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Overview

Susanne A. Fritz is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany. Their research predominantly focuses on Environmental Science, with a strong emphasis on subfields such as Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Paleontology.

The scientist's research topics span several areas of environmental and ecological interest, including:

  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Plant and Animal Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Genetic Diversity and Population Structure
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Susanne A. Fritz include:

  • Katrin Böhning-Gaese
  • Matthias Schleuning
  • Christian Hof
  • W. Daniel Kissling
  • Matthias F. Biber

Their work is published in a variety of scientific venues, with notable recurring publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Ecology Letters

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Susanne A. Fritz include:

  • "Trait-Based Assessments of Climate-Change Impacts on Interacting Species" (2020) in Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • "Global plant-frugivore trait matching is shaped by climate and biogeographic history" (2022) in Ecology Letters
  • "Predicting extinctions with species distribution models" (2023) in Cambridge Prisms Extinction
  • "Avian seed dispersal may be insufficient for plants to track future temperature change on tropical mountains" (2022) in Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • "Projected climate change impacts on the phylogenetic diversity of the world's terrestrial birds: more than species numbers" (2022) in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Best Publications

  • PanTHERIA: a species‐level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals

    Kate E. Jones;Jon Bielby;Marcel Cardillo;Susanne A. Fritz

  • An Update of Wallace’s Zoogeographic Regions of the World

    Ben G. Holt;Jean-Philippe Lessard;Michael K. Borregaard;Susanne A. Fritz

  • AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds.

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  • Moving in the Anthropocene : global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements

    Marlee A. Tucker;Katrin Böhning-Gaese;William F. Fagan;John M. Fryxell

  • Selectivity in Mammalian Extinction Risk and Threat Types: a New Measure of Phylogenetic Signal Strength in Binary Traits

    Susanne A. Fritz;Andy Purvis

  • A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology.

    Caroline M. Tucker;Marc William Cadotte;Marc William Cadotte;Silvia B. Carvalho;T. Jonathan Davies;T. Jonathan Davies

  • Geographical variation in predictors of mammalian extinction risk: big is bad, but only in the tropics

    Susanne A. Fritz;Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds;Andy Purvis

  • Geological and climatic influences on mountain biodiversity

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

  • What ' s on the horizon for macroecology?

    Jan Beck;Liliana Ballesteros-Mejia;Carsten M. Buchmann;Jürgen Dengler

  • Global patterns of amphibian phylogenetic diversity

    Susanne A. Fritz;Carsten Rahbek

  • The Latitudinal Diversity Gradient: Novel Understanding through Mechanistic Eco-evolutionary Models

    Mikael Pontarp;Lynsey Bunnefeld;Juliano Sarmento Cabral;Rampal S. Etienne

  • Ecological and evolutionary determinants for the adaptive radiation of the Madagascan vangas.

    Knud A. Jonsson;Pierre-Henri Fabre;Susanne A. Fritz;Rampal S. Etienne

  • Ecological, historical and evolutionary determinants of modularity in weighted seed-dispersal networks

    Matthias Schleuning;Lili Ingmann;Rouven Strauß;Susanne A. Fritz

  • Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity

    T. Jonathan Davies;Susanne A. Fritz;Richard Grenyer;C. David L. Orme

  • Functional and phylogenetic diversity and assemblage structure of frugivorous birds along an elevational gradient in the tropical Andes

    D. Matthias Dehling;Susanne A. Fritz;Till Töpfer;Martin Päckert

  • Global patterns and drivers of phylogenetic structure in island floras.

    Patrick Weigelt;W. Daniel Kissling;Yael Kisel;Susanne A. Fritz

  • Trait-Based Assessments of Climate-Change Impacts on Interacting Species

    Matthias Schleuning;Eike Lena Neuschulz;Jörg Albrecht;Irene M.A. Bender

  • Diversity in time and space: wanted dead and alive.

    Susanne A. Fritz;Jan Schnitzler;Jussi T. Eronen;Christian Hof

  • The ghosts of mammals past: biological and geographical patterns of global mammalian extinction across the Holocene

    Samuel T. Turvey;Susanne A. Fritz

  • Macroecology in the age of Big Data – Where to go from here?

    Rafael O. Wüest;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Damaris Zurell;Jake M. Alexander

  • Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity

    T. Jonathan Davies;Susanne A. Fritz;Richard Grenyer;C. David

Frequent Co-Authors

Katrin Böhning-Gaese
Katrin Böhning-Gaese Goethe University Frankfurt
Carsten Rahbek
Carsten Rahbek University of Copenhagen
Andy Purvis
Andy Purvis Natural History Museum
Christian Hof
Christian Hof University of Würzburg
Catherine H. Graham
Catherine H. Graham Stony Brook University
T. Jonathan Davies
T. Jonathan Davies University of British Columbia
Holger Kreft
Holger Kreft University of Göttingen
Jon Fjeldså
Jon Fjeldså University of Copenhagen
Sarah Legge
Sarah Legge Australian National University
Jussi T. Eronen
Jussi T. Eronen University of Helsinki

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