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
Janssen, T., van der Velde, Y., Hofhansl, F. , Luyssaert, S., Naudts, K., Driessen, B., Fleischer, K., & Dolman, H. (2021). Drought effects on leaf fall, leaf flushing and stem growth in Neotropical forest; reconciling remote sensing data and field observations. Biogeosciences Discussions 18 (14) 4445-4472. 10.5194/bg-2021-30.
Janssen, T., van der Velde, Y., Hofhansl, F. , Luyssaert, S., Naudts, K., Driessen, B., Fleischer, K., & Dolman, H. (2021). Drought effects on leaf fall, leaf flushing and stem growth in the Amazon forest: reconciling remote sensing data and field observations. Biogeosciences 18 (14) 4445-4472. 10.5194/bg-18-4445-2021.
Laso Bayas, J.C. , See, L. , Georgieva, I. , Shchepashchenko, D. , Danylo, O., Dürauer, M., Bartl, H., Hofhansl, F. , Lesiv, M. , 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, M., Lakyda, I., Serediuk, O., Domashovets, G., Yurchuk, Y., & Fritz, S. (2021). Crowdsourcing deforestation in the tropics during the last decade: Data sets from the “Driver of Tropical Forest Loss” Geo-Wiki campaign. 10.22022/NODES/06-2021.122.
Hofhansl, F. , Chacón-Madrigal, E., Brännström, Å., Dieckmann, U. , & Franklin, O. (2021). Mechanisms driving plant functional trait variation in a tropical forest. Ecology and Evolution 11 3856- 3870. 10.1002/ece3.7256.
Joshi, J., Stocker, B., Hofhansl, F. , Zhou, S., Brännström, Å., Prentice, I., & Dieckmann, U. (2021). Predicting eco-evolutionary adaptations of plants to drought and rainfall variability. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu21-11142. In: EGU General Assembly 2021, 19-30 April 2021.