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Overview

Damaris Zurell is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research focuses largely on Ecology and its subfields, including Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their scholarly contributions cover key topics such as Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Plant and Animal Studies, Avian Ecology and Behavior, Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation, as well as Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management.

Recent publications by Damaris Zurell include the following:

  • A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models, 2020, Ecography
  • Spatially explicit models for decision-making in animal conservation and restoration, 2021, Ecography

Zurell has collaborated frequently with several co-authors including Guillermo Fandós, Anne-Kathleen Malchow, Niklaus E. Zimmermann, Greta Bocedi, and Dirk Nikolaus Karger. These collaborative relationships are evident from multiple joint publications.

Their works are published predominantly in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecography
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Ecological Applications

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

  • A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models

    Damaris Zurell;Janet Franklin;Christian König;Phil J. Bouchet

  • Outstanding Challenges in the Transferability of Ecological Models.

    Katherine L. Yates;Katherine L. Yates;Phil J. Bouchet;M Julian Caley;Kerrie Mengersen

  • The virtual ecologist approach: simulating data and observers

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

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

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

  • Benchmarking novel approaches for modelling species range dynamics

    Damaris Zurell;Wilfried Thuiller;Wilfried Thuiller;Jörn Pagel;Juliano S. Cabral

  • Does probability of occurrence relate to population dynamics

    Wilfried Thuiller;Wilfried Thuiller;Tamara Münkemüller;Tamara Münkemüller;Katja H. Schiffers;Katja H. Schiffers;Damien Georges;Damien Georges

  • The challenges of the first migration : movement and behaviour of juvenile vs. adult white storks with insights regarding juvenile mortality

    Shay Rotics;Michael Kaatz;Yehezkel S. Resheff;Sondra Feldman Turjeman

  • Predicting to new environments: tools for visualizing model behaviour and impacts on mapped distributions

    Damaris Zurell;Jane Elith;Boris Schröder;Boris Schröder

  • Static species distribution models in dynamically changing systems: how good can predictions really be?

    Damaris Zurell;Florian Jeltsch;Carsten F. Dormann;Boris Schröder

  • Long-distance migratory birds threatened by multiple independent risks from global change.

    Damaris Zurell;Catherine H. Graham;Laure Gallien;Laure Gallien;Wilfried Thuiller

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

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

  • Do joint species distribution models reliably detect interspecific interactions from co-occurrence data in homogenous environments?

    Damaris Zurell;Laura J. Pollock;Wilfried Thuiller

  • Testing species assemblage predictions from stacked and joint species distribution models

    Damaris Zurell;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Helge Gross;Andri Baltensweiler

  • The total dispersal kernel: A review and future directions

    Haldre S Rogers;Noelle G Beckman;Florian Hartig;Jeremy S Johnson

  • Early arrival at breeding grounds: Causes, costs and a trade-off with overwintering latitude.

    Shay Rotics;Michael Kaatz;Sondra Turjeman;Damaris Zurell

  • Wintering in Europe instead of Africa enhances juvenile survival in a long-distance migrant

    Shay Rotics;Sondra Turjeman;Michael Kaatz;Yehezkel S. Resheff

  • Mechanistic modelling of animal dispersal offers new insights into range expansion dynamics across fragmented landscapes

    Greta Bocedi;Damaris Zurell;Björn Reineking;Justin M. J. Travis

  • RangeShifter 2.0: An extended and enhanced platform for modelling spatial eco-evolutionary dynamics and species’ responses to environmental changes

    Greta Bocedi;Stephen C. F. Palmer;Anne-Kathleen Malchow;Anne-Kathleen Malchow;Damaris Zurell;Damaris Zurell

  • Spatially explicit models for decision-making in animal conservation and restoration

    Damaris Zurell;Christian König;Anne-Kathleen Malchow;Simon Kapitza;Simon Kapitza

  • Uncertainty in predictions of range dynamics: black grouse climbing the Swiss Alps

    Damaris Zurell;Volker Grimm;Eva Rossmanith;Niklaus Zbinden

  • Correlative and dynamic species distribution modelling for ecological predictions in the Antarctic: a cross-disciplinary concept

    Julian Gutt;Damaris Zurell;Thomas J. Bracegridle;William Cheung

  • Integrating movement ecology with biodiversity research

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Wikelski
Martin Wikelski Max Planck Institute for Ornithology
Florian Jeltsch
Florian Jeltsch University of Potsdam
Wolfgang Fiedler
Wolfgang Fiedler Max Planck Society
Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Niklaus E. Zimmermann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Boris Schröder
Boris Schröder Technische Universität Braunschweig
Ran Nathan
Ran Nathan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Justin M. J. Travis
Justin M. J. Travis University of Aberdeen
Jane Elith
Jane Elith University of Melbourne
Björn Reineking
Björn Reineking Grenoble Alpes University

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