Dr. Friedrich J. Bohn
Contact
Dr. Friedrich J. Bohn
Department of Computational Hydrosystems
Department of Ecological Modelling
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Tel: ++49 341 235 1784
Research
- Forest structure and its implications for carbon ballance, diversity and sensitivity against climate change of forest systems.
- Forest models (e.g. FORMIND): Which processe have to be impemented and how?
- Remote sensing: linking remote sensing and ecological modelling.
- Human decisions under complex situation in agent-based models.
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Publications
- Anand, M., Bohn, F.J., Camps-Valls, G., Fischer, R., Huth, A., Sweet, L.-B., Zscheischler, J. (2024):
Identifying compound weather drivers of forest biomass loss with generative deep learning
Environ. Data Sci. 3 , e4 10.1017/eds.2024.2 - 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 10.1016/j.tree.2019.11.006 - Bohn, F.J. (2017):
On the dynamics of temperate forests: quantification of several drivers using forest models and inventories
Dissertation, Universität Osnabrück
PhD Dissertation 8/2017
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, XI,164 pp. - Bohn, F.J. (2025):
Statistics on the authors of the 'Current perspectives on biosphere research 2024–2025' paper.zip [Dataset]
figshare 10.6084/m9.figshare.29092712.v1 - Bohn, F.J., Bastos, A., Martin, R., Rammig, A., Koh, N.S., Sioen, G.B., Buscher, B., Carver, L., DeClerck, F., Drupp, M., Fletcher, R., Forrest, M., Gasparatos, A., Godoy-Faúndez, A., Hagedorn, G., Hänsel, M.C., Hetzer, J., Hickler, T., Krug, C.B., Koot, S., Li, X., Luers, A., Matevich, S., Matthews, H.D., Meier, I.C., Migliavacca, M., Mohamed, A., O, S., Obura, D., Orlove, B., Orth, R., Pereira, L., Reichstein, M., Thakholi, L., Verburg, P.H., Yoshida, Y. (2025):
Reviews and syntheses: Current perspectives on biosphere research 2024–2025 – eight findings from ecology, sociology, and economics
Biogeosciences 22 (10), 2425 - 2460 10.5194/bg-22-2425-2025 - Bohn, F.J., Frank, K., Huth, A. (2014):
Of climate and its resulting tree growth: simulating the productivity of temperate forests
Ecol. Model. 278 , 9 - 17 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.01.021 - Bohn, F.J., Huth, A. (2017):
The importance of forest structure to biodiversity–productivity relationships
R. Soc. Open Sci. 4 , art. 160521 10.1098/rsos.160521 - Bohn, F.J., May, F., Huth, A. (2018):
Species composition and forest structure explain the temperature sensitivity patterns of productivity in temperate forests
Biogeosciences 15 (6), 1795 - 1813 10.5194/bg-15-1795-2018 - 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 10.1088/1748-9326/ac3cec - Bugmann, H., Seidl, R., Hartig, F., Bohn, F., Brůna, J., Cailleret, M., François, L., Heinke, J., Henrot, A.-J., Hickler, T., Hülsmann, L., Huth, A., Jacquemin, I., Kollas, C., Lasch‐Born, P., Lexer, M.J., Merganič, J., Merganičová, K., Mette, T., Miranda, B.R., Nadal‐Sala, D., Rammer, W., Rammig, A., Reineking, B., Roedig, E., Sabaté, S., Steinkamp, J., Suckow, F., Vacchiano, G., Wild, J., Xu, C., Reyer, C.P.O. (2019):
Tree mortality submodels drive simulated long‐term forest dynamics: assessing 15 models from the stand to global scale
Ecosphere 10 (2), e02616 10.1002/ecs2.2616 - Díaz-Yáñez, O., Käber, Y., Anders, T., Bohn, F., Braziunas, K.H., Brůna, J., Fischer, R., Fischer, S.M., Hetzer, J., Hickler, T., Hochauer, C., Lexer, M.J., Lischke, H., Mairota, P., Merganič, J., Merganičová, K., Mette, T., Mina, M., Morin, X., Nieberg, M., Rammer, W., Reyer, C.P.O., Scheiter, S., Scherrer, D., Bugmann, H. (2024):
Tree regeneration in models of forest dynamics: A key priority for further research
