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

• Television: Dramatisches Insektensterben
  For those who missed yesterday's edition of ORF's Zeit im Bild 2 about the massive insect loss featuring relevant statements by Franz Essl (University of Vienna - CVL), the report is available on ORF TVthek.
  Link: https://tvthek.orf.at/profile/konkret/13887640/konkret/14004243/Dramatisches-Insektensterben/14445535
• Zeitungsbericht: Betoniergehabe: Österreich könnte bald zugepflastert sein
  Wenn so gedankenlos weitergebaut wird wie bisher, ist Österreich bis zum Jahr 2050 praktisch zugepflastert - von den klimatechnischen Folgen ganz zu schweigen. Wie kann der Flächenfraß gestoppt werden?
  
  Unser Kollege Franz Essl (University of Vienna - CVL) kommt dazu in der aktuellen Ausgabe von profil zu Wort.
  profil: https://www.profil.at/wissenschaft/verbauung-flaechenwidmung-oesterreich-10643712
• RADIO FEATURE: "Artenvielfalt - Wandernde Tierarten lange unbemerkt"
  Wie lange dauert es, bis man bemerkt, dass sich eine Tier- oder Pflanzenart in einem neuen Lebensraum angesiedelt hat? Damit hat sich ein Team aus Tschechien, Serbien, Deutschland und Österreich in einer neuen Studie beschäftigt. Manchmal könne es Jahre und Jahrzehnte dauern, bis man sogenannte "invasive Arten" überhaupt bemerkt.
  
  Mit: Franz Essl, Ökologe und Biodiversitätsexperte
  Ö1: https://oe1.orf.at/player/20190124/540505
• Award of Excellence
  Our colleague Sabine Rumpf was honoured with the Award of Excellence ('Staatspreis für die besten Dissertationen') for her outstanding PhD thesis by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research.
  
  
  
• Our colleague Franz Essl is among the highly cited researchers 2018
  This list recognizes researchers selected for their exceptional research performance, demonstrated by producing multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% citations for their field and year in Web of Science.
  
  Congratulations!
  Links:
  Claricate Analytics: https://clarivate.com/
  
  Der Standard: https://derstandard.at/2000092503133/40-in-Oesterreich-taetige-Forscher-unter-meistzitierten-Wissenschaftern
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newest publications

2019

Bea Maas, Sacha Heath, Ingo Grass, Camila Cassano, Alice Classen, Deborah Faria, Pierre Gras, Kimberly Williams-Guillén, Matthew Johnson, Daniel S. Karp, Valerie Linden, Alejandra Martínez-Salinas, Julia M. Schmack, Sara Kross: Experimental field exclosure of birds and bats in agricultural systems — Methodological insights, potential improvements, and cost-benefit trade-offs. Basic and Applied Ecology 35: 1-12 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2018.12.002

Robin J. Pakeman, Amanda Bates, Richard T. Corlett, Graeme S. Cumming, David Johns, Lian Pin Koh, Rafael Loyola, Bea Maas, Liba Pejchar, Richard B. Primack, Tracey J. Regan, Robin Roth, Laurent Godet, Danielle Descoteaux, Vincent Devictor: Fifty years of biological conservation. Biological Conservation 230: A1-A4 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.12.005

Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, Richard B. Primack, Vincent Devictor, Richard T. Corlett, Graeme S. Cumming, Rafael Loyola, Bea Maas, Liba Pejchar: How does habitat fragmentation affect biodiversity? A controversial question at the core of conservation biology. Biological Conservation https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.12.029

Janet S. Prevéy, Christian Rixen, Nadja Rüger, Toke T. Høye, Anne D. Bjorkman, Isla H. Myers-Smith, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Isabel W. Ashton, Nicoletta Cannone, Chelsea L. Chisholm, Karin Clark, Elisabeth J. Cooper, Bo Elberling, Anna Maria Fosaa, Greg H.R. Henry, Robert D. Hollister, Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir, Kari Klanderud, Christopher W. Kopp, Esther Lévesque, Marguerite Mauritz, Ulf Molau, Susan M. Natali, Steven F. Oberbauer, Zoe A. Panchen, Eric Post, Sabine B. Rumpf, Niels Martin Schmidt, Edward Schuur, Philipp R. Semenchuk, Jane G. Smith, Katharine N. Suding, Ørjan Totland, Tiffany Troxler, Susanna Venn, Carl Henrik Wahren, Jeffrey M. Welker, Sonja Wipf: Warming shortens flowering seasons of tundra plant communities. Nature Ecology and Evolution 3: 45-52 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0745-6

Philipp R. Semenchuk, Eveline J. Krab, Mattias Hedenström, Carly A. Phillips, Francisco J. Ancin-Murguzur, Elisabeth J. Cooper: Soil organic carbon depletion and degradation in surface soil after long-term non-growing season warming in High Arctic Svalbard. Science of the Total Environment 646: 158-167 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.07.150

Rupert Seidl, Günther Klonner, Werner Rammer, Franz Essl, Adam Moreno, Mathias Neumann, Stefan Dullinger: Invasive alien pests threaten the carbon stored in Europe's forests. Nature Communications 9 (1) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04096-w

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