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
Laso Bayas, J.C. , See, L. , Georgieva, I. , Shchepashchenko, D. , Danylo, O., Dürauer, M., Bartl, H., Hofhansl, F. , Zadorozhniuk, R., Burianchuk, M., Sirbu, F., Magori, B., Blyshchyk, K., Blyshchyk, V., Rabia, A.H., Pawe, C.K., Su, Y.-F., Ahmed, M., Panging, K., Melnyk, O., Vasylyshyn, O., Vasylyshyn, R., Bilous, A., Bilous, S., Das, K., Prestele, R., Pérez-Hoyos, A., Bungnamei, K., Lashchenko, A., Lakyda, Maryna., Lakyda, I., Serediuk, O., Domashovets, G., Yurchuk, Y., Koper, M., & Fritz, S. (2022). Drivers of tropical forest loss between 2008 and 2019. Scientific Data 9 (1) e146. 10.1038/s41597-022-01227-3.
Valverde Barrantes, O.J., Oblitas, E., Lugli, L.F., Fuchslueger, L., Cordeiro, A.L., Schaap, K., Andersen, K.M., Garcia, S., Grandis, A., Hofhansl, F. , Hoosbeek, M., Norby, R., Hartley, I.P., Lapola, D.M., & Quesada, B. (2021). Lagging Response of Belowground Functional Traits to Environmental Cues in a Mature Amazonian Tropical Rainforest. In: AGU Fall Meeting, 13-17 December 2021.
Hofhansl, F. , Chacon-Madrigal, E., & Franklin, O. (2021). Mechanisms driving plant functional trait variation in a tropical forest. In: Ecology Across Borders 2021, 9-15 December 2021.
Schaap, K.J., Fuchslueger, L., Hoosbeek, M.R., Hofhansl, F. , Martins, N.P., Valverde-Barrantes, O.J., Hartley, I.P., Lugli, L.F., & Quesada, C.A. (2021). Litter inputs and phosphatase activity affect the temporal variability of organic phosphorus in a tropical forest soil in the Central Amazon. Plant and Soil 10.1007/s11104-021-05146-x.
Martins, N.P., Fuchslueger, L., Fleischer, K., Andersen, K.M., Assis, R.L., Baccaro, F. B., Camargo, P.B., Cordeiro, A.L., Grandis, A., Hartley, I. P., Hofhansl, F. , Lugli, L.F., Lapola, D.M., Menezes, J.G., Norby, R.J.., Rammig, A., Rosa, J.S., Schaap, K.J., Takeshi, B., Valverde-Barrantes, O.J., & Quesada, C. A. (2021). Fine roots stimulate nutrient release during early stages of leaf litter decomposition in a Central Amazon rainforest. Plant and Soil 469 287-303. 10.1007/s11104-021-05148-9.