Prof. Dr. Ingolf Kühn

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Prof. Dr. Ingolf Kühn

Head of Department
Community Ecology (Co-Head)

Professor for Macroecology at Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Institute of Biology / Geobotany, Botanical Garden and Herbarium

Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research - UFZ
Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4
06120 Halle, Germany

New: Tel: +49 341 6025 4311
ingolf.kuehn@ufz.de

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German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle-Jena-Leipzig

My iDIv Activities

Fellow of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL

Highly Cited Researcher 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

Highly Cited Researcher: Ingolf Kühn

Research interests

I am vegetation scientist with some experience in floristics, taxonomy and systematics in my past life. Now I went for something completely different: The primary work at the department deals with plant invasions and their relevance for the diversity of plant species. Therefore, I analyse land use patterns, environmental parameters and plant species distribtion on a macroecological scale. Another focus are biological and ecological traits of invasive plants. Thus I model and administrate the "Database on Biological and Ecological Traits of the Flora of Germany (BiolFlor) that was prepared by many collaborators at our department. Additionally, I am interested in patterns and processes of plant diversity in urbanised areas.
Topically, my reserach interest cover changes of distribution patterns and functional composition under global change.
Methodologically, I am interested in methods to account for spatial and phylogenetic non-independence (autocorrelation).

Recently, I became interested in changes in the Alpine flora and started a monitoring based on permanent plots in glacier forefields in the Northen Alps (Dachstein, Berchtesgaden).

During my academic career at the Ruhr-University of Bochum at the chair of systematic botany I worked mainly in database related projects, e. g. mapping schemes, checklist on the flora of Germany, and the Information System of Botanical Gardens in Germany (SysTax). However, my research focussed on vegetation science. My PhD thesis was about a comparison of ancient and recent forests in Westphalia in the importance of forest continuity vs soil characteristcs. As I am also highly interested in birds, I wrote my diploma thesis about the conservation value of a former military training area, regarding birds, flora, and vegetation.

Curriculum Vitae

Current Projects

  • EU Research and Innovation Project BMD Biodiversity Meets Data
  • EU Advanced Community Project eLTER PLUS Integrated European Long-Term Ecosystem, Critical Zone and Socio-Ecological Research Infrastructure PLUS
  • eLTER RI Establishing the integrated European Long-Term Ecosystem, Critical Zone and Socio-Ecological Research Research Infrastructure
  • BiolFlor: a database on biological and ecological traits of the flora of Germany

Past Projects

  • Bio-DT - Biodiversity Digital Twin
  • EuropaBON - Europa Biodiversity Observation Network: integrating data streams to support policy
  • Analysing plant invasions in their environmental context (iCon). iDiv Flexpool project
  • Europa-BON Europa Biodiversity Observation Network: integrating data streams to support policy
  • AlienScenarios - Developing and applying scenarios of biological invasions for the 21st century
  • Emerging Ecosystems - Functional Dynamics under Global Change. Integrated Project within the Programme-oriented Funding period 2014-20.
  • LEGATO: Land-use intensity and Ecological Engineering – Assessment Tools for risks and Opportunities in irrigated rice based production systems
  • EU BON - Building the European Biodiversity Observation Network
  • EC21C: European Conservation for the 21st Century
  • Regional scenarios, combined effects and management options (Cluster 1 in Topic 1 "Land Use Options - Strategies and Adaptation to Global Change" of the project oriented funding of the Helmholtz Association), cluster speaker.
  • Regionalised impacts of climate change on experimental species models and species ranges for Germany (Project 1 in Cluster 2 "Impacts of Climate Change on Ecological Patterns and Processes" of Topic 1 (see above)), project leader.
  • ExpeER: Experimentation in Ecosystem Research
    • ALARM: Assessing LArge-scale environmental Risks with tested Methods (Integrated project funded by the European Union under FP 6), Deputy Coordinator
  • MACIS: Minimisation of and Adaptation to Climate change Impacts on biodiverSity (Scientific support to policies project funded by the European Union under FP 6), Coordinator
  • COCONUT: understanding effeCts Of land use Changes ON ecosystems to halt loss of biodiversity due to habitat destrUction, fragmenTation and degradation. (Scientific support to policies project funded by the European Union under FP 6), collaborator
  • Climate and Fauna: Impacts of recent climate change on the fauna in Germany (Auswirkungen des rezenten Klimawandels auf die Fauna in Deutschland)(Funded by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation), collaborator.
  • Flora & Climate: Modelling the effect of climate change on the flora of Germany (Modellierung der Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf die Flora) (Funded by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation), Coordinator
  • Protected areas in Germany under climate change - risks and management options (Schutzgebiete Deutschlands im Klimawandel – Risiken und Handlungsoptionen) (Funded by the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation), collaborator
  • Virtual Institute Macroecology (Funded by the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centres, Scientific Secretary
  • DAISIE: Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (Specific targeted research project funded by the European Union under FP 6), collaborator
  • INVASIONS: Das Invasionspotential gebietsfremder Arten - Identifikation, Bewertung, Risikomanagement (The Invasion Potential of Alien Species - Identification, Assessment, and Risk Management) (Funded by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research under the BioTEAM programme), Deputy Coordinator
  • LEDA: A database on the life history of the Northwest European flora (Funded by the European Union under FP 5)
  • Analysis of distribution patterns of species and functional groups in the UFZ research cluster "Biological invasions, dispersal processes and distribution patterns", project coordination
  • Urban biodiversity in the former UFZ research cluster "Urban ecology and urban development", collaborator

