List of works - Kerstin Wiegand

A multi-scale study of Australian fairy circles using soil excavations and drone-based image analysis

scientific article

A review of the ecosystem functions in oil palm plantations, using forests as a reference system.

scientific article

Adopting a spatially explicit perspective to study the mysterious fairy circles of Namibia

scientific article published in 2014

Analysis of the population dynamics of Acacia trees in the Negev desert, Israel with a spatially-explicit computer simulation model

article

Are savannas patch-dynamic systems? A landscape model

scientific article published in 2009

Assessing biodiversity in forests using very high-resolution images and unmanned aerial vehicles

scientific article published in 2011

Assessing predicted isolation effects from the general dynamic model of island biogeography with an eco‐evolutionary model for plants

scientific article

Asymmetric tree growth at the stand level: Random crown patterns and the response to slope

scientific article published in 2007

Big is not better: small Acacia mellifera shrubs are more vital after fire

scientific article published in 2005

Biological control in Indonesian oil palm potentially enhanced by landscape context

Book review

Bridging ecology and physics: Australian fairy circles regenerate following model assumptions on ecohydrological feedbacks

scientific article

Carrying capacity in arid rangelands during droughts: the role of temporal and spatial thresholds

scientific article

Changes of woody plant interaction and spatial distribution between rocky and sandy soil areas in a semi-arid savanna, South Africa

article

Clarifying misunderstandings regarding vegetation self-organisation and spatial patterns of fairy circles in Namibia: a response to recent termite hypotheses

article

Conservation Biocontrol in Fragmented Landscapes: Persistence and Parasitation in a Host-Parasitoid Model

scientific article published in 2009

Density-dependent spatial patterning of woody plants differs between a semi-arid and a mesic savanna in South Africa

scientific article

Determining patch size

scientific article published in 2008

Discovery of fairy circles in Australia supports self-organization theory

scientific article

Disentangling facilitation and seed dispersal from environmental heterogeneity as mechanisms generating associations between savanna plants

article

Do Acacia and Tamarix trees compete for water in the Negev desert?

EFForTS-LGraf: A landscape generator for creating smallholder-driven land-use mosaics ⬇️

scientific article published on 27 September 2019

Ecological and socio-economic functions across tropical land use systems after rainforest conversion

scientific article

Economic and ecological trade-offs of agricultural specialization at different spatial scales

scientific article published in 2016

Effect of spatial processes and topography on structuring species assemblages in a Sri Lankan dipterocarp forest

scientific article

Effects of topography on structuring local species assemblages in a Sri Lankan mixed dipterocarp forest

article

Efficiency of sample-based indices for spatial pattern recognition of wild pistachio (Pistacia atlantica) trees in semi-arid woodlands

scholarly article by Yousef Erfanifard et al published 30 December 2015 in Journal of Forestry Research

Environmental heterogeneity predicts global species richness patterns better than area

scientific article

Evaluating the trade-off between machinery efficiency and loss of biodiversity-friendly habitats in arable landscapes: The role of field size

Extinction and Spatial Structure in Simulation Models

From snapshot information to long-term population dynamics of Acacias by a simulation model

scientific article published in 2000

Grassland Models

Grazing Models

article published in 2008

Heterogeneity influences spatial patterns and demographics in forest stands

scientific article published in 2008

How can we bring together empiricists and modellers in functional biodiversity research?

scientific article published in 2013

Im Rhythmus der Vegetation

In the Rhythm of the Vegetation

Interaction between ungulates and bruchid beetles and its effect on Acacia trees: modeling the costs and benefits of seed dispersal to plant demography

scientific article published on 27 March 2011

Interactions between ecological, evolutionary and environmental processes unveil complex dynamics of insular plant diversity

scientific article

Land-use change in oil palm dominated tropical landscapes-An agent-based model to explore ecological and socio-economic trade-offs.

scientific article

Large shrubs increase soil nutrients in a semi-arid savanna

scholarly article

Long-term demographic fluctuations in an orchid species driven by weather: implications for conservation planning

scientific article published in 2006

Long-term mortality patterns of the deep-rooted Acacia erioloba: The middle class shall die!

