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Overview

Holger Kreft is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany. Their research spans various areas within environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, emphasizing ecology and biodiversity.

The main fields of study for Kreft include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

More specialized subfields encompass:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Global and Planetary Change

The principal research topics addressed in their work cover:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Fern and Epiphyte Biology

Kreft's recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes (2020, Nature Communications)
  • For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests! (2021, Conservation Letters)
  • Global patterns and climatic controls of forest structural complexity (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Economic use of plants is key to their naturalization success (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Heterogeneity-diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests (2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution)

The venues where Kreft has published most frequently include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Ecography
  • Journal of Biogeography

Kreft collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Patrick Weigelt
  • Franz Essl
  • Mark van Kleunen
  • Petr Pyšek
  • Jan Pergl

Best Publications

  • Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas

    Dirk Nikolaus Karger;Olaf Conrad;Jürgen Böhner;Tobias Kawohl

  • No saturation in the accumulation of alien species worldwide.

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

  • Environmental heterogeneity as a universal driver of species richness across taxa, biomes and spatial scales

    Anke Stein;Katharina Gerstner;Holger Kreft

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Global patterns and determinants of vascular plant diversity

    Holger Kreft;Walter Jetz

  • A global assessment of endemism and species richness across island and mainland regions

    Gerold Kier;Holger Kreft;Tien Ming Lee;Walter Jetz

  • Global exchange and accumulation of non-native plants

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

  • A framework for delineating biogeographical regions based on species distributions

    Holger Kreft;Holger Kreft;Walter Jetz;Walter Jetz

  • Trade-offs between multifunctionality and profit in tropical smallholder landscapes

    Ingo Grass;Ingo Grass;Christoph Kubitza;Christoph Kubitza;Vijesh V. Krishna;Marife D. Corre

  • Global patterns of plant diversity and floristic knowledge

    Gerold Kier;Jens Mutke;Eric Dinerstein;Taylor H. Ricketts

  • Geological and climatic influences on mountain biodiversity

    A. Antonelli;W.D. Kissling;S.G.A. Flantua;S.G.A. Flantua;Bermúdez

  • Global Conservation Significance of Ecuador's Yasuní National Park

    Margot S. Bass;Matt Finer;Clinton N. Jenkins;Clinton N. Jenkins;Holger Kreft

  • Global priorities for an effective information basis of biodiversity distributions.

    Carsten Meyer;Holger Kreft;Robert P Guralnick;Walter Jetz

  • Multidimensional biases, gaps and uncertainties in global plant occurrence information

    Carsten Meyer;Patrick Weigelt;Holger Kreft

  • 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

  • Global Centers of Vascular Plant Diversity

    Wilhelm Barthlott;Jens Mutke;Daud Rafiqpoor;Gerold Kier

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

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

  • Global diversity of island floras from a macroecological perspective

    Holger Kreft;Walter Jetz;Jens Mutke;Gerold Kier

  • The changing role of ornamental horticulture in alien plant invasions

    Mark van Kleunen;Mark van Kleunen;Franz Essl;Jan Pergl;Giuseppe Brundu

  • Ecological and socio-economic functions across tropical land use systems after rainforest conversion

    Jochen Drescher;Katja Rembold;Kara Allen;Philip Beckschäfer

  • A review of the ecosystem functions in oil palm plantations, using forests as a reference system

    Claudia Dislich;Claudia Dislich;Alexander C. Keyel;Jan Salecker;Yael Kisel

  • Geographic patterns of vascular plant diversity at continental to global scales

    Wilhelm Barthlott;Alexandra Hostert;Gerold Kier;Wolfgang Kueper

Frequent Co-Authors

Petr Pyšek
Petr Pyšek Czech Academy of Sciences
Patrick Weigelt
Patrick Weigelt University of Göttingen
Mark van Kleunen
Mark van Kleunen University of Konstanz
Franz Essl
Franz Essl University of Vienna
Wayne Dawson
Wayne Dawson Durham University
Jan Pergl
Jan Pergl Czech Academy of Sciences
Marten Winter
Marten Winter Leipzig University
Michael Kessler
Michael Kessler University of Zurich
Juliano Sarmento Cabral
Juliano Sarmento Cabral University of Würzburg
Gerhard Zotz
Gerhard Zotz Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

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