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D-Index
66
Citations
17569
World Ranking
1671
National Ranking
97

Ralf Seppelt publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ralf Seppelt sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 208 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Ralf Seppelt D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ralf Seppelt sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Ralf Seppelt is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work encompasses several interconnected subfields, notably Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Plant Science.

The research topics covered by Ralf Seppelt focus on Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Plant and Animal Studies, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Sustainability and Climate Change Governance, as well as Insect-Plant Interactions and Control.

The scientist frequently collaborates with colleagues such as Michael Beckmann, Josef Settele, Lukas Egli, Lucas A. Garibaldi, and Matthias Schröter, reflecting a consistent co-authorship network in their publications.

Ralf Seppelt has contributed to multiple notable publication venues. Among these, the most frequent include Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, One Earth, and Environmental Research Letters.

Their recent publications demonstrate engagement with sustainability and food security issues as well as governance and biodiversity topics. Recent papers include:

  • "Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability," 2020, People and Nature
  • "Advancing understanding of natural resource governance: a post-Ostrom research agenda," 2020, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • "Modelling food security: Bridging the gap between the micro and the macro scale," 2020, Global Environmental Change
  • "Deciphering the Biodiversity-Production Mutualism in the Global Food Security Debate," 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Research priorities for global food security under extreme events," 2022, One Earth

Best Publications

  • Position paper: Characterising performance of environmental models

    Neil D. Bennett;Barry F. W. Croke;Giorgio Guariso;Joseph H. A. Guillaume

  • A quantitative review of ecosystem service studies: approaches, shortcomings and the road ahead

    Ralf Seppelt;Carsten F. Dormann;Florian V. Eppink;Sven Lautenbach

  • Linking biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being: three challenges for designing research for sustainability

    Elena M. Bennett;Wolfgang Cramer;Alpina Begossi;Georgina Cundill

  • Global impacts of future cropland expansion and intensification on agricultural markets and biodiversity

    Florian Zabel;Ruth Delzeit;Julia M. Schneider;Ralf Seppelt;Ralf Seppelt

  • Advancing sustainability through mainstreaming a social–ecological systems perspective

    Joern Fischer;Toby A Gardner;Elena M Bennett;Patricia Balvanera

  • Towards systematic analyses of ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies : Main concepts, methods and the road ahead

    Anna F. Cord;Bartosz Bartkowski;Michael Beckmann;Andreas Dittrich

  • Exploring indicators for quantifying surface urban heat islands of European cities with MODIS land surface temperatures

    Nina Schwarz;Sven Lautenbach;Ralf Seppelt;Ralf Seppelt

  • Spatial and Temporal Trends of Global Pollination Benefit

    Sven Lautenbach;Sven Lautenbach;Ralf Seppelt;Juliane Liebscher;Juliane Liebscher;Carsten F. Dormann;Carsten F. Dormann

  • Synergies, Trade-offs, and Losses of Ecosystem Services in Urban Regions: an Integrated Multiscale Framework Applied to the Leipzig-Halle Region, Germany

    Dagmar Haase;Nina Schwarz;Michael Strohbach;Franziska Kroll

  • Analysis of historic changes in regional ecosystem service provisioning using land use data

    Sven Lautenbach;Carolin Kugel;Angela Lausch;Ralf Seppelt

  • Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability

    Kai M. A. Chan;David R. Boyd;Rachelle K. Gould;Jens Jetzkowitz

  • Identifying trade-offs between ecosystem services, land use, and biodiversity: a plea for combining scenario analysis and optimization on different spatial scales

    Ralf Seppelt;Sven Lautenbach;Martin Volk

  • Solutions for sustaining natural capital and ecosystem services

    Benjamin Burkhard;Rudolf de Groot;Robert Costanza;Ralf Seppelt

  • Mapping global land system archetypes

    Tomáš Václavík;Sven Lautenbach;Sven Lautenbach;Tobias Kuemmerle;Tobias Kuemmerle;Ralf Seppelt;Ralf Seppelt

  • Conventional land-use intensification reduces species richness and increases production: A global meta-analysis.

    Michael Beckmann;Katharina Gerstner;Morodoluwa Akin-Fajiye;Silvia Ceaușu

  • Form follows function? Proposing a blueprint for ecosystem service assessments based on reviews and case studies

    R. Seppelt;R. Seppelt;B. Fath;B. Fath;B. Burkhard;Judith Fisher

  • Optimization methodology for land use patterns using spatially explicit landscape models

    Ralf Seppelt;Alexey Voinov

  • Multiscale scenarios for nature futures

    Isabel M. D. Rosa;Isabel M. D. Rosa;Henrique M. Pereira;Henrique M. Pereira;Henrique M. Pereira;Simon Ferrier;Rob Alkemade

  • Relationships Between Ecosystem Services: Comparing Methods for Assessing Tradeoffs and Synergies

    Améline Vallet;Améline Vallet;Améline Vallet;Bruno Locatelli;Bruno Locatelli;Harold Levrel;Sven Wunder

  • Analysis of pattern–process interactions based on landscape models—Overview, general concepts, and methodological issues

    B. Schröder;R. Seppelt

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Volk
Martin Volk Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Josef Settele
Josef Settele Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Stefan Klotz
Stefan Klotz Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Alexey Voinov
Alexey Voinov University of Twente
Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Anna F. Cord
Anna F. Cord Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Aletta Bonn
Aletta Bonn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Volker Grimm
Volker Grimm Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Carsten F. Dormann
Carsten F. Dormann University of Freiburg
Dagmar Haase
Dagmar Haase Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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