mission statement

Our goal is to understand the processes that drive biodiversity patterns and their spatio-temporal dynamics across scales, the assembly of ecological communities, the factors that determine the value of landscapes for ecosystem service provision

By observing and predicting the long-term effects of global change and of socio-economic activities (including climate and landuse change, landscape fragmentation and habitat loss, biological invasions) on biodiversity patterns, we want to provide the knowledge basis for sound conservation management and ecological restoration.

current news

• ▶ Ö1 Radiokolleg - Das große Insektensterben
• ▶ New positions: Post-Doc position in Biodiversity Research
  and PhD position: Modellling range dynamics of plants and butterflies
• ▶ A study from researchers of the CVL is covered in Science as a highlight in biogeographical research in other journals. See the article at http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6378/881.3 and the original publication at http://www.pnas.org/content/115/8/1848
• ▶ A study of researchers from the CVL was on the cover of PNAS. It suggests that the elevational ranges of plants in the European Alps have shifted upslope and their abundance has increased on average over the past several decades, that the speed of these changes decreased with increasing elevation, and that species at the highest elevations are at risk from climate change and competitors. See the article at http://www.pnas.org/content/115/8/1848
  
  
• ▶ New position: Tenure-Track Professorship for the field of Invasion Biology
• ▶ New position: PhD position in invasion ecology/macro ecology

newest publications

2018

Sabine Bettina Rumpf, Inger Greve Alsos, Chris Ware: Prevention of microbial species introductions to the Arctic: The efficacy of footwear disinfection measures on cruise ships. NeoBiota 37: 37–49 neobiota.37.22088

Sabine Bettina Rumpf, Karl Hülber, Günther Klonner, Dietmar Moser, Martin Schütz, Johannes Wessely, Wolfgang Willner, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Stefan Dullinger: Range dynamics of mountain plants decrease with elevation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) 115 (8): 1848–1853

Vanessa Stelzenmüller, Marta Coll, Antonios D. Mazaris, Sylvaine Giakoumi, Stelios Katsanevakis, Michelle E. Portman, Renate Degen, Peter Mackelworth, Antje Gimpel, Paolo G. Albano, Vasiliki Almpanidou, Joachim Claudet, Franz Essl, Thanasis Evagelopoulos, Johanna J. Heymans, Tilen Genov, Salit Kark, Fiorenza Micheli, Maria Grazia Pennino, Gil Rilov, Bob Rumes, Jeroen Steenbeek, Henn Ojaveer: A risk-based approach to cumulative effect assessments for marine management. Science of the Total Environment 612: 1132–1140 j.scitotenv.2017.08.289

Karl Heinz Erb, Thomas Kastner, Christoph Plutzar, Anna Liza S. Bais, Nuno Carvalhais, Tamara Fetzel, Simone Gingrich, Helmut Haberl, Christian Lauk, Maria Niedertscheider, Julia Pongratz, Martin Thurner, Sebastiaan Luyssaert: Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass. Nature 553 (7686): 73–76 nature25138

Marta Carboni, Maya Guéguen, Ceres Barros, Damien Georges, Isabelle Boulangeat, Rolland Douzet, Stefan Dullinger, Guenther Klonner, Mark van Kleunen, Franz Essl, Oliver Bossdorf, Emily Haeuser, Matthew V. Talluto, Dietmar Moser, Svenja Block, Luisa Conti, Iwona Dullinger, Tamara Münkemüller, Wilfried Thuiller: Simulating plant invasion dynamics in mountain ecosystems under global change scenarios. Global Change Biology 24 (1): e289–e302 gcb.13879

Philip E. Hulme, Giuseppe Brundu, Marta Carboni, Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz, Stefan Dullinger, Regan Early, Franz Essl, Pablo González-Moreno, Quentin J. Groom, Christoph Kueffer, Ingolf Kühn, Noëlie Maurel, Ana Novoa, Jan Pergl, Petr Pyšek, Hanno Seebens, Rob Tanner, Julia M. Touza, Mark van Kleunen, Laura N.H. Verbrugge: Integrating invasive species policies across ornamental horticulture supply chains to prevent plant invasions. Journal of Applied Ecology 55 (1): 92–98 1365-2664.12953

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