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Overview

Erich Tasser is affiliated with the European Academy of Bozen in Italy. Their research predominantly falls within the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Tree-ring Climate Responses
  • Forest Management and Policy

Recent significant papers by Erich Tasser include:

  • Spatio-temporal changes in ecosystem service values: Effects of land-use changes from past to future (1860-2100), 2020, Journal of Environmental Management
  • Past and future impacts of land-use changes on ecosystem services in Austria, 2023, Journal of Environmental Management
  • Grassland biomass balance in the European Alps: current and future ecosystem service perspectives, 2020, Ecosystem Services
  • What can geotagged photographs tell us about cultural ecosystem services of lakes?, 2021, Ecosystem Services
  • Harnessing artificial intelligence technology and social media data to support Cultural Ecosystem Service assessments, 2021, People and Nature

Erich Tasser's frequent coauthors include:

  • Ulrike Tappeiner
  • Uta Schirpke
  • Georg Leitinger
  • Thomas Marsoner
  • Johannes Rüdisser

Their publications have appeared primarily in the following venues:

  • Ecosystem Services
  • Scientific Reports
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Sustainability

Best Publications

  • Impact of land use changes on mountain vegetation

    Erich Tasser;Ulrike Tappeiner

  • Land-use changes and natural reforestation in the Eastern Central Alps

    Erich Tasser;Janette Walde;Ulrike Tappeiner;Alexandra Teutsch

  • Integrating supply, flow and demand to enhance the understanding of interactions among multiple ecosystem services.

    Uta Schirpke;Sebastian Candiago;Lukas Egarter Vigl;Hieronymus Jäger

  • Future impacts of changing land-use and climate on ecosystem services of mountain grassland and their resilience.

    Uta Schirpke;Marina Kohler;Georg Leitinger;Veronika Fontana

  • Predicting scenic beauty of mountain regions

    Uta Schirpke;Erich Tasser;Ulrike Tappeiner

  • Cultural ecosystem services of mountain regions: Modelling the aesthetic value.

    Uta Schirpke;Florian Timmermann;Ulrike Tappeiner;Erich Tasser

  • Effects of land use in alpine grasslands on the probability of landslides

    Erich Tasser;Mirijam Mader;Ulrike Tappeiner

  • Plant diversity declines with recent land use changes in European Alps

    Georg Niedrist;Erich Tasser;Christian Lüth;Josef Dalla Via

  • Modification of the effective mesh size for measuring landscape fragmentation to solve the boundary problem

    Brigitte Moser;Jochen A. G. Jaeger;Ulrike Tappeiner;Erich Tasser

  • Comparing land-use alternatives: Using the ecosystem services concept to define a multi-criteria decision analysis

    Veronika Fontana;Anna Radtke;Valérie Bossi Fedrigotti;Ulrike Tappeiner

  • Identifying and mapping the tourists perception of cultural ecosystem services: A case study from an Alpine region

    Brenda Maria Zoderer;Erich Tasser;Karl-Heinz Erb;Paola Sabina Lupo Stanghellini

  • Effects of land-use and land-cover pattern on landscape-scale biodiversity in the European Alps

    Patrick Zimmermann;Erich Tasser;Georg Leitinger;Ulrike Tappeiner

  • Ecosystem services and economic development in Austrian agricultural landscapes - The impact of policy and climate change scenarios on trade-offs and synergies

    Mathias Kirchner;Johannes Schmidt;Georg Kindermann;Veronika Kulmer

  • Stakeholder perspectives on ecosystem service supply and ecosystem service demand bundles

    Brenda Maria Zoderer;Brenda Maria Zoderer;Erich Tasser;Steve Carver;Ulrike Tappeiner

  • Climate change versus land-use change—What affects the mountain landscapes more?

    Erich Tasser;Georg Leitinger;Georg Leitinger;Ulrike Tappeiner;Ulrike Tappeiner

  • Distance to nature—A new biodiversity relevant environmental indicator set at the landscape level

    Johannes Rüdisser;Erich Tasser;Ulrike Tappeiner

  • Linking long-term landscape dynamics to the multiple interactions among ecosystem services in the European Alps

    Lukas Egarter Vigl;Uta Schirpke;Erich Tasser;Ulrike Tappeiner

  • Modelling vegetation patterns using natural and anthropogenic influence factors: preliminary experience with a GIS based model applied to an Alpine area

    Ulrike Tappeiner;Erich Tasser;Gottfried Tappeiner

  • Biodiversity indicators for sustainability monitoring at municipality level: An example of implementation in an alpine region

    Erich Tasser;Elisabeth Sternbach;Ulrike Tappeiner

  • Spatio-temporal changes in ecosystem service values: Effects of land-use changes from past to future (1860-2100).

    Uta Schirpke;Simon Tscholl;Erich Tasser

  • Multiple ecosystem services of a changing Alpine landscape: past, present and future.

    Uta Schirpke;Georg Leitinger;Erich Tasser;Markus Schermer

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrike Tappeiner
Ulrike Tappeiner University of Innsbruck
Walter Oberhuber
Walter Oberhuber University of Innsbruck
Karl-Heinz Erb
Karl-Heinz Erb BOKU University
Stefan Mayr
Stefan Mayr University of Innsbruck
Katrin Meusburger
Katrin Meusburger Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Eric F. Lambin
Eric F. Lambin Stanford University
Sandra Lavorel
Sandra Lavorel Grenoble Alpes University
Michael Bahn
Michael Bahn University of Innsbruck
Stefano Cesco
Stefano Cesco Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Tanja Mimmo
Tanja Mimmo Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

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