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
Hofhansl, F. , Chacon-Madrigal, E., Brännström, Å., Dieckmann, U. , & Franklin, O. (2019). Partitioning of plant functional trait variation into phenotypic plasticity and neutral components reveals functional differences among neotropical tree species. In: AGU Fall Meeting, 9-13 December 2019, San Francisco, USA.
Schepaschenko, D. , Chave, J., Phillips, O.L., Lewis, S.L., Davies, S.J., Réjou-Méchain, M., Sist, P., Scipal, K., Perger, C., Herault, B., Labrière, N., Hofhansl, F. , Affum-Baffoe, K., Aleinikov, A., Alonso, A., Amani, C., Araujo-Murakami, A., Armston, J., Arroyo, L., Ascarrunz, N., Azevedo, C., Baker, T., Bałazy, R., Bedeau, C., Berry, N., Bilous, A.M., Bilous, S., Bissiengou, P., Blanc, L., Bobkova, .S., Braslavskaya, T., Brienen, R., Burslem, D., Condit, R., Cuni-Sanchez, A., Danilina, D., del Castillo Torres, D., Derroire, G., Descroix, L., Sotta, E.D., d’Oliveira, M.V.N., Dresel, C., Erwin, T., Evdokimenko, M.D., Falck, J., Feldpausch, T.R., Foli, E.G., Foster, R., Fritz, S. , Garcia-Abril, A.D., Gornov, A., Gornova, M., Gothard-Bassébé, E., Gourlet-Fleury, S., Guedes, M., Hamer, K.C., Susanty, F.H., Higuchi, N., Coronado, E.N.H., Hubau, W., Hubbell, S., Ilstedt, U., Ivanov, V.V., Kanashiro, M., Karlsson, A., Karminov, V.N., Killeen, T., Koffi, J.-C., Konovalova, M., Kraxner, F., Krejza, J., Krisnawati, H., Krivobokov, L.V., Kuznetsov, M.A., Lakyda, I., Lakyda, P.I., Licona, J.C., Lucas, R.M., Lukina, N., Lussetti, D., Malhi, Y., Manzanera, J.A., Marimon, B., Marimon, B.H., Martinez, R.V., Martynenko, O.V., Matsala, M., Matyashuk, R.K., Mazzei, L., Memiaghe, H., Mendoza, C., Mendoza, A.M., Moroziuk, Olga V., Mukhortova, L., Musa, S., Nazimova, D.I., Okuda, T., Oliveira, L.C., Ontikov, P.V., Osipov, A., Pietsch, S. , Playfair, M., Poulsen, J., Radchenko, V.G., Rodney, K., Rozak, A.H., Ruschel, A., Rutishauser, E., See, L. , Shchepashchenko, M., Shevchenko, N., Shvidenko, A., Silveira, M., Singh, J., Sonké, B., Souza, C., Stereńczak, K., Stonozhenko, L., Sullivan, M., Szatniewska, J., Taedoumg, H., ter Steege, H., Tikhonova, E., Toledo, M., Trefilova, O.V., Valbuena, R., Gamarra, L.V., Vasiliev, S., Vedrova, E.F., Verhovets, S.V., Vidal, E., Vladimirova, N.A., Vleminckx, J., Vos, V.A., Vozmitel, F.K., Wanek, W., West, T., Woell, H., Woods, J.T., Wortel, V., Yamada, T., Nur Hajar, Z., & Zo-Bi, I. (2019). The Forest Observation System, building a global reference dataset for remote sensing of forest biomass. Scientific Data 6 (1) e198. 10.1038/s41597-019-0196-1.
Fleischer, K., Rammig, A., De Kauwe, M.G., Walker, A.P., Domingues, T.F., Fuchslueger, L., Garcia, S., Goll, D.S., Grandis, A., Jiang, M., Haverd, V., Hofhansl, F. , Holm, J.A., Kruijt, B., Leung, F., Medlyn, B.E., Mercado, L.M., Norby, R.J., Pak, B., von Randow, C., Quesada, C.A., Schaap, K.J., Valverde-Barrantes, O.J., Wang, Y.-P., Yang, X., Zaehle, S., Zhu, Q., & Lapola, D.M. (2019). Amazon forest response to CO2 fertilization dependent on plant phosphorus acquisition. Nature Geoscience 12 736-741. 10.1038/s41561-019-0404-9.
Fuchslueger, L., Wild, B., Mooshammer, M., Takriti, M., Kienzl, S., Knoltsch, A., Hofhansl, F. , Bahn, M., & Richter, A. (2019). Microbial carbon and nitrogen cycling responses to drought and temperature in differently managed mountain grasslands. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 135 144-153. 10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.05.002.
Rabl, D., Gottsberger, B., Brehm, G., Hofhansl, F. , & Fiedler, K. (2019). Moth assemblages in Costa Rica rain forest mirror small-scale topographic heterogeneity. Biotropica 10.1111/btp.12677.