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Assistenz ab Mai 2023 Adrian Luft
Standort
ESA-Auszeichnung für Prof. Volker Grimm
Prof. Dr. Volker Grimm erhält den "Whittaker Distinguished Ecologist Award" der Ecological Society of America (ESA)
LISA PhD college
The new PhD college LISA explores multifunctional landscapes
in a model-based framework. Visit the LISA page for more details.
ECEM 2023 in Leipzig
"Ecological Modelling for Transformation"
Unter diesem Motto wird das UFZ vom 4. bis 8. September 2023 die Euopean Conference of Ecological Modelling (ECEM) ausrichten.
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OESA Seminare
3 November 2022, 11.00 a.m.
"Agricultural ecosystem services under climate changes – modelling grassland biodiversity"
Thibault Moulin
FU Berlin
4 May 2022, 10.00 a.m.
"Sylvatic yellow fever: development of an agent-based model to investigate the spread of yellow fever virus between fragmented landscapes"
Antonio Medeiros de Sousa
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
15 March 2022, 02.00 p.m.
"Alternative models for alternative futures: the scope for agent-based, social-ecological modelling of the land system"
Calum Brown
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Land Use Change & Climate Research Group
27 July 2021, 02.00 p.m.
Model-based extrapolation of epidemiological systems for future climate scenarios using the example of Ixodes ricinus ticks
Henning Nolzen
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Department Ecological Modelling (OESA)
Effects of Climate Change on German Forest Systems
Friedrich Bohn
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Department Ecological Modelling (OESA)
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New publication
Ecological-Economic Modelling for Biodiversity Conservation
Cambridge University Press
mit Martin Drechsler
Groups
POLISES
„Policy Instruments and Socio-Environmental Systems under Global Change”
www.polises.de
FORMIND
„FORMIND is an individual-based vegetation model that simulates the growth of species-rich forest”
www.formind.org
EcoEpi
„PG Ecological epidemiology - Model family addressing health crisis in populations”
www.ecoepi.eu
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Ausgewählte Publikationen
Alston, J.M., Fleming, C.H., Kays, R., Streicher, J.P., Downs, C.T., Ramesh, T., Reineking, B., Calabrese, J.M. (2023):Mitigating pseudoreplication and bias in resource selection functions with autocorrelation-informed weighting Methods Ecol. Evol. 14 (2), 643 - 654Volltext (DOI) Bartkowski, B., Schepanski, K., Bredenbeck, S., Müller, B. (2023):Wind erosion in European agricultural landscapes: More than physics People Nat. 5 (1), 34 - 44Volltext (DOI) de Koning, K., Broekhuijsen, J., Kühn, I., Ovaskainen, O., Taubert, F. , Endresen, D., Schigel, D., Grimm, V. (2023):Digital twins: dynamic model-data fusion for ecology Trends Ecol. Evol. Volltext (DOI) Fischer, S.M. , Ramazi, P., Simmons, S., Poesch, M.S., Lewis, M.A. (2023):Boosting propagule transport models with individual-specific data from mobile apps J. Appl. Ecol. 60 (5), 934 - 949Volltext (DOI) Forth, J.H., Calvelage, S., Fischer, M., Hellert, J., Sehl-Ewert, J., Roszyk, H., Deutschmann, P., Reichold, A. , Lange, M. , Thulke, H.-H. , Sauter-Louis, C., Höper, D., Mandyhra, S., Sapachova, M., Beer, M., Blome, S. (2023):African swine fever virus – variants on the rise Emerg. Microbes Infect. 