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6769
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Overview

Christian Hof is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to ecological modeling, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, and global planetary change. These domains reflect a broad engagement with understanding and addressing environmental challenges through scientific investigation.

The scientist has explored numerous topics within environmental science, including species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics, plant and animal studies, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, wildlife ecology and conservation, physiological and biochemical adaptations, as well as land use and ecosystem services. This diversity in topics indicates a multidisciplinary approach to ecological and environmental research.

Christian Hof's recent papers cover various aspects of climate change, biodiversity, and ecological dynamics. Notable publications include:

  • "Scientists' warning on climate change and insects," 2022, Ecological Monographs
  • "Trait-Based Assessments of Climate-Change Impacts on Interacting Species," 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Considering sustainability thresholds for BECCS in IPCC and biodiversity assessments," 2021, GCB Bioenergy
  • "Global impacts of climate change on avian functional diversity," 2022, Ecology Letters
  • "Consistent signals of a warming climate in occupancy changes of three insect taxa over 40 years in central Europe," 2022, Global Change Biology

Their work has been published frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Ecology and Biogeography, Metrologia, and Global Change Biology. These publication venues suggest a strong engagement with both preprint repositories and peer-reviewed journals relevant to ecology, environmental science, and related methodological fields.

Christian Hof has collaborated extensively with several researchers, including Matthias F. Biber, Alke Voskamp, Stefan Pinkert, Susanne A. Fritz, and Roland Brandl. These frequent co-authorships indicate active participation in research networks focusing on ecological and environmental topics.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Additive threats from pathogens, climate and land-use change for global amphibian diversity

    Christian Hof;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Walter Jetz;Carsten Rahbek

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

    Katja Frieler;Stefan Lange;Franziska Piontek;Christopher P. O. Reyer

  • Partitioning and mapping uncertainties in ensembles of forecasts of species turnover under climate change

    JoseAlexandre F. Diniz-Filho;J. A. F. Diniz-Filho;L. M. Bini;R. D. Loyola

  • Scientists' warning on climate change and insects

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  • Global variation in thermal tolerances and vulnerability of endotherms to climate change

    Imran Khaliq;Christian Hof;Roland Prinzinger;Katrin Böhning-Gaese

  • Rethinking species' ability to cope with rapid climate change

    Christian Hof;Christian Hof;Irina Levinsky;Irina Levinsky;Miguel B. Araújo;Miguel B. Araújo;Carsten Rahbek

  • What ' s on the horizon for macroecology?

    Jan Beck;Liliana Ballesteros-Mejia;Carsten M. Buchmann;Jürgen Dengler

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

    Matthias Schleuning;Jochen Fründ;Jochen Fründ;Oliver Schweiger;Erik Welk

  • A comparative analysis of dispersal syndromes in terrestrial and semi-terrestrial animals.

    Virginie M. Stevens;Sarah Whitmee;Sarah Whitmee;Sarah Whitmee;Jean-François Le Galliard;Jean-François Le Galliard;Jean Clobert

  • Trait-Based Assessments of Climate-Change Impacts on Interacting Species

    Matthias Schleuning;Eike Lena Neuschulz;Jörg Albrecht;Irene M.A. Bender

  • Lentic odonates have larger and more northern ranges than lotic species

    Christian Hof;Martin Brändle;Roland Brandl

  • Diversity in time and space: wanted dead and alive.

    Susanne A. Fritz;Jan Schnitzler;Jussi T. Eronen;Christian Hof

  • Macroecology in the age of Big Data – Where to go from here?

    Rafael O. Wüest;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Damaris Zurell;Jake M. Alexander

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

    Christian Hof;Alke Voskamp;Matthias F Biber;Katrin Böhning-Gaese

  • Latitudinal variation of diversity in European freshwater animals is not concordant across habitat types

    Christian Hof;Christian Hof;Martin Brändle;Roland Brandl

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

    Diana E. Bowler;Christian Hof;Peter Haase;Peter Haase;Ingrid Kröncke

  • Integrating climate change vulnerability assessments from species distribution models and trait-based approaches

    S.G. Willis;W. Foden;D.J. Baker;E. Belle

  • Considering sustainability thresholds for BECCS in IPCC and biodiversity assessments

    Felix Creutzig;Karl‐Heinz Erb;Helmut Haberl;Christian Hof

  • Recent range shifts of European dragonflies provide support for an inverse relationship between habitat predictability and dispersal

    Yannic Grewe;Christian Hof;D. Matthias Dehling;Roland Brandl

  • Phylogenetic signals in the climatic niches of the world's amphibians

    Christian Hof;Carsten Rahbek;Miguel B. Araújo

  • Metabolic heat production and thermal conductance are mass-independent adaptations to thermal environment in birds and mammals

    Trevor S. Fristoe;Trevor S. Fristoe;Joseph R. Burger;Joseph R. Burger;Meghan A. Balk;Imran Khaliq

Frequent Co-Authors

Katrin Böhning-Gaese
Katrin Böhning-Gaese Goethe University Frankfurt
Roland Brandl
Roland Brandl Philipp University of Marburg
Thomas Hickler
Thomas Hickler Goethe University Frankfurt
Martin Brändle
Martin Brändle Philipp University of Marburg
Susanne A. Fritz
Susanne A. Fritz Goethe University Frankfurt
Miguel B. Araújo
Miguel B. Araújo University of Évora
Carsten Rahbek
Carsten Rahbek University of Copenhagen
Peter Haase
Peter Haase University of Duisburg-Essen
Ingolf Kühn
Ingolf Kühn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Diana E. Bowler
Diana E. Bowler UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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