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Harald Pauli

Harald Pauli

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
42
Citations
13539
World Ranking
5427
National Ranking
39

Overview

Harald Pauli is affiliated with BOKU University in Austria and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans various subfields, including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics covered in Pauli's work emphasize Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications, Tree-ring Climate Responses, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, and 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage.

Pauli's recent publications include the following papers:

  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Directional turnover towards larger-ranged plants over time and across habitats, 2021, Ecology Letters
  • Functional composition and diversity of leaf traits in subalpine versus alpine vegetation in the Apennines, 2020, AoB Plants
  • Fine-grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation, 2021, Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Changes in plant diversity in a water-limited and isolated high-mountain range (Sierra Nevada, Spain), 2021, Alpine Botany

Frequent coauthors in Pauli's studies include:

  • Manuela Winkler
  • Angela Stanisci
  • Andrea Lamprecht
  • Brigitta Erschbamer
  • Klaus Steinbauer

Pauli's research is also commonly published in these journals and venues:

  • Journal of Vegetation Science
  • Alpine Botany
  • Mountain Research and Development
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Change Biology

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Climate effects on mountain plants

    Georg Grabherr;Michael Gottfried;Harald Pauli

  • Continent-wide response of mountain vegetation to climate change

    Michael Gottfried;Harald Pauli;Andreas Futschik;Maia Akhalkatsi

  • Recent Plant Diversity Changes on Europe’s Mountain Summits

    Harald Pauli;Michael Gottfried;Stefan Dullinger;Otari Abdaladze

  • Accelerated increase in plant species richness on mountain summits is linked to warming

    Manuel J. Steinbauer;Manuel J. Steinbauer;John-Arvid Grytnes;Gerald Jurasinski;Aino Kulonen

  • Signals of range expansions and contractions of vascular plants in the high Alps: observations (1994–2004) at the GLORIA master site Schrankogel, Tyrol, Austria

    Harald Pauli;Michael Gottfried;Karl Reiter;Christian Klettner

  • Going against the flow: potential mechanisms for unexpected downslope range shifts in a warming climate

    Jonathan Lenoir;Jean-Claude Gégout;Antoine Guisan;Pascal Vittoz

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

  • Patterns and Current Changes in Alpine Plant Diversity

    G. Grabherr;M. Gottfried;A. Gruber;H. Pauli

  • Assessment of climate change effects on mountain ecosystems through a cross-site analysis in the Alps and Apennines.

    M. Rogora;L. Frate;M. L. Carranza;M. Freppaz

  • A fine‐scaled predictive model for changes in species distribution patterns of high mountain plants induced by climate warming

    Michael Gottfried;Harald Pauli;Karl Reiter;Georg Grabherr

  • Climate change leads to accelerated transformation of high-elevation vegetation in the central Alps.

    Andrea Lamprecht;Philipp Robert Semenchuk;Klaus Steinbauer;Manuela Winkler

  • Effects of climate change on mountain ecosystems -- Upward shifting of alpine plants

    H. Pauli;M. Gottfried;G. Grabherr

  • Climate Change Impacts in Alpine Environments

    Georg Grabherr;Michael Gottfried;Harald Pauli

  • SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

    Jonas J. Lembrechts;Juha Aalto;Juha Aalto;Michael B. Ashcroft;Michael B. Ashcroft;Pieter De Frenne

  • Prediction of Vegetation Patterns at the Limits of Plant Life: A New View of the Alpine-Nival Ecotone

    Michael Gottfried;Harald Pauli;Georg Grabherr

  • GLORIA: A Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments

    Georg Grabherr;Michael Gottfried;Harald Pauli

  • The rich sides of mountain summits – a pan-European view on aspect preferences of alpine plants

    Manuela Winkler;Andrea Lamprecht;Klaus Steinbauer;Karl Hülber

  • Vegetation classification and biogeography of European floodplain forests and alder carrs

    Jan Douda;Jan Douda;Karel Boublík;Michal Slezák;Idoia Biurrun

  • Latitudinal and altitudinal patterns of plant community diversity on mountain summits across the tropical Andes

    Francisco Cuesta;Francisco Cuesta;Priscilla Muriel;Luis Daniel Llambí;Stephan Halloy

  • Assessing the Long-Term Dynamics of Endemic Plants at Summit Habitats

    H. Pauli;M. Gottfried;T. Dirnböck;S. Dullinger

  • Weak and variable relationships between environmental severity and small-scale co-occurrence in alpine plant communities

    S. Dullinger;I. Kleinbauer;H. Pauli;M. Gottfried

Frequent Co-Authors

Georg Grabherr
Georg Grabherr University of Vienna
Manuela Winkler
Manuela Winkler BOKU University
Pascal Vittoz
Pascal Vittoz University of Lausanne
Stefan Dullinger
Stefan Dullinger University of Vienna
Jean-Paul Theurillat
Jean-Paul Theurillat University of Geneva
Brigitta Erschbamer
Brigitta Erschbamer University of Innsbruck
Jonathan Lenoir
Jonathan Lenoir University of Picardie Jules Verne
Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Niklaus E. Zimmermann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Antoine Guisan
Antoine Guisan University of Lausanne

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