iDiv Activities

Editorial Activities

Selected publications

Complete list of publications

    Recent or popular books
  • Settele, J., Penev, L.D., Georgiev, T.A., Grabaum, R., Grobelnik, V., Hammen, V., Klotz, S., Kotarac, M., Kühn, I. (eds.) 2010. Atlas of Biodiversity Risk. Pensoft, Sofia (Bulgaria).
    Order
  • Settele, J., Kudrna, O., Harpke, A., Kühn, I., van Swaay, C., Verovnik, R., Warren, M., Wiemers, M., Hanspach, J., Hickler, T., Kühn, E., van Halder, I., Veling, K., Vliegenhart, A., Wynhoff, I., Schweiger, O. 2008. Climatic Risk Atlas of European Butterflies. BioRisk 1. Pensoft, Sofia (Bulgaria).
    Online version
  • Dormann, C.F., Kühn, I. 2008. Statistische Analyse biologischer Daten (mit dem freien Programmpaket R). Skript, 2. Auflage. Download

    • 2025
  • Milanović, M., Bakker, J.D., Biederman, L., Borer, E.T., Catford, J.A., Cleland, E., ..., Knapp, S. & Kühn, I. (2025). Successful Alien Plant Species Exhibit Functional Dissimilarity From Natives Under Varied Climatic Conditions but Not Under Increased Nutrient Availability. Journal of Vegetation Science, 36, e70032. DOI 10.1111/jvs.70032
  • Reichmuth, A., Kühn, I., Schmidt, A. & Doktor, D. (2025). Forested Natura 2000 sites under climate change: effects of tree species distribution shifts. Web Ecology, 25, 59–89. Open Access
  • Staude, I.R., Grenié, M., Thomas, C.D., Kühn, I., Zizka, A., Golivets, M., et al. (2025). Many non-native plant species are threatened in parts of their native range. New Phytologist, 247, 1579–1583. DOI 10.1111/nph.70193

    • 2024
  • Golivets, M., Knapp, S., Essl, F., Lenzner, B., Latombe, G., Leung, B., & Kühn, I. (2024). Future changes in key plant traits across Central Europe vary with biogeographical status, woodiness, and habitat type. Science of The Total Environment, 907, 167954. DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167954
  • Khan, T., El-Gabbas, A., Golivets, M., Souza, A., Gordillo, J., Kierans, D., & Kühn, I. (2024). Prototype Biodiversity Digital Twin: Invasive Alien Species. Research Ideas and Outcomes, 10, e124579. Open Access
  • Kühn, E., Harpke, A., Schmitt, T., Settele, J., & Kühn, I. (2024). Counting butterflies—Are old-fashioned ways of recording data obsolete? Journal of Insect Conservation, 28, 577–588. DOI 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102722-012749
  • Wicaksono, W.A., Mora, M., Bickel, S., Berg, C., Kühn, I., Cernava, T., Berg, G. (2024). Rhizosphere assembly alters along a chronosequence in the Hallstätter glacier forefield (Dachstein, Austria). FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 100, fiae005. DOI 10.1093/femsec/fiae005

    • 2023
  • 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 in Ecology & Evolution, 38(10), 916–926. DOI 10.1016/j.tree.2023.04.010

    • 2022
  • Kühn, E., Becker, M., Harpke, A., Kühn, I., Kuhlicke, C., Schmitt, T., Settele, J., & Musche, M. (2022). The benefits of counting butterflies: Recommendations for a successful citizen science project. Ecology and Society, 27(2). Open Access
  • Lange, M., Feilhauer, H., Kühn, I., & Doktor, D. (2022). Mapping land-use intensity of grasslands in Germany with machine learning and Sentinel-2 time series. Remote Sensing of Environment, 277. DOI 10.1016/j.rse.2022.112888

    • 2021
  • Milanović, M., Kühn, I., Pyšek, P., & Knapp, S. (2021). Functional diversity changes in native and alien urban flora over three centuries. Biological Invasions, 23(7), 2337–2353. DOI 10.1007/s10530-021-02509-4
  • You, X., Kallies, R., Kühn, I., Schmidt, M., Harms, H., Chatzinotas, A., & Wick, L. Y. (2021). Phage co-transport with hyphal-riding bacteria fuels bacterial invasion in a water-unsaturated microbial model system. The ISME Journal. DOI 10.1038/s41396-021-01155-x

