Dr. Franziska Taubert
Leader of Working Group Grassland Modelling
Contact
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Department of Ecological Modelling
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Germany
Building 1.0, Room 208
Tel.: +49 341 235-1896
Fax: +49 341 235-451896
franziska.taubert@ufz.de
Research interests
The research in my working group covers the areas of vegetation ecology and ecological modelling (with focus on grasslands) as well as Digital Twin developments and applications - with the following main research topics:
(1) understanding the emergence and maintenance of biodiversity in managed grasslands
(2) identifying links between plant species diversity, environmental conditions, human impacts and grassland ecosystem functions,
(3) identifying and explaining emergent vegetation patterns from field data and remote sensing products
To this end, we methodologically:
- develop and apply process-based grassland models of various complexity (see below the GRASSMIND model as example)
- transfer ecological modelling approaches and workflows into Digital Twin applications
- couple two or more predictive models describing landscape components to create a comprehensive model system,
- analyse and advance methodological approaches in vegetation ecology
The GRASSMIND model
We have developed the dynamic grassland model GRASSMIND (individual- and process-based) for simulating plant growth and dynamics of species-rich managed temperate grasslands. The model simulates the daily growth dynamics of individual plants and thereby explicitly considers
- competition between individual plants for light, space, soil water and nitrogen
- different management regimes (e.g. mowing, irrigation, fertilization)
- climatic variables and potential changes (e.g. increasing air temperatures, reduced soil water)
Since its initial development, the model constantly has further been advanced and applied to different German study sites to understand how plant traits (and related vegetation processes) influence grassland productivity and species composition.
Important publications:
- Schmid, J. S., Huth, A., & Taubert, F. (2022). Impact of mowing frequency and temperature on the production of temperate grasslands: explanations received by an individual‐based model. Oikos, 2022(9), e09108. full text (doi)
- Hetzer, J., Huth, A., Taubert, F., (2021): The importance of plant trait variability in grasslands: a modelling study. Ecol. Model. 453 , art. 109606. full text (doi)
- Schmid, J.S., Huth, A., Taubert, F., (2021): Influences of traits and processes on productivity and functional composition in grasslands: A modeling study. Ecol. Model. 440 , art. 109395. full text (doi)
- Taubert, F., Hetzer, J., Schmid, J.S., Huth, A., (2020): The role of species traits for grassland productivity. Ecosphere 11 (7), e03205. full text (doi)
- Taubert, F., Hetzer, J., Schmid, J.S., Huth, A., (2020): Confronting an individual-based simulation model with empirical community patterns of grasslands. PLOS One 15 (7), e0236546. full text (doi)
- Taubert, F., Frank, K., Huth, A., (2012): A review of grassland models in the biofuel context. Ecol. Model. 245 , 84 - 93. full text (doi)
Here you can download the GRASSMIND model and its model description.
Current projects
EU-HORIZON Infrastructure project BioDT "Biodiversity Digital Twin for Advanced Modelling, Simulation and Prediction Capabilities"
- Development of a Digital Twin prototype of grassland plant diversity dynamics for local grassland sites in Europe (link)
- Work package leader of WP6 "Simulation, Modelling and Data Analytics"
LandTrans "Simulator: Modular system of SMART terrestrial models"
- Leader of team LandVeg (Vegetation Modelling) covering the vegetation models GRASSMIND and FORMIND
- One of the PIs of the PhD College LISA on "The challenge to explore multifunctional landscapes in a model-based framework: model interfaces and scaling issues"
