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Thomas Wohlgemuth is affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland. Their research primarily spans environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant focus on various subfields and topics related to ecology, plant sciences, and environmental change.

The main fields of study covered by Wohlgemuth include Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these fields, their work delves into subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science, Atmospheric Science, and Ecological Modeling.

The topics most frequently addressed in their research are:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Forest Management and Policy

Wohlgemuth has published extensively, with some of the recent papers including:

  • "A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests," 2020, Basic and Applied Ecology
  • "Phenological and elevational shifts of plants, animals and fungi under climate change in the European Alps," 2021, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • "Ellenberg-type indicator values for European vascular plant species," 2022, Journal of Vegetation Science
  • "European beech dieback after premature leaf senescence during the 2018 drought in northern Switzerland," 2022, Plant Biology
  • "Presence-only and Presence-absence Data for Comparing Species Distribution Modeling Methods," 2020, Biodiversity Informatics

Frequent co-authors in Wohlgemuth's publications include Andreas Rigling, Jonathan Lenoir, Idoia Biurrun, Milan Chytrý, and Daniel Scherrer. These collaborations indicate an active engagement within a network of researchers focusing on ecological and environmental topics.

The scientist publishes regularly in venues such as Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen, Global Change Biology, Forest Ecology and Management, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and the Journal of Vegetation Science.

Best Publications

  • A first assessment of the impact of the extreme 2018 summer drought on Central European forests

    Bernhard Schuldt;Allan Buras;Matthias Arend;Yann Vitasse

  • Precipitation manipulation experiments - challenges and recommendations for the future

    Claus Beier;Carl Beierkuhnlein;Thomas Wohlgemuth;Josep Penuelas

  • Quantitative tools for perfecting species lists

    Michael W. Palmer;Peter G. Earls;Bruce W. Hoagland;Peter S. White

  • Going against the flow: potential mechanisms for unexpected downslope range shifts in a warming climate

    Jonathan Lenoir;Jean-Claude Gégout;Antoine Guisan;Pascal Vittoz

  • European Vegetation Archive (EVA): an integrated database of European vegetation plots

    Milan Chytrý;Stephan M. Hennekens;Borja Jiménez‐Alfaro;Ilona Knollová

  • Driving factors of a vegetation shift from Scots pine to pubescent oak in dry Alpine forests

    Andreas Rigling;Christof Bigler;Britta Eilmann;Elisabeth Feldmeyer-Christe

  • Contrasting resistance and resilience to extreme drought and late spring frost in five major European tree species.

    Yann Vitasse;Alessandra Bottero;Maxime Cailleret;Christof Bigler

  • sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

    Helge Bruelheide;Jürgen Dengler;Jürgen Dengler;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Oliver Purschke

  • Phenological and elevational shifts of plants, animals and fungi under climate change in the European Alps.

    Yann Vitasse;Sylvain Ursenbacher;Geoffrey Klein;Thierry Bohnenstengel

  • A walk on the wild side: Disturbance dynamics and the conservation and management of European mountain forest ecosystems

    Dominik Kulakowski;Rupert Seidl;Jan Holeksa;Timo Kuuluvainen

  • Phenotypic plasticity facilitates resistance to climate change in a highly variable environment

    Sarah Richter;Tabea Kipfer;Thomas Wohlgemuth;Carlos Calderón Guerrero

  • Changes of forest cover and disturbance regimes in the mountain forests of the Alps.

    P. Bebi;R. Seidl;R. Motta;M. Fuhr

  • Genetic diversity in widespread species is not congruent with species richness in alpine plant communities.

    Pierre Taberlet;Niklaus E. Zimmermann;Thorsten Englisch;Andreas Tribsch

  • Increasing storm damage to forests in Switzerland from 1858 to 2007

    Tilo Usbeck;Thomas Wohlgemuth;Matthias Dobbertin;Christian Pfister

  • Mean annual precipitation predicts primary production resistance and resilience to extreme drought.

    Ellen Stuart-Haëntjens;Hans J. De Boeck;Nathan P. Lemoine;Pille Mänd

  • Long-distance transport of macroscopic charcoal by an intensive crown fire in the Swiss Alps - implications for fire history reconstruction

    Willy Tinner;Simone Hofstetter;Fabienne Zeugin;Marco Conedera

  • Ellenberg‐type indicator values for European vascular plant species

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  • Alien plant invasions in European woodlands

    Viktoria Wagner;Milan Chytrý;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Jan Pergl

  • Modelling floristic species richness on a regional scale: a case study in Switzerland

    Thomas Wohlgemuth

  • The upward shift in altitude of pine mistletoe (Viscum album ssp. austriacum) in Switzerland—the result of climate warming?

    Matthias Dobbertin;Nadine Hilker;Martine Rebetez;Niklaus E. Zimmermann

  • Flora indicativa: Okologische Zeigerwerte und biologische Kennzeichen zur Flora der Schweiz und der Alpen

    E Landolt;B Bäumler;A Ehrhardt;O Hegg

Frequent Co-Authors

Niklaus E. Zimmermann
Niklaus E. Zimmermann Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Jonathan Lenoir
Jonathan Lenoir University of Picardie Jules Verne
Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Matthias Dobbertin
Matthias Dobbertin Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Wolfgang Willner
Wolfgang Willner University of Vienna
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro University of Oviedo
Marco Conedera
Marco Conedera Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Antoine Guisan
Antoine Guisan University of Lausanne
Milan Chytrý
Milan Chytrý Masaryk University

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