12 (1), art. 2146537Volltext (DOI) Martinez-Garcia, R., Cabal, C., Calabrese, J.M. , Hernández-García, E., Tarnita, C.E., López, C., Bonachela, J.A. (2023):Integrating theory and experiments to link local mechanisms and ecosystem-level consequences of vegetation patterns in drylands Chaos Solitons Fractals 166 , art. 112881Volltext (DOI) Anderies, J.M., Cumming, G.S., Clements, H.S., Lade, S.J., Seppelt, R., Chawla, S., Müller, B. (2022):A framework for conceptualizing and modeling social-ecological systems for conservation research Biol. Conserv. 275 , art. 109769Volltext (DOI) Bahrami, B., Hildebrandt, A., Thober, S., Rebmann, C., Fischer, R. , Samaniego, L., Rakovec, O., Kumar, R. (2022):Developing a parsimonious canopy model (PCM v1.0) to predict forest gross primary productivity and leaf area index of deciduous broad-leaved forest Geosci. Model Dev. 15 (18), 6957 - 6984Volltext (DOI) Barton, C.M., Lee, A., Janssen, M.A., van der Leeuw, S., Tucker, G.E., Porter, C., Greenberg, J., Swantek, L., Frank, K. , Chen, M., Jagers, H.R.A. (2022):How to make models more useful Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 119 (35), e2202112119Volltext (DOI) Duncanson, L., Kellner, J.R., Armston, J., Dubayah, R., Minor, D.M., Hancock, S., Healey, S.P., Patterson, P.L., Saarela, S., Marselis, S., Silva, C.E., Bruening, J., Goetz, S.J., Tang, H., Hofton, M., Blair, B., Luthcke, S., Fatoyinbo, L., Abernethy, K., Alonso, A., Andersen, H.-E., Aplin, P., Baker, T.R., Barbier, N., Bastin, J.F., Biber, P., Boeckx, P., Bogaert, J., Boschetti, L., Brehm Boucher, P., Boyd, D.S., Burslem, D.F.R.P., Calvo-Rodriguez, S., Chave, J., Chazdon, R.L., Clark, D.B., Clark, D.A., Cohen, W.B., Coomes, D.A., Corona, P., Cushman, K.C., Cutler, M.E.J., Dalling, J.W., Dalponte, M., Dash, J., de-Miguel, S., Deng, S., Woods Ellis, P., Erasmus, B., Fekety, P.A., Fernandez-Landa, A., Ferraz, A., Fischer, R. , Fisher, A.G., García-Abril, A., Gobakken, T., Hacker, J.M., Heurich, M., Hill, R.A., Hopkinson, C., Huang, H., Hubbell, S.P., Hudak, A.T., Huth, A. , Imbach, B., Jeffery, K.J., Katoh, M., Kearsley, E., Kenfack, D., Kljun, N., Knapp, N. , Král, K., Krůček, M., Labrière, N., Lewis, S.L., Longo, M., Lucas, R.M., Main, R., Manzanera, J.A., Vásquez Martínez, R., Mathieu, R., Memiaghe, H., Meyer, V., Monteagudo Mendoza, A., Monerris, A., Montesano, P., Morsdorf, F., Næsset, E., Naidoo, L., Nilus, R., O’Brien, M., Orwig, D.A., Papathanassiou, K., Parker, G., Philipson, C., Phillips, O.L., Pisek, J., Poulsen, J.R., Pretzsch, H., Rüdiger, C., Saatchi, S., Sanchez-Azofeifa, A., Sanchez-Lopez, N., Scholes, R., Silva, C.A., Simard, M., Skidmore, A., Stereńczak, K., Tanase, M., Torresan, C., Valbuena, R., Verbeeck, H., Vrska, T., Wessels, K., White, J.C., White, L.J.T., Zahabu, E., Zgraggen, C. (2022):Aboveground biomass density models for NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission Remote Sens. Environ. 270 , art. 112845Volltext (DOI) Fleming, C.H., Deznabi, I., Alavi, S., Crofoot, M.C., Hirsch, B.T., Medici, E.P., Noonan, M.J., Kays, R., Fagan, W.F., Sheldon, D.R., Calabrese, J.M. (2022):Population-level inference for home-range areas Methods Ecol. Evol. 13 (5), 1027 - 1041Volltext (DOI) Gonzalez-Akre, E., Piponiot, C., Lepore, M., Herrmann, V., Lutz, J.A., Baltzer, J.L., Dick, C., Gilbert, G.S., He, F., Heym, M., Huerta, A.I., Jansen, P., Johnson, D.J., Knapp, N. , Kral, K., Lin, D., Malhi, Y., McMahon, S., Myers, J.A., Orwig, D., Rodríguez-Hernández, D.I., Russo, S., Shue, J., Wang, X., Wolf, A., Yang, T., Davies, S.J., Anderson-Teixeira, K.J. (2022):allodb : An R package for biomass estimation at globally distributed extratropical forest plotsMethods Ecol. Evol. 13 (2), 330 - 338Volltext (DOI) Li, S., Abdulkadir, N., Schattenberg, F., Nunes da Rocha, U., Grimm, V. , Müller, S., Liu, Z. (2022):Stabilizing microbial communities by looped mass