Publications
The full list is below, newest first. It is also available — with citation counts and further statistics — on Google Scholar, ORCID, Scopus, Web of Science and Semantic Scholar.
- Articles
- 100+
- Co-authors
- 632+
- Citations
- 27,963
- h-index
- 55
Citations and h-index per Google Scholar, July 2026. Article and co-author counts per Scopus.
2026
2025
Human and apex predators shape lower trophic levels through top-down control
Learning from fungicide resistance: evolutionary insights to guide RNAi-based control of fungal crop pathogens
Advancing general ecosystem models (GEMs): towards a mechanistic understanding of the biosphere in the light of the Anthropocene
Assembly processes inferred from eDNA surveys of a pond metacommunity are consistent with known species ecologies
Using the ODD protocol and NetLogo to replicate agent-based models
2024
Latitudinal patterns in stabilizing density dependence of forest communities
Novel community data in ecology — properties and prospects
Consequences of local conspecific density effects for plant diversity and community dynamics
Fitting individual-based models of spatial population dynamics to long-term monitoring data
cito: an R package for training neural networks using torch
Inferring the tree regeneration niche from inventory data using a dynamic forest model
Analyzing longitudinal trait trajectories using GWAS identifies genetic variants for kidney function decline
The road to integrate climate change projections with regional land-use–biodiversity models
2023
2022
Studying speciation and extinction dynamics from phylogenies: addressing identifiability issues
The evidence contained in the P-value is context dependent
Accuracy, realism and general applicability of European forest models
Climate-driven, but dynamic and complex? A reconciliation of competing hypotheses for species' distributions
Climate and parameter sensitivity and induced uncertainties in carbon stock projections for European forests (using LPJ-GUESS 4.0)
Deer behavior affects density estimates with camera traps, but is outweighed by spatial variability
Issues in calibrating models with multiple unbalanced constraints: the significance of systematic model and data errors
The internal structure of metacommunities
2021
Is variation in conspecific negative density dependence driving tree diversity patterns at large scales?
A new joint species distribution model for faster and more accurate inference of species associations from big community data
Towards robust statistical inference for complex computer models
Sequential Monte-Carlo algorithms for Bayesian model calibration — a review and method comparison
Linking functional traits and demography to model species-rich communities
gen3sis: a general engine for eco-evolutionary simulations of the processes that shape Earth's biodiversity
Siberian plants shift their phenology in response to climate change
Inferring species interactions using Granger causality and convergent cross mapping
Species and genetic diversity patterns show different responses to land use intensity in central European grasslands
Environmental heterogeneity predicts global species richness patterns better than area
Explainable artificial intelligence enhances the ecological interpretability of black-box species distribution models
2020
Machine learning algorithms to infer trait-matching and predict species interactions in ecological networks
The MDD concept for establishing trust in non-significant results — a critical review
r3PG — an R package for simulating forest growth using the 3-PG process-based model
Prior hypotheses or regularization allow inference of diversification histories from extant timetrees
Preprint. Comment on Louca & Pennell, Nature, 2020.
