Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity, Department of Biological Sciences,
Ny Munkegade 114, DK-08000 Aarhus C, Denmark, Email: danielkissling
[@] web.de
I am an ecologist
with an interest in terrestrial biodiversity. Most of my work centers
on macroecology, biogeography, biodiversity conservation, and global
change (see research
for more details). Currently, I am a postdoctoral
research scientist with Prof.
Jens-Christian Svenning in the Ecoinformatics
& Biodiversity Research Group at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Before taking up this position, I have been working in the Ecology,
Behavior & Evolution Section at the University of California San
Diego (USA), the Community
& Macroecology Group at the University of Mainz (Germany),
and the Department of
Ecological Modelling at the UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental
Research in Leipzig (Germany).
Using an ecoinformatic
approach, I take advantage of recent gains in computing power, 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
work requires a major interdisciplinary effort and hence I collaborate
with people from a variety of backgrounds and countries (see collaborations).
I believe that a sound management of our biosphere requires a better
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.
Select publications
(click here
for a complete list)
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.
Qian, H. &
Kissling, W.D. (2010): Spatial scale and cross-taxon congruence
of terrestrial vertebrate and vascular plant species richness in China.
Ecology 91: 1172–1183.
Kissling, W.D.,
Böhning-Gaese, K. & Jetz, W. (2009): The global distribution
of frugivory in birds. Global Ecology and Biogeography 18:
150–162.
Kissling, W.D.
& Carl, G. (2008): Spatial autocorrelation and the selection of
simultaneous autoregressive models. Global Ecology and Biogeography
17: 59–71.
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.
