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Thorsten Wiegand (PhD Marburg University) is a Senior Scientist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, and lecturer at the Escuela para Graduados

Faculdad de Agronomia -  Universidad de Buenos  Aires.

Dr. Wiegand also serves as subject editor of Ecography and Oikos, and in the editorial board of Landscape Ecology.

 

 

 

Dr. habil. Thorsten Wiegand
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
Department of Ecological Modelling
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig
Germany

Tel.  +49 341 235 1714  (new phone number!!)
Fax: +49 341 235 1473  (new fax number!!)
e-mail: thorsten.wiegand@ufz.de

 

 

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Over the last 20 years or so, we are witnessing a conceptual revolution in the field of population biology and ecological modeling, which was stimulated by the rapid development of advanced new scientific tools such and individual-based, spatially explicit population models, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). There is much work to be done in developing our understanding of the new "spatial ecology", and my research program is driven by an interest in this topic. My mayor research interest are

  • understanding the long-term dynamics of semiarid plant communities

  • spatially explicit population viability analysis (PVA) of large carnivore populations, 

  • integrating approaches of landscape ecology and population modeling.

My primary goal are (1) to broaden the theory of population and community ecology and to integrate them with landscape ecology to encompass an explicit consideration of spatially distributed processes, and (2) to develop methods to adapt models optimally for ecological applications, such as PVA. This involves several complementary approaches:

 

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  ERC Advanced  
  Investigator Grant

  One of the prestigious ERC
  Advances Investigator
  grants has been awarded to
  my project "Towards a
  Unified Spatial Theory of
  Biodiversity" which I will
  conduct together with
  Andreas Huth and
  international collaborators.

 

  Tropical forests  

   

 

Recent publications

 

 just posted:

 

  Hartig ,et al. 2011

  Statistical inference for

  stochastic simulations

  models - theory and

  application. Ecology Letters

 

  Niggemann et al. 2011

  Marked point pattern

  analysis on genetic

  paternity data for estimation

  and uncertainty assessment

  of pollen dispersal kernels.

  Journal of Ecology

 

  Martínez et al. 2011

  Elucidating demographic

  processes underlying tree

  line patterns: a novel

  approach to model selection

  for individual-based models

  using Bayesian methods

  and MCMC.

  American Naturalist

 

  Raventós et al. 2010

  Evidence for the spatial

  segregation hypothesis: a

  test with nine-year

  survivorship data in a

  Mediterranean fire-prone

  shrubland show that

  interspecific and density-

 dependent spatial

  interactions dominate.

  Ecology. 91:2110-2120

 

  Bruggeman et al. 2010.

  The relative effects of habitat

  loss and fragmentation on

  population genetic structure.

  Molecular Ecology 19:

  3679–3691

 

  Wang et al. 2010

  Species associations in an

  old-growth temperate forest

  in north-eastern China.

  J. Ecology 98: 674–68

 

  Wiegand et al. 2009
  Recruitment in tropical tree

  species: revealing complex

  spatial patterns. The

  American Naturalist 174:
 
E106 - E140

 

  Revilla and Wiegand
  2008
  Individual movement
  behavior, matrix
  heterogeneity and the
  dynamics of spatially
  structured populations.
  PNAS 105:19120-19125.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
 
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