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Wolfgang Willner

Wolfgang Willner

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
8409
World Ranking
6018
National Ranking
43

Overview

Wolfgang Willner is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria and has contributed extensively to research within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work is predominantly situated within the subfields of Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecological Modeling.

The scientist's research topics cover several areas including Botany and Plant Ecology Studies, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna, Lichen and fungal ecology, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, and Bryophyte Studies and Records.

Wolfgang Willner has published multiple papers in notable scientific journals. Recent works include:

  • International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature. 4th edition, 2020, Applied Vegetation Science
  • EUNIS Habitat Classification: Expert system, characteristic species combinations and distribution maps of European habitats, 2020, Applied Vegetation Science
  • Global patterns and drivers of alpine plant species richness, 2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Distribution maps of vegetation alliances in Europe, 2022, Applied Vegetation Science
  • Fine-grain beta diversity of Palaearctic grassland vegetation, 2021, Journal of Vegetation Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Wolfgang Willner include:

  • Idoia Biurrun
  • Jürgen Dengler
  • Milan Chytrý
  • Kiril Vassilev
  • Andraž Čarni

The scientist's research has been regularly published in these venues:

  • Vegetation Classification and Survey
  • Applied Vegetation Science
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Palaearctic Grasslands - Journal of the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group

Best Publications

  • Vegetation of Europe: hierarchical floristic classification system of vascular plant, bryophyte, lichen, and algal communities

    Ladislav Mucina;Ladislav Mucina;Helga Bültmann;Klaus Dierßen;Jean-Paul Theurillat

  • Extinction debt of high-mountain plants under twenty-first-century climate change

    Stefan Dullinger;Andreas Gattringer;Wilfried Thuiller;Dietmar Moser

  • 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

  • Range dynamics of mountain plants decrease with elevation.

    Sabine B. Rumpf;Karl Hülber;Günther Klonner;Dietmar Moser

  • International Code of Phytosociological Nomenclature. 4th edition

    Jean‐Paul Theurillat;Wolfgang Willner;Federico Fernández‐González;Helga Bültmann

  • EUNIS Habitat Classification: expert system, characteristic species combinations and distribution maps of European habitats

    Milan Chytrý;Lubomír Tichý;Stephan M. Hennekens;Ilona Knollová

  • sPlot – A new tool for global vegetation analyses

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

  • A comparative framework for broad‐scale plot‐based vegetation classification

    Miquel De Cáceres;Milan Chytrý;Emiliano Agrillo;Fabio Attorre

  • Phytogeographical evidence for post‐glacial dispersal limitation of European beech forest species

    Wolfgang Willner;Romeo Di Pietro;Erwin Bergmeier

  • Post-glacial migration lag restricts range filling of plants in the European Alps

    S. Dullinger;W. Willner;C. Plutzar;T. Englisch

  • sPlotOpen – An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots

    Francesco Maria Sabatini;Jonathan Lenoir;Tarek Hattab;Elise Aimee Arnst

  • Extinction debts and colonization credits of non-forest plants in the European Alps.

    Sabine B. Rumpf;Karl Hülber;Johannes Wessely;Wolfgang Willner

  • History and environment shape species pools and community diversity in European beech forests

    Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Marco Girardello;Marco Girardello;Milan Chytrý;Jens-Christian Svenning

  • Species richness in dry grassland patches of eastern Austria: A multi-taxon study on the role of local, landscape and habitat quality variables

    Klaus Peter Zulka;Klaus Peter Zulka;Max Abensperg-Traun;Norbert Milasowszky;Georg Bieringer

  • Classification of European beech forests: a Gordian knot?

    Wolfgang Willner;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Borja Jiménez-Alfaro;Emiliano Agrillo;Idoia Biurrun

  • Semi-dry grasslands along a climatic gradient across Central Europe: Vegetation classification with validation

    Eszter Illyés;Milan Chytrý;Zoltán Botta-Dukát;Ute Jandt

  • Global patterns and drivers of alpine plant species richness

    Riccardo Testolin;Fabio Attorre;Peter Borchardt;Robert F. Brand

  • A matter of scale: apparent niche differentiation of diploid and tetraploid plants may depend on extent and grain of analysis.

    Bernhard Kirchheimer;Christoph C. F. Schinkel;Agnes S. Dellinger;Simone Klatt

  • Die Wälder und Gebüsche Österreichs

    W. Willner;G. Grabherr

  • Cross-scale analysis of the region effect on vascular plant species diversity in southern and northern European mountain ranges.

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

  • Formalized classification of semi-dry grasslands in central and eastern Europe

    Wolfgang Willner;Jan Roleček;Andrey Korolyuk;Jürgen Dengler

  • A higher-level classification of the Pannonian and western Pontic steppe grasslands (Central and Eastern Europe).

    Wolfgang Willner;Anna Kuzemko;Jürgen Dengler;Milan Chytrý

Frequent Co-Authors

Jürgen Dengler
Jürgen Dengler Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Milan Chytrý
Milan Chytrý Masaryk University
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro University of Oviedo
Jonathan Lenoir
Jonathan Lenoir University of Picardie Jules Verne
Ute Jandt
Ute Jandt Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Stefan Dullinger
Stefan Dullinger University of Vienna
Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Erwin Bergmeier
Erwin Bergmeier University of Göttingen
Joop H.J. Schaminée
Joop H.J. Schaminée Wageningen University & Research
Thomas Wohlgemuth
Thomas Wohlgemuth Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

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