
Dynamic Macroecology
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Head: Dr. Heike Lischke
The dynamic macroecology group studies different aspects of ecology on large spatial and temporal scales, from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene, related to the question
“How do species and their traits change in space and time, particularly with global change?”
We explore
- the current and past distributions of species or functional groups and their traits and niches
- the effect of climate and other factors on biodiversity
- the spatio-temporal dynamics of plant (particularly tree) species and their ranges interacting with the environment, ecophysiology, population dynamics, species migration and climate and land-use change
- the evolution in time and geographical space of species niches and traits and biological communities and assemblages
Main methods we develop and work with
- climate (change) data scaling and provision
- dynamic ecological models
- model scaling
- statistical methods in ecology, e.g., species distribution models, phylogenetic comparative methods, trait analyses
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Publications
Zellweger, F.; De Frenne, P.; Lenoir, J.; Vangansbeke, P.; Verheyen, K.; Bernhardt-Römermann, M.; Baeten, L.; Hédl, R.; Berki, I.; Brunet, J.; Van Calster, H.; Chudomelová, M.; Decocq, G.; Dirnböck, T.; Durak, T.; Heinken, T.; Jaroszewicz, B.; Kopecký, M.; Máliš, F.; ... Coomes, D., 2020: Response to comment on "forest microclimate dynamics drive plant responses to warming". Science, 370, 6520: eabd6193 (3 pp.). doi: 10.1126/science.abd6193
Moos, C.; Khelidj, N.; Guisan, A.; Lischke, H.; Randin, C.F., 2020: A quantitative assessment of rockfall influence on forest structure in the Swiss Alps. European Journal of Forest Research, doi: 10.1007/s10342-020-01317-0
Visser, A.W.; Brun, P.; Chakraborty, S.; Spaanheden Dencker, T.; Van Denderen, P.D.; Van Gemert, R.; Van Someren Gréve, H.; Heilmann, I.; Holm, M.W.; Jónasdóttir, S.H.; Kenitz, K.M.; Kiørboe, T.; Lindegren, M.; Mariani, P.; Nielsen, L.T.; Pancic, M.; Payne, M.; Pécuchet, L.; Schnedler-Meyer, N.A.; ... Andersen, K.H., 2020: Seasonal strategies in the world's oceans. Progress in Oceanography, 189: 102466 (16 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102466
Fritsch, M.; Lischke, H.; Meyer, K.M., 2020: Scaling methods in ecological modelling. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11, 11: 1368-1378. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13466
Kattge, J.; Bönisch, G.; Díaz, S.; Lavorel, S.; Prentice, I.C.; Leadley, P.; Tautenhahn, S.; Werner, G.D.A.; Aakala, T.; Abedi, M.; Cailleret, M.; Cherubini, P.; McFadden, I.R.; Moretti, M.; Rossi, C.; Trotsiuk, V.; Wirth, C., 2020: TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology, 26, 1: 119-188. doi: 10.1111/gcb.14904
Brun, P.; Psomas, A.; Ginzler, C.; Thuiller, W.; Zappa, M.; Zimmermann, N.E., 2020: Large‐scale early‐wilting response of Central European forests to the 2018 extreme drought. Global Change Biology, 26: 7021-7035. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15360
Petter, G.; Mairota, P.; Albrich, K.; Bebi, P.; Brůna, J.; Bugmann, H.; Haffenden, A.; Scheller, R.M.; Schmatz, D.R.; Seidl, R.; Speich, M.; Vacchiano, G.; Lischke, H., 2020: How robust are future projections of forest landscape dynamics? Insights from a systematic comparison of four forest landscape models. Environmental Modelling and Software, 134: 104844 (13 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2020.104844
Polanco F., A.; Fopp, F.; Albouy, C.; Brun, P.; Boschman, L.; Pellissier, L., 2020: Marine fish diversity in Tropical America associated with both past and present environmental conditions. Journal of Biogeography, 47, 12: 2597-2610. doi: 10.1111/jbi.13985
