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51
Citations
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4681
National Ranking
322

Overview

Peter Schall is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, focusing on various subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Insect Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research interests are reflected in the main topics of their work, which include Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Management and Policy, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Forest ecology and management, Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions, and Lichen and fungal ecology.

Peter Schall has contributed to several recent scientific papers, including:

  • Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Mapping forest tree species in high resolution UAV-based RGB-imagery by means of convolutional neural networks (2020), ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
  • Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Heterogeneity-diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests (2020), Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Plant species richness increases with light availability, but not variability, in temperate forests understorey (2020), BMC Ecology

Frequent co-authors in their research include Christian Ammer, Martin M. Goßner, Wolfgang W. Weisser, Inken Doerfler, and Steffen Boch.

Their work has been published in various scientific journals and platforms. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • European Journal of Forest Research
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Applied Ecology

Best Publications

  • Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

    Jingjing Liang;Thomas W. Crowther;Nicolas Picard;Susan Wiser

  • Arthropod decline in grasslands and forests is associated with landscape-level drivers

    Sebastian Seibold;Martin M. Gossner;Nadja K. Simons;Nadja K. Simons;Nico Blüthgen

  • Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities

    Martin M. Gossner;Martin M. Gossner;Thomas M. Lewinsohn;Thomas M. Lewinsohn;Tiemo Kahl;Fabrice Grassein

  • Adaptive forest management in central Europe: Climate change impacts, strategies and integrative concept

    Andreas Bolte;Christian Ammer;Magnus Löf;Palle Madsen

  • Interannual variation in land-use intensity enhances grassland multidiversity.

    Eric Allan;Oliver Bossdorf;Oliver Bossdorf;Carsten F. Dormann;Daniel Prati

  • Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services.

    María R. Felipe-Lucia;Santiago Soliveres;Caterina Penone;Markus Fischer

  • Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential

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  • Mapping forest tree species in high resolution UAV-based RGB-imagery by means of convolutional neural networks

    Felix Schiefer;Teja Kattenborn;Teja Kattenborn;Annett Frick;Julian Frey

  • Multiple forest attributes underpin the supply of multiple ecosystem services

    María R. Felipe-Lucia;Santiago Soliveres;Santiago Soliveres;Caterina Penone;Peter Manning

  • The impact of even‐aged and uneven‐aged forest management on regional biodiversity of multiple taxa in European beech forests

    Peter Schall;Martin M. Gossner;Steffi Heinrichs;Markus Fischer

  • Quantifying stand structural complexity and its relationship with forest management, tree species diversity and microclimate

    Martin Ehbrecht;Peter Schall;Christian Ammer;Dominik Seidel

  • Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia.

    Constantin M. Zohner;Lidong Mo;Susanne S. Renner;Jens-Christian Svenning

  • Heterogeneity–diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests

    Lea Heidrich;Soyeon Bae;Shaun Levick;Sebastian Seibold;Sebastian Seibold

  • Site-adapted admixed tree species reduce drought susceptibility of mature European beech.

    Jérôme Metz;Peter Annighöfer;Peter Schall;Jorma Zimmermann

  • How to quantify forest management intensity in Central European forests

    Peter Schall;Christian Ammer

  • Crown modeling by terrestrial laser scanning as an approach to assess the effect of aboveground intra- and interspecific competition on tree growth

    Jérôme Metz;Dominik Seidel;Peter Schall;Dina Scheffer

  • Biomass allocation to roots and shoots is more sensitive to shade and drought in European beech than in Norway spruce seedlings

    Peter Schall;Christina Lödige;Michael Beck;Christian Ammer

  • Specialisation and diversity of multiple trophic groups are promoted by different forest features

    Caterina Penone;Eric Allan;Santiago Soliveres;María R Felipe‐Lucia

  • Plant species richness increases with light availability, but not variability, in temperate forests understorey.

    Carsten F. Dormann;Maurizio Bagnara;Steffen Boch;Judith Hinderling

  • Co-limitation towards lower latitudes shapes global forest diversity gradients

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  • Deadwood enrichment in European forests – Which tree species should be used to promote saproxylic beetle diversity?

    Martin M. Gossner;Beate Wende;Shaun R. Levick;Peter Schall

  • Relations between forest management, stand structure and productivity across different types of Central European forests

    Peter Schall;Ernst Detlef Schulze;Markus Fischer;Manfred Ayasse

  • Radar vision in the mapping of forest biodiversity from space

    Soyeon Bae;Shaun R. Levick;Shaun R. Levick;Lea Heidrich;Paul Magdon

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Ammer
Christian Ammer University of Göttingen
Markus Fischer
Markus Fischer University of Bern
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Wolfgang W. Weisser
Wolfgang W. Weisser Technical University of Munich
Steffen Boch
Steffen Boch Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Jörg Müller
Jörg Müller Heinz Sielmann Foundation
Sebastian Seibold
Sebastian Seibold Technical University of Munich
Dominik Seidel
Dominik Seidel University of Göttingen
Kirsten Jung
Kirsten Jung Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

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