Ecosphere 15 (3), e4807 10.1002/ecs2.4807 - Díaz-Yáñez, O., Käber, Y., Anders, T., Bohn, F., Braziunas, K.H., Brůna, J., Fischer, R., Fischer, S.M., Hetzer, J., Hickler, T., Hochauer, C., Lexer, M.J., Lischke, H., Mairota, P., Merganič, J., Merganičová, K., Mette, T., Mina, M., Morin, X., Nieberg, M., Rammer, W., Reyer, C.P.O., Scheiter, S., Scherrer, D., Bugmann, H. (2023):
Tree recruitment in Central Europe: observed and simulated data
ETH Zürich Research Collection 10.3929/ethz-b-000643426 - Eisenhauer, N., Frank, K., Weigelt, A., Bartkowski, B., Beugnon, R., Liebal, K., Mahecha, M., Quaas, M., Al-Halbouni, D., Bastos, A., Bohn, F.J., de Brito, M.M., Denzler, J., Feilhauer, H., Fischer, R., Fritsche, I., Guimaraes-Steinicke, C., Hänsel, M., Haun, D.B.M., Herrmann, H., Huth, A., Kalesse-Los, H., Koetter, M., Kolleck, N., Krause, M., Kretschmer, M., Leitão, P.J., Masson, T., Mora, K., Müller, B., Peng, J., Pöhlker, M.L., Ratzke, L., Reichstein, M., Richter, S., Rüger, N., Sánchez-Parra, B., Shadaydeh, M., Sippel, S., Tegen, I., Thrän, D., Umlauft, J., Wendisch, M., Wolf, K., Wirth, C., Zacher, H., Zaehle, S., Quaas, J. (2024):
A belowground perspective on the nexus between biodiversity change, climate change, and human well-being
Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment 3 (2), e212108 10.1002/sae2.12108 - 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 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.11.018 - Fischer, R., Knapp, N., Bohn, F., Huth, A. (2019):
Remote sensing measurements of forest structure types for ecosystem service mapping
In: Schröter, M., Bonn, A., Klotz, S., Seppelt, R., Baessler, C. (eds.)
Atlas of ecosystem services : drivers, risks, and societal responses
Springer International Publishing, Cham, p. 63 - 67 10.1007/978-3-319-96229-0_11 - Fischer, R., Knapp, N., Bohn, F., Shugart, H.H., Huth, A. (2019):
The relevance of forest structure for biomass and productivity in temperate forests: New perspectives for remote sensing
Surv. Geophys. 40 (4), 709 - 734 10.1007/s10712-019-09519-x - Groeneveld, J., Müller, B., Angermüller, F., Drees, R., Dreßler, G., Klassert, C., Schulze, J., Weise, H., Schwarz, N. (2012):
Good modelling practice: Expanding the ODD model description protocol for socioenvironmental agent based models
In: Seppelt, R., Voinov, A.A., Lange, S., Bankamp, D. (eds.)
IEMSs 2012 - Managing resources of a limited planet: Pathways and visions under uncertainty. Proceedings of the 6th biannial meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, Leipzig, Germany, July 1-5, 2012
p. 2480 - 2484 - Grünig, M., Rammer, W., Albrich, K., André, F., Augustynczik, A.L.D., Bohn, F., Bouwman, M., Bugmann, H., Collalti, A., Cristal, I., Dalmonech, D., De Caceres, M., De Coligny, F., Dobor, L., Dollinger, C., Forrester, D.I., Garcia-Gonzalo, J., González, J.R., Hiltner, U., Hlásny, T., Honkaniemi, J., Huber, N., Jonard, M., Jönsson, A.M., Lagergren, F., Nieberg, M., Mina, M., Mohren, F., Moos, C., Morin, X., Muys, B., Peltoniemi, M., Reyer, C.P.O., Storms, I., Thom, D., Toïgo, M., Seidl, R. (2024):
A harmonized database of European forest simulations under climate change
Data Brief 54 , art. 110384 10.1016/j.dib.2024.110384 - Henniger, H., Bohn, F.J., Schmidt, K., Huth, A. (2023):
A new approach combining a multilayer radiative transfer model with an individual based forest model: Application to boreal forests in Finland
Remote Sens. 15 (12), art. 3078 10.3390/rs15123078 - Henniger, H., Huth, A., Bohn, F. (2023):
A new approach to derive productivity of tropical forests using radar remote [Data set]
Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.8239630 - Henniger, H., Huth, A., Bohn, F. (2023):
A new approach to derive productivity of tropical forests using radar remote sensing measurements
R. Soc. Open Sci. 10 (11), art. 231186 10.1098/rsos.231186 - Henniger, H., Huth, A., Frank, K., Bohn, F.J. (2023):
Creating virtual forests around the globe and analysing their state space
Ecol. Model. 483 , art. 110404 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2023.110404 - Holtmann, A., Huth, A., Bohn, F., Fischer, R. (2024):
Assessing the impact of multi-year droughts on German forests in the context of increased tree mortality
Ecol. Model. 492 , art. 110696 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.110696 - Keith, H., Kun, Z., Hugh, S., Svoboda, M., Mikoláš, M., Adam, D., Bernatski, D., Blujdea, V., Bohn, F., Camarero, J.J., Demeter, L., Di Filippo, A., Dutcă, I., Garbarino, M., Horváth, F., Ivkovich, V., Jansons, Ā., Ķēņina, L., Kral, K., Martin-Benito, D., Molina-Valero, J.A., Motta, R., Nagel, T.A., Panayotov, M., Pérez-Cruzado, C., Piovesan, G., Roibu, C.-C., Šamonil, P., Vostarek, O., Yermokhin, M., Zlatanov, T., Mackey, B. (2024):
Carbon carrying capacity in primary forests shows potential for mitigation achieving the European Green Deal 2030 target
Commun. Earth Environ. 5 , art. 256 10.1038/s43247-024-01416-5 - Ma, X., Mahecha, M.D., Migliavacca, M., van der Plas, F., Benavides, R., Ratcliffe, S., Kattge, J., Richter, R., Musavi, T., Baeten, L., Barnoaiea, I., Bohn, F.J., Bouriaud, O., Bussotti, F., Coppi, A., Domisch, T., Huth, A., Jaroszewicz, B., Joswig, J., Pabon-Moreno, D.-E., Papale, D., Selvi, F., Laurin, G.V., Valladares, F., Reichstein, M., Wirth, C. (2019):
Inferring plant functional diversity from space: the potential of Sentinel-2
Remote Sens. Environ. 233 , art. 111368 10.1016/j.rse.2019.111368 - Ma, X., Migliavacca, M., Wirth, C., Bohn, F.J., Huth, A., Richter, R., Mahecha, M.D. (2020):
Monitoring plant functional diversity using the reflectance and echo from space
Remote Sens. 12 (8), art. 1248 10.3390/rs12081248 - Mahecha, M.D., Bastos, A., Bohn, F.J., Eisenhauer, N., Feilhauer, H., Hartmann, H., Hickler, T., Kalesse-Los, H., Migliavacca, M., Otto, F.E.L., Peng, J., Quaas, J., Tegen, I., Weigelt, A., Wendisch, M., Wirth, C. (2022):
Biodiversity loss and climate extremes — study the feedbacks
Nature 612 (7938), 30 - 32 10.1038/d41586-022-04152-y - Mahecha, M.D., Bastos, A., Bohn, F.J., Eisenhauer, N., Feilhauer, H., Hickler, T., Kalesse-Los, H., Migliavacca, M., Otto, F.E.L., Peng, J., Sippel, S., Tegen, I., Weigelt, A., Wendisch, M., Wirth, C., Al-Halbouni, D., Deneke, H.M., Doktor, D., Dunker, S., Duveiller, G., Ehrlich, A., Foth, A., García-García, A., Guerra, C.A., Guimarães- Steinicke, C., Hartmann, H., Henning, S., Herrmann, H., Hu, P., Ji, C., Kattenborn, T., Kolleck, N., Kretschmer, M., Kühn, I., Luttkus, M.L., Maahn, M., Mönks, M., Mora, K., Pöhlker, M., Reichstein, M., Rüger, N., Sánchez-Parra, B., Schäfer, M., Stratmann, F., Tesche, M., Wehner, B., Wieneke, S., Winkler, A.J., Wolf, S., Zaehle, S., Zscheischler, J., Quaas, J. (2024):
Biodiversity and climate extremes: known interactions and research gaps
Earth Future 12 (6), e2023EF003963 10.1029/2023EF003963 - Mahnken, M., Cailleret, M., Collalti, A., Trotta, C., Biondo, C., D’Andrea, E., Dalmonech, D., Marano, G., Mäkelä, A., Minunno, F., Peltoniemi, M., Trotsiuk, V., Nadal‐Sala, D., Sabaté, S., Vallet, P., Aussenac, R., Cameron, D.R., Bohn, F.J., Grote, R., Augustynczik, A.L.D., Yousefpour, R., Huber, N., Bugmann, H., Merganičová, K., Merganic, J., Valent, P., Lasch-Born, P., Hartig, F., Vega del Valle, I.D., Volkholz, J., Gutsch, M., Matteucci, G., Krejza, J., Ibrom, A., Meesenburg, H., Rötzer, T., van der Maaten-Theunissen, M., van der Maaten, E., Reyer, C.P.O. (2022):