transfer Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 119 (17), e2117814119Volltext (DOI) Pothasin, P., Paradis, E., Brockelman, W.Y., Nathalang, A., Khemrugka, T., Lomwong, N., Thripob, P., Saenprasert, R., Chanthorn, W. (2022):Seed size variation of trees and lianas in a tropical forest of Southeast Asia: Allometry, phylogeny, and seed trait - plant functional trait relationships Front. Plant Sci. 13 , art. 852167Volltext (DOI) Silva, I., Fleming, C.H., Noonan, M.J., Alston, J., Folta, C., Fagan, W.F., Calabrese, J.M. (2022):Autocorrelation-informed home range estimation: a review and practical guide Methods Ecol. Evol. 13 (3), 534 - 544Volltext (DOI) Thripob, P., Fortunel, C., Réjou-Méchain, M., Nathalang, A., Chanthorn, W. (2022):Size-dependent intraspecific variation in wood traits has little impact on aboveground carbon estimates in a tropical forest landscape Funct. Ecol. 36 (9), 2303 - 2316Volltext (DOI) Williams, T.G., Brown, D.G., Guikema, S.D., Logan, T.M., Magliocca, N.R., Müller, B. , Steger, C.E. (2022):Integrating equity considerations into agent-based modeling: A conceptual framework and practical guidance JASSS 25 (3), art. 1Volltext (DOI) Archidona-Yuste, A. , Wiegand, T. , Eisenhauer, N., Cantalapiedra-Navarrete, C., Palomares-Rius, J.E., Castillo, P. (2021):Agriculture causes homogenization of plant-feeding nematode communities at the regional scale J. Appl. Ecol. 58 (12), 2881 - 2891Volltext (DOI) Brock, J. , Lange, M. , Tratalos, J.A., More, S.J., Guelbenzu-Gonzalo, M., Graham, D.A., Thulke, H.-H. (2021):A large-scale epidemiological model of BoHV-1 spread in the Irish cattle population to support decision-making in conformity with the European Animal Health Law Prev. Vet. Med. 192 , art. 105375Volltext (DOI) Bruening, J.M., Fischer, R. , Bohn, F.J. , Armston, J., Armstrong, A.H., Knapp, N. , Tang, H., Huth, A. , Dubayah, R. (2021):Challenges to aboveground biomass prediction from waveform lidar Environ. Res. Lett. 16 (12), art. 125013Volltext (DOI) Care, O., Bernstein, M.J., Chapman, M., Diaz Reviriego, I., Dressler, G. , Felipe-Lucia, M.R., Friis, C., Graham, S., Hänke, H., Haider, L.J., Hernández-Morcillo, M., Hoffmann, H., Kernecker, M., Nicol, P., Piñeiro, C., Pitt, H., Schill, C., Seufert, V., Shu, K., Valencia, V., Zaehringer, J.G. (2021):Creating leadership collectives for sustainability transformations Sustain. Sci. 16 (2), 703 - 708Volltext (DOI) Clark, A.T., Arnoldi, J.-F., Zelnik, Y.R., Barabas, G., Hodapp, D., Karakoç, C., König, S., Radchuk, V., Donohue, I., Huth, A. , Jacquet, C., de Mazancourt, C., Mentges, A., Nothaaß, D., Shoemaker, L.G., Taubert, F. , Wiegand, T. , Wang, S., Chase, J.M., Loreau, M., Harpole, S. (2021):General statistical scaling laws for stability in ecological systems Ecol. Lett. 24 (7), 1474 - 1486Volltext (DOI) Cuni-Sanchez, A., Sullivan, M.J.P., Platts, P.J., Lewis, S.L., Marchant, R., Imani, G., Hubau, W., Abiem, I., Adhikari, H., Albrecht, T., Altman, J., Amani, C., Aneseyee, A.B., Avitabile, V., Banin, L., Batumike, R., Bauters, M., Beeckman, H., Begne, S.K., Bennett, A.C., Bitariho, R., Boeckx, P., Bogaert, J., Bräuning, A., Bulonvu, F., Hiltner, U. , Horak, D., et al. (2021):High aboveground carbon stock of African tropical montane forests Nature 596 (7873), 536 - 542Volltext (DOI) Drechsler, M. , Gerling, C., Keuler, K., Leins, J. , Sturm, A., Wätzold, F. (2021):A quantitative approach for the design of robust and cost-effective conservation policies under uncertain climate change: The case of grasshopper conservation in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany J. Environ. Manage. 