    • 2020
  • Datta, A., Schweiger, O. & Kühn, I. (2020) Niche expansion of the invasive plant species Ageratina adenophora despite evolutionary constraints. Journal of Biogeography, 47, 1306-1315.
  • Milanović, M., Knapp, S., Pyšek, P. & Kühn, I. (2020) Linking traits of invasive plants with ecosystem services and disservices. Ecosystem Services, 42.
  • Milanović, M., Knapp, S., Pyšek, P. & Kühn, I. (2020) Trait–environment relationships of plant species at different stages of the introduction process. NeoBiota, 58, 55–74. Open Access
  • Pilotto, F., Kühn, I., Adrian, R., Alber, R., Alignier, A., Andrews, C., Bäck, J., Barbaro, L., Beaumont, D., Beenaerts, N., Benham, S., Boukal, D. S., Bretagnolle, V., Camatti, E., Canullo, R., Cardoso, P. G., Ens, B. J., Everaert, G., Evtimova, V., … Haase, P. (2020). Meta-analysis of multidecadal biodiversity trends in Europe. Nature Communications, 11(1), 3486. DOI 10.1038/s41467-020-17171-y
  • Pyšek, P., Bacher, S., Kühn, I., Novoa, A., Catford, J. A., Hulme, P. E., Pergl, J., Richardson, D. M., Wilson, J. R. U., & Blackburn, T. M. (2020). MAcroecological Framework for Invasive Aliens (MAFIA): Disentangling large-scale context dependence in biological invasions. NeoBiota, 62, 407–461. Open Access
  • Wolf, J., Haase, D. & Kühn, I. (2020) The functional composition of the neophytic flora changes in response to environmental conditions along a rural-urban gradient. NeoBiota, 54, 23-47. Open Access

    • 2019
  • Essl, F., Dullinger, S., Genovesi, P., Hulme, P. E., Jeschke, J. M., Katsanevakis, S., Kühn, I., Lenzner, B., Pauchard, A., Pyšek, P., Rabitsch, W., Richardson, D. M., Seebens, H., Van Kleunen, M., Van Der Putten, W. H., Vilà, M. & Bacher, S. (2019) A Conceptual Framework for Range-Expanding Species that Track Human-Induced Environmental Change. BioScience, 69, 908-919.

    • 2018
  • Capinha, C., Essl, F., Seebens, H., Pereira, H. M. & Kühn, I. (2018) Models of alien species richness show moderate predictive accuracy and poor transferability. NEOBIOTA, 38, 77-96. Open Acess
  • Carl, G., Levin, S.C., Kühn, I. 2018. spind: an R Package to Account for Spatial Autocorrelation in the Analysis of Lattice Data. Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e20760. Reprint
  • Essl, F., Bacher, S., Genovesi, P., Hulme, P. E., Jeschke, J. M., Katsanevakis, S., Kowarik, I., Kühn, I., Pyšek, P., Rabitsch, W., Schindler, S., Van Kleunen, M., Vilà, M., Wilson, J. R. U. & Richardson, D. M. (2018) Which Taxa Are Alien? Criteria, Applications, and Uncertainties. BioScience, 68, 496-509.
  • Haase, P., Tonkin, J. D., Stoll, S., Burkharde, B., Frenzel, M., Geijzendorffer, I. R., Hauser, C., Klotz, S., Kühn, I., Mcdowell, W. H., Mirtl, M., Muller, F., Musche, M., Penner, J., Zacharias, S. & Schmeller, D. S. (2018) The next generation of site-based long-term ecological monitoring: Linking essential biodiversity variables and ecosystem integrity. Science of the Total Environment, 613, 1376-1384.
  • Leitner, M., Kühn, I. 2018. Dispersal in Plants and Animals. In: Bunde, A., Caro, J., Kärger, J., Vogl, G., (Eds.): Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society. Springer: 29-47. Reprint
  • Menzel, A., Hempel, S., Davison, J., Moora, M., Pyšek, P., Rillig, M.C., Zobel, M., Kühn, I. 2018. Widely distributed native and alien plant species differ in arbuscular mycorrhizal associations and related functional trait interactions. Ecography: Early Online. Reprint
  • Singer, A., Schweiger, O., Kühn, I., Johst, K. 2018. Constructing a hybrid species distribution model from standard large-scale distribution data. Ecological Modelling 373: 39-52. Reprint
  • Steinbauer, M.J., Grytnes, J.-A., Jurasinski, G., Kulonen, A., Lenoir, J., Pauli, H., Rixen, C., Winkler, M., Bardy-Durchhalter, M., Barni, E., Bjorkman, A.D., Breiner, F.T., Burg, S., Czortek, P., Dawes, M.A., Delimat, A., Dullinger, S., Erschbamer, B., Felde, V.A., Fernández-Arberas, O., Fossheim, K.F., Gómez-García, D., Georges, D., Grindrud, E.T., Haider, S., Haugum, S.V., Henriksen, H., Herreros, M.J., Jaroszewicz, B., Jaroszynska, F., Kanka, R., Kapfer, J., Klanderud, K., Kühn, I., Lamprecht, A., Matteodo, M., di Cella, U.M., Normand, S., Odland, A., Olsen, S.L., Palacio, S., Petey, M., Piscová, V., Sedlakova, B., Steinbauer, K., Stöckli, V., Svenning, J.-C., Teppa, G., Theurillat, J.-P., Vittoz, P., Woodin, S.J., Zimmermann, N.E., Wipf, S. 2018. Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming. Nature 556: 231-234. doi 10.1038/s41586-018-0005-6
  • van Kleunen, M., Essl, F., Pergl, J., Brundu, G., Carboni, M., Dullinger, S., Early, R., Gonzalez-Moreno, P., Groom, Q.J., Hulme, P.E., Kueffer, C., Kühn, I., Maguas, C., Maurel, N., Novoa, A., Parepa, M., Pysek, P., Seebens, H., Tanner, R., Touza, J., Verbrugge, L., Weber, E., Dawson, W., Kreft, H., Weigelt, P., Winter, M., Klonner, G., Talluto, M.V., Dehnen-Schmutz, K. 2018. The changing role of ornamental horticulture in alien plant invasions. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. Reprint

