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Florian Hofhansl

Research Scholar

Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability Research Group

Advancing Systems Analysis

Research Scholar

Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation Research Group

Biodiversity and Natural Resources

Biography

Florian Hofhansl is a research scholar in the Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation (BEC) Research Group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources (BNR) Program. His research explores the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning with a focus on plant functional traits, life-history theory, and spatial ecology.

He is an active 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.

Hofhansl holds a doctorate in ecology from the Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Vienna. More information about his research is available here.



Last update: 28 FEB 2023

Publications

Schaap, K.J., Fuchslueger, L., Quesada, C.A., Hofhansl, F. , Valverde-Barrantes, O., Camargo, P., & Hoosbeek, M.R. (2022). Extracellular enzyme activities in tropical soils are driven by seasonal litter input. Biogeochemistry 163 1-15. 10.1007/s10533-022-01009-4.

Hofhansl, F. (2022). Amazon forest responses to projected climate change, elevated CO2 and biodiversity loss. In: Annual Meeting of the British Ecological Society (BES), 18-21 December 2022, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Chacón-Madrigal, E., Avalos, G., Hofhansl, F. , Coronado, I., Ferrufino-Acosta, L., MacVean, A., & Rodríguez, D. (2022). Biological invasions by plants in continental Central America. In: Global Plant Invasions. Eds. Clements, D., Upadhyaya, M., Joshi, S., & Ahrestha, A., Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-89684-3 10.1007/978-3-030-89684-3.

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.