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Overview

Thomas Hickler is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany and specializes in environmental science with a focus on global and planetary change. Their research spans several subfields, including atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, and ecological modeling.

Their recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes, 2021, Science
  • Levers and leverage points for pathways to sustainability, 2020, People and Nature
  • IPBES-IPCC co-sponsored workshop report on biodiversity and climate change, 2021, Wageningen University and Researchcenter Publications (Wageningen University & Research)
  • Projecting Exposure to Extreme Climate Impact Events Across Six Event Categories and Three Spatial Scales, 2020, Earth's Future
  • Quantitative assessment of fire and vegetation properties in simulations with fire-enabled vegetation models from the Fire Model Intercomparison Project, 2020, Geoscientific Model Development

The scientist collaborates frequently with other researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Matthew Forrest
  • Christopher Reyer
  • Gitta Lasslop
  • Aidin Niamir
  • Mateus Dantas de Paula

Their work has been published primarily in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Biogeosciences
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Global Change Biology

Thomas Hickler's research addresses a variety of topics, including:

  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research
  • Remote sensing in agriculture

Best Publications

  • TRY - a global database of plant traits

    J. Kattge;S. Díaz;S. Lavorel;I. C. Prentice

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • Alien species in a warmer world: risks and opportunities

    Gian Reto Walther;Alain Roques;Philip E. Hulme;Martin T. Sykes

  • Predicting global change impacts on plant species' distributions: Future challenges

    Wilfried Thuiller;Cécile Albert;Miguel B. Araújo;Pam M. Berry

  • Structuring sustainability science

    Anne Jerneck;Lennart Olsson;Barry Ness;Stefan Anderberg

  • Implications of incorporating N cycling and N limitations on primary production in an individual-based dynamic vegetation model

    Benjamin Smith;David Wårlind;Almut Arneth;Thomas Hickler

  • Assessing the impacts of 1.5 °C global warming - simulation protocol of the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP2b)

    Katja Frieler;Stefan Lange;Franziska Piontek;Christopher P. O. Reyer

  • Projecting the future distribution of European potential natural vegetation zones with a generalized, tree species-based dynamic vegetation model

    Thomas Hickler;Katrin Vohland;Jane Feehan;Paul A. Miller

  • Terrestrial and Inland Water Systems

    Josef Settele;Robert Scholes;Richard A Betts;Stuart Bunn

  • Multiple stressors on biotic interactions: how climate change and alien species interact to affect pollination

    Oliver Schweiger;Jacobus C. Biesmeijer;Riccardo Bommarco;Thomas Hickler

  • Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient

    Viktoriia Radchuk;Thomas Reed;Céline Teplitsky;Martijn van der Pol

  • Which is a better predictor of plant traits: temperature or precipitation?

    Angela T. Moles;Sarah E. Perkins;Shawn W. Laffan;Habacuc Flores-Moreno

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • Towards novel approaches to modelling biotic interactions in multispecies assemblages at large spatial extents

    W. D. Kissling;Carsten F. Dormann;Carsten F. Dormann;Juergen Groeneveld;Juergen Groeneveld;Thomas Hickler

  • Uncertainties in projected impacts of climate change on European agriculture and terrestrial ecosystems based on scenarios from regional climate models

    J. E. Olesen;T. R. Carter;C. H. Díaz-Ambrona;S. Fronzek

  • Climatic risk atlas of European butterflies

    Josef Settele;Otakar Kudrna;Alexander Harpke;Ingolf Kühn

  • Evaluation of 11 terrestrial carbon–nitrogen cycle models against observations from two temperate Free‐Air CO2 Enrichment studies

    Soenke Zaehle;Belinda E. Medlyn;Martin G. De Kauwe;Anthony P. Walker

  • The status and challenge of global fire modelling

    Stijn Hantson;Almut Arneth;Sandy P. Harrison;Sandy P. Harrison;Douglas I. Kelley;Douglas I. Kelley

  • Forest water use and water use efficiency at elevated CO2: a model‐data intercomparison at two contrasting temperate forest FACE sites

    Martin G. De Kauwe;Belinda E. Medlyn;Soenke Zaehle;Anthony P. Walker

  • Specialization of Mutualistic Interaction Networks Decreases toward Tropical Latitudes

    Matthias Schleuning;Jochen Fründ;Alexandra-Maria Klein;Stefan Abrahamczyk;Stefan Abrahamczyk

  • Using ecosystem experiments to improve vegetation models

    Belinda E Medlyn;Belinda E Medlyn;Sonke Zaehle;Martin G De Kauwe;Anthony P Walker

  • Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems

    Anthony D. Barnosky;Anthony D. Barnosky;Elizabeth A. Hadly;Patrick Gonzalez;Patrick Gonzalez;Jason Head

  • CO2 fertilization in temperate FACE experiments not representative of boreal and tropical forests

    Thomas Hickler;Benjamin Smith;I. Colin Prentice;Kristina Mjöfors

  • Intergenerational inequities in exposure to climate extremes

    Wim Thiery;Stefan Lange;Joeri Rogelj;Carl Friedrich Schleussner

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin T. Sykes
Martin T. Sykes Lund University
Almut Arneth
Almut Arneth Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Ingolf Kühn
Ingolf Kühn Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Angelica Feurdean
Angelica Feurdean Goethe University Frankfurt
Oliver Schweiger
Oliver Schweiger Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Ram Oren
Ram Oren Duke University
Hanqin Tian
Hanqin Tian Auburn University
Anja Rammig
Anja Rammig Technical University of Munich
Richard J. Norby
Richard J. Norby University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Belinda E. Medlyn
Belinda E. Medlyn Western Sydney University

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