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Marc Hanewinkel is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a notable emphasis on global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, and ecology. The scientist has contributed extensively to these subfields, engaging in studies related to insect science and environmental engineering as well.

Hanewinkel's research covers topics central to forest ecosystems, including forest management and policy, forest ecology and management, as well as ecology and vegetation dynamics studies. Other significant aspects include plant water relations and carbon dynamics, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, conservation, biodiversity, and resource management, and tree root and stability studies.

Frequent co-authors of Hanewinkel include Rasoul Yousefpour, Lukas Baumbach, Anja Nölte, Thomas Hickler, and Barry Gardiner, indicating active collaboration within the environmental science and forestry research communities.

Their publications are often found in specialized venues, with the most frequent appearances in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Annals of Forest Science
  • Ecological Economics
  • Journal of Environmental Management

Recent papers authored by or including Hanewinkel cover various aspects of forest science and ecology:

  • Growth resistance and resilience of mixed silver fir and Norway spruce forests in central Europe: Contrasting responses to mild and severe droughts, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Concerns about reported harvests in European forests, 2021, Nature
  • Applying a science-based systems perspective to dispel misconceptions about climate effects of forest bioenergy, 2021, GCB Bioenergy
  • Can nature conservation and wood production be reconciled in managed forests? A review of driving factors for integrated forest management in Europe, 2020, Journal of Environmental Management
  • Evaluating the effectiveness of retention forestry to enhance biodiversity in production forests of Central Europe using an interdisciplinary, multi-scale approach, 2020, Ecology and Evolution

Best Publications

  • Climate change may cause severe loss in the economic value of European forest land

    Marc Hanewinkel;Dominik A. Cullmann;Mart-Jan Schelhaas;Gert-Jan Nabuurs

  • Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

    Georges Kunstler;Georges Kunstler;Daniel Falster;David A. Coomes;Francis Hui

  • Climate change and European forests: What do we know, what are the uncertainties, and what are the implications for forest management?

    Marcus Lindner;Joanne B. Fitzgerald;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Christopher Reyer

  • A review of decision-making approaches to handle uncertainty and risk in adaptive forest management under climate change

    Rasoul Yousefpour;Jette Bredahl Jacobsen;Bo Jellesmark Thorsen;Henrik Meilby

  • Climate change: believing and seeing implies adapting.

    Kristina Blennow;Johannes Persson;Margarida Tomé;Marc Hanewinkel

  • Are forest disturbances amplifying or canceling out climate change-induced productivity changes in European forests?

    Christopher P.O. Reyer;Stephen Bathgate;Kristina Blennow;Jose G. Borges

  • By 2050 the Mitigation Effects of EU Forests Could Nearly Double through Climate Smart Forestry

    Gert Jan Nabuurs;Philippe Delacote;David Ellison;Marc Hanewinkel

  • Assessing natural hazards in forestry for risk management: a review

    Marc Hanewinkel;Susan Hummel;Axel Albrecht

  • How does silviculture affect storm damage in forests of south-western Germany? Results from empirical modeling based on long-term observations

    Axel Albrecht;Marc Hanewinkel;Jürgen Bauhus;Ulrich Kohnle

  • An inventory-based approach for modeling single- tree storm damage — experiences with the winter storm of 1999 in southwestern Germany

    Matthias SchmidtM. Schmidt;Marc HanewinkelM. Hanewinkel;Gerald KändlerG. Kändler;Edgar KublinE. Kublin

  • Retention as an integrated biodiversity conservation approach for continuous-cover forestry in Europe

    Lena Gustafsson;Jürgen Bauhus;Thomas Asbeck;Andrey Lessa Derci Augustynczik

  • Digitization in wood supply – A review on how Industry 4.0 will change the forest value chain

    Fabian Müller;Dirk Jaeger;Marc Hanewinkel

  • Survival of Norway spruce remains higher in mixed stands under a dryer and warmer climate.

    Susanne Neuner;Axel Albrecht;Dominik Cullmann;Friedrich Engels

  • Growth resistance and resilience of mixed silver fir and Norway spruce forests in central Europe: Contrasting responses to mild and severe droughts.

    Alessandra Bottero;David I Forrester;David I Forrester;Maxime Cailleret;Ulrich Kohnle

  • Vulnerability of uneven-aged forests to storm damage

    Marc Hanewinkel;Thomas Kuhn;Harald Bugmann;Adrian Lanz

  • Alternative forest management strategies to account for climate change-induced productivity and species suitability changes in Europe

    Mart-Jan Schelhaas;Gert-Jan Nabuurs;Geerten Hengeveld;Chrristopher Reyer

  • A forest management risk insurance model and its application to coniferous stands in southwest Germany

    Jan Holecy;Marc Hanewinkel

  • Predicting constant decay rates of coarse woody debris - a meta-analysis approach with a mixed model.

    Jürgen Zell;Gerald Kändler;Marc Hanewinkel

  • Seventy-seven years of natural disturbances in a mountain forest area—the influence of storm, snow, and insect damage analysed with a long- term time series

    Marc HanewinkelM. Hanewinkel;Johannes BreidenbachJ. Breidenbach;Till NeeffT. Neeff;Edgar KublinE. Kublin

  • Concerns about reported harvests in European forests

    Marc Palahí;Rubén Valbuena;Cornelius Senf;Nezha Acil

  • Modelling and economic evaluation of forest biome shifts under climate change in Southwest Germany.

    Marc Hanewinkel;Susan Hummel;Dominik A. Cullmann

  • Modelling the conversion from even-aged to uneven-aged stands of Norway spruce (Picea abies L. Karst.) with a distance-dependent growth simulator

    Marc Hanewinkel;Hans Pretzsch

Frequent Co-Authors

Rasoul Yousefpour
Rasoul Yousefpour University of Freiburg
Gert-Jan Nabuurs
Gert-Jan Nabuurs Wageningen University & Research
Marcus Lindner
Marcus Lindner European Forest Institute
Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Niklaus E. Zimmermann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Harald Bugmann
Harald Bugmann ETH Zurich
Christopher P.O. Reyer
Christopher P.O. Reyer Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Jürgen Bauhus
Jürgen Bauhus University of Freiburg
Manfred J. Lexer
Manfred J. Lexer BOKU University
Margarida Tomé
Margarida Tomé University of Lisbon
Mart-Jan Schelhaas
Mart-Jan Schelhaas Wageningen University & Research

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