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

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.

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.S., Pangin, K., Bilous, S., Kovalevskii, S.B., Kraxner, F., Rabia, A., Vasylyshyn, R., Ahmed, R., Diachuk, P., Kovalevskyi, S., Bungnamei, K., Bordoloi, K., Churilov, A., Vasylyshyn, O., Sahariah, D., Tertyshnyi, A., Saikia, A., Malek, Ž., Singha, K., Feshchenko, R., Prestele, R., ul Hassan 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. (2021). Global forest management data at a 100m resolution for the year 2015. 10.5281/zenodo.4541512.

Joshi, J., Stocker, B.D., Hofhansl, F. , Zhou, S., Dieckmann, U. , & Prentice, I.C. (2020). Towards a unified theory of plant photosynthesis and hydraulics. BioRxiv 10.1101/2020.12.17.423132.

Hofhansl, F. , Muller-Landau, H., & Levick, S. (2020). Measuring change on the ground. In: CCI Biomass Change Workshop, October 19-November 6 2020.

Lesiv, M. , Shchepashchenko, D. , Buchhorn, M., See, L. , Dürauer, M., Georgieva, I. , Jung, M. , Hofhansl, F. , Schulze, K., Bilous, A., Blyshchyk, V., Mukhortova, L., Muñoz Brenes, C., Krivobokov, L.V., Ntie, S., Tsogt, K., Pietsch, S. , Tikhonova, E., Kim, M., Su, Y.-F., Zadorozhniuk, R., Sirbu, F., Panging, K., Bilous, S., Kovalevskii, S.B., Harb Rabia, A., Vasylyshyn, R., Ahmed, R., Diachuk, P., Kovalevskyi, S.S., Bungnamei, K., Bordolo, K., Churilov, A., Vasylyshyn, O., Sahariah, D., Tertyshnyi, A.P., Saikia, A., Malek, Ž., Singha, K., Feshchenko, R., Prestele, R., Akhtar, I.H., Sharma, K., Domashovets, G., Spawn, 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. (2020). Methodology for generating a global forest management layer. Zenodo 10.5281/zenodo.3933966. (Submitted)