List of works - Thomas Hickler

12,000-Years of fire regime drivers in the lowlands of Transylvania (Central-Eastern Europe): a data-model approach

scholarly article

7000-year human legacy of elevation-dependent European fire regimes

scholarly article

A Dynamic Model for Strategies and Dynamics of Plant Water-Potential Regulation Under Drought Conditions

scientific article published on 28 April 2020

A cross-taxon analysis of the impact of climate change on abundance trends in central Europe

scholarly article by D.E. Bowler et al published July 2015 in Biological Conservation

A global inventory of N2O emissions from tropical rainforest soils using a detailed biogeochemical model

article

A physiological analogy of the niche for projecting the potential distribution of plants

article

A reference genome of the European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.).

scientific article

Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient

scientific article published on 23 July 2019

Agro-climatic resources and challenges to food production in Cameroon

article

Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities

scientific article

An ecosystem model-based estimate of changes in water availability differs from water proxies that are commonly used in species distribution models

article

Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming – simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b)

article

Benchmarking carbon fluxes of the ISIMIP2a biome models

BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

scientific article published in July 2018

Biodiversity and Climate Extremes: Known Interactions and Research Gaps

scientific article published in June 2024

Biodiversity post‐2020: Closing the gap between global targets and national‐level implementation

scientific article published on 22 November 2021

Biodiversity-rich European grasslands: Ancient, forgotten ecosystems

scientific article published in 2018

Bioenergy cropland expansion may offset positive effects of climate change mitigation for global vertebrate diversity

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Biotic modifiers, environmental modulation and species distribution models

article

Broadleaf deciduous forest counterbalanced the direct effect of climate on Holocene fire regime in hemiboreal/boreal region (NE Europe)

scholarly article

CO2fertilization in temperate FACE experiments not representative of boreal and tropical forests

CO2inhibition of global terrestrial isoprene emissions: Potential implications for atmospheric chemistry

scholarly article

Challenges in elevated CO2 experiments on forests

scientific article

Challenging terrestrial biosphere models with data from the long-term multifactor Prairie Heating and CO2 Enrichment experiment

scientific article

Changes in European ecosystem productivity and carbon balance driven by regional climate model output

Climate Extreme Versus Carbon Extreme: Responses of Terrestrial Carbon Fluxes to Temperature and Precipitation

scientific article published in 2020

Climate regulation processes are linked to the functional composition of plant communities in European forests, shrublands, and grasslands

scientific article published in February 2024

Climate-vegetation modelling and fossil plant data suggest low atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> in the late Miocene

article

Combined impacts of future climate‐driven vegetation changes and socioeconomic pressures on protected areas in Africa

scientific article published in 2022

Combining European Earth Observation products with Dynamic Global Vegetation Models for estimating Essential Biodiversity Variables

scientific article published on 26 March 2019

Comparing correlative and process-based modelling approaches in a boreal forest identifies important areas for model development

article

Comparing future shifts in tree species distributions across Europe projected by statistical and dynamic process-based models

Comprehensive ecosystem model-data synthesis using multiple data sets at two temperate forest free-air CO2enrichment experiments: Model performance at ambient CO2concentration

article

Connecting dynamic vegetation models to data - an inverse perspective

article

Continental climate gradients in North America and Western Eurasia before and after the closure of the Central American Seaway

scientific article

Coupling a physiological grazer population model with a generalized model for vegetation dynamics

article

Cross-realm assessment of climate change impacts on species’ abundance trends

article

Cross-taxa generalities in the relationship between population abundance and ambient temperatures

scientific article published in September 2017

Current progress in the development of taxonomic and anatomical ontologies within the scope of BIOfid

scientific article published in 2018

Decadal biomass increment in early secondary succession woody ecosystems is increased by CO enrichment

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Detection and annotation of plant organs from digitised herbarium scans using deep learning

scientific article published on 10 December 2020

Determinants of local ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) species richness and activity density across Europe

scholarly article by Sabrina Kumschick et al published December 2009 in Ecological Entomology

Dynamic Global Vegetation Modeling: Quantifying Terrestrial Ecosystem Responses to Large-Scale Environmental Change

article

Ecological networks are more sensitive to plant than to animal extinction under climate change

scientific article (publication date: 23 December 2016)

