Dr. Thore Engel
Academic Staff
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)
Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Puschstraße 4
04103 Leipzig
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Research Interests
I am an interdisciplinary ecologist at the interface between people, data and patterns in biodiversity research and conservation. My work revolves around biodiversity change in space and time, quantitative methods and participatory research. In my role as a coordinator within the NFDI4Biodiversity project, I collaborate with various stakeholders on the development of the “Living atlas of nature Germany” as a GBIF-hosted portal. I have a strong interest in art-science collaborations and I am inspired and nurtured by the science in silence. Scientific Career
since 06/2022
Scientific Employee/Post-doctoral Researcher - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
11/2027-11/2023
Doctoral researcher - Biodiversity Synthesis, MLU Halle-Wittenberg, iDiv
09/2015 - 09/2017
M.Sc. International Master in Applied Ecology -University of Poitiers, University of Coimbra, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
10/2012 - 08/2015
B.Sc. Molecular Ecosystem Sciences - Göttingen University, semester abroad at Bangor University
Publications
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2025 (2)
- Güntsch, A., Overmann, J., Ebert, B., Bonn, A., Le Bras, Y., Engel, T., Hovstad, K.A., Lange Canhos, D.A., Newman, P., van Ommen Kloeke, E., Ratcliffe, S., le Roux, M., Smith, V.S., Triebel, D., Fichtmueller, D., Luther, K. (2025):
National biodiversity data infrastructures: ten essential functions for science, policy, and practice
Bioscience 75 (2), 139 - 151 10.1093/biosci/biae109 - McGlinn, D.J., Blowes, S.A., Dornelas, M., Engel, T., Martins, I.S., Shimadzu, H., Gotelli, N.J., Magurran, A., McGill, B.J., Chase, J.M. (2025):
Disentangling nonrandom structure from random placement when estimating β-diversity through space or time
Ecosphere 16 (3), e70061 10.1002/ecs2.70061
2024 (5)
- Blowes, S.A., McGill, B., Brambilla, V., Chow, C.F.Y., Engel, T., Fontrodona-Eslava, A., Martins, I.S., McGlinn, D., Moyes, F., Sagouis, A., Shimadzu, H., van Klink, R., Xu, W.-B., Gotelli, N.J., Magurran, A., Dornelas, M., Chase, J.M. (2024):
Synthesis reveals approximately balanced biotic differentiation and homogenization
Sci. Adv. 10 (8), eadj9395 10.1126/sciadv.adj9395 - Blowes, S.A., McGill, B., Brambilla, V., Chow, C.F.Y., Engel, T., Fontrodona-Eslava, A., Martins, I.S., McGlinn, D., Moyes, F., Sagouis, A., Shimadzu, H., van Klink, R., Xu, W.-B., Gotelli, N.J., Magurran, A., Dornelas, M., Chase, J.M. (2024):
sablowes/WhittakerBetaChange: v1.0
Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.10460999 - Chowdhury, S., Bowler, D., Boutaud, E., Bleich, O., Bruelheide, H., Buse, J., Engel, T., Gebert, J., Grescho, V., Gürlich, S., Harry, I., Jansen, F., Klenke, R.A., van Klink, R., Winter, M., Bonn, A. (2024):
Widespread decline of ground beetles in Germany
EcoEvoRxiv 10.32942/X2XS66 - McGlinn, D.J., Xiao, X., May, F., McGill, B.J., Engel, T., Oliver, C., Blowes, S.A., Knight, T., Purschke, O., Gotelli, N.J., Chase, J.M. (2024):
MoBiodiv/mobr
Version: v.3.0.1 Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.13914830 - Sheard, J.K., Adriaens, T., Bowler, D.E., Büermann, A., Calaghan, C.T., Camprasse, E.C.M., Chowdhury, S., Engel, T., Finch, E.A., von Gönner, J., Hsing, P.-Y., Mikula, P., Oh, R.R.Y., Peters, B., Phartyal, S.S., Pocock, M.J.O., Wäldchen, J., Bonn, A. (2024):
Emerging technologies in citizen science and potential for insect monitoring
Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B-Biol. Sci. 379 (1904), art. 20230106 10.1098/rstb.2023.0106
2023 (5)
- Engel, T., Bruelheide, H., Hoss, D., Sabatini, F.M., Altman, J., Arfin-Khan, M.A.S., Bergmeier, E., Černý, T., Chytrý, M., Dainese, M., Dengler, J., Dolezal, J., Field, R., Fischer, F.M., Huygens, D., Jandt, U., Jansen, F., Jentsch, A., Karger, D.N., Kattge, J., Lenoir, J., Lens, F., Loos, J., Niinemets, Ü., Overbeck, G.E., Ozinga, W.A., Penuelas, J., Peyre, G., Phillips, O., Reich, P.B., Römermann, C., Sandel, B., Schmidt, M., Schrodt, F., Velez-Martin, E., Violle, C., Pillar, V. (2023):
Functional community structure, climate and NDVI for selected sPlot locations [Dataset]
iDiv Data Repository 10.25829/idiv.3534-q4ja39 - Engel, T., Bruelheide, H., Hoss, D., Sabatini, F.M., Altman, J., Arfin-Khan, M.A.S., Bergmeier, E., Černý, T., Chytrý, M., Dainese, M., Dengler, J., Dolezal, J., Field, R., Fischer, F.M., Huygens, D., Jandt, U., Jansen, F., Jentsch, A., Karger, D.N., Kattge, J., Lenoir, J., Lens, F., Loos, J., Niinemets, Ü., Overbeck, G.E., Ozinga, W.A., Penuelas, J., Peyre, G., Phillips, O., Reich, P.B., Römermann, C., Sandel, B., Schmidt, M., Schrodt, F., Velez-Martin, E., Violle, C., Pillar, V. (2023):
Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally
Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. 32 (5), 695 - 706 10.1111/geb.13644 - Engel, T., Chowdhury, S., Friedrichs-Manthey, M., von Gönner, J., Herrmann, T., Klenke, R., Sheard, J.K., Peters, B., Bonn, A. (2023):
Digitalisierung in Citizen Science und Naturschutz – Anwendungsbeispiele aus der Praxis. Digital technologies in citizen science and nature conservation – Overview of practical examples
Nat. Landschaft 98 (6/7), 319 - 329 10.19217/NuL2023-06-07 - Köpke, R., Wolf, S., Koppernock, M., Engel, T. (2023):
From the perspective of the safety net. Documentation of the art residency and exhibition 2023 organised by iDiv, UFZ and NFDI4Biodiversity
Deutsches Zentrum für Integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig; Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung – UFZ, Leipzig, 119 pp. 10.5281/zenodo.8263199 - Sheard, J.K., Büermann, A., Chowdhury, S., Engel, T., Finch, E.A., Oh, R.R.Y., Bonn, A. (2023):
Survey: CITIZEN SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES - How can we harness and improve the use of technologies in citizen science? (1.0.0) [Data set]
Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.10051199