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48
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4131
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Overview

Dietmar Moser is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria and specializes in Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research broadly covers ecology, conservation, and land-use impacts on species distribution.

Their work includes contributions to core fields such as:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Moser's research spans various subfields including:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Ecology
  • Plant Science

Main topics addressed in their publications cover:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance

Frequent co-authors with whom Moser has collaborated include:

  • Stefan Dullinger
  • Johannes Wessely
  • Franz Essl
  • Karl Hülber
  • Andreas Gattringer

Moser has published extensively in several key journals, among which the most frequent venues are:

  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Biological Conservation

Representative significant papers authored or co-authored by Moser include:

  • "Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success" (2020) in Nature Communications
  • "What Will the Future Bring for Biological Invasions on Islands? An Expert-Based Assessment" (2020) in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • "The impact of land use on non-native species incidence and number in local assemblages worldwide" (2023) in Nature Communications
  • "A climate-induced tree species bottleneck for forest management in Europe" (2024) in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Biodiversity models need to represent land-use intensity more comprehensively" (2021) in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Best Publications

  • No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide.

    Hanno Seebens;Hanno Seebens;Tim M. Blackburn;Ellie E. Dyer;Ellie E. Dyer;Piero Genovesi

  • Global exchange and accumulation of non-native plants

    Mark Van Kleunen;Wayne Dawson;Franz Essl;Jan Pergl

  • Extinction debt of high-mountain plants under twenty-first-century climate change

    Stefan Dullinger;Andreas Gattringer;Wilfried Thuiller;Dietmar Moser

  • Global rise in emerging alien species results from increased accessibility of new source pools.

    Hanno Seebens;Tim M. Blackburn;Tim M. Blackburn;Tim M. Blackburn;Ellie E. Dyer;Ellie E. Dyer;Piero Genovesi

  • Naturalized alien flora of the world: species diversity, taxonomic and phylogenetic patterns, geographic distribution and global hotspots of plant invasion

    Petr Pyšek;Jan Pergl;Franz Essl;Bernd Lenzner

  • The dispersal of alien species redefines biogeography in the Anthropocene

    César Capinha;Franz Essl;Hanno Seebens;Dietmar Moser

  • Global hotspots and correlates of alien species richness across taxonomic groups

    Wayne Dawson;Dietmar Moser;Mark van Kleunen;Mark van Kleunen;Holger Kreft

  • Global trade will accelerate plant invasions in emerging economies under climate change

    Hanno Seebens;Hanno Seebens;Franz Essl;Franz Essl;Franz Essl;Wayne Dawson;Nicol Fuentes

  • Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success

    Mark van Kleunen;Mark van Kleunen;Xinyi Xu;Qiang Yang;Noëlie Maurel

  • Landscape patch shape complexity as an effective measure for plant species richness in rural landscapes

    Dietmar Moser;Harald G. Zechmeister;Christoph Plutzar;Norbert Sauberer

  • Range dynamics of mountain plants decrease with elevation.

    Sabine B. Rumpf;Karl Hülber;Günther Klonner;Dietmar Moser

  • The Global Naturalized Alien Flora (GloNAF) database

    Mark van Kleunen;Petr Pyšek;Wayne Dawson;Franz Essl

  • Surrogate taxa for biodiversity in agricultural landscapes of eastern Austria

    Norbert Sauberer;Klaus Peter Zulka;Max Abensperg-Traun;Hans-Martin Berg

  • Biological Flora of the British Isles: Ambrosia artemisiifolia.

    Franz Essl;Franz Essl;Krisztina Biró;Dietmar Brandes;Olivier Broennimann

  • Human appropriation of net primary production and species diversity in agricultural landscapes

    Helmut Haberl;Niels B. Schulz;Christoph Plutzar;Karl Heinz Erb

  • Remoteness promotes biological invasions on islands worldwide.

    Dietmar Moser;Bernd Lenzner;Patrick Weigelt;Wayne Dawson

  • Environmental determinants of vascular plant species richness in the Austrian Alps

    Dietmar Moser;Stefan Dullinger;Thorsten Englisch;Harald Niklfeld

  • The influence of agricultural land-use intensity on bryophyte species richness

    Harald Gustav Zechmeister;Dietmar Moser

  • Diversity, biogeography and the global flows of alien amphibians and reptiles

    César Capinha;César Capinha;Hanno Seebens;Phillip Cassey;Pablo García-Díaz;Pablo García-Díaz

  • Climate change will increase the naturalization risk from garden plants in Europe.

    Iwona Dullinger;Johannes Wessely;Oliver Bossdorf;Wayne Dawson

  • Insect pests in winter oilseed rape affected by field and landscape characteristics

    Johann G. Zaller;Dietmar Moser;Thomas Drapela;Claudia Schmöger

Frequent Co-Authors

Franz Essl
Franz Essl University of Vienna
Stefan Dullinger
Stefan Dullinger University of Vienna
Petr Pyšek
Petr Pyšek Czech Academy of Sciences
Mark van Kleunen
Mark van Kleunen University of Konstanz
Wayne Dawson
Wayne Dawson Durham University
Hanno Seebens
Hanno Seebens Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
Marten Winter
Marten Winter Leipzig University
Jan Pergl
Jan Pergl Czech Academy of Sciences
Patrick Weigelt
Patrick Weigelt University of Göttingen
Karl Hülber
Karl Hülber University of Vienna

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