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Roland Brandl is affiliated with Philipp University of Marburg in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a notable emphasis in subfields such as ecological modeling, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, nature and landscape conservation, and insect science.

The main research topics addressed by Brandl include species distribution and climate change, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, plant and animal studies, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, wildlife ecology and conservation, and forest insect ecology and management.

Brandl has contributed to a range of scientific publications, with frequent appearances in journals such as Scientific Reports, Diversity and Distributions, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Oecologia.

Some of the recent papers published by Brandl include:

  • The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition, 2021, Nature
  • Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Beetle diversity is higher in sunny forests due to higher microclimatic heterogeneity in deadwood, 2022, Oecologia
  • A research framework for projecting ecosystem change in highly diverse tropical mountain ecosystems, 2021, Oecologia
  • Biodiversity and ecosystem functions depend on environmental conditions and resources rather than the geodiversity of a tropical biodiversity hotspot, 2021, Scientific Reports

Brandl frequently collaborates with several co-authors who have contributed to multiple publications together. These include:

  • Jörg Müller (20 collaborations)
  • Stefan Pinkert (18 collaborations)
  • Claus Bässler (16 collaborations)
  • Nina Farwig (13 collaborations)
  • Thomas Nauß (9 collaborations)

Best Publications

  • Plant-insect interactions in fragmented landscapes.

    Teja Tscharntke;Roland Brandl

  • The flora of German cities is naturally species rich

    Ingolf Kühn;Roland Brandl;Stefan Klotz

  • Climate–land-use interactions shape tropical mountain biodiversity and ecosystem functions

    Marcell K. Peters;Andreas Hemp;Tim Appelhans;Joscha N. Becker

  • Impacts of salvage logging on biodiversity: A meta‐analysis

    Simon Thorn;Claus Bässler;Roland Brandl;Philip J. Burton

  • Metapopulation persistence in dynamic landscapes: the role of dispersal distance

    Karin Johst;Roland Brandl;Sabine Eber

  • Predictors of elevational biodiversity gradients change from single taxa to the multi-taxa community level

    Marcell K. Peters;Andreas Hemp;Tim Appelhans;Christina Behler

  • Experimental studies of dead-wood biodiversity — A review identifying global gaps in knowledge

    Sebastian Seibold;Sebastian Seibold;Claus Bässler;Roland Brandl;Martin M. Gossner

  • Biodiversity along temperate forest succession

    Torben Hilmers;Nicolas Friess;Claus Bässler;Marco Heurich

  • Association of extinction risk of saproxylic beetles with ecological degradation of forests in Europe

    Sebastian Seibold;Sebastian Seibold;Roland Brandl;Jörn Buse;Torsten Hothorn

  • Microclimate and habitat heterogeneity as the major drivers of beetle diversity in dead wood

    Sebastian Seibold;Sebastian Seibold;Claus Bässler;Roland Brandl;Boris Büche

  • Pattern-oriented modelling in population ecology

    Volker Grimm;Karin Frank;Florian Jeltsch;Roland Brandl

  • Species richness of insects and mites on trees: expanding Southwood

    Martin Brändle;Roland Brandl

  • Niche properties of Central European spiders : shading, moisture and the evolution of the habitat niche

    Wiebke Entling;Martin Schmidt;Srinivas Bacher;Roland Brandl

  • Current near-to-nature forest management effects on functional trait composition of saproxylic beetles in beech forests.

    Martin M. Gossner;Thibault Lachat;Jörg Brunet;Gunnar Isacsson

  • Assessing biodiversity by remote sensing in mountainous terrain: the potential of LiDAR to predict forest beetle assemblages

    Jörg Müller;Roland Brandl

  • Loss of functional diversity of ant assemblages in secondary tropical forests

    Jochen H. Bihn;Gerhard Gebauer;Roland Brandl

  • The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition

    Sebastian Seibold;Werner Rammer;Torsten Hothorn;Rupert Seidl

  • Which species become aliens

    Andreas Prinzing;Walter Durka;Stefan Klotz;Roland Brandl

  • Global warming favours light-coloured insects in Europe

    Dirk Zeuss;Roland Brandl;Martin Brändle;Carsten Rahbek

  • Effects of resource availability and climate on the diversity of wood-decaying fungi

    Claus Bässler;Jörg Müller;Frank Dziock;Roland Brandl

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Brändle
Martin Brändle Philipp University of Marburg
Martin Schädler
Martin Schädler Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Jörg Müller
Jörg Müller Heinz Sielmann Foundation
Claus Bässler
Claus Bässler Goethe University Frankfurt
Sebastian Seibold
Sebastian Seibold Technical University of Munich
Simon Thorn
Simon Thorn University of Würzburg
Harald Auge
Harald Auge Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Christian Hof
Christian Hof University of Würzburg
Stefan Klotz
Stefan Klotz Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Nina Farwig
Nina Farwig Philipp University of Marburg

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