifying and mapping the human appropriation of net primary production in earth's terrestrial ecosystems

    Helmut Haberl;K. Heinz Erb;Fridolin Krausmann;Veronika Gaube

  • Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

    Bernardo B. N. Strassburg;Alvaro Iribarrem;Alvaro Iribarrem;Hawthorne L. Beyer;Carlos Leandro Cordeiro;Carlos Leandro Cordeiro

  • EXIOBASE 3: Developing a Time Series of Detailed Environmentally Extended Multi-Regional Input-Output Tables

    Konstantin Stadler;Richard Wood;Tatyana Bulavskaya;Carl-Johan Sodersten

  • Extinction debt of high-mountain plants under twenty-first-century climate change

    Stefan Dullinger;Andreas Gattringer;Wilfried Thuiller;Dietmar Moser

  • Global human appropriation of net primary production doubled in the 20th century

    Fridolin Krausmann;Karl-Heinz Erb;Simone Gingrich;Helmut Haberl

  • Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass

    Karl Heinz Erb;Thomas Kastner;Christoph Plutzar;Christoph Plutzar;Anna Liza S. Bais

  • Increasing impacts of land use on biodiversity and carbon sequestration driven by population and economic growth

    Alexandra Marques;Alexandra Marques;Inês S Martins;Thomas Kastner;Christoph Plutzar;Christoph Plutzar

  • Challenges and opportunities in mapping land use intensity globally

    Tobias Kuemmerle;Tobias Kuemmerle;Karlheinz Erb;Patrick Meyfroidt;Daniel Müller;Daniel Müller

  • Landscape patch shape complexity as an effective measure for plant species richness in rural landscapes

    Dietmar Moser;Harald G. Zechmeister;Christoph Plutzar;Norbert Sauberer

  • A comprehensive global 5 min resolution land-use data set for the year 2000 consistent with national census data

    Karl-Heinz Erb;Veronika Gaube;Fridolin Krausmann;Christoph Plutzar

  • Hotspots of land use change in Europe

    Tobias Kuemmerle;Christian Levers;Karlheinz Erb;Stephan Estel;Stephan Estel

  • Global bioenergy potentials from agricultural land in 2050: Sensitivity to climate change, diets and yields

    Helmut Haberl;Karl-Heinz Erb;Fridolin Krausmann;Alberte Bondeau

  • Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth

    Iago Otero;Iago Otero;Katharine N. Farrell;Katharine N. Farrell;Salvador Pueyo;Giorgos Kallis

  • Archetypical patterns and trajectories of land systems in Europe

    Christian Levers;Daniel Müller;Daniel Müller;Karlheinz Erb;Helmut Haberl;Helmut Haberl

  • Surrogate taxa for biodiversity in agricultural landscapes of eastern Austria

    Norbert Sauberer;Klaus Peter Zulka;Max Abensperg-Traun;Hans-Martin Berg

  • Human appropriation of net primary production and species diversity in agricultural landscapes

    Helmut Haberl;Niels B. Schulz;Christoph Plutzar;Karl Heinz Erb

  • Environmental determinants of vascular plant species richness in the Austrian Alps

    Dietmar Moser;Stefan Dullinger;Thorsten Englisch;Harald Niklfeld

  • Dependency of global primary bioenergy crop potentials in 2050 on food systems, yields, biodiversity conservation and political stability

    Karl-Heinz Erb;Helmut Haberl;Christoph Plutzar

  • Relative effects of land conversion and land-use intensity on terrestrial vertebrate diversity

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  • Evaluating the ecological sustainability of Austrian agricultural landscapes—the SINUS approach

    Johannes Peterseil;Thomas Wrbka;Christoph Plutzar;Ingrid Schmitzberger

  • Biomass turnover time in terrestrial ecosystems halved by land use

    Karl-Heinz Erb;Tamara Fetzel;Christoph Plutzar;Christoph Plutzar;Thomas Kastner

Frequent Co-Authors

Helmut Haberl
Helmut Haberl BOKU University
Karl-Heinz Erb
Karl-Heinz Erb BOKU University
Fridolin Krausmann
Fridolin Krausmann BOKU University
Dietmar Moser
Dietmar Moser University of Vienna
Simone Gingrich
Simone Gingrich BOKU University
Daniel Müller
Daniel Müller Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Stefan Dullinger
Stefan Dullinger University of Vienna
Tobias Kuemmerle
Tobias Kuemmerle Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Wolfgang Willner
Wolfgang Willner University of Vienna
Franz Essl
Franz Essl University of Vienna

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