Minimum forest cover required for sustainable water flow regulation of a watershed: a case study in Jambi Province, Indonesia

scientific article

Minimum recruitment frequency in plants with episodic recruitment

scientific article published on 10 December 2003

Mitigation options for improving the ecosystem function of water flow regulation in a watershed with rapid expansion of oil palm plantations

Multi-proxy evidence for competition between savanna woody species

article

Non-linear effects of pesticide application on biodiversity-driven ecosystem services and disservices in a cacao agroecosystem: A modeling study

scholarly article by Rodolphe Sabatier et al published March 2013 in Basic and Applied Ecology

Patch dynamics integrate mechanisms for savanna tree–grass coexistence

scientific article published in 2009

PioLaG: a piosphere landscape generator for savanna rangeland modelling

scientific article

Production and robustness of a Cacao agroecosystem: effects of two contrasting types of management strategies

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Relative contribution of evapotranspiration and soil compaction to the fluctuation of catchment discharge: case study from a plantation landscape

scientific article

Remote Sensing of Tree–Grass Systems: The Eastern Australian Woodlands

academic book chapter

Reply to Walsh et al.: Hexagonal patterns of Australian fairy circles develop without correlation to termitaria

scientific article

Resource pulses, species interactions, and diversity maintenance in arid and semi-arid environments.

scientific article

Revisiting Theron’s hypothesis on the origin of fairy circles after four decades: Euphorbias are not the cause

scientific article published on 28 May 2021

Robustness and management adaptability in tropical rangelands: a viability-based assessment under the non-equilibrium paradigm

scientific article

SATCHMO: A spatial simulation model of growth, competition, and mortality in cycling savanna patches

article

Scale Effects in Biodiversity and Biological Control: Methods and Statistical Analysis

Scale-dependent competition at the stand level assessed from crown areas

article published in 2008

Size dominance regulates tree spacing more than competition within height classes in tropical Cameroon

article

Spacing patterns of an Acacia tree in the Kalahari over a 61-year period: How clumped becomes regular and vice versa

scientific article published in 2008

Spatial and Biological Aspects of Reserve Design

Spatial distribution and association patterns in a tropical evergreen broad-leaved forest of north-central Vietnam

scholarly article by Hong Hai Nguyen et al published 21 November 2015 in Journal of Vegetation Science

Spatial distributions of tropical tree species in northern Vietnam under environmentally variable site conditions

scholarly article by Nguyen Hong Hai et al published 30 April 2014 in Journal of Forestry Research

Spatial patterns and competition of tree species in a Douglas-fir chronosequence on Vancouver Island

article

Spatial scales of interactions among bacteria and between bacteria and the leaf surface

scientific article

SpatialDemography: a spatially explicit, stage-structured, metacommunity model

scientific article published in 2016

The Role of Density Regulation in Extinction Processes and Population Viability Analysis

article

The importance of heterogeneity revisited from a multiscale and multitaxa approach

The nlrx r package: A next‐generation framework for reproducible NetLogo model analyses

scientific article

The rhythm of savanna patch dynamics

scientific article published in 2007

The role of size inequality in self-thinning: A pattern-oriented simulation model for arid savannas

scientific article published in 2008

Trees, grass, and fire in humid savannas—The importance of life history traits and spatial processes

scientific article published in 2016

Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to Quantify Spatial Gap Patterns in Forests

Validating the use of unique trait combinations for measuring multivariate functional richness

scientific article published in 2016

Walter's two-layer hypothesis revisited: back to the roots!

scientific article

Water scarcity and oil palm expansion: social views and environmental processes

article published in 2016

landscapemetrics : an open‐source R tool to calculate landscape metrics

scientific article

spectre: an R package to estimate spatially‐explicit community composition using sparse data

scientific article published in 2022

List of works by Kerstin Wiegand

A multi-scale study of Australian fairy circles using soil excavations and drone-based image analysis

A review of the ecosystem functions in oil palm plantations, using forests as a reference system.

Adopting a spatially explicit perspective to study the mysterious fairy circles of Namibia

Analysis of the population dynamics of Acacia trees in the Negev desert, Israel with a spatially-explicit computer simulation model

Are savannas patch-dynamic systems? A landscape model

Assessing biodiversity in forests using very high-resolution images and unmanned aerial vehicles

Assessing predicted isolation effects from the general dynamic model of island biogeography with an eco‐evolutionary model for plants

Asymmetric tree growth at the stand level: Random crown patterns and the response to slope

Big is not better: small Acacia mellifera shrubs are more vital after fire

Biological control in Indonesian oil palm potentially enhanced by landscape context

Book review

Bridging ecology and physics: Australian fairy circles regenerate following model assumptions on ecohydrological feedbacks

Carrying capacity in arid rangelands during droughts: the role of temporal and spatial thresholds

Changes of woody plant interaction and spatial distribution between rocky and sandy soil areas in a semi-arid savanna, South Africa

Clarifying misunderstandings regarding vegetation self-organisation and spatial patterns of fairy circles in Namibia: a response to recent termite hypotheses

Conservation Biocontrol in Fragmented Landscapes: Persistence and Parasitation in a Host-Parasitoid Model

Density-dependent spatial patterning of woody plants differs between a semi-arid and a mesic savanna in South Africa

Determining patch size

Discovery of fairy circles in Australia supports self-organization theory

Disentangling facilitation and seed dispersal from environmental heterogeneity as mechanisms generating associations between savanna plants

Do Acacia and Tamarix trees compete for water in the Negev desert?

