Publications
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- 121
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- 632+
- Citations
- 29,408
- h-index
- 57
- i10-index
- 107
Citations, h-index and i10-index per Google Scholar, September 2026. Article count is the exact number of entries in the publication list on this site. Co-author count per Scopus.
Preprint
Equivalence testing in pesticide risk assessment — evaluation and practical guidance for design, analysis and interpretation
Analyzing animal movement using deep learning
A novel age-informative polygenic score improves predictive ability for kidney function and kidney function decline
Dispersion tests in generalised linear mixed-effects models — a methods comparison and practical guide
preprint1 citations
Graph neural networks for likelihood-free inference in diversification models
preprint24 citations
Predicting interaction frequency in plant-pollinator networks
preprint2 citations
Is there a robust effect of mainland mutualism rates on species richness of oceanic islands?
preprint1 citations
Prior hypotheses or regularization allow inference of diversification histories from extant timetrees
Preprint. Comment on Louca & Pennell, Nature, 2020.
doi:10.1101/2020.07.03.185074preprint32 citations
A genetic analysis reveals low prevalence of phytoplasma infection in Hyalesthes obsoletus Signoret, vector of bois noir, in SW-Germany
2026
Evaluating the Robustness of Process-Pattern Links Using Phylogenies — Insights from a Comparison of Eight Simulation Models
Impacts of climate change on biodiversity and ecosystems in Bavaria: a sectoral analysis
doi:10.1007/s10113-026-02586-y1 citations
Hydrological recruitment niches of wetland plants are associated with dormancy, alternating temperature, and oxygen requirements
Calibration, sensitivity and uncertainty analysis of complex ecological models — a review
doi:10.1111/ele.70375preprint2 citations
Full prediction uncertainty quantification: a plea from science and decision making
Efficiency of RNAi-based gene silencing in fungi: a meta-analysis
2025
Species richness gradients vary across phylogenetic scales
doi:10.1111/geb.700672 citations
Human and apex predators shape lower trophic levels through top-down control
doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2025.1113524 citations
Learning from fungicide resistance: evolutionary insights to guide RNAi-based control of fungal crop pathogens
doi:10.1016/j.fbr.2025.10044322 citations
Assembly processes inferred from eDNA surveys of a pond metacommunity are consistent with known species ecologies
doi:10.1111/ecog.07461preprint9 citations
Advancing general ecosystem models (GEMs): towards a mechanistic understanding of the biosphere in the light of the Anthropocene
doi:10.1002/2688-8319.700534 citations
Using the ODD protocol and NetLogo to replicate agent-based models
doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2024.11096729 citations
2024
Latitudinal patterns in stabilizing density dependence of forest communities
doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07118-475 citations
Novel community data in ecology — properties and prospects
doi:10.1016/j.tree.2023.09.017105 citations
Consequences of local conspecific density effects for plant diversity and community dynamics
doi:10.1111/ele.1450622 citations
Fitting individual-based models of spatial population dynamics to long-term monitoring data
doi:10.1002/eap.296612 citations
cito: an R package for training neural networks using torch
doi:10.1111/ecog.071438 citations
Inferring the tree regeneration niche from inventory data using a dynamic forest model
doi:10.5194/gmd-17-2727-20249 citations
Analyzing longitudinal trait trajectories using GWAS identifies genetic variants for kidney function decline
doi:10.1038/s41467-024-54483-915 citations
The road to integrate climate change projections with regional land-use–biodiversity models
doi:10.1002/pan3.1047237 citations
2023
2022
Studying speciation and extinction dynamics from phylogenies: addressing identifiability issues
doi:10.1016/j.tree.2022.02.00488 citations
The evidence contained in the P-value is context dependent
doi:10.1016/j.tree.2022.02.01121 citations
Accuracy, realism and general applicability of European forest models
doi:10.1111/gcb.1638474 citations
Climate-driven, but dynamic and complex? A reconciliation of competing hypotheses for species' distributions
doi:10.1111/ele.1390243 citations
Climate and parameter sensitivity and induced uncertainties in carbon stock projections for European forests (using LPJ-GUESS 4.0)
doi:10.5194/gmd-15-6495-2022preprint25 citations
Deer behavior affects density estimates with camera traps, but is outweighed by spatial variability
doi:10.3389/fevo.2022.88150250 citations
Issues in calibrating models with multiple unbalanced constraints: the significance of systematic model and data errors
doi:10.1111/2041-210X.1400232 citations
The internal structure of metacommunities
doi:10.1111/oik.08618preprint115 citations
2021
Is variation in conspecific negative density dependence driving tree diversity patterns at large scales?