- PhD project in PhD Colleg LISA on "Modelling ecological and socio-economic impacts of grasslands"
- 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
full text (doi) - Nothaaß, D., Taubert, F., Huth, A., Clark, A.T. (2023):
Modelling species invasion using a metapopulation model with variable mortality and stochastic birth-death processes
Ecol. Model. 481 , art. 110372
full text (doi) - Taubert, F., Banitz, T., Wohner, C. (2023):
Guideline on how to provide data from a grassland site for simulations with the GRASSMIND model
Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.10125790
full text (doi) - Wu, M.M., Liang, Y., Taubert, F., Huth, A., Zhang, M., Wang, X. (2023):
Sensitivity of forest composition and productivity to climate change in mixed broadleaved-Korean pine forest of Northeastern China
Ecol. Model. 483 , art. 110434
full text (doi) - Dressler, G., Groeneveld, J., Hetzer, J., Janischewski, A., Nolzen, H., Rödig, E., Schwarz, N., Taubert, F., Thober, J., Will, M., Williams, T., Wirth, S.B., Müller, B. (2022):
Upscaling in socio-environmental systems modelling: Current challenges, promising strategies and insights from ecology
Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling 4 , art. 18112
full text (doi) - Giuffrida, R., Schigel, D., Endresen, D., Taubert, F., Ovaskainen, O., Chala, D., Grimm, V., Kühn, I., Ingenloff, K., Frøslev, T., Golivets, M., Dick, J., Watkins, J., Chase, J., Groeneveld, J. (2022):
The BioDT use cases: unique demonstrators to test the biodiversity Digital Twin prototype
Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.7373622
full text (doi) - Liebscher, E., Taubert, F., Waltschew, D., Hetzer, J. (2022):
Modelling multivariate data using product copulas and minimum distance estimators: an exemplary application to ecological traits
Environ. Ecol. Stat. 29 (2), 315 - 338
full text (doi) - Schmid, J.S., Huth, A., Taubert, F. (2022):
Impact of mowing frequency and temperature on the production of temperate grasslands: explanations received by an individual-based model
Oikos 2022 (9), e09108
full text (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 - 1486
full text (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), eabg7012
full text (doi) - Hetzer, J., Huth, A., Taubert, F. (2021):
The importance of plant trait variability in grasslands: a modelling study
Ecol. Model. 453 , art. 109606
full text (doi) - Maréchaux, I., Langerwisch, F., Huth, A., Bugmann, H., Morin, X., Reyer, C.P.O., Seidl, R., Collalti, A., Dantas de Paula, M., Fischer, R., Gutsch, M., Lexer, M.J., Lischke, H., Rammig, A., Rödig, E., Sakschewski, B., Taubert, F., Thonicke, K., Vacchiano, G., Bohn, F.J. (2021):
Tackling unresolved questions in forest ecology: The past and future role of simulation models
Ecol. Evol. 11 (9), 3746 - 3770
full text (doi) - Schmid, J.S., Huth, A., Taubert, F. (2021):
Influences of traits and processes on productivity and functional composition in grasslands: A modeling study
Ecol. Model. 440 , art. 109395
full text (doi) - Taubert, F., Fischer, R., Knapp, N., Huth, A. (2021):
Deriving tree size distributions of tropical forests from lidar
Remote Sens. 13 (1), art. 131
full text (doi) - Wirth, S.B., Taubert, F., Tietjen, B., Müller, C., Rolinski, S. (2021):
Do details matter? Disentangling the processes related to plant species interactions in two grassland models of different complexity
Ecol. Model. 460 , art. 109737
full text (doi) - di Porcia e Brugnera, M., Fischer, R., Taubert, F., Huth, A., Verbeeck, H. (2020):
Lianas in silico, ecological insights from a model of structural parasitism
Ecol. Model. 431 , art. 109159
full text (doi) - Schmid, J.S., Taubert, F., Wiegand, T., Sun, I.-F., Huth, A. (2020):
Network science applied to forest megaplots: tropical tree species coexist in small-world networks
Sci. Rep. 10 , art. 13198