Accuracy, realism and general applicability of European forest models
Glob. Change Biol. 28 (23), 6921 - 6943 10.1111/gcb.16384 - Mahnken, M., Collalti, A., Dalmonech, D., Trotta, C., Trotsiuk, V., Augustynczik, A.L.D., Yousefpour, R., Gutsch, M., Cameron, D.R., Bugmann, H., Huber, N., Thrippleton, T., Bohn, F.J., Nadal‐Sala, D., Sabaté, S., Grote, R., Mäkelä, A., Minunno, F., Peltoniemi, M., Vallet, P., Fabrika, M., Merganičová, K., Vega del Valle, I.D., Volkholz, J., Reyer, C.P.O. (2022):
ISIMIP2a Simulation Data from the Regional Forests Sector (v1.0)
ISIMIP Repository 10.48364/ISIMIP.169780 - 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 10.1002/ece3.7391 - Müller, B., Bohn, F., Dreßler, G., Groeneveld, J., Klassert, C., Martin, R., Schlüter, M., Schulze, J., Weise, H., Schwarz, N. (2013):
Describing human decisions in agent-based models - ODD+D, an extension of the ODD protocol
Environ. Modell. Softw. 48 , 37 - 48 10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.06.003 - Pacheco-Labrador, J., Migliavacca, M., Ma, X., Mahecha, M.D., Carvalhais, N., Weber, U., Benavides, R., Bouriaud, O., Barnoaiea, I., Coomes, D.A., Bohn, F.J., Kraemer, G., Heiden, U., Huth, A., Wirth, C. (2022):
Challenging the link between functional and spectral diversity with radiative transfer modeling and data
Remote Sens. Environ. 280 , art. 113170 10.1016/j.rse.2022.113170 - Priess, J., Bohn, F.J., Heger, T. (2022):
Zukunftsbild Langsam - Landnutzungswandel und Böden (1.2)
Zenodo
10.5281/zenodo.8276986 - Priess, J., Bohn, F.J., Heger, T. (2021):
Zukunftsbild Langsam - Landnutzungswandel und Böden (1.0)
Zenodo
10.5281/zenodo.5793330 - Radchuk, V., De Laender, F., Cabral, J.S., Boulangeat, I., Crawford, M., Bohn, F., De Raedt, J., Scherer, C., Svenning, J.-C., Thonicke, K., Schurr, F.M., Grimm, V., Kramer‐Schadt, S. (2019):
The dimensionality of stability depends on disturbance type
Ecol. Lett. 22 (4), 674 - 684 10.1111/ele.13226 - 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 10.5194/essd-12-1295-2020 - Rödig, E., Huth, A., Bohn, F., Rebmann, C., Cuntz, M. (2017):
Estimating the carbon fluxes of forests with an individual-based forest model
For. Ecosyst. 4 , art. 4 10.1186/s40663-017-0091-1 - Rödig, E., Knapp, N., Fischer, R., Bohn, F.J., Dubayah, R., Tang, H., Huth, A. (2019):
From small-scale forest structure to Amazon-wide carbon estimates
Nat. Commun. 10 , art. 5088 10.1038/s41467-019-13063-y - van Oijen, M., Reyer, C., Bohn, F.J., Cameron, D.R., Deckmyn, G., Flechsig, M., Härkönen, F., Hartig, F., Huth, A., Kiviste, A., Lasch, P., Mäkelä, A., Mette, T., Minunno, F., Rammer, W. (2013):
Bayesian calibration, comparison and averaging of six forest models, using data from Scots pine stands across Europe
For. Ecol. Manage. 289 , 255 - 268 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.09.043 - Weise, H., Auge, H., Baessler, C., Bärlund, I., Bennett, E.M., Berger, U., Bohn, F., Bonn, A., Borchardt, D., Brand, F., Chatzinotas, A., Corstanje, R., De Laender, F., Dietrich, P., Dunker, S., Durka, W., Fazey, I., Groeneveld, J., Guilbaud, C.S.E., Harms, H., Harpole, S., Harris, J., Jax, K., Jeltsch, F., Johst, K., Joshi, J., Klotz, S., Kühn, I., Kuhlicke, C., Müller, B., Radchuk, V., Reuter, H., Rinke, K., Schmitt-Jansen, M., Seppelt, R., Singer, A., Standish, R.J., Thulke, H.-H., Tietjen, B., Weitere, M., Wirth, C., Wolf, C., Grimm, V. (2020):
Resilience trinity: safeguarding ecosystem functioning and services across three different time horizons and decision contexts
Oikos 129 (4), 445 - 456 10.1111/oik.07213