Prof. Dr. Kurt Jax
Contact/Address
Prof. Dr. Kurt Jax
Department of Conservation Biology
Helmholtz-Centre for
Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
D-04318 Leipzig, Germany
Tel: ++49-341 235 1648
Fax: ++49-341 235 3191
kurt.jax@ufz.de
New books (coming fall 2010):
Projects
Teaching
Recent publications
BERGHÖFER, U., ROZZI, R. & K. JAX (2010): Many eyes on nature – diverse perspectives in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve and their relevance for conservation. - Ecology and Society 15(1): 18. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss1/art18/.
SCHÜTTLER, E. IBARRA, J. T., GRUBER, B., ROZZI, R. & JAX, K. (2010): Abundance and habitat preferences of the southernmost population of American mink: implications for managing a recent island invasion. - Biodiversity and Conservation 19, 725-743.
WERNER, R., JAX, K. & BÖHMER, H. (2009): Vegetationsdynamik verlandeter Biberteiche auf der Insel Navarino (Feuerland-Archipel, Chile). - Tuexenia 29, 277-296.
SCHÜTTLER, E., KLENKE, R, McGEHEE, S., ROZZI, R. & K. JAX (2009): Vulnerability of ground-nesting waterbirds to predation by invasive American mink in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, Chile. - Biological Conservation 142, 1450-1460.
SEPPELT, R, KÜHN, I., KLOTZ, S., KABISCH, S., SCHLOTER, M., GÖRG, C., FRANK, K., AUGE, H. & K. JAX (2009): Land Use Options – Strategies and Adaptation to Global Change. Terrestrial Environmental Research - Gaia 18 (1), 77-80.
JAX, K. (2009): Ecosystems, in: CALLICOTT, B.J. & R. FRODEMAN (Hrsg.), Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy. - Farmington Hills, MI (MacMillan Reference USA). Vol. 1, pp. 251-255.
BERGHÖFER, U., ROZZI, R. & K. JAX (2008): Diversity of perspectives on nature at the world’s southernmost town. - Environmental Ethics 30, 273-294.
JAX, K. & R. ROZZI (2008): Ecological theory and values in the determination of conservation goals: examples from the temperate regions of Germany, USA and Chile, in: NELSON, M. P. & J. B. CALLICOTT (eds.), The wilderness debate rages on. - University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, pp. 664-691.
JAX, K. (2008): Concepts, not terms. - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6 (4), 178-179. [Letter to the editor].
JAX, K. (2007): Can we define ecosystems? On the confusion between definition and description of ecological concepts. - Acta Biotheoretica 55, 341-355.
HAIDER, S & JAX, K. (2007): The application of environmental ethics in biological conservation: a case study from the southernmost tip of the Americas. - Biodiversity and Conservation 16, 2559-2573.
GRIMM, V., R. STILLMAN, K. JAX & J. GOSS-CUSTARD, J. (2007). Modeling adaptive behavior in event-driven environments: temporally explicit Individual-based Ecology. - In: BISSONETTE, J. A. & I. STORCH, I. (eds.): Temporal dimensions of landscape ecology: Wildlife responses to variable resources, Springer, New York, pp. 59-77.
BRAND, F & K. JAX (2007): Focussing the meaning(s) of resilience: resilience as a descriptive concept and a boundary object. - Ecology and Society, 12(1): 23. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/art23/
NEßHÖVER, C., S. BECK, W. BORN, S. DZIOCK, C. GÖRG, B. HANSJÜRGENS, K. JAX, W. KÖCK, F. RAUSCHMAYER, I. RING, K. SCHMIDT-LOSKE, H. UNNERSTALL, H. WITTMER & K. HENLE (2007): Das Millennium Ecosystem Assessment - Eine deutsche Perspektive. - Natur und Landschaft 6/2007, 262-267.
JAX, K. (2006): Ecological units: definitions and application. - Quarterly Review in Biology 81(3), 237-258.
JAX, K. (2005): Function and "functioning" in ecology: what does it mean? - Oikos 111, 641-648.
JAX, K. & R. ROZZI (2004): Ecological theory and values in the determination of conservation goals: examples from the temperate regions of Germany, USA and Chile. - Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 77, 349-366.