EFForTS-LGraf: A landscape generator for creating smallholder-driven land-use mosaics ⬇️

Ecological and socio-economic functions across tropical land use systems after rainforest conversion

Economic and ecological trade-offs of agricultural specialization at different spatial scales

Effect of spatial processes and topography on structuring species assemblages in a Sri Lankan dipterocarp forest

Effects of topography on structuring local species assemblages in a Sri Lankan mixed dipterocarp forest

Efficiency of sample-based indices for spatial pattern recognition of wild pistachio (Pistacia atlantica) trees in semi-arid woodlands

Environmental heterogeneity predicts global species richness patterns better than area

Evaluating the trade-off between machinery efficiency and loss of biodiversity-friendly habitats in arable landscapes: The role of field size

Extinction and Spatial Structure in Simulation Models

From snapshot information to long-term population dynamics of Acacias by a simulation model

Grassland Models

Grazing Models

Heterogeneity influences spatial patterns and demographics in forest stands

How can we bring together empiricists and modellers in functional biodiversity research?

Im Rhythmus der Vegetation

In the Rhythm of the Vegetation

Interaction between ungulates and bruchid beetles and its effect on Acacia trees: modeling the costs and benefits of seed dispersal to plant demography

Interactions between ecological, evolutionary and environmental processes unveil complex dynamics of insular plant diversity

Land-use change in oil palm dominated tropical landscapes-An agent-based model to explore ecological and socio-economic trade-offs.

Large shrubs increase soil nutrients in a semi-arid savanna

Long-term demographic fluctuations in an orchid species driven by weather: implications for conservation planning

Long-term mortality patterns of the deep-rooted Acacia erioloba: The middle class shall die!

Minimum forest cover required for sustainable water flow regulation of a watershed: a case study in Jambi Province, Indonesia

Minimum recruitment frequency in plants with episodic recruitment

Mitigation options for improving the ecosystem function of water flow regulation in a watershed with rapid expansion of oil palm plantations

Multi-proxy evidence for competition between savanna woody species

Non-linear effects of pesticide application on biodiversity-driven ecosystem services and disservices in a cacao agroecosystem: A modeling study

Patch dynamics integrate mechanisms for savanna tree–grass coexistence

PioLaG: a piosphere landscape generator for savanna rangeland modelling

Production and robustness of a Cacao agroecosystem: effects of two contrasting types of management strategies

Relative contribution of evapotranspiration and soil compaction to the fluctuation of catchment discharge: case study from a plantation landscape

Remote Sensing of Tree–Grass Systems: The Eastern Australian Woodlands

Reply to Walsh et al.: Hexagonal patterns of Australian fairy circles develop without correlation to termitaria

Resource pulses, species interactions, and diversity maintenance in arid and semi-arid environments.

Revisiting Theron’s hypothesis on the origin of fairy circles after four decades: Euphorbias are not the cause

Robustness and management adaptability in tropical rangelands: a viability-based assessment under the non-equilibrium paradigm

SATCHMO: A spatial simulation model of growth, competition, and mortality in cycling savanna patches

Scale Effects in Biodiversity and Biological Control: Methods and Statistical Analysis

Scale-dependent competition at the stand level assessed from crown areas

Size dominance regulates tree spacing more than competition within height classes in tropical Cameroon

Spacing patterns of an Acacia tree in the Kalahari over a 61-year period: How clumped becomes regular and vice versa

Spatial and Biological Aspects of Reserve Design

Spatial distribution and association patterns in a tropical evergreen broad-leaved forest of north-central Vietnam

Spatial distributions of tropical tree species in northern Vietnam under environmentally variable site conditions

Spatial patterns and competition of tree species in a Douglas-fir chronosequence on Vancouver Island

Spatial scales of interactions among bacteria and between bacteria and the leaf surface

SpatialDemography: a spatially explicit, stage-structured, metacommunity model

The Role of Density Regulation in Extinction Processes and Population Viability Analysis

The importance of heterogeneity revisited from a multiscale and multitaxa approach

The nlrx r package: A next‐generation framework for reproducible NetLogo model analyses

The rhythm of savanna patch dynamics

The role of size inequality in self-thinning: A pattern-oriented simulation model for arid savannas

Trees, grass, and fire in humid savannas—The importance of life history traits and spatial processes

Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) to Quantify Spatial Gap Patterns in Forests

Validating the use of unique trait combinations for measuring multivariate functional richness

Walter's two-layer hypothesis revisited: back to the roots!

Water scarcity and oil palm expansion: social views and environmental processes

landscapemetrics : an open‐source R tool to calculate landscape metrics