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W. Daniel Kissling
(Dr. rer. nat., M.Sc., Dipl. Laök, PGDipl.)

Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity Group, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-08000 Aarhus C, Denmark; Phone: 0045-87154345; Email: danielkissling [@] web.de

I am an assistant professor in the Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity Group at Aarhus University, Denmark. My interest is in quantitative biodiversity science, including macroecology & biogeography, species interactions, and global change (see here for more details). In my work, I take advantage of recent advances in technology, computing, numerical databasing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and environmental modelling to (1) better understand the broad-scale distribution of life on Earth, and (2) develop solutions to cross-scale environmental problems in global change biology and conservation management. This requires an integrated and interdisciplinary effort and I collaborate with a number of people from a variety of backgrounds and countries (see here). I believe that a sound management of our biosphere requires a quantitative understanding of biological patterns and processes across space and time, and a better transfer of ecological knowledge into conservation management and political decision making.

LATEST NEWS: We have published a PNAS paper about deep-time climate change effects on present-day species assemblages in the tropics. See here for paper and press release

Selected publications (for a complete list click here)

Kissling, W.D., Eiserhardt, W.L., Baker, W.J., Borchsenius, F., Couvreur, T.L.P., Balslev, H. & Svenning, J.-C. (2012): Cenozoic imprints on the phylogenetic structure of palm species assemblages worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109: 7379–7384. [ABSTRACT]

Kissling, W.D., Sekercioglu, C.H. & Jetz, W. (2012): Bird dietary guild richness across latitudes, environments and biogeographic regions. Global Ecology & Biogeography 21: 328–340. [ABSTRACT]

Kissling, W.D., Field, R., Korntheuer, H., Heyder, U. & Böhning-Gaese, K. (2010): Woody plants and the prediction of climate change impacts on bird diversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365: 2035–2045. [ABSTRACT]

Kissling, W.D. & Carl, G. (2008): Spatial autocorrelation and the selection of simultaneous autoregressive models. Global Ecology and Biogeography 17: 59–71. [ABSTRACT]

Kissling, W.D., Rahbek, C. & K. Böhning-Gaese (2007): Food plant diversity as broad-scale determinant of avian frugivore richness. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274: 799–-808. [ABSTRACT]

 


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