Here you can find current publications of the staff of the chair of Computational Landscape Ecology.

• Roilo, S., Spake, R., Bullock, J. M., & Cord, A. F. (2024). A cross-regional analysis of red-backed shrike responses to agri-environmental schemes in Europe. Environmental Research Letters.
• Roilo, S., Paulus, A., Alarcón-Segura, V., Kock, L., Beckmann, M., Klein, N., & Cord, A. F. (2024) Quantifying agricultural land-use intensity for spatial  biodiversity modelling: implications of different metrics and spatial aggregation methods. Landscape Ecology.
• Darras, K. F., Pérez, N., Dilong, L., Hanf-Dressler, T., Markolf, M., & Wanger, T. C. (2023). ecoSound-web: an open-source, online platform for ecoacoustics. F1000Research, 9, 1224.
• Ihlow, F., Spitzweg, C., Vamberger, M., Augustine, L., Hagen, C., Davis, A., … & Fritz, U. (2023). Molecular differentiation and conservation of the Indochinese box turtles Cuora galbinifrons, Cuora bourreti, and Cuora picturata. Salamandra, 59(4).
• Gränzig, T., Clasen, A., Fassnacht, F. E., Cord, A., & Förster, M. (2023). Combining remote sensing, habitat suitability models and cellular automata to model the spread of the invasive shrub Ulex europaeus. Biological Invasions, 1-26.
• Markova-Nenova, N., Engler, J. O., Cord, A. F., & Wätzold, F. (2023). Will passive acoustic monitoring make result-based payments more attractive? A cost comparison with human observation for farmland bird monitoring. Conservation Science and Practice.
• Schwengbeck, L., Hölting, L., & Witing, F. (2023). Modeling Climate Regulation of Arable Soils in Northern Saxony under the Influence of Climate Change and Management Practices. Sustainability, 15(14), 11128.
• Gallego-Garcia, N., Ihlow, F., Ettmar, S., Iverson, J. B., & Fritz, U. (2023). Where to set the bar? Recent descriptions inflate species number in South American toad-headed turtles (Mesoclemmys). Zootaxa, 5263(4), 566-574.
• Alarcón-Segura, V., Roilo, S., Paulus, A., Beckmann, M., Klein, N., & Cord, A. F. (2023). Farm structure and environmental context drive farmers’ decisions on the spatial distribution of ecological focus areas in Germany. Landscape Ecology.
• Rousi, E., Fink, A. H., Andersen, L. S., Becker, F. N., Beobide-Arsuaga, G., Breil, M., Cozzi, G., Heinke, J., Jach, L., Niermann, D., Petrovic, D., Richling, A., Riebold, J., Steidl, S., Suarez-Gutierrez, L., Tradowsky, J. S., Coumou, D., Düsterhus, A., Ellsäßer, F., Fragkoulidis, G., Gliksman, D., … & Xoplaki, E. (2023). The extremely hot and dry 2018 summer in central and northern Europe from a multi-faceted weather and climate perspective. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 23(5), 1699-1718.
• Moudrý, V., Keil, P., Cord, A. F., Gábor, L., Lecours, V., Zarzo-Arias, A., Barták, V., Malavasi, M., Rocchini, D., Torresani, M., Gdulová, K., Grattarola, F., Leroy, F., Marchetto, E., Thouverai, E., Prošek, J., Wild, J., & Šímová, P. (2023). Scale mismatches between predictor and response variables in species distribution modelling: A review of practices for appropriate grain selection. Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 0(0).
• Bonato, M., Martin, E. A., Cord, A. F., Seppelt, R., Beckmann, M., & Strauch, M. (2023). Applying generic landscape-scale models of natural pest control to real data: Associations between crops, pests and biocontrol agents make the difference. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 342, 108215.
• Moudrý, V., Cord, A. F., Gábor, L., Laurin, G. V., Barták, V., Gdulová, K., … & Wild, J. (2022). Vegetation structure derived from airborne laser scanning to assess species distribution and habitat suitability: The way forward. Diversity and Distributions.
• Beckmann, M., Didenko, G., Bullock, J. M., Cord, A. F., Paulus, A., Ziv, G., & Vaclavik, T. (2022). Archetypes of agri-environmental potential: a multi-scale typology for spatial stratification and upscaling in Europe. Environmental Research Letters.
• Wittstock, F., Paulus, A., Beckmann, M., Hagemann, N., & Baaken, M. C. (2022). Understanding farmers’ decision-making on agri-environmental schemes: A case study from Saxony, Germany. Land Use Policy, 122, 106371.
• Hölting, L., Busse, M., Bülow, S., Engler, J.O., Hagemann, N., Joormann, I., Kernecker,M. L., Larondelle, N., Sturm, A., Turkelboom, F., Wätzold, F., & Cord, A. F. (2022). Co-design: Working with farmers in Europe to halt the loss of biological diversity. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 3, e12169.
