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. , Bruckman, V., & Milenkovic, M. (2025). Tree-Quest: Citizen Science App to Measure Single Tree Attributes. In: ADAPT4K Kick-off Meeting, 8 April 2025, St. Pölten, Austria.
Hofhansl, F. , Singh, S., Stefaniak, E. , Maxwell, T., & Joshi, J. (2025). Simulating plant functional acclimation and trait evolution using an eco-evolutionary vegetation model (PlantFATE). DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu25-11302. In: EGU General Assembly 2025, 27 April-02 May 2025, Vienna.
Hofhansl, F. (2025). Tree-Quest: Citizen Science App to Measure Single Tree Attributes - Citizens for Copernicus (C4C). In: EGU General Assembly 2025, 27 April-02 May 2025, Vienna.
Wild, B., Özkan, T., Pöppl, F., Milenkovic, M., Hofhansl, F. , Lamprecht, J., Pfeifer, N., & Hollaus, M. (2025). Efficient derivation of allometric models using laser scanning for improved AGB estimations. DOI:10.5194/egusphere-egu25-18889. In: EGU General Assembly 2025, 27 April-02 May 2025, Vienna.
Valverde‐Barrantes, O.J., Lugli, L.F., Fuchslueger, L., Hofhansl, F. , Martins, N., Cordeiro, A.L., Schapp, K., Anderson, K., Garcia, S., Grandis, A., Miron, C.A., Fleisher, K., Hoosbeek, M.R., Hartley, I.P., Oblitas Mendoza, E., Lapola, D., & Quesada, C.A. (2025). Rainfall seasonality shapes belowground root trait dynamics in an Amazonian tropical rainforest: A test of the stress‐dominance hypothesis. Functional Ecology 39 799-812. 10.1111/1365-2435.14744.