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
Wild, B., Özkan, T., Ali, M., Pöppl, F., Milenković, M., Hofhansl, F. , Pfeifer, N., Lau, A., & Hollaus, M. (2026). Evaluating RayCloudTools to estimate single-tree volume. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research 99 (1) cpaf08. 10.1093/forestry/cpaf087.
Singh, S., Verma, A.K., Joshi, R.K., & Hofhansl, F. (2026). Ecological filtering explains species distribution pattern and regeneration potential in Western Himalayan forests. Trees, Forests and People 24 e101194. 10.1016/j.tfp.2026.101194.
Milenkovic, M., Hofhansl, F. , Weinacker, R., Sturn, T., Karanam, S., Wild, B., Hollaus, M., Neumayr, C., Iglseder, A., Pfeifer, N., Zappa, L., Bruckman, V., Breitfuss-Schiffer, R., Schumacher, B., Gresse, H., Joly, A., Bonnet, P., Shchepashchenko, D. , See, L. , McCallum, I. , & Fritz, S. (2025). Dataset for the analysis of Tree-Quest measurements collected in Laxenburg Park and Stadtpark. 10.5281/zenodo.18063770.
Laso Bayas, J.C. , Milenkovic, M., Sturn, T., Weinacker, R., Hofhansl, F. , Shishodia, M., Karanam, S., Crocket, L., Subash, A., See, L. , & McCallum, I. (2025). Geo-Quest mobile application: Easy and accurate Earth Observation-enhanced ground data collection. In: The Living Planet Symposium, 23—27 June, 2025, Vienna, Austria.
Hofhansl, F. , Milenkovic, M., Wild, B., Hollaus, M., McCallum, I. , & Fritz, S. (2025). Mit dem Smartphone den Kohlenstoffspeicher von Bäumen messen. In: Living Planet Symposium 2025, 23-27 June 2025, Vienna, Austria.