full text (doi) - Shoemaker, L.G., Sullivan, L.L., Donohue, I., Cabral, J.S., Williams, R.J., Mayfield, M.M., Chase, J.M., Chu, C., Harpole, W.S., Huth, A., HilleRisLambers, J., James, A.R.M., Kraft, N.J.B., May, F., Muthukrishnan, R., Satterlee, S., Taubert, F., Wang, X., Wiegand, T., Yang, Q., Abbott, K.C. (2020):
Integrating the underlying structure of stochasticity into community ecology
Ecology 101 (2), e02922
full text (doi) - Taubert, F., Hetzer, J., Schmid, J.S., Huth, A. (2020):
The role of species traits for grassland productivity
Ecosphere 11 (7), e03205
full text (doi) - Taubert, F., Hetzer, J., Schmid, J.S., Huth, A. (2020):
Confronting an individual-based simulation model with empirical community patterns of grasslands
PLOS One 15 (7), e0236546
full text (doi) - Dantas de Paula, M., Groeneveld, J., Fischer, R., Taubert, F., Martins, V.F., Huth, A. (2018):
Defaunation impacts on seed survival and its effect on the biomass of future tropical forests
Oikos 127 (10), 1526 - 1538
full text (doi) - Landuyt, D., Perring, M.P., Seidl, R., Taubert, F., Verbeeck, H., Verheyen, K. (2018):
Modelling understorey dynamics in temperate forests under global change–Challenges and perspectives
Perspect. Plant Ecol. Evol. Syst. 31 , 44 - 54
full text (doi) - Rödig, E., Cuntz, M., Rammig, A., Fischer, R., Taubert, F., Huth, A. (2018):
The importance of forest structure for carbon fluxes of the Amazon rainforest
Environ. Res. Lett. 13 (5), art. 054013
full text (doi) - Taubert, F., Fischer, R., Groeneveld, J., Lehmann, S., Müller, M.S., Rödig, E., Wiegand, T., Huth, A. (2018):
Global patterns of tropical forest fragmentation
Nature 554 (7693), 519 - 522
full text (doi) - Naegler, T., Szarka, N., Henning, H.-M., Brendel, R., Niepelt, R., Taubert, F., Fischedick, M. (2017):
Transformationsszenarien für das deutsche Energiesystem
In: Szczepanski, P., Wunschick, F., Martin, N. (Hrsg.)
Forschung für die Energiewende - Die Gestaltung des Energiesystems. Beiträge zur Jahrestagung 2016 des ForschungsVerbunds Erneuerbare Energien, 2. und 3. November 2016, Umweltforum Berlin
FVEE-Themen 2016
ForschungsVerbund Erneuerbare Energien (FVEE), Berlin, 6 - 10
full text (url) - Fischer, R., Bohn, F., Dantas de Paula, M., Dislich, C., Groeneveld, J., Gutiérrez, A.G., Kazmierczak, M., Knapp, N., Lehmann, S., Paulick, S., Pütz, S., Rödig, E., Taubert, F., Köhler, P., Huth, A. (2016):
Lessons learned from applying a forest gap model to understand ecosystem and carbon dynamics of complex tropical forests
Ecol. Model. 326 , 124 - 133
full text (doi) - Kazmierczak, M., Backmann, P., Fedriani, J.M., Fischer, R., Hartmann, A.K., Huth, A., May, F., Müller, M.S., Taubert, F., Grimm, V., Groeneveld, J. (2016):
Monodominance in tropical forests: modelling reveals emerging clusters and phase transitions
J. R. Soc. Interface 13 (117), art. 0123
full text (doi) - Taubert, F., Jahn, M.W., Dobner, H.-J., Wiegand, T., Huth, A. (2015):
The structure of tropical forests and sphere packings
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 112 (49), 15125 - 15129
full text (doi) - Taubert, F. (2014):
Modelling and analysing the structure and dynamics of species-rich grasslands and forests
Dissertation, Universität Osnabrück
PhD Dissertation 5/2014
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, 148 pp. - Taubert, F., Hartig, F., Dobner, H.-J., Huth, A. (2013):
On the challenge of fitting tree size distributions in ecology
PLOS One 8 (2), e58036
full text (doi) - Taubert, F., Frank, K., Huth, A. (2012):
A review of grassland models in the biofuel context
Ecol. Model. 245 , 84 - 93
full text (doi)
since 2019 | Leader of Working Group Grassland Modelling |
since 2013 | Postdoc at the Department of Ecological Modelling |
2010 - 2013 | PhD student at the Department of Ecological Modelling |
2008 - 2010 | Master in Applied Mathematics at the University of Applied Science (HTWK) Leipzig |
2004 - 2008 | Diploma in Business Mathematics at the University of Applied Science (HTWK) Leipzig |