Florian Hofhansl
Research Scholar
Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
Research Scholar
Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
Biography
Florian Hofhansl is a research scholar in the Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation Research Group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program. His research explores the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning with a focus on plant functional traits and vegetation modeling.In the course of his research, he has gained experience in ecological research and has been conducting ambitious research projects in Austria, Brazil, and Costa Rica. He is a member of the scientific steering committee of the AmazonFACE program, led by the National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil, as well as the society for the promotion of the La Gamba Field Station, located in Costa Rica and hosted by the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research at the University of Vienna, Austria.
Florian holds a PhD in ecology from the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Vienna. At IIASA he and his team are developing a trait-based eco-evolutionary vegetation model (PlantFATE), with the goal to investigate the functional response of tropical forests to projected climate change and under future land-use management scenarios.
More information about his research is available here.
Last update: 05 FEB 2025
Publications
Valverde‐Barrantes, O.J., Lugli, L.F., Fuchslueger, L., Hofhansl, F. , Martins, N., Cordeiro, A.L., Schapp, K., Anderson, K., Garcia, S., Grandis, A., Miron, C.A., Fleisher, K., Hoosbeek, M.R., Hartley, I.P., Oblitas Mendoza, E., Lapola, D., & Quesada, C.A. (2025). Rainfall seasonality shapes belowground root trait dynamics in an Amazonian tropical rainforest: A test of the stress‐dominance hypothesis. Functional Ecology 39 799-812. 10.1111/1365-2435.14744.
Schaap, K.J., Fuchslueger, L., Hofhansl, F. , Valverde‐Barrantes, O., Quesada, C.A., & Hoosbeek, M.R. (2024). Intra‐annual dynamics of soil and microbial C, N, and P pools in a Central Amazon Terra Firme forest. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science 187 (6) 725-736. 10.1002/jpln.202300107.
Valverde-Barrantes, O., Figueiredo Lugli, L., Fuchslueger, L., Hofhansl, F. , Martins, N., Cordeiro, A., Schaap, K., Andersen, K., Garcia, S., Grandis, A., Miron, A.C., Fleischer, K., Hoosbeek, M., Hartley, I., Oblitas Mendoza, E., Lapola, D., & Quesada, C.A. (2024). Rainfall seasonality shapes belowground root trait dynamics in an Amazonian tropical rainforest: A test of the stress-dominance hypothesis. 10.5061/DRYAD.0K6DJHBB0.
Werden, L.K., Cole, R.J., Schönhofer, K., Holl, K.D., Zahawi, R.A., Averill, C., Schweizer, D., Calvo-Alvarado, J.C., Hamilton, D., Joyce, F.H., San-José, M., Hofhansl, F. , Briggs, L., Rodríguez, D., Tingle, J.W., Chiriboga, F., Broadbent, E.N., Quirós-Cedeño, G.J., & Crowther, T.W. (2024). Assessing innovations for upscaling forest landscape restoration. One Earth 7 (9) 1515-1528. 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.07.011.
Hofhansl, F. , Maxwell, T., Franklin, O. , Stefaniak, E. , & Joshi, J. (2024). Simulating ecosystem adaptation in response to a changing climate by capturing belowground plant functional traits in an eco-evolutionary vegetation model (Plant-FATE). In: The future of sustainable land use across ecosystems, landscapes and biomes, 9th — 13th September 2024, Freising, Germany.