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Overview

Frank M. Schurr is affiliated with the University of Hohenheim in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with notable contributions across 62 and 52 publications respectively.

The scientist's work covers several specialized subfields including:

  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Plant Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology

Research topics encompass a range of ecological and biological studies, particularly focusing on:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics

Frank M. Schurr has contributed to several research articles in notable scientific venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Basic and Applied Ecology
  • Journal of Ecology
  • Journal of Applied Ecology

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • Global relationships in tree functional traits, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Mismatches between demographic niches and geographic distributions are strongest in poorly dispersed and highly persistent plant species, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Mineral-Ecological Cropping Systems-A New Approach to Improve Ecosystem Services by Farming without Chemical Synthetic Plant Protection, 2021, Agronomy
  • Transgenerational stress memory in plants is mediated by upregulation of the antioxidative system, 2022, Environmental and Experimental Botany
  • Transmission of deformed wing virus between Varroa destructor foundresses, mite offspring and infested honey bees, 2022, Parasites & Vectors

Collaboration features prominently in their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Jörn Pagel
  • Karen J. Esler
  • Carsten M. Buchmann
  • Huw Cooksley
  • Matthias Schleuning

Best Publications

  • 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

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Predicting global change impacts on plant species' distributions: Future challenges

    Wilfried Thuiller;Cécile Albert;Miguel B. Araújo;Pam M. Berry

  • Mechanisms of long-distance seed dispersal

    Ran Nathan;Frank M. Schurr;Orr Spiegel;Ofer Steinitz

  • When and how should intraspecific variability be considered in trait-based plant ecology?

    Cécile H. Albert;Cécile H. Albert;Fabrice Grassein;Fabrice Grassein;Frankl M. Schurr;Ghislain Vieilledent

  • Towards novel approaches to modelling biotic interactions in multispecies assemblages at large spatial extents

    W. D. Kissling;Carsten F. Dormann;Carsten F. Dormann;Juergen Groeneveld;Juergen Groeneveld;Thomas Hickler

  • How to understand species' niches and range dynamics: a demographic research agenda for biogeography

    Frank M. Schurr;Frank M. Schurr;Frank M. Schurr;Joern Pagel;Juliano Sarmento Cabral;Juergen Groeneveld;Juergen Groeneveld

  • REVIEW: Predictive ecology in a changing world

    Nicolas Mouquet;Yvan Lagadeuc;Vincent Devictor;Luc Doyen

  • The influence of interspecific interactions on species range expansion rates

    Jens-Christian Svenning;Dominique Gravel;Robert D. Holt;Frank M. Schurr;Frank M. Schurr

  • Forecasting species ranges by statistical estimation of ecological niches and spatial population dynamics

    Joern Pagel;Joern Pagel;Frank M. Schurr

  • Forecasting plant migration rates: managing uncertainty for risk assessment

    S. I. Higgins;J. S. Clark;R. Nathan;T. Hovestadt

  • Spread of North American wind‐dispersed trees in future environments

    Ran Nathan;Nir Horvitz;Yanping He;Anna Kuparinen

  • 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

  • Increased mortality can promote evolutionary adaptation of forest trees to climate change.

    Anna Kuparinen;Outi Savolainen;Frank M. Schurr

  • The state of plant population modelling in light of environmental change

    Florian Jeltsch;Kirk A. Moloney;Frank Martin Schurr;Martin Köchy

  • Plant fecundity and seed dispersal in spatially heterogeneous environments: models, mechanisms and estimation

    Frank M. Schurr;Ofer Steinitz;Ran Nathan

  • A mechanistic model for secondary seed dispersal by wind and its experimental validation

    Frank M. Schurr;William J. Bond;Guy F. Midgley;Steven I. Higgins

  • Spatial pattern formation in semi-arid shrubland: a priori predicted versus observed pattern characteristics

    Frank M. Schurr;Oliver Bossdorf;Oliver Bossdorf;Suzanne J. Milton;Jens Schumacher

  • Global relationships in tree functional traits

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  • Molecular characterisation and phylogenetic analysis of Chronic bee paralysis virus, a honey bee virus

    Violaine Olivier;Philippe Blanchard;Soraya Chaouch;Perrine Lallemand

  • The making of a rapid plant invader: genetic diversity and differentiation in the native and invaded range of Senecio inaequidens.

    Susanne Lachmuth;Walter Durka;Frank M. Schurr

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen J. Esler
Karen J. Esler Stellenbosch University
Wilfried Thuiller
Wilfried Thuiller Grenoble Alpes University
Florian Jeltsch
Florian Jeltsch University of Potsdam
Juliano Sarmento Cabral
Juliano Sarmento Cabral University of Würzburg
Guy F. Midgley
Guy F. Midgley Stellenbosch University
Ran Nathan
Ran Nathan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Matthias Schleuning
Matthias Schleuning Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Roger Pradel
Roger Pradel University of Montpellier
Katrin Böhning-Gaese
Katrin Böhning-Gaese Goethe University Frankfurt
Anna Kuparinen
Anna Kuparinen University of Jyväskylä

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