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Georg Kindermann

Research Scholar

Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group

Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program

Biography

Georg Kindermann is a research scholar in Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services research group of the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program. He first joined the Institute in 2005.

He holds a PhD in forestry, with particular focus on forest growth and yield modeling. He has experience in forest measurement and sample plot design, data storage (SQL), statistics (R), programming (C++, Julia) and GIS (QGis, Grass, gdal). He is developing a model estimating forest growth anywhere in the world, called the Global Forest Model (G4M), which allows simulation of the amount of biomass for bioenergy and carbon stored in forests, reacting to changes in the environment (temperature, precipitation, C02) and management (rotation time, thinning). In combination with economic estimates such as the wood price, it is possible to calculate the competition over land between different land uses and to find regions which have high pressure on deforestation.

Currently, Kindermann is also employed at the Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW), Austria, where he is working on tree ring width analysis. There, he is developing a regional single tree forest growth simulator.

Previously, Kindermann worked at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) in the Institute of Forest Growth and Yield Research in Vienna. He refined a distance dependent single tree growth simulator (Moses) to use it as decision support in companies. He also investigated the field of natural regeneration.

Last update: 06 JUN 2024

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Gvein, M.H., Hu, X., Næss, J.S., Watanabe, M.D.B., Cavalett, O., Malbranque, M., Kindermann, G. , & Cherubini, F. (2023). Potential of land-based climate change mitigation strategies on abandoned cropland. Communications Earth & Environment 4 (1) e39. 10.1038/s43247-023-00696-7.

Willcock, S., Hooftman, D., Neugarten, R., Chaplin-Kramer, R., Barredo, J., Hickler, T., Kindermann, G. , Lewis, A., Lindeskog, M., Martínez-López, J., & Bullock, J. (2023). Model ensembles of ecosystem services fill global certainty and capacity gaps. Science Advances 9 (14) 10.1126/sciadv.adf5492.

Hooftman, D.A.P., Bullock, J.M., Jones, L., Eigenbrod, F., Barredo, J.I., Forrest, M., Kindermann, G. , Thomas, A., & Willcock, S. (2022). Reducing uncertainty in ecosystem service modelling through weighted ensembles. Ecosystem Services 53 e101398. 10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101398.

Krey, V. , Havlik, P. , Kishimoto, P. , Fricko, O. , Zilliacus, J., Gidden, M. , Strubegger, M., Kartasasmita, G., Ermolieva, T., Forsell, N., Guo, F. , Gusti, M., Huppmann, D. , Johnson, N., Kikstra, J. , Kindermann, G. , Kolp, P., Lovat, F. , McCollum, D., Min, J. , Pachauri, S. , Parkinson, S. , Rao, S., Rogelj, J. , Ünlü, G. , Valin, H. , Wagner, P., Zakeri, B. , Obersteiner, M. , & Riahi, K. (2020). MESSAGEix-GLOBIOM Documentation - 2020 release. IIASA , Laxenburg, Austria. 10.22022/IACC/03-2021.17115.

Patrizio, P., Leduc, S., Kraxner, F., Fuß, S., Kindermann, G. , Spokas, K., Wetterlund, E., Lundgren, J., Yowargana, P., & Obersteiner, M. (2019). Killing two birds with one stone: a negative emissions strategy for a soft landing of the US coal sector. In: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage. Eds. Pires, J.C. & da Cunha Goncalves, A.L., pp. 219-236 Academic Press. ISBN 9780128166000 10.1016/B978-0-12-816229-3.00011-9.