    • 2017
  • Carl, G., Kühn, I. 2017. Spind: a package for computing spatially corrected accuracy measures. Ecography: 40: 675-682. doi: 10.1111/ecog.02593. Download
    Editor's Choice
  • Bueno, C.G., Moora, M., Gerz, M., Davison, J., Öpik, M., Pärtel, M., Helm, A., Ronk, A., Kühn, I., Zobel, M. 2017. Plant mycorrhizal status, but not type, shifts with latitude and elevation in Europe. Global Ecology and Biogeography. doi: 10.1111/geb.12582.Download
  • Datta A., Kühn I., Ahmad M., Michalski S., Auge H. 2017. Processes affecting altitudinal distribution of invasive Ageratina adenophora in western Himalaya: The role of local adaptation and the importance of different life-cycle stages. Plos One 12: e0187708. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0187708. Download
  • Kühn I., Wolf J., Schneider A. 2017. Is there an urban effect in alien plant invasions? Biological Invasions 19: 3505–3513. doi: 10.1007/s10530-017-1591-1. Download
  • Menzel, A., Hempel, S., Klotz, S., Moora, M., Pyšek, P., Rillig, M.C., Zobel, M., Kühn, I. 2017. Mycorrhizal status helps explain invasion success of alien plant species. Ecology 98: 92-102. Download
  • Papanikolaou, A.D., Kühn, I., Frenzel, M., Schweiger, O. 2017. Landscape heterogeneity enhances stability of wild bee abundance under highly varying temperature, but not under highly varying precipitation. Landscape Ecology 32: 581-593. doi: 10.1007/s10980-016-0471-x. Download
  • Papanikolaou, A.D., Kühn, I., Frenzel, M., Schweiger, O. 2017. Semi-natural habitats mitigate the effects of temperature rise on wild bees. Journal of Applied Ecology 54: 527-536. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12763. Download
  • Papanikolaou, A.D., Kühn, I., Frenzel, M., Kuhlmann, M., Poschlod, P., Potts, S.G., Roberts, S.P.M., Schweiger, O. 2017. Wild bee and floral diversity co-vary in response to the direct and indirect impacts of land use. Ecosphere 8: e02008. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.2008. Download

    • 2016
  • Carl, G., Doktor, D., Schweiger, O., Kühn, I. 2016. Assessing relative variable importance across different spatial scales: a two-dimensional wavelet analysis. Journal of Biogeography 43: 2502-2512. Download
  • Kambach, S., Kühn, I., Castagneyrol, B., Bruelheide, H. 2016. The Impact of Tree Diversity on Different Aspects of Insect Herbivory along a Global Temperature Gradient - A Meta-Analysis. Plos One 11: e0165815. Download
  • Maurel, N., Hanspach, J., Kühn, I., Pyšek, P., van Kleunen, M. 2016. Introduction bias affects relationships between the characteristics of ornamental alien plants and their naturalization success. Global Ecology and Biogeography 25: 1500 - 1509. Download
  • Menzel, A., Hempel, S., Manceur, A.M., Götzenberger, L., Moora, M., Rillig, M.C., Zobel, M., Kühn, I. 2016. Distribution patterns of arbuscular mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal plant species in Germany. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 21: 78-88. Download
  • Schleuning, M., Fründ, J., Schweiger, O., Welk, E., Albrecht, J., Albrecht, M., Beil, M., Benadi, G., Blüthgen, N., Bruelheide, H., Böhning-Gaese, K., Dehling, D.M., Dormann, C.F., Exeler, N., Farwig, N., Harpke, A., Hickler, T., Kratochwil, A., Kuhlmann, M., Kühn, I., Michez, D., Mudri-Stojnić, S., Plein, M., Rasmont, P., Schwabe, A., Settele, J., Vujić, A., Weiner, C.N., Wiemers, M., Hof, C. 2016. Ecological networks are more sensitive to plant than to animal extinction under climate change. Nature Communications 7: 13965. doi: 10.1038/ncomms13965. Open Access