Effect of changing vegetation and precipitation on denudation – Part 1: Predicted vegetation composition and cover over the last 21 thousand years along the Coastal Cordillera of Chile

article

Effect of changing vegetation and precipitation on denudation – Part 2: Predicted landscape response to transient climate and vegetation cover over millennial to million-year timescales

article published in 2018

Effect of climate-driven changes in species composition on regional emission capacities of biogenic compounds

article

Effects of human land-use on the global carbon cycle during the last 6,000 years

Effects of species composition, land surface cover, CO2 concentration and climate on isoprene emissions from European forests.

scientific article

Emergent climate and CO2 sensitivities of net primary productivity in ecosystem models do not agree with empirical data in temperate forests of eastern North America.

scientific article

Ensembles of ecosystem service models can improve accuracy and indicate uncertainty

scientific article published on 25 July 2020

Evaluating changes of biomass in global vegetation models: the role of turnover fluctuations and ENSO events

Evaluation of 11 terrestrial carbon-nitrogen cycle models against observations from two temperate Free-Air CO2 Enrichment studies

scientific article

Evapotranspiration simulations in ISIMIP2a—Evaluation of spatio-temporal characteristics with a comprehensive ensemble of independent datasets

Expansion of deciduous tall shrubs but not evergreen dwarf shrubs inhibited by reindeer in Scandes mountain range

scientific article

Exploring climatic and biotic controls on Holocene vegetation change in Fennoscandia

article by Paul A. Miller et al published March 2008 in Journal of Ecology

Exporting the ecological effects of climate change. Developed and developing countries will suffer the consequences of climate change, but differ in both their responsibility and how badly it will affect their ecosystems

scientific article (publication date: July 2008)

Fire has been an important driver of forest dynamics in the Carpathian Mountains during the Holocene

scientific article published in 2017

Fire hazard modulation by long-term dynamics in land cover and dominant forest type in eastern and central Europe

scientific article published in 2020

Forest responses to last-millennium hydroclimate variability are governed by spatial variations in ecosystem sensitivity

scientific article published on 29 December 2020

Forest water use and water use efficiency at elevated CO2 : a model-data intercomparison at two contrasting temperate forest FACE sites

scientific article

Global ecosystems and fire: multi-model assessment of fire-induced tree cover and carbon storage reduction

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

Global vegetation patterns of the past 140,000 years

Great uncertainties in modeling grazing impact on carbon sequestration: a multi-model inter-comparison in temperate Eurasian Steppe

scholarly article by Yizhao Chen et al published 1 July 2018 in Environmental Research Letters

Holocene land-cover reconstructions for studies on land cover-climate feedbacks

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

scientific article published in 2013

Hydrologic resilience of the terrestrial biosphere

scholarly article

Hydrological conditions and carbon accumulation rates reconstructed from a mountain raised bog in the Carpathians: A multi-proxy approach

Impacts of changing frost regimes on Swedish forests: Incorporating cold hardiness in a regional ecosystem model

scientific article published in 2010

Implementing plant hydraulic architecture within the LPJ Dynamic Global Vegetation Model

article

Implications of incorporating N cycling and N limitations on primary production in an individual-based dynamic vegetation model

article

Incorporating the effects of changes in vegetation functioning and CO2 on water availability in plant habitat models

scientific article

Increasing range mismatching of interacting species under global change is related to their ecological characteristics

article

Intercontinental divergence in the climate envelope of major plant biomes

article

Is drought-induced forest dieback globally increasing?

scientific article published in 2015

Land use intensification increasingly drives the spatiotemporal patterns of the global human appropriation of net primary production in the last century

scientific article published on 17 October 2021

Large uncertainties in future biome changes in Africa call for flexible climate adaptation strategies

scientific article published on 09 October 2020

Last Millennium hydro-climate variability in Central–Eastern Europe (Northern Carpathians, Romania)

Last glacial vegetation of northern Eurasia

scholarly article

Links between Terrestrial Primary Production and Bacterial Production and Respiration in Lakes in a Climate Gradient in Subarctic Sweden

article

Long-term land-cover/use change in a traditional farming landscape in Romania inferred from pollen data, historical maps and satellite images

Long-term population dynamics of a migrant bird suggests interaction of climate change and competition with resident species

article

Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions

scientific article published in December 2017

Masting behaviour and dendrochronology of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in southern Sweden

scholarly article by Igor Drobyshev et al published May 2010 in Forest Ecology and Management

Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems

scientific article

Millennial climatic fluctuations are key to the structure of last glacial ecosystems

