Publications

Understanding factors controlling primary production is fundamental for the protection, management, and restoration of ecosystems. …
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Studying species-habitat associations is one approach to reveal the importance of abiotic processes in shaping the spatial distribution …
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Landscape ecology, the study of the complex interactions between landscapes and ecological processes, has hugely benefited from the …
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One of the main goals of ecology is to understand processes underlying patterns. Because presumably all ecological processes are …
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Rapid progression of human socio-economic activities has altered the structure and function of natural landscapes. Species that rely on …
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Quantifying landscape characteristics and linking them to ecological processes is one of the central goals of landscape ecology. …
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Savannas can be defined by the co-dominance of grasses and trees. Interactions between these two life forms are relatively well …
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Projects

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Applying ecological theory to help solve real-world conservation problems

Individual-based simulation model

Helper functions for point pattern analysis

Integrative decision support system for sustainable rangeland management in southern African savannas

Research Training Group to develop solutions to problems of scale

PhD project studying the role of small-scale heterogeneity on plant populations

Landscape Metrics for Categorical Map Patterns

GitHub organization for spatially explicit ecological R packages

Species-Habitat Associations in R

Poster/Talks

May 14, 2020 Toronto, Canada (virtually)
Jul 1, 2019 Milano, Italy
Sep 10, 2018 Vienna, Austria

Conferences/Workshops/Visits

Conferences

  • 29 / 04 / 2017 – 05 / 05 / 2017: Young Modellers in Ecology, Freiburg (Germany)
  • 10 / 09 / 2018 – 14 / 09 / 2018: 48th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Vienna (Austria)
  • 07 / 07 / 2019 – 05 / 07 / 2019: 10th World Congress International Association of Landscape Ecology, Milano (Italy)

Workshops

  • 07 / 09 / 2013 – 22 / 09 / 2013: Fire protection and management, Cyprus Forestry College, Podromos (Cyprus)
  • 02 / 04 / 2017 – 07 / 04 / 2017: Advances in spatial analysis of multivariate ecological data: Theory and practice, Port Talbot (UK)
  • 18 / 01 / 2018 – 19 / 01 / 2018: Deep learning with Keras and TensorFlow, Solingen (Germany)
  • 26 / 03 / 2018 – 30 / 03 / 2018: Spatial modelling inlabru, St. Andrews (GB)

Internships, Research visits

  • 08 / 2009 – 09 / 2009: State forestry department ‘Heuberg’, Meßstetten (Germany)
  • 08 / 2010 – 08 / 2010: State forestry department ‘Heuberg’, Meßstetten (Germany)
  • 06 / 2011 – 08 / 2011: Wise Batten Inc, Timber management, Estill, SC (USA)
  • 11 / 2013 – 03 / 2014: SilvaTerra Ltd, Forestry consulting and research, Lilongwe (Malawi)
  • 09 / 2015 – 10 / 2015: Northwest German Forestry Research Institute, Department of growth modeling, Göttingen (Germany)
  • 10 / 2017 – 12 / 2017: Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames (USA)

CV

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