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Prof. Dr. Karin FrankKarin Frank
Office:
Heike ReicheltOesa Secretary Office
Assistance starting May 2023: Adrian Luft
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.
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OESA Seminars
3 November 2022, 11:00 a.m.
"Agricultural ecosystem services under climate changes – modelling grassland biodiversity"
Thibault Moulin
FU Berlin
23 May 2022, 2 p.m.
" B3GET: A generalized agent-based model of primate ecology, evolution, and social behavior"
Dr. Kristin Crouse
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
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 Minnesota
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)
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
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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 - 654full text (doi) Bartkowski, B., Schepanski, K., Bredenbeck, S., Müller, B. (2023):Wind erosion in European agricultural landscapes: More than physics People Nat. 5 (1), 34 - 44full text (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. full text (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 - 949full text (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. 2146537full text (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. 112881full text (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. 109769full text (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 - 6984full text (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), e2202112119full text (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. 112845full text (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 - 1041full text (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 - 338full text (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), e2117814119full text (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. 852167full text (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 - 544full text (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 - 2316full text (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. 1full text (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 - 2891full text (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. 105375full text (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. 125013full text (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 - 708full 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 - 1486full text (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 - 542full text (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. 113201full 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), eabg7012full text (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 - 416full text (doi) Habtemariam, L.T. , Will, M. , Müller, B. (2021):Agricultural insurance through the lens of rural household dietary diversity Glob. Food Secur. 28 , art. 100485full text (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), e01452full text (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 - 1173full text (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 - 3684full text (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 - 636full text (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. 102201full text (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. 102240full text (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. 144324full text (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 - 973full text (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 - 205full text (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 - 1363full text (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. 4959full text (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. 111597full text (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 - 1890full text (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. 102085full text (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. 137100full text (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 - 1320full text (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 - 1096full text (doi)
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