    • 2015
  • Fuentes, N., Saldaña, A., Kühn, I., Klotz, S. 2015. Climatic and socio-economic factors determine the level of invasion by alien plants in Chile. Plant Ecology & Diversity 30: 609-628. doi: 10.1080/17550874.2014.984003. Reprint
  • Kumschick, S., Gaertner, M., Vilà, M., Essl, F., Jeschke, J.M., Pyšek, P., Ricciardi, A., Bacher, S., Blackburn, T.M., Dick, J.T.A., Evans, T., Hulme, P.E., Kühn, I., Mrugała, A., Pergl, J., Rabitsch, W., Richardson, D.M., Sendek, A., Winter, M. 2015. Ecological Impacts of Alien Species: Quantification, Scope, Caveats, and Recommendations. BioScience 65: 55–63. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biu193. Reprint
  • Pyšek, P., Manceur, A.M., Alba, C., McGregor, K.F., Pergl, J., Štajerová, K., Chytrý, M., Danihelka, J., Kartesz, J., Klimešová, J., Lučanová, M., Moravcová, L., Nishino, M., Sádlo, J., Suda, J., Tichý, L., Kühn, I. 2015. Naturalization of central European plants in North America: species traits, habitats, propagule pressure, residence time. Ecology 96: 762-774. doi: 10.1890/14-1005.1. Reprint

    • 2014
  • Aronson, M.F.J., La Sorte, F.A., Nilon, C.H., Katti, M., Goddard, M.A., Lepczyk, C.A., Warren, P.S., Williams, N.S.G., Cilliers, S., Clarkson, B., Dobbs, C., Dolan, R., Hedblom, M., Klotz, S., Kooijmans, J.L., Kühn, I., MacGregor-Fors, I., McDonnell, M., Mörtberg, U., Pyšek, P., Siebert, S., Sushinsky, J., Werner, P., Winter, M. 2014. A global analysis of the impacts of urbanization on bird and plant diversity reveals key anthropogenic drivers. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.3330. Reprint
    Community Choice Research Highlight, “most viewed papers in science” in Nature, April 2014 Volume 508.
  • Blackburn, T.M., Essl, F., Evans, T., Hulme, P.E., Jeschke, J.M., Kühn, I., Kumschick, S., Marková, Z., Mrugała, A., Nentwig, W., Pergl, J., Pyšek, P., Rabitsch, W., Ricciardi, A., Richardson, D.M., Sendek, A., Vilà, M., Wilson, J.R.U., Winter, M., Genovesi, P., Bacher, S. 2014. A Unified Classification of Alien Species Based on the Magnitude of their Environmental Impacts. Plos Biology 12: e1001850. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001850. Reprint
  • Dainese, M., Kühn, I., Bragazza, L. 2014. Alien plant species distribution in the European Alps: influence of species’ climatic requirements. Biological Invasions 16: 815-831. doi: 10.1007/s10530-013-0540-x. Reprint
  • Jeschke, J.M., Bacher, S., Blackburn, T.M., Dick, J.T., Essl, F., Evans, T., Gaertner, M., Hulme, P.E., Kühn, I., Mrugala, A., Pergl, J., Pysek, P., Rabitsch, W., Ricciardi, A., Richardson, D.M., Sendek, A., Vila, M., Winter, M., Kumschick, S. 2014. Defining the Impact of Non-Native Species. Conservation Biology 28: 1188-1194. doi: 10.1111/cobi.12299. Reprint
  • Manceur, A.M., Kühn, I. 2014. Inferring model-based probability of occurrence from preferentially sampled data with uncertain absences using expert knowledge. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5: 739-750. doi: 10.1111/2041-210x.12224. Reprint
  • La Sorte, F.A., Aronson, M.F.J., Williams, N.S.G., Celesti-Grapow, L., Cilliers, S., Clarkson, B.D., Dolan, R.W., Hipp, A., Klotz, S., Kühn, I., Pyšek, P., Siebert, S., Winter, M. 2014. Beta diversity of urban floras among European and non-European cities. Global Ecology and Biogeography 23: 769-779. doi: 10.1111/geb.12159. Reprint
  • Pompe, S., Hanspach, J., Badeck, F.W., Klotz, S., Bruelheide, H., Kühn, I. 2014. Using ecological and life-history characteristics for projecting species' responses to climate change. Frontiers of Biogeography 6: 119-131. Open Access
  • Pyšek, P., Jarošík, V., Pergl, J., Moravcová, L., Chytrý, M., Kühn, I. 2014. Temperate trees and shrubs as global invaders: the relationship between invasiveness and native distribution depends on biological traits. Biological Invasions 16: 577-589. doi: 10.1007/s10530-013-0600-2. Reprint

