Florian Hofhansl
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 (BEC) Research Group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Program. His research explores the feedbacks between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning with a focus on plant functional traits, life-history theory, and spatial ecology.He is an active 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.
Hofhansl holds a doctorate in ecology, which he has received from the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria. More information about Hofhansl's research is available here.
Last update: 01 JUL 2022
Publications
Franklin, O. , Fransson, P., Hofhansl, F. , & Joshi, J. (2022). Plants maximize the conductive efficiency of the xylem. In: EGU General Assembly 2022, 23-27 May 2022, Vienna.
Franklin, O. , Fransson, P., Hofhansl, F. , & Joshi, J. (2022). Optimal balancing of xylem efficiency and safety explains plant vulnerability to drought. bioRxiv 10.1101/2022.05.16.491812. (In Press)
Lesiv, M. , Shchepashchenko, D. , Buchhorn, M., See, L. , Dürauer, M., Georgieva, I., Jung, M., Hofhansl, F. , Schulze, K., Bilous, A., Blyshchyk, V., Mukhortova, L., Brenes, C., Krivobokov, L., Ntie, S., Tsogt, K., Pietsch, S. , Tikhonova, E., Kim, M., Di Fulvio, F. , Su, Y.-F., Zadorozhniuk, R., Sirbu, F., Panging, K., Bilous, S., Kovalevskii, S., Kraxner, F., Rabia, A.H., Vasylyshyn, R., Ahmed, R., Diachuk, P., Kovalevskyi, S., Bungnamei, K., Bordoloi, K., Churilov, A., Vasylyshyn, O., Sahariah, D., Tertyshnyi, A., Saikia, A., Malek, Å., Singha, K., Feshchenko, R., Prestele, R., Akhtar, I., Sharma, K., Domashovets, G., Spawn-Lee, S., Blyshchyk, O., Slyva, O., Ilkiv, M., Melnyk, O., Sliusarchuk, V., Karpuk, A., Terentiev, A., Bilous, V., Blyshchyk, K., Bilous, M., Bogovyk, N., Blyshchyk, I., Bartalev, S., Yatskov, M., Smets, B., Visconti, P., McCallum, I. , Obersteiner, M. , & Fritz, S. (2022). Global forest management data for 2015 at a 100 m resolution. Scientific Data 9 (1) e199. 10.1038/s41597-022-01332-3.
Noll, L., Zhang, S., Zheng, Q., Hu, Y., Hofhansl, F. , & Wanek, W. (2022). Climate and geology overwrite land use effects on soil organic nitrogen cycling on a continental scale. Biogeosciences 10.5194/bg-2022-41. (Submitted)
Fritz, S., Laso Bayas, J.C. , See, L. , Shchepashchenko, D. , Hofhansl, F. , Jung, M., Dürauer, M., Georgieva, I., Danylo, O., Lesiv, M. , & McCallum, I. (2022). A Continental Assessment of the Drivers of Tropical Deforestation with a Focus on Protected Areas. Frontiers in Conservation Science 3 e830248. 10.3389/fcosc.2022.830248.