Plant species richness increases with light availability, but not variability, in temperate forests understorey
The PROFOUND database for evaluating vegetation models and simulating climate impacts on European forests
Assessing the response of forest productivity to climate extremes in Switzerland using model–data fusion
Advancing an interdisciplinary framework to study seed dispersal ecology
Towards a new generation of trait-flexible vegetation models
Available and missing data to model impact of climate change on European forests
The influence of camera trap flash type on the behavioural reactions and trapping rates of red deer and roe deer
Bayesian calibration of a growth-dependent tree mortality model to simulate the dynamics of European temperate forests
2019
A minimal model for the latitudinal diversity gradient suggests a dominant role for ecological limits
The total dispersal kernel: a review and future directions
Global warming likely to enhance black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) growth in a Mediterranean riparian forest
The multi-dimensional nature of information drives prioritization of private over social information in ants
Defaunation of large-bodied frugivores reduces carbon storage in a tropical forest of Southeast Asia
A model with many small shifts for estimating species-specific diversification rates
Rapid changes in seed dispersal traits may modify plant responses to global change
Calibrating an individual-based movement model to predict functional connectivity for little owls
Employing plant functional groups to advance seed dispersal ecology and conservation
The latitudinal diversity gradient: novel understanding through mechanistic eco-evolutionary models
Chilling and forcing temperatures interact to predict the onset of wood formation in Northern Hemisphere conifers
The recruitment niche predicts plant community assembly across a hydrological gradient along plowed and undisturbed transects in a former agricultural wetland
Tree mortality submodels drive simulated long-term forest dynamics: assessing 15 models from the stand to global scale
A temperature-based model for predicting the immigration of Cacopsylla melanoneura and C. picta, vectors of the apple proliferation disease, in South Tyrol, Northern Italy (Hemiptera: Psylloidea)
An R package facilitating sensitivity analysis, calibration and forward simulations with the LPJ-GUESS dynamic vegetation model
2018
Comment on “Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale”
Using synthetic data to evaluate the benefits of large field plots for forest biomass estimation with LiDAR
Model averaging in ecology: a review of Bayesian, information-theoretic and tactical approaches
Biotic interactions in species distribution modelling: ten questions to guide interpretation and avoid false conclusions
An extended empirical saddlepoint approximation for intractable likelihoods
A comparison of methods for estimating plant population size
Last-century forest productivity in a managed dry-edge Scots pine population: the two sides of climate warming
2017
Structure and community composition in a tropical forest suggest a change of ecological processes during stand development
Productivity of Fagus sylvatica under climate change — a Bayesian analysis of risk and uncertainty using the model 3-PG
The NUCOMBog R package for simulating vegetation, water, carbon and nitrogen dynamics in peatlands
Simulation modeling
Book chapter, edited by D. Gibson.
Do roe deer react to wildlife warning reflectors? A test combining a controlled experiment with field observations
Cross-validation strategies for data with temporal, spatial, hierarchical, or phylogenetic structure
Identifying local drivers of a vector-pathogen-disease system using Bayesian modeling
Functional flower traits and their diversity drive pollinator visitation
Mechanistic models in macroecology and biogeography: state-of-art and prospects
2016
Drought response of radial growth in Pinus sylvestris is affected by thinning intensity and time since the last thinning
Community dynamics under climate change: will next generation mechanistic models improve projections of species distributions?
Intraspecific trait variation across scales: implications for understanding global change responses
2015
Assessing over- and understory density of temperate mixed forest stands by airborne LiDAR data
A genetic analysis reveals low prevalence of phytoplasma infection in Hyalesthes obsoletus Signoret, vector of bois noir, in SW-Germany
Preprint.
Stratified aboveground forest biomass estimation by remote sensing data
Bayesian inference of environmental and biotic factors determining the occurrence of the grapevine disease bois noir
Dale & Fortin — the revised guide to spatial analysis
2014
Importance of sample size, data type and prediction method for remote sensing based estimations of aboveground forest biomass
On the sympatric evolution and evolutionary stability of coexistence by relative nonlinearity of competition
Ecological and economic conditions and associated institutional challenges for conservation banking in dynamic landscapes
EU agricultural reform fails on biodiversity
Technical note: approximate Bayesian parameterization of a process-based tropical forest model
2013
Does “model-free” forecasting really outperform the “true” model?
On the challenge of fitting tree size distributions in ecology
Process, correlation and parameter fitting in species distribution models: a response to Kriticos et al.
Bayesian calibration, comparison and averaging of six forest models, using data from Scots pine stands across Europe
2012
Connecting dynamic vegetation models to data — an inverse perspective
Parameter and uncertainty estimation for process-oriented population and distribution models: data, statistics and the niche
How to understand species niches and range dynamics: a demographic research agenda for biogeography
Correlation and process in species distribution models: bridging a dichotomy
Offsetting policies for biodiversity conservation: the need for compensating habitat relocation
Book chapter, edited by F. Jordán and S. E. Jørgensen.
2011
Statistical inference for stochastic simulation models — theory and application
Conserving biodiversity with tradable permits under changing conservation costs and habitat restoration time lags
Biodiversity conservation in dynamic landscapes: trade-offs between number, connectivity and turnover of habitat patches
Applying tradable permits to biodiversity conservation: design issues, modelling and policies
Book chapter, edited by B. Hansjürgens, R. Antes and M. Strunz.