Brun, P.; Thuiller, W.; Chauvier, Y.; Pellissier, L.; Wüest, R.O.; Wang, Z.; Zimmermann, N.E., 2020: Model complexity affects species distribution projections under climate change. Journal of Biogeography, 47, 1: 130-142. doi: 10.1111/jbi.13734
Beckman, N.G.; Aslan, C.E.; Rogers, H.S.; Kogan, O.; Bronstein, J.L.; Bullock, J.M.; Hartig, F.; HilleRisLambers, J.; Zhou, Y.; Zurell, D.; Brodie, J.F.; Bruna, E.M.; Cantrell, R.S.; Decker, R.R.; Efiom, E.; Fricke, E.C.; Gurski, K.; Hastings, A.; Johnson, J.S.; ... Zambrano, J., 2020: Advancing an interdisciplinary framework to study seed dispersal ecology. AoB PLANTS, 12, 2: plz048 (18 pp.). doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plz048
Scherrer, D.; Vitasse, Y.; Guisan, A.; Wohlgemuth, T.; Lischke, H., 2020: Competition and demography rather than dispersal limitation slow down upward shifts of trees' upper elevation limits in the Alps. Journal of Ecology, 108, 6: 2416-2430. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13451
Molinari, C.; Carcaillet, C.; Bradshaw, R.H.W.; Hannon, G.E.; Lehsten, V., 2020: Fire-vegetation interactions during the last 11,000 years in boreal and cold temperate forests of Fennoscandia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 241: 106408 (12 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106408
Baltensweiler, A.; Brun, P.; Pranga, J.; Psomas, A.; Zimmermann, N.E.; Ginzler, C., 2020: Räumliche Analyse von Trockenheitssymptomen im Schweizer Wald mit Sentinel-2-Satellitendaten. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen, 171, 5: 298-301. doi: 10.3188/szf.2020.0298
Lembrechts, J.J.; Aalto, J.; Ashcroft, M.B.; De Frenne, P.; Kopecký, M.; Lenoir, J.; Luoto, M.; Maclean, I.M.D.; Roupsard, O.; Fuentes‐Lillo, E.; Pellissier, L.; Pitteloud, C.; Wipf, S.; Descombes, P.; Zellweger, F.; Frei, E.R.; Rixen, C.; Rossi, C.; Nijs, I., 2020: SoilTemp: a global database of near-surface temperature. Global Change Biology, 26, 11: 6616-6629. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15123
Feldmeier, S.; Schmidt, B.R.; Zimmermann, N.E.; Veith, M.; Ficetola, G.F.; Lötters, S., 2020: Shifting aspect or elevation? The climate change response of ectotherms in a complex mountain topography. Diversity and Distributions, 26, 11: 1483-1495. doi: 10.1111/ddi.13146
Descombes, P.; Walthert, L.; Baltensweiler, A.; Meuli, R.G.; Karger, D.N.; Ginzler, C.; Zurell, D.; Zimmermann, N.E., 2020: Spatial modelling of ecological indicator values improves predictions of plant distributions in complex landscapes. Ecography, 43, 10: 1448-1463. doi: 10.1111/ecog.05117
Csilléry, K.; Buchmann, N.; Fady, B., 2020: Adaptation to drought is coupled with slow growth, but independent from phenology in marginal silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) populations. Evolutionary Applications, 13, 9: 2357-2376. doi: 10.1111/eva.13029
Abrahamczyk, S.; Wohlgemuth, T.; Nobis, M.; Nyffeler, R.; Kessler, M., 2020: Shifts in food plant abundance for flower-visiting insects between 1900 and 2017 in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. Ecological Applications, 30, 6: e2138 (11 pp.). doi: 10.1002/eap.2138
Iosifescu Enescu, I.; Hanimann, D.; Karger, D.N.; Plattner, G.; Haas-Artho, D.; Kurup Buchholz, R.; Espona, L.; Zimmermann, N.E.; Pellissier, L.; Hägeli, M., 2020: Challenges for integrating Web-EGIS functionalities in the environmental research data portal EnviDat. In: 2020: 18th Swiss geoscience meeting 2020, Zürich, Switzerland. (3 pp.).
Buholzer, S.; De Micheli, A.; Marazzi, B.; Nobis, M.; Rometsch, S.; Schmidt, L.; Schönenberger, N., 2020: Eindringlinge in der Landwirtschaft. Invasive Neophyten. UFA-Revue, 30-33.
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- Flora indicativa
- Climate data (CLIDAP)