Stephan Pietsch
Guest Senior Research Scholar
Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems Research Group
Advancing Systems Analysis Program
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Biography
Stephan Alexander Pietsch received academic education in formal logic (BSc), biology (BSc), physiology and ecology of plants (MSc) at the University of Vienna and in biotechnology (PhD) at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), which provided the basis for his work in the interdisciplinary field of ecosystem modeling.He started this line of research in January 2000 at BOKU's Institute of Forest Growth Research, from where he switched to a faculty position at the Institute of Silviculture in December 2007. While at the beginning all his research activities were concentrated on Europe, he later developed his interest in tropical ecosystems. In this context, he organized and conducted extended field work in tropical Africa to establish the data sets needed for modeling tropical ecosystems under different degrees of disturbance and/or degradation.
After being granted the authorization to teach (venia docendi) in Ecosystem Modelling, Dr. Pietsch joined IIASA's Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) Program in June 2014, to reinforce the modeling of tropical forests and savannahs within IIASA's G4M and GLOBIOM models developed under ESM's ERD group.
Last update: 24 JUN 2014
Publications
Lesiv, M. , Shchepashchenko, D. , Buchhorn, M., See, L. , Dürauer, M., Georgieva, I. , Jung, M., Hofhansl, F. , Schulze, K., Bilous, A., Blyshchyk, V., Mukhortova, L., Brenes, C., Krivobokov, L., Ntie, S., Tsogt, K., Pietsch, S. , Tikhonova, E., Kim, M., Di Fulvio, F. , Su, Y.-F., Zadorozhniuk, R., Sirbu, F., Panging, K., Bilous, S., Kovalevskii, S., Kraxner, F., Rabia, A.H., Vasylyshyn, R., Ahmed, R., Diachuk, P., Kovalevskyi, S., Bungnamei, K., Bordoloi, K., Churilov, A., Vasylyshyn, O., Sahariah, D., Tertyshnyi, A., Saikia, A., Malek, Å., Singha, K., Feshchenko, R., Prestele, R., Akhtar, I., Sharma, K., Domashovets, G., Spawn-Lee, S., Blyshchyk, O., Slyva, O., Ilkiv, M., Melnyk, O., Sliusarchuk, V., Karpuk, A., Terentiev, A., Bilous, V., Blyshchyk, K., Bilous, M., Bogovyk, N., Blyshchyk, I., Bartalev, S., Yatskov, M., Smets, B., Visconti, P., McCallum, I. , Obersteiner, M. , & Fritz, S. (2022). Global forest management data for 2015 at a 100 m resolution. Scientific Data 9 (1) e199. 10.1038/s41597-022-01332-3.
Garcia, C.A., Savilaakso, S., Verburg, R.W., Stoudmann, N., Fernbach, P., Sloman, S.A., Peterson, G.D., Araújo, M.B., Bastin, J.-F., Blaser, J., Boutinot, L., Crowther, T.W., Dessard, H., Dray, A., Francisco, S., Ghazoul, J., Feintrenie, L., Hainzelin, E., Kleinschroth, F., Naimi, B., Novotny, I.P., Oszwald, J., Pietsch, S. , Quétier, F., Robinson, B.E., Sassen, M., Sist, P., Sunderland, T., Vermeulen, C., Wilmé, L., Wilson, S.J., Zorondo-Rodríguez, F., & Waeber, P.O. (2022). Strategy games to improve environmental policymaking. Nature Sustainability 10.1038/s41893-022-00881-0.
Harrison, S.P., Cramer, W., Franklin, O. , Prentice, I.C., Wang, H., Brännström, Å., de Boer, H., Dieckmann, U. , Joshi, J., Keenan, T.F., Lavergne, A., Manzoni, S., Mengoli, G., Morfopoulos, C., Peñuelas, J., Pietsch, S. , Rebel, K.T., Ryu, Y., Smith, N.G., Stocker, B.D., & Wright, I.J. (2021). Eco‐evolutionary optimality as a means to improve vegetation and land‐surface models. New Phytologist 231 (6) 2125-2141. 10.1111/nph.17558.
Choruma, D.J., Balkovič, J. , Pietsch, S. , & Odume, O.N. (2021). Using EPIC to simulate the effects of different irrigation and fertilizer levels on maize yield in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Agricultural Water Management 254 e106974. 10.1016/j.agwat.2021.106974.
D Numazawa, C.T., Krasovskiy, A. , Kraxner, F., & Pietsch, S. (2020). Logging residues for charcoal production through forest management in the Brazilian Amazon: Economic gains and forest regrowth effects. Environmental Research Letters 15 (11) 10.1088/1748-9326/abb495.