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Model ensembles of ecosystem services fill global certainty and capacity gaps

scientific article published on 7 April 2023

Modeling forest dynamics along climate gradients in Bolivia

scholarly article by C. Seiler et al published May 2014 in Journal of geophysical research. Biogeosciences

Modelling exploration of the future of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) under climate change—Range, abundance, genetic diversity and adaptive response

article

Modelling short-term variability in carbon and water exchange in a temperate Scots pine forest

article by M. H. Vermeulen et al published 30 July 2015 in Earth System Dynamics ESD

Modelling the potential distribution, net primary production and phenology of common ragweed with a physiological model

article

Multiple stressors on biotic interactions: how climate change and alien species interact to affect pollination

scientific article

Next generation of elevated [CO2] experiments with crops: a critical investment for feeding the future world

scientific article published on 3 June 2008

Nitrogen feedbacks increase future terrestrial ecosystem carbon uptake in an individual-based dynamic vegetation model

article

Nutrient cycling drives plant community trait assembly and ecosystem functioning in a tropical mountain biodiversity hotspot

scientific article published on 06 July 2021

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Towards an understanding of the Holocene distribution of Fagus sylvatica L

On the potential vegetation feedbacks that enhance phosphorus availability – insights from a process-based model linking geological and ecological timescales

article

Origin of the forest steppe and exceptional grassland diversity in Transylvania (central-eastern Europe)

Palms tracking climate change

scholarly article by Gian-Reto Walther et al published November 2007 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Photosynthetic productivity and its efficiencies in ISIMIP2a biome models: benchmarking for impact assessment studies

scholarly article by Akihiko Ito et al published 25 July 2017 in Environmental Research Letters

Potential impact of large ungulate grazers on African vegetation, carbon storage and fire regimes

scientific article published in 2015

Potential implications of future climate and land-cover changes for the fate and distribution of persistent organic pollutants in Europe

article

Precipitation controls Sahel greening trend

scholarly article

Predicting global change impacts on plant species’ distributions: Future challenges

article

Predicting habitat affinities of plant species using commonly measured functional traits

article

Predicting long-term carbon sequestration in response to CO2 enrichment: How and why do current ecosystem models differ?

article

Projected climate change impacts on the phylogenetic diversity of the world's terrestrial birds: more than species numbers

scientific article published on 20 July 2022

Projecting Exposure to Extreme Climate Impact Events Across Six Event Categories and Three Spatial Scales

scientific article published on 14 November 2020

Projecting the future distribution of European potential natural vegetation zones with a generalized, tree species-based dynamic vegetation model

article

Reconstructing range dynamics and range fragmentation of European bison for the last 8000 years

scientific article published in 2011

Reconstruction of a regional drought index in southern Sweden since AD 1750

scholarly article by Igor Drobyshev et al published 27 January 2011 in The Holocene

Reducing Uncertainties of Future Global Soil Carbon Responses to Climate and Land Use Change With Emergent Constraints

scientific article

Refugee species: which historic baseline should inform conservation planning?

scientific article published in 2012

Regional contribution to variability and trends of global gross primary productivity

Risk assessment for Iberian birds under global change

article by Maria Triviño et al published December 2013 in Biological Conservation

Sensitivity of simulated historical burned area to environmental andanthropogenic controls: A comparison of seven fire models

Simulating past and future dynamics of natural ecosystems in the United States

article

Specialization of mutualistic interaction networks decreases toward tropical latitudes

scientific article

Species richness-environment relationships of European arthropods at two spatial grains: habitats and countries

scientific article

Structuring sustainability science

TRY - a global database of plant traits

scientific article (publication date: 21 June 2011)

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

Taxon and trait recognition from digitized herbarium specimens using deep convolutional neural networks

scholarly article by Sohaib Younis et al published 13 March 2018 in Botany Letters

The Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project (FireMIP), phase 1: experimental and analytical protocols with detailed model descriptions

scientific article published on 17 March 2017

The concerns of the young protesters are justified: A statement by Scientists for Future concerning the protests for more climate protection

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

The contribution of vegetation and landscape configuration for predicting environmental change impacts on Iberian birds

scientific article

The impact of climate-vegetation interactions on the onset of the Antarctic ice sheet

scholarly article

The importance of age-related decline in forest NPP for modeling regional carbon balances

scientific article published in August 2006

The influence of interspecific interactions on species range expansion rates ⬇️

scientific article

The sensitivity of wet and dry tropical forests to climate change in Bolivia

scholarly article by C. Seiler et al published March 2015 in Journal of geophysical research. Biogeosciences

