Collaborations - Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research

Teaching

Organisation of summer schools on Ecological-economic Modelling for Biodiversity Conservation (2006-2008)
Lecture "Ecological-economic Modelling for Biodiversity Conservation": Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg 2015/16, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021; University of Leipzig 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20
Lecture "Statistics for Economic Analysis of Ecosystem Service Provision and Biodiversity Conservation": Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg 2019/20, 2020/21

Supervision:

current:
Felix Reutter (PhD)
Johannes Leins (PhD)
Dimitrii Khaluillin (MSc)
Lina Marcela Palomo Garcès (MSc)
Diego Alejandro Prieto Melo (MSc)

past:
Frank Masurowski (PhD)
Julia Touza-Montero (postdoc)
Florian Hartig (PhD)
Carola Wegwitz (BSc, MSc) Marcus Eichhorn (PhD)
Christian Radtke (BSc)
Alfred Schmid (BSc)

Interested MSc candidates in the field of ecological-economic modelling are highly welcome.

Contact

Head: Prof. Dr. Karin Frank
Karin Frank

Office: Josephine Schmidt
Josephine Schmidt
Telefon: +49 341 6025-1279

Location

ESA-Auszeichnung für Prof. Volker Grimm

Prof. Dr. Volker Grimm receives the "Whittaker Distinguished Ecologist Award" of the 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"

Under this keynote the UFZ will host the 9th European Conference on Ecological Modelling(ECEM) from 4th to 8th September 2023 in Leipzig.

For further information visit our website or follow us on twitter

Website ECEM 2023
Twitter ECEM 2023

OESA Seminars

3 November 2022, 11:00 a.m.

"Agricultural ecosystem services under climate changes – modelling grassland biodiversity"

Thibault Moulin

FU Berlin

OESA News

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

Video

Selected Publications

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 - 654
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Bartkowski, B., Schepanski, K., Bredenbeck, S., Müller, B. (2023):
Wind erosion in European agricultural landscapes: More than physics
People Nat. 5 (1), 34 - 44
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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. 38 (10), 916 - 926
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Demers, J., Fagan, W.F., Potluri, S., Calabrese, J.M. (2023):
The relationship between controllability, optimal testing resource allocation, and incubation-latent period mismatch as revealed by COVID-19
Infect. Dis. Model. 8 (2), 514 - 538
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Drechsler, M. (2023):
Flexibility trade‐offs in conservation offsets
Conserv. Biol.
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Drechsler, M. (2023):
Ecological and economic trade-offs between amount and spatial aggregation of conservation and the cost-effective design of coordination incentives
Ecol. Econ. 213 , art. 107948
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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. 2146537
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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. 112881
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Milles, A., Banitz, T., Bielcik, M., Frank, K., Gallagher, C.A., Jeltsch, F., Jepsen, J.U., Oro, D., Radchuk, V., Grimm, V. (2023):
Local buffer mechanisms for population persistence
Trends Ecol. Evol.
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Silva, I., Fleming, C.H., Noonan, M.J., Fagan, W.F., Calabrese, J.M. (2023):
movedesign: Shiny R app to evaluate sampling design for animal movement studies
Methods Ecol. Evol. 14 (9), 2216 - 2225
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Will, M., Groeneveld, J., Lenel, F., Frank, K., Müller, B. (2023):
Determinants of household vulnerability in networks with formal insurance and informal risk-sharing
Ecol. Econ. 212 , art. 107921
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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. 109769
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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 - 6984
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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), e2202112119
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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. 112845
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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 - 1041
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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 plots
Methods Ecol. Evol. 13 (2), 330 - 338
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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), e2117814119
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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. 852167
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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 - 544
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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 - 2316
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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. 1
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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 - 2891
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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. 105375
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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. 125013
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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 - 708
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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 - 1486
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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 - 542
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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. 113201
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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), eabg7012
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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 - 416
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Habtemariam, L.T., Will, M., Müller, B. (2021):
Agricultural insurance through the lens of rural household dietary diversity
Glob. Food Secur. 28 , art. 100485
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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), e01452
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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 - 1173
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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 - 3684
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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 - 636
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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. 102201
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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. 102240
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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. 144324
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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 - 973
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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 - 205
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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 - 1363
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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. 4959
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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. 111597
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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 - 1890
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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. 102085
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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. 137100
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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 - 1320
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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 - 1096
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