    • 2013
  • Carl, G., Doktor, D., Koslowsky, D., Kühn, I. 2013. Phase difference analysis of temperature and vegetation phenology for beech forest: a wavelet approach. Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment 27: 1221–1230. doi: 10.1007/s00477-012-0658-x. Reprint
  • Dullinger, S., Essl, F., Rabitsch, W., Erb, K.-H., Gingrich, S., Haberl, H., Hülber, K., Jarošík, V., Krausmann, F., Kühn, I., Pergl, J., Pyšek, P., Hulme, P.E. 2013. Europe’s other debt crisis caused by the long legacy of future extinctions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110: 7342-7347.(doi: 10.1073/pnas.1216303110) Download
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    • 2012
    ALARM Scenario Special Issue
  • Chytrý, M., Wild, J., Pyšek, P., Jarošík, V., Dendoncker, N., Reginster, I., Pino, J.,Maskell, L.C., Vilà, M., Kühn, I., Spangenberg, J.H., Settele, J. 2012. Projecting trends in plant invasions in Europe under different scenarios of future land-use change. Global Ecology & Biogeography 21. 75-87. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00573.x. Reprint
  • Hickler, T., Vohland, K, Miller, P.A:, Smith, B., Costa, L., Feehan, J., Giesecke, T., Fronzek, S.,Carter, T., Cramer, W., Kühn, I., Sykes, M.T. 2012. Projecting the future distribution of European potential natural vegetation zones with a generalized, tree species-based dynamic vegetation model. Global Ecology and Biogeography 21: 50-63. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00613.x. Reprint
  • Schweiger, O., Heikkinen, R.K., Harpke, A., Hickler, T., Klotz, S., Kudrna, O., Kühn, I., Pöyry, J., Settele, J. 2012. Increasing range mismatching of interacting species under global change is related to species traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography 21:88-99. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00607.x. Reprint
  • Settele, S., Carter, T., Kühn, I.,Spangenberg, J.H., Sykes, M. 2012. Editorial: Scenarios as a tool for large-scale ecological research - experiences and legacy of the ALARM project. Global Ecology & Biogeography 21: 1-4. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00720.x. Reprint
  • Spangenberg, J., Carter, T., Fronzek, S., Jaeger, J., Jylhä, K., Kühn, I., Omann, I., Paul, A., Reginster, I., Rounsevell, M., Schweiger, O., Stocker, A., Sykes, M., Settele, J. 2012. Scenarios for investigating risks to biodiversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography 21: 5-18. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00620.x. Reprint

  • Carl, G., Kühn, I. 2012. Autocorrelation Removal for Spatial Statistical Modelling and its Application to Biogeographical Data. In: Del Valle, M., Muñoz Guerrero, R., Gutiérrez Salgado, J.M., Eds Wavelets: Classification, Theory and Applications. Nova Science Publishers (New York): 67-96.
  • Knapp, S., Kühn, I. 2012. Origin matters: Widely distributed native and non-native species benefit from different functional traits. Ecology Letters: 696–703. (doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01787.x). Reprint
  • Kumschick, S., Bacher, S., Dawson, W., Heikkilä, J., Sendek, A., Pluess, T., Robinson, T.B., Kühn, I. 2012. A conceptual framework for prioritization of invasive alien species for management according to their impact. NeoBiota 15: 69-100. Reprint
  • Kühn, I., Dormann, C.F. 2012. Less than eight (and a half) misconceptions of spatial analysis. Journal of Biogeography 39: 995-998. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02707.x) Reprint
    Response to Hawkins (2012) Journal of Biogeography 39: 1-9.

    • 2011
  • Essl, F., Dullinger, S., Rabitsch, W., Hulme, P.E., Hülber, K., Jarošík,V., Kleinbauer, I., Krausmann, F., Kühn, I., Nentwig, W., Vilà, M., Genovesi, P., Gherardi, F., Desprez-Loustau, M.L., Roques, A., Pyšek, P. 2011. Socio-economic legacy yields an invasion debt. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108: 203-207. Open Access.
  • Hanspach, I., Kühn, I., Schweiger, O., Pompe, S., Klotz, S. 2011. Geographical patterns in prediction errors of species distribution models. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20: 779-788. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00649.x. Reprint .
  • Kühn, I., Kowarik, I., Kollmann, J., Starfinger, U., Bacher, S., Blackburn, T.M., Bustamante, R.O., Celesti-Grapow, L., Chytrý, M., Colautti, R.I., Essl, F., Foxcroft, L.C., García-Berthou, E., Gollasch, S., Hierro, J., Hufbauer, R.A., Hulme, P.E., Jarošík, V., Jeschke, J.M., Karrer, G., Mack, R.N., Molofsky, J., Murray, B.R., Nentwig, W., Osborne, B., Pyšek, P., Rabitsch, W., Rejmánek, M., Roques, A., Shaw, R., Sol, D., Kleunen, M.V., Vilà, M., Lippe, M.V.D., Wolfe, L.M. & Penev, L. 2011. Open minded and open access: Introducing neobiota, a new peer-reviewed journal of biological invasions. NeoBiota, 9: 1-12. (doi: 10.3897/neobiota.9.1835) Open Access.
  • Pyšek, P., Jarošík, V., Chytrý, M., Danihelka, J., Kühn, I.,Pergl, J., Tichý, L., Biesmeijer, J., Ellis,W., Kunin, W.E., Settele, J. 2011. Successful invaders co-opt pollinators of native flora and accumulate insect pollinators with increasing residence time. Ecological Monographs 81: 277-293. Reprint