286 , art. 113201Volltext (DOI) Fischer, R. , Taubert, F. , Müller, M.S. , Groeneveld, J. , Lehmann, S. , Wiegand, T. , Huth, A. (2021):Accelerated forest fragmentation leads to critical increase in tropical forest edge area Sci. Adv. 7 (37), eabg7012Volltext (DOI) Getzin, S. , Erickson, T.E., Yizhaq, H., Muñoz‐Rojas, M., Huth, A. , Wiegand, K. (2021):Bridging ecology and physics: Australian fairy circles regenerate following model assumptions on ecohydrological feedbacks J. Ecol. 109 (1), 399 - 416Volltext (DOI) Habtemariam, L.T. , Will, M. , Müller, B. (2021):Agricultural insurance through the lens of rural household dietary diversity Glob. Food Secur. 28 , art. 100485Volltext (DOI) Keil, P., Wiegand, T. , Tóth, A.B., McGlinn, D.J., Chase, J.M. (2021):Measurement and analysis of interspecific spatial associations as a facet of biodiversity Ecol. Monogr. 91 (3), e01452Volltext (DOI) Noonan, M.J., Martinez‐Garcia, R., Davis, G.H., Crofoot, M.C., Kays, R., Hirsch, B.T., Caillaud, D., Payne, E., Sih, A., Sinn, D.L., Spiegel, O., Fagan, W.F., Fleming, C.H., Calabrese, J.M. (2021):Estimating encounter location distributions from animal tracking data Methods Ecol. Evol. 12 (7), 1158 - 1173Volltext (DOI) Perea, A.J., Wiegand, T. , Garrido, J.L., Rey, P.J., Alcántara, J.M. (2021):Legacy effects of seed dispersal mechanisms shape the spatial interaction network of plant species in Mediterranean forests J. Ecol. 109 (10), 3670 - 3684Volltext (DOI) Proesmans, W., Albrecht, M., Gajda, A., Neumann, P., Paxton, R.J., Pioz, M., Polzin, C., Schweiger, O., Settele, J., Szentgyörgyi, H., Thulke, H.-H. , Vanbergen, A.J. (2021):Pathways for novel epidemiology: Plant–pollinator–pathogen networks and global change Trends Ecol. Evol. 36 (7), 623 - 636Volltext (DOI) Steger, C., Hirsch, S., Cosgrove, C., Inman, S., Nost, E., Shinbrot, X., Thorn, J.P.R., Brown, D.G., Grêt-Regamey, A., Müller, B. , Reid, R.S., Tucker, C., Weibel, B., Klein, J.A. (2021):Linking model design and application for transdisciplinary approaches in social-ecological systems Glob. Environ. Change 66 , art. 102201Volltext (DOI) Steger, C., Klein, J.A., Reid, R.S., Lavorel, S., Tucker, C., Hopping, K.A., Marchant, R., Teel, T., Cuni-Sanchez, A., Dorji, T., Greenwood, G., Huber, R., Kassam, K.-A., Kreuer, D., Nolin, A., Russell, A., Sharp, J.L., Šmid Hribar, M., Thorn, J.P.R., Grant, G., Mahdi, M., Moreno, M., Waiswa, D. (2021):Science with society: Evidence-based guidance for best practices in environmental transdisciplinary work Glob. Environ. Change 68 , art. 102240Volltext (DOI) Weitere, M., Altenburger, R., Anlanger, C., Baborowski, M., Bärlund, I., Beckers, L.-M., Borchardt, D., Brack, W., Brase, L., Busch, W., Chatzinotas, A., Deutschmann, B., Eligehausen, J., Frank, K. , Graeber, D., Griebler, C., Hagemann, J., Herzsprung, P., Hollert, H., Inostroza, P.A., Jäger, C.G., Kallies, R., Kamjunke, N., Karrasch, B., Kaschuba, S., Kaus, A., Klauer, B., Knöller, K., Koschorreck, M., Krauss, M., Kunz, J.V., Kurz, M.J., Liess, M., Mages, M., Müller, C., Muschket, M., Musolff, A., Norf, H., Pöhlein, F., Reiber, L., Risse-Buhl, U., Schramm, K.-W., Schmitt-Jansen, M., Schmitz, M., Strachauer, U., von Tümpling, W., Weber, N., Wild, R., Wolf, C., Brauns, M. (2021):Disentangling multiple chemical and non-chemical stressors in a lotic ecosystem using a longitudinal approach Sci. Total Environ. 769 , art. 144324Volltext (DOI) Wiegand, T. , Wang, X., Anderson-Teixeira, K.-J., Bourg, N.A., Cao, M., Ci, X., Davies, S.J., Hao, Z., Howe, R.W., Kress, W.J., Lian, J., Li, J., Lin, L., Lin, Y., Ma, K., McShea, W., Mi, X., Su, S.-H., Sun, I.