doi:10.1016/j.tree.2020.10.00395 citations
A new joint species distribution model for faster and more accurate inference of species associations from big community data
doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13687132 citations
Towards robust statistical inference for complex computer models
doi:10.1111/ele.1372846 citations
Sequential Monte-Carlo algorithms for Bayesian model calibration — a review and method comparison
doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2021.10960845 citations
Linking functional traits and demography to model species-rich communities
doi:10.1038/s41467-021-22630-1preprint53 citations
gen3sis: a general engine for eco-evolutionary simulations of the processes that shape Earth's biodiversity
doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001340preprint125 citations
Siberian plants shift their phenology in response to climate change
doi:10.1111/gcb.15744123 citations
Inferring species interactions using Granger causality and convergent cross mapping
doi:10.1007/s12080-020-00482-7preprint70 citations
Species and genetic diversity patterns show different responses to land use intensity in central European grasslands
doi:10.1111/ddi.131999 citations
Environmental heterogeneity predicts global species richness patterns better than area
doi:10.1111/geb.1326199 citations
Explainable artificial intelligence enhances the ecological interpretability of black-box species distribution models
doi:10.1111/ecog.05360preprint233 citations
2020
Machine learning algorithms to infer trait-matching and predict species interactions in ecological networks
doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13329preprint222 citations
The Minimum Detectable Difference (MDD) concept for establishing trust in nonsignificant results — a critical review
doi:10.1002/etc.484743 citations
r3PG — an R package for simulating forest growth using the 3-PG process-based model
doi:10.1111/2041-210X.1347458 citations
Plant species richness increases with light availability, but not variability, in temperate forests understorey
doi:10.1186/s12898-020-00311-9242 citations
The PROFOUND database for evaluating vegetation models and simulating climate impacts on European forests
doi:10.5194/essd-12-1295-2020preprint75 citations
Assessing the response of forest productivity to climate extremes in Switzerland using model–data fusion
doi:10.1111/gcb.15011111 citations
Advancing an interdisciplinary framework to study seed dispersal ecology
doi:10.1093/aobpla/plz04874 citations
Towards a new generation of trait-flexible vegetation models
doi:10.1016/j.tree.2019.11.006114 citations
Available and missing data to model impact of climate change on European forests
doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.108870109 citations
The influence of camera trap flash type on the behavioural reactions and trapping rates of red deer and roe deer
doi:10.1002/rse2.15040 citations
Bayesian calibration of a growth-dependent tree mortality model to simulate the dynamics of European temperate forests
doi:10.1002/eap.202133 citations
2019
A minimal model for the latitudinal diversity gradient suggests a dominant role for ecological limits
doi:10.1086/70524377 citations
The total dispersal kernel: a review and future directions
doi:10.1093/aobpla/plz042120 citations
Global warming likely to enhance black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) growth in a Mediterranean riparian forest
doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2019.11744850 citations
The multi-dimensional nature of information drives prioritization of private over social information in ants
doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.113655 citations
Defaunation of large-bodied frugivores reduces carbon storage in a tropical forest of Southeast Asia
doi:10.1038/s41598-019-46399-y58 citations
A model with many small shifts for estimating species-specific diversification rates
doi:10.1038/s41559-019-0908-0211 citations
Rapid changes in seed dispersal traits may modify plant responses to global change
doi:10.1093/aobpla/plz02055 citations
Calibrating an individual-based movement model to predict functional connectivity for little owls
doi:10.1002/eap.187344 citations
Employing plant functional groups to advance seed dispersal ecology and conservation
doi:10.1093/aobpla/plz00657 citations
The latitudinal diversity gradient: novel understanding through mechanistic eco-evolutionary models
doi:10.1016/j.tree.2018.11.009285 citations
Chilling and forcing temperatures interact to predict the onset of wood formation in Northern Hemisphere conifers
doi:10.1111/gcb.14539143 citations
The recruitment niche predicts plant community assembly across a hydrological gradient along plowed and undisturbed transects in a former agricultural wetland
doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.0008834 citations
Tree mortality submodels drive simulated long-term forest dynamics: assessing 15 models from the stand to global scale
doi:10.1002/ecs2.2616171 citations
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
doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.09.00419 citations
2018
Comment on “Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale”
doi:10.1126/science.aar243524 citations
Using synthetic data to evaluate the benefits of large field plots for forest biomass estimation with LiDAR
doi:10.1016/j.rse.2018.05.00760 citations
Model averaging in ecology: a review of Bayesian, information-theoretic, and tactical approaches for predictive inference
doi:10.1002/ecm.1309preprint476 citations
Biotic interactions in species distribution modelling: ten questions to guide interpretation and avoid false conclusions
doi:10.1111/geb.12759preprint352 citations
An extended empirical saddlepoint approximation for intractable likelihoods
doi:10.1214/18-EJS143347 citations
A comparison of methods for estimating plant population size
doi:10.1007/s10531-018-1522-126 citations
Last-century forest productivity in a managed dry-edge Scots pine population: the two sides of climate warming
doi:10.1002/eap.163138 citations
2017
Structure and community composition in a tropical forest suggest a change of ecological processes during stand development
doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2017.08.00152 citations
Productivity of Fagus sylvatica under climate change — a Bayesian analysis of risk and uncertainty using the model 3-PG
doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2017.06.06155 citations
The NUCOMBog R package for simulating vegetation, water, carbon and nitrogen dynamics in peatlands
doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2017.05.0012 citations
Simulation modeling
Book chapter, edited by D. Gibson.