    • 2010
  • Carl, G., Kühn, I. 2010. A wavelet-based extension of generalized linear models to remove the effect of spatial autocorrelation. Geographical Analysis 42: 323-337. Reprint
  • Pyšek, P., Jarošík, V., Hulme,P.E., Kühn, I., Wild, J., Arianoutsou, M., Bacher, S., Chiron, F., Didžiulis, V., Essl, F., Genovesi, P., Gherardi, F., Hejda, M., Kark, S., Lambdon, P.W., Desprez-Loustau, M.-L., Nentwig, W., Pergl, J., Poboljšaj, K., Rabitsch, W., Roques, A., Roy, D.B., Shirley, S., Solarz, W., Vilá, M., Winter, M. 2010. Disentangling the role of environmental and human pressures on biological invasions across Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107: 12157-12162. Open Access.
  • Schweiger, O., Biesmeijer, J.C., Bommarco, R., Hickler, T., Hulme, P. E., Klotz, S., Kühn, I., Moora, M., Nielsen, A., Ohlemüller, R., Petanidou, T., Potts, S. G., Pyšek, P., Stout, J., Sykes, M. T., Tscheulin, T., Vilà, M., Walther, G.-R., Westphal, C, Winter, M., Zobel, M., Settele, J. 2010. Multiple stressors on biotic interactions: how climate change and alien species interact to affect pollination. Biological Reviews 85: 777–795. Reprint
  • Winter, M., Kühn, I., La Sorte, F., Schweiger, O., Nentwig, W., Klotz, S. 2010 The role of non-native plants and vertebrates in defining patterns of compositional dissimilarity within and across continents. Global Ecology and Biogeography 19: 332–342. Reprint, Supporting Information

    • 2009
  • Kühn, I., Nobis, M.P., Durka, W. 2009. Combining spatial and phylogenetic filtering in a trait analysis of plant flowering phenology in Switzerland. Global Ecology & Biogeography 18: 745-758. Reprint, Supplement
  • Walther, G.-R., Roques, A., Hulme, P. E., Sykes, M. T., Pyšek, P., Kühn, I., Zobel, M., Bacher, S., Botta-Dukát, Z., Bugmann, H., Czúcz, B., Dauber, J., Hickler, T., Jarošík, V., Kenis, M., Klotz, S., Minchin, D., Moora, M., Nentwig, W., Ott, J., Panov, V. E., Reineking, B., Robinet, C., Semenchenko, V., Solarz, W., Thuiller, W., Vilà, M., Vohland, K., Settele, J. 2009. Alien species in a warmer world - risks and opportunities. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 24: 686-693. Reprint
  • Winter, M.,Schweiger, O., Klotz, S., Nentwig, W., Andriopoulos, P., Arianoutsou, M., Basnou, C., Delipetrou, P., Didziulis, V., Hejda, M., Hulme, P.E., Lambdon, P., Pergl, P., Pyšek, P., Roy, D., Kühn, I. 2009. Plant extinctions and introductions lead to phylogenetic and taxonomic homogenization of the European flora. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 21721-21725. Open Access.