• Paulus, A., Hagemann, N., Baaken, M. C., Roilo, S., Alarcón-Segura, V., Cord, A. F., & Beckmann, M. (2022). Landscape context and farm characteristics are key to farmers’ adoption of agri-environmental schemes. Land Use Policy, 121, 106320.
• Gábor, L., Jetz, W., Lu, M., Rocchini, D., Cord, A., Malavasi, M., … & Moudrý, V. (2022). Positional errors in species distribution modelling are not overcome by the coarser grains of analysis. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13(10), 2289-2302.
• Roilo, S., Engler, J. O., Václavík, T., & Cord, A. F. (2023). Landscape‐level heterogeneity of agri‐environment measures improves habitat suitability for farmland birds. Ecological Applications, 33(1), e2720.
• Grünzweig, J. M., De Boeck, H. J., Rey, A., Santos, M. J., Adam, O., Bahn, M., Belnap, J., Deckmyn, G., Dekker, S.C., Flores, O., Gliksman, D., … & Yakir, D. (2022). Dryland mechanisms could widely control ecosystem functioning in a drier and warmer world. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1-13.
• Rodriguez‐Barrera, M. G., Kühn, I., Estrada‐Castillón, E., & Cord, A. F. (2022). Grassland type and seasonal effects have a bigger influence on plant functional and taxonomical diversity than prairie dog disturbances in semiarid grasslands. Ecology and Evolution, 12(7), e9040.
• Gosal, A. S., Evans, P. M., Bullock, J. M., Redhead, J., Charlton, M. B., Cord, A. F., … & Ziv, G. (2022). Understanding the accuracy of modelled changes in freshwater provision over time. Science of the Total Environment, 833, 155042.
• Meacham, M., Norström, A. V., Peterson, G. D., Andersson, E., Bennett, E. M., Biggs, R., Crouzat, E., Cord, A. F. … & Queiroz, C. (2022). Advancing research on ecosystem service bundles for comparative assessments and synthesis. Ecosystems and People, 18(1), 99-111.
• Vedder, D., Lens, L., Martin, C. A., Pellikka, P., Adhikari, H., Heiskanen, J., Engler, J. O. & Sarmento Cabral, J. (2022). Hybridization may aid evolutionary rescue of an endangered East African passerine. Evolutionary applications, 15(7), 1177-1188.
• Lee, H., Seo, B., Cord, A. F., Volk, M., & Lautenbach, S. (2022). Using crowdsourced images to study selected cultural ecosystem services and their relationships with species richness and carbon sequestration. Ecosystem Services, 54, 101411.
• Frans, V. F., Augé, A. A., Fyfe, J., Zhang, Y., McNally, N., Edelhoff, H., … & Engler, J. O. (2022). Integrated SDM database: Enhancing the relevance and utility of species distribution models in conservation management. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 13(1), 243-261.
• Balvanera, P., Brauman, K. A., Cord, A. F., Drakou, E. G., Geijzendorffer, I. R., Karp, D. S., … & Schröter, M. (2022). Essential ecosystem service variables for monitoring progress towards sustainability. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 54, 101152.
• Jungandreas, A., Roilo, S., Strauch, M., Václavík, T., Volk, M., & Cord, A. F. (2022). Response of endangered bird species to land-use changes in an agricultural landscape in Germany. Regional Environmental Change, 22(1), 1-14.
• Stiels, D., Bastian, H. V., Bastian, A., Schidelko, K., & Engler, J. O. (2021). An iconic messenger of climate change? Predicting the range dynamics of the European Bee-eater (Merops apiaster). Journal of Ornithology, 162(3), 631-644.
• Engler, J. O., Lawrie, Y., Cabral, J. S., Lens, L., & Martínez‐Meyer, E. (2021). Niche evolution reveals disparate signatures of speciation in the ‘great speciator’(white‐eyes, Aves: Zosterops). Journal of Biogeography, 48(8), 1981-1993.
• Zwanzig, L., Zwanzig, M., & Sauer, D. (2021). Outcomes of a quantitative analysis of 48 soil chronosequence studies in humid mid and high latitudes: Importance of vegetation in driving podzolization. Catena, 196, 104821.
• Qiu, J., Queiroz, C., Bennett, E. M., Cord, A. F., Crouzat, E., Lavorel, S., … & Turner, M. G. (2021). Land-use intensity mediates ecosystem service tradeoffs across regional social-ecological systems. Ecosystems and People, 17(1), 264-278.
• Hanisch, M., Schweiger, O., Cord, A. F., Volk, M., & Knapp, S. (2020). Plant functional traits shape multiple ecosystem services, their trade‐offs and synergies in grasslands. Journal of Applied Ecology, 57(8), 1535-1550.
• Hölting, L., Komossa, F., Filyushkina, A., Gastinger, M. M., Verburg, P. H., Beckmann, M., … & Cord, A. F. (2020). Including stakeholders’ perspectives on ecosystem services in multifunctionality assessments. Ecosystems and People, 16(1), 354-368.