Changes of biological diversity, of species and their traits in space and time
Macroecology
Spatial and temporal variation of diversity on large taxonomic, spatial, and temporal scales
Ecological modelling
Integrative species distribution models to project changes of biodiversity under climate and land-use change
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We study the distribution of life in space and time, with a focus on impacts of climate and land-use change on species and biodiversity
Our recent papers
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Stewart, P. S., Voskamp, A., Biber, M. F., Hof, C. Willis, S. G., and Tobias, J. A.. 2022. Global Impacts of Climate-Change on Avian Functional Diversity. Ecology letters. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13830PDF
Biddick, M., Hendriks, A, Burns, C. K. 2021. Minimal models provide maximally parsimonious explanations. Ecology Letters. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13882 PDF
Biddick, M., Hendriks, A, Burns, C. K. 2021. A simple null model predicts the island rule. Ecology Letters. DOI:10.1111/ele.13781PDF
Novella‐Fernandez, Juste, J., Ibañez, C., Rebelo, H., Russo, D., Alberdi, A., Kiefer, A., Graham, L., Hynek, P., Doncaster, P.C., Razgour,.O.. 2021. Broad‐scale patterns of geographic avoidance between species emerge in the absence of fine‐scale mechanisms of coexistence (C Capinha, Ed.). – Divers. Distrib. 12: ddi.13375. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13375 PDF
Hof, C..2021. Towards more integration of physiology, dispersal and land-use change to understand the responses of species to climate change. Journal of experimental biology. DOI:10.1242/jeb.238352 PDF
Creutzig, F., Haberl, H., Hof, C., Hunsberger, C., Roe, S.. 2021. Considering sustainability thresholds for BECCS in IPCC and biodiversity assessments. GCB Bioenergy; 13: pp. 510-515. DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12798 Editorial Commentary PDF
Schleuning, M., E. L. Neuschulz, J. Albrecht, I. M. A. Bender, D. E. Bowler, D. M. Dehling, S. A. Fritz, C. Hof, T. Mueller, L. Nowak, M. C. Sorensen, K. Böhning-Gaese and W. D. Kissling. 2020. Trait-Based Assessments of Climate-Change Impacts on Interacting Species. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. In press. PDF
Voskamp, A., Hof, C., Biber, M. F. Hickler, T., Niamir, A. Willis, S. G., and Fritz, S. A. 2020. Climate Change impacts on the phylogenetic diversity the world’s terrestrial birds: More then species numbers. biorxiv.org. DOI: 10.1101/2020.12.02.378216 In press. PDF