-F., Wolf, A., Ye, W., Huth, A. (2021):Consequences of spatial patterns for coexistence in species-rich plant communities Nat. Ecol. Evol. 5 (7), 965 - 973Volltext (DOI) Berzaghi, F., Wright, I.J., Kramer, K., Oddou-Muratorio, S., Bohn, F.J. , Reyer, C.P.O., Sabaté, S., Sanders, T.G.M., Hartig, F. (2020):Towards a new generation of trait-flexible vegetation models Trends Ecol. Evol. 35 (3), 191 - 205Volltext (DOI) Fedriani, J.M., Ayllón, D., Wiegand, T. , Grimm, V. (2020):Intertwined effects of defaunation, increased tree mortality, and density compensation on seed dispersal Ecography 43 (9), 1352 - 1363Volltext (DOI) Grimm, V. , Johnston, A.S.A., Thulke, H.-H. , Forbes, V.E., Thorbek, P. (2020):Three questions to ask before using model outputs for decision support Nat. Commun. 11 , art. 4959Volltext (DOI) Knapp, N. , Fischer, R. , Cazcarra-Bes, V., Huth, A. (2020):Structure metrics to generalize biomass estimation from lidar across forest types from different continents Remote Sens. Environ. 237 , art. 111597Volltext (DOI) Muenchow, J., Dieker, P., Böttcher, T., Brock, J. , Didenko, G., Fremout, T., Jakubka, D., Jentsch, A., Nüst, D., Richter, M., Rodríguez, E.F., Rodríguez, R.A., Rollenbeck, R., Zarsosa, P.S., Schratz, P., Brenning, A. (2020):Monitoring and predictive mapping of floristic biodiversity along a climatic gradient in ENSO's terrestrial core region, NW Peru Ecography 43 (12), 1878 - 1890Volltext (DOI) Müller, B. , Hoffmann, F. , Heckelei, T., Müller, C., Hertel, T.W., Polhill, J.G., van Wijk, M., Achterbosch, T., Alexander, P., Brown, C., Kreuer, D., Ewert, F., Ge, J., Millington, J.D.A., Seppelt, R., Verburg, P.H., Webber, H. (2020):Modelling food security: Bridging the gap between the micro and the macro scale Glob. Environ. Change 63 , art. 102085Volltext (DOI) Rahimi Balkanlou, K., Müller, B. , Cord, A.F., Panahi, F., Malekian, A., Jafari, M., Egli, L. (2020):Spatiotemporal dynamics of ecosystem services provision in a degraded ecosystem: A systematic assessment in the Lake Urmia basin, Iran Sci. Total Environ. 716 , art. 137100Volltext (DOI) Reyer, C.P.O., Silveyra Gonzalez, R., Dolos, K., Hartig, F., Hauf, Y., Noack, M., Lasch-Born, P., Rötzer, T., Pretzsch, H., Meesenburg, H., Fleck, S., Wagner, M., Bolte, A., Sanders, T.G.M., Kolari, P., Mäkelä, A., Vesala, T., Mammarella, I., Pumpanen, J., Collalti, A., Trotta, C., Matteucci, G., D'Andrea, E., Foltýnová, L., Krejza, J., Ibrom, A., Pilegaard, K., Loustau, D., Bonnefond, J.-M., Berbigier, P., Picart, D., Lafont, S., Dietzel, M., Cameron, D., Vieno, M., Tian, H., Palacios-Orueta, A., Cicuendez, V., Recuero, L., Wiese, K., Büchner, M., Lange, S., Volkholz, J., Kim, H., Horemans, J.A., Bohn, F. , Steinkamp, J., Chikalanov, A., Weedon, G.P., Sheffield, J., Babst, F., Vega del Valle, I., Suckow, F., Martel, S., Mahnken, M., Gutsch, M., Frieler, K. (2020):The PROFOUND Database for evaluating vegetation models and simulating climate impacts on European forests Earth Syst. Sci. Data 12 (2), 1295 - 1320Volltext (DOI) Schlägel, U.E., Grimm, V. , Blaum, N., Colangeli, P., Dammhahn, M., Eccard, J.A., Hausmann, S.L., Herde, A., Hofer, H., Joshi, J., Kramer‐Schadt, S., Litwin, M., Lozada‐Gobilard, S.D., Müller, M.E.H., Müller, T., Nathan, R., Petermann, J.S., Pirhofer‐Walzl, K., Radchuk, V., Rillig, M.C., Roeleke, M., Schäfer, M., Scherer, C., Schiro, G., Scholz, C., Teckentrup, L., Tiedemann, R., Ullmann, W., Voigt, C.C., Weithoff, G., Jeltsch, F. (2020):Movement‐mediated community assembly and coexistence Biol. Rev. 95 (4), 1073 - 1096Volltext (DOI)
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FORMIND is an individual-based vegetation model that simulates the growth of species-rich forests on the hectare scale. It includes gap formulations in order to display forest dynamics and forest structure.