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Werner Rammer is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany and specializes in Environmental Science, with a significant focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Insect Science, and Atmospheric Science.

Their research covers multiple topics predominantly centered around Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Management and Policy, Fire effects on ecosystems, Forest Insect Ecology and Management, Forest ecology and management, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, and Tree-ring climate responses.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Werner Rammer include:

  • Climate change causes critical transitions and irreversible alterations of mountain forests, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition, 2021, Nature
  • Do bark beetle outbreaks amplify or dampen future bark beetle disturbances in Central Europe?, 2020, Journal of Ecology
  • Simulating forest resilience: A review, 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Norway spruce at the trailing edge: the effect of landscape configuration and composition on climate resilience, 2020, Landscape Ecology

Frequent co-authors in Werner Rammer's research include Rupert Seidl, Kristin H. Braziunas, Dominik Thom, Katharina Albrich, and Monica G. Turner.

The scientist has published extensively in several academic venues, with the highest number of papers appearing in:

  • Landscape Ecology (5 publications)
  • Global Change Biology (4 publications)
  • Ecological Modelling (4 publications)
  • Journal of Applied Ecology (2 publications)
  • Data in Brief (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Increasing forest disturbances in Europe and their impact on carbon storage

    Rupert Seidl;Mart-Jan Schelhaas;Werner Rammer;Pieter Johannes Verkerk

  • An Individual-Based Process Model to Simulate Landscape-Scale Forest Ecosystem Dynamics

    Rupert Seidl;Rupert Seidl;Werner Rammer;Robert M. Scheller;Thomas A. Spies

  • Disturbance legacies increase the resilience of forest ecosystem structure, composition, and functioning

    Rupert Seidl;Werner Rammer;Thomas A. Spies

  • Assessing trade-offs between carbon sequestration and timber production within a framework of multi-purpose forestry in Austria

    Rupert Seidl;Werner Rammer;Dietmar Jäger;William S. Currie

  • The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition

    Sebastian Seibold;Werner Rammer;Torsten Hothorn;Rupert Seidl

  • Climate change causes critical transitions and irreversible alterations of mountain forests

    Katharina Albrich;Katharina Albrich;Werner Rammer;Werner Rammer;Rupert Seidl;Rupert Seidl

  • Climate change amplifies the interactions between wind and bark beetle disturbances in forest landscapes.

    Rupert Seidl;Werner Rammer

  • Impact of bark beetle (Ips typographus L.) disturbance on timber production and carbon sequestration in different management strategies under climate change

    Rupert Seidl;Werner Rammer;Dietmar Jäger;Manfred J. Lexer

  • 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

  • The impacts of climate change and disturbance on spatio-temporal trajectories of biodiversity in a temperate forest landscape.

    Dominik Thom;Werner Rammer;Thomas Dirnböck;Jörg Müller

  • Climate change impacts on forest landscapes along the Canadian southern boreal forest transition zone

    Yan Boulanger;Anthony R. Taylor;David T. Price;Dominic Cyr

  • Simulating wind disturbance impacts on forest landscapes

    Rupert Seidl;Werner Rammer;Kristina Blennow

  • Disturbances catalyze the adaptation of forest ecosystems to changing climate conditions.

    Dominik Thom;Werner Rammer;Rupert Seidl

  • Tree mortality submodels drive simulated long-term forest dynamics: assessing 15 models from the stand to global scale

    Harald Bugmann;Rupert Seidl;Florian Hartig;Friedrich Bohn;Friedrich Bohn

  • Adaptation options to reduce climate change vulnerability of sustainable forest management in the Austrian Alps

    Rupert Seidl;Werner Rammer;Manfred J. Lexer

  • Climate change vulnerability of sustainable forest management in the Eastern Alps

    Rupert Seidl;Werner Rammer;Manfred J. Lexer

  • The impact of future forest dynamics on climate: interactive effects of changing vegetation and disturbance regimes

    Dominik Thom;Werner Rammer;Rupert Seidl

  • Tree species diversity mitigates disturbance impacts on the forest carbon cycle.

    Mariana Silva Pedro;Werner Rammer;Rupert Seidl

  • It takes a few to tango: changing climate and fire regimes can cause regeneration failure of two subalpine conifers.

    Winslow D. Hansen;Kristin H. Braziunas;Werner Rammer;Rupert Seidl

  • Invasive alien pests threaten the carbon stored in Europe's forests.

    Rupert Seidl;Günther Klonner;Werner Rammer;Franz Essl

  • Modelling tree mortality by bark beetle infestation in Norway spruce forests

    Rupert Seidl;Peter Baier;Werner Rammer;Axel Schopf

Frequent Co-Authors

Rupert Seidl
Rupert Seidl Technical University of Munich
Manfred J. Lexer
Manfred J. Lexer BOKU University
Monica G. Turner
Monica G. Turner University of Wisconsin–Madison
Harald Bugmann
Harald Bugmann ETH Zurich
Jörg Müller
Jörg Müller Heinz Sielmann Foundation
Christopher P.O. Reyer
Christopher P.O. Reyer Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Mart-Jan Schelhaas
Mart-Jan Schelhaas Wageningen University & Research
Thomas A. Spies
Thomas A. Spies US Forest Service
Bart Muys
Bart Muys KU Leuven
Marc Hanewinkel
Marc Hanewinkel University of Freiburg

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