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
Rius, B.F., Filho, J.P.D., Fleischer, K., Hofhansl, F. , Blanco Casagrande, C., Rammig, A., Domingues Ferreira, T., & Lapola Montenegro, D. (2023). Higher functional diversity improves modeling of Amazon forest carbon storage. Ecological Modelling 481 e110323. 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2023.110323.
Franklin, O. , Fransson, P., Hofhansl, F. , Jansen, S., & Joshi, J. (2023). Optimal balancing of xylem efficiency and safety explains plant vulnerability to drought. Ecology Letters 26 1485-1496. 10.1111/ele.14270.
Joshi, J., Hofhansl, F. , Singh, S., Stocker, B., Brännström, Å., Vignal, T., Casagrande Blanco, C., Aleixo, I., Lapola, D., Prentice, I.C., & Dieckmann, U. (2023). Roles of diversity and adaptation in the eco-evolutionary responses of biodiverse plant communities to climate change. In: EGU General Assembly 2023, 23-28 April 2023, Vienna.
Hofhansl, F. , Barrantes, O.V., Chacón-Madrigal, E., Hietz, P., Weissenhofer, A., Prommer, J., Wanek, W., & Fuchslueger, L. (2023). Do fine root morphological and functional adaptations support regrowth success in a tropical forest restoration experiment? In: EGU General Assembly 2023, 23-28 April 2023, Vienna.
Schaap, K.J., Fuchslueger, L., Quesada, C.A., Hofhansl, F. , Valverde-Barrantes, O., Camargo, P.B., & Hoosbeek, M.R. (2023). Seasonal fluctuations of extracellular enzyme activities are related to the biogeochemical cycling of C, N and P in a tropical terra-firme forest. Biogeochemistry 10.1007/s10533-022-01009-4.