The status and challenge of global fire modelling ⬇️

article

Towards an advanced atmospheric chemistry-enabled ESM with dynamic land surface processes: Part I - Linking LPJ-GUESS (v4.0) with EMAC modelling system (v2.53)

article

Towards novel approaches to modelling biotic interactions in multispecies assemblages at large spatial extents

article

Tree Species Composition in European Pristine Forests: Comparison of Stand Data to Model Predictions

Tree and timberline shifts in the northern Romanian Carpathians during the Holocene and the responses to environmental changes

article

Tree migration-rates: narrowing the gap between inferred post-glacial rates and projected rates

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Tree mortality submodels drive simulated long-term forest dynamics: assessing 15 models from the stand to global scale

scientific article published in 2019

Tree regeneration in models of forest dynamics: A key priority for further research

scientific article published in 2024

Trends in biomass burning in the Carpathian region over the last 15,000 years

scholarly article

USING A GENERALIZED VEGETATION MODEL TO SIMULATE VEGETATION DYNAMICS IN NORTHEASTERN USA

scientific article published in 2004

Uncertainties in projected impacts of climate change on European agriculture and terrestrial ecosystems based on scenarios from regional climate models

article

Using dynamic vegetation models to simulate plant range shifts

article

Using ecosystem experiments to improve vegetation models

article

VAT: A Scientific Toolbox for Interactive Geodata Exploration

Water limitation prevails over energy in European diversity gradients of sheetweb spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae)

scientific article published in 2009

Where does the carbon go? A model-data intercomparison of vegetation carbon allocation and turnover processes at two temperate forest free-air CO2 enrichment sites

scientific article

Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

article

Why would plant species become extinct locally if growing conditions improve?

scientific article

Workflow and Current Achievements of BIOfid, an Information Service Mobilizing Biodiversity Data from Literature Sources

scientific article published in 2018

List of works by Thomas Hickler

12,000-Years of fire regime drivers in the lowlands of Transylvania (Central-Eastern Europe): a data-model approach

7000-year human legacy of elevation-dependent European fire regimes

A Dynamic Model for Strategies and Dynamics of Plant Water-Potential Regulation Under Drought Conditions

A cross-taxon analysis of the impact of climate change on abundance trends in central Europe

A global inventory of N2O emissions from tropical rainforest soils using a detailed biogeochemical model

A physiological analogy of the niche for projecting the potential distribution of plants

A reference genome of the European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.).

Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient

Agro-climatic resources and challenges to food production in Cameroon

Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities

An ecosystem model-based estimate of changes in water availability differs from water proxies that are commonly used in species distribution models

Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming – simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b)

Benchmarking carbon fluxes of the ISIMIP2a biome models

BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

Biodiversity and Climate Extremes: Known Interactions and Research Gaps

Biodiversity post‐2020: Closing the gap between global targets and national‐level implementation

Biodiversity-rich European grasslands: Ancient, forgotten ecosystems

Bioenergy cropland expansion may offset positive effects of climate change mitigation for global vertebrate diversity

Biotic modifiers, environmental modulation and species distribution models

Broadleaf deciduous forest counterbalanced the direct effect of climate on Holocene fire regime in hemiboreal/boreal region (NE Europe)

CO2fertilization in temperate FACE experiments not representative of boreal and tropical forests

CO2inhibition of global terrestrial isoprene emissions: Potential implications for atmospheric chemistry

Challenges in elevated CO2 experiments on forests

Challenging terrestrial biosphere models with data from the long-term multifactor Prairie Heating and CO2 Enrichment experiment

Changes in European ecosystem productivity and carbon balance driven by regional climate model output

Climate Extreme Versus Carbon Extreme: Responses of Terrestrial Carbon Fluxes to Temperature and Precipitation

Climate regulation processes are linked to the functional composition of plant communities in European forests, shrublands, and grasslands

Climate-vegetation modelling and fossil plant data suggest low atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> in the late Miocene

Combined impacts of future climate‐driven vegetation changes and socioeconomic pressures on protected areas in Africa

Combining European Earth Observation products with Dynamic Global Vegetation Models for estimating Essential Biodiversity Variables

Comparing correlative and process-based modelling approaches in a boreal forest identifies important areas for model development