doi:10.1093/OBO/9780199830060-0189preprint5 citations
Do roe deer react to wildlife warning reflectors? A test combining a controlled experiment with field observations
doi:10.1007/s10344-017-1130-537 citations
Cross-validation strategies for data with temporal, spatial, hierarchical, or phylogenetic structure
doi:10.1111/ecog.028813,547 citations
Identifying local drivers of a vector-pathogen-disease system using Bayesian modeling
doi:10.1016/j.baae.2016.11.00516 citations
Functional flower traits and their diversity drive pollinator visitation
doi:10.1111/oik.03869177 citations
Mechanistic simulation models in macroecology and biogeography: state-of-art and prospects
doi:10.1111/ecog.02480207 citations
2016
Heavy and frequent thinning promotes drought adaptation in Pinus sylvestris forests
doi:10.1002/eap.1373175 citations
Community dynamics under environmental change: how can next generation mechanistic models improve projections of species distributions?
doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.11.007111 citations
Intraspecific trait variation across scales: implications for understanding global change responses
doi:10.1111/gcb.13000425 citations
2015
Estimating over- and understorey canopy density of temperate mixed stands by airborne LiDAR data
doi:10.1093/forestry/cpv03296 citations
Stratified aboveground forest biomass estimation by remote sensing data
doi:10.1016/j.jag.2015.01.016119 citations
Bayesian inference of environmental and biotic factors determining the occurrence of the grapevine disease bois noir
doi:10.1890/ES14-00439.120 citations
Dale & Fortin — the revised guide to spatial analysis
doi:10.21425/F5FBG273932 citations
2014
Importance of sample size, data type and prediction method for remote sensing-based estimations of aboveground forest biomass
doi:10.1016/j.rse.2014.07.028530 citations
On the sympatric evolution and evolutionary stability of coexistence by relative nonlinearity of competition
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.009445410 citations
Ecological and economic conditions and associated institutional challenges for conservation banking in dynamic landscapes
doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.06.00477 citations
EU agricultural reform fails on biodiversity
doi:10.1126/science.1253425917 citations
Technical note: approximate Bayesian parameterization of a process-based tropical forest model
doi:10.5194/bg-11-1261-2014preprint62 citations
2013
Does “model-free” forecasting really outperform the “true” model?
doi:10.1073/pnas.1308603110preprint31 citations
On the challenge of fitting tree size distributions in ecology
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.005803630 citations
Process, correlation and parameter fitting in species distribution models: a response to Kriticos et al.
doi:10.1111/jbi.12075preprint17 citations
Bayesian calibration, comparison and averaging of six forest models, using data from Scots pine stands across Europe
doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2012.09.043133 citations
2012
Connecting dynamic vegetation models to data — an inverse perspective
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02745.x236 citations
Parameter and uncertainty estimation for process-oriented population and distribution models: data, statistics and the niche
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02772.x43 citations
How to understand species' niches and range dynamics: a demographic research agenda for biogeography
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02737.x382 citations
Correlation and process in species distribution models: bridging a dichotomy
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02659.x904 citations
Offsetting policies for biodiversity conservation: the need for compensating habitat relocation
Book chapter, edited by F. Jordán and S. E. Jørgensen.
doi:10.1016/B978-0-444-59396-2.00024-96 citations
2011
Statistical inference for stochastic simulation models — theory and application
doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01640.x491 citations
Conserving biodiversity with tradable permits under changing conservation costs and habitat restoration time lags
doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.10.00453 citations
Biodiversity conservation in dynamic landscapes: trade-offs between number, connectivity and turnover of habitat patches
doi:10.1111/j.1365-2664.2011.02015.x97 citations
Applying tradable permits to biodiversity conservation: design issues, modelling and policies
Book chapter, edited by B. Hansjürgens, R. Antes and M. Strunz.
2010
EcoTRADE — a multi-player network game of a tradable permit market for biodiversity credits
doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.01.003preprint10 citations
Stay by thy neighbor? Social organization determines the efficiency of biodiversity markets with spatial incentives
doi:10.1016/j.ecocom.2009.07.001preprint24 citations