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315

Overview

Björn Reineking is affiliated with Grenoble Alpes University in France. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions in subfields such as nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, ecology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and ecological modeling.

Their main research topics cover a variety of ecological and environmental dynamics including:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Wildlife ecology and conservation
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Forest management and policy
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics

Björn Reineking has published recent papers covering a range of relevant ecological and methodological subjects:

  • Mitigating pseudoreplication and bias in resource selection functions with autocorrelation-informed weighting (2022) in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • The function-dominance correlation drives the direction and strength of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships (2021) in Ecology Letters
  • Simulating animal space use from fitted integrated Step-Selection Functions (iSSF) (2023) in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Competition-induced tree mortality across Europe is driven by shade tolerance, proportion of conspecifics and drought (2023) in Journal of Ecology
  • Higher site productivity and stand age enhance forest susceptibility to drought-induced mortality (2023) in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

The most frequent coauthors collaborating with Björn Reineking include:

  • Georges Künstler
  • Mikko Peltoniemi
  • Paloma Ruiz-Benito
  • Ulrike E. Schlägel
  • Julien Barrere

Publication venues where they have regularly contributed are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Ecology Letters

Best Publications

  • Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance

    Carsten F. Dormann;Jane Elith;Sven Bacher;Carsten Buchmann

  • Methods to account for spatial autocorrelation in the analysis of species distributional data : a review

    Carsten F. Dormann;Jana M. McPherson;Miguel B. Araújo;Roger Bivand

  • Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities

    Gian Reto Walther;Alain Roques;Philip E. Hulme;Martin T. Sykes

  • Moving in the Anthropocene : global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

    Marlee A. Tucker;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;William F. Fagan;John M. Fryxell

  • Statistical inference for stochastic simulation models – theory and application

    Florian Hartig;Justin M. Calabrese;Justin M. Calabrese;Björn Reineking;Thorsten Wiegand

  • Model averaging in ecology: a review of Bayesian, information-theoretic, and tactical approaches for predictive inference

    Carsten F. Dormann;Justin M. Calabrese;Gurutzeta Guillera-Arroita;Eleni Matechou

  • Road traffic and nearby grassland bird patterns in a suburbanizing landscape.

    Richard T. T. Forman;Bjorn Reineking;Anna M. Hersperger

  • The virtual ecologist approach: simulating data and observers

    Damaris Zurell;Uta Berger;Juliano S. Cabral;Florian Jeltsch

  • Models for forest ecosystem management: a European perspective.

    Hans Pretzsch;R. Grote;Björn Reineking;Thomas Rötzer

  • Natural enemy interactions constrain pest control in complex agricultural landscapes

    Emily A. Martin;Björn Reineking;Bumsuk Seo;Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter

  • Integrating movement ecology with biodiversity research - exploring new avenues to address spatiotemporal biodiversity dynamics.

    Florian Jeltsch;Dries Bonte;Guy Pe’er;Björn Reineking

  • Projection of climatic suitability for Aedes albopictus Skuse (Culicidae) in Europe under climate change conditions

    Dominik Fischer;Stephanie Margarete Thomas;Franziska Niemitz;Björn Reineking

  • Scale-dependent effects of landscape composition and configuration on natural enemy diversity, crop herbivory, and yields.

    Emily A. Martin;Bumsuk Seo;Chan-Ryul Park;Björn Reineking;Björn Reineking

  • Constrain to perform: Regularization of habitat models

    Björn Reineking;Björn Reineking;Boris Schrö der

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

    Harald Bugmann;Rupert Seidl;Florian Hartig;Friedrich Bohn;Friedrich Bohn

  • Intraspecific variation buffers projected climate change impacts on Pinus contorta.

    Brian Oney;Björn Reineking;Gregory O'Neill;Juergen Kreyling

  • Using dynamic vegetation models to simulate plant range shifts

    Rebecca S. Snell;Andreas Huth;J. E. M. S. Nabel;J. E. M. S. Nabel;Greta Bocedi

  • Did soil development limit spruce (Picea abies) expansion in the Central Alps during the Holocene? Testing a palaeobotanical hypothesis with a dynamic landscape model

    Paul D. Henne;Paul D. Henne;Ché M. Elkin;Björn Reineking;Harald Bugmann

  • Modeling the Impact of Climate and Vegetation on Fire Regimes in Mountain Landscapes

    Sabine Schumacher;Björn Reineking;Jason Sibold;Harald Bugmann

  • Habitat selection by a large herbivore at multiple spatial and temporal scales is primarily governed by food resources

    Claudia Dupke;Christophe Bonenfant;Björn Reineking;Björn Reineking;Robert Hable

  • Integrating movement ecology with biodiversity research

    Florian Jeltsch;Dries Bonte;Guy Pe'er;Björn Reineking

Frequent Co-Authors

Harald Bugmann
Harald Bugmann ETH Zurich
Carl Beierkuhnlein
Carl Beierkuhnlein University of Bayreuth
Tamara Münkemüller
Tamara Münkemüller Grenoble Alpes University
Marco Heurich
Marco Heurich University of Freiburg
Boris Schröder
Boris Schröder Technische Universität Braunschweig
Damaris Zurell
Damaris Zurell University of Potsdam
Andreas Huth
Andreas Huth Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Justin M. Calabrese
Justin M. Calabrese University of Maryland, College Park
Jörg Müller
Jörg Müller Heinz Sielmann Foundation

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