Comparing future shifts in tree species distributions across Europe projected by statistical and dynamic process-based models

Comprehensive ecosystem model-data synthesis using multiple data sets at two temperate forest free-air CO2enrichment experiments: Model performance at ambient CO2concentration

Connecting dynamic vegetation models to data - an inverse perspective

Continental climate gradients in North America and Western Eurasia before and after the closure of the Central American Seaway

Coupling a physiological grazer population model with a generalized model for vegetation dynamics

Cross-realm assessment of climate change impacts on species’ abundance trends

Cross-taxa generalities in the relationship between population abundance and ambient temperatures

Current progress in the development of taxonomic and anatomical ontologies within the scope of BIOfid

Decadal biomass increment in early secondary succession woody ecosystems is increased by CO enrichment

Detection and annotation of plant organs from digitised herbarium scans using deep learning

Determinants of local ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) species richness and activity density across Europe

Dynamic Global Vegetation Modeling: Quantifying Terrestrial Ecosystem Responses to Large-Scale Environmental Change

Ecological networks are more sensitive to plant than to animal extinction under climate change

Effect of changing vegetation and precipitation on denudation – Part 1: Predicted vegetation composition and cover over the last 21 thousand years along the Coastal Cordillera of Chile

Effect of changing vegetation and precipitation on denudation – Part 2: Predicted landscape response to transient climate and vegetation cover over millennial to million-year timescales

Effect of climate-driven changes in species composition on regional emission capacities of biogenic compounds

Effects of human land-use on the global carbon cycle during the last 6,000 years

Effects of species composition, land surface cover, CO2 concentration and climate on isoprene emissions from European forests.

Emergent climate and CO2 sensitivities of net primary productivity in ecosystem models do not agree with empirical data in temperate forests of eastern North America.

Ensembles of ecosystem service models can improve accuracy and indicate uncertainty

Evaluating changes of biomass in global vegetation models: the role of turnover fluctuations and ENSO events

Evaluation of 11 terrestrial carbon-nitrogen cycle models against observations from two temperate Free-Air CO2 Enrichment studies

Evapotranspiration simulations in ISIMIP2a—Evaluation of spatio-temporal characteristics with a comprehensive ensemble of independent datasets

Expansion of deciduous tall shrubs but not evergreen dwarf shrubs inhibited by reindeer in Scandes mountain range

Exploring climatic and biotic controls on Holocene vegetation change in Fennoscandia

Exporting the ecological effects of climate change. Developed and developing countries will suffer the consequences of climate change, but differ in both their responsibility and how badly it will affect their ecosystems

Fire has been an important driver of forest dynamics in the Carpathian Mountains during the Holocene

Fire hazard modulation by long-term dynamics in land cover and dominant forest type in eastern and central Europe

Forest responses to last-millennium hydroclimate variability are governed by spatial variations in ecosystem sensitivity

Forest water use and water use efficiency at elevated CO2 : a model-data intercomparison at two contrasting temperate forest FACE sites

Global ecosystems and fire: multi-model assessment of fire-induced tree cover and carbon storage reduction

Global vegetation patterns of the past 140,000 years

Great uncertainties in modeling grazing impact on carbon sequestration: a multi-model inter-comparison in temperate Eurasian Steppe

Holocene land-cover reconstructions for studies on land cover-climate feedbacks

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

Hydrologic resilience of the terrestrial biosphere

Hydrological conditions and carbon accumulation rates reconstructed from a mountain raised bog in the Carpathians: A multi-proxy approach

Impacts of changing frost regimes on Swedish forests: Incorporating cold hardiness in a regional ecosystem model

Implementing plant hydraulic architecture within the LPJ Dynamic Global Vegetation Model

Implications of incorporating N cycling and N limitations on primary production in an individual-based dynamic vegetation model

Incorporating the effects of changes in vegetation functioning and CO2 on water availability in plant habitat models

Increasing range mismatching of interacting species under global change is related to their ecological characteristics

Intercontinental divergence in the climate envelope of major plant biomes

Is drought-induced forest dieback globally increasing?

Land use intensification increasingly drives the spatiotemporal patterns of the global human appropriation of net primary production in the last century

Large uncertainties in future biome changes in Africa call for flexible climate adaptation strategies

Last Millennium hydro-climate variability in Central–Eastern Europe (Northern Carpathians, Romania)

Last glacial vegetation of northern Eurasia

Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming – simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b)