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Overview

Anna F. Cord is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany. Their academic work primarily focuses on Environmental Science with a particular emphasis on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The main subjects Anna F. Cord addresses in their research include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Forest Management and Policy, and Environmental Conservation and Management.

The scientist has contributed to multiple publications in notable venues, frequently publishing in the SSRN Electronic Journal, Ecosystems and People, Environmental Research Letters, Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, and The Science of The Total Environment.

Anna F. Cord has co-authored extensively with colleagues such as Stephanie Roilo, Michael Beckmann, Jan O. Engler, Frank Wätzold, and Lisanne Hölting.

Recent papers include the following:

  • Plant functional traits shape multiple ecosystem services, their trade-offs and synergies in grasslands, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Spatiotemporal dynamics of ecosystem services provision in a degraded ecosystem: A systematic assessment in the Lake Urmia basin, Iran, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Vegetation structure derived from airborne laser scanning to assess species distribution and habitat suitability: The way forward, 2022, Diversity and Distributions
  • Essential ecosystem service variables for monitoring progress towards sustainability, 2022, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • Including stakeholders' perspectives on ecosystem services in multifunctionality assessments, 2020, Ecosystems and People

Best Publications

  • Towards systematic analyses of ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies : Main concepts, methods and the road ahead

    Anna F. Cord;Bartosz Bartkowski;Michael Beckmann;Andreas Dittrich

  • Will remote sensing shape the next generation of species distribution models

    Kate S. He;Bethany A. Bradley;Anna F. Cord;Duccio Rocchini

  • glUV: a global UV‐B radiation data set for macroecological studies

    Michael Beckmann;Michael Beckmann;Tomáš Václavík;Ameur M. Manceur;Lenka Šprtová

  • Linking earth observation and taxonomic, structural and functional biodiversity: local to ecosystem perspectives

    Angela Lausch;L Bannehr;Michael Beckmann;Christoph Boehm

  • Ecosystem services in global sustainability policies

    Ilse R. Geijzendorffer;Emmanuelle Cohen-Shacham;Anna F. Cord;Wolfgang Cramer

  • A review of multi-criteria optimization techniques for agricultural land use allocation

    Andrea Kaim;Anna F. Cord;Martin Volk

  • Integrating ecosystem service bundles and socio-environmental conditions – A national scale analysis from Germany

    Andreas Dittrich;Ralf Seppelt;Ralf Seppelt;Tomáš Václavík;Anna F. Cord

  • Modelling the species distribution of flat-headed cats (Prionailurus planiceps), an endangered South-East Asian small felid.

    Andreas Wilting;Anna Cord;Anna Cord;Andrew J. Hearn;Deike Hesse

  • Multifunctionality assessments – More than assessing multiple ecosystem functions and services? A quantitative literature review

    Lisanne Hölting;Michael Beckmann;Martin Volk;Anna F. Cord

  • Priorities to Advance Monitoring of Ecosystem Services Using Earth Observation

    Anna F. Cord;Kate A. Brauman;Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer;Andreas Huth;Andreas Huth

  • Plant functional traits shape multiple ecosystem services, their trade‐offs and synergies in grasslands

    Mario Hanisch;Oliver Schweiger;Anna F. Cord;Anna F. Cord;Martin Volk

  • Evolutionary algorithms for species distribution modelling: A review in the context of machine learning

    Sacha Gobeyn;Ans M. Mouton;Anna F. Cord;Andrea Kaim

  • Essential ecosystem service variables for monitoring progress towards sustainability

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  • Harmonizing Biodiversity Conservation and Productivity in the Context of Increasing Demands on Landscapes

    Ralf Seppelt;Michael Beckmann;Silvia Ceauşu;Anna F. Cord

  • Assessing effects of temporal compositing and varying observation periods for large-area land-cover mapping in semi-arid ecosystems: Implications for global monitoring

    Christian Hüttich;Martin Herold;Martin Wegmann;Anna Cord

  • Measuring ecosystem multifunctionality across scales

    Lisanne Hölting;Sander Jacobs;María R Felipe-Lucia;Joachim Maes

  • Spatiotemporal dynamics of ecosystem services provision in a degraded ecosystem: A systematic assessment in the Lake Urmia basin, Iran

    Khadijeh Rahimi Balkanlou;Birgit Müller;Anna F. Cord;Fatemeh Panahi

  • Realigning the land-sharing/land-sparing debate to match conservation needs: considering diversity scales and land-use history

    Henrik von Wehrden;David James Abson;Michael Beckmann;Anna F. Cord

  • Inclusion of habitat availability in species distribution models through multi-temporal remote-sensing data?

    Anna Cord;Anna Cord;Dennis Rödder

  • Modelling species distributions with remote sensing data: bridging disciplinary perspectives

    Anna F. Cord;Ross K. Meentemeyer;Pedro J. Leitão;Tomáš Václavík

  • Comparing the suitability of classified land cover data and remote sensing variables for modeling distribution patterns of plants

    Anna F. Cord;Doris Klein;Franz Mora;Stefan Dech;Stefan Dech

  • Remote sensing data can improve predictions of species richness by stacked species distribution models: a case study for Mexican pines

    Anna F. Cord;Anna F. Cord;Anna F. Cord;Doris Klein;David S. Gernandt;Jorge A. Pérez de la Rosa

  • Delineating probabilistic species pools in ecology and biogeography

    Dirk Nikolaus Karger;Dirk Nikolaus Karger;Anna F. Cord;Michael Kessler;Holger Kreft

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralf Seppelt
Ralf Seppelt Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Stefan Dech
Stefan Dech German Aerospace Center
Martin Volk
Martin Volk Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Martin Wegmann
Martin Wegmann University of Würzburg
Peter H. Verburg
Peter H. Verburg Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dennis Rödder
Dennis Rödder Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change
Henrik von Wehrden
Henrik von Wehrden Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Bethany A. Bradley
Bethany A. Bradley University of Massachusetts Amherst
Duccio Rocchini
Duccio Rocchini University of Bologna
Andrea Rinaldo
Andrea Rinaldo École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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