    • 2008
  • Hulme, P.E., Bacher, S., Kenis, M., Klotz, S., Kühn, I., Minchin, D., Nentwig, W., Olenin, O., Panov, V., Pergl, J., Pyšek, P., Roques, A., Sol, D., Solarz, W. & Vilá, M. 2008: Grasping at the routes of biological invasions: a framework for integrating pathways into policy. Journal of Applied Ecology, 45: 403–414. Reprint
  • Kleyer, M., Bekker, R.M., Knevel, I.C., Bakker, J.P., Thompson, K., Sonnenschein, M., Poschlod, P., van Groenendael, J.M., Klimeš, L., Klimešová, J., Klotz, S., Rusch, G.M., Hermy, M., Adriaens, D., Boedeltje, G., Bossuyt, B., Dannemann, A., Endels, P., Götzenberger, L., Hodgson, J.G., Jackel, A-K., Kühn, I., Kunzmann, D.,Ozinga, W.A., Römermann, C., Stadler, M., Schlegelmilch, J., Steendam, H.J., Tackenberg, O., Wilmann, B., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Eriksson, O., Garnier, E., & Peco, B. 2008. The LEDA Traitbase: A database of plant life-history traits of North West European flora. Journal of Ecology 96:1266-1274. Reprint, Supplement
  • Küster, E. C., Kühn, I., Bruelheide, H., Klotz, S. 2008. Trait interactions help explain plant invasion success in the German flora. Journal of Ecology 96: 860-868. Reprint, Supplement
    featured as Editor's choice in Journal of Ecology 96(5) Editor's choice
  • Lambdon, P, Pyšek, P., Basnou, C., Arianoutsou, M., Ess, F., Hejda, M., Jarošík, V., Pergl, J., Winter, M., Anastasiu, P., Andriopoulos, P., Bazos, I., Brundu, G., Celesti-Grapow, L., Chassot, P., Delipetrou, P., Josefsson, M., Kark, S., Klotz, S., Kokkoris, Y., Kühn, I., Marchante, H., Perglová, I., Pino, J., Vilà, M., Zikos, A., Roy, D., Hulme, P. 2008. Alien flora of Europe: species diversity, temporal trends, geographical patterns and research needs. Preslia 80: 101-149. Reprint, Supplement
  • Pompe, S., Badeck, F.-W., Hanspach, J., Klotz, S., Thuiller, W., Kühn, I. 2008. Projecting impact on plant distributions under climate change - a case study from Germany. Biology Letters 4: 564-567. Reprint, Supplement
  • Schweiger, O., Settele, J., Kudrna, O., Klotz, S., Kühn, I. 2008. Climate change can cause spatial mismatch of trophically interacting species. Ecology 89: 3472–3479. Reprint, Appendices

    • 2007
  • Carl, G., Kühn, I. 2007. Analyzing spatial autocorrelation in species distributions using Gaussian and Logit models. Ecological Modelling, 207(2-4): 159-170. Reprint,
  • Dormann, C. F., McPherson, J. M., Araújo, M. B., Bivand, R., Bolliger, J., Carl, G., Davies, R. G., Hirzel, A., Jetz, W., Kissling, W. D., Kühn, I., Ohlemüller, R., Peres-Neto, P. R., Reineking, B., Schröder, B., Schurr, F. M., Wilson, R. 2007. Methods to account for spatial autocorrelation in the analysis of species distributional data: a review. Ecography 30: 609-628. Reprint, R-codes, data
  • Kühn, I. 2007. Incorporating spatial autocorrelation may invert observed patterns. Diversity & Distributions, 13: 66-69. Reprint, electronic appendix

    • 2006
  • Kühn, I., Bierman, S. M., Durka, W. and Klotz, S. 2006. Relating geographical variation in pollination types to environmental and spatial factors using novel statistical methods. New Phytologist, 172: 127-139. Reprint, electronic appendix
  • Kühn, I. and Klotz, S. 2006. Urbanisation and homogenization - comparing the floras of urban and rural areas in Germany. Biological Conservation, 127: 292-300. Reprint

    • pre 2006
  • Kühn, I., Brandenburg, M. and Klotz, S. 2004. Why do alien plant species that reproduce in natural habitats occur more frequently? Diversity & Distributions, 10(5/6): 417-425. Reprint
  • Kühn, I., Durka, W. and Klotz, S. 2004. BiolFlor – a new plant-trait database as a tool for plant invasion ecology. Diversity & Distributions, 10(5/6): 363-365. Reprint, electronic appendix
  • Kühn, I., Brandl, R. and Klotz, S. 2004. The flora of German cities is naturally species rich. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 6: 749-764. Reprint

  • Klotz, S., Kühn, I. and Durka, W. 2002 (eds.). BIOLFLOR – Eine Datenbank zu biologisch-ökologischen Merkmalen der Gefäßpflanzen in Deutschland. Schriftenreihe für Vegetationskunde 38. Bonn: Bundesamt für Naturschutz. 334 S.

Curriculum vitae

since 7/2022

Head of Department

since 3/2014

Professor for “Macroecology” at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg.

2010

Call as Full Professor to the chair of “Landscape Ecology and Vegetation Science” (W3), University of Hohenheim; declined.

since 2004

Scientist at the UFZ Department of Community Ecology.

2001 - 2004

Postdoctoral Research Associate at the UFZ Department of Community Ecology.

1997 - 2000

PhD student at the chair of Systematic Botany, SG Geobotany, University of Bochum about flora and vegetation of ancient and recent forest in Westphalia.

1995 - 2001

Postgraduate Research Associate at the chair of Evolution and Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bochum (standard list of the flora of Germany, mapping scheme for the flora of Westphalia, Federal Information System on Genetic Ressources).

Federal Information System on Genetic Ressources

1991 - 1994

Grant of the 'National German Academic Foundation' (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes).

German Academic Foundation

1988 - 1994

Studies of biology and geography at the universities of Münster and Bochum, with a major in geobotany and minors in animal ecology and physical geography.

Scientific Affiliations